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Tech News: 2023-27
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Recent changes
As part of the rolling out of the audio links that play on click wishlist proposal, small wikis will now be able to use the inline audio player that is implemented by the Phonos extension. [1]
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. [2]
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).
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WikiCup 2023 July newsletter
The third round of the 2023 WikiCup has come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 175 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:
Thebiguglyalien, with 919 points from a featured article on Frances Cleveland as well as five good articles and many reviews,
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Contestants achieved 11 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 47 good articles, 72 featured or good article reviews, over 100 DYKs and 40 ITN appearances. As always, any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.
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Concern regarding Draft:Subaru Solterra
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Tech News: 2023-28
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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.
- Global abuse filters have been enabled on all Wikimedia projects, except English and Japanese Wikipedias (who opted out). This change was made following a global request for comments. [3]
- 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. [4]
- 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. [5]
- 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. [6]
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. [7]
- 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.
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Tech News: 2023-29
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
- We are now serving 1% of all global user traffic from Kubernetes (you can read more technical details). We are planning to increment this percentage regularly. You can follow the progress of this work.
Changes later this week
- 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-caanden-gbsubpages with a transclusion of the base pages anymore. This makes it easier to maintain local overrides. [8] - The
action=growthsetmentorstatusAPI will be deprecated with the new MediaWiki version. Bots or scripts calling that API should use theaction=growthmanagementorlistAPI now. [9]
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Your draft article, Draft:John Hamilton (mayor)
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Adoption
I saw you on the available Adopters page and you seem like someone who’d be good at helping with copy editing and anti-vandalism (aka what I’m interested in doing) Ashertheaxolotl (talk) 17:55, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
- @Ashertheaxolotl, I can help in those areas! Feel free to ask me any questions or concerns! Tails Wx 17:48, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you! I’ll be sure to Ashertheaxolotl (talk) 23:41, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
You're invited! Indiana State Fair Wiknic on Sunday, July 30
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Tech News: 2023-30
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Recent changes
- On July 18, the Wikimedia Foundation launched a survey about the technical decision making process for people who do technical work that relies on software that is maintained by the Foundation or affiliates. If this applies to you, please take part in the survey. The survey will be open for three weeks, until August 7. You can find more information in the announcement e-mail on wikitech-l.
Changes later this week
- 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).
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July thanks
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On today's Main page, you can find a cantata that Bach first performed 300 years ago, and an iconic saxophonist from East Germany. Also: a bit about the history of QAI on my talk. Thank you for being part of it! A new member designed a user box that I adopted. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:43, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
While today's DYK highlights Santiago on his day, I did my modest share with my story today, describing what I just experienced, pictured. I began the article of the woman in green. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:22, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
Question from Sklujan (19:38, 25 July 2023)
Hello Talis,
I am curious what are the requirements to update and add information to an article!? --Sklujan (talk) 19:38, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
- Hello, @Sklujan! For updating and adding information to an article, you’ll need an reliable source for verification. You can check that link out for more information! Tails Wx 19:44, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
Question from S4870 (04:17, 27 July 2023)
hi there ! I am trying to update a photo that is very old... Trying to replace it with a licensed recent photo, but it won't let me upload it. Wondering if you could help me? thank you so much! Cheers Sam --S4870 (talk) 04:17, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
- Hi there, S4870! Is the photo on Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons? And do you know the link to the licensed recent photo? Just some basic information so that I can understand the problem. :) Tails Wx 13:05, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
- Hey Tails, thank you for your reply, the photo is not online. I tried to create a Wikimedia account to add it there but I couldn't create an account for some reason, I don't know why. So the picture is just on my computer, nowhere online. Thank you S4870 (talk) 01:46, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
- Hmm…why can’t you create one? Does an error message show up? You can create a Wikimedia Commons account here… Tails Wx 13:06, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
- Hey Tails, thank you for your reply, the photo is not online. I tried to create a Wikimedia account to add it there but I couldn't create an account for some reason, I don't know why. So the picture is just on my computer, nowhere online. Thank you S4870 (talk) 01:46, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Arlington, Monroe County, Indiana
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Tech News: 2023-31
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. [10][11]
- 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. [12]
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. [13]
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. [14]
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Your GA nomination of Hurricane Marco (2020)
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Question from Mo-Gambari (04:33, 5 August 2023)
What is user page --Mo-Gambari (talk) 04:33, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
- Hello, @Mo-Gambari! You can read WP:USERPAGE on what is a userpage. Happy editing! Tails Wx 13:17, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Hurricane Marco (2020)
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Tech News: 2023-32
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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. [15]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Technical news
- The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
- Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)
Arbitration
- The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
- The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.
