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Tech News: 2022-44

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

  • When using keyboard navigation on a Kartographer map, the focus will become more visible. [1]
  • In Special:RecentChanges, you can now hide the log entries for new user creations with the filter for "⧼rcfilters-filter-newuserlogactions-label⧽". [2]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 November. It will be on all wikis from 3 November (calendar).
  • The maps dialog in VisualEditor now has some help texts. [3]
  • It is now possible to select the language of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor via a dropdown menu. [4]
  • It is now possible to add a caption to a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [5]
  • It is now possible to hide the frame of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [6]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:13, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

CheckUser changes

Oversight changes

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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+IP Block Exempt

Hi @GeneralNotability: I will like to request a further extension on my IP Block exempt as the previous time has elapsed. You advised that after six months I could request for a further extension. Thank you in advance. MesutOzula (talk) 23:32, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

MesutOzula, sure, done. GeneralNotability (talk) 21:55, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
Thank you. MesutOzula (talk) 08:04, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

Well said

[7] Expresses what I've felt a lot better than I could. Vanamonde (Talk) 15:22, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Vanamonde93, thanks, that's probably the biggest compliment you could have paid me for that :) GeneralNotability (talk) 21:55, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Regarding Sheikh Asif

@GeneralNotability hope you are doing good. I am here to talk about a article tha you deleted (reason:created by banned or blocked user) but he article that was created has notability over web. I am starting to work on in. Adilazeezbukhari (talk) 06:02, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

The Gustin Kelly block

Thanks. Your help is always appreciated. Do you mind advising me? How do I handle that better next time? The user was clearly not being forthcoming from the beginning, and their purpose is arguable, if anti-transparent (my characterization). It troubles me that an obvious SPA can begin a process with disruptive intent, and their process may succeed in their clearly shady purpose. For a very brief moment, I considered userfying this material myself. Stupid, I know, since this material is easily readable by admins. There's a sort of style I'm recognizing with Gustin Kelly but I'm not a skilled sockhunter. If I spill my suspicion, and I have one, I'm at a disadvantage. I need to admit that I'm troubled about the direction of recent processes at MfD which remove userpages and subpages, which I find actually is a thing (e.g. WP:Ragpicking), when blanking seems the ready solution. BusterD (talk) 22:49, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

BusterD, wish I had a good answer for you - other than ANI, we don't really have a good place for reporting "this user is obviously not new and not here in good faith, but I'm not sure who they are and they aren't outright disruptive," and ANI is...well...ANI. If you see something like this, you're welcome to drop me a note, I am happy to look into these cases (though of course the answer may well be "yeah, they look a little off, but I don't see strong enough evidence to do anything about it"). I'll also add that this one was a pretty tough case, and I only was able to identify them from CU data because I've seen them before. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:11, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
And of course, I recognized your visitor right away as the same LTA but figured unless they edited elsewhere I had them watched. I don't want to give that abuser any clues, but they (aggressively) seem not to care, accounts being free. I should probably get with a SPI clerk and start learning the game. I'm not interested in any hats, but I should at least speak the language. BusterD (talk) 17:39, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

User:Colonel Notability

This doesn't seem like an edit you'd make. If it is you, my apologies. BilCat (talk) 09:03, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

BilCat, in fact, it was the LTA we were talking about in the section above this one. Thanks. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:35, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
You're welcome. BilCat (talk) 19:15, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #545

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 🎊 Events
    • Upcoming
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour November 7, 2022: tenth and final Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be using SPARQL to query and visualize the data we’ve added to Wikidata during our series. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Event page
      • Live querying session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, November 8 at 18:00 CET (UTC+1)
      • Wikidata and Wikibase office hour, taking place online on November 9th at 17:00 UTC (more details here)
      • Raising an Artist Profile with Wikidata: Thursday November 10, 2022 at 20:00 UTC (Session A) and 23:00 UTC (Session B). This free, step-by-step Wikidata workshop will focus mainly on Indigenous artists. Participants may choose to attend either Session A or Session B: both will cover the exact same material.
      • Wikidata editathon in Swedish with focus on climate politics and COP27, online and in Stockholm, 11 November 13.00-18.00 UTC
      • A Hands-On Introduction to Wikidata: Thursday December 1, 2022 at 17:00 UTC. By the end of this session, you will be able to edit Wikidata records about the cultural venues that matter most to you.
  • 🧰 Tool of the week
    • WikibaseEcho.js: Userscript that shows the labels of entities in your notifications. Currently only works on Firefox.
  • 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
    • Lexicographical data: Replaced the old Special:NewLexeme page with the new one (phab:T307866) - a few remaining issues will still be fixed
    • Vue 3: Almost finished the Vue 3 migration in Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme (phab:T321595 and (phab:T304534) - this is needed for finalizing the migration in MediaWiki overall
    • Mismatch Finder: Worked on improving the handling of dates (phab:T288511)
    • Search: Working with the WMF on making the new Vue-based Vector search understand Wikidata (phab:T316093)), especially regarding “load more” behavior
    • REST API:
      • Continued improving error reporting for PATCH routes (phab:T320358)
      • Ensuring that the API correctly marks bot edits as bot edits and treats them as such in various other places

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Tech News: 2022-45

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Problems

  • Twice last week, for about 45 minutes, some files and thumbnails failed to load and uploads failed, mostly for logged-in users. The cause is being investigated and an incident report will be available soon.

