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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
- Wikis using the Growth team tools can now show the name of a newcomer's mentor anywhere through a magic word. This can be used for welcome messages or userboxes.
- A new version of the VideoCutTool is now available. It enables cropping, trimming, audio disabling, and rotating video content. It is being created as part of the developer outreach programs.
Problems
- There was a problem with the job queue. This meant some functions did not save changes and mass messages were delayed. This did not affect wiki edits. [1]
- Some editors may not be logged in to their accounts automatically in the latest versions of Firefox and Safari. [2]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 March. It will be on all wikis from 4 March (calendar).
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19:06, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2021 edit
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
- A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
- A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the
delete-redirectuserright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect. - A request for comment asks if sysops may
place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions
? - There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.
Technical news
- When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
- When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
- There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).
Arbitration
- By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions
authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.
Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions. - The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for
the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed
.
- By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions
Miscellaneous
- Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.
Help needed edit
commons:File:Kuwait_Towers_RB.jpg, a featured picture locally, has been deleted on Commons, but I believe the image would fall under {{FoP-USonly}}. Could you upload it locally? Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 03:48, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Lht edit
Template:Lht has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Elli (talk | contribs) 05:54, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like you to reconsider your closure of this deletion review request. You closed the DRV as "overturn to redirect". While that was the solution sought by the appellant as well as a few other people, it was not a solution that enjoyed consensus in the discussion. That's because five people (including myself as the AfD closer) would have endorsed the deletion. Because there was no consensus to undo the closure, you should not have done so. Additionally, in your closure, you made no attempt at establishing what the consensus of the DRV discussion was. Instead, you closed the DRV based on your reading of the AfD, which is to say, you cast a "supervote" by substituting your preferred outcome of the AfD for my interpretation of the AfD's consensus. That was also inappropriate in my view. Regards, Sandstein 13:42, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- DRVs are closed based on the merits of the arguments, and the "endorse" !voters failed to identify how exactly the AfD supported a consensus not to redirect. This is the difference between AfD and RfD: AfD applies to content, RfD applies to titles. There is no such thing as a consensus to delete at AfD per se, only a consensus to not have a standalone article on a particular subject; deletion is simply a byproduct of a topic not deserving an article and having no place to redirect the title. Thus "delete" and "redirect" !votes are treated the same way at AfD unless the "delete" !votes specifically address the viability of a redirect (basically bringing RfD-style arguments to the AfD avoid the WP:BURO of starting a separate RfD down the line). Otherwise, the page can be redirected to any suitable target, and an RfD is required to delete the redirect.
- You can also think about it this way: After an AfD, someone can unilaterally create a redirect at the redlink, and it wouldn't fall under G4; it would require RfD to delete that redirect. It is also perfectly reasonable to restore the history under a redirect unless it contains policy violations. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 22:27, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you for closing the DRV, King of Hearts. Your close accurately assessed the consensus and strengths of the DRV participants' arguments with regard to Wikipedia:Deletion policy#Alternatives to deletion. Cunard (talk) 11:13, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
- King of Hearts, that is a reasonable opinion to express in an AfD, but it is inappropriate to express in a DRV closure. The DRV closer is supposed to determine whether consensus exists to overturn a contested AfD closure, not to substitute their own judgment about whether an article should be deleted for that of both the AfD and the DRV participants. You did not even attempt to assess the consensus in the DRV, and I am very disappointed in you for that. Please consider reopening the DRV and letting somebody else close it, or I'll seek community review of your action. Regards, Sandstein 16:51, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
- Again: Cunard didn't even have to open a DRV to overturn your close. He could have just created a redirect himself, and then asked an admin nicely to restore the history underneath the redirect. The fact that he !voted in the AfD is irrelevant; otherwise it creates a perverse incentive for those wishing to merge/redirect to avoid AfD participation, and then create the redirect. It is only relevant if the other AfD participants have addressed the issue of a redirect and explicitly rejected it.
- Anyways, the proper venue to discuss the status of a redirect is RfD, so I have opened up the discussion: Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 March 9#Squad (app). -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:11, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
- King of Hearts, I am not contesting the creation of the redirect. I am contesting your DRV closure. I have asked for community review of this and a related matter at WP:AN#Review of DRV supervotes by King of Hearts. Sandstein 12:05, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
Nomination of United Airlines Flight 1175 for deletion edit
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article United Airlines Flight 1175, to which you have significantly contributed, is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or if it should be deleted.
The discussion will take place at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/United Airlines Flight 1175 (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 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.
To customise your preferences for automated AfD notifications for articles to which you've significantly contributed (or to opt-out entirely), please visit the configuration page. Delivered by SDZeroBot (talk) 01:03, 8 March 2021 (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
- Section translation now works on Bengali Wikipedia. It helps mobile editors translate sections of articles. It will come to more wikis later. The first focus is active wikis with a smaller number of articles. You can test it and leave feedback.
- Flagged revisions now give admins the review right. [3]
- When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article. [4]
Problems
- Many graphs have JavaScript errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing. [5]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 March. It will be on all wikis from 11 March (calendar).
