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Tech News: 2024-28

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Problems

  • A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed.

Future changes

  • The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation explaining how to do the update. Learn more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:29, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Nomination of Anton Rayne for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Anton Rayne, to which you have significantly contributed, is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or if it should be deleted.

The discussion will take place at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anton Rayne until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

To customise your preferences for automated AfD notifications for articles to which you've significantly contributed (or to opt-out entirely), please visit the configuration page. Delivered by SDZeroBot (talk) 01:01, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Edit regarding Davao Christian High School

Hello! I'm currently affiliated with Davao Christian High School and found that you've reverted an edit made by someone around two weeks ago. I'd like to inform you that I'll be adding these changes back considering there has actually been a change in management within the school which the changes you reverted actually addressed. If you do feel the need to state your reasons why you had reverted the said changes, please do inform me. Much thanks. 49.146.47.129 (talk) 17:31, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi there! Welcome to Wikipedia. I appreciate your contributions, but please refrain from adding those details back yourself. Instead, kindly make a COI edit request on the article's talk page. I'd also appreciate it if you could take a moment to read our conflict of interest guidelines and disclose your COI on your user page and the article's talk page before making any edit requests. Thank you! – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:40, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-29

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  • Advanced item Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status page.
  • The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10.
  • Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team. You can read more about this project on Diff blog.
  • Editors who have access to The Wikipedia Library can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation contacted them to restore access. You can read more about this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week.

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Future changes

  • Advanced item Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page. [1]
  • Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload and discussion at Commons:Village Pump.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:28, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

AfD round 2 on Khais Millen

An article that was soft-deleted in 2023 was immediately refunded and is now back at AfD. I am notifying all participants in the 2023 discussion in case any wish to engage again. New AfD is here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Khais Millen (2nd nomination). Thanks! Dclemens1971 (talk) 16:28, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Review

Hi, Can you please review my pages Emagadhagan ,Jama (film),14 (film),Monisha Blessy Monhiroe (talk) 15:22, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

@Monhiroe, thank you for creating these articles. I have gone ahead and marked Emagadhagan and Jama (film) as reviewed. 14 (film) was already reviewed. I didn't review the last one because I usually don't review biographies upon request. – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:37, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
Thank you Monhiroe (talk) 15:39, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

alternate account

In replying to this discussion, I wanted to see what it was that you claimed to have done. Surprisingly Special:Contributions/DreamRimmer showed nothing. So I looked at your userpage. No mention of alternate or other user accounts that you use. I even looked at the Special:Contributions/BaranBOT; nothing there either.

To learn what it was that you have done, I had to do a search for "Premier Atlas of the World" and then, one-by-one, look at the histories of the articles listed in the search results until I discovered one history that showed a recent edit by User:DreamRimmer Alt.

Editors should not have to do what I had to do in order to discover what you did. Please link to your alternate account(s) from your user page.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 14:28, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

@Trappist the monk, I have already mentioned these accounts here when I created them. I am sorry if you had trouble finding them. I'll make sure to add them to my user page now so that folkscan easily spot them. – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:46, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
Thank you. Nothing links to User:DreamRimmer/Discloser except this discussion so finding it would have been equally problematic; see Special:WhatLinksHere/User:DreamRimmer/Discloser. Did you really mean to use 'Discloser' (a person who discloses) instead of 'Disclosure' (3. That which is disclosed; a previously hidden fact or series of facts that is made known.)?
—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:47, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
I have now added this to my user page. The third line is just a note, posted on the same day. (I was talking about the third point on the User:DreamRimmer/Discloser page.) – DreamRimmer (talk) 16:05, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
Umm, what? You said that you have already mentioned these accounts here when I created them. I noted that [nothing] links to User:DreamRimmer/Discloser except this discussion so finding it would have been equally problematic. You then reply I have now added this to my user page. Not obvious because at this writing there has only been one edit to your user page today and still only this discussion links to User:DreamRimmer/Discloser. What do you really mean by this post? How is what you said there different from what you said at this post?
—Trappist the monk (talk) 16:40, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
@Trappist the monk, sorry for the confusion. What I meant was that I mentioned my bot and my alt account on a subpage when I created them. When you mentioned having trouble finding that alt account, I said that I have now added that account to my userpage.
Both of my accounts are now listed on my userpage, so this subpage is no longer necessary, and you can ignore it. – DreamRimmer (talk) 16:57, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
Roger that; thank you.
—Trappist the monk (talk) 17:14, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

