User talk:Legoktm/January 2024
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Happy New Year, Legoktm!
Legoktm,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Complex/Rational 04:00, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
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Complex/Rational 04:00, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Christine Lemmer-Webber
Hello, Legoktm. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Christine Lemmer-Webber".
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! 18:19, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
- Hello, Legoktm,
- Always feels strange to post these on the User talk pages of longtime editors. Of course, you can restore this draft any time you like if you want to continue to work on it. All the best in 2024! Liz Read! Talk! 18:21, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-02
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
- mediawiki2latex is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can install on your local machine.
The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing. [1]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar). [2][3]
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MediaWiki message delivery 01:18, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
TFA Protector Bot: +semi-protection please
Hi Legoktm, would you mind adding semi-protection to TFA Protector Bot per Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 186 § RfC: Automatically semi-protect Today's Featured Article? Thank you very much in advance and happy holidays! 
~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:49, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
- @ToBeFree: huh? It's been doing that for months now (example). Legoktm (talk) 23:54, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
- Ah, I think I see what has happened there. [4] "today, we are featuring two FAs (use plural)" – sorry, never mind! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:08, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
- Ah no, that was weeks ago. French battleship Bouvet somehow didn't get protected. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:09, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
- OK took me a while to figure out what happened, see phab:T338006#9448777. Legoktm (talk) 05:39, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
- Ah no, that was weeks ago. French battleship Bouvet somehow didn't get protected. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:09, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
- Ah, I think I see what has happened there. [4] "today, we are featuring two FAs (use plural)" – sorry, never mind! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 00:08, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Arbitration
- Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
- Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
- The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.
Miscellaneous
- The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
The Signpost: 10 January 2024
- From the editor: NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!
- Special report: Public Domain Day 2024
- Technology report: Wikipedia: A Multigenerational Pursuit
- News and notes: In other news ... see ya in court!
- WikiProject report: WikiProjects Israel and Palestine
- Obituary: Anthony Bradbury
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2023
- Comix: Conflict resolution
Wikipedia:Database reports
Hi. This edit of yours seems to have broken the page. --DB1729talk 18:33, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
- @DB1729: oops, was in a rush at Wikipedia Day. Thanks for the note, now fixed :) Legoktm (talk) 04:31, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-03
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
- Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. [5]
- Gadgets and personal user scripts may now use JavaScript syntax introduced in ES6 (also known as "ES2015") and ES7 ("ES2016"). MediaWiki validates the source code to protect other site functionality from syntax errors, and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers. Previously, Gadgets could use the
requiresES6option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future. [6] - Bot passwords and owner-only OAuth consumers can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages. [7]
- You can now thank edits made by bots. [8]
- An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024 has been published. Please read and give your feedback.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar). [9][10]
- Starting on January 17, it will not be possible to login to Wikimedia wikis from some specific old versions of the Chrome browser (versions 51–66, released between 2016 and 2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, or Safari on Mac OS 10.14, may need to login to each wiki separately. [11]
- The
jquery.cookiemodule was deprecated and replaced with themediawiki.cookiemodule last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed. [12]
Future changes
- Wikimedia Deutschland is working to make reusing references easier. They are looking for people who are interested in participating in individual video calls for user research in January and February.
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MediaWiki message delivery 00:11, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Frank Fiscalini
Hello! Your submission of Frank Fiscalini at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 05:54, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
- The nomination has been marked for closure; please stop by as soon as you see this to keep your nomination from being closed as unsuccessful. Thank you! BlueMoonset (talk) 05:23, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
- @BlueMoonset: I appreciate the final chance to salvage it, but I think I'm going to let this one go, I just didn't have the time to follow-up on it. Sorry for wasting time, I'll stay on top of my nominations in the future. Legoktm (talk) 23:36, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-04
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
- A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed. [13]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 January. It will be on all wikis from 25 January (calendar). [14][15]
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MediaWiki message delivery 01:02, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-05
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
- Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [16]
- There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will be on all wikis from 1 February (calendar). [17][18]
On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new Special:QrCode page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [19]- Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the
targetsoption to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use theskinsoption instead. [20]
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MediaWiki message delivery 19:29, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 January 2024
- News and notes: Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail
- Opinion: Until it happens to you
- Disinformation report: How paid editors squeeze you dry
- Recent research: Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"
- Traffic report: DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down
TFA Protector Bot
Hi Legoktm :) I may be missing something, but I noticed that TFA Protector Bot may have malfunctioned slightly - Treat Myself got move-protected on 25 Jan, but the bot didn't also apply semi-protection prior to its inclusion on the Main Page today (31 Jan). Best, —a smart kitten[meow] 19:22, 31 January 2024 (UTC)