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Aug 24: WikiWednesday Salon NYC (+Sep annual meeting)

August 24, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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Editing news 2022 #2

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Graph showing 90-minute response time without the new tool and 39-minute response time with the tool
The [subscribe] button shortens response times.

The new [subscribe] button notifies people when someone replies to their comments. It helps newcomers get answers to their questions. People reply sooner. You can read the report. The Editing team is turning this tool on for everyone. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:35, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Pageviews tool

I love the pageviews tool that you built using toolforge or however one does that. I was curious if it also would let me know WHERE users are clicking/searching before getting to a page. In other words, if users were on the Pepsi page they might see the wikilink for Coca Cola and click that. I'd like to see if we have any visibility of past user traffic TO a particular page. Thank you. Oh, and if it is not too much trouble, could I bother you to please { { ping } } me when responding so that I know when you have? Thank you very much again! ♥Th78blue (talk)♥ 14:52, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

@Th78blue Hello there and thanks for the kind words! The type of data you're referring to is called referrer, and internally at WMF it's called clickstream. There's no API suitable for use in the Pageviews tool, but the WMF Research team did build a tool for this which is available at wikinav.toolforge.org. Note that for privacy reasons, this data is only available for articles with over 10 data points (source/destination pairs), so you won't get data for all articles. Regards, — MusikAnimal talk 21:55, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for this detailed and helpful response. Follow up question, what might, "...privacy reasons, this data is only available for articles with over 10 data points..." this entail? I'm curious now what 10 data points means and what sort of privacy risk would even potentially be involved? ♥Th78blue (talk)♥ 15:28, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
Also I tried your tool that you suggested to me on the "Clickstream" and I found "other-search", "other-empty", and "other-internal" come up in for 3/10 of the results. What are those? Just somebody searching for the particular item in question by its name or a redirect thereof perhaps? Instead of finding it from another page and clicking through a wikilink? ♥Th78blue (talk)♥ 15:40, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
@Th78blue: More info on the data is at wikitech:Research:Wikipedia clickstream. So "other-search" refers to an external search engine, "other-external" refers to "any other external site", and "other-empty" is when no referrer was given.
The privacy concern comes in when there's so little data that you can discern who the editor is, and in this case be able to know where they browsed to next and/or where they came from. I can't really come up with a good example, but you can contact the Data Engineering team and I'm sure they can give a better explanation. Regards, — MusikAnimal talk 17:01, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
Ah interesting, I suppose that makes sense then. Thanks. Also, I clicked this link, and maybe it is for admins only? I got this back, "Research:Wikipedia clickstream
Jump to navigationJump to search
There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, or search the related logs, but you do not have permission to create this page." Thanks again, that should be my last questions hopefully on this topic. ♥Th78blue (talk)♥ 19:48, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
My mistake! The docs are on Meta, not Wikitech: meta:Research:Wikipedia clickstream — MusikAnimal talk 20:17, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
Thanks! Thats all then for me. Have a great day! ♥Th78blue (talk)♥ 01:25, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

A pie for you!

In appreciation, I baked this pie for you. ♥Th78blue (talk)♥ 01:25, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
Yums :) Much appreciated! — MusikAnimal talk 23:53, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Technical Barnstar
A lot of what you did and maintain holds Wikipedia a bit better together, makes it more interesting, efficient... thank you. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 07:28, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
Thank you! :) — MusikAnimal talk 23:54, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2022)

Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Cartoonist

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Kyushu • Christmas in Russia

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Tech News: 2022-35

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Recent changes

Problems

  • In recent months, there have been inaccurate numbers shown for various Special:Statistics at Commons, Wikidata, and English Wikipedia. This has now been fixed. [1]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (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 30 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

  • The Wikimedia Foundation wants to improve how Wikimedia communities report harmful incidents by building the Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) to make it easy and safe for users to make reports. You can leave comments on the talk page, by answering the questions provided. If you have ever faced a harmful situation that you wanted to report/reported, join a PIRS interview to share your experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

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23:03, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2022

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

Guideline and policy news

  • A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
  • An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news

Arbitration

  • An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
  • The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

  • The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
  • Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.
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This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2022)

Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Gender studies

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Cartoonist • Kyushu

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Tech News: 2022-36

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

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (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 6 September at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 8 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
  • On Special pages that only have one tab, the tab-bar's row will be hidden in the Vector-2022 skin to save space. The row will still show if Gadgets use it. Gadgets that currently append directly to the CSS id of #p-namespaces should be updated to use the mw.util.addPortletLink function instead. Gadgets that style this id should consider also targeting #p-associated-pages, the new id for this row. Examples are available. [2][3]

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23:19, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

NPP Award for 2018

The New Page Patroller's Barnstar

For over 100 article reviews during 2018. Thank you for patrolling new pages and helping us out with the backlog! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:30, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Here is a barnstar to show appreciation for the NPP reviews you did back in 2018. We realize this is late, but NPP fell behind in some coordination activities. We have just caught up with giving out deserved barnstars. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:30, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! I like to think my contributions today are occasionally still under the NPP umbrella, just in technical form ;) — MusikAnimal talk 03:24, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
Yes absolutely, I've been lately looking at a few of the open tickets on phab and there are a lot of them that would ease the reviewer's life in small, but meaningful ways. Taking care of these aspects is definitely a contribution to NPP. Thanks for doing it. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:31, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

Can MusikBot also do clerking for pseudo-permission requests?

e.g. Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect autopatrol list. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:12, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

@MPGuy2824 If there's consensus to set it up as part of WP:PERM, using the same system then yes, it will only take minor tweaks to get it to work. This is basically what we did for WP:PERM/AWB (another pseudo-permission) which used to be handled at WT:AWB. So it will require an admin to close each request with  Done (not consensus among three NPRs or whatever), which seems to be what you all are basically doing now. Feel free to start a discussion at WT:NPP/R and ping me :) Note the bot can automatically fix usernames when they are renamed, too. — MusikAnimal talk 15:18, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
Just to clarify: even now, only admins can edit the list page; so the "consensus of New Page Reviewers" part is just to make a new request for that (pseudo-)right, which an admin then checks and accepts. Another question: Would DannyS712 have to change his bot to read a json formatted page, OR can your bot read and write to an unordered list-type page, as it is currently? -MPGuy2824 (talk) 11:16, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
@MPGuy2824 Well first I should ask, did we want the bot to maintain that list? It could do the things AWBListMan does, like alphabetizing, removing users who are indefinitely blocked (+365 days after the block), and even remove users after an extended period of inactivity. That's all basically a separate bot task, largely the same as how AWBListMan used to work before the CheckPage was moved it to JSON. Anyways yes, if you want these sort of features it can be done, but it will take longer for me to implement it ;)
If you just want archiving, the bot will only check to see that the username was properly added to the list (and if not, warn the admin they did something wrong), and that's easy to code. I say we start with the migration to WP:PERM and archiving bits, then see about the maintenance task for the Redirect autopatrol list. — MusikAnimal talk 03:23, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
So right now, if we get that page moved to WP:PERM, Danny's bot just has to change the location where they read the list from, but the list can be kept in its current format. Have i got that right? -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:28, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
You don't need to move the page at all. MusikBot only needs to read it (i.e. to remind admins who forgot to add someone). It doesn't matter where it lives on the wiki or how it's formatted (so long as it's consistently formatted :). The WP:PERM aspect just has to do with archiving, and all the automated comments it offers if that is of any desire to you all.
Also, there may be a conflict with User:MusikAnimal/userRightsManager. It currently removes users from the Redirect autopatrol list after they were given the 'autopatrolled' right. So if the list page does get moved, this code will need to be swiftly updated. I was also hoping to eventually have userRightsManager be able to add users to the list, like it does for normal permissions. That is much easier now for AWB since it uses JSON, and likewise an argument to consider doing the same for the redirect autopatrol list. Where it lives doesn't really matter, but personally I vote for a JSON list if @DannyS712 is okay with it :) — MusikAnimal talk 04:04, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2022)

Quercus geminata, commonly called sand live oak, is an evergreen oak tree native to the coastal regions of the subtropical southeastern United States, along the Atlantic Coast from southern Florida northward to southeastern Virginia and along the Gulf Coast westward to southern Mississippi, on seacoast dunes and on white sands in evergreen oak scrubs.
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Evergreen

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Previous selections: Gender studies • Cartoonist

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Tech News: 2022-37

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Recent changes

  • The search servers have been upgraded to a new major version. If you notice any issues with searching, please report them on Phabricator. [4]

Changes later this week

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01:48, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

MusikBot II: new enemy (usually, it's Cyberbot I)

It didn't want! El_C 16:52, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Question

Hello there MusikAnimal. A few editors and I have been discussing recently at WP:RESPONDER-RFC about a possible role that can give temporary blocks on persistent vandals. We've made a few restrictions based on community feedback, but we would be grateful further input. I saw that you were involved in a similar proposal back in 2015, and we were interested if you could give us some feedback if possible. Thanks, CollectiveSolidarity (talk) 18:35, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

