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Speedy deletion contested: John Marenbon

Hello Funplussmart. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of John Marenbon, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: being elected a Fellow of the British Academy is sufficient to pass WP:GNG. Thank you. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 03:14, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Draft:Joel Lenehan

Hello Funplussmart. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Draft:Joel Lenehan, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: appears to be a real person and a real person can not be made up. Thank you. ~ GB fan 21:39, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Yeah I noticed that only after I tagged the article. It should probably still be deleted because it appears to be an autobiography with no claim of significance. Funplussmart (talk) 22:02, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion declined: Draft:Andrew Norman

Hello Funplussmart, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Draft:Andrew Norman, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not a test page. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. ~ GB fan 01:23, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

GB fan, how is Draft:Andrew Norman not a test page? It appears to be the only purpose of the page, as it obviously will not make onto the namespace no matter what edit is done to it, and has no practical chance of surviving a deletion discussion. Funplussmart (talk) 02:23, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion contested: Draft:CHILD USA

Hello Funplussmart. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Draft:CHILD USA, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not unambiguously promotional. Thank you. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 03:49, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion contested: Draft:Inogen

Hello Funplussmart. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Draft:Inogen, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not unambiguously promotional, but references are weak. . Thank you. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 00:16, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

Eastmain, look at who created the draft. Funplussmart (talk) 00:18, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

Noted, but I still think it might be possible to salvage a useful article out of the draft. I added a few references, but I am not going to move the draft to article space until it becomes good enough. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 00:34, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

Okay, sounds good! Funplussmart (talk) 17:24, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

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Blocked user template

The blocked user template probably isn't needed on every blocked account. The editor typically gets a talkpage notification, as well as a notification when they attempt to edit. Also - why are you adding protection templates to tons of articles? SQL^{Query me!} 17:21, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

SQL, I add the blocked user template to point out that the user had been blocked. If you don't like it then I'll stop. I add the protection template to articles because whoever protected them forgot to put the template in themselves. Funplussmart (talk) 17:24, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Okay so I will not add {{blocked user}} to accounts blocked for simple vandalism, spam, or a username violation. I will only add it if the user was brought up on the Administrator incidents noticeboard or if the user is a troll. Funplussmart (talk) 18:13, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

No, don't add them ever.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:26, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

+1. TonyBallioni (talk) 19:37, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

(talk page gnome) I think that there's a bot to update the protection icons (or there used to be one at least). —PaleoNeonate – 20:45, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Some admins put in the protection template themselves, and then there are the lazy ones who let the bot do it...like me.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:29, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Rollback granted

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So we can finally bite.^[Humor] —PaleoNeonate – 02:09, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

LOL no, there's a policy against that. funplussmart (talk) 02:11, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Note to CheckUsers

Some of the time, especially in the mornings, I may be editing from my school. The school's computers are IP-blocked so anons can't edit, but obviously I can since I'm logged in. I just want to point this out to any CheckUsers. I'm not even sure if it will even be a problem anyway. funplussmart (talk) 11:59, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Unblock requests

Regarding your recent edit at User talk:Assmuncha. Normally it is expected that the blocked user will get their request looked at by an admin. It is not necessary for you to remove impolite requests, some admin will deal with it. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 21:36, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

EdJohnston, I did consider just leaving the requests there and only request the removal of talk page access (which obviously did happen in the end). However, not only did the requests have no chance of succeeding, but the requests were in themselves disruptive, which is why I removed them. funplussmart (talk) 22:25, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

If an admin had seen the rude request, that could have factored into their talk page locking decision. In my opinion non-admin clerking of unblock requests is undesirable just like non-admin removal of AIV reports. You are depriving the person of their admin review. EdJohnston (talk) 22:35, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Well it no longer matters because the user is gone now, but I see your point. How long does it typically take for an unblock request to be seen by an admin? funplussmart (talk) 22:39, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

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Alex Shih (talk) 23:09, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, Alex Shih. I hope things go well for you too. funplussmart (talk) 23:12, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Arbitration case request closed

