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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVI, November 2021

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 on Canadian junior officers in World War II

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December 2021 GOCE Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2021 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the December GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since September 2021.                  Current and upcoming events Election time: Our end-of-year election of coordinators opened for nominations on 1 December and will close on 15 December at 23:59 (UTC). Voting opens at 00:01 the following day and will continue until 31 December at 23:59, just before "Auld Lang Syne". Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. December Blitz: We have scheduled a week-long copy-editing blitz for 12 to 18 December. Sign up now! Drive and Blitz reports September Drive: Almost 400,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 27 people who signed up, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. October Blitz: From 17 to 23 October, we copy edited articles tagged in May and June 2021 and requests. 8 participating editors completed 26 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. November Drive: Over 350,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 21 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. Other news It is with great sadness that we report the death on 19 November of Twofingered Typist, who was active with the Guild almost daily for the past several years. His contributions long exceeded the thresholds for the Guild's highest awards, and he had a hand in innumerable good and featured article promotions as a willing collaborator. Twofingered Typist also served as a Guild coordinator from July 2019 to June 2021. He is sorely missed by the Wikipedia community. Progress report: As of 30 November, GOCE copyeditors have completed 619 requests in 2021 and there were 51 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog stood at 946 articles tagged for copy-editing (see monthly progress graph above). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Tech News: 2021-49

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

• MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 December. It will be on all wikis from 9 December (calendar).
• At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at Special:MentorDashboard. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project.
• The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API (which was created in 2008), action=ajax, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module. [1]
• An old ResourceLoader module, jquery.jStorage, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to mediawiki.storage instead. [2]

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Tech News: 2021-50

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• There are now default short aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis, [[WB:]] will go to the local language default for the [[Project:]] namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via the usual process. [3]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 December. It will be on all wikis from 16 December (calendar).

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22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Isaac Wright Jr. for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Isaac Wright Jr. is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Isaac Wright Jr. until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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.

Yousef Raz (talk) 21:02, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of File:Flag of the Universal Triumvirate.svg

The file File:Flag of the Universal Triumvirate.svg has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Orphaned file with no obvious value in transferring to Commons

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

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Please consider addressing the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated files}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and files for discussion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Salavat (talk) 13:46, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-51

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Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 10 January 2022.

Recent changes

• Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (<DynamicPageList>) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis. [4]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

• The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
• The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February. [5]

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22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

AfD of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American Party of Labor (2nd nomination)

Though I agree with you that the article is non-notable, I do want to warn you that some of your comments can be viewed as uncivil. You should express your viewpoints without some of the snide comments. Natg 19 (talk) 02:05, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

@Natg 19: I was uncivil in my first comment and I apologize for that. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 02:10, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Just wanted to make sure you have your head on straight. The analysis of the sources table is well done. Natg 19 (talk) 02:12, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

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Thanks for closing

I have to admit I wasn't aware of speedy redirecting protocol regarding drafts when I started the MfD—I had thought of redirecting before I started the MfD, but ultimately went the latter route because I was under the impression that cross-namespace redirects were undesirable. I was actually about to close it myself just now; I'd meant to a day or two ago, but I got busy and it slipped my mind. --Dylan620 (he/him · talk · edits) 02:24, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

@Dylan620: It's fine. Not many people are aware of the intricacies of MfD and in all honesty I doubt anyone is going to expect that draftspace has a "speedy redirect" criteria. I'm more surprised that the MfD went on for as long as it did since "speedy" implies it doesn't need to run the full course. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 03:54, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 December 2021

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• News and notes: Jimbo's NFT, new arbs, fixing RfA, and financial statements

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RFA 2021 Completed

The 2021 re-examination of RFA has been completed. 23 (plus 2 variants) ideas were proposed. Over 200 editors participated in this final phase. Three changes gained consensus and two proposals were identified by the closers as having the potential to gain consensus with some further discussion and iteration. Thanks to all who helped to close the discussion, and in particular Primefac, Lee Vilenski, and Ymblanter for closing the most difficult conversations and for TonyBallioni for closing the review of one of the closes.

