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The Signpost: 31 May 2020

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

From the editor: Meltdown May?

News and notes: 2019 Picture of the Year, 200 French paid editing accounts blocked, 10 years of Guild Copyediting

In the media: CBS on COVID-19, Sanger on bias, false noses, and five prolific editors

Discussion report: WMF's Universal Code of Conduct

Special report: The sum of human knowledge? Not in one Wikipedia language edition

Featured content: Weathering the storm

Arbitration report: Board member likely to receive editing restriction

Traffic report: Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam

Op-Ed: Where Is Political Bias Taking Us?

Gallery: Wildlife photos by the book

News from the WMF: WMF Board announces Community Culture Statement

Recent research: Automatic detection of covert paid editing; Wiki Workshop 2020

Community view: Transit routes and mapping during stay-at-home order downtime

On video: COVID-19 spurs innovations in Wikimedia video and virtual programming

WikiProject report: Revitalizing good articles

On the bright side: 500,000 articles in the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia

Obituaries: Dmitrismirnov, Kattenkruid, Muidlatif, Ronhjones, Tsirel

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2020

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).

Administrator changes

CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth

Anna Frodesiak • Buckshot06 • Ronhjones • SQL

CheckUser changes

SQL

Guideline and policy news

A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
The Wikimedia Foundation announced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.

Arbitration

A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:27, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-23

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

There is a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos. [1]

Problems

There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May. [2][3][4]
The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed. [5]

Changes later this week

You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can turn these notifications off for individual pages. You can soon turn them off also in the notifications you get. [6]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 June. It will be on all wikis from 4 June (calendar).

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22:31, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Insults

Latest comment: 3 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

I was about to archive that stupid post, and have archived it. Thank you. Are you removing the other insults by that user?

Thank you for trying to minimize conflict. I think that it may be necessary to take that user to WP:ANI, but thank you. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:10, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Robert McClenon, I wasn't sure if I should or not, and needed an affirmation. (It's been a while)

Thanks, I'll get on to it. (Won't be removing anything that's been replied to, however.) —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 21:11, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Right. Don't remove anything that has been replied to. I replied on User talk:Theroadislong, for instance, but that was making a distinction between weasel-wording and just stating the legend. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:13, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Robert McClenon, Seems loose ends are already mostly tied up. I'll watch the situation and take them to ANI if things get out of hand. —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 21:16, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

3 Year Letterman

Latest comment: 3 years ago8 comments3 people in discussion

Why did you delete my page on 3 Year Letterman? Wikipedia needs a page on Coach Letterman he has over 180,000 followers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DVD Collector Club (talk • contribs) 23:12, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

DVD Collector Club, I am not the deleter. I simply marked it for deletion, then someone else came along and approved the deletion. Two people were involved here. Simply put: I do not believe Mr. Letterman fulfills The General Notability Guidelines, which are required for someone to have a wikipedia article. I'd say more, but the article is gone now and I cannot re-affirm my statements. —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 23:19, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

Apparently it's not even deleted yet. I expect it will be, however. —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 23:22, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

It was recreated. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 23:46, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

seems I ate the onion. Thanks for the amusement. _{but don't do it again, please.} —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 00:14, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

DVD Collector Club failed a ping. —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 00:15, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Nobody likes you quit taking down relevant information. DVD Collector Club (talk) 16:38, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

DVD Collector Club I like Moonythedwarf and if you continue with this single-focused approach you will eventually be blocked. Try checking out our Wikipedia:Community portal and become a constructive member of Wikipedia. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 17:23, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-24

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

Some articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead. A third click will now take you back to the original sorting. [7]
Self-closed tags now work as in the HTML5 specifications. This means you should stop using some of them. <b/> is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work. area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect <references /> or <ref />. [8]
There is a banner called WikidataPageBanner. It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on MediaWiki:Sitenotice so that editors know to test and style for mobile too. [9][10]

Changes later this week

You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets. [11]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11 June (calendar).

Future changes

A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 118 wikis need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [12]

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21:12, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

RedWarn - Quick Survey

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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Tech News: 2020-25

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

Recent changes

Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.

Problems

There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed. [13]
Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed. [14]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June (calendar).

Future changes

Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help. [15]
The selectors .menu and .vectorMenu will no longer work in the Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts. .menu should be replaced by ul. .vectorMenu should be replaced by .vector-menu. [16]

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21:38, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-26

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

There are some new tools to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed. [17]
Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to CSS selectors. .vectorTabs should be replaced with .vector-menu-tabs to fix this. [18]

Changes later this week

The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can give feedback. [19]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (calendar).

Future changes

A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 91 wikis still need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected. [20]

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18:49, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Wikimedia

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hello,

I am writing to you today because you write at m:Requests for comment/Should the Foundation call itself Wikipedia that Wikimedia should not be renamed. Now It is possible to take part in an official online survey until June 30th. Please take your time and save Wikimedia!

Thank a lot and best regard! --JohnDoe06.2020 (talk) 11:11, 24 June 2020 (UTC)