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Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

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

Administrator changes

• Kbdank71
• Kosack
• NrDg
• TLSuda

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

• Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

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Tech News: 2024-14

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

• Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [1]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:33, 2 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. [4][5]
• Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [6]

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). [7][8]
• 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. [9]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:34, 8 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. [10][11]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [12][13]
• 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). [14]
• A new variable page_last_edit_age will be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [15]

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_filter and abuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to be updated. [16]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:26, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Kaptchia (15:35, 16 April 2024)

Hello, I just wanted to ask... How do I reset the password on Wikipedia?😶 --Kaptchia (talk) 15:35, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

@Kaptchia You can change your password at Special:ChangePassword. Nobody (talk) 07:03, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from NJussim (19:17, 19 April 2024)

I am no scholar, and do not plan to edit writing by scholars. But I am concerned that a statement in a particular biographical entry about a living person now in the news appears to be editorializing, and is unsupported by its referenced citation. How do I bring this to Wikipedia's attention? --NJussim (talk) 19:17, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi @NJussim, if it's active you can point it out on the talk page, If it isn't you can put it on the Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard. Nobody (talk) 19:40, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Favour moyinoluwa (11:16, 21 April 2024)

hello, how do i create a citation --Favour moyinoluwa (talk) 11:16, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Favour moyinoluwa, See here to learn about adding citations. Nobody (talk) 15:58, 21 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. [17]
• 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

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar). [18][19]

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. [20]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:25, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

revision

I removed Speedy deletion and explained the logic; AfD could be a better solution I suppose 2603:7000:95F0:87F0:E072:98B:68FA:7E31 (talk) 08:28, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Notability isn't a decline reason for G5, Because it could be recreated by someone not blocked/socking. Nobody (talk) 08:31, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Good work at WP:UAA. Keep it up!

– DreamRimmer (talk) 06:55, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer Right back at you :) Nobody (talk) 07:05, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Haha ;) – DreamRimmer (talk) 07:12, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 April 2024

• In the media: Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics and another wikirace on live TV

• News and notes: A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law

• WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Newspapers (Not WP:NOTNEWS)

• Recent research: New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users

• Traffic report: O.J., cricket and a three body problem

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:47, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks

I missed the word "group" in the filter hit. Thanks for clarifying. 331dot (talk) 13:05, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

No worries, since they hadn't edited since the first attempt, maybe they read the filter warning and decided against creating it. Either way, good work :) Nobody (talk) 13:08, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Übersetzungsbenachrichtigung: Fundraising/Translation

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Vielen Dank, die Übersetzungskoordinatoren von Meta‎, 14:11, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from George K. Opoku (19:59, 25 April 2024)

Thank you for being my mentor --George K. Opoku (talk) 19:59, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

@George K. Opoku No worries, feel free to ask me any questions that come up while editing. Nobody (talk) 05:01, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Jeremypurseglove (13:54, 26 April 2024)

hello, I have created a entry for wikipedia regarding myself Jeremy Purseglove

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jeremypurseglove/sandbox

How do I get this published onto wikipedia, I seem to be locked in a sandbox.

Thank you for any assitance

Jeremy Purseglove --Jeremypurseglove (talk) 13:54, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Jeremy, Users creating an article about themselves is strongly discouraged. The reasons for that can be found at Wikipedia:Autobiography. Regards Nobody (talk) 18:04, 26 April 2024 (UTC)