Hello, The person who loves reading! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! Peaceray (talk) 01:32, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
I'm not sure if English is a language you are not familiar with, but your copyedits are not improvements. Please stop. Also, stop renaming photo files, because when you do, they don't work anymore. Please take a moment to read some of the links for new editors above. Thank you for your cooperation. Magnolia677 (talk) 00:19, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
Hi The person who loves reading. After reviewing your request, I have enabled rollback on your account. Please keep the following things in mind while using rollback:
Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle or RedWarn.
If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into trouble or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts?17:13, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
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I Quote: "Policy does not prohibit users, whether registered or unregistered, from removing comments from their own talk pages, although archiving is preferred. If a user removes material from their talk page, it is normally taken to mean that the user has read and is aware of its contents. There is no need to keep them on display, and usually users should not be forced to do so."
I revert your edits because there are already sources provided for the numbers. However, maybe you're right, but you may need to discuss on the talk page or cite reliable sources for your numbers. The person who loves reading (talk) 15:42, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
Ok please check the citation they provided and tell me if they are the same figures written in the citations. I literally read the sources they provided and copied the figures provided there instead of the made up figure provided by Ethiopians 178.164.236.201 (talk) 15:47, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
Can you read there own citations and if I’m correct please put back the edits I made because it took me time and I can’t do it again now 178.164.236.201 (talk) 15:54, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
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I added a character to the Jonny Quest (television series) page under "Characters" which you removed without reason. The character appeared in but a single episode (which was named properly in the text). A footnote would not be necessary given the way in which the addition was made. Kindly restore it. Thank you. 159.250.239.206 (talk) 03:31, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
Sorry about that. I often make mistakes. I'll look carefully next time. Thanks for telling me. By the way, I also help you fix some grammar mistakes that occurs in the paragraph. Happy editing! The person who loves reading (talk) 03:37, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
I have never added to Wiki before but saw this ladies burial details were missing while researching her. I have just added her to Findagrave.com and Billiongraves.com and Familysearch with GPS photos and sources.
Why did you delete my section in the Russian language in Ukraine article about the language after the invasion? I provided sources to all the information that I wrote. If I cited it wrong, then perhaps you can help me with that rather than deleting the entire section. I cited two articles from the Kyiv Post and a RATING poll. Both of these outlets are already used in the article P0tato112 (talk) 01:15, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
You reverted an edit I made to the Mill page. I believe your reversion is in error. My source is *the same* as the existing cited source. It is fixing a basic mathematical error -- whose logic is immediately apparent in the very following sentence in the same article. You can also see the same criticism on the talk page by another reviewer in 2014 (!!!). It's pretty egregious that this fairly obvious mathematical mistake has been around for that long, imho. Opaldraggy (talk) 04:32, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
One alternative solution is to simply delete the mistaken phrase: "The term is sometimes used as one-hundredth of a cent" as it is not supported by any evidence. Opaldraggy (talk) 04:33, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
I remove the 2 names from the page, because it's been vandalize. Those 2 names weren't played for the varsity team. I can't believe you restore those names again. 180.191.172.245 (talk) 16:12, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
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The AbuseFilter condition limit was increased from 1000 to 2000. [1]
Desktop users are now able to subscribe to talk pages by clicking on the Subscribe link in the Tools menu. If you subscribe to a talk page, you receive notifications when new topics are started on that talk page. This is separate from putting the page on your watchlist or subscribing to a single discussion. [3]
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 March. It will be on all wikis from 30 March (calendar).
The legacy Mobile Content Service is going away in July 2023. Developers are encouraged to switch to Parsoid or another API before then to ensure service continuity. [5]
I changed the world former to current since Benjamin Netanyahu was elected on November 1st, 2022 and was sworn to become prime minister in December 29th, 2022.
Can I remove or change the word former in Walla!? 79.178.245.143 (talk) 17:45, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
This is actually an interesting question. I check some articles, and they have the similar situation here. We don't need to change it because Benjamin Netanyahu was a former prime minister at that time. Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia! You can also put a {{help me}} template on your talk page and volunteers will come and help you. The person who loves reading (talk) 23:47, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
@79.178.245.143 You can check the Prime Minister (1996-1999) section of Benjamin Netanyahu. Find the first sentence in the second paragraph of the "First term". In 1996, Ehud Olmert was a mayor, but he is actually a former prime minister now. The person who loves reading (talk) 23:52, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
Quick question. What's "not appropriate" about using the American English variant on a Wikipedia.org bio page about an American radio personality? It all seems pretty consistent to me. Thanks. Kire1975 (talk) 07:28, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Im a personal assistant of Martine Barrat. I'm currently with her and we would like to edit some portions of the Wiki. I can't provide citation because she is the citation. Please let me know what i can do or if i need to talk to someone else. 2603:7000:4E3D:150C:8CAF:28B3:1392:B5E8 (talk) 19:03, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
It's a hard question. If you're a personal assistant of Martine Barrat, you can't edit the page because of the Wikipedia policy WP:COI. Additionally, Wikipedia has policies and guidelines called Citing sources, Biographies of living persons, Verifiability. It restricts edits on the article Martine Barrat with no citations, because other people might insert wrong information to the article if edits with no citations are allowed. Wikipedia has a very strict rule on editing articles about biographies of living persons, because the impact of wrong information is huge and Wikipedia doesn't want to have a bad influence on people. The person who loves reading (talk) 19:14, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
As the old saying goes! "Practice make perfect!" You just continue doing that, and i promise you, you'd be an accomplished "READING CHAMP" like me, one of these fine days, ok buddy!
P.S: Along with reading, you have to also master the art of writing, this includes knowing all, and knowing where to properly place your abbreviations within your paragraphs body. Having a wide extensive vocabulary, and being cognizant of how to eloquently enunciate with utter clarity, and conviction. In ending, mastering your diction, will leave your recipients yearning for more. The sound of your clear confident voice, would be as "milk & honey" to their naked ears! BangGut (talk) 20:16, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.
You have been trouted for: Undoing my edit on Mount Tai. As a descendant of that culture, I have a lot of knowledge on this area. It can be considered racism if you are to prevent me from writing bout my culture. Leg Lore (talk) 03:10, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
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The system for automatically creating categories for the Babel extension has had several important changes and fixes. One of them allows you to insert templates for automatic category descriptions on creation, allowing you to categorize the new categories. [6][7][8][9][10]
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).
Some older Web browsers will stop being able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can try to upgrade to a newer version. [11]
The deprecated jquery.hoverIntent module has been removed. This module could be used by gadgets and user scripts, to create an artificial delay in how JavaScript responds to a hover event. Gadgets and user scripts should now use jQuery hover() or on() instead. Examples can be found in the migration guide. [12]
Some of the links in Special:SpecialPages will be re-arranged. There will be a clearer separation between links that relate to all users, and links related to your own user account. [13]
You will be able to hide the Reply button in archived discussion pages with a new __ARCHIVEDTALK__ magic word. There will also be a new .mw-archivedtalk CSS class for hiding the Reply button in individual sections on a page. [14][15][16]
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The Vega software that creates data visualizations in pages, such as graphs, will be upgraded to the newest version in the future. Graphs that still use the very old version 1.5 syntax may stop working properly. Most existing uses have been found and updated, but you can help to check, and to update any local documentation. Examples of how to find and fix these graphs are available.