MusikBot II's FixPP

Hi, MusikAnimal. Please note that I have disabled MusikBot II's FixPP task here, for the reasons stated in the edit summary. I recognise that the issue of removing the template late may be beyond your control (caching etc, though if it is within your control it'd be appreciated if it were resolved), but I hope that the first issue can be resolved before the task is reactivated. Sdrqaz (talk) 16:55, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Similar issue as Russell Curry with Fler (diff). El_C 17:23, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
Hmm something is definitely broken! Disabling the task was the right thing to do, thank you :) I'll look into fixing it shortly. — MusikAnimal talk 17:28, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
Quick comment: As far as I'm concerned, the bot being late to remove templates is likely not in Musik's control. I regularly partol Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates manually, and I'll commonly see pages that have only appeared up to several weeks after their protection actually expired. Once they appear there, MusikBot (normally) catches them a few minutes later or so, so its likely the page just not being updated for a while. Aidan9382 (talk) 17:52, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
Ohhh!! There was a schema change. The templatelinks table is being normalized (broken into multiple tables). So the bot is straight up broken. Makes perfect sense why it sent duplicate protection templates -- because the query to determine if the templates are already present isn't working anymore, so the bot continually thinks it still needs the template. I believe without @Sdrqaz stopping the task, it would have continued to re-add duplicate protection templates over and over every 10 minutes for eternity! So thanks again for the quick action to disable it. I hope the damage (although not user-facing) isn't super widespread.
I admit I actually knew the schema change was coming, but I forgot this task used it. The task will have to stay disabled until the normalization is complete, which should be in a week or two, so I'm told. For now, you all will need to add your own protection templates (or not, I guess it's not policy!).
And yes, +1 to what @Aidan9382 said. Removal of templates happens once they appear in the maintenance category, and for reasons beyond my understanding many pages fail to show up there for a long time. There's a number of Phab tasks about categorization taking forever to catch up on large wikis like this one.
Anyways, I'm glad the bot didn't just die due to bad code, lol. It was an upstream change that caused it. I'll comment back here when I'm able to re-enable the task. King regards, — MusikAnimal talk 23:22, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2022)

Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Heather Dubrow

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Evergreen • Gender studies

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Tech News: 2022-38

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

  • Two database fields in the templatelinks table are now being dropped: tl_namespace and tl_title. Any queries that rely on these fields need to be changed to use the new normalization field called tl_target_id. See T299417 for more information. This is part of normalization of links tables. [6][7]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar).
  • In Kartographer maps, you can use icons on markers for common points of interest. On Tuesday, the previous icon set will be updated to version maki 7.2. That means, around 100 new icons will be available. Additionally, all existing icons were updated for clarity and to make them work better in international contexts. [8][9]

Future changes

  • In a group discussion at Wikimania, more than 30 people talked about how to make content partnership software in the Wikimedia movement more sustainable. What kind of support is acceptable for volunteer developers? Read the summary and leave your feedback.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:14, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Sep 28: Wikimedia NYC Annual Election/Members Meeting (+October 2 picnic)

September 28, 7pm: ONLINE Wikimedia NYC Annual Election/Members Meeting
Welcome to Wikimedia New York City!

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Annual Election/Members Meeting. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit the Zoom link on the meetup page.

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  • voting will be online, via emailed ballots, and the poll will be open for the 24-hour period of September 28
7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30)

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October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive

New Page Patrol | October 2022 backlog drive
  • On 1 October, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin.
  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled and for maintaining a streak throughout the drive.
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This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2022)

An early view of the convent in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Convent

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Heather Dubrow • Evergreen

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Tech News: 2022-39

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

  • Parsoid clients should be updated to allow for space-separated multi-values in the rel attribute of links. Further details are in T315209.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 September. It will be on all wikis from 29 September (calendar).
  • Visual diffs will become available to all users, except at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [10]
  • Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. [11] [12]
  • In the Module namespace, pages ending with .json will be treated as JSON, just like they already are in the User and MediaWiki namespaces. [13]

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Sun Oct 2: WikiNYC Post-Election Wiki-Picnic

Sun Oct 2, 2-5pm: WikiNYC Post-Election Wiki-Picnic
Grecian Shelter at Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

You are invited to join us for a planned outdoor gathering with the local Wikimedia NYC community at the Grecian Shelter of Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

We will celebrate after Wednesday's Chapter Election, share some food, and informally discuss wiki-plans for the coming year.

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate.

2:00 - 5:00 pm
(Grecian Shelter, Prospect Park, Brooklyn)

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WP:AIV

Just here to tell you an IP reported you at WP:ANI#Misuse of Admin tools. NytharT.C 20:52, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2022

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

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

Arbitration

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This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2022)

Sexuality in Islam: An icon depicting the treaty signing between Muhammad and Saint Catherine's Monastery allowing interfaith marriage between Muslims and Christians, as discussed in the Ashtiname of Muhammad.
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Islamic sexual jurisprudence

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Convent • Heather Dubrow

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Tech News: 2022-40

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

  • Kartographer maps can now show geopoints from Wikidata, via QID or SPARQL query. Previously, this was only possible for geoshapes and geolines. [14] [15]
  • The Coolest Tool Award 2022 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 12 October.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar).
  • Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. (Last week's release was delayed) [16] [17]
  • The scribunto-console API module will require a CSRF token. This module is documented as internal and use of it is not supported. [5]
  • The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikimedia projects. Learn more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:22, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing MusikBot II back!

That was a rough week for me. Your effort are greatly appreciated! El_C 23:24, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

My pleasure! Thought I don't think you should feel like you have to add the protection templates. It's not like it's policy ;) The bot added some 500+ templates yesterday stemming back from when it was shut down, so you're not alone. — MusikAnimal talk 18:17, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2022)

Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

School voucher

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Islamic sexual jurisprudence • Convent

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Tech News: 2022-41

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

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).
  • On some wikis, Kartographer maps in full size view will be able to display nearby articles. After a feedback period, more wikis will follow. [18][19]

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14:07, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

MusikBot abuse filter IRC bot: feature request

Hi! Is it possible for the Musikbot abuse filter IRC bot to include the filter actions (e.g. "disallow", "block" and "warn")? Also the filter description would be really nice to see as it adds some context to whats important and what's probably false positives of technical filters. 

Musikbot is great.
But fairly helpful would be
including actions

Inductiveload (talk) 21:33, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2022)

Since 1922, the countries of the United Kingdom comprises four constituent countries: England, Scotland, and Wales (which collectively make up Great Britain), as well as Northern Ireland (variously described as a country, province or region).
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Countries of the United Kingdom

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: School voucher • Islamic sexual jurisprudence

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Sat Oct 29: Wikidata Day in NYC

Sat Oct 29: Wikidata Day in NYC
Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn.
Wikidata 10th Birthday

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for Wikidata Day in NYC, an event marking the Wikidata 10th Birthday with a celebration and mini-conference. The all-day event will feature beginner workshops, keynote presentations, breakout group discussions, lightning talks and yes, CAKE.

It is inspired by such past events as the Wikipedia Day tradition in New York City.

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Brooklyn Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity.

9:30 am - 5:30 pm
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Tech News: 2022-42

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Recent changes

  • The recently implemented feature of article thumbnails in Special:Search will be limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in T320510. [20]
  • A bug that caused problems in loading article thumbnails in Special:Search has been fixed. Further details are in T320406.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 October. It will be on all wikis from 20 October (calendar).
  • Lua module authors can use mw.loadJsonData() to load data from JSON pages. [21]
  • Lua module authors can enable require( "strict" ) to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces "Module:No globals" on most wikis. [22]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:44, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2022)

The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator. Pictured are areas of the world with tropical climates.
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Tropics

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Countries of the United Kingdom • School voucher

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Tech News: 2022-43

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 have been some minor visual fixes in Special:Search, regarding audio player alignment and image placeholder height. Further details are in T319230.
  • On Wikipedias, a new preference has been added to hide article thumbnails in Special:Search. Full details are in T320337.

Problems

  • Last week, three wikis (French Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Russian Wikipedia) had read-only access for 25 minutes. This was caused by a hardware problem. [24]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 October. It will be on all wikis from 27 October (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 25 October at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 27 October at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Assamese Wikipedia, Bashkir Wikipedia, Balinese Wikipedia, Bavarian Wikipedia, Samogitian Wikipedia, Bikol Central Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Belarusian (Taraškievica) Wikipedia, Bulgarian Wikipedia, Bhojpuri Wikipedia, Bislama Wikipedia, Banjar Wikipedia, Bambara Wikipedia, Bishnupriya Wikipedia, Breton Wikipedia, Bosnian Wikipedia, Buginese Wikipedia, Buryat Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [25]
  • Starting on Wednesday October 26, 2022, the list of mentors will be upgraded at wikis where Growth mentorship is available. The mentorship system will continue to work as it does now. The signup process will be replaced, and a new management option will be provided. Also, this change simplifies the creation of mentorship systems at Wikipedias. [26][27][28]
  • Pages with titles that start with a lower-case letter according to Unicode 11 will be renamed or deleted. There is a list of affected pages at m:Unicode 11 case map migration. More information can be found at T292552.
  • The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikipedias. Learn more.

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:21, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2022)

Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, the Crown Prince of Morocco, in 2018
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Tropics • Countries of the United Kingdom

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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. [30]
  • In Special:RecentChanges, you can now hide the log entries for new user creations with the filter for "⧼rcfilters-filter-newuserlogactions-label⧽". [31]

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. [32]
  • It is now possible to select the language of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor via a dropdown menu. [33]
  • It is now possible to add a caption to a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [34]
  • It is now possible to hide the frame of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [35]

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

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

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Sat Nov 12: WikiConference North America in NYC

Sat Nov 12: WikiConference North America in NYC
Like Wikidata Day last month, this event will be at Brooklyn Public Library by Grand Army Plaza.
WikiConference North America 2022.