The following proposals gained consensus and have all been implemented:

1. Revision of standard question 1 to Why are you interested in becoming an administrator? Special thanks to xaosflux for help with implementation.
2. A new process, Administrative Action Review (XRV) designed to review if an editor's specific use of an advanced permission, including the admin tools, is consistent with policy in a process similar to that of deletion review and move review. Thanks to all the editors who contributed (and are continuing to contribute) to the discussion of how to implement this proposal.
3. Removal of autopatrol from the administrator's toolkit. Special thanks to Wugapodes and Seddon for their help with implementation.

The following proposals were identified by the closers as having the potential to gain consensus with some further discussion and iteration:

1. An option for people to run for temporary adminship (proposal, discussion, & close)
2. An optional election process (proposal & discussion and close review & re-close)

Editors who wish to discuss these ideas or other ideas on how to try to address any of the six issues identified during phase 1 for which no proposal gained are encouraged to do so at RFA's talk page or an appropriate village pump.

A final and huge thanks all those who participated in this effort to improve our RFA process over the last 4 months.

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01:46, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVII, December 2021

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Nick-D on the Franklin–Nashville campaign Review essay: Military History Wikiproject Coordinators' reading list

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Welcome to the 2022 WikiCup!

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2022 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor you should be able to advance to at least the second round, improving your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. Any questions on the rules or on anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:36, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2022 WikiCup!

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RFC on dash-separated titles for sports events

Hi, I am writing here because of a particular comment you made in respect to myself and which I consider to be a mischaracterisation: I don't really see the appeal of this refutation as it didn't address how this potentially massive issue will be resolved and just proposed other people doing more work to fix the template issues. As an aside, I did not create the section on "Template issues". Another made this a separate section.

• There is no actual need to amend templates to accommodate changes to article titles though it might be a course ultimately chosen. In other words, there is a simple solution and I was the one that identified it. Arguments against using redirects to resolve the issue fail to acknowledge the current situation such as the result of the recent RfC and a dash containing title needs a redirect in any case per WP:TSC.

• If wanted, the actual editing of the templates is fairly simple. See for example the template infobox at 2021 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles, which creates a navigation grid for other titles played for at that particular event. The template takes the year and event as inputs. It then assumes titles being played for and concatenates a piped link that is displayed in a grid (along with generating other links that make up the infobox as a whole). A change to titles of "Mens' Singles" to "mens' singles" or any other consistently parsed form (with or without a dash) is relatively easy, since it is pretty much "monkey see - monkey do". That is quite within my capacity and for any particular project, there are a handful of templates compared to the number of articles. (see also DL's comments)

• If you look at 2021 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles, you will see redlinks for the legends titles in the infobox grid. This is not because the articles are yet to be created. It is because they weren't played for. This appears to be an issue with the templates that I think could and should be fixed. This was the particular subject of that post from which you have quoted. I am not familiar with the language or syntax of templates, this is potentially an opportunity to improve the templates [and fix the existing problem of redlinks]. I am not sufficiently familiar with the language or syntax to fix the existing problem. The quote has been taken out of its the fuller context. It is being used in a way that (to my mind) is inconsistent with the original context (ie it has been misrepresented). I don't see this to be far from misquoting another. That is a matter of civility. Furthermore, ... as it didn't address how this potentially massive issue will be resolved and just proposed other people doing more work to fix the template issues. I did actually address a fix for the issue without changing the templates. To my mind, the quoted statement from the close appears to be making a negative personal judgement (an aspersion) which is compounded by a misrepresentation and a false "fact".

I would ask that you reconsider what you have said in the close (that part which particularly applies to me) and make a remedy to that which I identify as a misrepresentation and a judgement. I am not asking that you change the substance of your close but only address the "quote" and the "judgement". Regards, Cinderella157 (talk) 01:59, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

@Cinderella157: I based what I wrote on what was actually said at the RfC, not what was said afterwards. It would probably be more pragmatic for you to start a new RfC at this point for the specific issue at stake, rather than disputing the minutae of the previous RfC. Such as capitalization in sporting events that happen to use dashed titles. This would likely be a more productive use of time. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 07:51, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Chess, I am quite aware of what was actually said (particularly at Wikipedia talk:Article titles#Template Issues). I am "disputing" the "civility" of what was said at the close and not the close per se. Quoting from the first post appearing in that section.

