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Administrators' newsletter – September 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020).
Administrator changes
Ajpolino • LuK3
Jackmcbarn
Ad Orientem • Harej • Lid • Lomn • Mentoz86 • Oliver Pereira • XJaM
There'sNoTime → TheresNoTime
Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely
1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created
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- A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely
Technical news
- The filter log now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions (phab:T261630).
Arbitration
- The 2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
- Following a request for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either the Ombuds Commission or the WMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committee passed a motion implementing those results into their procedures.
Miscellaneous
- The Universal Code of Conduct draft is open for community review and comment until October 6th, 2020.
- Office actions may now be appealed to the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee.
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
- There is a new tool where you can see which home wiki users have in discussions on Meta. This can help show which communities are not part of the discussion on wikis where we make decisions that affect many other wikis.
- You can now thank users for file uploads or for changing the language of a page. [1]
Problems
- There were many errors with the new MediaWiki version last week. The new version was rolled back. Updates that should have happened last week are late. [2]
- Everyone was logged out. This was because a user reported being logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [3]
Many pages have JavaScript errors. You can read more and now see a list of user scripts with errors.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 October. It will be on all wikis from 8 October (calendar).- Letters immediately after a link are shown as part of the link. For example the entire word in
[[Child]]renis linked. On Arabic wikis this works at both the start and end of a word. Previously on Arabic wikis numbers and other non-letter Unicode characters were shown as part of the link at the start of a word but not at the end. Now only Latin and Arabic letters will extend links on Arabic wikis. [4]
Future changes
- You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [5]
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16:24, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for October 9
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Veronica Vasicka, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page New York.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:33, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago last week's updates are also late. [6][7][8]
Changes later this week
- Live previews didn't show the templates used in the preview if you just edited a section. This has now been fixed. You can also test CSS and JavaScript pages even if you have the live preview enabled. Previously this didn't work well. [9][10]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all wikis from 15 October (calendar).
Future changes
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15:23, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 October. It will be on all wikis from 22 October (calendar).
Future changes
- You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [12]
- In the AbuseFilter extension, the
rmspecials()function will be updated soon so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses ofrmspecials()withrmwhitespace()wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [13] - Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID
#jump-to-nav. This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either#siteSubor#mw-content-text. A list of affected scripts is at the top of phab:T265373.
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16:29, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on October 27 around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [14]
- Last week, links to "diffs" from mobile watchlists and recentchanges were linking to page-revisions instead of diffs. This has now been fixed. [15]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
- Since the introduction of the interface administrators user group in 2018, administrators couldn’t view the deleted history of CSS/JS pages. Now they can. [16]
- There was a problem with the Change Tags. The software would apply the "Reverted" tag to any page actions such as page-protection changes if they came directly after a reverted edit. This has now been fixed for new edits. [17]
- The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias in November. Another announcement will be made once the date is finalized. [18]
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17:37, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
iNaturalist photos
@Josve05a: Hello, I saw your post to iNaturalist a couple months ago about transferring photos from iNat to Wikipedia and just have a quick question. I requested an iNat user that she change a license on one picture to make it usable on Wikipedia, and she graciously agreed. However, the resolution of the picture seems to have decreased when I uploaded it to Wikimedia. What I did was download the original size photo from here and upload it to Commons (actually, I was unaware that the noncommercial bit had to be removed, so it was nominated for deletion, but the user has since removed the NC portion and the deletion request is waiting to be closed). The photos you uploaded have great resolution; is there something you did differently, or is the original photo just slightly low-res, and I couldn't tell? JadeSpire (talk) 20:21, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
- @JadeSpire: Hello! According to this post in the iNat forum "iNat reduces all larger images to no bigger than 2048 x 2048 pixels." So, even if the photo was originally larger prior to the user uploading it to iNaturalist, the site downscales the photograph before it is uploaded/stored on iNaturlaist. (On related notes, to see other images I've uploaded through iNat outreach, have a look at c:User:Josve05a/iNat.) Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 20:41, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
- Also, I use c:User:Kaldari/inat2commons.js to upload images from iNat to Commons. Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 20:43, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you for the useful information! How would I use the script on the Kaldari page? JadeSpire (talk) 20:54, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
- Add
importScript('User:Kaldari/inat2commons.js');to c:Special:MyPage/common.js and then go to a taxon category (such as c:Category:Erythrorchis cassythoides) and there should be a button at the top of the page named "iNaturalist import"). This only works if the image on iNat is of research-grade on iNat and the image is freely licensed, and the category on Commons is liked to a WIkidata item which is connected to the iNat taxon ID. Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 22:13, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
- Add
- Thank you for the useful information! How would I use the script on the Kaldari page? JadeSpire (talk) 20:54, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
- Also, I use c:User:Kaldari/inat2commons.js to upload images from iNat to Commons. Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 20:43, 30 October 2020 (UTC)