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Tech News: 2022-15

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• There is a new public status page at www.wikimediastatus.net. This site shows five automated high-level metrics where you can see the overall health and performance of our wikis' technical environment. It also contains manually-written updates for widespread incidents, which are written as quickly as the engineers are able to do so while also fixing the actual problem. The site is separated from our production infrastructure and hosted by an external service, so that it can be accessed even if the wikis are briefly unavailable. You can read more about this project.
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19:43, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement

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22:53, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of Pop culture influenced by Sesame Street for deletion

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Tech News: 2022-16

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 April. It will be on all wikis from 21 April (calendar).
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• Administrators will now have the option to delete/undelete the associated "Talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is also available. This concludes the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
• On selected wikis, 50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents. When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements project. [3]
• Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS classes: successbox, errorbox, warningbox. The styles for those classes and messagebox will be removed from MediaWiki core. This only affects wikis that use these classes in wikitext, or change their appearance within site-wide CSS. Please review any local usage and definitions for these classes you may have. This was previously announced in the 28 February issue of Tech News.

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• Kartographer will become compatible with FlaggedRevisions page stabilization. Kartographer maps will also work on pages with pending changes. [4] The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated. [5] [6] [7]

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23:11, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Peacock NBC presentation in RCA color.JPG

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Tech News: 2022-17

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• On many wikis (group 1), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [8][9]

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• Some very old browsers and operating systems are no longer supported. Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in very old browsers like Internet Explorer 9 or 10, Android 4, or Firefox 38 or older. [10]

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22:54, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of BBQ with Bobby Flay

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Not notable, sources are dead and don't seem to have been from reputable sources (Answers.com was a Wikipedia mirror)

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May 2022 at Women in Red

Women in Red May 2022, Vol 8, Issue 5, Nos 214, 217, 227, 229, 230 Online events: New: Women in the Ancient World | British Overseas Territories Contest (Apr/May/Jun): Translation contest (second month) Continuing: Climate (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman See also: Wikimedia District of Columbia: 100 DC Women contest The Wikipedia Library: #1Lib1Ref Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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Tech News: 2022-18

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• On all remaining wikis (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [11][12]

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 May. It will be on all wikis from 5 May (calendar).

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• The developers are working on talk pages in the Wikipedia app for iOS. You can give feedback. You can take the survey in English, German, Hebrew or Chinese.
• Most wikis will receive an improved template dialog in VisualEditor and New Wikitext mode. [13] [14]
• If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme. [15]
• Several CSS IDs related to MediaWiki interface messages will be removed. Technical editors should please review the list of IDs and links to their existing uses. These include #mw-anon-edit-warning, #mw-undelete-revision and 3 others.

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19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Google Current

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Could find only passing mentions. As this was a 5 minute segment and not a full fledged show, it was far less likely to have gotten any real coverage from reliable sources

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Tech News: 2022-20

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• Some wikis can soon use the add a link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are Catalan Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [16]
• The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
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• You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons. [17]

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18:57, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of people on the postage stamps of Argentina

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Unsourced since 2013, unmaintained, same problems as other "list of people on the postage stamps of X"

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Nomination of List of people on the postage stamps of Argentina for deletion

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June events from Women in Red

Women in Red June 2022, Vol 8, Issue 6, Nos 214, 217, 227, 231, 232, 233 Online events: New: LGBTQ+ women | Greenland and the Faroes | Women in music Contest (Apr/May/Jun): Translation contest (third and last month) Continuing: Climate (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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Sorry to bother you...

But I just wanted to remind you that you started a GA review at the beginning of this month for Garfunkel and Oates (which I nominated) that I made the requested edits for. If you could let me know if anything else has to be done before it gets passed, that would be much obliged. Thanks so much for doing the review! benǝʇᴉɯ 03:26, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Zanimum, it's been over a month since you posted your review, and you have not returned yet, which really isn't fair to the nominator. If we don't hear back from you in the next few days, I'll put in a request for a second opinion in the hopes that someone will be able to complete the review—fortunately, there's a GA nomination backlog drive going on, so there's a better chance than usual of finding a replacement reviewer. Hope you're well! BlueMoonset (talk) 15:45, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of Beat Charlie Moore

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Zero results on ProQuest, Newspapers.com, or GNews. Not even directory/TV Guide type results. Given that this has been an unsourced stub since 2009 on a show on a very minor network, I don't feel a redirect is warranted.

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Tech News: 2022-24

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• All wikis can now use Kartographer maps. Kartographer maps now also work on pages with pending changes. [18][19]

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I have sent you a note about a page you started

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Thank you for creating 2022 Peel Region municipal elections.

