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[edit]Hello To Be free, While patrolling commons, I found FAUWBB (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · page moves · block user · block log). They uploaded a copyvio to commons, and when I checked the article they added the image to, I found these diffs. As this is my first en-wiki report, I wanted to check with you to make sure I'm not missing something before I make a report. All the Best -- Chuck Talk 16:10, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
- Hello Alachuckthebuck, thanks for asking! The image has been deleted since. It depends on what it was: Copyright violations done by uploading an image to Wikimedia Commons are mostly a Commons issue and rarely need to be reported here. Image vandalism with thematically irrelevant images on the other hand would well be worth a report. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:30, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
- The image was one part, this diff here was the worse offender. Can you take a look at this and give me your thoughts? All the Best -- Chuck Talk 15:36, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
- Sorry, I hadn't seen these; adding a pipe ("|") after external links breaks them, so I only saw one part of the diff. I have now fixed the external link syntax above. The text addition is a copyright violation, it seems, from [1]. In general, you can safely directly remove non-neutral additions to biographies of living people instead of tagging them. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 16:11, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
- The image was one part, this diff here was the worse offender. Can you take a look at this and give me your thoughts? All the Best -- Chuck Talk 15:36, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-38
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Improvements and Maintenance
Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.- The new automated Special:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. [2]
- References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed. [3]
- It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order. [4]
Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.- Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes
mw-message-boxneed to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newercdx-messagegroup of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. [5]
Technical project updates
- Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible. [6]
Tech in depth
- The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
- To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
- Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are more details and links available in the Phabricator task.
- Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.
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