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Tech News: 2024-09
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 mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well. [1]
The mw.config value wgGlobalGroupsnow only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is:if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))). [2]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (calendar). [3][4]
Future changes
- The right to change edit tags (
changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.
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Question from Modetanvir (21:12, 26 February 2024)
How to i delete My Ask ? --Modetanvir (talk) 21:12, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
Question from Meranaamlikho (04:04, 27 February 2024)
Hello Dear Mentor,
Can you help me with creating a page for a Film producer? His name is Kshitij Chaudhary, he have produced two bollywood movies and they have a wikipedia page for both movies and his name is also mention as producer but his page is not created yet, that's why when we click on his name, nothing happens.
Sharing the links of both wikipedia page links. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigers_(2014_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phullu
Kindly help me out on how can i create his page, I have all his references and details.
Thank You
Namaste --Meranaamlikho (talk) 04:04, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
hello! (continued)
Hey User Blaze Wolf! I just want to thank you very sincerely for helping me so far! I don't mind anyone adopting me (I'd really love to be adopted though because 4/5 of my edits aren't very meaningful and I think I can do better than that) but I appreciate you replying me and helping me! I don't know if you'd prefer to adopt me yourself or communicate with User Relativity to discuss on who's better adopting me but either way, I'm very happy you're helping me! Cheers! Joséthewikier (talk) 05:46, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
- @Joséthewikier: Hey there! In my opinion, with how my life is currently going I don't have a whole lot of time for helping others out on Wikipedia (and it's very stressful) so it'd be best if Relativity adopted you. ― Blaze WolfTalkblaze__wolf 16:33, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
- @Blaze Wolf: Hey! I really hope you'll achieve great success in whatever you're doing now! Please take care of yourself and have a great day everyday! (when you do have the time to help me out, you could create a signature for me because I terribly lack creativity in that and I'm not sure how to create one anyway. Thank you!) Joséthewikier (talk) 18:52, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
WP:POKEMON revert
Hi, just letting you know I reverted your retarget of the shortcut. The essay may be of limited use today, but that redirect still gets 20+ average monthly pageviews and the essay has significantly higher traffic than the semi-active Wikiproject. Happy to discuss it further here or at WP:RFD if you feel strongly about it. The WordsmithTalk to me 20:15, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
- @The Wordsmith: Heya! Thanks for letting me know. I don't feel too strongly about it at the moment (I don't have the time to do a whole lot with the Wikiproject), just made more sense to that it would redirect to the WikiProject instead of an essay that has no basis by today's standards. Didn't think it'd still get that many pageviews (tho I wonder how many are expecting the WikiProject, probably not that many), or that it had that many links already. ― Blaze WolfTalkblaze__wolf 21:17, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 2 March 2024
- News and notes: Wikimedia enters US Supreme court hearings as "the dolphin inadvertently caught in the net"
- Recent research: Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias"
- In the media: The Scottish Parliament gets involved, a wikirace on live TV, and the Foundation's CTO goes on record
- Obituary: Vami_IV
- Traffic report: Supervalentinefilmbowlday
- WikiCup report: High-scoring WikiCup first round comes to a close
Question from AngelikaRegossi (13:41, 2 March 2024)
Hello, I would like to add my book to Wikipedia's few pages. It is about the crash of the Boeing 747 in 1983 (the link is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007). The book title is "Love in Communism. A Young Woman's Adult Story" (published in January 2024), and it contains a whole chapter about the Korean Airlines Boeing 747 crash. The book's ISBN: 9786158243544 (ISBN10: 615824354X). Can you please help add this information to the Boks section? Angelika Regossi --AngelikaRegossi (talk) 13:41, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Blaze; I responded on their talk page. --Hammersoft (talk) 13:47, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-10
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
Special:Bookpage (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the Wikisource extension. [5] - Wikitech now uses the next-generation Parsoid wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the Known Issues discussion page. You can use the ParserMigration extension to control the use of Parsoid; see the ParserMigration help documentation for more details.
- Maintenance on etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket.
- Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The
GadgetandGadget_definitionnamespaces andgadgets-definition-edituser right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made. [6] - A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [7]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar). [8][9]
Future changes
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [10]
- The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See Heading HTML changes for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add
?useparsoid=1to your URL (more info) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (more info).