The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
This is honestly so weird... Im noticing a couple of weird things on my YouTube account too (searches I hadn't done for example), I don't know what to do but I suspect I've been hacked.. دانيالوه (talk) 19:56, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
My computer also automatically restarted after it was turned off, and said that it was opened unsuccessfully and let me to restart. I clicked restart and the computer just opened again. The person who loves reading (talk) 20:03, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
I suspect I'm talking to the hacker because this is quite an ungrammatical paragraph of a grammar-maniac user.. دانيالوه (talk) 20:24, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
This is just..not the situation I'm in the mood for right now, look, I come from basically one of the poorest countries in the middle east so don't even bother. دانيالوه (talk) 20:31, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for your invitation to ‘The Guild of Copy editors’
I am fairly new to editing wikipedia articles and it will really help improve my copy edits. Kolorblind2010 (talk) 02:45, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
Wow, thank you so much for reviewing several of the GOCE requests (and so quickly)! Your assistance is much appreciated.
By the way, I have another strange favor to ask. If you're interested, I'd love to see the Wikipedia entry about me translated for Chinese Wikipedia. I noticed you're a native speaker, but I don't know if you enjoy translating or editing Chinese Wikipedia. Figured I'd ask!
You're welcome! However, I'm sorry because I can't translate this article for now. I'm not familiar with Chinese Wikipedia. I'll first translate this article if I ever translate any articles. The person who loves reading (talk) 03:43, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
I have checked some of the other GOCE requested articles that you have marked as complete, and they still need more work. Even your responses on the GOCE Requests page are not grammatical. I do not want to discourage you, but I suggest that you slow down and work on quality over quantity. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:56, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
If English is not your first language, you should probably be working on backlog articles instead of GANs until your command of the language improves. All the best, Miniapolis13:12, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
Hi The person who loves reading, in addition to Jonesey's comments above, I'm concerned about the speed and quality of your copy-edits at the GOCE Requests page; basically you made hardly any changes to several articles that are being prepared for Good Article nominations. Most articles can be improved with in-depth copy-edits, which takes a while to complete. I've opened a discussion at the Requests talk page; you're welcome to discuss the issue there. Cheers, Baffle☿gab05:35, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
No problem, I'm glad you've acknowledged what's wrong here. Before you copy-edit any more articles, please read through our basic copy-editing guide. Copy-editing is more than just fixing grammar and spelling; it involves reading the article, understanding it and ensuring it follows our Manual of Style. Nobody wants to discourage you from copy-editing; we're just worried about the way you've been doing it. Making Wikipedia better is an important task; you're always welcome to ask questions and discuss things on the Guild's talk pages. Thanks again and good luck. Cheers, Baffle☿gab05:09, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
So, I happen to be editing while not logged in and making changes that I'd expect to be non-controversial. Instead I find my changes reverted by you within seconds and a quickly escalating series of threats posted to my talk page. This is exactly the sort of behavior that drives away new users. Have you forgotten to assume good faith? I reviewed the other reverts you've done with AV, most of them made within seconds of the edit, and many of those edits I wouldn't call vandalism. Some were accurate improvements to the articles. I don't think you are even taking time to read the edits in context or fact check them before reverting. For the good of the project, and to be welcoming to newcomers, I suggest you slow down. - 134.204.222.36 (talk) 20:36, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
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There was a problem with all types of CentralNotice banners still being shown to logged-in users even if they had turned off specific banner types. This has now been fixed. [19]
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia, Danish Wikipedia, Dinka Wikipedia, Lower Sorbian Wikipedia, Ewe Wikipedia, Greek Wikipedia, Emiliano-Romagnolo Wikipedia, Esperanto Wikipedia, Estonian Wikipedia, Basque Wikipedia, Extremaduran Wikipedia, Tumbuka Wikipedia, Fulah Wikipedia, Finnish Wikipedia, Võro Wikipedia, Fijian Wikipedia, Faroese Wikipedia, Arpitan Wikipedia, Northern Frisian Wikipedia, Friulian Wikipedia, Irish Wikipedia, Guianan Creole Wikipedia, Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia, Galician Wikipedia, Gilaki Wikipedia, Guarani Wikipedia, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Gothic Wikipedia, Gujarati Wikipedia, Manx Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [20][21]
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At Wikimedia Commons, some thumbnails have not been getting replaced correctly after a new version of the image is uploaded. This should be fixed later this week. [25][26]
For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed. [27]
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 April. It will be on all wikis from 20 April (calendar).
It doesnt matter how many edits i have. Ive had 800+ on accounts that i cant keep hold of. is this a contribution to the encyclopedia or do you not like my userpage. Even if i was lying or incorrect nobody cares how many edits you have. I like it there Riixvø (talk) 17:36, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.
You have been trouted for: YOUR REASON HERE 129.0.125.16 (talk) 21:39, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
Victoria united is current elite one champion
13 teams have been in the league this season,
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Hello The person who loves reading, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User:Syedmusadiq954, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not a blatant misuse of Wikipedia as a webhost. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 15:27, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
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Due to security issues with the Graph extension, graphs have been disabled in all Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Foundation teams are working to respond to these vulnerabilities. [29]
For a few days, it was not possible to save some kinds of edits on the mobile version of a wiki. This has been fixed. [30][31][32]
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All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [33]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).
When you're not autoconfirmed (for now), you can create a draft article through Article wizard. When you're finished, you can submit the article for review through an Article for Creation (WP:AFC) process. If your draft is good enough to be in the article mainspace, a reviewer will accept your draft and move it to the mainspace. If the draft still needs improvement, your draft will be declined by a reviewer, and the reviewer will tell you the reason for declining your draft. Before you start to write an article, it's recommended to check whether there is an existing article in the article mainspace by searching the person's name (search for alternative names as well). If you can find it, then consider to improve this article. If not, you will need to make sure the subject is notable enough for an article. A subject should have multiple reliable, secondary, independent sources to be qualified for an article.
Generally, creating an article is difficult, especially for biographies of living persons, and needs a lot of time. My suggestion is that you can do some easy tasks first to get familiar with Wikipedia, such as copyediting articles, and then do some difficult tasks, such as finding reliable, secondary, independent sources and expanding an article. After doing these, you will have a better understanding of Wikipedia articles, policies and guidelines, and you will find easier to create an article.
I've been a huge fan of and a monthly $$ contributor to wikipedia for several years.
I finally opened an account because I wanted to create a page for a non-profit I volunteer for: p4p.org. We collect used bikes and sewing machines in the U.S. and send them to our partner organizations in developing countries.
P4P is a great organization that has done a ton of good around the world since 1991. We are chronically underfunded and always looking for ways to widen our appeal. Wikipedia seems like a great way to do that.
I noticed that some of our fellow bicycle non-profits have wikipedia pages so I created a page of our own, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedals_for_Progress. (Our page mentions three of those other groups.)
Ours is a bare-bones page but might help drive traffic to our website and generate donations. Our page now has a 'template message' about neutrality. In my mind, the message distracts from our credibility.
Though I understand the wikipedia rules about neutrality and self-promotion, I do not understand how an organization like mine can follow the rules and still avoid the template message. I've been as transparent as possible in the wikipedia page. We have a few third-party awards and stories that our page links to, but most of our supporters are (1) groups and individuals in the U.S. who help us collect bikes and sewing machines and (2) groups and individuals abroad who get our bikes and sewing machines. On our website, we have many dozens of messages and stories from these partners, but they are not neutral either! They love us!
Can you advise me on how we can get rid of the template message? Thanks.
Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contribution to create the article Pedals for Progress. It's hard to get rid of the message because the major contributor is you and you have a close connection to the subject. My suggestion is to add more reliable, independent sources to verify every sentence, and try to become neutral according to WP:NPOV. You can also contact the reviewer of this draft (now already an article) to give more suggestions about this.
