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Tech News: 2020-46

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

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

  • You can see reference previews. This shows a preview of the footnote when you hover over it. This has been a beta feature. It will move out of beta and be enabled by default. There will be an option not to use it. The developers are looking for small or medium-sized wikis to be the first ones. You can let them know if your wiki is interested. [1]
  • From November 16 the categories will not be sorted in order for a short time. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the internationalisation library. They will use a script to fix the existing categories. This can take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [2][3]

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15:48, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-47

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

  • Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most 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. [4][5]

Changes later this week

  • If you merged two pages in a namespace where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed. [6]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 November. It will be on all wikis from 19 November (calendar).

Future changes

  • The Community Wishlist Survey is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December.

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15:36, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-48

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

Recent changes

  • Timestamps in Special:Log are now links. They go to Special:Log for only that entry. This is how timestamps work on for example the history page. [7]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

  • Advanced item 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 1 December. Unclaimed projects can be deleted from 1 January. [8]

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17:17, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2020-49

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

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 December. It will be on all wikis from 3 December (calendar).

Future changes

  • The iOS Wikipedia app will show readers more of the article history. They can see new updates and easier see how the article has changed over time. This is an experiment. It will first be shown only to some iOS app users as a test. [9][10]
  • Advanced item The Wiki Replicas can be used for SQL queries. You can use Quarry, PAWS or other ways to do this. To make the Wiki Replicas stable there will be two changes. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work. You can also only query a database if you connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. [11]

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17:43, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).

Administrator changes

removed Andrwsc • Anetode • GoldenRing • JzG • LinguistAtLarge • Nehrams2020

Interface administrator changes

added Izno

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 18

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past three months (September, October, and November 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 18th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Updated scripts Twinkle has made a number of improvements, including using a change tag to identify actions made with it and automatically filing edit requests for protected XfD nominations.
SD0001's shortdescs-in-category is now compatible with scripts modifying category listings, such as Equazcion's CatListMainTalkLinks
GhostInTheMachine's TalkHelper2 is a newer version of their prior script, TalkHelper
GeneralNotability's spihelper updated to 2.2.10, fixing a number of small bugs, automatically tagging globally locked socks as such in the sockpuppet template, and restoring open cases following an SPI history merge.
Enterprisey's script-installer gadget has been updated with more internationalization of messages, as well as addition of a user preference, window.scriptInstallerInstallTarget to allow controlling where new scripts are to be installed.

Open tasks

Miscellaneous

My apologies for the delayed issue. As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, --DannyS712 (talk) 18:20, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-50

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

  • You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function. [12][13]

Changes later this week

  • Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki. [14][15]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all wikis from 10 December (calendar).

Future changes

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16:14, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-51

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

Recent changes

  • There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too. [16]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all wikis from 17 December (calendar).

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21:33, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 19

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (December 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 19th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Open tasks

Pending requests Pending requests

Miscellaneous

As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy holidays! --DannyS712 (talk) 00:19, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-52

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 11 January 2021.

Recent changes

  • The {{citation needed}} template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added. [17]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

  • You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
  • Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a <langconvert> tag that can convert a piece of text on a page. [18]
  • Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January. [19]

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20:52, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Email

I'm afraid I can't help you there, I'm not part of that email list. I'm not trying to be evasive here, I'm just not sure who specifically is part of the list so there's really not much help I can offer here. --Yamla (talk) 18:34, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

@Yamla: Thanks for your message. As far as I know all checkusers of the English Wikipedia have access to that queue. I actually found paid-en-wp@wikipedia.org on Wikipedia:Paid-contribution_disclosure#Reporting_undisclosed_paid_editors and Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard. Do you think I should re-send my email to functionaries-en@lists.wikimedia.org or checkuser-en-wp@wikipedia.org instead? 4nn1l2 (talk) 18:51, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
I'd start by resending to paid-en-wp@wikipedia.org and if you don't get a response there, I'd suggest functionaries-en@lists.wikimedia.org. For the latter, please just point to OTRS rather than directly including private data. It probably won't be a problem, but much better to be safe than sorry! :) --Yamla (talk) 19:26, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
@Yamla: One week passed. After I re-sent my email to paid-en-wp@wikipedia.org and then to functionaries-en@lists.wikimedia.org, I have not received any responses yet. Is this normal on enwiki? Sorry for my impatience, but CU data may get lost or become stale in the meantime. Thanks for your attention. 4nn1l2 (talk) 05:08, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 December 2020