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Question from Wan Syahmi - UWA (03:06, 5 March 2024)
Hi sir, can i know how to block my personal page from other to edit? --Wan Syahmi - UWA (talk) 03:06, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Wan Syahmi - UWA: You cant because there is no personal page. Even if there were you couldn't. ― Blaze WolfTalkblaze__wolf 03:17, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
- how to protect personal page from other? Wan Syahmi - UWA (talk) 03:23, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Wan Syahmi - UWA: I already told you. Wikipedia is not a blog or web hosting service ― Blaze WolfTalkblaze__wolf 03:26, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
- how to protect personal page from other? Wan Syahmi - UWA (talk) 03:23, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
Question from KERMITDUDE12 (19:48, 3 March 2024)
How do I make an article. I am clueless. --KERMITDUDE12 (talk) 19:48, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
- @KERMITDUDE12: Hello! Welcome to Wikipedia! See Help:Your first article, and Help:Introduction if you need help editing. Rusty4321 talk contribs 00:59, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
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Question from CloverEagle on Clover, Wisconsin (14:52, 10 March 2024)
Hello, I would like to ad a statement to this entry regarding the "separate" communities. --CloverEagle (talk) 14:52, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
Question from MLeads CRM (13:01, 7 March 2024)
how to write --MLeads CRM (talk) 13:01, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
- @MLeads CRM: Welcome! See Help:Introduction for more information on editing. Rusty4321 talk contribs 18:22, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-11
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 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar). [11][12]
- After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed. [13]
- The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [14]
- Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost. [15]
Future changes
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [16][17]
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Question from Jairwash4965 on User talk:Jairwash4965 (18:20, 13 March 2024)
hi do you know all about wikipedia --Jairwash4965 (talk) 18:20, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Jairwash4965: Hi there! No I do not. I may know a lot of things about Wikipedia but I'm still learning even after 3 years. ― Blaze WolfTalkblaze__wolf 01:27, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-12
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 notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher. [18]
- IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers. [19]
- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [20][21][22]
- Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [23]
Problems
- RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now. [24]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar). [25][26]
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [27][28]
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Question from TIGERUS ROGER on Wikipedia:User access levels (06:56, 23 March 2024)
Hey Wolf. --TIGERUS ROGER (talk) 06:56, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-13
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
- An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin. A checklist is provided for site admins to follow.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar). [29][30]
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Question from Apiaries (17:52, 25 March 2024)
You contact me on Facebook. We should talk. --Apiaries (talk) 17:52, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Apiaries: Absolutely not. ― Blaze WolfTalkblaze__wolf 13:30, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
Question from Hi! I can't remember your name either! on Cambridge Dancers' Club (06:16, 27 March 2024)
Hi, I'm a member of Cambridge Dancers' Club. Should I be requesting changes by posting info on its talk page and hoping someone else makes them? What is appropriate for me to edit directly?
In particular, I note that the "infobox football club" is clearly wrong. Also there's a typo on the Inter Varsity Dance Competition page. --Hi! I can't remember your name either! (talk) 06:16, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- (talk page watcher) @Hi! I can't remember your name either!: Editors who have a general conflict of interest may make unambiguously uncontroversial edits, such as fixing typos or grammar. Otherwise, you should be using the talk page, preferably with the {{edit COI}} template. Rusty4321 talk contribs 19:02, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- thank you for the tips Hi! I can't remember your name either! (talk) 00:48, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Hi! I can't remember your name either!: You're welcome! Rusty4321 talk contribs 03:57, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
- thank you for the tips Hi! I can't remember your name either! (talk) 00:48, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
Question from Seanmaks (11:25, 28 March 2024)
Hello How does editing work? --Seanmaks (talk) 11:25, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
Question from Selo007 on Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard (05:39, 27 March 2024)
Hello Where do one go when co complain when moderators of a specific wikipage ignores overwhelming evidence directly from sources, quotes racists and misogynists as reliable sources, takes a political side and deletes any edits? --Selo007 (talk) 05:39, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello Selo. If you want to complain about moderators you need to go to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. If you want to complain about the talk page being shut down you need to go to Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Decrease and click on "Request unprotection"
Kind regards--Trade (talk) 07:43, 27 March 2024 (UTC) @Selo007:--Trade (talk) 07:43, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you.