The Creationism and NPOV arbitration case request has been closed. For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 01:25, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

@L235:, I promise next time I will only file a case if the dispute is long lasting. I'm not very familiar with the Arbitration process, so this is really a learning experience for me. funplussmart (talk) 02:28, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

No big deal – most editors don't know how ArbCom works (including what kinds of cases it usually takes), and I think that's a very good thing! Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 02:46, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

BTW, I'm also not very familiar with it and it was the first time I was invited to participate in a case (except AE). It could also be a question of timing: when the arbitration case was started the ANI thread was still ongoing, but it was quickly closed. My comment was related to its precedent WP:ARBPS, but when reading again, it did seem to be more specific about this particular event (and maybe appropriate). In any case, we'll see, as it's the last step of the DR process, it'll happen if necessary. This is only a personal impression: If it's not necessary, all of the better: arbcom cases can last a long time (weeks to months from what I see), with any possible sanctions harder. An editor reported at ANI is often considered to be wasting community time (less so the first time); since time is considered a precious resource, that could possibly be considered worse after a full ARB case... In any case, I understand that your move was in good faith and not worthy of any reproach. —PaleoNeonate – 08:43, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Kingdamian1

I was about to support your entreaty on Kingdamian1's TP when he deleted it. I think we need editors with different viewpoints. But, some just aren't interested in civil discussion. O3000 (talk) 23:48, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Yep. He clearly has no regard for anyone else on this site. I think he should be indefed for WP:NOTHERE at this point. funplussmart (talk) 23:58, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Healthcare in Nigeria

i've separated Health in Nigeria from healthcare. I did leave edit summaries, but not on every move. Rathfelder (talk) 12:15, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

@Rathfelder: Yeah, I eventually did realize that. I am a RC Patroller so sorry about that. funplussmart (talk) 12:17, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

No problem. Rathfelder (talk) 12:20, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

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Joe DiRosa

When did deleting pages that have been on wikipedia for 10+ years over a creation of a completely unrelated page become a standard practice? Especially with no review or notice. Not to mention the page was just reviewed by another editor a couple days ago with no mention of anything except the type of image that was placed inside. This is essentially harassment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joedirosa (talk • contribs) 20:35, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

@Joedirosa:, WP:AGF. I am really not sure what to do about you. I kinda feel that you attacked me on your talk page, but I also know I did something to provoke that. funplussmart (talk) 13:07, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

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Why did you revert to the vandal version?

On the Science reference desk you Reverted to revision 864690719 by 151.252.86.58 (talk): Remove vandalism. That was six edits before my response to the section "Diesel-electric rail emissions", which read as follows:

On Saturday morning I watched the Flying Scotsman leaving King’s Cross. That was an experience, I can tell you. I haven’t really got close up and personal to a steam locomotive since they switched to diesel in the fifties. Meanwhile, the long-promised electric trains on our local line (the wires have been up for a year) have yet to materialise, and no-one has suggested a date when they will.

Please be good enough to restore my comment. 92.23.53.100 (talk) 21:11, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

At the same time you were posting your comment someone else was vandalizing the page. I reverted the edits, and an admin RevDeleted them. Your post as inadvertently removed in the process. I can restore it if you'd like, or you could ask the admin to. funplussmart (talk) 21:15, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

blocks vs bans

Regarding this edit: a block is a tool to enforce a sanction; a ban is a type of sanction. Thus semantically they will always remain distinct. If discretionary sanctions are not authorized for a topic area, admins can enforce policies such as disruptive editing using a block to prevent ongoing issues. Bans can only be issued via a community discussion or the Arbitration Committee, unless discretionary sanctions have been authorized. Because bans do not have to be limited to the types of blocks available, I don't think trying to merge the terminology will work. (In practice, of course, a lot of editors in community discussions will vote for a "block" when in reality the result is a ban. Some people dispute this and think there is a theoretical difference, but since the appeal route is the same, even if there were a difference in theory, there is no difference in practice.) isaacl (talk) 21:12, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