Request review

Hi

I have worked on a new article around a show that releases tomorrow.

It is called Bahishkarana. It is a Telugu language show.

Request you to have a look into it.

Thank you Filmy World (talk) 18:04, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

Can I join your NPP training class?

Hi DreamRimmer, I recently got my NPP rights and made some mistakes with tagging. I saw on the NPP school page that you are available as a trainer in the Indian Standard Time zone. I am eager to learn and improve so I can get back to NPP. Would you be willing to train me? Charlie (talk) 03:17, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

@CharlieMehta, thanks for reaching out! I will set up your training page and will ping you there sometime today or tomorrow. – DreamRimmer (talk) 08:29, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
@DreamRimmer thank you. Charlie (talk) 10:45, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
Hey @CharlieMehta, sorry about the delay in your training. I got caught up with something, but I'll make sure to set up your training page tomorrow. – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:24, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
Thank you. I have reduced the pace of my NPP reviews and eagerly look forward to finishing this training with your assistance. Charlie (talk) 17:35, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
@CharlieMehta User:DreamRimmer/NPP-School/CharlieMehta – DreamRimmer (talk) 04:44, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
@DreamRimmer thank you. I am on to it. Charlie (talk) 11:59, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

July thanks

story · music · places

Thank you for improving article quality in July! - Today's story is about a photographer who took iconic pictures, especially View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11, yesterday's was a great mezzo, and on Thursday we watched a sublime ballerina. If that's not enough my talk offers chamber music from two amazing concerts. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:16, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2024-30

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

Feature News

  • Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
  • Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [2]
  • Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. [3]
  • Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
  • Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons. [4]

Project Updates

  • Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.

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  • Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff.
  • How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin and Add a Fact, to help take Wikimedia into the future.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:02, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Renames for outrageously libelous usernames

I asked about this at WP:BN a while ago and everyone just kind of shrugged and said "not our jurisdiction". Well, I see that you are processing a bunch of rename requests, so I figure I will ask you directly: what's the deal with these usernames? <-- See HTML note here with a few of them I found using SQL (e.g. "JIMBOWALES IS A NECRO-BESTIA-PEDOPHILIAC"), spanning the wide toilet language-ethnic slur continuum, et cetera. Is there anything we can do about this crap? jp×g🗯️ 10:05, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

@JPxG, I haven't come across these types of usernames while processing rename requests. Global renamers can't really do much about them. Outrageously libelous usernames can be hide locked, so I think hide locking is the best solution for those cases. However, just having a swear word or slur in a username isn't necessarily libelous. Generally, if a username has text that would qualify for oversight, it should be hide locked. I'm not sure if any of the mentioned usernames meet this criteria, so it would be best to ask the stewards. – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:22, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Hmm. What the heck is a hide lock -- is there a page for that somewhere? I guess I will go mosey towards the stews then... jp×g🗯️ 13:24, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Locking and suppressing. See meta:Steward requests/Global#Requests for global (un)lock and (un)hiding. – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:31, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Don't the oversighters also have a hide username button ? Or am I hallucinating ? Sohom (talk) 13:40, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
They do, and we do as admins, but it's only for actions (edit, pagemove, etc). I can even revdel a name from an action done to it, I'm pretty sure (e.g. I can edit the block log entry to not show the user's name) -- but none of this actually changes the name of the account, so User:JPxG IS A NECRO-BESTIA-PEDOPHILIAC will still show up in Special:ListUsers and the user creation log et cetera. jp×g🗯️ 13:45, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
http://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=5417192 has the username deleted. But then if you go to the user's page they are still blocked. It's just... the log entry is defaced? God, this is so inane and cursed. Yeah, so -- I think it has to be something central. jp×g🗯️ 13:54, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Stewards have the centralauth-suppress right to suppress or hide global accounts, while Oversighters have the hideuser right to block or unblock a username, hiding or unhiding it from the public. I don't think hideuser is for suppressing a user account, or maybe it is for suppressing a local account. However, since these are global accounts, the centralauth-suppress right is the one that can do this. – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:51, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Yeah, I'm not sure how hideuser interacts with centralauth-suppress, maybe there is some weird interaction that restricts this right to only stewards (and I really don't wanna setup CentralAuth locally to test it out) Sohom (talk) 14:02, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-31