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for WikiConference North America in NYC, as a local satellite event and celebration of the primarily online WikiConference 2022 (Nov 11-13). The Saturday in-person event will feature beginner workshops, keynote presentations, breakout group discussions, and lightning talks.

It is inspired by such past events as the Wikipedia Day tradition in New York City.

In keeping with the online conference's partnership this year with Mapping USA and theme of "open knowledge allies", we are highlighting OpenStreetMap NYC efforts and other local organizing around various communities of practice.

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Brooklyn Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity.

9:30 am - 5:30 pm
(Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn)

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Tech News: 2022-45

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Recent changes

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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MediaWiki message delivery 00:30, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2022)

Fire in Rome by Hubert Robert (1785)
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Great Fire of Rome

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Government • Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco

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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. [39]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:53, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

New message from Taking Out The Trash

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Edit filter noticeboard § EFH Permission request (Taking Out The Trash). Your comments and feedback on my request would be highly valued and greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Taking Out The Trash (talk) 23:17, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2022)

Culinary arts are the cuisine arts of food preparation, cooking, and presentation of food, usually in the form of meals. Pictured is a chef preparing food on a metal baking sheet topped with parchment paper.
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Culinary arts

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Great Fire of Rome • Government

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Tech News: 2022-47

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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)

Nov 30: WikiWednesday Salon in Brooklyn + online

Nov 30: WikiWednesday @ BPL + on Zoom
WikiWednesday is back in-person, pizza included!

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Brooklyn Public Library by Grand Army Plaza, in the Central Library's Info Commons Lab, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

We are proud to announce that monthly PIZZA has returned!

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Brooklyn Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity.

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm (note modified time)
(Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn)
Also online via Zoom

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This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2022)

A depiction of Medjed based on the Greenfield papyrus
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Medjed

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Culinary arts • Great Fire of Rome

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Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 28 November 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

Collecting data for the NPP redirect backlog

Hi, can User:MusikBot/NPPChart collect the data for the redirect backlog, in addition to the article backlog? The code seems to be reading from what is probably a toolforge db. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:34, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Could you also take a look at MB's request to Netrom here? -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:46, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
@MPGuy2824 Indeed, that task queries a user database on Toolforge. MB's request to @Nettrom will need to be actioned first before I can do anything. I think I have access to the tool itself, but I've never looked at the code nor do I even know where it's hosted. Alternatively, I may be able to run the queries in real time rather than use Nettrom's db, but having that data in the db may be beneficial for other consumers of the data (if there are any). — MusikAnimal talk 17:03, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
Sorry, I misread. There are two requests here: one to collect data for redirects, and the other about number of articles added and removed. Both still require Nettrom's intervention, if we are to keep the data in the same place. — MusikAnimal talk 17:05, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
Netrom hasn't replied to MB for 5 months. Would it be possible to prod them? I can help with a code patch if you could point me to its location. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 01:37, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
I will reach out to them. I logged onto the Toolforge account and found what I believe is the code, but it didn't appear to have a remote git repository. — MusikAnimal talk 16:50, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

Can you look at the s55221__nppstats_p database on toolforge (nppstats table). I've created some cronjobs which populate that table regularly with all the data that we've requested. It has a new column called "name" which you'll have to take care of in your code. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:05, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-48

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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. [41]

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. [42][43][44]
  • 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. [45]

Future changes

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Higher-speed rail good article reassessment

Higher-speed rail has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Steelkamp (talk) 07:19, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2022

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

CheckUser changes

removed TheresNoTime

Oversight changes

removed TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2022)

Reconstruction of Lucy, the first Australopithecus afarensis skeleton found
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Human history

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Medjed • Culinary arts

Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations

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MusikBot hasn't edited Template talk:Did you know since November 20

MusikAnimal, I'm sorry I didn't notice before now, but MusikBot hasn't done the daily update of the DYK nominations page since November 20 (skipping four days now). I've manually updated the page to add November 24—others added the 21st through 23rd—and also moved the Current nominations header. I see that the bot is doing other edits, so I'm guessing there's something wrong with the section that deals with DYK. I didn't see any obvious edit that might cause issues, but I could easily have missed something. Hope it's an easy restart or fix. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:38, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

Just a follow-up, since after working for a number of days, MusikBot has just missed December 1 and 2. I'm not around as much these days, so I haven't gotten back in the habit of checking every evening; should I be doing so? Please let me know. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:20, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
@BlueMoonset Apologies for the late reply! I looked into this and there are no errors in the server logs or the on-wiki error log. I see the bot has been doing this task successfully as of late, so I really don't have an answer as to why it wasn't working before :( My guess is that there was a hiccup on Toolforge's end and the bot simply never ran at all, or else there should be some trace of it failing, yet there is not. I guess let me know if it happens again, and thanks for reporting! — MusikAnimal talk 15:34, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-49

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Recent changes

  • The Wikisources use a tool called ProofreadPage. ProofreadPage uses OpenSeadragon which is an open source tool. The OpenSeadragon JavaScript API has been significantly re-written to support dynamically loading images. The functionality provided by the older version of the API should still work but it is no longer supported. User scripts and gadgets should migrate over to the newer version of the API. The functionality provided by the newer version of the API is documented on MediaWiki. [47][48]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:39, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Phabricator

Hey MusikAnimal, can you check this request at Phabricator? Thanks बडा काजी (talk) 16:55, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

The post has now received two supports (1 admin and 1 former admin) [49] बडा काजी (talk) 14:36, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
Okay, thanks :) I'll reply on the task. — MusikAnimal talk 21:51, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2022)

Cross section of telephone cable of 1,800 twisted pairs. Year 1922
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Telephone line

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Human history • Medjed

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Tech News: 2022-50

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 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (calendar).
  • The HTML markup used by DiscussionTools to show discussion metadata below section headings will be inserted after these headings, not inside of them. This change improves the accessibility of discussion pages for screen reader software. [52]

Events

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:32, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2022)

Zenica is the largest city in the Central Bosnia subregion
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Central Bosnia

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Telephone line • Human history

Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations

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Coolest tool

Congrats on winning a Coolest Tool Award for MoreMenu! I couldn't live without it and I'm super thankful for you for making it. Best, KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 08:30, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! :) — MusikAnimal talk 16:10, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-51

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

Tech News

  • Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2023.

Recent changes

  • On a user's contributions page, you can filter it for edits with a tag like 'reverted'. Now, you can also filter for all edits that are not tagged like that. This was part of a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [53]
  • A new function has been used for gadget developers to add content underneath the title on article pages. This is considered a stable API that should work across all skins. Documentation is available. [54]
  • One of our test wikis is now being served from a new infrastructure powered by Kubernetes (read more). More Wikis will switch to this new infrastructure in early 2023. Please test and let us know of any issues. [55]

Problems

  • Last week, all wikis had no edit access for 9 minutes. This was caused by a database problem. [56]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
  • The word "Reply" is very short in some languages, such as Arabic ("ردّ"). This makes the Discussion tools button on talk pages difficult to use. An arrow icon will be added to those languages. This will only be visible to editors who have the Beta Feature turned on. [57] [58]

Future changes

  • Edits can be automatically "tagged" by the system software or the Edit filter configuration system. Those tags link to a help page about the tags. Soon they will also link to Recent Changes to let you see other edits tagged this way. This was a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [59]
  • The Trust & Safety tools team have shared new plans for building the Private Incident Reporting System. The system will make it easier for editors to ask for help if they are harassed or abused.
  • Realtime Preview for Wikitext is coming out of beta as an enabled feature for every user of the 2010 Wikitext editor in the week of January 9, 2023. It will be available to use via the toolbar in the 2010 Wikitext editor. The feature was the 4th most popular wish of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021.

Events

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:58, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

More DYK skips

MusikAnimal, the bot didn't update the DYK nominations page at midnight (about half an hour ago), and also missed December 15. You asked me to report any additional skips; I hope this helps you track down what's going on. Thanks for the bot! BlueMoonset (talk) 00:29, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

@BlueMoonset Okay, thanks for the heads up. This issue is really hard to diagnose, so I'm just going to get into the habit of checking the bot right at 00:00 UTC to see what's going on. I may or may not be around each day at this time, so go about what you've been doing and if say, 5 or 10 minutes passes without the bot editing, you can feel free to add the heading manually. — MusikAnimal talk 16:13, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
MusikAnimal, thanks for letting me know. I did a manual add this evening, though I wasn't around until over three hours after UTC midnight, so it's only just been done. What typically tells me that there's an issue is when DYKHousekeepingBot runs for the first time after midnight, and doesn't show an approximately 243-byte addition caused by the new date in its table—it incorporates the new date only when it is added to the Nominations page. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:30, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Dec 28: WikiWed Salon (+ Wikipedia Day on Jan 15)

Dec 28: WikiWednesday @ BPL + on Zoom
WikiWednesday is back in-person, pizza included!

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Brooklyn Public Library by Grand Army Plaza, in the Central Library's Info Commons Lab, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

We are proud to announce that monthly PIZZA has returned!

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Brooklyn Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity.

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
(Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn)
Also online via Zoom

P.S. Next big event January 15 will be Wikipedia Day NYC 2023, and you can sign up now for your lightning talk!