@Isaacl: Obviously I know the difference between a ban (a formal sanction) and a block (a technical restriction). I opened that thread to discuss the impact of partial blocks on enforcing sanctions. If you have something to say then say it on there. funplussmart (talk) 22:46, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

A small note

I support Maxim's desysopping may suggest you support desysopping Maxim ;-) PizzaMan ♨♨♨ 20:16, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

@PizzaMan:, thank you for pointing that out, I have clarified that. funplussmart (talk) 20:30, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

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Some things I should tell you

I have Autism as well! Tigerdude9 (talk) 15:30, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

@Tigerdude9: nice to know someone else like me on here. And good job at Avianca Flight 011. funplussmart (talk) 16:48, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. I have also translated from the Spanish version, which has more information and made a community draft which still needs a lot of help. Draft:Avianca Flight 011. Tigerdude9 (talk) 21:19, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

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Hacked accounts

Do you have a list?

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 19:52, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

You can look at several ANI posts in the last few days for that. funplussmart (talk) 19:53, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

And there's an incomplete list at User talk:zzuuzz#Bad image list. funplussmart (talk) 19:54, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Cheers. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:01, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

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Boolean algebra

"Mathematical logic" is a bit of a weak stretch with respect to adequately describing Boolean algebra, yet you nonetheless undid in a recent, related edit of mine. Please explain your "logic" in this, as your reversal otherwise makes no sense to me...and my edit was in any case certainly not "unhelpful" or something that should have been sandboxed. 104.15.130.191 (talk) 23:59, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

I'm sorry about that. Feel free to reinsert the edit if you haven't already. funplussmart (talk) 00:03, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you

I can't unsee what was done to boxing day, but I have joined Wikipedia just so that I can say thank you to funplussmart for speedy deletion. Thank you! YarnSnob (talk) 19:11, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

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Vandalism - warnings

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Agent00x, the reason why I only used a 4im is because of WP:DENY. The is socking on the page now. funplussmart (talk) 23:25, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

aha, my apologies. Many thanks Agent00x (talk) 23:26, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

WP:UAA reports on users with no edits

Generally, there is no reason to report usernames with no edits whatsoever. Per WP:UAAI: "Wait until the user edits. Do not report a user that hasn't edited unless they are clearly a vandal. We do not want to welcome productive editors with a report at UAA, nor do we want to waste our time dealing with accounts that may never be used." The exceptions are obvious hate speech or names that attack a living person/Wikipedia editor, those are blockable even without any edits, but other run-of-the-mill violations need not be reported unless and until they at least attempt to edit, and you should be able to clearly explain what the problem is if it is not immediately evident.

For whatever reason, every day dozens, if not hundreds of accounts are created that never make one single edit. It is our responsibility as admins to conscientiously review every report a user makes at UAA, so we have to check for contribs, deleted contribs, and tripping of the edit filter for every one of these reports, only to find out there's nothing there and therefore no problem to be solved. That's time that could be spent doing more productive things, but you basically obligate admins to do it by making such reports. Additionally, UAA is only for blatant violations. I have no idea what was supposedly offensive in this report, let alone so offensive it should be blocked before even trying to edit, and none of the other reviewing admins did either. Please be more careful in the future. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:23, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

@Beeblebrox:, I reported that username because to me it certainty did not look promising. It seemed as if some immature adolesent made an account with that silly name to do silly vandalism. Evidently no edits were actually done with that account, so I guess we're fine then. I promise I'll be more careful in the future on reporting accounts with no edits to UAA. funplussmart (talk) 00:10, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

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Removal of my page

You have to be kidding me for reporting my page to gain some points on your profile. You sir donot have a regular job and have decided to report most of the new pages. This process by you has been noticed several times and you are one trouble maker for new people. Kindly stay away from my page and let others share thier thoughts on wiki. Like the famous statement Mind Your Own Business. Personal suggestion : get a real time job! Snow Flakes Official (talk) 23:31, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

