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Books & Bytes – Issue 48

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Issue 48, November – December 2021

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Tech News: 2022-06

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

  • English Wikipedia recently set up a gadget for dark mode. You can enable it there, or request help from an interface administrator to set it up on your wiki (instructions and screenshot).
  • Category counts are sometimes wrong. They will now be completely recounted at the beginning of every month. [1]

Problems

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 February. It will be on all wikis from 10 February (calendar).

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21:14, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-07

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Recent changes

  • Purging a category page with fewer than 5,000 members will now recount it completely. This will allow editors to fix incorrect counts when it is wrong. [2]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 February. It will be on all wikis from 17 February (calendar).
  • Advanced item In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function has been updated so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [3]

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19:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

WP:AFC Helper News

Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.

  • AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
  • The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:59, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-08

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Recent changes

  • Special:Nuke will now provide the standard deletion reasons (editable at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown) to use when mass-deleting pages. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [4]
  • At Wikipedias, all new accounts now get the Growth features by default when creating an account. Communities are encouraged to update their help resources. Previously, only 80% of new accounts would get the Growth features. A few Wikipedias remain unaffected by this change. [5]
  • You can now prevent specific images that are used in a page from appearing in other locations, such as within PagePreviews or Search results. This is done with the markup class=notpageimage. For example, [[File:Example.png|class=notpageimage]]. [6]
  • There has been a change to the HTML of Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory, and History pages, to support the grouping of changes by date in the mobile skin. While unlikely, this may affect gadgets and user scripts. A list of all the HTML changes is on Phabricator.

Events

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  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 February. It will be on all wikis from 24 February (calendar).

Future changes

  • The software to play videos and audio files on pages will change soon on all wikis. The old player will be removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [7][8]
  • Toolforge's underlying operating system is being updated. If you maintain any tools there, there are two options for migrating your tools into the new system. There are details, deadlines, and instructions on Wikitech. [9]
  • Administrators will soon have the option to delete/undelete the associated "talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option will also be available. This was a request from the 2021 Wishlist Survey.

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19:10, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

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Skepticism and coordinated editing proposed decision posted

The proposed decision in the Skepticism and coordinated editing has been posted. Please review the proposed decision and draw the arbitrators' attention to any relevant material or statements. Comments may be brought to the attention of the committee on the proposed decision talk page. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:00, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

February 2022

How was it not?! It’s the truth I don’t think you understand this website — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.235.37.185 (talk) 04:46, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

The "steroid user" part was completely true about Jose Canseco, and he did plead no contest to a domestic violence related charge. [10] But the phrasing could imply that he currently uses steroids (plus that information is already at the end of the lede; it mentions he uses performance enhancing drugs), and a loaded term like "wife beater" isn't an appropriate description of what he did. The better thing would be to add something at the end that says he pled "no contest" to a domestic violence charge, though I don't think this is important enough information to include in the lede unless many different sources have remarked upon it. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 04:52, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Do you think of my comments as patronizing?

I note this comment, that would be true if I didn’t mean that wholeheartedly. On two occasions at RFA I have swayed my support/oppose based on a rationale you proffered. To be honest, except when I deem the candidate beyond worthy, I intentionally(maybe subconsciously?) wait for your rationale prior making a decision, thus when I say I respect you, I really do, 0 flattery, just sheer honesty. Celestina007 (talk) 22:09, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

@Celestina007: For whatever reason I didn't see this until now. The phrasing "I knew I could count on your intellectual prowess to do the right thing" was a little over the top for me haha. I was somewhat shocked when I read it. I'm somewhat surprised to hear you say what you said given I haven't commented on that many RfAs and don't really hear from many other editors that they are aware of me and what I am doing. These 52 talk page archives are almost all RfC notifications and newsletters that I need to cull into some sort of separate stream. I am glad to hear that what you said was meant sincerely and I hope to do better in the future. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 05:02, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

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I’m sorry if I was needlessly harsh at AN/I

You were probably right, there was nothing out of order. Dronebogus (talk) 06:51, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

This Month in Education: February 2022

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This Month in Education

Volume 11 • Issue 2 • February 2022

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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIV, February 2022

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Tech News: 2022-09

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

  • When searching for edits by change tags, e.g. in page history or user contributions, there is now a dropdown list of possible tags. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [11]
  • Mentors using the Growth Mentor dashboard will now see newcomers assigned to them who have made at least one edit, up to 200 edits. Previously, all newcomers assigned to the mentor were visible on the dashboard, even ones without any edit or ones who made hundred of edits. Mentors can still change these values using the filters on their dashboard. Also, the last choice of filters will now be saved. [12][13]
  • The user group oversight was renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. You may need to update any local references to the old name, e.g. gadgets, links to Special:Listusers, or uses of NUMBERINGROUP.

