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An article you recently created, Sara Ezquerro, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Spiderone(Talk to Spider)15:27, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
There was an issue on the Vector skin with the text size of categories and notices under the page title. It was fixed last Monday. [1]
Hi! Kanyakumari123, thank you for your effort to create this article, although the article is written poorly, the subject being written about is not notable to be in Wikipedia, I have done a google search on him here and it only shows a few social media results which is not enough to verify notability. Thank you again The Living lovetalk14:26, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - May 2021 Newsletter
This is our eighteenth newsletter, covering May 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 9, 13 and 15. This month we especially saw a lot of new identifiers for different species in Wikidata, making it easier to use Wikidata as a hub and look up and compare species in different databases.
Meetings
Online user group meeting June 6 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting June 20 (SDG all) [1]
Past: Online user group meeting May 16 (SDG all) []
Activities
Ongoing: Wiki Loves Earth (SDG 15) [2]
Past: Sharing lessons & results from the Spanish Wikiproject Climate change first edit-a-thon for Earth Day (SDG 13) [3]
Past: Sustainable Development Goals: Edit-a-thon for the Festa da Wiki-Lusofonia (20 years of Portuguese Wikipedia cellebrations) (SDG all) [4]
News
Over 3,000,000 usages of taxon name (P225) (SDG 15) [6]
New Wikidata properties
degrees day (SDG 13) [5]
Oregon Flora Image Project ID (SDG 15) [7]
MyBIS species ID (SDG 15) [8]
IUCN Green List ID (SDG 15 [9]
OpenCorporates register ID (SDG 9) [10]
MyBIS protected area ID (SDG 15) [11]
Danish 2010 redlist identifier (SDG 15) [12]
Microlepidoptera.nl ID (SDG 15) [13]
North Carolina session law (SDG 16) [15]
SOR bird ID (SDG 15) [16]
ToateAnimalele ID (SDG 15) [17]
Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa ID (SDG 15) [21]
New Wikidata query examples
Number of species belonging to the different IUCN conservation categories (SDG 15) [14]
Map of coronavirus research organizations active from before 2020 (SDG 3) [18]
Scholarly articles about COVID-19 with "Wikipedia" in the title (SDG 3) [19]
Nocturnal animals based on diel cycle (SDG 15) [20]
Sara Ezquerro, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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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.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 June. It will be on all wikis from 10 June (calendar).
Future changes
The Wikimedia movement uses Phabricator for technical tasks. This is where we collect technical suggestions, bugs and what developers are working on. The company behind Phabricator will stop working on it. This will not change anything for the Wikimedia movement now. It could lead to changes in the future. [2][3][4]
Searching on Wikipedia will find more results in some languages. This is mainly true for when those who search do not use the correct diacritics because they are not seen as necessary in that language. For example searching for Bedusz doesn't find Będusz on German Wikipedia. The character ę isn't used in German so many would write e instead. This will work better in the future in some languages. [5]
The CSRF token parameters in the action API were changed in 2014. The old parameters from before 2014 will stop working soon. This can affect bots, gadgets and user scripts that still use the old parameters. [6][7]
Hi! Dibya Of Reading, glad to see you here willing to help improve the world's largest online encyclopedia. I have placed a welcome template on your talk page with some useful information that will guide you, if you have any questions please ask me again. Thanks The Living lovetalk09:32, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
Something to watch out for
I just ran into this today, this is the third attempt, there was an iteration in the past as Savvy Rinu which I handled, now this is something to watching out for. Thought to give you a heads up! Celestina007 (talk) 22:19, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
In case you run into Draft:Ifie Sekibo at AFC, they are at it again! Although I have taken action see here & here. I believe the article would continue to pop up every now and again, the subject is a Billionaire so I’m sure his resources are limitless. Celestina007 (talk) 00:49, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
I feel bad for the subject of the article though, he is being milked real hard by the UPE ring, the ring knows the page is most likely not going to be retained on mainspace but they milk him real hard regardless, it’s funny and sad all the same. Celestina007 (talk) 00:59, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
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
Logged-in users on the mobile web can choose to use the advanced mobile mode. They now see categories in a similar way as users on desktop do. This means that some gadgets that have just been for desktop users could work for users of the mobile site too. If your wiki has such gadgets you could decide to turn them on for the mobile site too. Some gadgets probably need to be fixed to look good on mobile. [8]
German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [10]
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 28 June. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [11][12]
You can not be serious, wow now I have to spend 10 minutes correct your mistakes. Please DO NOT make faulty reverts. I CORRECTED false information (like for instance, benzos were introduced in the 60s, not the 70s).
