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"Infinity Pool" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Infinity Pool has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 February 21 § Infinity Pool until a consensus is reached. A7V2 (talk) 00:11, 22 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.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:19, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Assistance with implementing the CFD closure of "categories named after sports venues"

Thank you for closing the Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 February 4#categories named after sports venues discussion. Since there is a lot of work with purging before the smallcats can be identified, I'm happy to help out but don't want to overstep with your role as the closer.

Can I start purging the categories? - RevelationDirect (talk) 03:07, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

@RevelationDirect, feel free to start purging the categories. I listed the closure (I think) at WP:CFDM, so anyone can implement it. After you've purged the categories, you can empty the SMALLCATs and tag them with {{db-xfd}}, per the closure. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:06, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Please reconsider Category:European sportspeople of Jamaican descent

Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 February 14#Category:European sportspeople of Jamaican descent

Merging 3 different countries to 1 (Jamaica) would be a very bad idea. That idiocy was suggested by the final comment, and nobody took it seriously. There were multiple deletes plus a support, and this was a followup to a larger delete.
William Allen Simpson (talk) 16:57, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

@William Allen Simpson, I have no way of telling if people took it seriously or not, as no one responeded to it.
I'll change the closure to delete. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:01, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
Thank you. 'I' didn't take them seriously. For over a decade. When I see a comment by Marco or Fayanetic (or Good Olfactory and some others), they've actually looked at the categories and the articles. There are some who just post knee-jerk reactions.
William Allen Simpson (talk) 17:08, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
@Fayenatic london. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:05, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
I read Peterkingiron's suggestion as "Merge to Category:Sportspeople of Jamaican descent, etc". That is to say, merge Category:European sportspeople of Jamaican descent to Category:Sportspeople of Jamaican descent, the Dominican one to Category:Sportspeople of Dominican Republic descent and the Trinidad one to Category:Sportspeople of Trinidad and Tobago descent. – Fayenatic London 21:28, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Bot request note

I see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Qwerfjkl (bot) 16 has been approved. I went ahead and removed from the page of moves the ones that have already been moved manually, except for the ones you moved (at the top). Thanks for doing this! When these moves are done I'll do another run and may come up with a few dozen more. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 23:25, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

@Mike Christie, thanks, I'll try to run this sometime today. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:37, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
@Mike Christie, I've run this. There are a few I had to move manually due to a blacklist entry. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:31, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
Thanks! I will do some post-processing and put together a (final, I hope) clean up list; it'll be much shorter. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 18:02, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #561

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
    • Closed requests for permissions/Bot:
      • Cmtqwikibot 2 (Task/s: Add credits (cast and crew) for audiovisual work produced in Quebec based on the Cinémathèque québécoise's catalogue data. Adds reference. Deletes redundant, more general existing statements in certain circumstances.)
      • MsynBot 12 (Task/s: import missing GND ID (P227) identifier based on linked VIAF cluster)
  • Press, articles, blog posts, videos
    • Videos
      • LIVE Wikidata editing #106 - YouTube
      • CALA Speaker Series "Describing Chinese Rare Books and Cultural Heritage Collections" Session 1 - YouTube
      • TWed Talk (21 Feb 2023): Sola Shirai on "Working with Wikidata" - YouTube
  • Tool of the week
    • AutosuggestSitelink is a gadget that suggests Wikidata items for possible linking with a Wikimedia site page, using interwiki linking.
  • Development
    • REST API:
      • We added a way to get all statements on an Item for a given Property ID via a filter (phab:T309021)
      • We made it possible to configure the server for the "Try it out" button on the OpenAPI spec (phab:T329606)
    • Query Builder:
    • Constraints: We added support for showing constraint clarifications in constraint violation pop-up (phab:T219037)
    • We finished restricting unit/calendar/globe URIs to sensible values (phab:T102840)

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

Second list of bot move requests

Hi -- I've updated User:Mike Christie/GA subpages that should be moved with the new list of pages to move -- less than a hundred this time. Can you move these when you get a chance? Thanks. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 18:04, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

@Mike Christie, sure. I'm currently working through closing the longest CfD log page I've ever seen; I'll run the bot afterwards. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:11, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-09