Problems

  • The recent change to the HTML of tracking changes pages caused some problems for screenreaders. This is being fixed. [14]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

  • Working with templates will become easier. Several improvements are planned for March 9 on most wikis and on March 16 on English Wikipedia. The improvements include: Bracket matching, syntax highlighting colors, finding and inserting templates, and related visual editor features.
  • If you are a template developer or an interface administrator, and you are intentionally overriding or using the default CSS styles of user feedback boxes (the classes: successbox, messagebox, errorbox, warningbox), please note that these classes and associated CSS will soon be removed from MediaWiki core. This is to prevent problems when the same class-names are also used on a wiki. Please let us know by commenting at phab:T300314 if you think you might be affected.

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22:58, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Skepticism and coordinated editing closed

An arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:

  • Rp2006 (talk · contribs) is warned against a battleground mentality and further incivility.
  • Rp2006 is indefinitely topic banned from edits related to living people associated with or of interest to scientific skepticism, broadly construed. This topic ban may be appealed after six months have elapsed and every six months thereafter.
  • A. C. Santacruz (talk · contribs) is reminded to remain collegial in editing and interacting with others.
  • Roxy the dog (talk · contribs) is warned to remain collegial in editing and interacting with others.
  • GSoW is advised that a presence on English Wikipedia, perhaps as its own WikiProject or as a task force of WikiProject Skepticism, will create more transparency and lessen some of the kinds of suspicion and conflict that preceded this case. It could also provide a place for the GSoW to get community feedback about its training which would increase its effectiveness.
  • Editors are reminded that discretionary sanctions for biographies of living people have been authorized since 2014. Editors named in this decision shall be considered aware of these discretionary sanctions under awareness criterion 1.

For the Arbitration Committee, –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 05:04, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard § Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Skepticism and coordinated editing closed

WikiCup 2022 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:

  • New York (state) Epicgenius, a finalist last year, who led the field with 1906 points, gained from 32 GAs and 19 DYKs, all on the topic of New York buildings.
  • Christmas Island AryKun, new to the contest, was second with 1588 points, having achieved 2 FAs, 11 GAs and various other submissions, mostly on the subject of birds.
  • Kingdom of Scotland Bloom6132, a WikiCup veteran, was in third place with 682 points, garnered from 51 In the news items and several DYKs.
  • Philadelphia GhostRiver was close behind with 679 points, gained from achieving 12 GAs, mostly on ice hockey players, and 35 GARs.
  • United Nations Kavyansh.Singh was in fifth place with 551 points, with an FA, a FL, and many reviews.
  • SounderBruce was next with 454 points, gained from an FA and various other submissions, mostly on United States highways.
  • United Nations Ktin, another WikiCup veteran, was in seventh place with 412 points, mostly gained from In the news items.

These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:06, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-10

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Problems

  • There was a problem with some interface labels last week. It will be fixed this week. This change was part of ongoing work to simplify the support for skins which do not have active maintainers. [15]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).

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21:15, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

ANI and royalty

The problem is not that gender identity is different from other kinds of identity, it’s that being a monarch is not a personal identity. (Do you also need me to explain why the Ukraine analogy was offensive? I hope you are not going to change MOS based on that, too.) —JBL (talk) 11:52, 8 March 2022 (UTC) (Also, obviously, gender was already singled out in MOS -- you can tell because, unlike other kinds of identity, it had its own subsection -- so maybe in the future you should think more before you hit "publish changes". --JBL (talk) 13:18, 8 March 2022 (UTC))

