User talk:Nyakase/2021/December

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Tech News: 2021-48

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 30 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 December. It will be on all wikis from 2 December (calendar).

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21:14, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).

Administrator changes

A Train • Berean Hunter • Epbr123 • GermanJoe • Sanchom • Mysid

Technical news

Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)

Arbitration

Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:25, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-49

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 December. It will be on all wikis from 9 December (calendar).
At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at Special:MentorDashboard. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project.
The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API (which was created in 2008), action=ajax, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module. [1]
An old ResourceLoader module, jquery.jStorage, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to mediawiki.storage instead. [2]

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21:58, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Question from Skilletgamingtv (19:29, 9 December 2021)

I had a link I attached to my hometowns page removed. Someone removed it and stated it was against guidelines. I was confused it was a site ran by a part of the city. --Skilletgamingtv (talk) 19:29, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi Skilletgamingtv, and welcome! I assume this was removed due to the first reason in our Links to avoid policy. I don't expect you to read it, it's a bit long, so here's what it says:

Any site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a featured article. In other words, the site should not merely repeat information that is already or should be in the article.

Thank you for your contribution nonetheless! Best wishes, Vukky^Talk _Guestbook 08:41, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Question from Ron M. in AB on Jerry Potts (23:17, 9 December 2021)

Hello. I would humbly like to make a correction that the rifle in the photo of Jerry Potts is an 1873 not 1866 winchester. The side plates of the rifle's receiver show distinctly in the photo. Also, the 1866 fired .44 Henry. The 1873 fired .44-40 or as Winchester originally called it, .44WCF (winchester central fire) which would make a lot more sense as it's the same cartridge as his hand guns. Love Wikipedia and have a nice day. --Ron M. in AB (talk) 23:17, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi Ron M. in AB, and welcome! This is a correction that you can make yourself, as anyone can contribute to Wikipedia. Just press the "edit" button on the article or a section. Keep in mind that this may be easier to do on a computer instead of a phone. Best wishes, Vukky^Talk _Guestbook 08:33, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Thank you Vukky, you're awesome. Ron M. in AB (talk) 10:01, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Maybe I AM in your wiki rewriting your URLs???

Syskerr91 (talk) 09:34, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Syskerr91, isn't this the one I gave you? Why are you returning it back? How rude... File:Sad Vukky.png Best wishes, Vukky^Talk _Guestbook 09:59, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Favour returned:

Done Syskerr91 (talk) 10:06, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Question from Lakshya Saurabh (13:37, 12 December 2021)

Hello,I wanted to ask that can you tell me what wikipedia does --Lakshya Saurabh (talk) 13:37, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Lakshya Saurabh, hello and welcome to Wikipedia! Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that anyone can read for free. Unlike many other encyclopedias, anyone with an internet connection can contribute to it, which is often called a "Wiki". Hence the name Wikipedia, a combination of "Wiki" and "Encyclopedia". Best wishes, Vukky^Talk _Guestbook 14:01, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Question from Young money(aymoney) (23:06, 12 December 2021)

Hi How u doing --Young money(aymoney) (talk) 23:06, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Question from Young money(aymoney) on User:Young money(aymoney) (23:12, 12 December 2021)

Hello --Young money(aymoney) (talk) 23:12, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Young money(aymoney), hello and welcome! Do you need help with anything? Best wishes, Vukky^Talk _Guestbook 06:25, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Signature Fix

Hey it's me, the one who helped make your signature. I've gotten a little more experience since I made yours and I've noticed something that could be an issue. When you make a post on a talk page, your signature leaves a little gap of white space before the date and time. This is an issue with the way that I programmed the signature. If you replace the part that says "right:21q" with "margin-right:-21q" this whitespace will not be there and look better. Here is the resulting the difference:

Old signature : Vukky^Talk _Guestbook 14:51, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

New signature: Vukky^Talk _Guestbook 14:51, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Here is the changed code if you'd like to use this:

[[User:Vukky|Vukky]][[User talk:Vukky|Talk]][[User:Vukky/Guestbook|Guestbook]]

If you have any issues or questions, please let me know. Thanks, ― Levi_OP^Talk 14:51, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Levi OP, oh! I noticed that earlier, but I couldn't figure out why. Thanks! Best wishes, Vukky^Talk _Guestbook 16:16, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-50

