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Tech News: 2024-44

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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  • Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set emitTransitionOnStep to true to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag allowAutomaticBack to avoid back-buttons they don't want. [2]
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:53, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

"Gomberg radical reaction" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Gomberg radical reaction has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 October 29 § Gomberg radical reaction until a consensus is reached. Utopes (talk / cont) 06:42, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Unnecessary reverts in environmental articles.

I recently added a link to "Islamic Environmentalism" to pertinent environmental articles, given that they included various other envionmental relevant links. However, my edits were reverted without a clear rationale. Especially articles that deal with religious philosophies like "Christian views on environmentalism" and "Judaism and environmentalism" and "Environmental philosophy" were all WP:Relevant to this link. Honestly, your aggressive reverts were inappropriate. 182.183.14.143 (talk) 07:24, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

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  • Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068

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Tech News: 2024-45

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts. [4]
  • Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled can now use the Collaboration List feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
  • The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode. [5]
  • View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.

Updates for technical contributors

  • XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. [6]

In depth

  • Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
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  • MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.

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Benzoylurea

Hello Dmacks, it has been a few weeks now and the page is still in dispute. Can you have a look at the talk page and see if you agree with what I proposed, Thanks Bosula (talk) 11:30, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the ping! Connectivity spotty at the moment...I'll check back and hopefully be able to respond in a few hr. DMacks (talk) 19:06, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
That was hella-spottier than I had hoped. Thanks for your patience and work on this set of articles/topics. DMacks (talk) 05:51, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

My edits on Forensic Biology and Emile Achard

Dear Sir, many thanks for the edits you did on the above two pages. From the number of my edits, you surely know I am a beginner. You are obviously an expert. I am still learning, and I do not want to commit an inadvertent mistake. You say that my edit on Forensic Biology was better, but not a similar edit in my edit on the page in Emile Archard. Simply for the sake of learning I need to humbly ask you (1)can one make similar edits [i.e. add same information] on two different pages? I thought one could, because a reader might simply visit one of the two pages (2)How is it that an edit is good for one page, but not for another page? This is purely for learning sir. Thanks and warm regards. Neotaruntius (talk) 02:48, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi Neotaruntius! Always glad to see eager new editors on science articles. Wikipedia often has several articles on related or overlapping topics, and I agree that a certain piece of information should be included on all of the pages where it is relevant. Sometimes the way the information is written might need to vary so that it fits each different context. And as always, the only details we're supposed to include are those that are exactly supportable by the references.
What you wrote in Forensic biology was "One of the earliest studies on post-mortem microbial analysis was published by Émile Achard"[7]. The ref you cited says what the Achard paper was about and that it was an early work in the field. So what you wrote clearly fits the topic of "forensic biology" and the details are supported by the ref.
What you wrote in Émile Achard was "In 1895, he along with E. Phulpin wrote a paper related to microbiology of the dead bodies, which is often quoted as one of the earliest publications on forensic microbiology."[8] The ref (at least the first page that I can read for free) does not seem to say Achard's paper is "often quoted as", merely that this ref itself says it. The situation is like reporting a single data-point but stating that it proves a trend.
So that's why I copied something like the forensic biology wording into the Achard article. And I adjusted the wording in the Achard article to link back to the forensic-biology article: "In 1895, he along with E. Phulpin wrote one of the earliest studies on post-mortem microbial analysis based on forensic biology."[9] That allows readers to learn more about that topic. One of the Wikipedia content guidelines is to "build a web" rather than writing self-contained or stand-alone articles.
Thanks for dropping by to ask! I'm certainly happy to discuss further about these edits or other WP questions. DMacks (talk) 07:55, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-46

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

Updates for technical contributors

  • Advanced item In 1.44.0-wmf-2, the logic of Wikibase function getAllStatements changed to behave like getBestStatements. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable. [12]
  • Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The impacted endpoints include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket.

In depth

  • Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page for more information about this work. [13]

Meetings and events

  • 21 November 2024 (8:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC) - Community call with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.