Additionally, you can also look at WP:CLASSES to see the content assessment. This article is a stub-class. To improve to Start-class, you can also add a useful picture or graphic, multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic, a subheading that fully treats an element of a topic, or multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article. You only need to meet one of four above to improve the article to Start-class. The person who loves reading (talk) 16:44, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
Sorry for tagging the Main Page for speedy deletion. I thought that I can't tag the Main Page for speedy deletion because it's cascade-protected, but Twinkle put CSD on the talk page of the Main Page instead. I revert the edit immediately. The person who loves reading (talk) 23:27, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
Sorry for any inconvenience made because of this experiment. I thought that it will give an error message saying that I can't tag it for speedy deletion. I won't make an experiment like this on Wikipedia any more. The person who loves reading (talk) 00:55, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
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The Video2commons tool has been updated. This fixed several bugs related to YouTube uploads. [37]
The Special:Preferences page has been redesigned on mobile web. The new design makes it easier to browse the different categories and settings at low screen widths. You can also now access the page via a link in the Settings menu in the mobile web sidebar. [38]
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 May. It will be on all wikis from 4 May (calendar).
A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.
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Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.
Good day hope you having a nice day the tag is no longer necessary because reliable sources has been Added to the article and the page has been reviewed that was why i deleted the tag you can look over the Citations or look over the article history and look over the citation changes.
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Last week, Community Tech released the first update for providing better diffs, the #1 request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. This update adds legends and tooltips to inline diffs so that users unfamiliar with the blue and yellow highlights can better understand the type of edits made.
When you close an image that is displayed via MediaViewer, it will now return to the wiki page instead of going back in your browser history. This feature request was voted #65 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [39]
The SyntaxHighlight extension now supports wikitext as a selected language. Old alternatives that were used to highlight wikitext, such as html5, moin, and html+handlebars, can now be replaced. [40]
Graph Extension update: Foundation developers have completed upgrading the visualization software to Vega5. Existing community graphs based on Vega2 are no longer compatible. Communities need to update local graphs and templates, and shared lua modules like de:Modul:Graph. The Vega Porting guide provides the most comprehensive detail on migration from Vega2 and here is an example migration. Vega5 has currently just been enabled on mediawiki.org to provide a test environment for communities. [42]
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).
Until now, all new OAuth apps went through manual review. Starting this week, apps using identification-only or basic authorizations will not require review. [43]
There will be an A/B test on 10 Wikipedias where the Vector 2022 skin is the default skin. Half of logged-in desktop users will see an interface where the different parts of the page are more clearly separated. You can read more. [45][46]
jquery.tipsy will be removed from the MediaWiki core. This will affect some user scripts. Many lines with .tipsy( can be commented out. OO.ui.PopupWidget can be used to keep things working like they are now. You can read more and read about how to find broken scripts. [47]
Improve a vital article (level 1-5) to Good Article
I noticed your announcement regarding elevating a level 1–5 vital article to good article status on the reward board. I successfully nominated an article for GA-status over the course of 9 days. Leopard is the in question article; for further information, visit its talk page. DancingDollar(let's talk)18:54, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for reviewing Parliament railway station and feel free to take your time. I am wondering when will you return to continue and finish reviewing the article. NotOrrio (talk) 02:00, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
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Problems
Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN are currently broken. This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing to restore this feature. [48]
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 May. It will be on all wikis from 18 May (calendar).
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Gorontalo Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Hakka Chinese Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Fiji Hindi Wikipedia, Croatian Wikipedia, Upper Sorbian Wikipedia, Haitian Creole Wikipedia, Interlingua Wikipedia, Interlingue Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Iloko Wikipedia, Ingush Wikipedia, Ido Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Inuktitut Wikipedia, Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, Javanese Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [49]
Gadget and userscript developers should replace jquery.cookie with mediawiki.cookie. The jquery.cookie library will be removed in ~1 month, and staff developers will run a script to replace any remaining uses at that time. [50]
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An improved impact module will be available at Wikipedias. The impact module is a feature available to newcomers at their personal homepage. It will show their number of edits, how many readers their edited pages have, how many thanks they have received and similar things. It is also accessible by accessing Special:Impact. [52]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).
If it's from the transclusion edit I made feel free to revert it, I was just attempting to make it easier to access the list itself from elsewhere! WhichUserAmI20:58, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
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Recent changes
Citations can once again be added automatically from ISBNs, thanks to Zotero's ISBN searches. The current data sources are the Library of Congress (United States), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (French National Library), and K10plus ISBN (German repository). Additional data source searches can be proposed to Zotero. The ISBN labels in the VisualEditor Automatic tab will reappear later this week. [53]
For a few days earlier this month, the "Add interlanguage link" item in the Tools menu did not work properly. This has now been fixed. [55]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 May. It will be on all wikis from 1 June (calendar).
VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on small and medium wikis this week. Large wikis will follow in the coming weeks. This is part of the effort to move Parsoid into MediaWiki core. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [56]
I'm seeing a bunch of redirects recently generated by you using redirect creator. Can you please CSD them, as they are not really helpful? Especially the variants of:
Thanks for notifying me! Probably these redirects are created because of this reason: Likely alternative capitalizations (for example, Natural Selection redirects to Natural selection). This is not necessary for user searches made via Wikipedia's search engine, but may aid linking from other articles and external sites, as well as direct URL entry. I create these redirects because the bot (DannyS712 bot III) automatically patrol these redirects and I think that the creation of these redirects are not controversial. I'm not sure whether these redirects should be deleted (I won't create any more until this issue resolves.) Sorry for any inconvenience caused. The person who loves reading (talk) 03:36, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
The sentence case ones are okay but the ones where they randomly capitalize a word in the middle are not. The hyphenated ones are no good either. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 03:43, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
I am writing to request the restoration of the Zwak News page, which was recently deleted while someone attempting to publish an article on Wikipedia. I would like to help me to restore the article and I'll be ensure and make it to meet all of Wikipedia's standards to republish it.
Thank you for your assistance in this matter. DevPir (talk) 13:07, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.
Technical news
Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.
Arbitration
The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic 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
The RealMe extension allows you to mark URLs on your user page as verified for Mastodon and similar software.
Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference for "Group results by page". This has now been fixed. [58]
Problems
For a few days last week, some tools and bots returned outdated information due to database replication problems, and may have been down entirely while it was being fixed. These issues have now been fixed. [59]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
Bots will no longer be prevented from making edits because of URLs that match the spam blacklist. [60]
Hello and welcome to the June 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since March. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.
Election news: Fancy helping out at the Guild? Nominations for our half-yearly Election of Coordinators are open until 23:59 on 15 June (UTC)*. Starting immediately after, the voting phase will run until 23:59 on 30 June. All Wikipedians in good standing are eligible and self-nominations are welcomed; it's your Guild and it doesn't organize itself!
Blitz: Of the 17 editors who signed up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, nine editors completed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 24 articles totaling 53,393 words. Barnstars awarded are here.
Drive: 51 editors signed up for the month-long May Backlog Elimination Drive, and 31 copy-edited at least one article. 180 articles were copy-edited. Barnstars awarded are posted here.
Blitz:Sign up here for our week-long June Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 11 to 17 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here.
Progress report: As of 03:09 on 6 June 2023, GOCE copyeditors have processed 91 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 1,887 articles.
Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybongo.
*All times and dates in this newsletter are in UTC, and may significantly vary from your local time.
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Hi! I just saw that you put out a notice on the reward board for anyone to improve a vital article to GA status. I'm writing to let you know that I've already worked on and nominated Angela Merkel, a level-4 vital article, for GA consideration. That happened before I was aware of this reward, but I guess it still counts if the article passes GA review. Happy editing! Actualcpscm (talk) 13:40, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
Hello, thanks for copyediting List of Coronation Street characters (1996), I appreciate the work you've put in. However, is it possible to do copyedits like that in one go rather than section by section? It clogs up watchlists and the recent changes page and would surely be easier for yourself too. – Meena • 22:40, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
Thanks! I do this because my computer isn't stable (blue screen many times) and I'm afraid that my edits will be all gone after a blue screen. I will do copyedit in one go for this article. The person who loves reading (talk) 00:36, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
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If you are going to participate in AFD deletion discussion, please examine the article, evaluate the sources and offer more than a two word judgment on what should happen to the article. Your participation is very welcome, we need more editors to weigh in on deletion discussions just please take them seriously and don't post just "Fails GNG" or "per nom". Assessing an article takes time so it's not for every editor but your opinion is welcome. Thank you. LizRead!Talk!03:12, 12 June 2023 (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.