Please start the discussion on the article talk page as to why the contents should be removed, let's have other people's opinions and consensus first. Thanks The Living lovetalk09:07, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
That's not how facts work. Librium was introduced in 1960, valium in 1963. Before my edit the page read "benzodiazepines were widely used starting in the 1970s"...that statement is false. I don't need a discussion about a matter of fact. The sky is blue, there is no discussion to be had. Grass is green, there is no discussion to be had. I spent a good 30 minutes working to fix the GAD page, removing objectively (as in, not my opinion, but fact) false information, I also fixed wording that made the read smoother. You undid 30 minutes of work without any reason given. If you do this again, I will report you. Do not flippantly revert edits for no reason.
That's for you, might be someone from the field but for me, I just reverted an edit tagged "section blanking" with an edit summary that says "It is irresponsible and beneficial to no one to list "insignificant, highly biased, single study" quackery as possible aid for GAD. Chinese bloodletting is illegal in California and can be extremely dangerous." No fixing or correction is mentioned which I suspect might be it goes different to your thoughts on it that's why you removed it. And next time your edit is reverted just explain what you did, I can undo my revert with a single click no need redo anything. The Living lovetalk09:45, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
You lost me a bit. It wasn't just that section that you reverted, you reverted my entire editing of the page which made the gesture seem like some kind of personal attack. It was quite strange. As for why I removed the "complementary and alternative medicine" section, a couple reasons - none of the purported treatments (Chinese bloodletting, Swedish massage, floating in water, etc.) had proven effectiveness, in fact almost all of them had "insignificant findings" in their descriptions...which makes them superfluous. Secondly, none of the CAMs mentioned were backed by science and all of them are viewed by experts in the field as pseudoscience. Promoting or giving attention to pseudoscience as being legitimate seems like a bad idea. Frankly, I'm surprised no one objected to the inclusion of "CAMs" sooner, though things do slip through the cracks at wiki occasionally. Look, you can do what you want. I exerted a fair amount of brain power, effort, and did research to clean up this particular wiki page. I'm not gonna spend another 30 minutes on it. I don't have the energy.
Yes! I know it would revert the whole of your edits, the main issue is, you removed content including its references without providing valid reasons with sources to verify your proposition, that's why no one will allow that on here. I can see someone has reverted you again. The Living lovetalk12:30, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
This is the last I'll write about the subject. The valid reason(s) were 1. The sources showed that none of the CAMs mentioned were effective at ameliorating anxiety, 2. Some of the CAMs mentioned are illegal in various states and countries, and 3. All of the CAMs mentioned are known as pseudoscience thus they are illegitimate. Any one of those 3 would be "valid reasons". Also you are wrong yet again, this is my area of expertise and my edits on other anxiety related wiki articles have been applauded by long time contributors. It is you and the person who blindly followed you who have made the mistake, who are in the wrong. But clearly neither will be an adult and admit that you reverted to "feel powerful" so it is what it is. Like I said, I'm not going to exhaust the energy fixing your mistake. It's in the logs, anyone can look at the logs. Anyone can read about how CAMs are 1. ineffective and 2. dangerous and come to the conclusion, "wow, why is this harmful content on a wiki page?" and see in the logs that I tried to fix things. I'm moving on. 107.10.140.224 (talk) 18:12, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
Wow! This is interesting, please when you do the corrections provide your sources and that's all, it's just how Wikipedia works and I know as someone from the field you have a bunch of them available, please do provide them or else your reasoning wouldn't be accepted. The Living lovetalk18:33, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
Look, I have patients to see so I don't have time to continue a back and forth. I'm guessing you didn't read what you reverted, if you had you would have seen that the CAM sources themselves showed "insignificant results" based on "poor quality studies". They should have never been added in the first place. You don't cure lung cancer by smoking more. This is self evident. I can provide sources *but the sources I provide would be the exact same sources already used in the article that demonstrate no positive outcome for CAMs and you can't use the same source twice on a wiki page*. It appears you are having density problems so no matter what I say, it will be moot. Gonna have to leave it there for me. You get the last word.107.10.140.224 (talk) 18:54, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The otrs-member group name is now vrt-permissions. This could affect abuse filters. [13]
Problems
You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [14]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 June. It will be on all wikis from 24 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.
