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Tech News: 2024-12[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.
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. [1]
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. [2]- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [3][4][5]
- Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [6]
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. [7]
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). [8][9]- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [10][11]
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MediaWiki message delivery 17:37, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
Natural[edit]
Science 41.122.65.166 (talk) 08:39, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Battle of La Haye-du-Puits[edit]
The article Battle of La Haye-du-Puits you nominated as a good article has passed 
; see Talk:Battle of La Haye-du-Puits for comments about the article, and Talk:Battle of La Haye-du-Puits/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Hog Farm -- Hog Farm (talk) 17:04, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-13[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.
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). [12][13]
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MediaWiki message delivery 18:54, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 March 2024[edit]
- 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
Promotion of Hanford Engineer Works[edit]
Battle of Tinian[edit]
Sorry I missed a step. You may have seen by now that Zawed supplied the missing change to the assessment on the article talk page. Great article, sure to go higher. Donner60 (talk) 01:11, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-14[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.
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. [14]
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). [15][16]
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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MediaWiki message delivery 03:33, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024[edit]
Hello Hawkeye7,
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.
Reminders:
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
FACbot missed one?[edit]
Hi Hawkeye7, just spotted this -- looks like FACbot didn't process it? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 23:04, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
- Caused by this edit. Removing the template causes the article to leave the category, and the Bot cannot see it any more. I restored the template, and the bot has processed the nomination. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:54, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Resolved
Editor experience invitation[edit]
Hi Hawkeye7 :) I'm looking for experienced editors to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 11:15, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Neil Ritchie[edit]
On 6 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Neil Ritchie, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that despite being sacked after losing the Battle of Gazala, Neil Ritchie went on to command a corps in North West Europe? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Neil Ritchie. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Neil Ritchie), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:03, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue 216, April 2024[edit]
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Tech News: 2024-15[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.
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. [17][18]
- Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [19]
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). [20][21]
- 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. [22]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:35, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
TFA[edit]
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Thank you today for Mercury Seven, introduced (in 2019): "This article is about the Mercury Seven astronauts, who were selected in 1959. As late as 1998, they were the most famous astronauts, but they have been eclipsed in recent years by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Still, they include the first American in in space, the first in orbit, the first to fly Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions, and the first to hit a golf ball on the Moon. One even flew on the space shuttle, nearly forty years after being selected as an astronaut."! - Thank you also for another FA (above). - If you look at my talk today, you see three people with raised arms, under the top story (by NBC, 1939) about a great singer ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:22, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: March 2024[edit]
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I have nominated 0.999... for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. voorts (talk/contributions) 21:03, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Battle of La Haye-du-Puits[edit]
On 12 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Battle of La Haye-du-Puits, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that at the Battle of La Haye-du-Puits in July 1944, a Confederate flag dating to the American Civil War was raised over the town? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Battle of La Haye-du-Puits. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Battle of La Haye-du-Puits), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Gatoclass 12:03, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
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GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:28, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Gog the Mild: Whut? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 10:10, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
WikiCup 2024 April newsletter[edit]
We are approaching the end of the 2024 WikiCup's second round, with a little over two weeks remaining. Currently, contestants must score at least 105 points to progress to the third round.
Our current top scorers are as follows:
Sammi Brie (submissions) with 642 points, mostly from 11 GAs about radio and television;
voorts (submissions) with 530 points, mostly from two FAs (Well he would, wouldn't he? and Cora Agnes Benneson) and three GAs;
Generalissima (submissions) with 523 points, mostly from 11 GAs about coinage and history;
SounderBruce (submissions) with 497 points, mostly from a FA about the 2020 season of the soccer club Seattle Sounders FC and two GAs;
Tamzin (submissions) with 410 points, mostly from a FA about the drink Capri-Sun and three GAs;
Kusma (submissions) with 330 points, mostly from a FA about the English botanist Anna Blackburne and a GA.
Competitors may submit work for the second round until the end of 28 April, and the third round starts 1 May. Remember that only competitors with the top 32 scores will make it through to the third round. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs. As a reminder, competitors are strictly prohibited from gaming Wikipedia policies or processes to receive more points.
If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please read Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:05, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-16[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.
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. [23][24]
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). [25][26]
- 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). [27]
- 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. [28]
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. [29]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:26, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive[edit]
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FAC[edit]
Hi Hawkeye, just to let you know that with this edit you inadvertantly deleted almost the entire contents of the FAC page...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:27, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
- Aaargh. My machine crashed. It must have messed up the edit. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 08:57, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
Four Award[edit]
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| Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on Hanford Engineer Works. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 15:59, 20 April 2024 (UTC) |
Israel-Hamas bot assessed articles from February[edit]
I think these are incomplete and biased. In form, however, perhaps a B assessment by the bot is understandable. I now think it could be more trouble than it is worth to try to reassess these, despite my thought they could be pulled back to C. I could even argue for start but that would very likely increase chances for a dispute. A change to C class might even be disputed. The talk page on one even suggests it be brought to FA. It might require more time and trouble than it is worth to reasses or deal with them, or their reappearance in another form, especially with serious resistance. There is no chance these content forks on this topic can be deleted. February ACR closures will be completed if these two are stricken on the list. I am now inclined to do that unless you disagree. Donner60 (talk) 00:35, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- The advantage of the bot here is that it is fully automated and I do not have to get involved. It uses artificial intelligence to determine if an article is comprehensive enough for a B class rating. Re-assessing at the moment is inadvisable as the articles are being worked on and are unstabel. I suggest waiting until the fighting dies down. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:06, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- The aclass=pass is on the talk page of the article, not the review. I have corrected this for you. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:16, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
Congratulations from the Military History Project[edit]
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Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history) | |
| On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history) for participating in 9 reviews between January and March 2024. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 20:11, 22 April 2024 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste |
Tech News: 2024-17[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.
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. [30]
- 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). [31][32]
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. [33]
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:25, 22 April 2024 (UTC)