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  • Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.

Bugs status

  • Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
  • Editors can use the IP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

  • There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
  • There is an update on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Czech (voy:cs:) [5]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:08, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

DCWC August update

The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest has now been running for a month, and we've already seen some momentous improvement in the quality of many articles about underrepresented subjects! So far, our top-scoring participants are:

Looking for ways to climb up the leaderboard yourself? Help out your fellow participants by answering a few review requests, particularly the older entries. Several more nominations needing attention are listed at eligible reviews, and highlighed entries receive a 1.5× multiplier! The coordinators would like to extend a special thanks to Thebiguglyalien (submissions) for his commitment to keeping these review pages up to date.

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or ask one of the coordinators: Ixtal (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 14:24, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-32

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  • Advanced item Two new parser functions will be available this week: {{#dir}} and {{#bcp47}}. These will reduce the need for Template:Dir and Template:BCP47 on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania. [6][7]
  • Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Wikipedia: or Wikisource: namespaces) if they understand the known limitations. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools in these namespaces.
  • The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.

Project updates

  • Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.
  • Advanced item The new parser is being rolled out on Wikivoyage wikis over the next few months. The English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikivoyage were switched to Parsoid last week. For more information, see Parsoid/Parser Unification.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:41, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Thanks for your efforts for reviewing articles on request and helping new users to overcome their difficulties. BhikhariInformer (talk) 10:31, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
Thank you! @BhikhariInformer – DreamRimmer (talk) 10:43, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Collab

Hey, interested in any collab for GA or FA? — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 06:41, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

IAU designated constellations is something I'm working on for FL. Got it PRed. I'm not sure if it's up your alley, but lemme know if you wanna collab with that or any other article. Thanks. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 06:44, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
@The Herald, I am definitely interested, but I am currently tied up with some real-life stuff. I will be back to regular editing after 25 August. If that timing works for you, I can join then. – DreamRimmer (talk) 10:42, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
Yea, sure. I'll be going for a holiday next week and will be back by August 20ish. So it's okay. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 12:22, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

readded Isabelle Belato
removed

Interface administrator changes

readded Izno

CheckUser changes

removed Barkeep49

Technical news

  • Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
  • Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:59, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Submission of Darft for Article Space

Dear @DreamRimmer Please check and approve Draft:Ajay Kumar Jha as and when your time permits. Amanatadverse17 (talk) 11:16, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

@Amanatadverse17: A reviewer has shared some feedback on your draft. Please take their suggestions into account and make the necessary improvements. If you have any questions or need help, don’t hesitate to reach out. – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:57, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
Thank you DreamRimmer, for your contributions, efforts to wikimedia. Youknow? (talk) 10:43, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

BAGBot: Your bot request BaranBOT 2

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Tech News: 2024-33

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:19, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

Project Editor Retention

Thanks so much for joining our little corner of Wikipedia. I will return shortly with the Official Rules of Decorum, a gold embossed memdbership card {only $24.95 cash only) and a nice pin (also $24.95) for your new blazer (only $124.95). TA! Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 13:16, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