Wikisources have a new OCR tool. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add .ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; } to your common.css page. [16]
Problems
You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [17][18]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 June. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).
Future changes
Threshold for stub link formatting, thumbnail size and auto-number headings can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback.
A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users. [19][20]
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - June 2021 Newsletter
This is our nineteenth newsletter, covering June 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 8, 10, 13, 15, 16 and 17.
Meetings
Online user group meeting July 4 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting July 18 (SDG all) [1]
Activities
Ongoing: Wiki Loves Earth (SDG 15) [2]
Ongoing: Join the "Wiki editatón por el conocimiento climático" organized by Alianza Clima y Desarrollo y la Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano [13]
Past: A Wealth of Wiki Women (SDG 5) [5]
Past: Czech WikiGap 2021 report (SDG 5) [6]
Past: 50Y Swiss Women's Suffrage: Edit-a-thon at Historical Museum Lucerne & WikiGap (SDG 5) [7]
Past: The Met, Smithsonian, and a busy Edit-a-thon season (SDG 3, 5, 13) [8]
Past: Wiki for Human Rights Campaign in the Philippines (SDG 10, 13) [9]
News
100 Years of Environment and Climate Change Canada Weather Data in Commons (SDG 13) [3]
#WikiForHumanRights 2021: Insights from the Macedonian Wikipedia (SDG 3, 10, 15) [4]
Malpractice Podcast Ep #2.9: Coffee Talks with Wikimedian Lane Rasberry (SDG 3) [10]
Brazil’s Laws: Modeling the Brazilian legislation in Wikidata (SDG 16) [14]
Resources
Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) has now translated and published its guide "How to contribute climate change information to Wikipedia" in Spanish. Check out the resource: "¿Cómo contribuir información sobre cambio climático a la Wikipedia?" [12]
Research
Ms. Categorized: Gender, notability, and inequality on Wikipedia (SDG 5) [11]
Wikidata Projects in Times of COVID-19: IUPUI Libraries’ Engagement in Open Knowledge (SDG 3) [15]
Videos
Global Open Initiative Foundation editing session - Adding statements about Ghanaian Members of Parliament using OpenRefine (SDG 16) [22]
New Wikidata properties
OpenCorporates register jurisdiction (SDG 8) [16]
electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID (SDG 3) [17]
Romanian diplomatic mission ID (SDG 17) [18]
Foreign diplomatic mission in Romania ID (SDG 17) [19]
Dutch Caribbean Species Register ID (SDG 15) [20]
Burke Herbarium Image Collection ID (SDG 15) [21]
consequence of text (SDG 16) [23]
Companies Registration Office (Ireland) Registration Number (SDG 8) [24]
Hello, M-Mustapha. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Federal Government Girls College (Zaria), a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Draft space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for article space.
If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion under CSD G13. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it. You may request userfication of the content if it meets requirements.
If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available here.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 19 July.
Recent changes
AutoWikiBrowser is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes. [21]
Problems
InternetArchiveBot helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from archive.is to web.archive.org. [22]
Changes later this week
The tool to find, add and remove templates will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year. [23][24]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful. [25]
Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive
Hello Em-mustapha:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running until 31 July 2021.
Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is currently a backlog of over 2200 articles, so start reviewing articles. We're looking forward to your help!
Hi M-Mustapha. Thanks for helping fight the recent vandalism at Pokémon UNITE! I'd just like to advice you to check the full history of the page you are reverting before doing so (or right after, if you ever feel reverting immediately is important). When you revert only the most recent editor, which happened here, you can help hide the previous bad faith edits, making it harder in the future to fix the article. In this case it was obvious something was still wrong, since the infobox was broken, but not checking the page's history can result in stealthy vandalism (like year of birth/death changes) to stay longer. Best regards, Isabelle🔔19:13, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi Hari, were you not been notified about the deletion? I think you suppose to so that you get the reason why your articles got deleted. I just look at your talk page and I see a lot of deletion notifications, I don't know which one you are referring to here but you can go through them and follow up with them. The Living lovetalk10:33, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The tool to find, add and remove templates was updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It was supposed to come to the first wikis on 7 July. It was delayed to 12 July instead. It will come to more wikis later this year. [26][27]
Special:UnconnectedPages lists pages that are not connected to Wikidata. This helps you find pages that can be connected to Wikidata items. Some pages should not be connected to Wikidata. You can use the magic word __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ on pages that should not be listed on the special page. [28]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 July. It will be on all wikis from 22 July (calendar).
Future changes
How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will soon change. This can affect bots, gadgets, user scripts and extensions. You can read more. You can test it on Testwiki or Testwiki 2.
The parameters for how you obtain tokens 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 can read more.
how can I create a page that will not get deleted and be ahelp not a hinderance to this platform? --Heather Brittany Xaricam21:02, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
Welcome and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Creating an undeleted page in Wikipedia is simple, it only needs to pass Wikipedia notability criteria. Take a look at this on creating your first article. I have also placed a welcome message on your talk page with some helpful links in them. I hope this helps. The Living lovetalk23:07, 20 July 2021 (UTC)ks.
August Editathons with Women in Red
Women in Red| August 2021, Volume 7, Issue 8, Numbers 184, 188, 204, 205, 206, 207
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
A new version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis the week before last week. This was not in Tech News because there was no newsletter that week.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 July. It will be on all wikis from 29 July (calendar).
Future changes
If you use the Monobook skin you can choose to switch off responsive design on mobile. This will now work for more skins. If ⧼monobook-responsive-label⧽ is unticked you need to also untick the new preferenceEnable responsive mode. Otherwise it will stop working. Interface admins can automate this process on your wiki. You can read more.
I couldn't find the save button so I pushed the draft. I would like to go back and edit what I have and add more information to the article. I am looking everywhere and I can't find where I can go back to edit it. How will I be able to open the article?
Welcome to Wikipedia, what account did you use to create the draft? and if it's from this account it might have been deleted, so you need to start again. The Living lovetalk01:33, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
Thank you so much for acceptance of Shubhashish Jha submission
Hi M-Mustapha. Thank you for reviewing, accepting and publishing my AfC on Shubhashish Jha. I just came this morning to check the status of my drafts submitted for review and I was overjoyed to see it accepted. Actually I'm so busy with schoolwork that I really don't have much time to work on more articles. I wanted to be inactive and just came to see my submission and was overjoyed with your message. Thank you so much and wishing you a happy editing.--Creativitylove (talk) 05:19, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the nice words! Wishing you the best in your studies. Still, as the message, I hope you will continue making quality contributions to expand Wikipedia. Best. The Living lovetalk11:02, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
Finding J Smith
Hello! Firstly, thank you so much for your feedback on my draft article Draft:Finding J Smith. The sources provided were from TVNZ (The listing of the show when it aired in 2003), Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, The New Zealand Herald and NZ On Air. I am unable to find any further sources unfortunately due to the age of the show and what is now still online. I believe these sources are reliable. See sources from New Zealand here [29] Thank you again :) Appreciate any feedback. Otherwise, I can't do much with the article. This was all I could find. --ArleneHerman (talk) 21:46, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - July 2021 Newsletter
This is our twentieth newsletter, covering July 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 4, 5, 11, 14, 15 and 16.