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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Tech News: 2022-46

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

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 November. It will be on all wikis from 17 November (calendar).
  • There will be a new link to directly "Edit template data" on Template pages. [11]

Future changes

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Wikidata weekly summary #547

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #130, November 27 at 13.00 UTC
      • Wiki <3 Data - How to use Wikidata for data visualization. Join us on Monday 28 Nov. from 13:15 - 17:00 at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland or online! - Hosted by Visual Communication Design programme at Aalto Arts, workshop by Yamen Bousrih.
      • Next Wikidata Bug Triage Hour about Entity Schemas and other topics, on December 6th at 17:00 on Jitsi
    • Ongoing:
  • Development
    • REST API: continuing work on adjusting JSON request and response format (phab:T321459)
    • Lexicographical data:
      • Added separation between identifiers and other statements on Lexemes (phab:T318310)
      • Fixed the case where language fallback indicators where shown on Special:NewLexeme when they should not be (phab:T322687)
      • Adjusted the help link for the spelling variant input field (phab:T315161)
    • Mismatch Finder:
      • Finished work on better handling of dates (phab:T288511)
      • Finished work on allowing mismatches with empty Wikidata values to make it possible to use the Mismatch Finder also for suggesting missing data (phab:T313468)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Tech News: 2022-47

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

  • The display of non-free media in the search bar and for article thumbnails in Special:Search has been deactivated. Further details are in T320661.

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 22 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 24 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:19, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Recipients of the Royal Geographical Society Gold Medal

A tag has been placed on Category:Recipients of the Royal Geographical Society Gold Medal indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 01:07, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Thanks Liz. No objection from me, looks like Labattblueboy has split the category into two more specific categories (nice work!), and I don't think it makes sense to have this as a super-category containing the other two. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:26, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #548

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • Save the date! The next WikidataCon will take place on October 28-29, 2023, and will be organized by Wikimedia Taiwan and Wikimedia Germany. The hybrid event will be streamed from Taipei and accessible for everyone online. More information and updates on d:Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023
      • Next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call November 29, 2022: We will be discussing openly managed data gathering and management with Holly Little (Smithsonian), Sabine von Mering (Museum für Naturkunde), Erica Krimmel (Florida State University), and Debra Paul (University of Illinois)! Agenda
      • A Hands-On Introduction to Wikidata: Thursday December 1, 2022 at 17:00 UTC. By the end of this session, you will be able to edit Wikidata records about the cultural venues that matter most to you.
      • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #131, December 4 at 13.00 UTC
    • Past:
      • Wikibase live session (November 2022) log
  • Development
    • REST API:
      • Finished the adjusted statement data structure (phab:T321459)
      • Simplifying the structure of sitelinks in Item data (phab:T321483)
      • Simplifying the value format for entity ID, time and globecoordinate value types (phab:T322734)
      • Investigating the way forward for rate limiting (phab:T322746)
    • Ontology issues: Preparing a survey for re-users of Wikidata's data about the different types of ontology issues and which ones are causing the most issues for application builders
    • Mismatch Finder:
      • Finishing the work on making it possible to provide mismatches with an empty Wikidata value so the tool can also be used to suggest new data (phab:T313468)
      • Finishing the work on better handling of calendar models and precision for dates (phab:T288511)
    • Lexicographical data: Fixing bugs:

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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Tech News: 2022-48

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

  • A new preference, “Enable limited width mode”, has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also available as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. It allows for increasing the width of the page for logged-out and logged-in users. [13]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar).
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 29 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 December at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
  • Mathematical formulas shown in SVG image format will no longer have PNG fall-backs for browsers that don't support them. This is part of work to modernise the generation system. Showing only PNG versions was the default option until in February 2018. [14][15][16]
  • On some wikis that use flagged revisions, a new checkbox will be added to Special:Contributions that enables you to see only the pending changes by a user. [17]

Future changes

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Hemantha master

Hi GeneralNotability, you indeffed Hemantha back in July as a sock but I can't seem to find who the master was. I'm trying to put a bow on another sock [19] in the same family but I don't know what master to open it under (nor do I really feel confident without the larger context). Horse Eye's Back (talk) 16:36, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Horse Eye's Back, had to do some digging here...as far as I can tell, they're Walrus Ji. I'll note that I took a preliminary CU look based on the overlap and CU data is very, very different, so you're going to need some pretty solid behavioral evidence if you do think this is the same person. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:13, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

It's the guy from that thing in that place

The account User:Widr blocked today, User:Publicwhetsab, seems very much like this guy User:Gustin Kelly, who nominated this: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Vermont/BHGANI and you blocked as apparent LTA. BusterD (talk) 20:42, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Good eye, BusterD - it's them all right.  No sleepers immediately visible, with the caveat that there are technical things that make it somewhat hard to spot their sleepers. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:26, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
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