- What about if you think the moderators are biased and you want a second opinion? Selo007 (talk) 00:26, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
- In this case i think they are just trying to make the article abide by Wikipedia's various policies, regardless of their own feelings on the company. And also that you have a vastly diffirent notion of what makes a source reliable than what Wikipedia uses Trade (talk) 02:27, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Trade: The user has been blocked. ― Blaze WolfTalkblaze__wolf 14:21, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
- In this case i think they are just trying to make the article abide by Wikipedia's various policies, regardless of their own feelings on the company. And also that you have a vastly diffirent notion of what makes a source reliable than what Wikipedia uses Trade (talk) 02:27, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 March 2024
- Technology report: Millions of readers still seeing broken pages as "temporary" disabling of graph extension nears its second year
- Recent research: "Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors
- Traffic report: He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune
- Humour: Letters from the editors
- Comix: Layout issue
Question from SomebodyNamedAlex (00:21, 2 April 2024)
Hello! I am new to Wikipedia and just wanted to ask if I make a mistake in my edit, (accidentally add in wrong info, something like that) will that have any consequences? I just want to make sure I'm not messing anything up. --SomebodyNamedAlex (talk) 00:21, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Question from SpaceNthusiasist (08:20, 1 April 2024)
How do i link words to pages? Is it automatic or do i have to code? --SpaceNthusiasist (talk) 08:20, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
- @SpaceNthusiasist: To link words to pages, put the page name in double brackets (
[[and]]), like this: [[Main Page]]→ Main Page- To link words to a page title different from the words, use a pipe (
|), like so: [[Home page|Main page]]→ Main page- See Help:Linking for more information. Rusty4321 talk contribs 00:40, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Question from SMTunis (09:44, 1 April 2024)
Hello , I want to creat a a biography article for my Boss --SMTunis (talk) 09:44, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
- @SMTunis: Unfortunately, that will not be possible due to a conflict of interest, which makes it hard to write neutrally, essentially meaning that you will write about positive things (like a discovery he made), but not negative things (like if, for example, it was discovered he was not paying his employees enough). Also, promotion is not allowed on Wikipedia. Thank you. Rusty4321 talk contribs 00:44, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-14
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
- Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [31]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar). [32][33]
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.
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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
Hello Blaze Wolf,
Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.
Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.
Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.
It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!
2023 Awards
Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!
WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.
Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.
Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.
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Tech News: 2024-15
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
- Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
A new Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.- Initial results of Edit check experiments have been published. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at the wikis that tested it. Let us know if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check. [34][35]
- Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [36]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar). [37][38]
- New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. [39]
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Question from Wikitime345 (03:26, 9 April 2024)
Hello, I’d like someone who has experience in creating pages to create a page for my stump grinding service called Stump Wrecker. Website: StumpWrecker.com
Can an experienced editor do that or would I need to do it myself? --Wikitime345 (talk) 03:26, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Wikitime345: Hi there! It would be preferably for an experienced editor to do it per our Conflict of Interest and Paid editing policies. However there's a high likelihood that your business is not notable enough for Wikipedia. ― Blaze WolfTalkblaze__wolf 15:18, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
Question from User6000000 (14:16, 9 April 2024)
hello, i make an article in the sandbox and its done, how do i publish it/put it up for the review process? thanks --User6000000 (talk) 14:16, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
- @User6000000: Hello! It seems that you have figured out how to submit the article. You're doing good; I would recommend reading Help:Your first article. Happy editing! Rusty4321 talk contribs 23:49, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Question from Herrichglaube (18:48, 12 April 2024)
Howdy! I was assigned you as a mentor, so I'd like to clarify some questions that I have:
1. Is it okay to make minor changes to a page to resolve some issues while remaining others unsolved? I would prefer to be able to wait until I'm comfortable with the site before tackling larger issues, like sourcing & encyclopedic tone. 2. As a general rule, should articles be understandable to lay people? I was just reading an article on "Particle in a spherically symmetrical potential" that struck me as completely intractable.