Just kidding of course. Welcome. Always love enlarging the circle! Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 13:18, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
@Buster7, I came across this project a while back and really liked it. When I noticed your block yesterday and saw you were feeling down about this week's award distribution, I thought I could step in and help out since I handle a similar kind of awards distribution (though not quite the same). It’s great to see you back, and I appreciate your message. I’ll do my best to help wherever I can, and thanks for all the amazing work you’ve done! – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:37, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
Check out the Wikipedia:The admin baton which is something that @Hey man im josh: suggested. Isaacl pitched in that if it happens it needs to come from Editor of the Week rather than Editor Retention. Back Burner for a while? Nomination and SUPPORT are always welcome. Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 03:39, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
No, what I said is that I originally thought you were referring to new members of the editor retention WikiProject, but I was mistaken, since you linked to the membership of the Editor of the Week initiative. (My suggestion was to post periodic welcomes on the Editor of the Week talk page, asking new members to find new nominations.) isaacl (talk) 06:58, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from TriggercyLa (12:28, 13 August 2024)

how to wrewrite username? --TriggercyLa (talk) 12:28, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

@TriggercyLa, I assume you want to change your username. If so, you can request a rename here. – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:46, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2024-34

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

Feature news

  • Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
  • Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. [10]
  • Advanced item Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the categories property of mw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [11][12]

Bugs status

  • Advanced item Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with Talk:WP: so that their titles start with Wikipedia talk:), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388.
  • Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

  • The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.

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  • The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
  • The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:50, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

New pages patrol September 2024 Backlog drive

New pages patrol | September 2024 Backlog Drive
  • On 1 September 2024, a one-month backlog drive for new pages patrol will begin.
  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled.
  • Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive.
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Tech News: 2024-35

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

Feature news

  • Advanced item Administrators can now test the temporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
  • Later this week, editors at wikis that use FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface. [13]

Bugs status

  • Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, will no longer experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

  • Wishlist item Please review and vote on Focus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

removed Pppery

Interface administrator changes

removed Pppery

Oversighter changes

removed Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

removed

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Tech News: 2024-36

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

Weekly highlight

  • Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help to test the charts.

Feature news

  • Editors who use the Special:UnusedTemplates page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements. [14]
  • Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
  • Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now. [15]
  • Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu.

Project updates

  • A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.

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The Signpost: 4 September 2024

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DCWC September update

The Developing Countries WikiContest has now been running for two months, and we've seen tremendous improvement in the encyclopedic coverage of several underrepresented areas from a wide range of editors! The coordinators would like to highlght some of the newer faces who have been making notable contributions in the contest, including but by no means limited to:

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Blanked user page?

I'm not sure why you blanked User:Ajay2287. The prior contents described the user and their interests as they related to Wikipedia editing. This is the very definition of what a user page should be used for. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 15:49, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

@WikiDan61, You are right; the user seems to be a good-faith editor. I ended up blanking their userpage because most of its content felt more like self-promotion rather than neutral info about themselves. Although, the last two sections were fine. I've never used a blank template on other userpages before, but I did here because I was a bit unsure about just blanking the page completely. I wanted them to see the policy I mentioned in the edit summary and read the notice I left on their userpage so they could make the necessary changes. – DreamRimmer (talk) 16:09, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Renames

Hello, DreamRimmer,

When you are renaming editors, please leave a redirect from their old User pages to their new ones unless it is a Courtesy Vanishing. If you have doubts about this, please check with other renamers. But this is how it's always been done. Otherwise, we are left with a lot of broken redirects especially if the editor has more than one username change. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 18:13, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Liz, I always keep redirects when I rename users, but I make exceptions for cases like courtesy vanishing or when a rename is requested for privacy reasons. – DreamRimmer (talk) 18:25, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Developing replacement patterns

