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Tech News: 2023-41

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

One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Fon (w:fon:) [1]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Swahili Wikipedia, Walloon Wikipedia, Waray Wikipedia, Wolof Wikipedia, Kalmyk Wikipedia, Xhosa Wikipedia, Mingrelian Wikipedia, Yiddish Wikipedia, Yoruba Wikipedia, Zhuang Wikipedia, Zeelandic Wikipedia, Min Nan Wikipedia, Zulu Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [2]
At some wikis, newcomers are suggested images from Commons to add to articles without any images. Starting on Tuesday, newcomers at these wikis will be able to add images to unillustrated article sections. The specific wikis are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team deployment table. You can learn more about this feature. [3]
In the mobile web skin (Minerva) the CSS ID #page-actions will be replaced with #p-views. This change is to make it consistent with other skins and to improve support for gadgets and extensions in the mobile skin. A few gadgets may need to be updated; there are details and search-links in the task.

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Please revoke TPA for the following user

Please revoke TPA for @Allah is the cure for transgender. I think this may also be a sock of WP:LTA/BMX. IanDBeacon (talk) 21:35, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for keeping an eye on that! DMacks (talk) 21:38, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Talk page

I should have remembered to ask for talk page revocation, I forgot, sorry. Allah is the cure for transgender. (talk · contribs) Knitsey (talk) 21:36, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

No worries. I actually acted based on their edits popping up on my watchlist, so I have no idea what you filed at AIV. But regardless, thanks for helping clean up that mess. DMacks (talk) 21:39, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

No problem, I didn't see the talk message above this one. Knitsey (talk) 21:40, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

RevDel

Hi DMacks, would you be able revision delete the Allah is the cure for transgender (talk · contribs) contributions relevant to WP:CRD 2, 3? Thanks, Wracking ^talk! 22:20, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

User:Daniel Quinlan got it. DMacks (talk) 23:16, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

List of chemical compounds with unusual names

Proteins aren't normally considered chemical compounds. Shh is already listed in List of unusual biological names. There are some other proteins on List of chemical compounds with unusual names that should be moved as well. Natureium (talk) 23:10, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

I'm going to have to call ^{[citation needed]} on "Proteins aren't normally considered chemical compounds." (though some are more formally supramolecular clusters). But I have no objection to an editorial distinction of small molecules vs biologicals for separate list articles. And if so, I agree that there is a bunch of cleanup needed. The List of chemical compounds with unusual names does not define its scope in the lead. It should have a clear pointer to the List of unusual biological names rather than just (now that I know to look for it) a SEEALSO. And conversely the biological-names should have a clear pointer to the chemical-compounds page and scrap its "Molecules" section. DMacks (talk) 04:45, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

This Month in Education: September 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 7 • September 2023

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CS1 error on Cunningham Steam Wagon

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Cunningham Steam Wagon, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

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Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 12:25, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Disruptive editing

I am not disrupting the subreddit Erection I am simply getting rid of that photo because the name change was rejected. The photo is unnecessary and if you really want to show an erection for some reason then use a diagram Gex273 (talk) 19:34, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Feel free to raise your concern on the article's talkpage. Your idea has been rejected multiple times there and in the article's history. DMacks (talk) 04:11, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-42

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Recent changes

The Unified login system's edge login should now be fixed for some browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera). This means that if you visit a new sister project wiki, you should be logged in automatically without the need to click "Log in" or reload the page. Feedback on whether it's working for you is welcome. [4]
Edit notices are now available within the MobileFrontend/Minerva skin. This feature was inspired by the gadget on English Wikipedia. See more details in T316178.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).