First, I have a job in real life. Second, your user page is blatant promotion, and your username is a blatant violation of the username policy. Third, this message is uncivil and I would've reverted had it not been by an outright troll or vandal. Wikipedia is not for promoting your music, even on your userpage. funplussmart (talk) 23:37, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

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Looking for help with fair-use image tag

Hello, I uploaded File:The 35th Annual National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Suncoast Chapter Emmy Award Winners.pdf to Wikipedia. This is a list of the NATAS Suncoast Chatper Emmy Award Winners in 2011. This list is so important. The Suncoast Chapter does not archive before 2013. They gave me this list via Facebook Messenger. I have reached a stopping point in the process of uploading the file. Would you please consider helping me with this file with a fair-use image tag? I need the help. Thank you,--Wyn.junior (talk) 17:40, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

@Wyn.junior:, I am not very experienced with pdf documents, nor can I say that the file meets WP:NFCC, so I'm not sure if I can help you. You may wish to post your questions on Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. There are editors there that I know can help you with this file. Happy editing! funplussmart (talk) 17:49, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Thank you--Wyn.junior (talk) 17:52, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion? No u!

Ok I know the title of this was mean but seriously, I fixed what you needed me to fix for the speedy deletion nomination of my article for Suicidal Wedding. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ADillon1 (talk • contribs) 02:53, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

@ADillon1: While A3 doesn't apply anymore, it appears A7 does. You way wish to look at Wikipedia:Your first article. funplussmart (talk) 03:42, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For going the extra mile to revert my talk page vandalism I hereby bestow upon you The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar and my sincerest thanks. Its people like you that renew my faith in the Wikipedia community. I pray you never lose that good heart of yours :) Sincerely, TomStar81 (Talk) 00:17, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

@TomStar81:, thank you so much for this. I'm just doing my job as a vandal-fighter around here, keeping the encyclopedia free from all damage. Every member of the community is very valuable. funplussmart (talk) 00:24, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

Help with an Image

I noticed that an image I uploaded was deleted due to section F7 of the criteria for speedy deletion. The image in question was File:MaureenWalsh.jpg. This image came from a government website and the person in question is a public figure. Does this not qualify? I see many politician's photos being used in this capacity. Much appreciated - Stubb05 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stubb05 (talk • contribs) 02:14, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

@Stubb05: Wikipedia requires photos that are freely licensed or in the public domain. In other words, copyrighted pictures that do not allow unrestricted commercial use and derivative works, and are not under a valid claim of fair use are not allowed. The file you uploaded was not freely licensed as it is copyrighted by the State of Washington (Federal gov works are in the public domain, but not necessarily state gov works). Under WP:NFCC#1, we cannot allow that image as a free image of the subject can be reasonably taken, therefore, it does not qualify for fair use either. That's why the image was deleted. If you can find a freely licensed photo of her, you are more than welcome to upload it. funplussmart (talk) 13:10, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Hello Funplussmart, Thanks for your message regarding the permission for the picture I added. As I haven't been on Wikipedia, doing significant edits, for a while, I may need your help and guidance. In this specific case, it took me a few attempts until I was able to load that picture and have it displayed, publicly. As for the permissions themselves. I took the picture of the document MYSELF, so it is definitely my picture. The document itself, was given to me by Dr. Paula Hill, who I'm afraid passed away last year. It is an old document (1938) which she obtained from a UK archive for research purposes. I believe it is public domain. I actually loaded the document twice, gave it two different names. So one can definitely be deleted. Please let me know what else I need to do to make sure this picture can stay. Thanks a lot, Ophir Baer — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ophirbaer (talk • contribs) 08:36, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