However, this issue is easily remedied by ensuring there are redirects from the "assumed" article title format to the "actual" article title. I believe this already occurred for Wimbledon tennis championships that used "ladies" and "gentlemen" instead of "men's" and "women's" for titles. It is a simple solution to what might otherwise be perceived as a near insurmountable problem. Regards, Cinderella157 (talk) 10:59, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

In case you didn't understand, this is a case of making an existing title a redirect, rather than deleting it. Quoting DL (the second post chronologically):

The templates can also be modified to use the new patterns where needed. Currently have the over-capitalization assumption built in, but that's not hard to fix.

The final post (from which the close has quoted) would point out that it could be an opportunity to improve existing problems. This is also in the context that changing the templates isn't actually necessary (per the OP of the section). The sentence that was quoted in the close then continues:

The issue is not a matter of parsing that is reliant on a dashed construction. Secondly, these templates are not the ducks nuts. Specifically, they create red-links for titles played for that don't appear to exist - such as invitation or masters titles.

I WP:AGF - that you did not intend it to be uncivil. But I have explained why I perceive it to be so. It is rarely good form to make a personal judgement about another editor in general discussion (even when closing a discussion). It doesn't help that the comment was based on a quote misrepresented by being taken out of context and an inaccuracy that I ... didn't address how this potentially massive issue will be resolved .... This is not an issue with you close but an issue of civility. Cinderella157 (talk) 11:18, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

I am unsure exactly how I was uncivil in this regard. You say I made a personal judgement about you. I quoted you as an example of the anti-dasher side (since you by far contributed the most), and said I didn't really see the appeal of the argument that the issues are easy to deal with since it didn't address the potential issue involving templates when article titles are changed en masse to use different formats. This isn't an attack on you but a critique of why that argument was not of the highest quality.

You said that redirects are OK to handle this, but in order to have a consistent style we'd need to enshrine dashed construction in all sports event navboxes/templates which would require creating endless redirects (Fyunck mentioned this). Your solution was to just mass-move everything and not change the templates. That would mean some templates arbitrarily assume dashed constructions while others don't. Nobody else seems to have supported that and it would also still necessitate the creation of redirects, as if a new article is created in a series whose templates assume a dashed construction, a redirect consisting of a dashed construction must be created. That is why the proposal was rejected. A relative lack of support for what is going to be a big change. I don't see how it's a personal attack to comment on this. I see that you claim it's "simple", but other people have shown it may not be as simple, and there wasn't enough evidence to close for a consensus to change.

Your comment was made in the context that the templates were simple and that is why I used it.

I guess take it to WP:AN if you have an issue. I don't really see it here. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 10:56, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

... [it/they] just proposed other people doing more work to fix the template issues. That sounds to me like a personal judgement is being made. It is premised by: it didn't address how this potentially massive issue will be resolved - an incorrect statement. I never said that templates were simple. I said that they weren't "smart". I also said that there was a simple solution to the issue of templates - one that was already being used when an article title didn't match what the template expects. I don't care whether the close concludes that the solution of using redirects is good or bad. I don't particularly care about what the close concludes about the issue of templates or even if the close accurately reflects the discussion in that respect. The quote being relied upon is about improving some existing problems with the templates if there is a choice to change them. I have certainly not insisted that templates be change - indeed, the opposite. Per WP:IUC, quoting another editor out of context to give the impression they said something they didn't say can be/is an uncivil behaviour. I do take exception to what I see as a personal judgement premised on an incorrect statement and a quote taken out of context. Cinderella157 (talk) 05:47, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

PS: If the close has a valid conclusion to make in regard to the template issue, it should be able to be made without misrepresenting what I have said. If the close has an invalid conclusion on the matter, it should definitely not be made by misrepresenting what I have said. Either way, the misrepresentation is the issue. Cinderella157 (talk) 10:50, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-02