Future changes

In 3 weeks, in the Vector 2022 skin, code related to addPortletLink and #p-namespaces that was deprecated one year ago will be removed. If you notice tools that should appear next to the "Discussion" tab are then missing, please tell the gadget's maintainers to see instructions in the Phabricator task.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:45, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-43

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 Language and internationalization newsletter, written quarterly. It contains updates on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects, and related support work.
Source map support has been enabled on all wikis. When you open the debugger in your browser's developer tools, you should be able to see the unminified JavaScript source code. [5]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:14, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Yarn bombing

You beat me to this by nanoseconds [6]. Thanks. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 03:54, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

Draft:Qunicy B

I tagged this as CSD copyright infringement just as you removed the section. Should I remove the tag? Knitsey (talk) 21:17, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

The whole thing was actually unsalvageable. I deleted it outright. Thanks for the followup though! DMacks (talk) 21:19, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

Great, thanks for sorting it. Knitsey (talk) 21:21, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

Organic chemistry

Re [7], would you not agree that a sentence that says "Not only carbon and hydrogen that are studied in organic chemistry, but also other heteroatomes such as O, S, halogens (Cl, Br, I, F), phosphorus, silicon and Study of structure determines their structural formula." doesn't make any sense? To be honest the whole lead paragraph looks like it needs to be rewritten for clarity, but this part especially doesn't make any sense. Galobtter (talk) 04:00, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

I would agree that the lede is a mess and needs to be rewritten in a coherent way. Crappy writing that sort-of means something is better than a smaller amount of crappy writing that implies the wrong thing. But better writing is always better. DMacks (talk) 04:32, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-44

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 Structured Content team, as part of its project of improving UploadWizard on Commons, made some UX improvements to the upload step of choosing own vs not own work (T347590), as well as to the licensing step for own work (T347756).
The Design Systems team has released version 1.0.0 of Codex, the new design system for Wikimedia. See the full announcement about the release of Codex 1.0.0.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar).
Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 2 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for many languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [8][9]
Starting November 1, the impact module (Special:Impact) will be upgraded by the Growth team. The new impact module shows newcomers more data regarding their impact on the wiki. It was tested by a few wikis during the last few months. [10]

Future changes

There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. You can help by reviewing this proposal and sharing what you think about it.
The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:19, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks

for your help today. I am very sorry but I didn't realise you were an admin until today and therefore could "cut out the middle man"! I will keep an eye on the matter in question and let you know if anything else arises in 31 hours. Best, Patient Zero^talk 00:38, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

You're welcome! No worries--just thanks for your vigilance on their edits. DMacks (talk) 00:55, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-45

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

In the Vector 2022 skin, the default font-size of a number of navigational elements (tagline, tools menu, navigational links, and more) has been increased slightly to match the font size used in page content. [11]

Problems

Last week, there was a problem displaying some recent edits on a few wikis, for 1-6 hours. The edits were saved but not immediately shown. This was due to a database problem. [12]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar).
The Growth team will reassign newcomers from former mentors to the currently active mentors. They have also changed the notification language to be more user-friendly. [13][14]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:03, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

Administrator changes

0xDeadbeef

Tamzin

Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

Arbitration

Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous

The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:22, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

This Month in Education: October 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 8 • October 2023

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Sodium borohydride

I inserted a semi-sprawling table into sodium borohydride to convey the many additives that are used by organic chemists to modify this material. If you have any suggestions, let me know. Format is not my thing. Eventually I will hyperlink it. --Smokefoot (talk) 18:07, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-46

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Recent changes

Four new wikis have been created:
- a Wikipedia in Moroccan Amazigh (w:zgh:) [15]
- a Wikipedia in Dagaare (w:dga:) [16]
- a Wikipedia in Toba Batak (w:bbc:) [17]
- a Wikiquote in Banjar (q:bjn:) [18]

Problems

Last week, users who previously visited Meta-Wiki or Wikimedia Commons and then became logged out on those wikis could not log in again. The problem is now resolved. [19]
Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong font size. The problem is now resolved. [20]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar).