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

There are now default short aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis, [[WB:]] will go to the local language default for the [[Project:]] namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via the usual process. [3]

Changes later this week

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

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22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Question from KingAviationKid (19:51, 16 December 2021)

Can BlazeTheWolf be my mentor instead? --KingAviationKid (talk) 19:51, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

KingAviationKid, sure! Blaze The Wolf, would you mind heading over to Special:ClaimMentee? Best wishes, Vukky^Talk _Guestbook 19:53, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

@Vukky: _{How odd, we have the same colors in our signatures} Yep I can do that. ― Blaze The Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 19:54, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Blaze The Wolf, not exactly on purpose! It's Vukky blue, which looks pretty similar. Best wishes, Vukky^Talk _Guestbook 19:57, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

_{Ah makes sense. I had to add myself to the list of mentors since I was one previously but had my name removed since I wasn't ready to be one yet. I feel that I'm ready to be a mentor now, and I feel like I Kinda have to become one now since the user is requesting I be their mentor. ― Blaze The Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 19:59, 16 December 2021 (UTC)}

MoreLove script

Hey! So uh.. what does your MoreLove script add to the WikiLove thing? ― Blaze The Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 20:24, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Blaze The Wolf, you can see that in the source code. A lot of new cat pictures, a few food items, and the ability to reload the kitten/goat images if you don't like the ones it loaded. Best wishes, Vukky^Talk _Guestbook 20:26, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Ah alright! I went to see what new ones it added and I was like, "Wait.. I don't see anything different". Thanks for telling me! ― Blaze The Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 20:28, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Question from Parthgohil99 on Draft:Parth Gohil (20:01, 17 December 2021)

how to save draft? --Parthgohil99 (talk) 20:01, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Parthgohil99, hello and welcome! It looks like you managed to save the draft successfully without my assistance, but it was deleted due to Wikipedia policies. Writing an article about yourself is not recommended, and if you do, you need reliable sources to back your claims up (not including yourself!) and as such the page was deleted. It is possible to recover it, but you should see if you have any reliable sources on your subject first. Best wishes, Vukky^Talk _Guestbook 20:36, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-51

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News

Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 10 January 2022.

Recent changes

Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (<DynamicPageList>) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis. [4]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February. [5]

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22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Question from Me an u wow on Help:Getting started (04:42, 23 December 2021)

Hello --Me an u wow (talk) 04:42, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22

Hello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Featured script

LuckyRename, by Alexis Jazz, is this month's featured script. LuckyRename makes requesting file moves easier, and automates the many steps in file moving (including automatic replacement of existing usage). Give it a shot!

Updated scripts

SD0001: hide-reverted-edits has been updated to take into account changes in reversion tools like Twinkle and RedWarn.
Writ Keeper: massRollback.js has added a rollback-some option (missed in last issue).
ClaudineChionh: SkinSwitcher (a fork and update of Eizen's script) provides an options menu/toolbox/toolbar allowing users to view a given page in MediaWiki's default skins.

Pending requests

Mass-patrolling at Special:NewPages
Taking up the mantle of an almost completed peer review javascript bot
Restore the Wikipedia Citation Tool for Google Books
Autohighlighting specific characters (Greek)
...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Miscellaneous

Wikipedia:User scripts/Ranking is a sortable table of Wikipedia's thousand-or-so most commonly used scripts; it includes their author, last modification date, installation count, and sometimes a short description.
Toolhub is a community managed catalog of software tools used in the Wikimedia movement. Technical volunteers can use Toolhub to document the tools that they create or maintain. All Wikimedians can use Toolhub to search for tools to help with their workflows and to create lists of useful tools to share with others.

