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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
Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr. [1]
Problems
Commons will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [2]
Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [3][4]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 May. It will be on all wikis from 14 May (calendar).
Future changes
JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer check multiple keys at once via mw.config.exists() or mw.user.tokens.exists(). You can use exists() or get() to check one at a time instead. [5]
Hello Path slopu. You are invited to join the new WikiProject India 10,000 Challenge, a challenge which aims to see 10,000 improvements, destubs, and creations for Indian articles, covering every state of India and topic. Articles on all related topics are welcome. We need numbers to make this work and do something extraordinary for India on Wikipedia! Every 100 articles submitted will be copied into the wider Asian challenge. Sign up on the page if interested and start contributing! If you know someone who might be interested, please invite them by:
Hi. THanks for your message. I spent hours fixing bad information and links. I believe it is important to be accurate and there were so many glaring inaccuracies. I don't understand how this can be construed as non constructive. The Wikipedia strives for accuracy and objectivity. I hope you have a great day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonbrauer1968 (talk • contribs) 6:59 pm, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
An invention is a unique or noveldevice, method, composition or process, and the invention process is a process within an overall engineering and product development process.
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 you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. [6][7]
Problems
There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them. [8]
Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [9][10]
Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files. [12]
Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects div#p-personal, div#p-navigation, div#p-interaction, div#p-tb, div#p-lang, div#p-namespaces, div#p-variants and div#footer. They will have to remove div. You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5. [13]
Some CSS for the Vector skin has been changed. This affects #p-variants, #p-namespaces, #p-personal, #p-views and #p-cactions. They can no longer use > ul. You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how.
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 visual editor will now work in the Modern skin. The changes that needed to happen for this to work could cause problems for some scripts or gadgets. [14]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 27. It will be on all wikis from May 28 (calendar).
Articles for Creation: List of reviewers by subject notice
Hi Path slopu, you are receiving this notice because you are listed as an active Articles for Creation reviewer.
Recently a list of reviewers by area of expertise was created. This notice is being sent out to alert you to the existence of that list, and to encourage you to add your name to it. If you or other reviewers come across articles in the queue where an acceptance/decline hinges on specialist knowledge, this list should serve to facilitate contact with a fellow reviewer.
To end on a positive note, the backlog has dropped below 1,500, so thanks for all of the hard work some of you have been putting into the AfC process!
William Mariner was an Englishman who lived in Tonga from 29 November 1806 to (probably) 8 November 1810. He later published Tonga Islands, an account of his experiences that is now one of the major sources of information on Tonga before it was significantly influenced by European culture and Christianity. Pictured is Mariner in Tongan attire.
The Wikimedia Foundation announced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.
Arbitration
A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.
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 beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos. [15]
Problems
There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May. [16][17][18]
The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed. [19]
Changes later this week
You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can turn these notifications off for individual pages. You can soon turn them off also in the notifications you get. [20]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 June. It will be on all wikis from 4 June (calendar).
Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2020. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. All times and dates stated are in UTC.
Current events
Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 00:01 on 16 June. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, or you know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.
March Drive: Self-isolation from coronavirus may have played a hand in making this one of our most successful backlog elimination drives. The copy-editing backlog was reduced from 477 to a record low of 118 articles, a 75% reduction. The last four months of 2019 were cleared, reducing the backlog to three months. Fifty requests were also completed, and the total word count of copy-edited articles was 759,945. Of the 29 editors who signed up, 22 completed at least one copy edit. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.
April Blitz: This blitz ran from 12 to 18 April with a theme of Indian military history. Of the 18 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed a total of 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.
May Drive: This event marked the 10th anniversary of the GOCE's copy-editing drives, and set a goal of diminishing the backlog to just one month of articles, as close to zero articles as possible. We achieved the goal of eliminating all articles that had been tagged prior to the start of the drive, for the first time in our history! Of the 51 editors who signed up, 43 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.
Other news
Progress report: as of 2 June, GOCE participants had processed 328 requests since 1 January, which puts us on pace to exceed any previous year's number of requests. As of the end of the May drive, the backlog stood at just 156 articles, all tagged in May 2020.
Outreach: To mark the 10th anniversary of our first Backlog Elimination Drive, The Signpost contributor and GOCE participant Puddleglum2.0 interviewed project coordinators and copy-editors for the journal's April WikiProject Report. The Drive and the current Election of Coordinators have also been covered in The Signpost'sMay News and Notes page.