Meetings
Online user group meeting August 1 (SDG all) [1]
Online user group meeting August 15 (SDG all) [1]
Past: Online user group meeting July 4 (SDG all) [7]
Wikimania
During Wikimania there are a number of sessions related to our user group. We have started a page in the community village to list all the talks, please help add them if you are giving talks or spot sessions in the program. (SDG all) [6]
Activities
Organize Wiki Loves Monuments in 2021 (SDG 11) [26]
Past: Vaccine Safety Edit-a-thon (SDG 3) [5]
News
Who Gets To Be Notable And Who Doesn't: Gender Bias On Wiki (SDG 5) [27]
Resources
Gender diversity in articles about academic disciplines in the French wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
Research
Meta-Research: Citation needed? Wikipedia and the COVID-19 pandemic (SDG 3) [28]
Covid-on-the-Web: Knowledge Graph and Services to Advance COVID-19 Research book (SDG 3) [29]
Unveiling the veiled: Wikipedia collaborating with academic libraries in Africa in creating visibility for African women through Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon (SDG 5) [30]
Videos
Wikipedia Weekly Network - Live editing Wikipedia: Biodiversity edition #4 (SDG 15) [2],[3]
Editing Wikidata items about Ghanaian parliamentarians (SDG 16) [8]
New WikiProjects
Wikidata:Gov Directory (SDG 16) [4]
New Wikidata properties
voted on by (SDG 16) [9]
delta of (SDG 14) [10]
Idaho Species ID (SDG 15) [11]
Montana Field Guide species ID (SDG 15) [12]
E-Fauna BC species ID (SDG 15) [13]
E-Flora BC species ID (SDG 15) [14]
Buzer.de law identification (SDG 16) [15]
taxon range (SDG 15) [17]
URL for citizen's initiatives (SDG 16) [19]
number of request signatories (SDG 16) [20]
CEICE school code (SDG 4) [21]
New Wikidata query examples
Scientific and Commons names of animals which are threatened as per IUCN Red List (SDG 15) [16]
Comparing gender statistics about people cited in an article across several articles (SDG 5) [22]
Swedish Supreme Court judges who citing reports by commissions they themselves took part in (SDG 16) [23]
Map public organizations that allow one to fill citizen's initiatives online (SDG 16) [24]
Number of causes of death (P509) 2019-2021 separated by year so that a comparison of the causes of death before and during the pandemic can also be seen (SDG 3) [25]
The contest will encourage and motivate experienced and new Wikipedia editors to create articles on senate elections in all the 36 states of Nigeria. Nigeria has conducted senate elections in 1979, 1983, 1992, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019. But articles about these elections are missing on Wikipedia and this contest will seek to specifically solve this problem.
Hi, about your comment related to Cape Independence Advocacy Group
keep in mind, this group operates in South Africa - you can't really expect it to have New York Times articles to reference. In terms of South African media, it points at 20 articles in South African publications (and a few smaller international). How would you set the bar in this context? 20 seems like a fairly big number. Any other advice?
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Joefrog (talk • contribs)
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 your wiki uses markup like <div class="mw-content-ltr"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl"> without the required dir attribute, then these will no longer work in 2 weeks. There is a short-term fix that can be added to your local wiki's Common.css page, which is explained at T287701. From now on, all usages should include the full attributes, for example: <div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" lang="en"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl" dir="rtl" lang="he">. This also applies to some other HTML tags, such as span or code. You can find existing examples on your wiki that need to be updated, using the instructions at T287701.
Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 30 minutes. There was a problem with generating dynamic lists of articles on the Russian Wikinews, due to the bulk import of 200,000+ new articles over 3 days, which led to database problems. The problematic feature has been disabled on that wiki and developers are discussing if it can be fixed properly. [31][32]
Changes later this week
When adding links to a page using VisualEditor or the 2017 wikitext editor, disambiguation pages will now only appear at the bottom of search results. This is because users do not often want to link to disambiguation pages. [33]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 August. It will be on all wikis from 5 August (calendar).