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--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:32, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, whether it's Christmas or some other festival, I hope you and those close to you have a happy, restful time! Have fun, Donner60 (talk) 00:16, 23 December 2022 (UTC)}}

Donner60 (talk) 05:22, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

MOSTREFS bot

Hello, I hope you are doing well. Currently I am working on Wikipedia:Bot requests#Bot to update WP:MOSTREFS. How are the stats on this page are generated? —usernamekiran (talk) 13:10, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran In the case of XTools, we're already fetching the HTML to calculate prose stats, so we use an XML parser to count the references. I don't think that will work at scale. If there's a way to do it with a database query, that's surely best. I would highly advise against looping through 6.5+ million articles, unless you're working off of dumps. If you do though, use the REST API to fetch the HTML. The action API will be far too slow. However in my opinion, if we can't do a database query, I would say this bot task is not worth the cost. Articles by number of references is neat to see, but not really that meaningful, as references don't necessarily equate to verifiability, nor is this proportional to the article size. For example, it's technically possible to have 1,000 references on a stub article, but zero on an article that's fifty pages long. If the bot also recorded article length (preferably the size of the prose, excluding templates and such), then I think it would be a lot more useful. — MusikAnimal talk 20:16, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
I was thinking the same. A few days ago, I thought about creating a pywikibot script that would go through all mainspace pages excluding redirects, and disams, but then realised it would consume a lot of time, and server resources. I successfully did it, but only for recursive category. In your opinion, what would be the preferred/best way/method to achieve this result? —usernamekiran (talk) 01:20, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
forgot to ask in my previous comment, how does the community tech bot work with WP:forgotten? —usernamekiran (talk) 02:01, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
@Usernamekiran The forgotten articles database report uses an SQL query. I'm not aware of anything queryable that keeps track of references. Frankly, I think the solution is to get some database tracking into MediaWiki itself. mw:Extension:Cite doesn't store any data, but it could. Overall, if we can't do this with a query, I'd decline the bot request as technically infeasible. With automation not an option, I would also question the usefulness of WP:MOSTREFS and whether it should be brought to WP:MfD. — MusikAnimal talk 21:16, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

NPP reviewer stats

The updated Wikipedia:Database reports/Top new article reviewers has been very helpful. Could the bot save a copy once a month, something like Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Top reviewers/yyyy/month. This would make it easier to look at historical trends. MB 21:57, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2022)

The Summer Palace of Peter the Great as seen from across the Fontanka River from a small Prachechniy ("Laundry") Bridge in August 2007
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Summer Palace of Peter the Great

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Central Bosnia • Telephone line

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This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2023)

Scarves in the Armenian Quarter, Jerusalem
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Scarf

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Summer Palace of Peter the Great • Central Bosnia

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Happy New Year, MusikAnimal!

Happy New Year!

MusikAnimal,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Happy New Year!
Hello MusikAnimal:


Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles with axes, hammers and chisels?

Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unnecessary blisters.

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

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Miscellaneous

  • Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
  • Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.
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ScriptManager issues on Vector 2022

ScriptManager on Vector-2022 on bnwiki by CX Zoom 20230106:
  • 1. Sidebar collapsed on page history
  • 2. Sidebar & TOC collapsed on article.
  • 3. Sidebar collapsed, TOC on.
  • 4. Both sidebar & TOC on.

Hi, I noticed that ScriptManager on Vector-2022 looks very buggy. When the sidebar is open, the scriptManager's texts are disproportionately large. And when sidebar is collapsed, it starts to cover content. Pictures attached. Can you please fix this? Thanks! —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 13:27, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Sun Jan 15: Wikipedia Day returns to NYC!

Sunday January 15: Wikipedia Day 2023 NYC
Wikipedia Day NYC is back in-person at Jefferson Market Library, cake included!

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Wikipedia Day 2023 at Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village, a Wikipedia and Public Domain Day celebration and mini-conference as part of birthday festivities marking the project's founding in 2001. In addition to the party, the event features presentations by Jason Scott of the Internet Archive and Anne Hunnell Chen of the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive, panels, and, of course, lightning talks. Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues!

And there will be WIKICAKE.

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This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2023)

The start line of the Canberra Marathon in 2006
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Canberra Marathon

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Scarf • Summer Palace of Peter the Great

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Tech News: 2023-02

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

  • You can use tags to filter edits in the recent changes feed or on your watchlist. You can now use tags to filter out edits you don't want to see. Previously you could only use tags to focus on the edits with those tags. [60]
  • Special:WhatLinksHere shows all pages that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype for how to sort those pages alphabetically. You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket.
  • You can now use the thanks function on your watchlist and the user contribution page. [61]
  • A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you don't have to write the explanation every time. [62]
  • Matrix is a chat tool. You can now use matrix: to create Matrix links on wiki pages. [63]
  • You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also hide subpages which are translation pages. [64]

Changes later this week

  • Realtime preview for wikitext is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it in the editor toolbar.
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 10 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 12 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 January. It will be on all wikis from 12 January (calendar).

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This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2023)

A kiddie ride is a coin-operated amusement ride for young children.
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Kiddie ride

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Canberra Marathon • Scarf

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2023 in Philippine television

Please protect the article on 2023 in Philippine television. This article will be the strongly persistent semi-protected article against vandalism for longest term to make.

Thank you.

User:Jon2guevarra Jon2guevarra (talk) 00:30, 16 January 2023 (UTC) Jon2guevarra (talk) 00:29, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Jon2guevarra: I requested for protection at WP:RFPP. SeanJ 2007 (talk) 00:46, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2023-03

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

  • The URLs in "prev" links on page history now contain diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID] in place of diff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]. This is to fix a problem with links pointing to incorrect diffs when history was filtered by a tag. Some user scripts may break as a result of this change. [65]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).
  • Some changes to the appearance of talk pages have only been available on Talk: and User talk: namespaces. These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such as Wikipedia talk:. They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including Wikipedia: pages (e.g., at the Village Pump). You can change your preferences (beta feature). [66]
  • On Wikisources, when an image is zoomed or panned in the Page: namespace, the same zoom and pan settings will be remembered for all Page: namespace pages that are linked to a particular Index: namespace page. [67]
  • The Vector 2022 skin will become the default for the English Wikipedia desktop users. The change will take place on January 18 at 15:00 UTC. Learn more.

Future changes

  • The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey, which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts next week on 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. You can start drafting your proposals in the CWS sandbox.

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YGM

No template for you, just a note that you've got some mail :-) Primefac (talk) 21:34, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2023)

Side one of a 1930 brochure for the Ambassador Hotel in San Francisco
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Brochure

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Kiddie ride • Canberra Marathon

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Change to the CheckUser team

At his request by email to the committee, the CheckUser permissions of MusikAnimal are removed. The Arbitration Committee sincerely thanks MusikAnimal for his long service as a CheckUser, and his continuing service on Wikipedia.

For the Arbitration Committee, Primefac (talk) 19:55, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard § Change to the CheckUser team

HELP!

Howdy friend. Long time no talk... I've been away for ages and just got back and am trying to do some ruby API calls. I'm probably doing something really, really dumb but since you do lots of ruby bots I was hoping you could help, pretty please... 

require 'media_wiki'
USERNAME = ***********
PASSWORD = ***********
mw = MediaWiki::Gateway.new('https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php')
mw.login(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
RestClient::SSLCertificateNotVerified: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=error: certificate verify failed:
        from C:/Ruby24-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/rest-client-1.8.0-x64-mingw32/lib/restclient/request.rb:445:in `rescue in transmit'
        from C:/Ruby24-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/rest-client-1.8.0-x64-mingw32/lib/restclient/request.rb:349:in `transmit'
        from C:/Ruby24-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/rest-client-1.8.0-x64-mingw32/lib/restclient/request.rb:176:in `execute'
        from C:/Ruby24-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/rest-client-1.8.0-x64-mingw32/lib/restclient/request.rb:41:in `execute'
        from C:/Ruby24-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/mediawiki-gateway-1.1.0/lib/media_wiki/gateway.rb:183:in `http_send'
        from C:/Ruby24-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/mediawiki-gateway-1.1.0/lib/media_wiki/gateway.rb:130:in `make_api_request'
        from C:/Ruby24-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/mediawiki-gateway-1.1.0/lib/media_wiki/gateway.rb:65:in `send_request'
        from C:/Ruby24-x64/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/mediawiki-gateway-1.1.0/lib/media_wiki/gateway/users.rb:16:in `login'
        from (irb):7
        from C:/Ruby24-x64/bin/irb.cmd:19:in `<main>'

What am I missing?! This used to work no problem... Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 23:39, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

@Zackmann08 Hello and welcome back! Are you using the latest version of my fork of mediawiki-gateway? Anyway it looks like you're running this from your local machine, so you probably can disable SSL mode. I'm not sure how to do this via your above code. Looking at my own code, I'm logging in the same way, hence why I suspect your maybe using an outdated version of the framework.
There are also newer frameworks out there now that might be better. The only reason I haven't switched is my bot is basically stuck using mediawiki-gateway unless I do a substantial amount of rewriting. — MusikAnimal talk 21:52, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-04

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

  • Last week, for ~15 minutes, all wikis were unreachable for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a timing issue. [68]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).
  • If you have the Beta Feature for DiscussionTools enabled, the appearance of talk pages will add more information about discussion activity. [69][70]
  • The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS), which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts on Monday 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:44, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

but whyy

[71] 🙁🌻 ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:38, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Haha, I'm just taking a break from counter-vandalism. Most likely temporary, but possibly multi-year. I'm definitely not going anywhere, though :) I'll leave a more lengthy explanation on my steward reconfirmation page in the coming days. — MusikAnimal talk 21:47, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
Thank you very much for what you've done and still do. Cheers, - FlightTime (open channel) 22:44, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
😊 Ah. Well then, all the best, and thank you for your work! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:57, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

MusikBot breaking HTML in its userspace

See [72] (unrelated to the revdel; please email/DM if you have questions on that :)) -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she|they|xe) 17:06, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Oh, yeah. That bug is maybe 4-5 years old… I just never got around to fixing it. Fortunately it's still readable. I really should just finally fix it. Thanks for the poke :) — MusikAnimal talk 21:59, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
Special:Diff/1135741066 same problem? --Minorax«¦talk¦» 15:48, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2023)

Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

The Sims (video game)

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Brochure • Kiddie ride

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Tech News: 2023-05

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

  • Last week, for ~15 minutes, some users were unable to log in or edit pages. This was caused by a problem with session storage. [73]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 February. It will be on all wikis from 2 February (calendar).