Future changes

Reference Previews are coming to many wikis as a default feature. They are popups for references, similar to the PagePreviews feature. You can opt out of seeing them. If you are using the gadgets Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews. Deployment is planned for November 22, 2023.
Canary (also known as heartbeat) events will be produced into Wikimedia event streams from December 11. Streams users are advised to filter out these events, by discarding all events where meta.domain == "canary". Updates to Pywikibot or wikimedia-streams will discard these events by default. [21]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:50, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Tech News: 2023-47

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Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [22][23]
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Quechua Wikipedia, Romansh Wikipedia, Romani Wikipedia, Rundi Wikipedia, Aromanian Wikipedia, Tarandíne Wikipedia, Rusyn Wikipedia, Kinyarwanda Wikipedia, Sanskrit Wikipedia, Sakha Wikipedia, Santali Wikipedia, Sardinian Wikipedia, Sicilian Wikipedia, Scots Wikipedia, Sindhi Wikipedia, Northern Sami Wikipedia, Sango Wikipedia, Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia, Sinhala Wikipedia, Slovak Wikipedia, Slovenian Wikipedia, Samoan Wikipedia, Somali Wikipedia, Albanian Wikipedia, Serbian Wikipedia, Sranan Tongo Wikipedia, Swati Wikipedia, Southern Sotho Wikipedia, Saterland Frisian Wikipedia, Sundanese Wikipedia, Silesian Wikipedia, Tamil Wikipedia, Tulu Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tetum Wikipedia, Tajik Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkmen Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia, Tswana Wikipedia, Tongan Wikipedia, Tok Pisin Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Tsonga Wikipedia, Tatar Wikipedia, Twi Wikipedia, Tahitian Wikipedia, Tuvinian Wikipedia, Udmurt Wikipedia, Uyghur Wikipedia, Uzbek Wikipedia, Venda Wikipedia, Venetian Wikipedia, Veps Wikipedia, West Flemish Wikipedia, Volapük Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [24][25][26]
The Vector 2022 skin will have some minor visual changes to drop-down menus, column widths, and more. These changes were added to four Wikipedias last week. If no issues are found, these changes will proceed to all wikis this week. These changes will make it possible to add new menus for readability and dark mode. Learn more. [27]

Future changes

There is an update on re-enabling the Graph Extension. To speed up the process, Vega 2 will not be supported and only some protocols will be available at launch. You can help by sharing what you think about the plan.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:53, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry for dispute, I don't want to be dispute it to the other pages. Bonthefox3 (talk) 06:34, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-48

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 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [28][29]
MediaWiki's JavaScript system will now allow async/await syntax in gadgets and user scripts. Gadget authors should remember that users' browsers may not support it, so it should be used appropriately. [30]
The deployment of "Add a link" announced last week was postponed. It will resume this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:06, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

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Dhammika Perera

Hi, Kindly add the page to your watchlist. Perera declared his intention to run in the next year's presidential election. The page has plagued with promotional edits in the past. I suspect, as the presential election draws nearer, promotional editing will increase. Cheers! Chanaka L (talk) 13:38, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the info! Will do. DMacks (talk) 13:52, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Moving plans

I am splitting 1,2- and 1,3-dithiolanes out of dithiolane. I'm about half done. 1,3-Dithiolane has been created.

Since I mess up this procedure sometimes, I just want to check. I plan to leave dithiolane in place as a disambiguation page (for 1,2- and 1,3-isomer) and cut and paste most of its contents into 1,2-Dithiolane, which currently exists as a redirect to dithiolane.--Smokefoot (talk) 18:44, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-49

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 spacing between paragraphs on Vector 2022 has been changed from 7px to 14px to match the size of the text. This will make it easier to distinguish paragraphs from sentences. [31]
The "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is working again. You no longer need to switch to source editing to edit {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords. [32]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [33][34]
On 6 December, people who have the enabled the preference for "Show discussion activity" will notice the talk page usability improvements appear on pages that include the __NEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word. If you notice any issues, please share them with the team on Phabricator.