The Search Preview panel has been deployed on four Wikipedias (Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian and Norwegian). The panel will show an image related to the article (if existing), the top sections of the article, related images (coming from MediaSearch on Commons), and eventually the sister projects associated with the article. [62]
The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software. [63]
The default project license has been officially upgraded to CC BY-SA 4.0. The software interface messages have been updated. Communities should feel free to start updating any mentions of the old CC BY-SA 3.0 licensing within policies and related documentation pages. [64]
Problems
For three days last month, some Wikipedia pages edited with VisualEditor or DiscussionTools had an unintended __TOC__ (or its localized form) added during an edit. There is a listing of affected pages sorted by wiki, that may still need to be fixed. [65]
Currently, the "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is broken. Existing {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords incorrectly appear as missing templates in VisualEditor. Developers are exploring how to fix this. In the meantime, those wishing to edit the default sortkey of a page are advised to switch to source editing. [66]
Last week, an update to the delete form may have broken some gadgets or user scripts. If you need to manipulate (empty) the reason field, replace #wpReason with #wpReason > input. See an example fix. [67]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).
VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on English Wikipedia on Monday, and all other large wikis on Thursday. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [68]
Future changes
From 5 June to 17 July, the Foundation's Security team is holding a consultation with contributors regarding a draft policy to govern the use of third-party resources in volunteer-developed gadgets and scripts. Feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome at Third-party resources policy on meta-wiki.
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
Flame graphs are now available in WikimediaDebug. [69][70]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
There is now a toolbar search popup in the visual editor. You can trigger it by typing \ or pressing ctrl + shift + p. It can help you quickly access most tools in the editor. [71][72]
Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Fancy Refrigerator were:
This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.
This draft's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. In summary, the draft needs multiple published sources that are:
in-depth (not just brief mentions about the subject or routine announcements)
Make sure you add references that meet all four of these criteria before resubmitting. Learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue. If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.
If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Okra Energy LLC and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
Hello, The person who loves reading!
Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Fancy Refrigerator(talk)01:36, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for trying to help but it's important not to tag expiring drafts too early for CSD G13. Doing so can cause there to be another 6 month delay in their deletion. For the record, there is a bot, SDZeroBot, that lists all of the expiring drafts and it's very unlikely that you will come across one that the bot has missed. Also realize that the time of a last edit to a page six months ago, may be different than the time it can be deleted today due to changes in Daylight Savings Time in different countries. I'm not sure where you are located but there is an hour difference for me in NW U.S. so the last edit on a page for 6 pm six months ago means that the draft can be tagged for deletion or deleted at 7 pm today. It can be confusing but there are a handful of editors who work a lot with expiring drafts and we've learned how to keep things straight, mainly by working with Wikipedia's UTC clock which doesn't change throughout the year.
I also wanted to make a comment about your participation in AFD discussions. You seem to make a lot of similar, superficial comments in a lot of different AFD discussions. You should focus on quality of participation, not quantity. I can't tell by your comments if you have actually read the article being discussed and evaluated the sources. Just saying "Delete, doesn't meet GNG" is not helpful participation. You should make your argument based in Wikipedia policies. Participating thoughtfully and productively in deletion discussions requires time, effort and care, and if you are not interested in devoting time to assessing the quality of sources and even going to find more undiscovered sources that haven't been used, then AFD discussions are probably not where you should be participating until you gain more editing experience. AFDs are not a vote and you have to offer more than just a "Keep"/"Delete" opinion. I welcome your participation as long as you are taking the process seriously. Right now, I think most discussion closers ignore your comments because they don't indicate any relevant points to help decide what to do with an article.
Sorry this is such a long message but I think you could be a very good editor, there is just room for improvement (which is true for all of us!). Thank you for your contributions. LizRead!Talk!04:04, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for writing such a long message! I change my local time zone to UTC and find out I tagged the article early although it's not early if I set the local time zone to the actual one (it seems very tricky). I read the description of SDZeroBot and find that it can list G13-eligible drafts, so there's no need for me to tag pages for G13. Sorry for another 6 month delay in the deletion of the draft.
In my past AFD discussions, I made many similar and short comments that were unhelpful to AFD since I didn't offer more information, and these comments didn't help discussion closers to decided whether the article should be keep or deleted (or other options). I will participate in AFD discussions again and focus on quality of my participation instead of the quanitity after I get more editing experience related to the evaluation of sources and articles creation. By looking at more AFD discussions, more detailed, well-reasoned, and policy-based arguments are clearly stronger, and even one strong argument can let the discussion closer to ignore many weak arguments.
Hi, You seem to have mistaken my recent edits on Oldham Athletic as vandalism. I was simply correct an error another user made, who claims that a nickname for the club is 'Owls'. I explained why the source the user attached as evidence didn't show what he claimed. 82.17.214.126 (talk) 23:20, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
Hello. I noticed that you needed someone else to review the rest of this article, as you said that you wouldn't be around, but I also noticed that you've been around recently. I can continue the review of the article if you can't. Cherrell410 (talk) 01:19, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi! I only have time to do some minor and easy edits on Wikipedia, and the GA review can take me a long time. You can continue the review if you would like to do so. Thanks! The person who loves reading (talk) 03:07, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-26
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 Action API modules and Special:LinkSearch will now add a trailing / to all prop=extlinks responses for bare domains. This is part of the work to remove duplication in the externallinks database table. [73]
Problems
Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours. [74][75]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
The Minerva skin now applies more predefined styles to the .mbox-text CSS class. This enables support for mbox templates that use divs instead of tables. Please make sure that the new styles won't affect other templates in your wiki. [76][77]
Gadgets will now load on both desktop and mobile by default. Previously, gadgets loaded only on desktop by default. Changing this default using the |targets= parameter is also deprecated and should not be used. You should make gadgets work on mobile or disable them based on the skin (with the |skins= parameter in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition) rather than whether the user uses the mobile or the desktop website. Popular gadgets that create errors on mobile will be disabled by developers on the Minerva skin as a temporary solution. [78]
All namespace tabs now have the same browser access key by default. Previously, custom and extension-defined namespaces would have to have their access keys set manually on-wiki, but that is no longer necessary. [79]
Thank you for being the 9th person to sign my guestbook. Shadow (talk) has given you a cookie! Cookies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. You can spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cookie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.
To spread the goodness of cookies, you can add {{subst:Cookie}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message, or eat this cookie on the giver's talk page with {{subst:munch}}!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
From this week all gadgets automatically load on mobile and desktop sites. If you see any problems with gadgets on your wikis, please adjust the gadget options in your gadget definitions file. [83]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 July. It will be on all wikis from 6 July (calendar).