@Ophirbaer: If the photo is indeed in the public domain in both the US and UK, the Wikipedia copy of the photo should be deleted and the Commons copy kept so that everyone could use it. Now, on the permission tag I placed, there is an email provided that you can forward permission to to verify everything stated about the document. I am not sure if this is necessary, but I believe that PD status should also if possible be verified by the archive that Hill obtained the photo from. I am not very experienced in this area, so if you need any further help, I recommend posting on either Wikipedia:Media copyright questions or Commons:Commons:Village pump/Copyright. Thank you. funplussmart (talk) 13:33, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-18

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 Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. [1][2]

Problems

• Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [3]

Changes later this week

• You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [4]
• When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in local storage instead of session storage. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [5]
• You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [6]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikidata wb_terms table will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can read more. You can ask for help if you need it.
• Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated. [7]

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22:27, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 April 2019

• News and notes: An Action Packed April

• In the media: Is Wikipedia just another social media site?

• Discussion report: English Wikipedia community's conclusions on talk pages

• Featured content: Anguish, accolades, animals, and art

• Arbitration report: An Active Arbitration Committee

• Traffic report: Mötley Crüe, Notre-Dame, a black hole, and Bonnie and Clyde

• Technology report: A new special page, and other news

• Gallery: Notre-Dame de Paris burns

• News from the WMF: Can machine learning uncover Wikipedia’s missing “citation needed” tags?

• Recent research: Female scholars underrepresented; whitepaper on Wikidata and libraries; undo patterns reveal editor hierarchy

• From the archives: Portals revisited

• Humour: Jimbo and Larry walk into a bar ...

• Opinion: The gaps in our knowledge of our gaps

• Interview: Katherine Maher marks 3 years as executive director

• Community view: 2019 Wikimedia Summit gathers movement affiliate representatives to discuss movement strategy

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Tech News: 2019-19

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

Problems

• Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. The developers are working on solving the problem. [8]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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16:27, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Reverting my changes

You just reverted my changes leaving me this message https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:81.220.104.117&diff=cur . I deleted content that was both unsourced and ,by my personal experience, completely wrong. It's up to someone that wants to add (or keep) content to get some sources. I find your reverting behaviour aggressive and after a few years since my last edit on wikipedia, it discourages me to come back.

Tech News: 2019-20

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

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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00:48, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-21

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 report for phase 1 of the talk pages consultation 2019 has been published. Communities are invited to start phase 2 of the consultation on their wikis.

Problems

• File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [9][10]
• Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit comments. [11][12]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The content translation tool on Wikipedia can use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team. [13]
• The Wikidata wbeditentity API endpoint will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug. This will start on 12 June. [14]

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13:03, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-22

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

Changes later this week

• Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user. [15][16]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:33, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 May 2019

• From the editors: Picture that

• News and notes: Wikimania and trustee elections

• In the media: Politics, lawsuits and baseball

• Discussion report: Admin abuse leads to mass-desysop proposal on Azerbaijani Wikipedia

• Arbitration report: ArbCom forges ahead

• Traffic report: Dark marvels, thrones, a vile serial killer biopic, that's entertainment!

• Technology report: Lots of Bots

• News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation petitions the European Court of Human Rights to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey

• Recent research: Wikipedia more useful than academic journals, but is it stealing the news?

• Essay: Paid editing

• From the archives: FORUM:Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?

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Tech News: 2019-23

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

• You can now write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version. [17]
• There is now a field called depicts on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development. [18]
• Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema. [19][20]

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [21]

Changes later this week

• Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited. [22]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:24, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-24

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 you create a PDF from a page on the wiki this is now done by Proton. Before this we used Electron. It should look the same but work better. Both use Chromium. This is a different system from when you collect several articles into a book and make a PDF from them. [23][24]
• The Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standard OOUI icons. There will be additional minor fixes for positioning in the next deployment. [25]
• Bots and other scripts that do not set an identifiable User-Agent may find their requests strictly rate-limited until they identify themselves properly. [26]

Problems

• Please check if the Flagged Revisions configuration on your wiki is as you expect (or as it was a few weeks ago). If not, please report it. [27]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 12 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:06, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-25

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

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem. [28]