Submission dormant over six months
My submission for an article, "Gordon Dean Holman", has not been review in over 5 months. You first reviewed it in January. I believe I have fully responded to your and another reviewer's criticisms about not having enough external references. I have looked at similar articles and believe this is as good as or better than many of them. I would greatly appreciate it if you could move this along to acceptance. I feel like it has been lost in the rush of new submissions. Thank you. Tropisun (talk) 18:36, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
- @Tropisun, good job on your reference work! It also passes notability guidelines, therefore I will accept the draft. Nice work! Tails Wx 01:53, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
Grimes
At first I thought it was a child. Now it looks more like a troll.
Also, thanks for the reverts while I was away. The indef was inevitable, and Tamzin summed it well. Acroterion (talk) 03:58, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
- No problem. Happy to help! And the issues with trolls'll definitely be taken care of. :) Tails Wx 04:01, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Tropical Storm Danny (2021)
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Unblock request
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ANI
Hi, Tails Wx, you may be interested in contributing here: [16]. Cheers, 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 05:27, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
- I'd like to, but I'm stuck behind a autoblock, unfortunately. Thanks for the notification, though! Tails Wx (they/them) 05:28, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) @Tails Wx You may want to consider requesting IP Block Exemption if this continues in the future. — Prodraxis {talk • contribs} (she/her) 11:43, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
- Yes, I'm aware of that. Tails Wx (they/them) 12:12, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) @Tails Wx You may want to consider requesting IP Block Exemption if this continues in the future. — Prodraxis {talk • contribs} (she/her) 11:43, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
Your alt account's signature
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Done, thanks. Tails Wx9 talk 12:17, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Tropical Storm Danny (2021)
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Your GA nomination of Tropical Storm Danny (2021)
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A barnstar for you!
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| You are everywhere on weather wikipedia and consistently contribute valuable information to everything you edit! Wikiwillz (talk) 15:45, 13 August 2023 (UTC) |
- Woah–thank you, Wikiwillz! And thanks for this edit–yes I caused the lead mess. ;) Tails Wx (they/them) ⚧ 17:06, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
Request carried over here
Hi. I am currently having a conversation with another user but it seems that we still don't have an agreement yet. Please read this and make any necessary changes, if U don't mind, because it seems that user is offline currently.102.159.145.219 (talk) 01:55, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Bikash Sinha
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Tech News: 2023-33
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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. [17]
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. [18]
Future changes
- A few gadgets/user scripts which add icons to the Minerva skin need to have their CSS updated. There are more details available including a search for all existing instances and how to update them.
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Your draft article, Draft:2023 Mission, Texas explosion
Hello, Tails Wx. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "2023 Mission".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 02:52, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
Duplicate page creation by user creating confusion
Hi Tails Wx!
A user has created a duplicate page for Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023's draft making it a duplication. Requesting your review towards it for further action.
Original article - Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023
Duplicate article - The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 Thewikizoomer (talk) 07:06, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
- @Thewikizoomer, how is that page a duplicate? I'm not seeing too much similarity. Tails Wx (they/them) ⚧ 10:22, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
- It's a duplicate because, the Bill once gets president's assent becomes an Act. Creating two pages based on one legilation document creates confusion. The bill is nothing but a draft of the Act. That's why i thought it's a duplicate. Thewikizoomer (talk) 19:14, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
- Aren't drafts and acts still different? Also, the "duplicate" article is now under copyright violation investigation. Tails Wx (they/them) ⚧ 06:05, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
- It's a duplicate because, the Bill once gets president's assent becomes an Act. Creating two pages based on one legilation document creates confusion. The bill is nothing but a draft of the Act. That's why i thought it's a duplicate. Thewikizoomer (talk) 19:14, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
DYK for August 2023 Mid-South U.S. floods
On 21 August 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article August 2023 Mid-South U.S. floods, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that during the August 2023 Mid-South U.S. floods, 3.77 inches (96 mm) of rain fell in Columbia, Missouri, breaking a 113-year rainfall record? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/August 2023 Mid-South U.S. floods. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, August 2023 Mid-South U.S. floods), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.