Please do not tag any of the empty categories created by User:KiranBOT for CSD C1 speedy deletion. They are part of a bot experiment involving categories about football players. They will eventually get filled. Thank you for all of your contributions. LizRead!Talk!01:13, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
By the way, I found This criterion applies to categories that have been unpopulated for at least seven days a little confusing (WP:C1). Am I allowed to tag empty categories recently created (within 7 days)? The person who loves reading (talk) 01:25, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
Hello,
I have a full new article. The article is a short Bio, formatted like similar Wikipedia article, with photos. How do I submit it? --Quitesage (talk) 05:11, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi! I took a quick look at the draft, and there are some major problems that needs to be addressed before submitting the draft for review. This article doesn't have citations to justify the article's content, although there are [1], [2], and more similar things present. You may benefit from looking at WP:References for beginners to learn how to use citations. Additionally, there are some issues with syntax. Content needs reliable, secondary, independent sources, especially for quotes, materials which are likely to be challenged or already challenged, and all contentious matter about living and recently deceased persons. See WP:V for more details. This article appears to have promotional language, which is not allowed on Wikipedia. See WP:Spam for more details. Finally, the subject of the draft needs to be notable for inclusion on Wikipedia. See WP:N for more details. Generally, the subject of the article needs to pass WP:GNG or other subject-specific criteria. Thanks for your contributions! The person who loves reading (talk) 16:03, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
Speedy delete of WikiProject Brigham Young University/Assessment
I understood that according to Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia that pages that are copied need attribution, or are otherwise subject to g12, but you removed the speedy delete template. Could you give me some clarification on this? And at the very least, isn't the page a candidate for deletion as there is no need for duplication, and makes it subject to content forking? I would put it for speedy delete under A10, but it's not in the main namespace. N7fty (talk) 14:00, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
Hi! I only know that this page does not satisfy speedy deletion criteria G12. See This applies to text pages that contain copyrighted material with no credible assertion of public domain, fair use, or a compatible free license, where there is no non-infringing content on the page worth saving. and Public-domain and other free content, such as a Wikipedia mirror, do not fall under this criterion, nor is mere lack of attribution of such works a reason for speedy deletion. Since WP:Content assessment is considered a "free content" because its license is compatible with Wikipedia. Additionally, I provide additional attribution in my edit summary later. I think this criteria mainly applies to non-free content entirely copied from another website, and there's clearly no possible "fair use" explanation.
By the way, should the guideline template be removed? Because this is not a guideline and it is incorrectly placed in some categories. Thanks for your contribution! The person who loves reading (talk) 15:24, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
With regards to the guideline template, I'm not sure, it's not a guideline but does show assessment standards, which are kind of guidelines? I'll mention it on the talk page, perhaps someone with more expertise can weigh in.
Note: The relevant WikiProject is notified per Notify the main WikiProject talk page when nominating any WikiProject subpage, in addition to standard notification of the page creator: diff. The person who loves reading (talk) 23:25, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
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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
The Section-level Image Suggestions feature has been deployed on seven Wikipedias (Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Catalan, Hungarian, Finnish and Norwegian Bokmål). The feature recommends images for articles on contributors' watchlists that are a good match for individual sections of those articles.
Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool for administrators to help fight spam. It provides a clearer interface for blocking plain domains (and their subdomains), is more easily searchable, and is faster for the software to process for each edit on the wiki. It does not support regex (for complex cases), nor URL path-matching, nor the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist, but otherwise it replaces most of the functionalities of the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. There is a Python script to help migrate all simple domains into this tool, and more feature details, within the tool's documentation. It is available at all wikis except for Meta-wiki, Commons, and Wikidata. [85]
The WikiEditor extension was updated. It includes some of the most frequently used features of wikitext editing. In the past, many of its messages could only be translated by administrators, but now all regular translators on translatewiki can translate them. Please check the state of WikiEditor localization into your language, and if the "Completion" for your language shows anything less than 100%, please complete the translation. See a more detailed explanation.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 July. It will be on all wikis from 13 July (calendar).
The default protocol of Special:LinkSearch and API counterparts has changed from http to both http and https. [86]
Special:LinkSearch and its API counterparts will now search for all of the URL provided in the query. It used to be only the first 60 characters. This feature was requested fifteen years ago. [87]
Future changes
There is an experiment with a ChatGPT plugin. This is to show users where the information is coming from when they read information from Wikipedia. It has been tested by Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians. Soon all ChatGPT plugin users can use the Wikipedia plugin. This is the same plugin which was mentioned in Tech News 2023/20. [88]
There is an ongoing discussion on a proposed Third-party resources policy. The proposal will impact the use of third-party resources in gadgets and userscripts. Based on the ideas received so far, policy includes some of the risks related to user scripts and gadgets loading third-party resources, some best practices and exemption requirements such as code transparency and inspectability. Your feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome until July 17, 2023 on on the policy talk page.
Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Writing an article on Wikipedia is a very difficult task that only very experienced editors can do a nice job. You can read Help:Your first article for more details about how to create an article. It is recommended to create an article in the draftspace, so that you can improve the draft and submit it for review when you think it is ready for the mainspace. After submitting the draft, a new page reviewer will review the draft in up to 4 months and give you feedback on how to improve. He/She will decline the draft because of various reasons, or accept the draft and publish it into the mainspace. Then, after the page is patrolled by a new page patroller, or after 90 days without being deleted, the page will be searchable by search engines.
The subject of the article must meet notability guidelines or subject-specific notability guidelines listed. The draft must not be promotional because of this policy. If you have a conflict of interest, you must declare it on your user page. You also need to provide reliable sources to prove everything the article says, or it may be deleted because of policies and guidelines, such as WP:V, WP:RS, and WP:BIO.
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 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (calendar).
MediaWiki system messages will now look for available local fallbacks, instead of always using the default fallback defined by software. This means wikis no longer need to override each language on the fallback chain separately. For example, English Wikipedia doesn't have to create en-ca and en-gb subpages with a transclusion of the base pages anymore. This makes it easier to maintain local overrides. [89]
The action=growthsetmentorstatus API will be deprecated with the new MediaWiki version. Bots or scripts calling that API should use the action=growthmanagementorlist API now. [90]
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 25 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 July. It will be on all wikis from 27 July (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.
Recent changes
The Synchronizer tool is now available to keep Lua modules synced across Wikimedia wikis, along with updated documentation to develop global Lua modules and templates.
The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. For example, you can hide edits that were made using an automated tool. [91][92]
The Wikipedia ChatGPT plugin experiment can now be used by ChatGPT users who can use plugins. You can participate in a video call if you want to talk about this experiment or similar work. [93]
Problems
It was not possible to generate a PDF for pages with non-Latin characters in the title, for the last two weeks. This has now been fixed. [94]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar).
Starting on Tuesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Georgian Wikipedia, Kara-Kalpak Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Kabardian Wikipedia, Kabiyè Wikipedia, Kikuyu Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Khmer Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia, Kashmiri Wikipedia, Colognian Wikipedia, Kurdish Wikipedia, Cornish Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [95]
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
Mobile Web editors can now edit a whole page at once. To use this feature, turn on "⧼Mobile-frontend-mobile-option-amc⧽" in your settings and use the "Edit full page" button in the "More" menu. [96]
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 Content translation system is no longer using Youdao's machine translation service. The service was in place for several years, but due to no usage, and availability of alternatives, it was deprecated to reduce maintenance overheads. Other services which cover the same languages are still available. [97]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Latin Wikipedia, Ladino Wikipedia, Luxembourgish Wikipedia, Lak Wikipedia, Lezghian Wikipedia, Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia, Ganda Wikipedia, Limburgish Wikipedia, Ligurian Wikipedia, Lombard Wikipedia, Lingala Wikipedia, Latgalian Wikipedia, Latvian Wikipedia, Maithili Wikipedia, Basa Banyumasan Wikipedia, Moksha Wikipedia, Malagasy Wikipedia, Armenian Wikipedia, Kyrgyz Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [98]
Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! This question isn't directly related to Wikipedia, and I'm not sure how to order a paper form of publication, so I cannot answer this question for you. Sorry about that. The person who loves reading (talk) 16:37, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
سلام برسد خدمت شما دوست عزیز
بسیار زیاد ببخشید من یک مشکل دارم در قسمت خانه پری فورم قرارداد از من خواسته است معاینات صحی تایید شده
کشور های اروپایی را من کوشش کردم از طریق سایت خود شان دریافت کردم ولی او از من یک کد یا آی دی نمبر میخواهد اما نفهمیدم مطلب شان چیست --Quraishi 1372 (talk) 15:21, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-34
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 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).