Changes later this week

• MIDI files can soon be played without the Score extension. You can then add them with [[File:Filename.midi]]. Later override_midi and override_audio will stop working. Instead you will need to add the MIDI file below the music score. [29]
• A new video player will soon replace the old one. You will be able to enable it as a beta feature in your preferences. It will later be enabled for everyone if there are no big problems. [30]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 19 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some gadgets and user scripts still use the old wgEnableAPI and wgEnableWriteAPI values. These values are always true. They will soon be removed. This might break the gadgets and scripts. You should fix your gadgets to not use these values. [31]

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20:37, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-26

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

• The new version of MediaWiki for last week was not fully released due to issues. It was removed from most wikis on Tuesday and from test wikis on Thursday. [32]
• Most wikis were slow and then briefly read-only last week due to one of the database servers having a problem. It is now replaced. [33]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can watch or join the next Wikimedia Language showcase. It will be about the usage of Machine Translation in Wikimedia projects. The showcase will be on 26 June at 13:00 (UTC). A recording will be kept for later viewing
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:29, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

The June 2019 Signpost is out!

• Discussion report: A constitutional crisis hits English Wikipedia

• News and notes: Mysterious ban, admin resignations, Wikimedia Thailand rising

• In the media: The disinformation age

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• Traffic report: Juneteenth, Beauty Revealed, and more nuclear disasters

• Technology report: Actors and Bots

• Gallery: Unlike the North Face, Wiki Loves Earth

• Special report: Did Fram harass other editors?

• Recent research: What do editors do after being blocked?; the top mathematicians, universities and cancers according to Wikipedia

• From the archives: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching

• Opinion: Why the Terms of Use change didn't curtail undisclosed paid editing—and what might

• In focus: WikiJournals: A sister project proposal

• Community view: A CEO biography, paid for with taxes

• Op-Ed: 2019 Wikimedia Affiliate Selected Board Seats Election Results

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Tech News: 2019-27

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 development of Wikidata Bridge has started. The goal is to allow Wikidata edits from Wikipedia. [34]

Problems

• Sometimes pages load slowly for users routed to the Amsterdam data center. Investigation is in progress. [35]
• Wikidata query service was overloaded between 11:50 UTC until 13:15 UTC on June 24. It has been fixed. [36]

Changes later this week

• You will be able to read but not to edit all wikis for a short amount of time, on 3 July at 06:00 (UTC). This is to move a database. [37]
• There is no deployment of a new version of MediaWiki on the wikis this week (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:22, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-28

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

• For event organizers, if you request a temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation, this will now also raise the edit rate limit for those new accounts at the event, which will prevent another bottleneck. [38]
• Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new partial blocks feature. [39]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 July. It will be on all wikis from 11 July (calendar).
• The design of MediaWiki's software windows will change for desktop users. Layout will be simpler, buttons will be bolder and clearer, and close buttons will be just icons. This is like the mobile design. This will affect ContentTranslation, VisualEditor, TemplateWizard, and other tools. [40]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [41]
• There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July. [42]

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20:12, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-29

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 mobile web will get more advanced editing tools. Seven more Wikipedias can use them now. This works for Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Persian, Japanese, Spanish and Thai Wikipedia. You can try the tools on the mobile web and give feedback. [43]

Changes later this week

• The abuse filter system user will soon do maintenance edits on broken abuse filters. This user is called Edit filter and has administrator rights. This is meant to fix technical problems. It will not do any other changes. You can read more.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 July. It will be on all wikis from 18 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add image captions to images on Commons. It will only invite users who have added a number of edits in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback. [44]

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15:29, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-30

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

• Communities interested by easing newcomers' first steps can now benefit from the Growth team experiments on their wikis. Check the conditions and the request process.
• The Coolest Tool Award 2019 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools by July 29. The awarded tools will be presented at Wikimania. [45]

Problems

• The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been blocked for groups 1 and 2. [46]