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
  • Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.
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Wiki of Functions followup

Hi there, I'm a researcher for the Wikilambda project. Last month we held a naming contest and I'm following up with those who voted to see if you might be willing to provide some feedback to help guide the project.

This would be a 45 minute conversation about your past experience with other Wikimedia projects and thoughts about the future of this new initiative. I'm hoping to gather a wide range of perspectives so I'd be interested in your opinion regardless of whether you plan to have further involvement.

As a way of saying thanks, the research team is offering a $35 gift card (in your local currency) for participation. We could chat by phone or through a website for audio conferencing.

If you're interested just pick a time slot from this calendar link:
https://calendly.com/wikilambda/voter

Hope to hear from you soon!

// jeff (design researcher) (talk) 14:24, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-02

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

  • You can choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed. [20]
  • You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry. [21]
  • Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
    • The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later. [22]
    • Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [23]
    • When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
  • Advanced item There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback. [24]
  • Advanced item Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the watchlist to watch will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [25]
  • Advanced item Scribunto's file metadata now includes length. [26]
  • Advanced item CSS and JavaScript code pages now have link anchors to line numbers. You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50. [27]
  • Recurrent item There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all wikis from 14 January (calendar).

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15:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-03

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

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all wikis from 21 January (calendar).

Future changes

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16:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-04

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

Changes later this week

  • Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [31]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

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18:29, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2019 community sentiment on binding desysop procedure

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2019 community sentiment on binding desysop procedure 4nn1l2 (talk) 10:14, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 January 2021

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2021

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

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Tech News: 2021-05

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

Changes later this week

  • You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [33]
  • Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [34][35]
  • Advanced item Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55 as well as the 1.2.3.4/27 syntax for IP ranges. [36]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Future changes

  • Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more. [37][38]
  • Advanced item Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be 185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can read more.

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22:37, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 20

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (January 2021).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 20th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Open tasks

  • As a reminder, the legacy javascript globals (like accessing wgPageName without first assigning it a value or using mw.config.get('wgPageName') instead) are deprecated. If your user scripts make use of the globals, please update them to use mw.config instead. Some global interface editors or local interface administrators may edit your user script to make these changes if you don't. See phab:T72470 for more.

Miscellaneous

  • For people interested in creating user scripts or gadgets using TypeScript, a types-mediawiki package (GitHub, NPM) is now available that provides type definitions for the MediaWiki JS interface and the API.
  • A GitHub organization has been created for hosting codebases of gadgets. Users who maintain gadgets using GitHub may choose to move their repos to this organization, to ensure continued maintenance by others even if the original maintainer becomes inactive.

Pending requests Pending requests

As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, including nominating a featured script, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy new year! --DannyS712 (talk) 01:17, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-06

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

Changes later this week

  • You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [40]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Future changes

  • When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [41][42]
  • Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [43]
  • Advanced item Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [44]

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17:40, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-07

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

  • There were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned. [45][46]
  • Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [47]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).

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17:54, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-08

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 visual editor will now use MediaSearch to find images. You can search for images on Commons in the visual editor when you are looking for illustrations. This is to help editors find better images. [48]
  • Advanced item The syntax highlighter now works with more languages: Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU. [49]

Problems

  • Editing a timeline might have removed all text from it. This was because of a bug and has been fixed. You might need to edit the timeline again for it to show properly. [50]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 February. It will be on all wikis from 25 February (calendar).

Future changes

  • Advanced item There is a user group for developers and users interested in working on Wikimedia wikis with the Rust programming language. You can join or tell others who want to make your wiki better in the future.

