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DCWC closing update
[edit]The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest has come to a close! After a thrilling finish to the event with a slew of submissions on the final day, we have our winners. With 608 points, Thebiguglyalien (submissions) comes in third with his series of Kiribati and Botswanan submissions; BeanieFan11 (submissions) flies into second place at the last second with 771 points after a string of good articles about sportspersons; and after leading for much of contest's three months, Generalissima (submissions) finishes with a whopping 798 points to take home the Gold Belt Buckle. Congratulations to our winners!
In addition to his spot in the top three, BeanieFan11 (submissions) also wins the special awards for submitting under the most countries (44 countries) and for writing the most articles about women (15 Did you know? nominations)! Magentic Manifestations (submissions), after making 16 submissions under the Indian flag—15 of them good articles—receives the awards for most submissions for a single country and most featured or good articles promoted. For their submission of one FAC review, five FLC reviews, and 20 GAN reviews, Simongraham (submissions) wins for most article reviews.
The results of the contest have far exceeded any expectations the coordinators had for it at the beginning: among the submissions to the event were 3 FAs, 10 FLs, 88 GAs, dozens of article reviews of every kind, and more Did you know? submissions than we can count! Regardless of your level of participation, every contestant can be proud to have contributed towards a major step in countering the systemic bias on Wikipedia. Every year, millions of readers and editors around the globe use Wikipedia to educate themselves and communicate with others about parts of the world that often receive less attention than they deserve. Thank you for participating with us in the contest and contributing to this effort. The DCWC will return next year and we look forward to seeing you contribute again! However, before that...
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TolBot (talk) 21:00, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
lang-?? templates
[edit]The {{lang-??}}
templates are being merged, per the TfD. Please use the correct template.
—Trappist the monk (talk) 13:56, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- Trappist the monk, I am doing this as requested here. Could you please let me know which template is the correct one? I will make the necessary adjustments. You can check the edits here. Just pinging Primefac since they requested this. – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:05, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- The TfD closure says: "The result of the discussion was merge to Template:Langx." It did not say delete; I know, ultimately these templates will be deleted after the merge, but for such a large scale process, I'd rather keep to the letter of the law. So, I've been replacing the TfD notices with this:
<noinclude>{{Being merged|spacetype=template|discuss=Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2024_September_27#Replace_and_delete_lang-??_templates|target=Template:Langx|nocat=yes}}</noinclude>
- —Trappist the monk (talk) 14:13, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks. I stopped because you are already handling it. – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:39, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- Will you redo the templates that you touched, please?
- —Trappist the monk (talk) 14:45, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- Sure – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:46, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you.
- —Trappist the monk (talk) 14:47, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- Sure – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:46, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- Trappist the monk, Done – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:57, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you.
- —Trappist the monk (talk) 14:59, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- Trappist the monk, you've been doing this for long enough - {{being deleted}} is the template that is used regardless of the outcome of the TFD. I'm not necessarily opposed to doing it another way, or even modifying the template to indicate a merge, but please don't make it sound like DR was doing something wrong. Primefac (talk) 17:02, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks. I stopped because you are already handling it. – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:39, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- The TfD closure says: "The result of the discussion was merge to Template:Langx." It did not say delete; I know, ultimately these templates will be deleted after the merge, but for such a large scale process, I'd rather keep to the letter of the law. So, I've been replacing the TfD notices with this:
September 2024 NPP backlog drive – Points award
[edit]The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | ||
This award is given in recognition to DreamRimmer for accumulating at least 25 points during the September 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions helped play a part in the 19,000+ articles and 35,000+ redirects reviewed (for a total of 26,884.6 points) completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 15:28, 7 October 2024 (UTC) |
- Thank you :) – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:29, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-41
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [1]
Updates for editors
- Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now customize their articles suggestion list from 41 filtering options when using the tool. This topic-based article suggestion feature makes it easy for translators to self-discover relevant articles based on their area of interest and translate them. You can try it with your mobile device. [2]
- View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- It is now possible for
<syntaxhighlight>
code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if thecopy=1
attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [3] - Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [4]
- Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available.
- Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
- Five new wikis have been created:
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:38, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
Administrator Elections: Call for Candidates
[edit]Administrator Elections | Call for Candidates
The administrator elections process has officially started! Interested editors are encouraged to self-nominate or arrange to be nominated by reviewing the instructions at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Call for candidates.
Here is the schedule:
- October 8–14 - Candidate sign-up (we are here)
- October 22–24 - Discussion phase
- October 25–31 - SecurePoll voting phase
Please note the following:
- The requirements to run are identical to RFA—a prospective candidate must be extended confirmed.
- Prospective candidates are advised to become familar with the community's expectations of adminstrators, which are much higher than the minimum requirement of having extended confirmed status. This includes reviewing successful and unsuccessful RFAs, reading the essay Wikipedia:Advice for RfA candidates, and possibly requesting an optional poll on their chances of passing.
- The process will have a one week call for candidates phase, a one week pause to set up SecurePoll, a three-day period of public discussion, followed by 7 days of no public discussion and a private vote using SecurePoll.
- The outcomes of this process are identical to making requests for adminship. There is no official difference between an administrator appointed through RFA or administrator elections.
- Administrator elections are also a valid means of regaining adminship for de-sysopped editors.
