User talk:Joseph2302/Archives/2020/March
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DYKs for Women's History Month
Thanks for your recent biographies of women, including those appearing on DYK. Maybe you would like to contribute one or two more in March in connection with Women's History Month.--Ipigott (talk) 07:20, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
- I'll have a look and see if anything takes my fancy. Is there a specific coordinated space (e.g. a specific Women in Red initiative) for this? Joseph2302 (talk) 12:42, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug. [1]
Changes later this week
- If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. [2]
- When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security. [3]
- On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to. [4]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 March. It will be on all wikis from 5 March (calendar).
Future changes
- The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback. [5]
- There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
wgMFSpecialCaseMainPagewas used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list. [6]
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00:36, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- There is a new search word called
articletopic. You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon. [7][8][9]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 March. It will be on all wikis from 12 March (calendar).
Future changes
- There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
- The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year. [10]
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17:14, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
DYK for Manu Vunipola (rugby union, born 2000)
On 13 March 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Manu Vunipola (rugby union, born 2000), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in a January 2020 Premiership Rugby match, referee Luke Pearce appointed Manu Vunipola as Saracens captain, after Pearce decided that he did not want to speak with Jackson Wray? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Manu Vunipola (rugby union, born 2000). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Manu Vunipola (rugby union, born 2000)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.
--valereee (talk) 00:02, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Gabrielle Reidy
Hello! Your submission of Gabrielle Reidy 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) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 22:00, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
User 203.132.68.1's repeated ISBN (etc.) problems
Hi, Joseph2302. Further to my recent response to your observation at the Helpdesk re User 203.132.68.1, I thought you might like to know that this is evidently User:SrBernadette — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.197.27.39 (talk) 08:26, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
- Yes I know. I've been frustrated by them for years, and my opinion is that people should just ignore them, or they should be blocked for incompetence. But we had 2 ANIs about it a couple of years ago, with no outcome reached. Joseph2302 (talk) 10:11, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use
action=changecontentmodelto specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org. [11]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).
Future changes
- If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface. [12][13]
- You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.
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21:16, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
DYK for Irish Central Committee for the Employment of Women
On 17 March 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Irish Central Committee for the Employment of Women, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Irish Central Committee for the Employment of Women, which operated from 1914 to 1919, paid Irish women the same as their British counterparts? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Irish Central Committee for the Employment of Women. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Irish Central Committee for the Employment of Women), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.
--valereee (talk) 00:02, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
DYK for Gabrielle Reidy
On 20 March 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gabrielle Reidy, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that at the age of 11, Gabrielle Reidy made her first appearance at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gabrielle Reidy. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Gabrielle Reidy), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.
— Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Sky Brown
Hello! Your submission of Sky Brown 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) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 23:11, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
April 2020 at Women in Red
Online events:
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--Rosiestep (talk) 14:59, 23 March 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
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
- Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
- There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed. [14][15]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 March. It will be on all wikis from 26 March (calendar).
Future changes
- There is a project to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata.
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17:07, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Troy Collings
Hello! Your submission of Troy Collings 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) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 22:23, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Lucien Sève
On 25 March 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Lucien Sève, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Kees08 (Talk) 18:06, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
DYK for Sky Brown
On 28 March 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sky Brown, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that at the age of 10, Sky Brown became the youngest professional skateboarder in the world? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sky Brown. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Sky Brown), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Alfred Gomolka
On 26 March 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Alfred Gomolka, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Joseph2302 (talk) 19:01, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
DYK for Samantha Lowe
On 30 March 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Samantha Lowe, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that English judoka Samantha Lowe was selected, then deselected, then reselected for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and went on to win a gold medal? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Samantha Lowe. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Samantha Lowe), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.
— Maile (talk) 00:01, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The beta version of the Wikipedia app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts. [16]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all wikis from 2 April (calendar).
Future changes
- The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed. [17]
- There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback. [18]
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17:25, 30 March 2020 (UTC)