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00:16, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 February 2021

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Tech News: 2021-09

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

  • Wikis using the Growth team tools can now show the name of a newcomer's mentor anywhere through a magic word. This can be used for welcome messages or userboxes.
  • A new version of the VideoCutTool is now available. It enables cropping, trimming, audio disabling, and rotating video content. It is being created as part of the developer outreach programs.

Problems

  • There was a problem with the job queue. This meant some functions did not save changes and mass messages were delayed. This did not affect wiki edits. [51]
  • Some editors may not be logged in to their accounts automatically in the latest versions of Firefox and Safari. [52]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 March. It will be on all wikis from 4 March (calendar).

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19:06, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2021

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

Administrator changes

added TJMSmith
removed Boing! said Zebedee • Hiberniantears • Lear's Fool • Only • WGFinley

Interface administrator changes

added AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
  • When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
  • There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:13, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-10

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

  • Section translation now works on Bengali Wikipedia. It helps mobile editors translate sections of articles. It will come to more wikis later. The first focus is active wikis with a smaller number of articles. You can test it and leave feedback.
  • Flagged revisions now give admins the review right. [53]
  • When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article. [54]

Problems

  • Many graphs have JavaScript errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing. [55]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 March. It will be on all wikis from 11 March (calendar).
  • The New Discussion tool will soon be a new discussion tools beta feature for on most Wikipedias. The goal is to make it easier to start new discussions. [56]

Future changes

  • There will be a number of changes to make it easier to work with templates. Some will come to the first wikis in March. Other changes will come to the first wikis in June. This is both for those who use templates and those who create or maintain them. You can read more.
  • Reference Previews will become a default feature on some wikis on 17 March. They will share a setting with Page Previews. If you prefer the Reference Tooltips or Navigation-Popups gadget you can keep using them. If so Reference Previews won't be shown. [57][58]
  • New JavaScript-based functions will not work in Internet Explorer 11. This is because Internet Explorer is an old browser that doesn't work with how JavaScript is written today. Everything that works in Internet Explorer 11 today will continue working in Internet Explorer for now. You can read more.

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17:50, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

ویکی انبار

درود، سپاسگذارم بابت حمایتتون در ویکی انبار، گویا از من درخواست کردید در ویکی انبار دیگر ویرایش نکنم که صورت گرفت و هیچ ویرایشی دیده نمیشود و اینکه به یک شخص یا اشخاص ایمیل بفرستم که هنوز جوابی دریافت نکردم! (با استفاده از جیمیل صورت گرفت) بنده تساویری از آثار تاریخی قوژذ (قلعه ریگ و مزار پیر قوژد) تهیه کردم و علاقه دارم در ویکی انبار ارسال کنم آیا میتوانید خود مجوز را به من بدهید؟ سپاسگذارم POS78 (talk) 12:41, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

@POS78: I sent you an email 4nn1l2 (talk) 12:47, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
@POS78: pinging agian 4nn1l2 (talk) 12:48, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

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سپاس

سپاس از تشکر شما در ویکی فارسی بابت بحث زاپاس

این دوستانمون ظاهرا بجای اینکه چک کنن، مدیر دیگه اومده میگه من خوندم شما حرفه ای هستید پس زاپاس هستید. اگر بررسی فنی و مستند نکنن با بنیاد ویکی جهت رسیدگی تماس میگیرم.

متاسفم وافعا برای ویک فارسی. حتی روال خود سیاست بررسی رو هم طی نمیکنن.

ممنون

Shahram 18:44, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

@Shahramrashidi: Please enable your email, so that I can respond to you. I don't want to write in Persian here on enwiki. Thanks 4nn1l2 (talk) 09:15, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
Sorry for it. It is done now. Shahram 09:48, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

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Motors

So what is the translation of Mowtowr-e 22 Bahman [fa]? Uncle G (talk) 11:11, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

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Tagging pages for deletion & notices

Hello, 4nn1l2,

Thank you for your work tagging pages for speedy deletion and proposed deletion. However, Carlossuarez46 has retired from the project and has been uninvolved in resolving problems with some of his page creations. Other editors PRODing his articles have stopped posting notices to his talk page and you have my permission to omit these as well while using Twinkle. Just uncheck the notify creator box. Right now, Carlos has over 200 notices on his talk page, mostly page deletion notices, and I don't think it is beneficial to post 200 more. If you have any questions about this, let me know. Thanks again for your help here. Liz Read! Talk! 01:42, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Hello and thank you for message.
Although it makes no difference to me, I will uncheck the box so as not to bother Carlos. 4nn1l2 (talk) 01:48, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Working on the list

User:Alexis Reggae/Articles for locations oh my what a mess 4nn1l2 (talk) 14:34, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

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Need help?