@JayBeeEll: the mos on identity says "When there is a discrepancy between the term most commonly used by reliable sources for a person or group and the term that person or group uses for themselves, use the term that is most commonly used by recent reliable sources. If it is unclear which is most used, use the term that the person or group uses." The whole crux of the dispute is someone wants to be referred to with a term (prince) that isn't used by reliable sources. Since we agree that having a gender identity is a wholly distinct issue from wanting to be referred to by a certain term (the point of MOS:IDENTITY), then we might as well upgrade the gender identity subsection so that it doesn't tell people that gender identity is the same issue as wanting to be referred to with a specific term (in that it encompasses broader issues). Alternatively, relabel the heading so it more accurately reflects what the differences are. Because right now, placing it in a subsection under identity implies it's comparable to other cases where people want to use certain terms when that isn't the case. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 15:28, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
If you want to make a substantive case for the change in an appropriate venue, be my guest. --JBL (talk) 17:41, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-11

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Recent changes

  • In the Wikipedia Android app it is now possible to change the toolbar at the bottom so the tools you use more often are easier to click on. The app now also has a focused reading mode. [16][17]

Problems

  • There was a problem with the collection of some page-view data from June 2021 to January 2022 on all wikis. This means the statistics are incomplete. To help calculate which projects and regions were most affected, relevant datasets are being retained for 30 extra days. You can read more on Meta-wiki.
  • There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read pages but could not edit or access uncached content then. [18]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
  • When using uselang=qqx to find localisation messages, it will now show all possible message keys for navigation tabs such as "View history". [19]
  • Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the deleterevision right could access this special page. [20]
  • On the Special:Undelete pages for diffs and revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions. [21]

Future changes

Events

  • The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 20-22 May 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world. Grants can be requested until 20 March.

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22:06, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-12

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New code release schedule for this week

  • There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one. This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can read more about this project.

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15:59, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 49

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Issue 49, January – February 2022

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This Month in Education: March 2022

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What to do about older articles?

The closure on the discussion you started was performed, saying that there's rough consensus against draft-ifying older articles. Must policy be changed right away by saying "more than 180 days" on the safer side instead of "more than 90 days", must there be more discussion, or what else? --George Ho (talk) 18:44, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

@George Ho: I didn't close it so I wouldn't know. But currently the status quo is that "old articles shouldn't be draftified" and in the absence of any affirmative consensus that 180 days is a good length of time, we're continuing with the status quo. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 21:23, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
I found out Joe Roe recently added that rule in WP:Drafts. George Ho (talk) 21:44, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
I'm WP:INVOLVED so I'll defer to Joe on this one. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 23:31, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

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Hi Chess, I'm a little confused as to what you meant here: [26]. Am I being investigated for something, or were you saying that I have been talked about in the discord server that I am not a part of? If you could clear that up I'd appreciate it! Thanks, United States Man (talk) 02:24, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

@United States Man: go join the Discord and search "USM" if you want it's not pretty. But yes, you were talked about to say the least and I would say they harassed you even if you don't know it right now. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 02:40, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
Not surprised and really not hurt by it. Thanks for posting that because it’s the first I’ve heard of it, and I don’t really care to join the discord. I edit because I like to, and I don’t have time to discuss Wikipedia somewhere else. United States Man (talk) 02:44, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
@United States Man: To clarify, some editors coordinated reverts of your edits so individually they wouldn't hit 3rr. It's not just trash-talking. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 02:48, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
Wow. I noticed you named some names. I realize I get into some spirited editing myself, but I definitely didn't know I was being coordinated against in that manner. United States Man (talk) 02:55, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Well, I'm freaking out right now. MarioJump83! 03:55, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

@MarioJump83: This truly will be a shitshow and it's sad to see how it's gotten to this point. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 04:09, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-13

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Recent changes

  • There is a simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular database maintenance. It will be performed on 29 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 31 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [27][28]

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19:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, March 2022

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WikiProject Tropical Storms arbitration case opened

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Tech News: 2022-14

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Problems

  • For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were not tagged in the Special:RecentChanges feed. This bug has been fixed. [29]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 April. It will be on all wikis from 7 April (calendar).
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 7 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

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Tech News: 2022-15

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Recent changes

  • There is a new public status page at www.wikimediastatus.net. This site shows five automated high-level metrics where you can see the overall health and performance of our wikis' technical environment. It also contains manually-written updates for widespread incidents, which are written as quickly as the engineers are able to do so while also fixing the actual problem. The site is separated from our production infrastructure and hosted by an external service, so that it can be accessed even if the wikis are briefly unavailable. You can read more about this project.
  • On Wiktionary wikis, the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [31][32]

Changes later this week

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

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19:43, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

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