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 articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead. A third click will now take you back to the original sorting. [21]
Self-closed tags now work as in the HTML5 specifications. This means you should stop using some of them. <b/> is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work. area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect <references /> or <ref />. [22]
There is a banner called WikidataPageBanner. It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on MediaWiki:Sitenotice so that editors know to test and style for mobile too. [23][24]
Changes later this week
You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets. [25]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11 June (calendar).
Future changes
A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 118 wikis need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [26]
Can you please explain to me why you reverted my edits? I explained why they were correct on the Talk page. MWise12 (talk) 08:11, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
@MWise12:Hi, welcome to wikipedia. I reverted your edits because it seemed unconstructive. If you sure that it was a mistake, feel free to revert my edit by clicking undo. Thank you.--PATHSLOPU08:14, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
The article is under a 1RR restriction so I can't revert it until tomorrow. If you read what I wrote on the talk page though, you can see I was being constructive and restore my change. MWise12 (talk) 08:17, 15 June 2020 (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
Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.
Problems
There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed. [27]
Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed. [28]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June (calendar).
Future changes
Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help. [29]
The selectors .menu and .vectorMenu will no longer work in the Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts. .menu should be replaced by ul. .vectorMenu should be replaced by .vector-menu. [30]
NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.
Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate
In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.
Discussions and Resources
A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.
If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on 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.
Problems
There are some new tools to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed. [31]
Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to CSS selectors. .vectorTabs should be replaced with .vector-menu-tabs to fix this. [32]
Changes later this week
The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can give feedback. [33]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (calendar).
Future changes
A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 91 wikis still need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [34]
The phrase "omakase" is most commonly used when dining at Japanese restaurants where the customer leaves it up to the chef to select and serve seasonal specialties. Pictured is omakase at a restaurant.
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
Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [35]
Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been fixed. [36]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).
Future changes
The Modern and Monobook skins use the ID searchGoButton for the go button. This is searchButton for Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change to searchButton in Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to use searchButton. You can read more and see a list of affected scripts.
Thank you for your interest and contributions to WikiLoop Battlefield.
We are holding a voting for proposed new name. We would like to invite you to this voting. The voting
is held at m:WikiProject_WikiLoop/New_name_vote and ends on July 13th 00:00 UTC.
The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.
The third round of the 2020 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it into the fourth round each had at least 353 points (compared to 68 in 2019). It was a highly competitive round, and a number of contestants were eliminated who would have moved on in earlier years. Our top scorers in round 3 were:
Epicgenius, with one featured article, 28 good articles and 17 DYKs, amassing 1836 points
The Rambling Man , with 1672 points gained from four featured articles and seventeen good articles, plus reviews of a large number of FACs and GAs
Gog the Mild, a first time contestant, with 1540 points, a tally built largely on 4 featured articles and related bonus points.
Between them, contestants managed 14 featured articles, 9 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 152 good articles, 136 DYK entries, 55 ITN entries, 65 featured article candidate reviews and 221 good article reviews. Additionally, MPJ-DK added 3 items to featured topics and 44 to good topics. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 710 good article reviews, in comparison to 387 good articles submitted for review and promoted. These large numbers are probably linked to a GAN backlog drive in April and May, and the changed patterns of editing during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.
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
The Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed. [37]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 July. It will be on all wikis from 9 July (calendar).
Future changes
Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read more. [38]
Some rules for user signatures will soon be enforced. Lint errors and invalid HTML will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new rules. This is because the signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.
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
Users can thank others for their edits. Checkusers can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify sock puppets who harass others using thanks. [39]
Problems
Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week. [40][41]
Changes later this week
Wikis that are not for one specific language can translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a pink background. Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using <translate nowrap></translate> on the source page. [42]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (calendar).
Future changes
Wikimedia code review plans to use GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. [43][44][45][46]
The Brute Man is a 1946 American horror film starring Rondo Hatton as the Creeper, a murderer seeking revenge against the people he holds responsible for the disfigurement of his face.
Quotes
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble.”
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 temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. The mobile main page special casing stopped working 14 July. 60 wikis now have main pages that don't work well on mobile. You can see which ones, how to fix it and how to get help in Phabricator. This is the same problem that was reported in Tech News 2020/24 and 2020/26.
Problems
There is a problem with the interlanguage links. The interlanguage links are the links that help you find a specific page in a different language. The sorting is broken. The developers are working on a solution. [47]
Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events. [48]
Some users have trouble logging in. This is probably a browser cookie problem. The developers are working on understanding the problem. If you have trouble logging in you can see the details on Phabricator. [49]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 July. It will be on all wikis from 23 July (calendar).