Hi, I read this and this and this and, more generally, tried to get up to date with this whole business. Long story short, how can I help with this cleanup ? I don't speak farsi but I do enjoy mind-numbing repetitive tasks. JBchrch (talk) 16:14, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Hi and thanks for your friendly offer. I think the task is almost done. 4nn1l2 (talk) 07:27, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
First, it has the term mazraeh (farm) in its name.
I don't see anything like "mazraeh" in "Yek Khisheh"? Yek Khisheh is in the third section of User:Alexis Reggae/Articles for locations oh my what a mess. It's eligible for mass-deletion. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 10:32, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
@Alexis Jazz: They are eligible for mass deletion, but they didn't get deleted, and as I said before, I don't want to pester enwiki admins (particulary Xeno) with my deletion requests. Two weeks ago I asked them to delete section 3 of your list, but they didn't. And I thought PRODing may be a quicker way to get ride of them.
Regarding mazraeh, my bad! Copy&paste error! If necessary, I will fix the PROD reasons. Wish there was VFC here on enwiki. 4nn1l2 (talk) 10:54, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
That is a shame.. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 11:21, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

Seriously?

Hello, 4nn1l2,

Did you really PROD over 300 articles on the same day? Do you realize there are only 2 or 3 admins who patrol this area over the course of a day and we have to evaluate each article individually? This will be a full-time job next Saturday. Maybe you could limit yourself to 20-30 PROD'd articles a day out of consideration for the administrators who need to deal with these proposed deletions? I realize that these senseless articles will need to be deleted but there is an actual process that needs to be done after they are tagged. Thank you for your work but please pace yourself and your deletion tagging. Liz Read! Talk! 03:19, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Hello Liz,
Sorry, I'm not very familiar with enwiki bureaucracy. I didn't know that only 2 or 3 admins work on PRODs. (Enwiki has over 1000 admins and only 2 or 3 people patrol in that area regularly!!!)
Could you please have a look at the thread above? Section 3 of User:Alexis Reggae/Articles for locations oh my what a mess (i.e., this section) was eligible for mass-deletion, but it was not deleted despite requests. Maybe you could just delete these 242 articles now and the PROD queue won't get clogged anymore. You can delete them "blindly". [I didn't find a better word, so please don't get upset if the word "blindly" seems uncivil.] Thanks 4nn1l2 (talk) 03:35, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
You could say "without evaluation" in this case. @Liz: if needed and if it's okay with 4nn1l2 I could untag the articles. (though my first choice would be to just delete the articles from section 3, just yell if you need a tool) — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 09:56, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
@Alexis Jazz: To be honest, ‌blindly is not uncivil to me, and if we had this conversation on, say, Commons, I would use this word confidently. But I'm new to enwiki and here is somehow uncharted territory [for me], and I need to watch my steps, so as to avoid trouble.
I don't think removing PROD tags is the best course of action. Let me post again at AN and see if I can find an admin who is willing to delete them directly. I'm still puzzled why enwiki folks are so reluctant to delete junk. Are they afraid of ARBCOM? 🤔 4nn1l2 (talk) 10:48, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
Seems more like enwiki is understaffed in this area. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 11:44, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Hi Liz, Yesterday I PRODed exactly 30 pages (Category:Proposed deletion as of 12 May 2021) and today exactly 40 pages (Category:Proposed deletion as of 13 May 2021). But this limitation of 20-30 pages a day really slows me down. Is there any way that I can deal with this list in one sitting? This list is not comprehensive and only covers two Farsi terms (Mazraeh and Tolombeh), and I should add other terms to the list later.