Ways back in this discussion you said you might help if I could develop a list of files and replacement patterns. I don't have JWB access, which is the tool I'm aware of that would let me work on that. Do you know of another way? Perhaps an impotent version of JWB that would let me generate lists and preview changes but not actually do any edits? Or some script that would manage sets of regexes? Dicklyon (talk) 16:08, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

I am familiar with AWB/JWB, but I am not sure if there are any other tools that could help with this. – DreamRimmer (talk) 18:33, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-37

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

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  • Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page. [17][18]
  • Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions entity:getSitelink() and mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [19]

Project updates

  • Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [20]
  • Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new MOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with MOS: (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language code mos). [21]

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Administrator Elections: Updates & Schedule

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AFC stats

Can we move the AFC stats graph to a subpage to avoid having a bot notification every day? It's a minor enough change that it won't need any formal approval or anything. (please do not ping on reply) Primefac (talk) 10:29, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

I have moved the graph to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/stats page and transcluded it on WT:AFC. My apologies for not confirming the page name with you before creating it. – DreamRimmer (talk) 11:08, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
No worries, I guess I just figured it would be updated somewhere and transcluded since that's what I've seen in other places. Thanks for the change. Primefac (talk) 11:48, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

Backlog drive removal

Hi, you just removed me from the NPP backlog drive participation list (and got reverted by Josh). May I ask if this was accidental or if you see any reason to do so? Regards ...GELongstreet (talk) 17:07, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

@GELongstreet, my bad! I use a script that displays users' permissions next to their names, and it updates daily. When I removed you, it didn't show your permission badge, so I assumed you weren't an NPR. Sorry about that, I should have double-checked your permissions manually. – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:24, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
Okay. No worries, all good, just wanted to be sure. Indeed got the permission just earlier today after requesting it (my previous stint with RC/NP editing was a decade ago). Thanks for clarifying. ...GELongstreet (talk) 17:35, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

User renames

Hello, DreamRimmer,

When you rename an editor, like User:Taskyn7, you need to move all of their user pages to the new username so the pages at the old username don't show up for speedy deletion as nonexistent user pages. I moved this editor's User page to Draft space but this is a necessary step you must take when doing any editor username rename. Please don't forget to do this in the future. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 20:48, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

Liz, we renamers do not manually move user pages; this is done automatically by the rename script. There is an option called 'Move user pages' that is checked by default, and I never uncheck it when renaming a user. It may be an issue with the rename script. I process hundreds of requests per week and have never left user pages behind. – DreamRimmer (talk) 00:58, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

Re: Edits made to the page of Suresh Prabhu

Hi DreamRimmer,

Thank you for your review of the edits I made yesterday - I am working on the issues that you pointed out and rewriting the same, especially wrt Wiki's BLP policy.

Post your edit, I have removed all matter that had no verifiable and reliable sources of information (several links were non-existent)/overly descriptive, "peacock" in nature. This page still needs a lot of work. something which I hope to help with as and when I find time.

In the meantime if you wish to discuss the changes I made this morning then do let me know :-)

Cheers

T4I Truth4India (talk) 01:50, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks so much for the AfD cleanup

if I can ever be of help, don't hesitate to reach out unless it's tech related ;-) Star Mississippi 03:05, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

Sure, thanks for the kind words :) – DreamRimmer (talk) 03:31, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

User:BaranBOT/Task 1/Drives/2024-09 New Page Patrol/leaderboard

Hi.DreamRimmer , I reviewed after completely renaming of my user account to new username this page and my old data are zero but I'm earned 90+ point during the time, but now it's is zero, what that means?If this a fault then I hope you fixing this probelm via bot as soon as possible. Happy editing! --- Bhairava7 • (@píng mє-tαlk mє) 12:35, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

Your points were updated in the last bot run. – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:48, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for update my points. Happy editing!--- Bhairava7 • (@píng mє-tαlk mє) 13:49, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
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