Future changes
There is a Printable version link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway. [50]
Hello,
I was writing an article about Palestrina, and I corrected the wikipedia entry because it had wrong citation. The composer didn't have Libera me written on his coffin according to the book that was given as a source. He had engraved his name and occupation. His composisition to to "Libera me" responsory was only sung during his funeral. Please correct that, or give another source that proves the tomb encryption. I'm not writing this to be negative, I just want the data to be accurate. I'm writing my masters thesis on the piece "Libera me" so if You know a different source that proves this anecdote please write me back
With regards
Karolina Zuk
The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is an example of a New World crop, a crop native to the New World (mostly the Americas) before 1492 CE and not found anywhere else at that time.
An act is a division or unit of a theatre work, including a play, film, opera, and musical theatre. Pictured is a visual representation of the three-act structure.
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 Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this. [51]
The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck Use Legacy Vector in your local or global preferences in section Skin preferences. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week. [52][53]
Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed. [54]
Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed. [55]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 29. It will be on all wikis from JUly 30 (calendar).
Hello, I found your talk page and wanted to see if you had time to check out this article Swaminarayan Sampraday under the Gunatit Samaj section.
I want to propose the following edit:
The Change (Update Section):
The Yogi Divine Society was established in 1966, by Dadubhai Patel and his brother, Babubhai after they were excommunicated from BAPS by Yogiji Maharaj. The brothers were expelled after it was discovered that Dadubhai illicitly collected and misappropriated funds and, falsely claiming that he was acting on the organization’s behalf, led a number of young women to renounce their families and join his ashram under his leadership. Dadubhai believed Pramukh Swami, was against him and persuaded the BAPS trustees to remove him. After Dadubhai’s death in 1986, an ascetic named Hariprasad Swami became the leader of the Yogi Divine Society. The Yogi Divine Society became known as the Gunatit Samaj and consists of several wings: namely, Yogi Divine Society, The Anoopam Mission, and The Gunatit Jyot.Yogiji Maharaj's images and prior gurus are displayed at all Gunatit Samaj temples.
@This Guy Can Edit Articles:Hi, welcome to Wikipedia! Hope you like this place. Yes, you can always ask me or any other user for help. I would like to share you some tips also.
You can link to any article in wikipedia using square brackets like this [[Name of article]].
You can read more about this in the page Help:Links
If you want to use another name which is not the name of article in wikipedia, link like this [[Actual Name|Name you want]]. That is use a vertical bar "|" (the "pipe" symbol – see this page for how to type one) to create a link while labelling it with a different name on the original page.
Also, when starting a new conversation, always feel free to start as a new section (see the example above). This can be done by clicking New section tab.
Always remember to sign your post with four tildes ~~~~.
If you have any doubts, feel free to ask me or any other users. Also there is a space named Teahouse for asking help from volunteer editors.
I don't know if this kind of messages are allowed or not, but thank you very much for your help on my problem and Thank you for giving me links to those pages. I really appreciate your help!This Guy Can Edit Articles (talk) 12:37, 3 August 2020 (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
All queries to the Wikidata Query Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period. [56]
Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks. This problem was also mentioned in Tech News two weeks ago. The problem is now fixed. [57]
There is a problem with the global preferences for the "Use Legacy Vector" option. Developers are working on fixing it. [58]
A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed. [59]
Changes later this week
The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The old player will be removed. [60]
Users' global.js and global.css pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin. [61]
In the MonoBook skin, the searchGoButton identifier is now searchButton. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953. This was previously mentioned in issue 27.
Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses counter to prevent large archives was changed. [62]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 5. It will be on all wikis from August 6 (calendar).
The edit I made on Nathan For You wasn't a test, it just makes more sense to not bother with an entirely new section for 'Other influence' which is just one sentence that is also about the programme's real life influence, as with the previous section 'Publicity'. Even the title 'Other influence' is clearly a continuation of the previous category.194.207.74.116 (talk) 13:11, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi, how can I make my signature as colorful as yours?