Changes later this week

• Phabricator database will be moved to a different server. Writes will be blocked on Thursday 25 July, between 05:30 and 06:00 AM UTC. Reads will remain unaffected. [47]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 July. It will be on all wikis from 25 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some items in the visual editor will change later this week. This will make it easier to edit links, citations, and templates on both desktop and mobile. [48][49]
• With advanced search turned on you will be able to choose the sorting order of the search results when you do a search. [50][51]
• Users who edit from IP addresses whitelisted on a request for temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation will bypass CAPTCHAs. This will happen in August. If you think this should not happen for some reason, please let us know.
• The variable user_wpzero will be removed from AbuseFilter. A list of filters needing a fix is provided.

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13:07, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-31

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

• Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [52]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 31 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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21:42, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 July 2019

• News and notes: Wikimedia grants less accessible for travel, equipment, meetups, and India

• In the media: Politics starts getting rough

• Discussion report: New proposals in aftermath of Fram ban

• Arbitration report: A month of reintegration

• Gallery: Classic panoramas from Heinrich Berann

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• Community view: Video based summaries of Wikipedia articles. How and why?

• News from the WMF: Designing ethically with AI: How Wikimedia can harness machine learning in a responsible and human-centered way

• Recent research: Most influential medical journals; detecting pages to protect

• Special report: Administrator cadre continues to contract

• Traffic report: World cups, presidential candidates, and stranger things

• In focus: The French Wikipedia is overtaking the German

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Tech News: 2019-32

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 6 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 August. It will be on all wikis from 8 August (calendar).

Problems

• A change in RelatedArticles extension accidentally enabled it for everyone, not just for mobile users. This has been fixed. [53][54]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Today everyone can see IP addresses if someone edits without an account. In the future this could be more hidden. This is to protect unregistered editors so fewer can see their IP address. This would only happen after we make sure the tools for vandal fighting can still be effective. You can read more and comment.

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13:24, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-33

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

• Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools. Feedback on the discussion page is appreciated. [55]
• Due to the absence of volunteer maintenance of Cologne Blue skin, the link to activate it will be hidden. The skin will still work, but editors using it are encouraged to switch to another skin. [56]

Changes later this week

• Due to Wikimania, there is no deployment this week. [57]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The "Wikidata item" link will be moved from "Tools" to "In other projects" section on all Wikimedia projects, starting on August 21. Full announcement, Phabricator task.

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18:19, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-34

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

Tech News

• There will be no Tech News issue next week. The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 2 September 2019.

Problems

• Some abuse filters stopped working because of a code change. Only variables for the current action will work. Variables defined inside a branch may not work outside of that branch. You can read more to see how to fix the filters.
• Only six accounts can be created from one IP address per day. Between 12 August and August 15 this was two accounts per day. This was because of a security issue. It is now six accounts per day again. [58]

Changes later this week

• Only a limited number of accounts can be created from one IP address. An IP address can be whitelisted so that it can create as many accounts as needed. This is useful at events where many new persons learn to edit. IP addresses that are whitelisted for this reason will also not show CAPTCHAs when you create accounts. This will happen on Wednesday. [59]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 August. It will be on all wikis from 22 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There is an RFC about creating a new global user group with the right to edit abuse filters. This will be used to fix broken filters and make sure all filters will still work when software changes happen. You can read more and comment.
• Special:Contributions/newbies will no longer be working. This is because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can see this in the recent changes feed instead. [60]

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15:20, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 August 2019

• News and notes: Documenting Wikimania and our beginnings

• In focus: Ryan Merkley joins WMF as Chief of Staff

• In the media: Many layers of fake news: Fake fiction and fake news vandalism

• Discussion report: Meta proposals on partial bans and IP users

• Traffic report: Once upon a time in Greenland with Boris and cornflakes

• Op-Ed: We couldn't have told you this, but Wikipedia was censored

• Opinion: The Curious Case of Croatian Wikipedia

• Community view: Chinese Wikipedia and the battle against extradition from Hong Kong