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

• A oauth_consumer variable has been added to the AbuseFilter to enable identifying changes made by specific tools. [6]
• Gadgets are now able to directly include JSON pages. This means some gadgets can now be configured by administrators without needing the interface administrator permission, such as with the Geonotice gadget. [7]
• Gadgets can now specify page actions on which they are available. For example, |actions=edit,history will load a gadget only while editing and on history pages. [8]
• Gadgets can now be loaded on demand with the withgadget URL parameter. This can be used to replace an earlier snippet that typically looks like withJS or withCSS. [9]
• At wikis where the Mentorship system is configured, you can now use the Action API to get a list of a mentor's mentees. [10]
• The heading on the main page can now be configured using MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin for logged-in users and MediaWiki:Mainpage-title for logged-out users. Any CSS that was previously used to hide the heading should be removed. [11] [12]
• Four special pages (and their API counterparts) now have a maximum database query execution time of 30 seconds. These special pages are: RecentChanges, Watchlist, Contributions, and Log. This change will help with site performance and stability. You can read more details about this change including some possible solutions if this affects your workflows. [13]
• The sticky header has been deployed for 50% of logged-in users on more than 10 wikis. This is part of the Desktop Improvements. See how to take part in the project.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 January. It will be on all wikis from 13 January (calendar).

Events

• Community Wishlist Survey 2022 begins. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.

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01:22, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello

Hello, @Chess: how are you? hope you are well Can you create an article about this person He is a writer, journalist, Middle East correspondent for a well-known Turkish online newspaper Ensonhaber and translator I think he is notable if you have the time of course

<redacted forum-shopping>

@The us wikipedian: I saw your message in #wikipedia-en-help. It is hard for me to write that article because I know neither Turkish nor Arabic and many of the sources you've provided are in Turkish. Have you tried editing the Turkish Wikipedia at tr:Anasayfa? You will likely have an easier time editing or finding someone to create the article as it is in what I think is your native language. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 07:21, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

@Chess: Can you take a look here please https://en.wikialpha.org/wiki/Ali_Al_Suleiman also You can see many sources in English when you search for his name and you can use Google translation and i will help you an we talk on email if you want --The us wikipedian (talk) 07:55, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Also take a look here: this (now blocked) user is a globally banned editor on a relentless quest to have someone write about him on Wikipedia. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 15:10, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

@OhNoitsJamie: Guess it is, wasn't aware. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 19:15, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Um

Why have you left Jimbo DS warnings? Spartaz ^Humbug! 08:16, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

@Spartaz: Because they're not warnings, he's not WP:AWARE, and he's edited in those two areas in the past twelve months by making comments on his talk page related to Obama and India. It's been done before. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 09:40, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Skepticism and coordinated editing arbitration case opened

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Tech News: 2022-03

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 using WikiEditor (also known as the 2010 wikitext editor), people will now see a warning if they link to disambiguation pages. If you click "Review link" in the warning, it will ask you to correct the link to a more specific term. You can read more information about this completed 2021 Community Wishlist item.
• You can automatically subscribe to all of the talk page discussions that you start or comment in using DiscussionTools. You will receive notifications when another editor replies. This is available at most wikis. Go to your Preferences and turn on "Automatically subscribe to topics". [14]
• When asked to create a new page or talk page section, input fields can be "preloaded" with some text. This feature is now limited to wikitext pages. This is so users can't be tricked into making malicious edits. There is a discussion about if this feature should be re-enabled for some content types.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 January. It will be on all wikis from 20 January (calendar).

Events

• Community Wishlist Survey 2022 continues. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.

