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Tech News: 2024-12

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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 notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher. [1]
  •   IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers. [2]
  •   The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [3][4][5]
  • Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [6]

Problems

  • RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now. [7]

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar). [8][9]
  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [10][11]

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Question from DMorningstar99 (19:44, 18 March 2024)

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Hello, will all creation and editing formats be done in coding languages? I would like a rundown as to how I can create and how I create a page. Thank you. I am familiar a bit with python but I doubt that is what is used. --DMorningstar99 (talk) 19:44, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

DMorningstar99, Good day. Frist of all pls read WP:Your First Article to understand what is needed. Secondly, pls use horizontal format Template:Citeweb for inline citation (source). And lastly pls see Help:Wikitext for some basic markup language. The point is that for a subject to have a page/article in Wikipedia, the subject need to pass the notability guidelines which means the subject needs to have significant coverage from independent, reliable sources such as from the books or major newspaper (no social media/official websites/any sites that related to the subject) where by the sources talk about in length and in depth and not passing mentioned for verification. It depends what is the subject, some subject would have a certain format set up by the Wikipedia project page. Let me know if you if you need further assistance for I am here to help. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 23:22, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from Justfacts10 (11:05, 23 March 2024)

Latest comment: 7 months ago8 comments2 people in discussion

Hi mentor,

Please how do obey Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements? I have gone through this [12] but I still don't know how to go about it.

Please walk me through it. I'm trying to create a page.

Best regards, --Justfacts10 (talk) 11:05, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Justfacts10 Good day. Pls let me know are you a paid editor and which company/subject that paid you to write an article? Cassiopeia talk 11:57, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
I don't understand what you mean by a paid editor. I usually edit without getting paid. However, I have a paid gig on my desk and I'm trying to figure out how to go about creating the page.
How do I make it work? Justfacts10 (talk) 12:09, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
Justfacts1 If you have a paid gig for creating an article that make you a paid editor. By the way, what is the subject? Is that Draft:Jaytime? Cassiopeia talk 12:44, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
yes,it is. Justfacts10 (talk) 12:45, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
Justfacts10, you draft has been declined 3 times due to the subject is not notable as per Wikipedia guidelines and could not be able to have a page in Wikipedia. Pls read WP:Your First Article.
For Paid editor disclosure, you need to indicate that in the article talk page - here indicating you are a paid editor for singer "Jaytime" in Nigeria. You also need to indicate that in your user page of the same info. Pls use this for the article talk page and the template is under "you should post the disclosure at the top of article talk pages as follows:". As for your user page pls first template under Text usage on user pages. By the way, pls note that even paid editor is allowed in Wikipedia, however, it is highly discouraged. Cassiopeia talk 13:00, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
Thank you. I think I have indicated that in the article talk page - here indicating that I am a paid editor for the singer "Jaytime" in Nigeria. Please help me review if I am missing something. Justfacts10 (talk) 18:08, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
Justfacts10 Reviewed. As mentioned to you before, subject fail the notability guidelines.21:22, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Je Good Morning, bonjour

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Bon petit matin de Montréal, I am a new user in English Wikipédia. I Will Take all my times to read Conventions in Women projet. I like biography of canadian and Women or québécoise Women. In French Wikipédia and Commons, my work is on the Neighbourhoods of Montréal. How do you help ne ….


merci beaucoup de votre aide, Laurence Héron du fleuve (talk) 12:49, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Héron du fleuve Good day and thank you for your message. I notice you have join Women in Red project which is a great project on creating women article. Another WikiProject you might want to look into is Wikipedia:WikiProject Quebec. Since you are a new editor, I suggest you to take WP:TWA - a short program so that you could familiar with some of the Wikipedia basic guidelines which will serve you well in editing. As to create an article, pls read WP:Your First Article. Pop back here if you have any questions. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 13:16, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

public draft help

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Hello, could you please help me by reviewing my translation of and article? Draft:Siergiej_Davidis I cannot publish on English Wiki, or so it seems. This is a translation of my article in Polish. I will work on some references, finding info in English rather than in Polish, but the body of the text is there. Kind regards, IddyIggy (talk) 08:32, 24 March 2024 (UTC) IddyIggy