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This Month in Education: October 2024

This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 8 • October 2024

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Connected contributor/entry

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Tech News: 2024-47

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a redirect to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects. [14]
  • View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pywikibot, which automates work on MediaWiki sites, was upgraded to 9.5.0 on Toolforge. [15]

Updates for technical contributors

  • On wikis that use the FlaggedRevs extension, pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this. [16][17]

In depth

  • There is a new Diff post about Temporary Accounts, available in more than 15 languages. Read it to learn about what Temporary Accounts are, their impact on different groups of users, and the plan to introduce the change on all wikis.

Meetings and events

  • Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10 2024. The registration for the event will close in mid-April 2025. The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual gathering that unites the global technical community to collaborate on existing projects and explore new ideas.
  • Join the Wikimedia Commons community calls this week to help prioritize support for Commons which will be planned for 2025–2026. The theme will be how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. This is an opportunity for volunteers who work on different things to come together and talk about what matters for the future of the project. The calls will take place November 21, 2024, 8:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC.
  • A Language community meeting will take place November 29, 16:00 UTC to discuss updates and technical problem-solving.

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Nomination for deletion of Module:Archive/sandbox2

Module:Archive/sandbox2 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – 🌻 Hilst (talk | contribs) 13:35, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

User talk:Srich32977 request

If you have a moment to look at the continuing torrent of complaints at User talk:Srich32977, I would appreciate it. You are under no obligation, of course, but you commented there recently. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:23, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-48

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • Wishlist item A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode syntax highlighter will be available as a beta feature later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support, template folding, autocompletion, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the help page.
  • The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such Ctrl+B for bold and Ctrl+I for italics. A full list of all six shortcuts is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. [18]
  • Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: bswiki, elwiki, euwiki, fawiki, fiwiki, frwikiquote, frwikisource, frwikiversity, frwikivoyage, idwiki, lvwiki, plwiki, ptwiki, urwiki, viwikisource, zhwikisource. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF).
  • View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected" if it includes a protected variable.

Updates for technical contributors

  • The CodeEditor, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages, now offers live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing Ctrl+, and un-selecting "Live Autocompletion".
  • Advanced item Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can check this dashboard and the list in the Description of the task T350592 to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April. [19]
  • Advanced item The New PreProcessor parser performance report has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities. [20]

Meetings and events

  • A Language community meeting will take place November 29 at 16:00 UTC. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Wikipedia, the language support track at Wiki Indaba, and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:39, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi DMacks. Just to say that there is no need to remove wikidata {{ill}} links like you did here. There is a bot which does this automatically after an en:Wikipedia article is created, which is one of the advantages of having these links. See the edit history of that list for examples of the bot working. Mike Turnbull (talk) 11:44, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

Yup, I usually do rely on that. In this case, its presence was annoying because it kept popping up on searches while I was working on some articles, so I didn't want to wait for the bot to get around to it. DMacks (talk) 11:46, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-49

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • Two new parser functions were added this week. The {{#interwikilink}} function adds an interwiki link and the {{#interlanguagelink}} function adds an interlanguage link. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning with MOS: on English Wikipedia conflict with the mos language code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia.
  • Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the HTTPS Browser Recommendations page for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [21]
  • Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: arwiki, cawiki, frwiki, mediawikiwiki, orwiki, wawiki, wawiktionary, wikidatawiki, zhwiki. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF). [22]
  • This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
  • View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed. [23]

Updates for technical contributors

  • In late February, temporary accounts will be rolled out on at least 10 large wikis. This deployment will have a significant effect on the community-maintained code. This is about Toolforge tools, bots, gadgets, and user scripts that use IP address data or that are available for logged-out users. The Trust and Safety Product team wants to identify this code, monitor it, and assist in updating it ahead of the deployment to minimize disruption to workflows. The team asks technical editors and volunteer developers to help identify such tools by adding them to this list. In addition, review the updated documentation to learn how to adjust the tools. Join the discussions on the project talk page or in the dedicated thread on the Wikimedia Community Discord server (in English) for support and to share feedback.

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2024

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Tech News: 2024-50

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

  • Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new #wikimedia-techdocs IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team.