Thank you for what you do and have a nice day. --Herrichglaube (talk) 18:48, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Herrichglaube: Hi there! 1. Of course! You don't have to make major edits right away. 2. I'm not entirely sure. I think it really depends on the subject of the article. ― Blaze WolfTalkblaze__wolf 19:09, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
Question from Nilavazhaganpmn (01:32, 13 April 2024)
Hello, how do I add a citation & create a page --Nilavazhaganpmn (talk) 01:32, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-16
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
- Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [40][41]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [42][43]
- Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked). [44]
- A new variable
page_last_edit_agewill be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [45]
Future changes
- Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
- Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the
abuse_filterandabuse_filter_historytables. Some queries might need to be updated. [46]
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Adoption request
@Blaze Wolf Hi, I saw here that you were looking to adopt a user. I'm interested in being adopted and would love to learn more about Wikipedia. I have a Discord account for better communication, just mention me at @Zezinho in the main Wiki discord. If you're not willing to, then that's perfectly fine, no problem, just let me know!
Thanks, Zezinho :D SZezinho (talk) 22:12, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
- @SZezinho: Hi there! I'd be happy to adopt you. I'm busy irl so my response times will usually be a bit slow but I"ll always try and respond. ― Blaze WolfTalkblaze__wolf 01:50, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- No problem, I understand! And thank you so much! Do you mind if I send you a message on Discord? SZezinho (talk) 22:41, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- @SZezinho: not at all! Go right ahead. ― Blaze WolfTalkblaze__wolf 03:36, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
- No problem, I understand! And thank you so much! Do you mind if I send you a message on Discord? SZezinho (talk) 22:41, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
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Question from GeorgieL (19:17, 18 April 2024)
Hi Blaze! I'm still very new here. I have created my first article in my sandbox . . . how does it get published from there? Is there another step I need to take? --GeorgieL (talk) 19:17, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
- (talk page watcher) @GeorgieL: By putting
{{subst:submit}}at the top of the draft. However, I must warn you, skimming through it seems to read somewhat "unencyclopediacly." In particular, the title seems like the title of an essay, and you could add more links to other pages. The help page Help:Your first article has some tips on improving as well. Thanks! Rusty4321 talk contribs 03:00, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
Question from ~ThIcFaMa~ (16:27, 22 April 2024)
Hello mentor! I'm new to all this and, during registering, took the survey that would suggest the articles that I could edit to help out Wikipedia...Can I take that again to change what it recommends? I don't think I like what I chose.
Cheers! --~ThIcFaMa~ (talk) 16:27, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- I figured it out myself, sorry! ~ThIcFaMa~ (talk)ThIcFaMa~ThIcFaMa~ (talk) ~ThIcFaMa~ (talk) 17:14, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-17
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 this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [47]
- You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar). [48][49]
Future changes
- This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of Special:MyPage/vector.js to Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [50]
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:25, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
New account claiming to be you
Hi! I have recently received a message on my talk page from a user who is claiming to be you and has threatened to ban me for warning them about attempting to make an unconstructive edit. I highly doubt that this is you, as I have explained in my response to them, but I just want to confirm this with you. QwertyForest (talk) 18:53, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- (talk page watcher) @QwertyForest: Yeah, that's not Blaze. Blaze does have an alternative account Blaze Fire Wolf though. Rusty4321 talk contribs 19:59, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah that's not me. My only alt account is Blaze Fire Wolf as Rusty said above. (I'm also not an admin) ― Blaze WolfTalkblaze__wolf 11:28, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
- Probably an LTA, but blocked as VOA.--Bbb23 (talk) 11:41, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks. Probably was an LTA as I've never interacted with the user before. ― Blaze WolfTalkblaze__wolf 13:05, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
- Probably an LTA, but blocked as VOA.--Bbb23 (talk) 11:41, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
Growth News, April 2024
The Growth team will now send quarterly reports to keep you in the loop. Growth team weekly updates are available on wiki (in English) if you want to know more about our day-to-day work.
If you want to receive more general updates about technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement (including Growth work), we encourage you to subscribe to Tech News.
Community Configuration
Growth features are currently configurable at Special:EditGrowthConfig. This quarter we are working on making Community Configuration accessible for other MediaWiki developers while also moving Growth feature configuration to the new CommunityConfiguration extension.
An early version of Community Configuration can be tested at Spanish Beta Wikipedia. We plan to release the new Community Configuration extension to pilot wikis (Arabic and Spanish Wikipedia) in early May, 2024. The first non-Growth team feature to utilize Community Configuration will be Automoderator.
In parallel with the development, the Growth team will propose Community Configuration usage guidelines, Community Configuration design guidelines, and provide technical documentation.