Future changes

  • Wikis that use localized numbering schemes for references need to add new CSS. This will help to show citation numbers the same way in all reading and editing modes. If your wiki would prefer to do it yourselves, please see the details and example CSS to copy from, and also add your wiki to the list. Otherwise, the developers will directly help out starting the week of February 5.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:03, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

I need help

My page about KiraSecurity... I need to move the table with information to the right. Samuels99917 (talk) 03:29, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
  • Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
  • Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.
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This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2023)

Belgian waffles cooked in a Krampouz cast-iron waffle iron, in a Montreal restaurant during the gastronomy competition of the Montreal Highlights Festival
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Waffle iron

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: The Sims (video game) • Brochure

Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations

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Tech News: 2023-06

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

  • In the Vector 2022 skin, logged-out users using the full-width toggle will be able to see the setting of their choice even after refreshing pages or opening new ones. This only applies to wikis where Vector 2022 is the default. [74]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (calendar).
  • Previously, we announced when some wikis would be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. These switches will not be announced any more, as the read-only time has become non-significant. Switches will continue to happen at 7AM UTC on Tuesdays and Thursdays. [75]
  • Across all the wikis, in the Vector 2022 skin, logged-in users will see the page-related links such as "What links here" in a new side menu. It will be displayed on the other side of the screen. This change had previously been made on Czech, English, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. [76]
  • Community Wishlist Survey 2023 will stop receiving new proposals on Monday, 6 February 2023, at 18:00 UTC. Proposers should complete any edits by then, to give time for translations and review. Voting will begin on Friday, 10 February.

Future changes

  • Gadgets and user scripts will be changing to load on desktop and mobile sites. Previously they would only load on the desktop site. It is recommended that wiki administrators audit the gadget definitions prior to this change, and add skins=… for any gadgets which should not load on mobile. More details are available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 10:19, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Feb 15: WikiWednesday Salon in Brooklyn

Feb 15: WikiWednesday @ BPL + on Zoom
WikiWednesday is back in-person, pizza included!

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Brooklyn Public Library by Grand Army Plaza, in the Central Library's Info Commons Lab, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

We are proud to announce that monthly PIZZA has returned!

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Brooklyn Public Library encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity.

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
(Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn)
Also online via Zoom

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This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2023)

Campaign for the Norwegian Centre Party at Nærbø: like its Finnish and Swedish counterparts, the party has a strong focus on decentralisation, rural and agrarian issues. Ideologically, the Centre Party is positioned in the centre on the political spectrum.
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Centrism

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Waffle iron • The Sims (video game)

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Tech News: 2023-07

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

  • On wikis where patrolled edits are enabled, changes made to the mentor list by autopatrolled mentors are not correctly marked as patrolled. It will be fixed later this week. [77]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar).
  • The Reply tool and other parts of DiscussionTools will be deployed for all editors using the mobile site. You can read more about this decision. [78]

Future changes

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [79][80][81]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:47, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Hatnotes above tags

Hi, thanks for the wonderful bot! However, I noticed that when it adds the AFI tag to the selected article, it adds it to the top. According to MOS:ORDER, tags should be below hatnotes. I don’t know much Ruby, so could you kindly fix it? Happy vacation! Aaron Liu (talk) 19:15, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2023)

Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Textbook

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Centrism • Waffle iron

Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations

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Tech News: 2023-08

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

  • Last week, during planned maintenance of Cloud Services, unforeseen complications forced the team to turn off all tools for 2–3 hours to prevent data corruption. Work is ongoing to prevent similar problems in the future. [82]

Changes later this week

Future changes

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [83][84][85]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:56, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Editing news 2023 #1

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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:

  1. The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
  2. They are beginning a new project, Edit check.

Talk pages project

Screenshot showing the talk page design changes that are currently available as beta features at all Wikimedia wikis. These features include information about the number of people and comments within each discussion.
Some of the upcoming changes

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for Discussion tools.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "Add topic" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.

Daily edit completion rate by test group: DiscussionTools (test group) and MobileFrontend overlay (control group)

An A/B test for Discussion tools on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with Discussion tools. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "Publish changes". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

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This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2023)

Greenland is the world's largest island.
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Island

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Tech News: 2023-09

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Problems

  • Last week, in some areas of the world, there were problems with loading pages for 20 minutes and saving edits for 55 minutes. These issues were caused by a problem with our caching servers due to unforseen events during a routine maintenance task. [86][87]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (calendar).
  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [88]

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Mar 8: WikiWednesday Salon by Grand Central

Mar 8: WikiWednesday Salon by Grand Central
The gathering is in the vicinity of Grand Central Terminal.

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community and visitors from the global Wikimedia Foundation for our WikiWednesday Salon by Grand Central, in-person at Convene 101 Park Avenue in the vicinity of Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

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We may leaven the event with a few impromptu lightning talks, a Wiki-fashion show (yes, really!), and likely an afterparty tour.

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Reverted bot edit

Hey, I reverted this edit your bot made because I think it's a mistake. The template is protected so it shouldn't have removed the protection message and it definitely shouldn't have removed part of someone's comment. The template was just moved so that probably had something to do with it. Cheers, MClay1 (talk) 11:25, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

The bot goes off of Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates. Probably because of the page move, the modules that set the categorization got mixed up. I see it's no longer categorized, so the bot will not touch it further. — MusikAnimal talk 20:16, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

ResponseHelper request for AIV

I was wondering if you could add
an option to click from my mouse pad
that replies to a reporting comrade
"partially blocked" for those acting bad
prompting for the page(s) and duration to enter from my keypad.
EvergreenFir (talk) 19:15, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

@EvergreenFir Hehe, beautiful poem! :) "Partially blocked" doesn't appear to be one of the options provided by {{AIV}}. That would need to be added in order for it to be included in responseHelper. Best, — MusikAnimal talk 20:20, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

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  • The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
  • Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
  • The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a [p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.
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This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2023)

Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Manufacturing

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Island • Textbook

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Recent changes

  • The Community Wishlist Survey 2023 edition has been concluded. Community Tech has published the results of the survey and will provide an update on what is next in April 2023.
  • On wikis which use LanguageConverter to handle multiple writing systems, articles which used custom conversion rules in the wikitext (primarily on Chinese Wikipedia) would have these rules applied inconsistently in the table of contents, especially in the Vector 2022 skin. This has now been fixed. [89]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (calendar).
  • A search system has been added to the Preferences screen. This will let you find different options more easily. Making it work on mobile devices will happen soon. [90]

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This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2023)

An assortment of various foods
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Food

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Previous selections: Manufacturing • Island

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Tech News: 2023-11

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Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (calendar).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Chavacano de Zamboanga Wikipedia, Min Dong Chinese Wikipedia, Chechen Wikipedia, Cebuano Wikipedia, Chamorro Wikipedia, Cherokee Wikipedia, Cheyenne Wikipedia, Central Kurdish Wikipedia, Corsican Wikipedia, Kashubian Wikipedia, Church Slavic Wikipedia, Chuvash Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [91][92]

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A message from MTRIProd

Can you help me become an admin or moderator? MTRIProd (talk) 05:57, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Adminship is not for new users. However, it's worth noting that you're currently closer to being blocked than obtaining adminship. -FASTILY 08:06, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2023)

Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Voting

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scanning dumps

Hello. For making reports, how do you guys scan the wikipedia dumps? —usernamekiran (talk) 19:53, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran Are you referring to Wikipedia:Database reports? I don't think any of these scan dumps, but query the database directly. Going by dumps is generally very inefficient and is only used for info we can't get through querying the database. If there's a specific kind of query you need help with, the kind folks at WP:RAQ may be able to help. — MusikAnimal talk 20:22, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

AIV Template Revisited

Hi MusikAnimal!

I have added a (mediocre) option for a partial block on Template:AIV/sandbox. The syntax is part|pb|partialblock. I did add an option for additional text to say where the block is, but it doesn't seem that great. Test results:

Partially blocked.
Partially blocked (from User:EvergreenFir).