  • Maybe I can PROD all these pages in one sitting and then manually change the timestamp so that you will deal with 30 pages each day?
  • Or maybe you could increase my limitation to at least 100 PRODed pages a day! (The more, the better.)

Thanks for your consideration 4nn1l2 (talk) 02:07, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

We need a more comprehensive list and consensus so I can unlink pages and they can be mass-deleted. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 05:12, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi Alexis Jazz, I don't PROD all pages listed there blindly. I check every item and only PROD those that have a population of less than 100 people and 20 families. Please note that all abadis listed there are populated and the previous consensus does not apply, so we need a new consenus. But enwiki is highly bureaucratic and building another consensus for mass deletion is more demanding than PRODing individual articles. 4nn1l2 (talk) 11:19, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
Yes, new consensus is what I meant. How many do you think approximately are there? Because I don't know if PROD is really less demanding. While I was unlinking, I was wondering: why did Carlos create all these? I could kinda see creating stubs for villages with at least, say, 500 people. There would be a chance that someone who lives or has lived there would add content to the article, and since article creation can be a hurdle the creation of a stub would help. But what's the point for creating stubs for places where the entire population consists of two men and a dog, or even less than that? I really can't think of any reason beyond editcountitis. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 14:36, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
@Alexis Jazz: Exactly, see the leader-board: Special:Permalink/1018128193. He got the third rank in terms of page creation!
I guess there are about 1000 articles which will be PRODed by me in the next couple of months. Apart from Mazraeh (farm) and Tolombeh (water pump), which are currently on the list (User:4nn1l2/Abadi), three other Farsi terms have high frequency: Bagh (garden), Chah (water well),and Mowtowr (motorized pump). I should find other probable patterns (with fewer frequencies).
But this is not the end of the nightmare. In the near future (≈ two years later), the Iranian government may unveil a plan which assigns new codes to all villages. In this way, a village will be distinguishable from other types of abadi. Then we should delete all abadis and keep all villages. There are about 45,000 villages and 98,000 abadis in Iran (so 53,000 non-village abadis). Enwiki folks say that 70,000 articles have been created on enwiki about Iranian "villages". About 7,500 articles got deleted lately (uninhabited ones). About 1000 articles will be deleted in the current phase based on their title. The rest should be deleted after the Iranian government unveils its list. 4nn1l2 (talk) 17:04, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
They may? It's not certain? Because I have a crazy idea. We go sit on our asses for two years, then get consensus to mass-delete all the abadis in one sweep using the official list. Much less work. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 03:56, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
The Iranian government is generally dysfunctional, so I cannot guarantee anything about its future plans. Heck, we don't even know if a census will be held this year or not! Crippling sanctions have crushed the economy. Who knows? There may be another revolution or coup tomorrow! Assigning unique codes and identifying villages may be just wishful thinking (I just guess that is what they are going to do; no officials have talked about it).
Why am I here editing enwiki? Because these articles are getting imported to fawiki (and probably other wikis) and fawiki admins cannot protect the project by blocking offenders [don't make me talk about fawiki, cause I may want to bang my head against the wall], so I'm trying to reduce the negative effect of enwiki on other wikis. These 1000 articles with Tolombeh, Mowtowr are just a disgrace. 4nn1l2 (talk) 04:14, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
Okay, so not certain. If no officials have talked about it, how can you guess? Is there another indicator that they plan to do that? I understand your point about fawiki, but I suspect the bad wikis have already completed their import. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 12:23, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
Alexis Jazz, this is all I know about their plans. You can read it using Google Translate. They can just publish their list but in a manner that distinguishing a village from an abadi is not possible by ordinary people (just like the way the Iranian Statistical Center publishes the census results).
I'm sure other wikis will create such articles, one of them is azbwiki (Iranian Azerbaijan). 4nn1l2 (talk) 16:57, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

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You think that a few weeks to get rid of untrue stuff is a long time? Try ten years. ☺ Uncle G (talk) 05:41, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion

I've noticed you proposed a bunch of disambiguation pages at once in WP:AfD (e.g. http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Mowtowr-e_Khodadad) which fall under the criteria for speedy deletion WP:G14 (only disambiguates one extant Wikipedia page). Instead of going through AfD you can tag these pages for speedy deletion using {{Db-g14}}. Ideally, as stated in the template, if all these disambiguation pages only link to one article, you can just change them to redirects. Qwaiiplayer (talk) 12:37, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestion. However, they do not fall under the criteria of WP:G14 as that requires the nominated page to disambiguate exactly zero pages: Regardless of title, disambiguation pages that disambiguate zero extant Wikipedia pages.
In order to avoid procedural/bureaucratic issues, I opted for AfD which is considered the safe option.
The redirects should be the other way round, i.e., Mowtowr-e Khodadad, Khash should be moved to Mowtowr-e Khodadad (which is impossible by non-admins).
Nevertheless, I'm done with AfDing Iranian abadis disambiguation pages, so there will be no more nominations by me, hence no concerns. Thanks again. 4nn1l2 (talk) 12:49, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Dealing with disambiguation pages

Hi! Thank you for working to sort out all the abadi articles. I know this is a massive task. I just have a suggestion about handling the left over dab pages. If a dab page has one entry left and it's title does not end in "(disambiguation)", there's usually no need to delete it: you can:

Hi Uanfala, the second bullet is exactly what I wanted. But I guessed that these requests would most probably be contested and further discussion might be needed, so I opted for AfD directly. I'm unfamiliar with enwiki atmosphere, so I may have been wrong.
I'm willing to close all those AfDs and just request to move the pages only if that procedure is less challenging and demanding. To be honest, I prefer not to be dragged into discussions at the moment. Thanks 4nn1l2 (talk) 13:15, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
There's no easier way to get dragged into discussions that starting them yourself :) I don't think there's much to gain by withdrawing the existing AfD nominations. Going forward, however, if you're anticipating many more such cases, it will probably be easier to just compile a list of pages to be moved and then ask an admin to move them, similar to how the deletions were handled. That's probably the most efficient way. To be workable, such a list will need to contain only the most obvious cases – dab pages with only Iranian entries, where all except one are deleted abadi articles. For dab page with even slight complications (having non-Iranian entries like Chahe, or non-empty "see also" sections like Gowd), AfD and PROD remain the better options. – Uanfala (talk) 13:34, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
By discussion, I meant a discussion for mass action (deletion or move) like the one here which took weeks to reach a consensus and months to be finally implemented. I don't mind AfD discussions most of which I anticipate to be soft-closed by the admin without any participation by the community. That being said, I am almost done with AfDing abadi DABs. Thanks 4nn1l2 (talk) 13:43, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
Use Twinkle to tag Db-move. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 18:01, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#G6: For disambiguation pages that disambiguate one or zero pages, see criterion G14. 4nn1l2 (talk) 22:05, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
In this case, the disambig disambiguates one extant Wikipedia page and doesn't end in "(disambiguation)" so G14 doesn't apply. G14 is preferred over G6 if it applies I guess, but if it doesn't I don't see it saying anywhere you can't use G6. If it makes you more comfortable, replace the disambig with a redirect before requesting G6? — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 03:53, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

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Thank you!

Hello, 4nn1l2,

I just wanted to say thank you for sorting through all of these stub articles about towns in Iran. Although it can be overwhelming to face hundreds of similar articles that have been PROD'd, there are several admins who patrol PRODs and it looks like you've taken on identifying these nonessential articles as a solitary activity. These kinds of tasks, tagging hundreds (thousands?) of junk article for deletion, is a rather thankless but necessary job and I just wanted to acknowledge how you have contributed to Wikipedia. Thanks! Liz Read! Talk! 02:31, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

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17:04, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 21

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past four months (February through May 2021).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 21st issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

My apologies for this long-overdue issue, and if I missed any scripts.
Hopefully going forward we can go back to monthly releases - any help would be appreciated. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 13:04, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

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