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Tech News: 2023-15

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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. [3]

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Tech News: 2023-16

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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. [9][10]
  • For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed. [11]

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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).

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:52, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Martineau family

Please check

Harriet Martineau

Please check

Family of Catherine, Princess of Wales

Please check

All articles to do with Northern England!

Thanks from Ted

Tech News: 2023-17

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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. [13]
  • 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. [14][15][16]

Changes later this week

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [17]
  • 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).

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James Seaton (bishop)

Please check this northern England page too, if you have time, thanks from T. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:6E00:2ED1:5500:3181:4B26:C58A:6B7E (talk) 01:01, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Ripon College Cuddesdon

Samuel Rolles Driver

Please check these 2 as well if poss. Thanks T. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:6E00:2ED1:5500:3181:4B26:C58A:6B7E (talk) 01:02, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Middleton family

And this one too - sorry! - Its been altered - the actual title of page. etc Thanks T — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:6E00:2ED1:5500:3181:4B26:C58A:6B7E (talk) 02:12, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Another Northern England

Cecil Middleton

Please check recent additions - thanks as always. 115.70.23.77 (talk) 03:08, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Digital ecology

An orphan tag was added to the digital ecology article by you, I added one link for the article. Can you check now? :)

Thank you! Maaargaritka (talk) 18:56, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. I will remove the tag. Keith D (talk) 18:57, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Lupton family

A new photo was added. Please check all refs if possible. Thanks from T. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.38.42.62 (talk) 10:07, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

WikiProject Worcestershire Newsletter - May 2023

The WORCESTERSHIRE Project Newsletter - May 2023

The WikiProject WORCESTERSHIRE Newsletter
Issue 3 - May 2023
(Archived here.)
This photo of the medieval cloisters in Worcester Cathedral by Diliff appeared as picture of the day on 5 October 2016.


Welcome to the third WikiProject Worcestershire newsletter

and the first one in (checks notes) THIRTEEN years! When I first joined this WikiProject back in December last year, I was slightly tempted to mark it as inactive, as activity had extremely slowed and there had been no new participants in 3 years. But I have decided to revive this project, as Worcestershire means a lot to me and I know it does for so many others. But as many participants of this project have disappeared completely off Wikipedia, this project is now in dire need of attention and it would be helpful if a group of editors could join me and continue to maintain it.
Here goes for the third EXTREMELY irregular news bulletin...

What's happened since last time

Evolution of Worcestershire county boundaries since 1844 was promoted to Good article on 3 September 2014. Largely the work of Bellow558, a Worcestershire Project member, the article was reviewed by Mike Christie.

Hanley Castle High School was was promoted to Good article on 30 August 2012. There are 78 good articles for educational institution of all kinds of which there are 4 GA for secondary schools in the UK. Hanley High School is the first state school in the UK to become GA.

Evesham was nominated on 2 December 2010 as a Good Article Candidate. The nomination unfortunately failed due to unforeseen unavailability of the editors working on the article. It only requires minor attention to be renominated.

Worcester Castle was awarded Good Article status on 27 October 2011. Largely the work of User:Hchc2009 , the article was reviewed and promoted by User:Malleus Fatuorum.

The photo by David Iliff of the medieval cloisters in Worcester Cathedral (pictured above) appeared as picture of the day on 5 October 2016.

Urse d'Abetot was awarded Featured Article status on 13 October 2009. Promoted by Karanacs, the article was 96.4% the work of Ealdgyth. It was finally featured on the main page on 14 April 2018.

The Battle of Powick Bridge was awarded Featured Article status in 2020 and appeared on the Main Page on 12 February 2023.

Worcestershire articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 1 1 4 6
FL 1 1
GA 4 3 6 13
B 2 5 14 14 1 36
C 1 5 21 77 3 107
Start 16 51 397 35 499
Stub 6 578 19 603
List 3 7 29 39
NA 1 1 22 341 365
Assessed 3 35 104 1,128 341 58 1,669
Unassessed 3 11 14
Total 3 35 104 1,131 341 69 1,683
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 6,675 Ω = 5.28
Experts needed!

If you notice any editors contributing significantly to Worcestershire-related articles, then please ask them to join this WikiProject, as we need all the help we can get.