Future changes
The team of the Wikipedia app for Android is working on communication in the app. The developers are working on how to talk to other editors and get notifications. You can read more. They are looking for users who want to test the plans. Any editor who has an Android phone and is willing to download the app can do this.
The Beta Feature for Discussion tools will be updated in the coming weeks. You will be able to subscribe to individual sections on a talk page at more wikis. You can test this now by adding ?dtenable=1 to the end of the talk page's URL (example).
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
A tag has been placed on Stella Fakiyesi requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://www.stellafakiyesi.com/3145207-bio-cv. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
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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
You can read but not edit 17 wikis for a few minutes on 10 August. This is planned at 05:00 UTC. This is because of work on the database. [34]
Changes later this week
The Wikimania Hackathon will take place remotely on 13 August, starting at 5:00 UTC, for 24 hours. You can participate in many ways. You can still propose projects and sessions.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 August. It will be on all wikis from 12 August (calendar).
The old CSS <div class="visualClear"></div> will not be supported after 12 August. Instead, templates and pages should use <div style="clear:both;"></div>. Please help to replace any existing uses on your wiki. There are global-search links available at T287962.
Future changes
The Wikipedia Library is a place for Wikipedia editors to get access to sources. There is an extension which has a new function to tell users when they can take part in it. It will use notifications. It will start pinging the first users in September. It will ping more users later. [35]
Re this edit to Randy Wayne (biologist): you restored information that had been removed claiming that the removal was "unexplained". Yet the editor who removed the material left an edit summary indicating that the material was "unnecessary". If you'll look, you'll see that the removed material is simply a list of every professor Wayne studied under at some point, whether notable or not. Moreover, the material is unsourced. This particular article has been extensively edited by a user who claims to be Wayne himself, and the autobiographical nature of the article shows. I think it best to allow this particular removal of material to stand. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!!17:15, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
Big Brother 23 Revert
Hi, I was just wondering if there was a specific reason for this revert? Doesn't appear as blatant vandalism to me and you didn't provide an edit summary explaining what was wrong it these edits. TheDoctorWho(talk)02:17, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
You can add language links in the sidebar in the 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. [37]
Problems
There was a problem on wikis which use the Translate extension. Translations were not updated or were replaced with the English text. The problems have been fixed. [38][39][40]
Changes later this week
A revision tag will soon be added to edits that add links to disambiguation pages. This is because these links are usually added by accident. The tag will allow editors to easily find the broken links and fix them. If your wiki does not like this feature, it can be hidden. [41]
Would you like to help improve the information about tools? Would you like to attend or help organize a small virtual meetup for your community to discuss the list of tools? Please get in touch on the Toolhub Quality Signal Sessions talk page. We are also looking for feedback from tool maintainers on some specific questions.
In the past, edits to any page in your user talk space ignored your mute list, e.g. sub-pages. Starting this week, this is only true for edits to your talk page. [42]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 August. It will be on all wikis from 19 August (calendar).
Hello Mustapha, I saw that you refused my draft on the composer Alain Guélis, you certainly have good reasons, so if I greatly shortened the introduction in a much more neutral way, and that I remove the sources like youtube, by leaving only sources such as the press, the library of congress, the national library of France, and going into much less detail of musical works, do you think it could be better? thank you for your advice do not hesitate I do not have much experience. see you soon.--AMPYTRION (talk) 17:39, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi AMPYTRION, thanks for contributing to Wikipedia and helping to expand the project scope. Yes, of course, that will make it better, please go ahead and make the changes and don't hesitate to resubmit again for review when you are done. By the way, I dropped a welcome note on your talkpage with some helpful links to guide you. The Living lovetalk21:10, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
Merci beaucoup Mustapha ! je vais regarder ça avec attention et je vais essayer d'aller dans ce sens. bien à vous
AMPYTRION (talk) 08:17, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello Mustapha, I reviewed my draft on the composer Alain Guélis, I shortened a lot, used a much more neutral tone, much less advertising, I removed the youtube links and left only references, but I am waiting for your precious advices.--AMPYTRION (talk) 19:13, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
Revert on Stephen Schimdheiny page
Hi, why did you revert the changes to the profile of Stephan Schimdheiny?
