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Tech News: 2024-28

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

• At the Wikimedia Foundation a new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graph with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Chart. You can subscribe to the newsletter to get notified about new project updates and other news about Chart.
• The CampaignEvents extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on your wiki. This extension helps in managing and making events more visible, giving Event organizers the ability to use tools like the Event registration tool. To learn more about the deployment status and how to request this extension for your wiki, visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-wiki.
• Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.
• Thank you to all of the authors who have contributed to MediaWiki Core. As a result of these contributions, the percentage of authors contributing more than 5 patches has increased by 25% since last year, which helps ensure the sustainability of the platform for the Wikimedia projects.

Problems

• A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed.

Future changes

• The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation explaining how to do the update. Learn more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:29, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for participating in the June 2024 backlog drive! You scored 7 points while adding citations to articles during WikiProject Reliability's first {{citation needed}} backlog drive, earning you this cookie. Thanks for helping out!

Pichpich (talk) 21:44, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! Rusty 🐈 04:16, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Question from ManicMonix (01:01, 10 July 2024)

Hi, Rusty! I would like to edit the Machine Gun Kelly page (he is my husband, not that bitch Megan Fox) and create a new page for me, Monix Rose Zypher. Can you help? I'm not sure how to edit nor create a specific page. Please help!!! ~Monix --ManicMonix (talk) 01:01, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

@ManiacMonix Welcome to Wikipedia, Monix. Do you have sources, like media reports, that state that you are his wi? Without these, there would be no chance of the change being accepted.

Normally, you'd be able to edit the article yourself, but the article is currently "protected" from editing by new users to reduce the amount of spam and disruptive edits.

On creating an article: Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged, but if you are well-known, there is a possible of an article being created. Just because you're Maachine Gun Kelly's husband–if you really are who you laim to be–doesn't mean you'll automatically deserve an article; we have very specific criteria for that, known as "notability."

If this whole thing doesn't work out, it's not the only article in Wikipedia's millions of articles. Find another one to improve maybe. In fact, I came here with no specific purpose, and just absorbed what I saw

Happy editing, Rusty 🐈 05:35, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi, Rusty, and thank you for the reply. How did you get that cute cat image? I have made about fourteen Grammatical and Spelling edits, starting about five days ago. I love being a Wiki Editor, it is my all-time favorite job. We (Colson James Baker II, "Machine Gun Kelly") and myself got married in 2011. We have lost our marriage certificate.

I have made three new pages:

1) Monix Rose Zypher (Myself) - I am the female voice featured in 'ay!'. Link follows here: [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwowRNLw8Fg

2) My husband, Colson James Baker II.

3) My best friend, Adam Lee LaPratt (the singer in AWOLNation). [2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgIqecROs5M

Something weird is going on. Please help. I just clicked 'Visual' in the upper right corner to check my URL link to YouTube, AND SOMEONE WAS ABLE TO CHANGE MY HUSBANDS NAME WHILE I WAS CHECKING THE URL.

You seem like a very smart man and an excellent hacker. I'm sure you can find out who is doing it and can sue for $1.78 TRILLION dollars. Be very careful. I think there is a worm in you PC.

Sincerely,

~ManicMonix ManicMonix (talk) 13:39, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

RUSTY PLEASE HELP!

Dear Rusty,

I am a new contributing editor to Wiki... I have made three new pages for myself, my husband (James Colson Baker, "Machine Gun Kelly", and my best friend Adam Lee LaPratt, the singer in in SAIL by AWOLNation. Something wierd is going on. All my pages and edits have been deleted. I think someone is hacking the system. I think you can figure it out.

PLEASE HELP US OUT! WE ARE COUNTING ON YOU!!!

Sincerely,

~ManicMonix ManicMonix (talk) 13:31, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

@ManicMonix: Calm down for a moment. No one is hacking the system. All that's happening is that someone is thinking that your intention is to promote those people, because you have written the articles with what seemed like promotional wording.

As I said before, not everyone meets our standard for inclusion. If I had tried to create a new article for myself, it would've been deleted too.

But I cannot ignore the fact newspapers and other sources contradict what you are saying. According to Wikipedia's own article on "Sail", the original album liner notes credit Aaron Bruno for lead vocals.

If you believe that what you're saying is the truth, i recommend you to search for some sources (preferably accessible online), that prove what you say.

Happy editing, Rusty 🐈 13:42, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-29

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

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• Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 3 more days. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.

Recent changes

• Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status page.
• The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10.
• Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team. You can read more about this project on Diff blog.
• Editors who have access to The Wikipedia Library can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation contacted them to restore access. You can read more about this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week.

Changes later this week

• This week, dark mode will be available on a number of Wikipedias, both desktop and mobile, for logged-in and logged-out users. Interface admins and user script maintainers are encouraged to check gadgets and user scripts in the dark mode, to find any hard-coded colors and fix them. There are some recommendations for dark mode compatibility to help.

Future changes

• Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page. [3]
• Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload and discussion at Commons:Village Pump.

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