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19:53, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

RfC in final stages of development

Hello Chess. An RfC is in the final stages of development which you may be interested in. I am messaging you because it was your comments at No consensus closes that gave rise to the RfC. Any ideas or help you may wish to contribute before the RfC goes live will be appreciated. Thank you.--John Cline (talk) 23:14, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Huh, interesting. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 23:31, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

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This Month in Education: January 2022

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• Offline Education project WikiChallenge closed its third edition
• Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom ToT Experience of a Filipina Wikimedian
• Welcoming new trainers of the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom program
• Wikimedia Israel’s education program: Students enrich Hebrew Wiktionary with Biblical expressions still in use in modern Hebrew

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Tech News: 2022-04

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 January. It will be on all wikis from 27 January (calendar).
• The following languages can now be used with syntax highlighting: BDD, Elpi, LilyPond, Maxima, Rita, Savi, Sed, Sophia, Spice, .SRCINFO.
• You can now access your watchlist from outside of the user menu in the new Vector skin. The watchlist link appears next to the notification icons if you are at the top of the page. [15]

Events

• You can see the results of the Coolest Tool Award 2021 and learn more about 14 tools which were selected this year.
• You can translate, promote, or comment on the proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. Voting will begin on 28 January.

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21:36, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

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Discretionary sanctions topic area changes

In a process that began last year with WP:DS2021, the Arbitration Committee is evaluating Discretionary Sanctions (DS) in order to improve it. A larger package of reforms is slated for sometime this year. From the work done so far, it became clear a number of areas may no longer need DS or that some DS areas may be overly broad.

The topics proposed for revocation are:

• Senkaku islands
• Waldorf education
• Ancient Egyptian race controversy
• Scientology
• Landmark worldwide

The topics proposed for a rewording of what is covered under DS are:

• India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
• Armenia/Azerbaijan

Additionally any Article probation topics not already revoked are proposed for revocation.

Community feedback is invited and welcome at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Motions. --Barkeep49 (talk) 16:59, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIII, January 2022

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Nick-D on the Australian Army in Somalia Review essay: Hog Farm on American Civil War sites in the South and Midwest

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The Signpost: 30 January 2022

• Special report: WikiEd course leads to Twitter harassment

• News and notes: Feedback for Board of Trustees election

• Interview: CEO Maryana Iskander "four weeks in"

• Black History Month: What are you doing for Black History Month?

• Deletion report: Ringing in the new year: Subject notability guideline under discussion

• WikiProject report: The Forgotten Featured

• Arbitration report: New arbitrators look at new case and antediluvian sanctions

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2021

• Gallery: No Spanish municipality without a photograph

• Obituary: Twofingered Typist

• Op-Ed: Identifying and rooting out climate change denial

• Essay: The prime directive

• Opinion: Should the Wikimedia Foundation continue to accept cryptocurrency donations?

• In the media: Fuzzy-headed government editing

• Recent research: Articles with higher quality ratings have fewer "knowledge gaps"

• Serendipity: Pooh entered the Public Domain – but Tigger has to wait two more years

• Crossword: Cross swords with a crossword

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Trouted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: Conclusion of Joy of Satan Ministries RFC on including external links? BlueGhast (talk) 23:22, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Sorry I forgot to thank you for taking the time to introduce the feature of RFC vote and proposing it to us in the noticeboard. I believe you said that the vote would end somewhere in December but it does not seam the vote has concluded. What is the final consensus? Thanks BlueGhast (talk) 23:22, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

@BlueGhast: Sorry, maybe I forgot to say that it should be listed at WP:RFCL if you want it to be formally closed in most cases. I'll go make an entry there. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 17:47, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

@BlueGhast: I've gone ahead and requested it to be closed. [16] While I was considering personally closing it myself after getting this message, I'm somewhat WP:INVOLVED in the RfC (I started it) and I thought it would be best if I asked for someone outside to close. Chess (talk) (please use {{reply to|Chess}} on reply) 20:18, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Alright, thanks. BlueGhast (talk) 23:52, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-05

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

• If a gadget should support the new ?withgadget URL parameter that was announced 3 weeks ago, then it must now also specify supportsUrlLoad in the gadget definition (documentation). [17]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• A change that was announced last year was delayed. It is now ready to move ahead:
  • The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in three weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. As usual, these labels can be translated on translatewiki (direct links are available) or by administrators on your wiki.

Events

• You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 28 January and 11 February. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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17:41, 31 January 2022 (UTC)