- The New Discussion tool will soon be a new discussion tools beta feature for on most Wikipedias. The goal is to make it easier to start new discussions. [6]
Future changes
- There will be a number of changes to make it easier to work with templates. Some will come to the first wikis in March. Other changes will come to the first wikis in June. This is both for those who use templates and those who create or maintain them. You can read more.
- Reference Previews will become a default feature on some wikis on 17 March. They will share a setting with Page Previews. If you prefer the Reference Tooltips or Navigation-Popups gadget you can keep using them. If so Reference Previews won't be shown. [7][8]
- New JavaScript-based functions will not work in Internet Explorer 11. This is because Internet Explorer is an old browser that doesn't work with how JavaScript is written today. Everything that works in Internet Explorer 11 today will continue working in Internet Explorer for now. You can read more.
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17:50, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you edit
Thank you for the result you make. -St3095 (?) 13:11, 12 March 2021 (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.
Recent changes
- Wikis that are part of the desktop improvements project can now use a new search function. The desktop improvements and the new search will come to more wikis later. You can also test it early.
Editors who put up banners or change site-wide JavaScript code should use the client error graph to see that their changes has not caused problems. You can read more. [9]
Problems
- Due to database issues the Wikimedia Beta Cluster was read-only for over a day.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 March. It will be on all wikis from 18 March (calendar).
Future changes
- You can add a newline or carriage return character to a custom signature if you use a template. There is a proposal to not allow them in the future. This is because they can cause formatting problems. [10][11]
- You will be able to read but not edit 12 wikis for a short period of time on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
- You can use Quarry for SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas. Cross-database
JOINSwill no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. PAWS and other ways to do SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later. [12]
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23:21, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
SPI clerking? edit
Hi, your name is listed on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SPI/Clerks under "Temporarily inactive clerks", and I noticed you haven't been active at SPI for some time. Do you think you would eventually like to return to clerking one day? If not, that's okay too, and I can remove your name from the list of clerks. Thanks for all the work you've done as a clerk! Sro23 (talk) 12:36, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
Self promotion scope edit
I have a COI for University Bible Fellowship and working on making the article more balanced with reliable references. There is a Reactions section. I want to add some people's reaction who have positive opinions unlike some others mentioned in the section. But their endorsements are in the groups's homepage. Do you think it is a case of self promotion? Dlee612 (talk) 03:31, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
- WP:WEIGHT is the guiding principle:
- If a viewpoint is in the majority, then it should be easy to substantiate it with reference to commonly accepted reference texts;
- If a viewpoint is held by a significant minority, then it should be easy to name prominent adherents;
- If a viewpoint is held by an extremely small minority, it does not belong on Wikipedia, regardless of whether it is true or you can prove it, except perhaps in some ancillary article.
- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 15:21, 20 March 2021 (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
- There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. They don't have a touch screen so readers navigate with the phone keys. There is now a simulator so you can see what it looks like.
- The reply tool and new discussion tool are now available as the "Discussion tools" beta feature in almost all wikis except German Wikipedia.
Problems
- You will be able to read but not edit twelve wikis for a short period of time on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This can also affect password changes, logging in to new wikis, global renames and changing or confirming emails. This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 March. It will be on all wikis from 25 March (calendar).
- Syntax highlighting colours will change to be easier to read. This will soon come to the first wikis. [13]
Future changes
- Flagged revisions will no longer have multiple tags like "tone" or "depth". It will also only have one tier. This was changed because very few wikis used these features and they make the tool difficult to maintain. [14][15]
- Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015 this was moved from
wg*tomw.config.wg*will soon no longer work. [16]
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16:52, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
You placed the David Petraeus article under the Pending Changes protection on December 3, 2012 and it has remained under the PC protection since then. Could you please unprotect the article now? It is not subject to active vandalism or BLP or copyvio violations. Looking at the page history for January through March I see only one edit that was an actual vandalism attempt. I don't think the article qualifies for the PC protection now. Thanks, Nsk92 (talk) 20:03, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 March 2021 edit
- News and notes: A future with a for-profit subsidiary?
- Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments
- In the media: Wikimedia LLC and disinformation in Japan
- News from the WMF: Project Rewrite: Tell the missing stories of women on Wikipedia and beyond
- Recent research: 10%-30% of Wikipedia’s contributors have subject-matter expertise
- From the archives: Google isn't responsible for Wikipedia's mistakes
- Obituary: Yoninah
- From the editor: What else can we say?
- Arbitration report: Open letter to the Board of Trustees
- Traffic report: Wanda, Meghan, Liz, Phil and Zack
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
- Some very old web browsers don’t work well with the Wikimedia wikis. Some old code for browsers that used to be supported is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. [17]
- IRC recent changes feeds have been moved to a new server. Make sure all tools automatically reconnect to
irc.wikimedia.organd not to the name of any specific server. Users should also consider switching to the more modern EventStreams. [18]
Problems
- When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split. It might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. [19]
- Some translatable pages on Meta could not be edited. This was because of a bug in the translation tool. The new MediaWiki version was delayed because of problems like this. [20][21]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 March. It will be on all wikis from 1 April (calendar).
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17:29, 29 March 2021 (UTC)