Ask any questions about the process at the talk page. A separate user talk message will be sent to official candidates with additional information about the process.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:35, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
Signature
[edit]Hello! Please add class="skin-invert"
to the <b>
tag of your signature; it is invisible in Vector dark mode. Thanks, Charlotte (Queen of Hearts • talk) 20:42, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
- Done, thanks! – DreamRimmer (talk) 11:32, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
DR bot
[edit]Thanks for the new bot, it seems to be working very well. This file seems to need a User: prefix though. Cheers! Wikishovel (talk) 15:24, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
- Wikishovel, thanks for the heads-up. It was created in error. I was testing in the bot's user space but forgot to add the prefix. – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:46, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
[edit]The Technical Barnstar | |
I only recently noticed how many technical aspects of Wikipedia you're involved in. I encourage you to run for the administrator elections if there's still time when you read this because I think you'd probably pass. Zippybonzo | talk | contribs (they/them) 17:26, 14 October 2024 (UTC) |
- Thanks for the encouragement, Zippy. I currently don't have any plans for RfA. – DreamRimmer (talk) 01:00, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-42
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. [10][11]
- WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [12]
- View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.
Updates for technical contributors
- Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. [13]
- Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [14]
- Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a
<bdi>
element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time. [15]
In depth
- The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more.
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more.
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MediaWiki message delivery 21:17, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
Your guidance required
[edit]I hope you're doing great. I wanted to let you know that I completed the NPP assignment on September 15th. Could you kindly inform me about the next steps or the upcoming task? Your guidance on what I should focus on next would be greatly appreciated. Looking forward to your response. -Charlie (talk) 14:39, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
- CharlieMehta,sorry for the delay in getting back to you about your training. You are almost done. I will add 5-6 more pages for you to assess, and after you finish those, I will share my final statement. – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:52, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
Barnstar
[edit]The Admin Elections barnstar | |
Thank you for all your help creating pages and other help you've provided to WP:AELECT within the last 24 hours. I really appreciate us all working as a team to take care of all the nitty gritty tasks that people don't think about. –Novem Linguae (talk) 21:37, 17 October 2024 (UTC) |
- Thanks for the barnstar :) – DreamRimmer (talk) 23:59, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 19 October 2024
[edit]- News and notes: One election's end, another election's beginning
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- Contest: A WikiCup for the Global South
- Traffic report: A scream breaks the still of the night
- Book review: The Editors
- Humour: The Newspaper Editors
- Crossword: Spilled Coffee Mug
WikiProject Unreferenced articles November 2024 backlog drive
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:06, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
October thanks
[edit]story · music · places |
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Thank you for improving articles on October! - My story today is a cantata 300 years old, based on a hymn 200 years old when the cantata was composed, based on a psalm some thousand years old, - so said the 2015 DYK hook. I had forgotten the discussion on the talk. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:38, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
Question
[edit]First time seeing this "This user has more than 100,000 edits. Please confirm that you are sure that you want to rename this user and that a system administrator is available to monitor this rename. " Do I need to make an appointment with a "system administrator" ? or just do it Wikipedia:Changing_username/Simple#Wolverine XI → Wolverine X-eye. - FlightTime (open channel) 16:45, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
- @FlightTime, I am also seeing this type of request for the first time. It might be a good idea to ask on the mailing list since the high number of edits could cause the rename to get stuck. It's probably best to handle this with care. Just so you know, I tried to reach out to the sysadmins, but they are unavailable at the moment. – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:03, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanx. I need to do some stuff for awhile, so I'll leave it for someone else, but I'm very interested how to work these types of request. BBL. - FlightTime (open channel) 17:06, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
- There is nothing different about this request, but due to the high number of edits, the rename could get stuck, so if there are system administrators available, they can run a maintenance script to fix it. Since you are busy, I'll take care of it. – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:19, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
- Done. – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:22, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
- There is nothing different about this request, but due to the high number of edits, the rename could get stuck, so if there are system administrators available, they can run a maintenance script to fix it. Since you are busy, I'll take care of it. – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:19, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanx. I need to do some stuff for awhile, so I'll leave it for someone else, but I'm very interested how to work these types of request. BBL. - FlightTime (open channel) 17:06, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-43
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- The Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.
Updates for editors
- Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.
- Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
- View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week. [16][17][18][19][20]
- It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.
Updates for technical contributors
- Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new
{{#timef:…}}
parser function. For example,{{#timef:now|date|en}}
will show as "23 October 2024". Previously,{{#time:…}}
could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation.#timef
(or#timefl
for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [21][22] - Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using
{{USERLANGUAGE}}
instead of using{{int:lang}}
. [23] - The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform. [24]
In depth
- The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
- The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
- The Community Wishlist is now testing machine translations for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.
Meetings and events
- 24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar - Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel.
- 20–22 December 2024 - Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:49, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
Administrator Elections: Discussion phase
[edit]The discussion phase of the October 2024 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:
- October 22–24 - Discussion phase
- October 25–31 - SecurePoll voting phase
- November 1–? - Scrutineering phase
During October 22–24, we will be in the discussion phase. The candidate subpages will open to questions and comments from everyone, in the same style as a request for adminship. You may discuss the candidates at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Discussion phase.
On October 25, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close again to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote tallies cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's tally during the election. The suffrage requirements are different from those at RFA.
Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for an indeterminate amount of time, perhaps a week or two. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose). As this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").
Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation. Happy electing.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:23, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
Notification of administrators without tools
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