As I am amateur at template syntax, I will let you or someone else put in in {{AIV}} if you think this is useful. Thank you! EvergreenFir (talk) 20:22, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

@EvergreenFir I cleaned up the implementation in the sandbox a bit. I haven't worked at AIV for so long that I nearly forgot that the bots removed blocked users! But I guess they don't for partial blocks, hence why you wanted to add this. If that is the case, I think it's certainly useful! I don't know how the bot could ascertain that a partial block was in response to the AIV report, after all, and we don't want other admins investigating a user who has already been dealt with.
If the new output above looks good to you, feel free to add it as it is in the sandbox, or I can add it, then I'll update responseHelper :) — MusikAnimal talk 03:29, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
Thank you! And exactly correct. The bots do not clear partially blocked ones from AIV and they can waste admins' time and clutter the list.
I've copied the sandbox to the main template and will update the documentation in a moment.
Thanks again for your help! EvergreenFir (talk) 04:15, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
This has now been added to responseHelper. Regards, — MusikAnimal talk 21:50, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-12

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Problems

  • Last week, some users experienced issues loading image thumbnails. This was due to incorrectly cached images. [93]

Changes later this week

Meetings

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:24, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Notices on pages of deceased Wikipedians

Hello. I noticed that one of your bots has been leaving messages on the talk pages of deceased Wikipedians. e.g. [95] and [96]. I don't know if bots can be programmed with an exception based on templates present on such pages, or if the convention is for those who notice this to remove it (as I am not up-to-date on the latest guidelines), but thought I should point it out. Thank you. Carcharoth (talk) 14:57, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2023)

Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Offensive backfield

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Previous selections: Voting • Food

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Tech News: 2023-13

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 AbuseFilter condition limit was increased from 1000 to 2000. [97]
  • Some Global AbuseFilter actions will no longer apply to local projects. [98]
  • Desktop users are now able to subscribe to talk pages by clicking on the Subscribe link in the Tools menu. If you subscribe to a talk page, you receive notifications when new topics are started on that talk page. This is separate from putting the page on your watchlist or subscribing to a single discussion. [99]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 March. It will be on all wikis from 30 March (calendar).

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Precious anniversary

Precious
Nine years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:44, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

FixPP issue

Hello!

Due to some weird caching issues, all pages don't show up during the categorymembers API check for MusikBot's FixPP run, making these pages not be processed. Instead, if this could be changed to use the search API for incategory:"Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates", the issue should be resolved. Thanks! ~ Eejit43 (talk) 12:31, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Note: I've since null edited all pages so they will show up in categorymembers, so you won't be able to reproduce this. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 12:43, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
It is peculiar that the search index is more reliable for categorization than the API endpoint designed for this exact purpose, but indeed you are correct! I wonder how many other bots and tools could benefit from moving using the categorymembers API to the search API. It feels odd and wrong, but whatever, so long as it works I'm fine with it :) I've started work on this and hope to finish it soon. Thanks for the suggestion! — MusikAnimal talk 19:08, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
It is indeed very odd! Thank you! :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 19:24, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2023-14

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 system for automatically creating categories for the Babel extension has had several important changes and fixes. One of them allows you to insert templates for automatic category descriptions on creation, allowing you to categorize the new categories. [102][103][104][105][106]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).
  • Some older Web browsers will stop being able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can try to upgrade to a newer version. [107]
  • The deprecated jquery.hoverIntent module has been removed. This module could be used by gadgets and user scripts, to create an artificial delay in how JavaScript responds to a hover event. Gadgets and user scripts should now use jQuery hover() or on() instead. Examples can be found in the migration guide. [108]
  • Some of the links in Special:SpecialPages will be re-arranged. There will be a clearer separation between links that relate to all users, and links related to your own user account. [109]
  • You will be able to hide the Reply button in archived discussion pages with a new __ARCHIVEDTALK__ magic word. There will also be a new .mw-archivedtalk CSS class for hiding the Reply button in individual sections on a page. [110][111][112]

Future changes

  • The Vega software that creates data visualizations in pages, such as graphs, will be upgraded to the newest version in the future. Graphs that still use the very old version 1.5 syntax may stop working properly. Most existing uses have been found and updated, but you can help to check, and to update any local documentation. Examples of how to find and fix these graphs are available.

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Apr 12 WikiWednesday + Earth Week (Apr 15-23)

April 12: WikiWednesday @ BPL + on Zoom
WikiWednesday is back in-person, pizza included!

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Brooklyn Public Library by Grand Army Plaza, in the Central Library's Info Commons Lab, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

We are proud to announce that monthly PIZZA has returned!

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responseHelper not helpful to me

I've installed properly and editing UAA. I can hover over the "wait" link, but the hover text isn't close enough to my pointer that I can click on it, and when I move, the hover text goes away. If I just click on the "wait" link, I only get the edit summary filled in, even though the cursor is in the edit window. What am I doing wrong? - UtherSRG (talk) 18:12, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

@UtherSRG I just tested at UAA and it worked for me as designed. At UAA you do indeed need the cursor where you want the text inserted (as it otherwise has no idea which report you're tending to). If that isn't working, could you check if you are running into any JavaScript errors and if so, let me know what they say?
The hover text is using the standard HTML title attribute. Your computer and/or browser will dictate how that behaves. — MusikAnimal talk 21:10, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
When I hover over regular wikilinks, the popup is right at my mouse pointer. When I hover over your links, the popup is a line down and touching the lower right portion of the mouse cursor instead of the selection point. When I click the link, that draws the focus away from the edit window so the template has no place to go. I don't see any JS errors related to your script as far as I can tell. I have an error in my vector.js, but I haven't mod'd that in over 10 years. Might be easier to email you a copy of a screen cap of the console? If you send me email, I can reply to it with the screen cap. - UtherSRG (talk) 22:09, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
Try browsing Wikipedia in safemode i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org?safemode=1. The tooltips shown when hovering on links should be no different then the ones used in responseHelper. Clicking on the links does remove focus from the textarea, that's expected. What's important is where your cursor is (or was) in the textarea. In fact, I can go to Special:EditPage/Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention/Bot for example and the responseHelper links add the code even before I ever put focus on the textarea, but it inserts the template at the beginning because that's the default cursor position.
I suspect you may have some conflicting gadget or script. I have emailed you so you can reply with a screenshot, if you wish. — MusikAnimal talk 21:15, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
Safemode doesn't seem to do anything different for me. :( I've sent you some screen caps. - UtherSRG (talk) 22:38, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
FWIW by "JavaScript errors" he means ones you can find by opening your browser console, not syntax errors you might see beneath the textbox when editing a .js wikipage. I'm not sure if you got that.
Also, what happens when you click "Show changes" (or "Publish changes") after you click on the link and the edit summary is filled in? Nardog (talk) 09:02, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
Yes, I know what he means by js errors, and his link to it was helpful in me providing information to him offsite. Show Changes (or preview changes) shows exactly what I expect - that there was no template placed in the edit area, and so nothing has changed. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:20, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
@UtherSRG Replying here instead of email as others may have ideas…
First thing is first. Your User:UtherSRG/vector.js contains syntax errors and is probably causing all other scripts in your vector.js to not load. Just remove that first line, or comment it out with JavaScript syntax // {{subst:navpop}}. You shouldn't need to load User:Lupin/popups.js anyway as there is a gadget.
Next, I wanted to make sure the screenshot you sent was after you attempted to use responseHelper (i.e. clicked on one of the options)? Because that is when the JS error would likely occur.
Finally, it seems you're using User:Cacycle/wikEd, and if none of the above tips help, I would try disbaling wikEd to see if that's the culprit. If you weren't aware, syntax highlighting is available in the default editor. I say this in the event that's the primary reason you're using wikEd.
I have no idea what the issue is with the tooltips. As I've said, responseHelper is not doing anything special there. To reiterate in case it wasn't clear, I was suggesting to use safemode just to observe what tooltips look like normally (i.e. without Popups and such). Just hover over any link, and make note of the placement and appearance of the tooltip. It should be identical to what responseHelper does (note responseHelper as well as any other scripts/gadgets you use aren't shown in safemode). — MusikAnimal talk 16:01, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
The line you suggest to comment out in my vector.js is already commented out, as is the Lupin popup:
<!-- {{subst:navpop}} -->
// [[User:Lupin/popups.js]]
Oh wait. I see that Lupin's popup is added lower down. Let me try that first - UtherSRG (talk) 16:08, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
No joy on ditching this. When I do safemode, the wikilink popups look the same as your popups, shifted a bit down and to the right. When I'm not in safemode, the wikilink popups are actually useable, but your popups still are not. - UtherSRG (talk) 16:13, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
Ah! Disabling wikEd did the trick! Whee! Thanks! Oh, and the console window I sent you was before clicking the link. There were no changes after clicking the link, so no need to send an additional image. - UtherSRG (talk) 16:16, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
(edit conflict) Ah, it looks like the script could use replacing .val() with .textSelection() (setSelection or encapsulateSelection). In the mean time, if you're using syntax highlighting or a custom editor like WikEd, try disabling it while using responseHelper. Nardog (talk) 16:04, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
Disabling wikEd did the trick. - UtherSRG (talk) 16:17, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
Nardog is right; it should use jQuery.textSelection. I don't know if that fixes it for WikEd or not but I'll let you know when I get that implemented. It's interesting that responeHelper still works with mw:Extension:CodeMirror, though. — MusikAnimal talk 18:24, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2023)

Kayakers on the St. Lawrence River near Les Bergeronnes, Quebec, Canada
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

St. Lawrence River

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MusikBot II - FixPP

Hey! MusikBot II seems to have hit a fatal error recently, and Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates has begun backlogging. Any idea whats going on here? Aidan9382 (talk) 06:37, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Nevermind, it seems to be back and running fine (just did a huge sweep). Aidan9382 (talk) 18:39, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
Hehe, that was me fixing it! There was in fact a bug that was causing the bot to error out since sometime yesterday. Thanks for letting me know. This specific issue shouldn't happen again. — MusikAnimal talk 18:43, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

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  • There was a problem with all types of CentralNotice banners still being shown to logged-in users even if they had turned off specific banner types. This has now been fixed. [115]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia, Danish Wikipedia, Dinka Wikipedia, Lower Sorbian Wikipedia, Ewe Wikipedia, Greek Wikipedia, Emiliano-Romagnolo Wikipedia, Esperanto Wikipedia, Estonian Wikipedia, Basque Wikipedia, Extremaduran Wikipedia, Tumbuka Wikipedia, Fulah Wikipedia, Finnish Wikipedia, Võro Wikipedia, Fijian Wikipedia, Faroese Wikipedia, Arpitan Wikipedia, Northern Frisian Wikipedia, Friulian Wikipedia, Irish Wikipedia, Guianan Creole Wikipedia, Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia, Galician Wikipedia, Gilaki Wikipedia, Guarani Wikipedia, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Gothic Wikipedia, Gujarati Wikipedia, Manx Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [116][117]

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continuation of dump discussion

Hi. To continue our discussion from here: I successfully created a program that scans the latest dump every month, and creates User:KiranBOT/MOSTREFS/articles, and User:KiranBOT/MOSTREFS/lists. It does that while being super easy on the resources. The results are quite off though, but it is the final version for now. courtesy ping to @John of Reading and Izno: —usernamekiran (talk) 13:54, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

Awesome, great work! :) — MusikAnimal talk 23:08, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2023)

Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Sankebetsu brown bear incident

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How does Mediaviews work?