It was all documented...
Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.176.32.146 (talk • contribs)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The Score extension (<score> notation) has been re-enabled on public wikis and upgraded to a newer version. Some musical score functionality may no longer work because the extension is only enabled in "safe mode". The security issue has been fixed and an advisory published.
Problems
You will be able to read but not edit some wikis for a few minutes on 25 August. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. During this time, operations on the CentralAuth will also not be possible.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 August. It will be on all wikis from 26 August (calendar).
Also during this time, operations on the CentralAuth will not be possible (GlobalRenames, changing/confirming e-mail addresses, logging into new wikis, password changes).
For more details about the operation and on all impacted services, please check on Phabricator.
A banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the operation.
Please help your community to be aware of this maintenance operation. Thank you!
20:33, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
September 2021 at Women in Red
Women in Red| September 2021, Volume 7, Issue 9, Numbers 184, 188, 204, 205, 207, 208
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Some musical score syntax no longer works and may needed to be updated, you can check Category: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. [43]
Changes later this week
The parameters for how you obtain tokens 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 can read more about this.
The new 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 edit Commons for a few minutes on 6 September. This will happen around 05:00 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. [44]
Question from Marilyn lb (06:52, 2 September 2021)
Hello Em- Mustapha,
I've started my contribution to Wikipedia recently and I am facing some difficulties concerning the creation of new articles. It would be great if you have time to assist me ! Thanks in advance!
looking forward to hearing from you.
Regards
Marlyin, --"" (talk) 06:52, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
Good evening Em-mustapha. Thank you so much for your observations and review of the submission. I have edited and hope to resubmit. Can you please go through my draft to see if everything is in place as you suggested? Also feel free to identify those areas that needs to be edited. Thank you once more --Olugold (talk) 18:40, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
Data Quality Days - a week of all things data quality around Wikidata from Septempber 8th to 15th. Check the schedule, join sessions and add more if you would like to facilitate a discussion or workshop!
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: developing Wikidata tools and gadgets with Andrew Lih. [45], Sep 7th.
LIVE Wikidata editing #52 - YouTube, Facebook, September 11 at 18:00 UTC
Template:Generic queries for authors : new generic queries template designed for authors (fiction and non-fiction). Feedback and translations are welcome.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
User:SuccuBot has made its 100.000.000th edit. It is the first user account in Wikidata to reach this milestone.
In the frame of a Google Summer of Code project a new tool, called WikidataComplete was created. The tool smoothly integrates in the Wikidata UI and proposes new statements extracted by machine learning algorithms. Editors are asked to either approve or reject them. To activate it check here for a short tutorial check here. Any feedback is welcome here.
Continued work on the Mismatch Finder. We are now working on creating the page where mismatches will be listed for review.
Worked on support for "separators" parameter for distinct value constraints (phab:T277855)
Made it possible to restrict constraints to certain entity types (phab:T269724)
Added a new constraint type to ensure that the Item has a label in a particular language (phab:T195178)
Added a button for the Query Builder to query.wikidata.org to make the Query builder discoverable (phab:T276210) - integration in the example dialog is still in progress (phab:T280229)
We started work on some behind-the-scenes improvements to the way Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects are notified about a change that affects their articles. (They need this notification so the article can be purged and show the latest data from Wikidata again. It is also required for showing the edit in the watchlist and recent changes on those wikis. This should have no visible impact for editors but is needed maintenance work.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The wikis that have Growth 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. [46]
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. [47][48]
Last year, the Portuguese Wikipedia community embarked on an experiment to make log-in compulsory for editing. The impact 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.