Wikidata weekly Summary #621

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-03-25.
  • Discussions
    • Closed request for adminship: KonstantinaG07 3 - Adminship request successful, congratulations KonstantinaG07 3!
  • Events
    • 2024 Women's Wiki Month Datathon (Indonesian) Between 24 - 26 March 2024, Wikimedia Indonesia is hosting a competitive Data-thon with Prizes available for editing and enriching Wikidata items on the topic of Women's Health. Full details on the project page.
    • Wikidata and FactGrid - Knowledge Graphs of data query entry (French) - a workshop taking place 26 March, 13:30 - 16:30 (GMT+1), hosted by Datalab MSHB Rennes and moderated by Jean-Baptiste Pressac.
    • Levelling Up Days 2024 is an online event designed to welcome new people to Wikidata, upgrade their editing skills and find out about useful tools and apps. Join us for a series of videos and discussions regarding Wikidata and its uses in and outside of the Wikimedia projects.
  • Tool of the week
    • Members of European Parliament by pac02. Explore visualisations of MEP's in the European Parliament. Country of origin, gender, political alignment and other properties from Wikidata can be explored.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikimedia Deutschland published a Call for Software Contributions! Application deadline is April 21th, 23:59 (GMT+1).
    • Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year 2023 - We encourage you to nominate and vote for research papers published in 2023 that focused on or benefited the Wikimedia projects (we're not biased but hope you vote for Wikidata-based Papers). Please submit your nominations by April 18, 2024.
    • In preparation for the Research Track of the 11th Wiki Workshop, there is now a Call for Contributions for the event scheduled virtually on June 20, 2024 (tentatively 12:00-19:00 UTC). The Wiki Workshop aims to bring together researchers who study all aspects of the Wikimedia Projects. We hope Wikidata and Wikibase are well represented! Submission deadline: April 22, 2024 (23:59 AoE)

You can comment on all open property proposals!

  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API:
      • We worked on the ability to create Items via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
      • We worked on making it possible to modify the data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (phab:T347394)
    • EntitySchemas: We are getting back to making architecture improvements to enable the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements.
    • IP masking: We wrapped up the work on adapting Wikibase for the upcoming IP masking changes.
    • Query Service: We added the ability to stop a query in the UI in order to not have to wait for a broken query to finish or run into a time-out. You can find the stop button below the run button in the query UI now.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Tech News: 2024-13

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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

  •   An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin. A checklist is provided for site admins to follow.

Changes later this week

  •   The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar). [13][14]

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The Signpost: 29 March 2024

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Women in Red April 2024

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Women in Red | April 2024, Volume 10, Issue 4, Numbers 293, 294, 302, 303, 304


Online events:

Announcements

  • The second round of "One biography a week" begins in April as part of #1day1woman.

Tip of the month:

Other ways to participate:

  Instagram |   Pinterest |   Twitter

--Lajmmoore (talk 19:41, 30 March 2024 (UTC) via MassMessaging

Tech News: 2024-14

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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. [15]

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). [16][17]

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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Wikidata weekly summary #622

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-03-11. Translations are available.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: MONA.artpublic.bot (Task: The bot's function is to add information about artists specializing in public artwork in Québec, Canada. The bot will initially only add that an artist's genre of work is public art for a set of known public artists in Québec compiled by MONA Montréal from open data sets.)

Events

  • Upcoming:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call April 2, 2024: Come join us for fun data modeling discussions! We'll create breakout rooms in Zoom for people to discuss 4 examples of cultural heritage items to contribute to Wikidata. Each group will choose categories, brainstorm properties for basic and enhanced description, and discuss challenges. Then we'll have some quality time at the end to compare notes and discuss our processes! Agenda
    • Wikidata Leveling Up Days, everything you need to know about Wikidata: 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 and 14 April. The event is taking place online and the videos are already available on the program page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Blogs: Galerij der Groten op Wikidata (Dutch) - Wikimedia NL hosted an Edit-A-Thon on the Baroeg project, the task was to document and archive on Wikidata all of the bands that have played at the live music venue, the idea born from a stack of band flyers and posters hung in the bathroom(!) Join the next one Sunday April 14th.
  • Papers: Understanding Wikidata - Wikidata is extremely valuable as a data source to supplement, validate and extend existing knowledge bases and applications. To effectively utilize Wikidata in a Semantic Web application, one must understand its design, terminology and correspondence with ontological concepts (especially RDF and OWL). This paper attempts to explain and position this information. (by AWesterinen)
  • Videos
  • Notebooks: Gender differences in the number of sitelinks among members of the European Parliament, a statistical analysis based on Wikidata about the number of sitelinks by gender.

Tool of the week

  • Wikidatalite : Search, browse, and navigate Wikidata items with a mobile-friendly, simplified user interface.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • mul language code: We are continuing the work on fixing remaining issues for the next stage of releasing it (phab:T356200)
  • REST API:
  • EntitySchemas: We continued work on making it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements (phab:T359419)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

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Hello Cassiopeia,

 
New Page Review queue January to March 2024

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

 

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.

Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.