What does "Requests" mean? Why do the sources (Google search etc) don't add up to the total? If an image appears closer to the bottom of an article, how do you know someone has viewd it? The FAQ is incomplete. --Bageense(disc.) 18:47, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

@Bageense Considering you're the second person to ask about how Mediaviews works in the past 24 hours, I'd say an FAQ entry is in order :) I'll get to adding that soon. wikitech:Analytics/Data Lake/Traffic/Mediacounts has info on the actual metric and technical bits, but to put it briefly: it's recording actual HTTP requests to the media file, or in other words that it was downloaded (or streamed in the case of video). That should mean any and all requests, including external ones from Google Images search, but Google probably has their own caching layer so it's not doing a "fresh request" each time.
If an image appears closer to the bottom of an article, how do you know someone has viewd it? You don't. On desktop, generally all images on a wiki page are downloaded at the same time, so this would fire off mediarequests. However I know that the mobile version has lazy loading of images, so it would require the user to scroll at least somewhere close to the image before a request is made. The same may be true to some extent for desktop, but for sure a request is recorded when a user clicks on media and views it Media Viewer. Note also that video would always require a click, since it doesn't auto-play. So all in all, the media requests for video are likely more close to reality. For images, it's the best the Data Engineering team was able to come up with given the way our infrastructure works. It's definitely a more precise metric on "how many people viewed this image" than the traditional pageviews, though.
Hope this helps, and I'll get to filling out that FAQ soon, while also double-checking my understanding :) If you have any other questions, please ask so I can ensure that is covered as well. Best, — MusikAnimal talk 23:21, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
Actually, I've got one more question: in a search engine: does the viewer have to click on the image and see the preview in order for a view to be counted? --Bageense(disc.) 17:28, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
@Bageense I just checked the network log when using Google Images, and as suspected, all images on results page are from Google's caching layer. Clicking on an image does make a fresh request to Wikimedia Commons (or whatever project), so yes, the user has to click on the image in the search results for a media request to be counted. — MusikAnimal talk 16:30, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

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Conifers encroaching on a meadow in Washington state, United States
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This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2023)

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Tableau vivant

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GeoNotice syncing no longer needed

I updated geonotices to use the functionality in phab:T198758 so MusikBot II doesn't have to sync the notices anymore. Galobtter (talk) 22:52, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

Oops, I didn't realize the bot parsed the notices to display them properly. Will revert for now. Galobtter (talk) 23:28, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
Hmm, we can't allow direct use of HTML for XSS reasons, and I realized I also didn't escape the JSON text as I should've. Looks like the only wikitext used is links and bold/italic formatting. Geonotice already converts internal links into html, so it needs to convert external links also and parse bold/italic formatting. So a bit of a project to actually use the JSON loading functionality I think. It might also want to do some of the validation that MusikBot does - do you think there's anything else from MusikBot that needs to be implemented? Galobtter (talk) 00:03, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
@Galobtter This bot task was only meant to be temporary, knowing phab:T198758 would eventually be a thing. But yes, it sounds like more work is to be done to get feature parity (if we want it). Here's a list of what the GeoniticeSync task does (I'm a little surprised I didn't document this...):
  • Asserts that only the keys begin, end, country, corners text, and comments are used.
  • Asserts that only country or corners is used, and not both.
  • Strips out the comments key, if present (this is only to be used on the JSON page).
  • Asserts that the text key is present.
  • Uses mw:API:Parse with text to validate it as wikitext. It also uses the CSS selector div p to grab the inner HTML of the parsed content (since the parser wraps it in these elements and they aren't needed).
  • Asserts the begin and end are valid datestamps (I've just now noticed a bug where it actually only does this for begin… I will fix this)
  • Asserts the country, if given, is a valid ISO 3166 country code.
  • Validates corners if given:
    • Asserts it has exactly two sets of coordinates.
    • Asserts each coordinate has two values.
    • Asserts the coordinate values are floating point numbers.
There's more info and discussion at the BRFA, if you wish to review it. I think a lot of these assertions aren't really necessary, at least in the fashion MusikBot II does them. The core Geonotice functionality is all JavaScrit, right? Everything but the country code validation I assume should be fairly simple to add to the JS source, and if the validation fails maybe throw an error in the JS console. That said, part of the reason we made the GeonoticeSync task is to make it easier for those who aren't familiar with JS. So it might be better to show an alert() or something (maybe only for the user who last edited the config page?). I'm not sure... I don't actually use geonotices myself, so I would recommend consulting recent editors of Wikipedia:Geonotice/list.json for what they feel is important for their workflows.
Hope this helps! Just let me know if/when I need to do anything :) Thanks for working on this, — MusikAnimal talk 18:23, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

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  • Last week, Community Tech released the first update for providing better diffs, the #1 request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. This update adds legends and tooltips to inline diffs so that users unfamiliar with the blue and yellow highlights can better understand the type of edits made.
  • When you close an image that is displayed via MediaViewer, it will now return to the wiki page instead of going back in your browser history. This feature request was voted #65 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [135]
  • The SyntaxHighlight extension now supports wikitext as a selected language. Old alternatives that were used to highlight wikitext, such as html5, moin, and html+handlebars, can now be replaced. [136]
  • Preloading text to new pages/sections now supports preloading from localized MediaWiki interface messages. Here is an example at the Czech Wikipedia that uses preload=MediaWiki:July. [137]

Problems

  • Graph Extension update: Foundation developers have completed upgrading the visualization software to Vega5. Existing community graphs based on Vega2 are no longer compatible. Communities need to update local graphs and templates, and shared lua modules like de:Modul:Graph. The Vega Porting guide provides the most comprehensive detail on migration from Vega2 and here is an example migration. Vega5 has currently just been enabled on mediawiki.org to provide a test environment for communities. [138]

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This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2023)

An audio production facility
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Audio editing software

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MusikBot AWB PermClerking

I think there is something wrong with the config for AWB, as the request page says that you need 500 total mainspace, or 250 non automated, and MusikBot’s config is saying 500 non automated edits. It does seem to be causing some confusion with editors mentioning how they have over 500 total mainspace edits. Thanks, Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 06:27, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Acknowledged. I'll have a look at this later tonight. Thanks for letting me know :) — MusikAnimal talk 01:24, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
@Zippybonzo I thought there was a bug, but what you're saying is the bot only respects checking non-automated edits, and not total mainspace edits. That is true, but is expected as there's no way to configure a logical "OR" operations, only "AND". So what you're asking for is a feature request. I'll try to look into it soon... but note the bot's comments are never meant to imply "decline this request", rather it simply offers information that may be relevant to the reviewing admin. In that sense reporting non-automated edit counts is still valid, regardless of their total mainspace edit count.
However, @Aaron Liu reported different behaviour with Special:Diff/1152548541. He was saying the bot incorrectly reported the wrong number of non-automated edits. I don't see that when reviewing the revision history. Could you clarify, Aaron?
In the meantime, to reduce confusion, I've simply disabled the clerking for AWB requests. — MusikAnimal talk 00:03, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
What we were both saying is that the bot replies with "unmet prerequistes" if the user has under 250 non-automated mainspace edits. This is pretty confusing behavior. Aaron Liu (talk) 00:09, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
I think requests should still be clerked just not the checking for prerequisites part Aaron Liu (talk) 11:45, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
the bot replies with "unmet prerequistes" That was the intent with this feature, but it's not explicitly saying "unmet prerequisites". Admins are still expected to check for themselves. But I agree it can be confusing!
I think requests should still be clerked just not the checking for prerequisites part That is the change I made, so hopefully we're good for now :)
At a later time I may implement the logical OR functionality and restore the feature to comment on unmet prerequisites. Regards, — MusikAnimal talk 17:59, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
As far as I can tell, the bot isn't clerking (including archiving) WP:RFR/AWB. Aaron Liu (talk) 18:55, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
Huh, it just archived like ~30 requests at once. Seems like it's up again. Aaron Liu (talk) 20:57, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

MusikBot PermClerk broken again?