My co-nominator @Phlsph7 and I recently brought philosophy up to GA status. I only just learned about the Reward Board in this context, and I think it's a great initiative. I'm sure we would both be flattered by any Barnstars awarded!
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
As part of the changes for the better diff handling of paragraph splits, improved detection of splits is being rolled out. Over the last two weeks, we deployed this support to group0 and group1 wikis. This week it will be deployed to group2 wikis. [109]
All Special:Contributions pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. [110]
Wikisource users can now use the prpbengalicurrency label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the <pagelist> tag. [111]
Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "Enable the visual editor" is now shown on the "Editing" tab at all wikis. Previously it was shown on the "Beta features" tab at some wikis. The preference "Use the wikitext mode inside the visual editor, instead of a different wikitext editor" is now also shown on the "Editing" tab at all wikis, instead of the "Beta features" tab. [112][113]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar).
All right-to-left language wikis, plus Korean, Armenian, Ukrainian, Russian, and Bulgarian Wikipedias, will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. This feature will come to more wikis in future weeks. [114]
Future changes
The removal of the DoubleWiki extension is being discussed. This extension currently allows Wikisource users to view articles from multiple language versions side by side when the <=> symbol next to a specific language edition is selected. Comments on this are welcomed at the phabricator task.
A proposal has been made to merge the second hidden-categories list (which appears below the wikitext editing form) with the main list of categories (which is further down the page). More information is available on Phabricator; feedback is welcome!
Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that [s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.
The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.
Miscellaneous
Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.
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
EditInSequence, a feature that allows users to edit pages faster on Wikisource has been moved to a Beta Feature based on community feedback. To enable it, you can navigate to the beta features tab in Preferences. [115]
There is a new option for Administrators when they are changing the usergroups for a user, to add the user’s user page to their watchlist. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. [117]
The LoginNotify extension was not sending notifications since January. It has now been fixed, so going forward, you may see notifications for failed login attempts, and successful login attempts from a new device. [119]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar).
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Eastern Mari Wikipedia, Maori Wikipedia, Minangkabau Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Mongolian Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Western Mari Wikipedia, Malay Wikipedia, Maltese Wikipedia, Mirandese Wikipedia, Erzya Wikipedia, Mazanderani Wikipedia, Nāhuatl Wikipedia, Neapolitan Wikipedia, Low German Wikipedia, Low Saxon Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Newari Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Novial Wikipedia, N'Ko Wikipedia, Nouormand Wikipedia, Northern Sotho Wikipedia, Navajo Wikipedia, Nyanja Wikipedia, Occitan Wikipedia, Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia, Oromo Wikipedia, Oriya Wikipedia, Ossetic Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Pangasinan Wikipedia, Pampanga Wikipedia, Papiamento Wikipedia, Picard Wikipedia, Pennsylvania German Wikipedia, Palatine German Wikipedia, Norfuk / Pitkern Wikipedia, Piedmontese Wikipedia, Western Punjabi Wikipedia, Pontic Wikipedia, Pashto Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [120][121]
Hello and welcome to the September 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.
David Thomsen: Prolific Wikipedian and Guild member David Thomsen (Dthomsen8) died in November 2022. He was a regular copy editor who took part in many of our Drives and Blitzes. An obituary was published in the mid-July issue of The Signpost. Tributes can be left on David's talk page.
Election news: In our mid-year Election of Coordinators, Dhtwiki was chosen as lead coordinator, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo continue as assistant coordinators, and Baffle gab1978 stepped down from the role. If you're interested in helping out at the GOCE, please consider nominating yourself for our next election in December; it's your WikiProject and it doesn't organize itself!
June Blitz: Of the 17 editors who signed up for our June Copy Editing Blitz, 12 copy-edited at least one article. 70,035 words comprising 26 articles were copy-edited. Barnstars awarded are here.
July Drive: 34 of the 51 editors who took part in our July Backlog Elimination Drive copy-edited at least one article. They edited 276 articles and 683,633 words between them. Barnstars awarded are here.
August Blitz: In our August Copy Editing Blitz, 13 of the 16 editors who signed up worked on at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 79,608 words comprising 57 articles. Barnstars awarded are available here.
September Drive:Sign up here for our month-long September Backlog Elimination Drive, which is now underway. Barnstars awarded will be posted here.
Progress report: As of 14:29, 9 September 2023 (UTC), GOCE copy editors have processed 245 requests since 1 January. The backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,066.
Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo.
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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
ORES, the revision evaluation service, is now using a new open-source infrastructure on all wikis except for English Wikipedia and Wikidata. These two will follow this week. If you notice any unusual results from the Recent Changes filters that are related to ORES (for example, "Contribution quality predictions" and "User intent predictions"), please report them. [122]
When you are logged in on one Wikimedia wiki and visit a different Wikimedia wiki, the system tries to log you in there automatically. This has been unreliable for a long time. You can now visit the login page to make the system try extra hard. If you feel that made logging in better or worse than it used to be, your feedback is appreciated. [123]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
As part of the changes for the Better diff handling of paragraph splits wishlist proposal, the inline switch widget in diff pages is being rolled out this week to all wikis. The inline switch will allow viewers to toggle between a unified inline or two-column diff wikitext format. [124]
Future changes
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 20 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [125]
The Enterprise API is launching a new feature called "breaking news". Currently in BETA, this attempts to identify likely "newsworthy" topics as they are currently being written about in any Wikipedia. Your help is requested to improve the accuracy of its detection model, especially on smaller language editions, by recommending templates or identifiable editing patterns. See more information at the documentation page on MediaWiki or the FAQ on Meta.
Hi there, Person who loves reading. You are quite the role model who I look up to. I want to contribute to the community and the make sure the information it receives is true and trustable. You do just that, and so I admire you. Whenever people do research, it's always, "oh, don't use Wikipedia! It's not a trustable website!". Well, I want to change that. After all, students always look to Wikipedia for their everyday casual learning. I can't make a difference without your help. That is why I am writing to you, Person who loves reading. Thanks for taking the time to read. 71.174.239.247 (talk) 21:03, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Making sure the information on Wikipedia is true and trustable is always a primary goal for Wikipedia editors, since Wikipedia is intended to provide reliable and true knowledge to people. Contributing to Wikipedia is an easy task to do if you want to do copyedit and add links, but it is a little hard for new editors to directly edit information on Wikipedia, because you will need to provide reliable, secondary, independent sources for your changes. You can ask any questions about contributing to Wikipedia on Wikipedia: Teahouse or to experienced editors. The person who loves reading (talk) 23:02, 12 September 2023 (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
MediaWiki now has a stable interface policy for frontend code that more clearly defines how we deprecate MediaWiki code and wiki-based code (e.g. gadgets and user scripts). Thank you to everyone who contributed to the content and discussions. [126][127]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (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.
Recent changes
The Vector 2022 skin will now remember the pinned/unpinned status for the Table of Contents for all logged-out users. [130]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September (calendar).
Gadget definitions will have a new "namespaces" option. The option takes a list of namespace IDs. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages in the given namespaces.
Future changes
New variables will be added to AbuseFilter: global_account_groups and global_account_editcount. They are available only when an account is being created. You can use them to prevent blocking automatic creation of accounts when users with many edits elsewhere visit your wiki for the first time. [131][132]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on 27 October at 17:00 (UTC). See details and how to join.
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 user preference for "Always enable safe mode". This setting will make pages load without including any on-wiki JavaScript or on-wiki stylesheet pages. It can be useful for debugging broken JavaScript gadgets. [133]
Gadget definitions now have a new "contentModels" option. The option takes a list of page content models, like wikitext or css. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages with the given content models.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar).