New scripts

Ahecht:
- draft-sorter sorts AfC drafts by adding WikiProject banners to their talk pages. It supersedes User:Enterprisey/draft-sorter, adding a few features and fixing some bugs.
- massmove, a modified User:Plastikspork/massmove.js that adds a link to the left column, allows adding and removing both prefixes and suffixes.
- watchlistcleaner removes missing pages (redlinks), redirects, pages you haven't edited recently, and/or pages you've never edited from your watchlist.
Awesome Aasim:
- Infiniscroll adds infinite scrolling to user contributions, page histories, and log pages.
- Quick create allows for the fast creation of red-linked pages with two clicks.
Caburum:
- UTCclock adds a clock displaying the current UTC time.
Chlod:
- CopiedTemplateEditor, mainly for CCI case handlers, allows graphically editing a talk page's {{copied}} templates.
DaxServer:
- BooksToSfn adds a portlet link in Visual Editor's source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one {{cite book}} inside a <ref>...</ref> tag block into an {{Sfn}}.
FlightTime:
- OneClickArchiver is a custom version of User:Technical_13/Scripts/OneClickArchiver which doesn't prepend {{Clear}} to the top of each section on the archive page.
Jon Harald Søby:
- diffedit enables editing directly from viewing a diff "when, for instance, you notice a tiny mistake deep into an article, and don't want to edit the entire article and re-find that one line to fix that tiny mistake".
- warnOnLargeFile warns you if you're about to open a very large file (width/height >10,000px or file size >100 MB) from a file page.
JPxG:
- PressPass adds a collection of tools for Newspapers.com including configurable automatic citation generation in five different formats.
- CurrentSwitcher gives you links on the contribs page to hide duplicate entries, current revisions, rollbacks, huggles, twinkles, and redwarns.
- TrackSum lets you automatically sum the lengths of tracks in templates like {{track listing}} and get total runtimes.
Nardog:
- CopySectLink adds a button to copy the unencoded page title or section path next to each heading.
- IPAInput allows you to type in IPA symbols by directly looking at an IPA key like Help:IPA/English and clicking on the symbols.
- TemplatePreviewGuard warns when you try to use "Preview page with this template" with a page that doesn't transclude the template.
NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh:
- ContribsTabVector adds "Contributions" and "Statistics" tabs to user and user talk pages on the Vector skin.
- CopyvioChecker adds a "CopyvioCheck" tab to all pages, except Special (Vector skin only).
- LiveDiffLink is a version of Equazcion's LiveDiffLink which shows a wikilink instead of a URL.
- QuickDiff (by OneTwoThreeFall at Fandom) lets you quickly view any diff link on a wiki, whether on Recent Changes, contribs pages, history pages, the diff view itself, or elsewhere. For more information, view its page on Fandom.
Novem Linguae:
- DetectSNG scans a list of 1,600 SNG keywords and displays them at the top of the article.
- NotSoFast highlights recently created articles in the new pages feed, to discourage patrolling them too quickly.
- UserRightsDiff concisely displays what perm was added or removed when viewing Special:UserRights.
- VoteCounter displays a rough count of keeps and deletes at XFDs, RFCs, etc.
- WatchlistAFD automatically watchlists the AFDs of any pages you AFC accept or NPP patrol, to help you calibrate your reviewing.
P.T.Đ:
- TwinkleMobile enables Twinkle on mobile view (Minerva skin).
Qwerfjkl:
- editRedirect adds a → link after redirects to edit them.
- RegExTypoFix, a script for fixing typos, is a wrapper for User:Joeytje50/RETF.js.
- talkback creates links after user talk page links like this: |C|TB (with the first linking to the user's contributions, and the latter giving the option of sending a {{talkback}} notice). It also adds a [copy] link next to section headers.
Rublov:
- diff-link shows "copy" links on history and contributions pages that copy an internal link to the diff (e.g., Special:Diff/1026402230) to your clipboard when clicked.
Rummskartoffel:
- auto-watchlist-expiry automatically watchlists every page you edit for a user-definable duration (you can still pick a different time using the dropdown, though).
- generate pings generates the wikitext needed to ping all members of a category, up to 50 editors (the limit defined by MediaWiki).
- share ExpandTemplates url allows for easy sharing of your inputs to Special:ExpandTemplates. It adds a button that, when clicked, copies a shareable URL to your exact invocation of the page, like this. Other editors do not need to have this script installed in order to access the URL generated.
- show tag names shows the real names of tags next to their display names in places such as page revision histories or the watchlist.
Tol:
- VisualEditor Citation Needed adds a button (under "Insert") in VisualEditor to add a {{citation needed}} tag.
Venkat TL:
- ColourContrib color-codes the user contributions page so that pages you've edited last are sharply distinguished from pages where another editor was the last to edit the page.
Vukky:
- StatusChanger is a fork of Enterprisey's Status Changer, which adds a UI to the script. (using Morebits, so you'll need to have Twinkle enabled to use it).

All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp×g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp×g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)