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Venezuelan Politics case
Hi! At Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Venezuelan politics there is a typo in the involved parties section – it should be "WMrapids" with a lowercase r (it currently shows "WMRapids" so it appears the user does not exist). Not sure if I can fix it or if it should be left to the clerks :) –FlyingAce✈hello 23:24, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
- Hi. Thanks for raising this. I've fixed this. Happy editing, Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 23:26, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-15
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
- Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
A new Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
- Initial results of Edit check experiments have been published. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at the wikis that tested it. Let us know if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check. [1][2]
- Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [3]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar). [4][5]
- New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. [6]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:35, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
IP block exemption
Hi! I have came here in a good faith for a little help that I need. I have been blocked for past 2-3 through my IP address of my router, and I am unable to edit English Wikipedia.
I did try the UTRS, but the admins there declined my request without a proper reason, even though I had multiple appeals. I don't know how would I fix it but I ensure that not even by mistake I will edit Wikipedia with my VPN on.
😭 Regards. Harshvardhan 1427 (talk) 13:40, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-16
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
- Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [7][8]
Changes later this week
- Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked). [11]
- A new variable
page_last_edit_agewill be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [12]
Future changes
- Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the
abuse_filterandabuse_filter_historytables. Some queries might need to be updated. [13]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:26, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive
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Oversight
Hi again, @Dreamy Jazz. I guess you don't remember me anymore, but that's the least of it. I come here to ask you for oversight of an edit on my user page that I just reverted. I don't know if you could, the sooner the better, or else it will be archived and my goal with the reverted edit would be in vain for archiving in Wayback Machine. I'm sorry for making you waste your time on stupid things. Santi (talk) 17:00, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
Remove Harrasment
Hi DreanyJazz,
I noticed you are online, so could you please remove harassment on User talk:68.5.56.20? I've told another admin but it seems like they are offline. Myrealnamm (💬talk · ✏️contribs) at 12:41, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- I've removed the comment. It isn't eligible for revision deletion, so I've not revision deleted it. Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 13:00, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-17
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
- Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [14]
- You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.
Changes later this week
Future changes
- This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of Special:MyPage/vector.js to Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [17]
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:25, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-18
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 appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks. [18]
- Seven new wikis have been created:
- You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. [26]
- Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis. See more detailed guidelines.
Problems
- Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using
mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [27]
Changes later this week
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MediaWiki message delivery 03:31, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
Arbcom-related notification issue
Hi! I wasn't sure where to post this and figured user talk is a good first stop.
I keep getting spammed with notifications, a few a week, from every user talk page I've ever posted to that the topic "arbcom elections now open blah blah" was archived. I never subscribed to those threads, obviously.
What's going on? Please don't tell me I have to set up a Phabricator account and report it or something.
Confused, RadioactiveBoulevardier (talk) 22:38, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
- I think that is related to the DiscussionTools extension. I cannot really debug this issue so you would need to create a Phabricator account and report it. Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 10:19, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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| Thank you for your service as an Oversighter. —a smart kitten[meow] 11:12, 2 May 2024 (UTC) |
Administrators' newsletter – May 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).
Guideline and policy news
- Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.
Technical news
- Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.
Miscellaneous
- This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!
Reminder to vote now to select members of the first U4C
- You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. Please help translate to other languages.
Dear Wikimedian,
You are receiving this message because you previously participated in the UCoC process.
This is a reminder that the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) ends on May 9, 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.
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RFA2024 update: phase I concluded, phase II begins
Hi there! Phase I of the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review has concluded, with several impactful changes gaining community consensus and proceeding to various stages of implementation. Some proposals will be implemented in full outright; others will be discussed at phase II before being implemented; and still others will proceed on a trial basis before being brought to phase II. The following proposals have gained consensus:
- Proposals 2 and 9b (phase II discussion): Add a reminder of civility norms at RfA and Require links for claims of specific policy violations
- Proposal 3b (in trial): Make the first two days discussion-only
- Proposal 13 (in trial): Admin elections
- Proposal 14 (implemented): Suffrage requirements
- Proposals 16 and 16c (phase II discussion): Allow the community to initiate recall RfAs and Community recall process based on dewiki
- Proposal 17 (phase II discussion): Have named Admins/crats to monitor infractions
- Proposal 24 (phase II discussion): Provide better mentoring for becoming an admin and the RfA process
- Proposal 25 (implemented): Require nominees to be extended confirmed
See the project page for a full list of proposals and their outcomes. A huge thank-you to everyone who has participated so far :) looking forward to seeing lots of hard work become a reality in phase II. theleekycauldron (talk), via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:08, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-19
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 appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. [30][31]
SiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page. [32]
Changes later this week
- When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". [36]
Future changes
- A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update regarding this extension.
- Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally. [37]
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Tech News: 2024-20
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
- On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word
__EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list. [38] - If you use the user-preference "Show preview without reloading the page", then the template-page feature "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" will now also work without reloading the page. [39]
- Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the
alt=attribute. This is identical in usage to thealt=attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive. [40] - The old Guided Tour for the "New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people. [41]
Changes later this week
Future changes
- In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022. Learn more. [45]
pagelinksdatabase table (pl_namespaceandpl_title) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the newlinktargettable instead (lt_namespaceandlt_title). In your existing SQL queries:- Replace
JOIN pagelinkswithJOIN linktargetandpl_withlt_in theONstatement - Below that add
JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
- See phab:T222224 for technical reasoning. [46][47]
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Tech News: 2024-21
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 Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. [48]
- New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description. [49][50]
Changes later this week
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:02, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
sockpuppet template
Hi Dreamy Jazz, Hope you're well,
I've added the sock template to the userpages of New yorker jounlaist , Wikipedianjo, Skymansky3 as these have been globally-locked for being علي أبو عمر socks but I don't know if these would still be under proven or suspected?,
Thought I should ask incase I've tagged these under the wrong one (proven/suspected), Many thanks, –Davey2010Talk 09:13, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
- In general, sock tags are added after cases at WP:SPI so sometimes tagging socks that have been globally locked but then not reported at enwiki may not be necessary (especially for cases where the user creates accounts frequently). In this case, as they are globally locked for socking you might as well add the tags. I would suggest that in general if you are unsure you tag as suspected (absent a WP:SPI case or a CU giving some kind of result). Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 16:10, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
Deleted Content Needs Restoring
Good morning - I recently updated the Sun Capital Partners page (it took me hours, because I'm brand new) and I was flagged by an editor who expressed I might have a conflict of interest, and the page was deleted. I would love to have that page or that content restored somewhere. Like I mentioned, I'm more or less new to longer edits, and I also spent several hours reading through the edit guides. After so much effort, simply to fix some issues, I'm crushed that I would be deleted. My edits came about because the original was sloppy, and I could not get information. It kills me when wiki sites are not "clean" and updated. Anyway, can you help? Bradrhoads (talk) 01:03, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
- "Sun Capital is an experienced private equity firm driven by operational expertise....It partners with small and medium-sized enterprise founders and management teams to provide the resources and support needed to optimize operations for enhanced efficiency and sustainable growth....By supporting innovative non-profit organizations, the Foundation aims to fulfill its mission of promoting sustainable, positive change" followed by a list of inline URLs to the company web pages. Bradrhoads, you really need to come clean about that COI in regards to Marc Leder. Drmies (talk) 01:07, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
- Wow. This is profoundly disheartening. Is this normal? Guys - I'm BRAND NEW. I read through the material offered up and I tried to help. I came to the Leder page because I'm a fan of the Washington Commanders, who was acquired by a group including Leder, and it was just a hit job, top to bottom, talking about sex parties, mistresses, details of his divorce - read it if it still exists. I feel like my edits neutralized it and corrected and obvious attack on the page. But now I'M being called out? @Drmies I think your tone is personal. This is just someone bigfooting who gets to play in the sandbox. Can anyone at all help me? Please read the orignal and my edits, and tell me which is better, and mentor me on how to fix it. Bradrhoads (talk) 01:45, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
Contentious topic/question
Hello Dreamy Jazz,
You created the page Wikipedia:Contentious_topics/India,_Pakistan,_and_Afghanistan and I thought I could ask you to clarify something. What is the scope of this topic: every topic related to any of the 3 countries (be it about food, entertainment and so on) or just the topics relating to the relations between them ("+/and" being a key component of the definition of the topic)? Asking this because I don't agree with the the interpretation of the page made by User:Saqib here. Thank you in advance. If you think I should ask elsewhere, please let me know. Best, -My, oh my! (Mushy Yank) 17:41, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
- The interpretation by Saqib is correct. It applies to any page related to any of these countries whether or not the topic is related to more than one of these countries. For example, Talk:India and Talk:20 October 2017 Afghanistan attacks are tagged as being covered by this contentious topic designation, but are only related to one of the countries. Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 17:52, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
- Not related to India/Pakistan but Hummus is protected is due to Israel/Palestine for example. S0091 (talk) 17:57, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks both! I stand corrected. My apologies for the trouble. -My, oh my! (Mushy Yank) 18:18, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
- Not related to India/Pakistan but Hummus is protected is due to Israel/Palestine for example. S0091 (talk) 17:57, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-22
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
- Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, see T365107 and T365119.
.collapsible,.multicol,.reflist,.coordinates,.topicon. Further details are available on replacement CSS if it is needed.
Changes later this week
- When you visit a wiki where you don't yet have a local account, local rules such as edit filters can sometimes prevent your account from being created. Starting this week, MediaWiki takes your global rights into account when evaluating whether you can override such local rules. [55]
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MediaWiki message delivery 00:13, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
Dream Jazz, Hi there, Thank you for successfully investigation on this case but I think if the Metaxtech 's sockpuppets account are confirmed, so, only need to block them eith it's sockpuppets accounts but they made silly comment on SPI case page. Happy editing ᗩvírαm7 • [@píng mє] 03:35, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-23
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
- It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript. Documentation is available. [56]
- The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "
MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category" to "MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category". [57] - One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Kadazandusun (
w:dtp:) [58]
Changes later this week
Future changes
- Next week, on wikis with the Vector 2022 skin as the default, logged-out desktop users will be able to choose between different font sizes. The default font size will also be increased for them. This is to make Wikimedia projects easier to read. Learn more.
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MediaWiki message delivery 22:32, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.
Technical news
- The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
- The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.
Miscellaneous
- WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!