Future changes
The Vector 2022 skin will no longer use the custom styles and scripts of Vector legacy (2010). The change will be made later this year or in early 2024. See how to adjust the CSS and JS pages on your wiki. [134]
An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.
Technical news
Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)
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
One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Fon (w:fon:) [135]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Swahili Wikipedia, Walloon Wikipedia, Waray Wikipedia, Wolof Wikipedia, Kalmyk Wikipedia, Xhosa Wikipedia, Mingrelian Wikipedia, Yiddish Wikipedia, Yoruba Wikipedia, Zhuang Wikipedia, Zeelandic Wikipedia, Min Nan Wikipedia, Zulu Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [136]
At some wikis, newcomers are suggested images from Commons to add to articles without any images. Starting on Tuesday, newcomers at these wikis will be able to add images to unillustrated article sections. The specific wikis are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team deployment table. You can learn more about this feature.[137]
In the mobile web skin (Minerva) the CSS ID #page-actions will be replaced with #p-views. This change is to make it consistent with other skins and to improve support for gadgets and extensions in the mobile skin. A few gadgets may need to be updated; there are details and search-links in the task.
WMF GLAM report: Wikisource Loves Manuscripts, ICOM outreach, Flickr Foundation partnership, OpenRefine adoption, new sources in The Wikipedia Library, Image Description Month events, and the GLAM Wiki Conference
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 Unified login system's edge login should now be fixed for some browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera). This means that if you visit a new sister project wiki, you should be logged in automatically without the need to click "Log in" or reload the page. Feedback on whether it's working for you is welcome. [138]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).
Future changes
In 3 weeks, in the Vector 2022 skin, code related to addPortletLink and #p-namespaces that was deprecated one year ago will be removed. If you notice tools that should appear next to the "Discussion" tab are then missing, please tell the gadget's maintainers to see instructions in the Phabricator task.
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 Language and internationalization newsletter, written quarterly. It contains updates on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects, and related support work.
Source map support has been enabled on all wikis. When you open the debugger in your browser's developer tools, you should be able to see the unminified JavaScript source code. [139]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (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.
Recent changes
The Structured Content team, as part of its project of improving UploadWizard on Commons, made some UX improvements to the upload step of choosing own vs not own work (T347590), as well as to the licensing step for own work (T347756).
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar).
Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 2 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for many languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [140][141]
Starting November 1, the impact module (Special:Impact) will be upgraded by the Growth team. The new impact module shows newcomers more data regarding their impact on the wiki. It was tested by a few wikis during the last few months. [142]
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 Vector 2022 skin, the default font-size of a number of navigational elements (tagline, tools menu, navigational links, and more) has been increased slightly to match the font size used in page content. [143]
Problems
Last week, there was a problem displaying some recent edits on a few wikis, for 1-6 hours. The edits were saved but not immediately shown. This was due to a database problem. [144]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar).
The Growth team will reassign newcomers from former mentors to the currently active mentors. They have also changed the notification language to be more user-friendly. [145][146]
Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.
Miscellaneous
The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!
South Africa report: Edit-a-thon for Librarians at the annual Library and Information Association of South Africa 2023 Conference
Sweden report: Wikipedia for all of Sweden; Museums and Wikidata – why and how?; Photo memories from Stockholm and Rome; Negotiating Knowledge on Wikipedia
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, users who previously visited Meta-Wiki or Wikimedia Commons and then became logged out on those wikis could not log in again. The problem is now resolved. [151]
Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong font size. The problem is now resolved. [152]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar).
Future changes
Reference Previews are coming to many wikis as a default feature. They are popups for references, similar to the PagePreviews feature. You can opt out of seeing them. If you are using the gadgets Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews. Deployment is planned for November 22, 2023.
Canary (also known as heartbeat) events will be produced into Wikimedia event streams from December 11. Streams users are advised to filter out these events, by discarding all events where meta.domain == "canary". Updates to Pywikibot or wikimedia-streams will discard these events by default. [153]
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
There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [154][155]
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Quechua Wikipedia, Romansh Wikipedia, Romani Wikipedia, Rundi Wikipedia, Aromanian Wikipedia, Tarandíne Wikipedia, Rusyn Wikipedia, Kinyarwanda Wikipedia, Sanskrit Wikipedia, Sakha Wikipedia, Santali Wikipedia, Sardinian Wikipedia, Sicilian Wikipedia, Scots Wikipedia, Sindhi Wikipedia, Northern Sami Wikipedia, Sango Wikipedia, Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia, Sinhala Wikipedia, Slovak Wikipedia, Slovenian Wikipedia, Samoan Wikipedia, Somali Wikipedia, Albanian Wikipedia, Serbian Wikipedia, Sranan Tongo Wikipedia, Swati Wikipedia, Southern Sotho Wikipedia, Saterland Frisian Wikipedia, Sundanese Wikipedia, Silesian Wikipedia, Tamil Wikipedia, Tulu Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tetum Wikipedia, Tajik Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkmen Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia, Tswana Wikipedia, Tongan Wikipedia, Tok Pisin Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Tsonga Wikipedia, Tatar Wikipedia, Twi Wikipedia, Tahitian Wikipedia, Tuvinian Wikipedia, Udmurt Wikipedia, Uyghur Wikipedia, Uzbek Wikipedia, Venda Wikipedia, Venetian Wikipedia, Veps Wikipedia, West Flemish Wikipedia, Volapük Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [156][157][158]
The Vector 2022 skin will have some minor visual changes to drop-down menus, column widths, and more. These changes were added to four Wikipedias last week. If no issues are found, these changes will proceed to all wikis this week. These changes will make it possible to add new menus for readability and dark mode. Learn more. [159]
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 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [160][161]
MediaWiki's JavaScript system will now allow async/await syntax in gadgets and user scripts. Gadget authors should remember that users' browsers may not support it, so it should be used appropriately. [162]
The deployment of "Add a link" announced last week was postponed. It will resume this week.
Hello! Voting in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 11 December 2023. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
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 spacing between paragraphs on Vector 2022 has been changed from 7px to 14px to match the size of the text. This will make it easier to distinguish paragraphs from sentences. [163]
The "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is working again. You no longer need to switch to source editing to edit {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords. [164]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [165][166]
Registration & Scholarship applications are now open for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 that will take place from 3–5 May in Tallinn, Estonia. Scholarship applications are open until 5 January 2024.
Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.
Arbitration
Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
Hello, and welcome to the December 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since September. Don't forget that you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.
Election news: The Guild needs coordinators! If you'd like to help out, you may nominate yourself or any suitable editor—with their permission—for the Election of Coordinators for the first half of 2024. Nominations will close at 23:59 on 15 December (UTC). Voting begins immediately after the close of nominations and closes at 23:59 on 31 December. All editors in good standing (not under current sanctions) are eligible, and self-nominations are welcome. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term that ends at 23:59 on 30 June.
Drive: Of the 69 editors who signed up for the September Backlog Elimination Drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 661,214 words in 290 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here.
Blitz: Of the 22 editors who signed up for the October Copy Editing Blitz, 13 copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 109,327 words in 52 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here.
Drive: During the November Backlog Elimination Drive, 38 of the 58 editors who signed up copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 458,620 words in 234 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here.
Progress report: As of 20:33, 10 December 2023 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 344 requests since 1 January, and the backlog stands at 2,191 articles.
Other news: Our Annual Report for 2023 is planned for release in the new year.
Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo.
