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Tech News: 2025-04

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• Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address. [1]
• On wikis that use the Patrolled edits feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use filters on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings. [2]
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been fixed.

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• The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. The last group of wikis (Catalan Wikiquote, Wikimedia Finland, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikibooks, Wikimedia Sweden) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping Trizek (WMF) at your wiki. [3]
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Requested move 6 January 2025

Hi Robert. You closed this RM with the comment Per consensus, no primary, but there was no consensus of that kind. Two of us, including myself, supported the move, while another two opposed it. Only TiggerJay and I provided arguments for our positions. This means the support and opposition were even. I would appreciate it if you could amend your comment. Thank you, ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 21:26, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

@Neveselbert will have a look again later tonight. – robertsky (talk) 04:08, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

The image

Hello, @Robertsky. About the photo inside the Killing of Wong Chik Yeok, I agree with your reasons that it might not fit the guidelines.[4] Personally I thought of taking down the photo, because it is directly linked to a bad case of personal attack and negative comments directed at me and some other wikieditors over the photos of murder victims and some other issues. The dust is settled for now with the guy being banned (it was inside the latest archives of ANI).[5] But I still have some concerns about the situation in the aftermath, and I thought it should be taken down not just because of your reasons behind nomination but likely I did not wish to be reminded of the terrible incident, which had been hanging over my head throughout the previous week. I understood some of the user's motivations regarding the photos but it is not what I agree with.

PS: I am slowly moving on from the incident. NelsonLee20042020 (talk) 06:51, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Hey @NelsonLee20042020 first off, there are times when every other active editors here will face a similar situation. I hope you can compartmentalize the situation and not let it affect you personally as much as possible and continue editing. With regard to the file deletion discussion, while I think there is scope for deletion within the policies here, I am unclear if it is as what the community thinks consensually, hence the discussion. I didn't want the earlier back and forth to detract a cordial discussion on the FfD space hence opening it only now rather than earlier. – robertsky (talk) 14:10, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

@Robertsky. I understand. Thanks by the way for the reply. Hard times ahead, but will try better in coping. NelsonLee20042020 (talk) 14:28, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

ITN: Gloria Romero

Hello, Robertsky! I'm asking if I can close my nomination? I'm not withdrawing my nom but I want to closed the nomination of ITN of Gloria Romero, I do respect their votes, however, their explanation on opposing are so confusing and nonsense. Some votes on the oppose are valid, but mostly they're just attacking (or probably attacking) my nomination just because it's not well known and "Not featured on CNN, BBC or AP News". Tho, I don't care their votes per WP:FUCKVOTES and WP:IGNORE, They're uncivil on my nomination feel like so racist on my nomination just because it's not "super" well known. I want to hear your reply, thanks! ROY is WAR Talk! 12:22, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

@Royiswariii short answer is nope. The discussions on ITN close early when there is no consensus to post. Just disengage and let the discussion takes its course. You have done what you can do, any further and you may be called out for bludgeoning the discussion. You are frustrated, yes, but you might want to strike off the racist slant though (here and at ITNC), as from another point of view, it is casting aspersions at the others who have taken part in the discussion. – robertsky (talk) 12:30, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

Okay, I understand. I guess I'll turn off the notifications since I will not entrained on their comments. Thank you! :) ROY is WAR Talk! 12:32, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-05

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• Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and 13 other questions to shape the technical direction for next year.

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• iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a personalized Year in Review feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.
• Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. [6]
• Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a double redirect). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement. [7]
• Wikimedia wikis allow WebAuthn-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is fragile and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of SUL3 (single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected. [8]
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

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• For developers that use the MediaWiki History dumps: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support the Temporary Accounts initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in the mediawiki_user_history dump, the anonymous field will be renamed to is_anonymous. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February. [9]

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