Updates for editors

Layout change for the Edit Check feature
  • Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear while they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
  • The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
  • Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide. [24]
  • The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
  • The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements. [25]
  • The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, archiveUrl and archiveDate, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates. [26]
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Indonesian (voy:id:) [27]
  • Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing. [28]
  • Recurrent item View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases. [29][30]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library. [31]
  • Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase system.
  • The 2024 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 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.
  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [32]

Meetings and events

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:13, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

Assistance needed, please

Sorry to badger you but maybe you missed my ping last week to Draft talk:List of modes of action of insecticides. Bosula and I drafted a table which is now ready to be inserted into Insecticide Resistance Action Committee (see the draft Talk Page for rationale) but we need advice about doing that correctly and then deleting the draft. Regards. Mike Turnbull (talk) 12:26, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the ping about the ping! DMacks (talk) 17:13, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice. Move and merge now complete. Mike Turnbull (talk) 14:25, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Help in editnotices

Hi DMacks, there was another edit war happened at the article Iodine concerning WP:SULF. Perhaps {{Chemical editnotice}} should be added to this article and other chemistry-related articles, but I am not sure how far do this range needs to cover. Thanks. Nucleus hydro elemon (talk) 10:51, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

No problem to do that. I think it would be useful to know the scope of the problem. For a long-term for a few specific articles, editnotice is the obvious step. But long-term for a large and random/varying set of articles, or sporatic for any specific article? I'd want to match the size of the manual workload to the size of the expected value. There does not appear to be a way to have edit notices placed by chembox or other article templates, or applied to whole categories (or category-trees) via a single action. DMacks (talk) 13:28, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
Semi-relatedly, should "national spelling varieties" in the edit-notice link to WP:ENGVAR? DMacks (talk) 13:28, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
The editnotice is linked. There are 10 element articles that uses British English and mentions "sulfur", namely N, P, S, Cl, Ca, Br, Ag, I, Th, and Fl. All of them needs the editnotice to avoid sulfur → sulphur.
I also found these articles that have the same need: acetic acid, alkali metal, ammonia, borane, cellulose, chemical element, chromic acid, furan-2-ylmethanethiol, glucosamine, hydrolysable tannin, iron(III) chloride, mephedrone, octasulfur, periodic table, and sodium azide. I'm not sure do salt and blue billy should be here too. Nucleus hydro elemon (talk) 15:05, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

This Month in Education: November 2024

This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 9 • November 2024

In This Issue

Hello! I am the person w 68.173.170.185 (talk) 00:46, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi, IP-user! What are you trying to do and what sort of help do you need with it? DMacks (talk) 00:49, 12 December 2024 (UTC)
Sorry I accidentally posted without finishing.
Hello I am the the user that made that official website link edit which is this one.
+2 {{official website}} is fully viable and explicitly allowed (no pref for/against) in WP:EL. It appears to give the same result in this case...what problem are you trying to solve? Undid revision 1261837351
I made the edit because the https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links way of linking is a more cleaner, easier to read when editing, and has less text than the previous edit.
I was wondering what are the benefits and downsides of using the other method way of linking, even though you get the same output is there any downsides to using that way?
If I am correct is the {{official website}} a template? https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Help:Template
The most common method of inclusion is called transclusion, where the wiki source of the target page contains a reference to the template, using the {{Template name}} syntax. Another method is substitution, where the content of the template is copied into the wiki source of the target page, just once, when it is saved.
Is that slower or require more resources?
https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Help:Transclusion
Transclusion events occur each time the target page is loaded and the template is rendered. A related event is Substitution, where a template call is replaced with its transcluded source content at the time it is invoked. Unlike transclusion, which continuously updates the target page with changes from the source, substitution results in a one-time inclusion of the content, meaning that subsequent updates to the source content will not be reflected in the target page. For example, a template call for {{Pagename}} with the subst: prefix results in the substitution template call {{#if:|{{PAGENAME:}}|{{PAGENAME}}}}[[Category:Pages which use a template in place of a magic word|H{{PAGENAME}}]]. When invoked, this template is replaced, also referred to as substituted, with the actual wikitext of the source page at the time of the call, thereby making it a permanent part of the target page.[c]
Thank you, I am still learning and trying to find the best ways of linking stuff on wikipedia. 68.173.170.185 (talk) 01:02, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-51

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  • Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:22, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

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Happy Holidays

Hello DMacks: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Abishe (talk) 15:10, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

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