To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
Portugal report: Catalan culture and showcasing Wikimedia on both side of the Atlantic
Serbia report: Wikipedians in Residence, GLAM Wiki Conference
Sweden report: National Historical Museums of Sweden contributions; Photo memories from all over the world engage the community; Museum of medieval photo safari
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 Wikimedia Commons, there are some minor user-interface improvements for the "choosing own vs not own work" step in the UploadWizard. This is part of the Structured Content team's project of improving UploadWizard on Commons. [168][169]
Problems
There was a problem showing the Newcomer homepage feature with the "impact module" and their page-view graphs, for a few days in early December. This has now been fixed. [170][171]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar). [172][173]
Future changes
The 2023 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 5 January 2024, and has an associated privacy statement.
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 8 January 2024 because of the holidays.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 December. It will be on all wikis from 21 December (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [174][175]
Starting December 18, it won't be possible to activate Structured Discussions on a user's own talk page using the Beta feature. The Beta feature option remains available for users who want to deactivate Structured Discussions. This is part of Structured Discussions' deprecation work. [176]
There will be full support for redirects in the Module namespace. The "Move Page" feature will leave an appropriate redirect behind, and such redirects will be appropriately recognized by the software (e.g. hidden from Special:UnconnectedPages). There will also be support for manual redirects. [177]
Future changes
The MediaWiki JavaScript documentation is moving to a new format. During the move, you can read the old docs using version 1.41. Feedback about the new site is welcome on the project talk page.
The Wishathon is a new initiative that encourages collaboration across the Wikimedia community to develop solutions for wishes collected through the Community Wishlist Survey. The first community Wishathon will take place from 15–17 March. If you are interested in a project proposal as a user, developer, designer, or product lead, you can register for the event and read more.
Writing an article on Wikipedia is a complicated process that requires thorough understanding of policies and guidelines in Wikipedia. My suggestion is that you can make some simple edits and then slowly progress through more difficult tasks. You can read Help:Getting started for more information on how to edit here.
However, if you still want to write an article on Wikipedia, you are encouraged to read through Help:Your first article carefully to avoid any major mistakes. Here are some very important steps:
Do you have a conflict of interest with the subject of the article? If so, choose another topic to write on. Disclose any paid editing on your user page if needed.
Is your topic suitable for inclusion on Wikipedia? Read through Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not to see what should not be included on Wikipedia.
Is the topic notable enough for inclusion on Wikipedia? You can read through Wikipedia:Notability for general article inclusion criteria on Wikipedia. The general notability criteria is very important because it is very often used in articles for deletion discussions that can determine whether a topic is notable enough for inclusion on Wikipedia. There are also many notability guidelines for specified topics.
Do you have enough reliable sources? All content on Wikipedia should be supported by reliable sources (usually secondary sources). Make sure your content is verifiable.
Is your article neutral? Make sure your article is unbiased and not promotional.
Does your article contain original research? No original research is allowed on Wikipedia.
Does your article contain grammar errors? Fix them if possible.
You are encouraged to create an article in the draft namespace through Wikipedia:Article wizard. Please note that draft articles are deleted after 6 months if no edits have been made.
After you have many reliable sources to support your article, and you believe that it's suitable for inclusion on Wikipedia, submit your draft for review, and a reviewer will accept or decline the draft and give additional suggestions on how to make improvements.
Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
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Recent changes
mediawiki2latex is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can install on your local machine.
The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing. [178]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar). [179][180]
Poland report: Intense end to a year of GLAM-Wiki activities in Poland
Sweden report: Photo memories project concludes; Sörmlands museum passes 1000 uploads to Wikimedia Commons; Wikimedian in Residence supports an upload of music content; Subject terms from Queerlit; Wikidata for authority control: 3 years of work
USA report: WikiConference North America 2023; TSU and USF; Philadelphia WikiSalon; Wikimedia DC Annual Membership Meeting; Wikipedia Editing 101 for All; NYC Hacking Night; Upstate NY workshop; Wikiquote She Said Project
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Recent changes
Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. [181]
Gadgets and personal user scripts may now use JavaScript syntax introduced in ES6 (also known as "ES2015") and ES7 ("ES2016"). MediaWiki validates the source code to protect other site functionality from syntax errors, and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers. Previously, Gadgets could use the requiresES6 option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future. [182]
An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024 has been published. Please read and give your feedback.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar). [185][186]
Starting on January 17, it will not be possible to login to Wikimedia wikis from some specific old versions of the Chrome browser (versions 51–66, released between 2016 and 2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, or Safari on Mac OS 10.14, may need to login to each wiki separately. [187]
The jquery.cookie module was deprecated and replaced with the mediawiki.cookie module last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed. [188]
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Problems
A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed. [189]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 January. It will be on all wikis from 25 January (calendar). [190][191]
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Recent changes
Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [192]
There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will be on all wikis from 1 February (calendar). [193][194]
Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the targets option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the skins option instead. [196]
An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
Technical news
Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)
Arbitration
Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.
A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
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 mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to the phabricator task.
On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity. Learn more about "action blocks". [197][198]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar). [199][200]
Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed. [201]
Future changes
24 Wikipedias with Reference Tooltips as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make Reference Previews the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For 46 Wikipedias with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February, unless there are concerns. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings. [202][203]
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Recent changes
The WDQS Graph Split experiment is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels. [204][205][206] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service. [207][208]
Problems
There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black; this issue is fixed.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar). [209][210]
As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,[211] tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped. [212]
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Recent changes
If you have the "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails. [213]
There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the task's description.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar). [215][216]
Selected tools on the grid engine have been stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
The CSS filter property can now be used in HTML style attributes in wikitext. [217]
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Recent changes
The mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well. [218]
The mw.config value wgGlobalGroups now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is: if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))). [219]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (calendar). [220][221]
Future changes
The right to change edit tags (changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.
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Recent changes
The Special:Book page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the Wikisource extension. [222]
Maintenance on etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket.
Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The Gadget and Gadget_definition namespaces and gadgets-definition-edit user right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made. [223]
A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [224]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar). [225][226]
Future changes
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [227]
The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See Heading HTML changes for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add ?useparsoid=1 to your URL (more info) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (more info).
New Zealand report: WikiProject Te Papa Research Expeditions, wrapping up the Auckland / Tāmaki Makaurau local histories project, and the Aotearoa Wikipedian at Large
Poland report: WikiMatejko editing action; The eighth European GLAM Wiki coordinators meet up
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 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar). [228][229]
After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed. [230]
The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [231]
Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost. [232]
Future changes
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [233][234]
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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
The notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher. [235]
IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers. [236]
The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [237][238][239]
RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now. [241]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar). [242][243]
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [244][245]
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
An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin. A checklist is provided for site admins to follow.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar). [246][247]
The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)
Arbitration
An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
Miscellaneous
Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.
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 of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [248]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar). [249][250]
Future changes
The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk 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
Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
A new Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [253]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar). [254][255]
New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. [256]
WMF GLAM report: Learn to upload to Commons with OpenRefine and get up to date on the International Museum Day, GLAM CSI, WiLMa Network, and WikiWorkshop
Hello and welcome to the April 2024 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing.
Election results: In our December 2023 coordinator election, Zippybonzo stepped down as coordinator; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Dhtwiki and Miniapolis were reelected coordinators, and Wracking was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators will open on 1 June (UTC).
Drive: 46 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 32 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 289 articles totaling 626,729 words. Barnstars awarded are here.
Blitz: 23 editors signed up for our February Copy Editing Blitz. 18 claimed at least one copy-edit and between them, they copy-edited 100,293 words in 32 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.
Drive: 53 editors signed up for our March Backlog Elimination Drive, 34 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 300 articles totaling 587,828 words. Barnstars awarded are here.
Blitz: Sign up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 14 to 20 April. Barnstars will be awarded here.
Progress report: As of 23:17, 11 April 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 109 requests since 1 January 2024, and the backlog stands at 2,480 articles.
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