Reminders:

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Help

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Tintinmar6789p0abveiegyx Tintinmar6789p0abveiegyx (talk) 09:46, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Tintinmar6789p0abveiegyx Good day. You need to specify what kind of help you need. Cassiopeia talk 09:50, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from Tintinmar6789p0abveiegyx on User:Tintinmar6789p0abveiegyx (09:46, 3 April 2024)

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Change --Tintinmar6789p0abveiegyx (talk) 09:46, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from TIRue on Gang stalking (12:40, 3 April 2024)

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How can we protect "Zerzetsung" from being removed in the See also.section? --TIRue (talk) 12:40, 3 April 2024 (UTC)


@MrOllie and TIRue:, Hi TIRue, Good day and loop in MrOllie here as User MrOllie reverted your edit. I am not familiar with paranoid delusions mental state subject but my understand is that Gang stalking is a Psychosis and not a Zerzetsung. However, to say that I think MrOllie can explain to your better (have a discussion) at the article talk page on this matter. Pls do not forget to ping the editor when a discussion message is set up. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 02:33, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for your response. I think we need to stay away from the narrative/reporting that Gangstalking is any sort of medical diagnosis I.e psychosis (result) and more so an (action) I E act to carry out surveillance.
Much like gangstalking, and as proven by history. Zerzetzung an (action) was carried out....
"With the aim to disrupt the working of groups and the lives of individuals to such a degree that their activism became ineffective, or more preferably, ceased altogether."
Targets report that Gangstalking is meant to disrupt every aspect of their life.
It is alleged that common targets are whistleblowers, dissidents, undesirables, minorities, working class and political opponents.
@MrOllie: thoughts? TIRue (talk) 03:59, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Inches to cm

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74 inches in cm is 187.96 and not 190 cm. According to your edit on Nate Marquardt, you lack basic knowledge and tend to just edit or revert for the sake of it. Be better. Articlread (talk) 02:11, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Articlread As per source it is 74inches and see my last edit. You place the stand which have no source. You are welcome to add it back provided there is a source to support it and that is the warning message was for. Pls do not remove the year in which the fighter fought in certain divisions. Cassiopeia talk 02:14, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
You did the work for me. Thanks alot and thanks to me, you now know that 74 inches is equal to 188 cm and not 190 cm. Articlread (talk) 02:24, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
Articlread info is as per source in inches and I didnt put conversion. Pls do not remove the source as it is a vandalism edit. Cassiopeia talk 02:26, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Question from I dont even know anymore bro (03:38, 7 April 2024)

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Is editing really that easy? --I dont even know anymore bro (talk) 03:38, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

I dont even know anymore bro Good day and thank you for the question. To edit Wikipedia is not difficult if you know some of the basic guidelines. I suggest you to complete WP:TWA program (30 mins) so you may familiar with the info/guidelines to edit Wikipedia. I have sent you a welcome message on your talk page. Do check out the links (highlighted texts). Let me know anything else I can help. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 06:49, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

an idiot

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an idiot AQuickBrownFxJumpsOverTheLazyGoat (talk) 08:36, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

AQuickBrownFxJumpsOverTheLazyGoat You have vandalized all the pages you have edited and personal attacked on editors. You will be blocked from editing. Cassiopeia talk 08:38, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #623

Latest comment: 7 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-04-08. Translations are available.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Anti-Pattern Analyzer is a static website capable of checking the existence of 'anti-pattern 1' (AP1) occurrences given an entity from Wikidata. It can also check if a new statement would introduce new violations.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Only 13 more days to go! The deadline to submit your project proposal to Wikimedia Deutschland's Open Call for Software Contributions is coming closer and closer. With this call, Wikimedia Deutschland aims to support projects that make Wikidata's data more accessible and usable for a wider audience.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • REST API:
    • We continued the work on the endpoint for creating an Item via POST /entities/items (phab:T342990)
    • We continued the work on the endpoint for modifying data of a Property via PATCH /entities/properties/{property_id} (]]phab:T347394]])
  • EntitySchemas: Work on making it possible to link to EntitySchemas in statements is continuing.
  • mul language code: We are fixing remaining issues uncovered during testing. (phab:T355059, phab:T356200, phab:T135871, phab:T356201)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2024-15

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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. [18][19]
  • Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [20]

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). [21][22]
  • 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. [23]

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Question from MigrationExpert (19:14, 10 April 2024)

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hello! how can i add a photo to a page and do a bit of formatting? --MigrationExpert (talk) 19:14, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

MigrationExpert Good day and thank you for the question. You can add photo from the Wikipedia Commons or you can upload a image/photo which you are the copyright holder (you are the one who took the photo or create the image) HERE where by you agree to the Terms of Use, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the CC BY-SA 4.0 License and the GFDL. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license. Once the image is uploaded in Commons, then you can copy the file name and paste it on the article of your choosing which the image is related to the article. You also can upload images that from

Public domain and Fair use/non-free - Pls read Wikipedia:Image use policy for further details.

As for formatting, I am not sure what kind of formatting you meant. Pls be specific. thank you. Cassiopeia talk 09:58, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
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