Would you like to join the WP:WORCS?? Please enter yourself at WP:WORCS! - new editors are always welcome!

Happy Wikying, and thanks to everyone else who has contributed to our articles.

New project resources

Before making any major edits to articles or stubs, please be sure to read the new WP:WORCS/HowTo. Urgent tasks are now listed at: WP:WORCS/ToDo. It should be referred to often, and will be your main stop for most maintenance tasks. We recommend keeping the page on your watchlist.

Priorities are not set in stone and if you would like to discuss changes, please join in at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Worcestershire. The current priorities:

  • Population
    Now that the 2021 census details have been released, most settlement articles need updating. This website: https://www.citypopulation.de/ can be helpful, although you should note this does not collect data from hamlets or small villages.
  • Monitor
    The watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
  • Infoboxes
    Some of our articles need their infoboxes completing.
  • References
    Please remember that the list of stubs needing expansion is always in need of attention. Please take a look and see if you can help. One small edit, such as adding a reference section and reference, to an article each session would make a big difference. If you are uploadiing an image, be sure it has a correct FUR, and that you have preferably already created a link on the page where you want it to be.

These lists will help:

Guidelines
Missing civil parishes

There is a project creating missing civil parish articles in England at User:Crouch, Swale/Missing parishes. The missing parishes in Worcestershire currently are:

Evesham project

I am currently planning on reforming the Evesham article to get it up to scratch for another GA nomination. If other editors are interested in helping me then please do, especially if you live in Evesham yourself, as the main photo is from 2008 and is out-of-date as there is a new statue in front of the building.

On the newsletter

I intend to write a brand-new newsletter once every two months, though I would like other editors to help me in completing it in case of my unavailability.

Imprint
Written by Ollieisanerd (some sections are same as last time written by Kudpung) • All comments to WT:WORCS
Based on an original concept by WP:YORKS

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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - May 2023

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Tech News: 2023-18

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

Guideline and policy news

  • A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Tech News: 2023-19

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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  • 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. [23]
  • 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. [24]
  • Preloading text to new pages/sections now supports preloading from localized MediaWiki interface messages. Here is an example at the Czech Wikipedia that uses preload=MediaWiki:July. [25]

Problems

  • 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. [26]

Changes later this week

  • 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. [27]

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Citation for Interim CEO

Hi there, just a heads up. Transdev have not released any formal confirmation in relation to the CEO position of Transdev Blazefield. Former CEO Alex Hornby silently left the company a couple of months ago when Henri Rohard was appointed temporarily. Companies house have not yet processed Alex's withdrawal however he is now the MD at another company. Henri's position has been confirmed by staff of the company. Once a perminent CEO is appointed with press release, I will update all relevant areas with citations. AshlyJethro (talk) 14:01, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-20

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  • 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. [32]

Changes later this week

  • 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. [33]

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Whoops! Sorry about edit conflict

Morning Keith, I've just been deep in the bones of the ALS article (just back from a conference) and I'm afraid I clumsily couldn't correctly merge your date cite edits. Thanks for those.

I am seeing these come up as a recurrent issue - I am using the visual editor "cite" tool and dropping in DOIs whenever possible, is there a problem with the date import feature on that? Sometimes it looks like it's trying to bring in dd/mm/yyyy but sometimes in the past I've just manually set it to Year only. Also I know there are lots of editors out there with tools and bots who are better at this sort of thing than me so I generally just focus on content and know other people will do a better job of tidying than I! Anyway hopefully whatever I just over-rode is easy to re-do, I just didn't want to lose some nuanced stuff I've been pulling out of a recent review, as some of the genetics information was wrong previously =(

Cheers PaulWicks (talk) 08:53, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

@PaulWicks: Hello, thanks for letting me know, I have reapplied my changes to the article. I do not use VE as there are all sorts of problems that users introduce that need tidying up. Similarly using the cite tools give errors that people just accept without fixing them. Keith D (talk) 09:02, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
Thanks I've done a couple more now where I've (hopefully) just corrected the date from e.g. 2016-09 to just 2016, will keep an eye on this in future. PaulWicks (talk) 09:37, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
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