Hi MusikAnimal, I believe that MusikBot PermClerk is broken, as there hasn’t been an edit to PERM pages for ages, and some of them are getting quite long, with requests answered 8 - 10 days ago not being archived. If you get a chance, can you revive PermClerk, so that someone doesn’t have to manually archive the requests. Thanks, Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 16:01, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

I dunno what happened, but at 17:21, 15 May 2023 (UTC) the bot finally archived 31 requests. Aaron Liu (talk) 20:59, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
That is odd. If it seems to have problems again, please let me know (I'm not very active on the weekends, FYI). Everything on Toolforge was down earlier today due to maintenance, but that doesn't explain why it didn't archive anything over the past week. I'll keep an eye on the logs, but it seems we're back to normal for now. — MusikAnimal talk 21:15, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

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  • Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN are currently broken. This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing to restore this feature. [144]

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Bug in Xtools

Hello, I just noticed a bug in Xtools, you are listed as one of the developers so I'm hoping it's ok to raise this here?

If you do a global contributions search for an IP range the namespaces seem to be messed up: it seems to be getting the namespace ID → Namespace name conversions from meta, which leads to it listing incorrect pages on other projects.

In this IP range for example: https://xtools.wmcloud.org/globalcontribs/ipr-192.76.8.0/24 There are a number of entries for enwiki referring to pages like "Meta:Village pump (policy)" and "Meta:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents" - these should be using the "wikipedia" namespace.

I apologise if I raised this in the wrong place, and thanks for developing xtools, it's a great piece of software! 192.76.8.64 (talk) 15:47, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know! Here is fine, but mw:Talk:XTools or phab:tag/xtools are the preferred venues. The latter requires a Wikimedia account, however. I have filed phab:T337104 and will look into this ASAP. Thanks again, — MusikAnimal talk 11:24, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2023)

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Vandal Kingdom

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  • An improved impact module will be available at Wikipedias. The impact module is a feature available to newcomers at their personal homepage. It will show their number of edits, how many readers their edited pages have, how many thanks they have received and similar things. It is also accessible by accessing Special:Impact. [148]
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R211 (New York City Subway car)

Add the missing tag protection on the R211 New York City Subway car article because is protected temporary for 1 month. 63.143.198.112 (talk) 02:11, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

Bot problem

User:MusikBot/ECPMonitor/Report has not been updated since 24 May. Please fix thanks. Lightoil (talk) 18:46, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

@Lightoil: This is probably due to Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Unrelated replag. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:06, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
@Redrose64 thank you for the info Lightoil (talk) 21:08, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2023)

Popillia japonica, commonly known as the Japanese Beetle
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Japanese beetle

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  • For a few days earlier this month, the "Add interlanguage link" item in the Tools menu did not work properly. This has now been fixed. [151]

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  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 May. It will be on all wikis from 1 June (calendar).
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This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2023)

The Gutenberg Bible, the first printed Bible (mid-15th century)
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Bible

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  • Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
  • As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

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  • Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

Arbitration

  • The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

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AAbot…

Now that the bot is a template editor, should we either protect Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Article alerts/AfD, or remove it from User:MusikBot II/TemplateProtector/config? Courcelles (talk) 21:30, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

I've removed it from the bot config and did a manual run of the bot, and it has now protected the AfD subpage. Thanks for pointing this out! Best, — MusikAnimal talk 21:48, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-23

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  • The RealMe extension allows you to mark URLs on your user page as verified for Mastodon and similar software.
  • Citation and footnote editing can now be started from the reference list when using the visual editor. This feature request was voted #2 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [153]
  • Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference for "Group results by page". This has now been fixed. [154]

Problems

  • For a few days last week, some tools and bots returned outdated information due to database replication problems, and may have been down entirely while it was being fixed. These issues have now been fixed. [155]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
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It Better This Revision

Some erase the content and to wide sub-section.

It better this revision of https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yang_(surname)&diff=prev&oldid=1159073122 at edit history.

Please restore it. 2001:448A:20E0:6E0B:35E1:53A4:E7C6:E595 (talk) 16:03, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

The sub-section line to wide. Is it not all Huaxia and not All Korean it is only Tamna. And other. 2001:448A:20E0:6E0B:35E1:53A4:E7C6:E595 (talk) 16:06, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

You should discuss this at Talk:Yang (surname), not here :) Regards, — MusikAnimal talk 19:23, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2023)

Four T-72B tanks of the participants, 2013
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Tank biathlon

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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

  • The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the Dutch, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias. This was the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [157]
  • The Search Preview panel has been deployed on four Wikipedias (Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian and Norwegian). The panel will show an image related to the article (if existing), the top sections of the article, related images (coming from MediaSearch on Commons), and eventually the sister projects associated with the article. [158]
  • The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software. [159]
  • The default project license has been officially upgraded to CC BY-SA 4.0. The software interface messages have been updated. Communities should feel free to start updating any mentions of the old CC BY-SA 3.0 licensing within policies and related documentation pages. [160]

Problems

  • For three days last month, some Wikipedia pages edited with VisualEditor or DiscussionTools had an unintended __TOC__ (or its localized form) added during an edit. There is a listing of affected pages sorted by wiki, that may still need to be fixed. [161]
  • Currently, the "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is broken. Existing {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords incorrectly appear as missing templates in VisualEditor. Developers are exploring how to fix this. In the meantime, those wishing to edit the default sortkey of a page are advised to switch to source editing. [162]
  • Last week, an update to the delete form may have broken some gadgets or user scripts. If you need to manipulate (empty) the reason field, replace #wpReason with #wpReason > input. See an example fix. [163]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).
  • VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on English Wikipedia on Monday, and all other large wikis on Thursday. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [164]

Future changes

  • From 5 June to 17 July, the Foundation's Security team is holding a consultation with contributors regarding a draft policy to govern the use of third-party resources in volunteer-developed gadgets and scripts. Feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome at Third-party resources policy on meta-wiki.

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MediaWiki message delivery 14:49, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

June 21: WikiWednesday Salon back in Manhattan!

June 21: WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce
WikiWednesday is back in Manhattan!

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

We are proud to announce that monthly food has returned!

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Prime Produce encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity.

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
(Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan)
Also online via Zoom

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--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:06, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

Hello MusikAnimal,

New Page Review queue April to June 2023

Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.

Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.

You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.

Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).

Reminders

— Preceding unsigned comment added by MediaWiki message delivery (talk • contribs) 17:30, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2023)

Epileptic spike and wave discharges monitored EEG
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Electroencephalography

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Tank biathlon • Bible

Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations

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The Signpost: 19 June 2023

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Tech News: 2023-25

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

  • Flame graphs are now available in WikimediaDebug. [165][166]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
  • There is now a toolbar search popup in the visual editor. You can trigger it by typing \ or pressing ctrl + shift + p. It can help you quickly access most tools in the editor. [167][168]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:07, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

MusikBot: NPPChart

Hi MusikAnimal. I noticed that https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol/Backlog_chart/daily&action=history is missing entries for the last 5 days and updates have generally been sporadic since 21 May. Is something broken? – Joe (talk) 11:25, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

Acknowledged! I'm not sure what's going on. There are no relevant errors in the logs. I will look into this more as time allows. Fortunately, it backfills data for days that it missed, at least. — MusikAnimal talk 18:31, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2023)

The water frame is a spinning frame that is powered by a water-wheel.
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Water frame

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Electroencephalography • Tank biathlon

Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations

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Tech News: 2023-26

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

Recent changes

  • The Action API modules and Special:LinkSearch will now add a trailing / to all prop=extlinks responses for bare domains. This is part of the work to remove duplication in the externallinks database table. [169]

Problems

  • Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours. [170][171]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
  • The Minerva skin now applies more predefined styles to the .mbox-text CSS class. This enables support for mbox templates that use divs instead of tables. Please make sure that the new styles won't affect other templates in your wiki. [172][173]
  • Gadgets will now load on both desktop and mobile by default. Previously, gadgets loaded only on desktop by default. Changing this default using the |targets= parameter is also deprecated and should not be used. You should make gadgets work on mobile or disable them based on the skin (with the |skins= parameter in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition) rather than whether the user uses the mobile or the desktop website. Popular gadgets that create errors on mobile will be disabled by developers on the Minerva skin as a temporary solution. [174]
  • All namespace tabs now have the same browser access key by default. Previously, custom and extension-defined namespaces would have to have their access keys set manually on-wiki, but that is no longer necessary. [175]
  • The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized user interface components. [176]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:17, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

New pages patrol needs your help!

New pages awaiting review as of June 30th, 2023.

Hello MusikAnimal,

The New Page Patrol team is sending you this impromptu message to inform you of a steeply rising backlog of articles needing review. If you have any extra time to spare, please consider reviewing one or two articles each day to help lower the backlog. You can start reviewing by visiting Special:NewPagesFeed. Thank you very much for your help.

Reminders:

Sent by Zippybonzo using MediaWiki message delivery at 06:59, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

Administrator changes

added Novem Linguae
removed

Bureaucrat changes

removed MBisanz

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:58, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2023)

Outdoor Tai chi practice in Beijing's Temple of Heaven
Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is:

Tai chi

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Water frame • Electroencephalography

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Tech News: 2023-27

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 4 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 July. It will be on all wikis from 6 July (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:49, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

MusikBot over-archiving bug at WP:PERM

This looks like a MusikBot bug. It archived a WP:PERM section that had no approved or denied template (see the very bottom section). Hope this helps. Thanks for making MusikBot. –Novem Linguae (talk) 11:53, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

Acknowledged, and thanks for reporting! I'll try to investigate, but if it wasn't obvious, the bottom request that was incorrectly archived didn't have the expected heading. The bot should still be able to work around that, though. — MusikAnimal talk 16:47, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, Heart (talk) 06:29, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks to you both! — MusikAnimal talk 03:01, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
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