Hi Princess, No! I don't think so, SAN alone can not guarantee notability for inclusion here, although such people can still be notable if they meet other general notability criteria. That's my thought. Thanks for asking. The Living lovetalk19:50, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #485
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Transbordados: WikidataCon's preconference for Latin America - September 14, 21 and 28 (21h UTC) - with simultaneous translation for Portuguese and Spanish, via YouTube - set of events to discuss Wikidata and decoloniality, knowledge organization and digital dissemination of collections in Latin America contexts. Join us!
14/09 - Towards a decolonial wiki: overflowing knowledge from the Latin American horizon - speakers: Amanda Jurno (Wiki Movimento Brasil), Bianca Santana (journalist, writer and activist) and Silvia Gutiérrez (El Colégio de México) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
21/09 - The universe of libraries: Wikidata and the multiplication of knowledge potencies - speakers: Lilian Viana (GLAM das Bibliotecas da USP) and Maurício Genta (Wikimedia Argentina e Biblioteca Nacional da Argentina) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
28/09 - Digital collections and Wikidata: organizing a network of knowledge - speakers: Evelin Heidel (a.k.a. Scann; Wikimedistas do Uruguai) and Karen Worcman (Museu da Pessoa) - watch it in PT-BR / ES
Demo of the Query Builder live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, September 14 at 18:00 CEST
Ongoing:
Data Quality Days - several sessions happened over the past days and more are coming this week. Recordings, slides and notes are linked in the program
Wwwyzzerdd for Wikidata is a browser extension that allows you to view and edit Wikidata information from Wikipedia (demo video). Install it in Firefox or Chrome
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Face The Facts mobile app allows you to scan election posters and see the true facts about politicians.
Mismatch Finder: The website part of the tool is taking shape but is not quite functional yet. We worked on creating the results page. You can see the current very much not finished state at https://mismatch-finder.toolforge.org/
Linked the Query Builder from the Query Service so it is discoverable (phab:T280229)
Finished work on normalizing filenames when linking to media files on Commons (phab:T251480)
All new wbstack.com wikis will now be created with elastic search support, including Wikibase indexes! All existing sites will have elastic search soon! (Source)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
A majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features. The Growth team has 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.
The new 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. [51]
You can add language links in the sidebar in the 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. [52]
The syntax 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 the Go programming language, and a special output mode has been added to show a program's output. [53][54]
Congratulations and thank you for participating in Black Lunch Table's International writing contest 2021. Please reach out to wiki@blacklunchtable.com so we may forward your prize. Raggachampiongirl (talk) 17:31, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Bionomia and maintaining Wikidata synchrony with David Shorthouse (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada). [55], Sep 21st.
Lightning Talk: Wikidata in your Civic Tech project | Summit 2021 - YouTube
Continuing the work on the Mismatch Finder. This week we focused on the remaining groundwork for showing the first mismatches for review.
Continuing to work on improvements to the underlying system of how edits are propagated from Wikidata to the other Wikimedia projects.
Implemented two improvements for constraints: the “distinct values” constraint type now supports the “separator” parameter (phab:T277855) and we no longer check qualifiers on some unusual™ properties (phab:T235292)
Adding tags to some of the remaining UI edits that didn't get them yet for edits on Lexemes (phab:T290950)
Making it possible to add tags to some remaining Lexeme API modules (phab:T290951)
Fixed a bug in the Query Builder where it didn't show labels when opening an existing visual query from a shared link (phab:T280684)
Made the Query Builder more visible in the Query Service UI (phab:T280229)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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. [56]
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 ping Jon (WMF) on wiki or in phabricator 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. [57]
Changes later this week
The new 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).
The meta=proofreadpage API has changed. The piprop parameter has been renamed to prpiprop. API users should update their code to avoid unrecognized parameter warnings. Pywikibot users should upgrade to 6.6.0. [58]
Future changes
The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "Discussion tools" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. [59]
The previously 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 follow T291202 for progress on a fix, and should plan to upgrade to 6.6.1 when it is released.