Future changes

The Toolforge Grid Engine shutdown process will start on December 14. Maintainers of tools that still use this old system should plan to migrate to Kubernetes, or tell the team your plans on Phabricator in the task about your tool, before that date. [35]
Communities using Structured Discussions are being contacted regarding the upcoming deprecation of Structured Discussions. You can read more about this project, and share your comments, on the project's page.

Events

Registration & Scholarship applications are now open for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 that will take place from 3–5 May in Tallinn, Estonia. Scholarship applications are open until 5 January 2024.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:48, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

Administrator changes

Beeblebrox → Just Step Sideways

CheckUser changes

Oversight changes

Guideline and policy news

Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.

Arbitration

Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:53, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-50

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

On Wikimedia Commons, there are some minor user-interface improvements for the "choosing own vs not own work" step in the UploadWizard. This is part of the Structured Content team's project of improving UploadWizard on Commons. [36][37]

Problems

There was a problem showing the Newcomer homepage feature with the "impact module" and their page-view graphs, for a few days in early December. This has now been fixed. [38][39]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar). [40][41]

Future changes

The 2023 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 5 January 2024, and has an associated privacy statement.

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:10, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

This Month in Education: November 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 9 • November 2023

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About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: ZI Jony 08:23, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Epigenetics for non-experts

Thanks for the 'like'. My earlier edit trying to make it understandable was reverted by someone.Kelly222 (talk) 00:39, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

why did you revert my edit

what was the point of reverting my edit at the internet meme article , is it becuase of the image or what Кингзјевонњикимен (talk) 10:19, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

It is a self-made image that is trademark-infringing (though possibly free-license) based on WP:SYNTH of the article topic. DMacks (talk) 10:24, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-51

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Tech News

The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2024 because of the holidays.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 December. It will be on all wikis from 21 December (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [42][43]
Starting December 18, it won't be possible to activate Structured Discussions on a user's own talk page using the Beta feature. The Beta feature option remains available for users who want to deactivate Structured Discussions. This is part of Structured Discussions' deprecation work. [44]
There will be full support for redirects in the Module namespace. The "Move Page" feature will leave an appropriate redirect behind, and such redirects will be appropriately recognized by the software (e.g. hidden from Special:UnconnectedPages). There will also be support for manual redirects. [45]

Future changes

The MediaWiki JavaScript documentation is moving to a new format. During the move, you can read the old docs using version 1.41. Feedback about the new site is welcome on the project talk page.
The Wishathon is a new initiative that encourages collaboration across the Wikimedia community to develop solutions for wishes collected through the Community Wishlist Survey. The first community Wishathon will take place from 15–17 March. If you are interested in a project proposal as a user, developer, designer, or product lead, you can register for the event and read more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:16, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

I did not confuse hydrogenation with hydration.

What did you mean by that? I wrote that acetonitrile gave ethylamine by hydrogenation. ⲔⲖⲞⲢⲠⲒⲔⲢⲒⲚ (talk) 12:31, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

In your chemical equation, you wrote "H2O". DMacks (talk) 12:32, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

Could be a device error. I don't remember typing in "H2O", i surely remember it as "H2". ⲔⲖⲞⲢⲠⲒⲔⲢⲒⲚ (talk) 13:15, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

Autocorrect spell-check ruins my science almost every day :) DMacks (talk) 13:45, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

~ ~ ~ Merry Christmas! ~ ~ ~

Hello DMacks: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, --Dustfreeworld (talk) 12:27, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

Administrator changes

Clovermoss

Dennis Brown

CheckUser changes

Maxim

Oversighter changes

Maxim

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!

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:54, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

note

On a whim, I looked at the template at the bottom of the page, and the next entries were Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear, and in those pages' recent edit history, found an IP which is doing similar things - [46].

Since the username's early edits were pretty clearly done to bypass autoconfirmed, I guess I shouldn't be surprised at an IP history of reverting over several related pages. - jc37 19:54, 3 January 2024 (UTC)