Hi, Path Slopu,
I am a new Wikipedian, and after seeing your signature, I was amazed. I went to the Wikipedia signature tutorial, and after doing some stuff in my signature, I found out that the signature editor text field just wouldn't put as much signature code (written in HTML; I know a bit of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript). It seemed like it wouldn't accept that much characters. How did you do it? My signature code (the code that I want to put into the signature code text field) is the following:
Look at my previous post. I cannot get each character to have a different color. Since there wasn't enough space, I could only let the last four characters, "iend", be non-color and have the original color of the link, which is blue. Your signature looks great. Could you please tell me how you did it? Thanks. Friend50511:56, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
@Friend505: Hi greetings, you can customise your signature as mentioned in WP:CUSTOMSIG/P. Also, do not exceed the number of character as mentioned in WP:SIGLEN. I didn't use any extra techniques. Just changed in preferences. One by one colouring may not get worked due to large markup size. But you can colour them in pairs, triplets, etc (as you wish). Also, there is another way to customise your signature, but personally I won't recommend it and it's a discouraged one. You can create a signature subpage on your userspace and place a subst: template in custom sign field (I tried once) (eg:{{subst:User:Example/signature}}). It is vulnerable to vandalism and may not satisfy SIGLEN policy. But you can do it as you wish. All the best! Thank you.--PATHSLOPU12:15, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
@Path slopu: Oh, thank you so much, Path Slopu. Yeah, I hadn't noticed that the colors in your colorful signature came in pairs or triplets. Thanks. Friend50512:18, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
@Path slopu: Thanks for your help, Path slopu. I hadn't seen any signature subpage stuff anywhere else, even in the custom signature tutorial. I have already successfully added my colorful custom signature, which is shown in my signature at the end of this post. Thanks. Friend50513:44, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
And, actually, about what you said about vandalism might be occuring on the page. Well, when I become an admin, I can protect my own user page, which will probably protect user subpages. This will only allow auto-confirmed or confirmed users to edit stuff in my user page. Thanks. Friend50513:45, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi greetings, please read WP:SIG#NT- there is some ideas related to above mentioned usage of substituted templates in signature. I am again saying, it is allowed but discouraged. Thank you, PATHSLOPU13:51, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
Friend505, Hi greetings, you do not need to become an admin to request the protection of a page. There is a page (WP:RPP) for requesting the protection of pages. You can request the protection of any page, if it get vandalised. If you want to protect your userpage against vandalism, you can either ask an admin or ask at RPP. Probably the request will denied if there is no trace or threat of vandalism. Thank you. PATHSLOPU13:55, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
Also, there is no need of pinging me (or any user) in their talk page. Please feel free to ask, if you have any doubts on editing. I am willing to help. Thank you. PATHSLOPU13:58, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for your help, Path slopu. Good idea; I only need to request a protection of my user page if vandalism starts to occur, since there would be no reason to protect if everything is good. Thanks. Friend50518:04, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
Friend505, Hi, also, please feel free to reduce the size of your current signature. It's now 342 B. According to SIGLEN policy, the signatures should not exceed 255 B. However, thank you so much for the contributions. Also, please remember to participate in TWA. Regards. PATHSLOPU03:03, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
@Path slopu: Thanks for the advice, Path slopu. However, since the size of the signature is simply a suggestion/recommendation, I have decided not to follow it. However, I am required to follow the rule of the color contrast of my signature being at least 4.5, since the rules are defined by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Mandruss told me about this after I changed my signature to become colorful. I then changed the colors to make the contrast at least 4.5. If you would like to take a look at our discussion, please visit the bottommost section of my talk page. Thank you. Friend50510:52, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
Thanks
Yep, I apprehend the decency that you depicted in every sphere. Thanks for ur new suggestion as well.
You deserve a barnstar as well.
Regards,
SHISHIR DUA (talk) 04:10, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Path slopu! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, Any change?, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days (usually at least two days, and sometimes four or more). You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please feel free to create a new thread.
from Gomez's page but I need it to start cause I couldn't find the peron onfo box. Just accept it cause I will not create another page in here except of him Constantine Ganosis cause I paid for this not that much but he paied me.
What if the bio is the same? I mean its for Constantine Ganosis how I can write it in the way that I can since he told me ro write it exactly like the other sites? Unfortunately, I don't have the right to make any change to this — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thecganosis2 (talk • contribs) 10:03, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
@Thecganosis2: Simply put, content copied from official bios, especially those written by the subject themselves, are simply not appropriate for Wikipedia. I'm sorry that you seem to have entered into a business agreement to do something that Wikipedia's rules do not allow, with an apparent misunderstanding of what Wikipedia is and how it operates. I'm afraid that the specifics of your arrangements are left between you and the subject, and you will need to find some way to explain the disappointing news to them.
Wikipedia is a volunteer written encyclopedia, and not an extension of social media. If the goal of the subject is to promulgate their official bio, written to their liking and specifications, then they should do so elsewhere. There is no shortage of social media outlets for them to choose from, but Wikipedia is not one of them. GMGtalk12:16, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
@GreenMeansGo What I should to correct to this page?
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