Experiment Results
Add a Image experiment analysis results
The Growth team conducted an experiment to assess the impact of the “Add an Image” structured task on the Newcomer Homepage's "Suggested Edits" module. This analysis finds that the Add an Image structured task leads to an increase in newcomer participation on the mobile web platform, particularly by making constructive (non-reverted) article edits:
- The likelihood that mobile web newcomers make their first article edit (+17.0% over baseline)
- The likelihood that they are retained as newcomers (+24.3% over baseline)
- The number of edits they make during their first two weeks on the wiki (+21.8% over baseline)
- A lower probability of the newcomers' edits will be reverted (-3.3% over baseline).
Personalized praise experiment results
This feature was developed for Mentors as part of the Growth team's Positive Reinforcement project. When A/B testing on Spanish Wikipedia, we found no significant impact on retention, but we found a significant positive impact on newcomer productivity. However, we concluded that the results weren’t positive enough to justify the time investment from Mentors. We plan to discuss this feature with our pilot wikis, and consider further improvements before scaling this feature further. Meanwhile, communities willing to test the feature can ask to have it deployed. (T361763)
English donors encouraged to try editing
As in previous years, donors were directed to a Thank you page after donation (example). However, this year we tested a new “Try editing Wikipedia,” call to action on the Thank You page. This call to action linked to a unique account creation page. From this account creation page we were able to track Registrations and Activation (editing for the first time). During the English banner campaign, the Donor Thank you page led to 4,398 new accounts, and 441 of those accounts went on to constructively edit within 24 hours. (T352900)
Future work
Annual Plan
The Growth team and the Editing team will work on the WE1.2 Key Result in the coming fiscal year. We will start initial discussions with communities soon to help finalize our plans. (T361657)
Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module
We plan to A/B test adding a new Community Configurable module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We are early in the planning phase of this project that will take place first at our pilot wikis and wikis volunteering. We welcome community feedback on initial designs and plans, in any language at our project talk page.
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18:55, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
Question from Watershed PI (19:55, 23 April 2024)
Hi! How do I help best correct an existing article, known to be incomplete and have some errors? --Watershed PI (talk) 19:55, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
Question from MovieMonster2006 (04:48, 25 April 2024)
Can editing improve the page? --MovieMonster2006 (talk) 04:48, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 25 April 2024
- In the media: Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics and another wikirace on live TV
- News and notes: A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law
- WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Newspapers (Not WP:NOTNEWS)
- Recent research: New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users
- Traffic report: O.J., cricket and a three body problem
Question from RoasterPehelvan on User:RoasterPehelvan/sandbox (05:13, 25 April 2024)
Hello, How can I change page title --RoasterPehelvan (talk) 05:13, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
- @RoasterPehelvan: hey there! You are able to change the title of an article by moving it, however this should typically only be done with consensus unless its extremely obvious. ― Blaze WolfTalkblaze__wolf 15:17, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-18
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
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- The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks. [51]
- Seven new wikis have been created:
- You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. [59]
- Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis. See more detailed guidelines.
Problems
- Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using
mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [60]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar). [61][62]
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MediaWiki message delivery 03:31, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
Question from Lucastphotography (00:26, 2 May 2024)
Hi Blaze, if I want to add a video to Toronto's wikipage do I have to just make more edits? It's a semi protected page. Thanks! :) --Lucastphotography (talk) 00:26, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
Question from Lucastphotography (00:31, 2 May 2024)
Also, apparently my username on Wiki can be considered in violation. Can i change it to LucasT and if so where can I do that? Thanks! --Lucastphotography (talk) 00:31, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-19
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 appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. [63][64]
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SiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page. [65] - Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services. [66]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar). [67][68]
- When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". [69]
Future changes
- A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update regarding this extension.
- Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally. [70]
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MediaWiki message delivery 16:41, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
Question from Quadrove (03:50, 7 May 2024)
Hello Blaze wolf! I have a quick question, whats a citation?? --Quadrove (talk) 03:50, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Quadrove: Hi there! Sorry for the late response. A citation is a source (Be it a website, book, newspaper, etc) that supports the information that comes before it. It's something used not just on Wikipedia but also in most academic papers. ― Blaze WolfTalkblaze__wolf 14:51, 7 May 2024 (UTC)