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Tech News: 2024-34

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

Feature news

• Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
• Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. [1]
• Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the categories property of mw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [2][3]

Bugs status

• Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with Talk:WP: so that their titles start with Wikipedia talk:), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388.
• Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

• The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.

Learn more

• The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
• The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:51, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from Padra clinic Canada on User talk:Padra clinic Canada (16:50, 20 August 2024)

Hello,

Our Wikipedia page has been disappeared without our knowledge, and we want to know how can we get it back.

Can anyone help us with this? --Padra clinic Canada (talk) 16:50, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

August thanks

story · music · places

Thank you for improving article quality in August! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:10, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from Guilderbell (00:33, 22 August 2024)

Hello I want to create a wiki page regarding my uncle Charles Ginenthal. Mainly just a bibliography of his published books that he wrote. How would I do that? --Guilderbell (talk) 00:33, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from UCC Global (11:58, 22 August 2024)

مرحبا كيف اكتب عن الشركة او عمل صفحة عنها ووضع الشعار الخاص بها --UCC Global (talk) 11:58, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from Guilderbell (15:40, 22 August 2024)

Hi there its cool you are into meterology. The page I am looking to create is actually regarding a cosmologist named Charles Ginenthal who took a lot of his ideas from catastrophism and Immanuel Velikovsky. He wrote a number of books and I would like to honor him with at the very least a bibliography of all the books he wrote regarding these topics. --Guilderbell (talk) 15:40, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Early December 2009 North American blizzard

Hello, Tails Wx. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Early December 2009 North American blizzard, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 18:10, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from Jcleyn on Draft:J. Cleyn (20:41, 22 August 2024)

Hello how do I create a citation --Jcleyn (talk) 20:41, 22 August 2024 (UTC)