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Women in Red in July 2022

Women in Red July 2022, Vol 8, Issue 7, Nos 214, 217, 234, 235 Online events: New: Alphabet Run: A to B | Baltic States Continuing: Climate (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman See also: Women in Green's Good Article Editathon: July 2022 – Women and the Environment Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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Tech News: 2022-26

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• Wikimedia Enterprise API service now has self-service accounts with free on-demand requests and monthly snapshots (API documentation). Community access via database dumps & Wikimedia Cloud Services continues.
• All Wikimedia wikis can now use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua after creating local modules and templates. Discussions are welcome on the project talk page.

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
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• Some global and cross-wiki services will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 30 June at 06:00 UTC. This will impact ContentTranslation, Echo, StructuredDiscussions, Growth experiments and a few more services. [25]
• Users will be able to sort columns within sortable tables in the mobile skin. [26]

Future meetings

• The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (28 June). The following meetings will take place on 12 July and 26 July.

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Tech News: 2022-27

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).
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• This change only affects pages in the main namespace in Wikisource. The Javascript config variable proofreadpage_source_href will be removed from mw.config and be replaced with the variable prpSourceIndexPage. [27]

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Hello, can you be reached by email?

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• The www.wikibooks.org and www.wikiquote.org portal pages now use an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [30]

Problems

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Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
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• Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. [33]

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Books & Bytes – Issue 51

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Tech News: 2022-34

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Books & Bytes – Issue 52

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Re: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film) --Possible addition of an External Audio Link Box on a Semi-Protected page.

Ciao Zanimum! - I have enjoyed reading your contributions to the semi-protected article Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film). Outstanding! For your information, I have posted a potential addition of an External Audio Box which links to an archived recording of Adriana Caselotti singing Whistle While You Work from the soundtrack of the original Disney film. If you care to assist in the addition of such a link, feel free to join the discussion on the article's talk page. I've summarized the request below for your convenience. Thanks again for your inspiring editorial contributions. Ciao 160.72.81.86 (talk) 17:40, 11 October 2022 (UTC)GCL (3)Production - (3.3) Music and records paragraph might be amended to include an External Audio Box link to the historical soundtrack recording of Adriana Caselotti singing the song "Whistle While You Work" (as mentioned in the paragraph) from the 1937 film as archived at the University of California- Santa Barbara's Discography of American Historical Recordings page shown in the reference citation below. Also note that additional songs from the original film are also available at this archive site including: "With a Smile and a Song (song)"," "Someday My Prince Will Come" and the duet with Harry Stockwell - "I'm Wishing / One Song". [1] Thanks for your consideration and enjoy the music! 160.72.81.86 (talk) 16:26, 4 October 2022 (UTC)GCL[reply]

External audio
You may hear "Whistle While You Work" performed by Adriana Caselotti in 1937 Here on ucsb.edu

[2] 160.72.81.86 (talk) 16:26, 4 October 2022 (UTC) 160.72.81.86 (talk) 17:40, 11 October 2022 (UTC) [reply]

References

1. University of California - Santa Barbara: Discography of American Historical Recordings -- Harry Stockwell performs on uscb.edu
2. University of California - Santa Barbara: Discography of American Historical Recordings - Adriana Caselotti performing songs from the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) on ucsb.edu

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• The recently implemented feature of article thumbnails in Special:Search will be limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in T320510. [56]
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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 October. It will be on all wikis from 20 October (calendar).
• Lua module authors can use mw.loadJsonData() to load data from JSON pages. [57]
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Future changes

• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated at most wikis. The "reply" button will look different after this change. [59]

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Problems

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Changes later this week

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• Edits can be automatically "tagged" by the system software or the Edit filter configuration system. Those tags link to a help page about the tags. Soon they will also link to Recent Changes to let you see other edits tagged this way. This was a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [92]
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• Realtime Preview for Wikitext is coming out of beta as an enabled feature for every user of the 2010 Wikitext editor in the week of January 9, 2023. It will be available to use via the toolbar in the 2010 Wikitext editor. The feature was the 4th most popular wish of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:58, 19 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Twentieth anniversary on Wikipedia!!

Happy First Edit Day! Hi Zanimum! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy 20th anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! Chris Troutman (talk) 19:37, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Chris troutman: My apologies for the delayed reply, but thank you so much! It threw me when I saw this, December 20, I knew it was that long ago that I started, but it doesn't feel like two decades. Again, thanks for the message, and happy new year! -- Zanimum (talk) 01:16, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to join the Twenty Year Society

Dear Zanimum/Archive 21,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Twenty Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for twenty years or more. ​

Best regards, Chris Troutman (talk) 19:37, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red January 2023

Happy New Year from Women in Red | January 2023, Volume 9, Issue 1, Nos 250, 251, 252, 253, 254 Online events: New: Peace and Diplomacy (year-long initiative) | Alphabet run M & N | Geofocus East Asia Continuing: #1day1woman | Women who died in 2022 See also: Editing For Effie collaboration with the Smithsonian, January 8 & 9 (global event) Tip of the month: De-orphan and incorporate an article into Wikipedia using the Find Link tool Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

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