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Administrators' newsletter – August 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).
Administrator changes
Oversight changes
Guideline and policy news
- There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
- Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
- Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
- There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.
The Signpost: 2 August 2020
- Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?
- COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money
- News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin
- In the media: Dog days gone bad
- Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy
- Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom
- Traffic report: Now for something completely different
- News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users
- Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil
Galleery article for The Signpost?
I saw User:Josve05a/species and it looks marvelous. I'd love to put it as a Gallery article for our next issue. May I move (or copy) it over? I'll suggest a couple of changes. 1) is I think that there are 2-3 photos that are likely very rare and marvelous pictures, but still wouldn't come across so well to the average reader so I might remove those. I'll also suggest that you give a bit more info on Inaturalist. Finally I'll break up the text and photos into sections. I think it will look great.
Sincerely,
Smallbones(smalltalk) 03:42, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
- Yes please! Feel free to do whatever editing your like :) I will add more info about iNaturalist shortly. Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 04:52, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
- Please add, edit at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/Gallery. I think the photos are "upside down" - the most endangered should be at the top. The text you have (or edit or change) should be interleaved with the photo groups. I'll get back to editing it on Thursday. Thanks. Smallbones(smalltalk) 17:52, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
- I was, unfortunately, AFK for most of yesterday, so wasn't around. Saw that you had done this already. I've added some more image and added a few more words to the text. Not sure how to best "interleave it"... Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 17:26, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
- I think it's just about ready to go. I have turned the order around with Critically endangered up top. And interleaved the text in betwen the groups of photos. That way people don't think they have to read the whole thing before they look at the photos!
- Please add, edit at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/Gallery. I think the photos are "upside down" - the most endangered should be at the top. The text you have (or edit or change) should be interleaved with the photo groups. I'll get back to editing it on Thursday. Thanks. Smallbones(smalltalk) 17:52, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
I think it's down to 33 photos, I'd like only 30 photos - that way it loads faster for folks who have slow connections. But please don' add more photos unless you take out the same number. Thanks. It looks good. Smallbones(smalltalk) 16:30, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you very much Smallbones for all your help! This was my 7th "own" article in The Signpost (plus 2 which I got a byline credit for helping writing some parts); my first being Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-05-27/Discussion report. Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 19:40, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- We'd love to have you write some more. There's always In the media where you can add just a short paragraph if needed, I'd like to do News and notes in much the same way, or if you have a particular topic you like, you could write a regular (or semi-regular) column. e.g. GLAM, European language versions, etc. Let me know if there is anything I can do to get you started. Smallbones(smalltalk) 19:56, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
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
- All queries to the Wikidata Query Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period. [1]
- Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks. This problem was also mentioned in Tech News two weeks ago. The problem is now fixed. [2]
- There is a problem with the global preferences for the "Use Legacy Vector" option. Developers are working on fixing it. [3]
- A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed. [4]
Changes later this week
- The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The old player will be removed. [5]
- Users'
global.jsandglobal.csspages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin. [6] 
In the MonoBook skin, the searchGoButtonidentifier is nowsearchButton. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953. This was previously mentioned in issue 27.- Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses
counterto prevent large archives was changed. [7] 
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 5. It will be on all wikis from August 6 (calendar).
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- FileImporter and FileExporter became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact. [8]
Problems
- The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in Structured Discussions and content translation may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it. [9]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 12. It will be on all wikis from August 13 (calendar).
Future changes
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [10][11]
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16:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
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 you revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an
undotag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking edits as undos when they actually do something else. [12] - The new OOUI version will not work with Internet Explorer 8. This means the wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was reported in Tech/News/2020/17. This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates other problems. [13]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 August. It will be on all wikis from 20 August (calendar).
Future changes
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis next week. This is a reminder. You can help by translating the announcement message. [14][15]
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20:40, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 August. It will be on all wikis from 27 August (calendar).
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17:59, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 August 2020
- News and notes: The high road and the low road
- In the media: Storytelling large and small
- Featured content: Going for the goal
- Special report: Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way
- Op-Ed: The longest-running hoax
- Traffic report: Heart, soul, umbrellas, and politics
- News from the WMF: Fourteen things we’ve learned by moving Polish Wikimedia conference online
- Recent research: Detecting spam, and pages to protect; non-anonymous editors signal their intelligence with high-quality articles
- Arbitration report: A slow couple of months
- From the archives: Wikipedia for promotional purposes?
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
- This is a reminder. All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 14:00 and 15:00 UTC. Please check on the details on the announcement message. [16][17]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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20:08, 31 August 2020 (UTC)