• News from the WMF: Meet Emna Mizouni, the newly minted 2019 Wikimedian of the Year

• Recent research: Special issue on gender gap and gender bias research

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

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Tech News: 2019-36

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

• You can use the new termbox interface if you edit Wikidata on a mobile device. This is to edit labels, descriptions and aliases easier on the mobile pages. [61]
• The new version of MediaWiki has been deployed during the last week.
• The previously announced change of positions of the "Wikidata item" link on all wikis has been rollbacked due to unexpected cache issues. [62]
• The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute. [63]
• The advanced version of the edit review pages (Recent Changes, Watchlist, and Related Changes) now include two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces. However the "All discussions" filter does not include pseudo talk pages, like discussions that are in the Project: or Wikipedia: namespaces. But it will include changes happening on Project talk: or the Wikipedia talk:. [64]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 September. It will be on all wikis from 5 September (calendar).
• When you log in, the software checks your password to see if it follows the Password policy. From this week, it will also complain if your password is one of the most common passwords in the world. If your password is not strong enough, please consider to change your password for a stronger password. [65]

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikidata for up to 30 minutes on September 10 at 05:00 (UTC). [66]
• You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 17 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [67]
• You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 24 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [68]
• You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for up to 30 minutes on September 26 at 05:00 (UTC). [69]

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09:07, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 September 2019

• From the editors: Where do we go from here?

• Special report: Post-Framgate wrapup

• In the media: A net loss: Wikipedia attacked, closing off Russia? welcoming back Turkey?

• Traffic report: Varied and intriguing entries, less Luck, and some retreads

• News from the WMF: How the Wikimedia Foundation is making efforts to go green

• Recent research: Wikipedia's role in assessing credibility of news sources; using wikis against procrastination; OpenSym 2019 report

• Gallery: Finding freely licensed photo collections

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• In focus: Wikidata & Wikibase for national libraries: the inaugural meeting

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Tech News: 2019-40

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

• Last week's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The problem where some pages got it three times should now be fixed. [70]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working on a watchlist expiry feature. This means you can put things on your watchlist for a period of time instead of forever. They are looking for feedback on the questions they have.
• Special:Contributions will get the standard OOUI look. This makes it easier to use on mobile and makes it look like other Special: pages. There is a script you can use to make the form smaller if you want to. [71]

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16:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-41

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 abuse filter function now has a faster parser. This is to shorten the waiting time when you save an edit. [72]

Problems

• There is a problem in the visual editor when you copy or delete text with footnotes. It will be fixed soon. [73]

Changes later this week

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

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Community Wishlist Survey has a new format. It will focus on wikis that typically get less support. It will probably go back to the normal format next year. It is not decided exactly how it will work this year. You can leave feedback.
• The URL of the Wikimedia wiki main pages could be changed. This is because the current URLs cause several problems. For example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page would be https://www.wikidata.org/ instead. You can tell the developers if this would cause problems for your wiki.
• There is a new technical community newsletter. You can read more about the work of Wikimedia's technical community. Subscribe to get the information in the future.
• Outreachy is an internship program for groups who are underrepresented in free and open-source software. There are seven Wikimedia projects about coding, documentation and quality assurance in the next round. Persons who fit the criteria can apply. The last day to apply is 5 November.

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15:35, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Retirement

Thank you for your work here, including patrolling. Farewell, —PaleoNeonate – 20:30, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for your support. It is sad that I must move on. funplussmart (talk) 20:41, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

As requested I have blocked your account. I have not removed your talk page access, ping me here if you do wish this to be the case. Should you ever change your mind - or that your circumstances change - you can request an unblock here or by emailing any active administrator. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Fish+Karate 16:38, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

The same. I'm saddened to see this, but relieved that you said "indefinitely", not "permanently". You are, of course, welcome back here any time. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 18:34, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

I have appreciated your work here, and am sorry to see you go. Jacona (talk) 19:43, 22 June 2019 (UTC)