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, 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. [1][2]

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. [3]

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Prematurely closed discussions

please nominate the following 1-member categories to speedy deletion. You prematurely closed discussions, but categories still exist

--Estopedist1 (talk) 07:44, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

@Estopedist1, for the two that still exist, I have not closed their discussions. For the others, I listed them at WT:CFDW for an admin to process.
How did I "prematurely close discussions"? — Qwerfjkltalk 16:46, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
no problem. I see that the bot already deleted them. More power to your elbow! Estopedist1 (talk) 16:50, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2023

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

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • 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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Wikidata weekly summary #562

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • wikidata-todo is a tool that helps you find Commons categories with files, where none of the files are used on Wikidata.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API:
      • The statements endpoint now supports filtering by Property ID like ?property=P123 (phab:T309021)
      • We started working on GET /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases (phab:T327882)
      • We started working on including sitelink URLs in GET /entities/items/{item_id} (phab:T330252)
    • Community Wishlist Survey: We reviewed the results and what we can do to address some of the wishes.
    • Query Builder:
      • We continued work on the language selector to make it possible to switch the UI language (phab:T328764)
      • We have added support for the datatypes for Form (phab:T329205) and Property (phab:T329207)
    • Search: We are looking deeper into how we can make it possible to search for Properties, Lexemes and EntitySchemas in the search box, not just Items (phab:T321543)

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


Tech News: 2023-10

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 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. [4]

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. [5]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:48, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Australian transport stubs

Hi, regarding this close - when are you going to action the deletions? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:43, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

@Redrose64, as with all my closures, I have listed it at WT:CFDW for an admin to add to WP:CFDW, for the bot to process. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:13, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

Question from AirmanKitten203 (14:31, 8 March 2023)

How would one become a mentor? --AirmanKitten203 (talk) 14:31, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Userscripts

Hey Qwerf! Since you stated you also have an issue regarding a FOUC, I was curious what userscripts you used so I could see which ones we have in common and begin eliminating those to find out which one is causing the issue. ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 15:55, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

@Blaze Wolf, see User:Qwerfjkl/common.js and good luck. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:41, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
I think I managed to get it fixed. IT looks like the culprit was Ingenuity's AntiVandal script. ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 16:44, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 9 March 2023

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CFD decision

Hello, Qwerfjkl,

It looks like in this CFD discussion, the bot merged all of the listed categories except for Category:1792 in the Austrian Netherlands and Category:1794 in the Austrian Netherlands. Is this a bot mistake or will the bot eventually get to them or were they simply ommitted from the list given to the bot? They were singled out in the CFD discussion so I'm not sure what happened here. Thanks for any insight you can provide! Liz Read! Talk! 23:05, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Also, please look over Wikipedia:Database reports/Empty categories and let me know whether these empty categories about the Austrian Netherlands will eventually be filled by the categories bot or whether you expect them to stay empty. Thank you for your help. Liz Read! Talk! 01:48, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
Hi Liz, I'm not sure why the bot hasn't processed those two categories, it looks like a bot error. They've been listed on the working page. @Fayenatic london?
The empty categories appear to have been emptied; I don't think they're part of any discussion. Typically if they were being processed by the bot they would be deleted after emptied, so it was probably done manually. — Qwerfjkltalk 07:14, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
They were singled out in the discussion because they held articles directly, not only via subcats. Those two categories have not been deleted by the bot because they have an Establishments subcat which was overlooked by Marcocapelle in this nomination. There is also Category:1755 establishments in the Austrian Netherlands. I think I will delete them under WP:G6 but retrospectively add them to the nomination, for reference.
@Liz: The empty year categories can be deleted, but I recommend linking to the CFD in the deletion log entry. There will be others in parent levels that then become empty e.g. Category:Establishments in the Austrian Netherlands by year, Category:1720s in the Austrian Netherlands, Category:1720s establishments in the Austrian Netherlands. I consider it best practice to nominate all such layers rather than leaving them to be deleted as empty, so that people can more easily trace why they were deleted. – Fayenatic London 08:42, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
In retrospect I wish I had seen this CFD earlier. I would have opposed merger as removing a chunk of dates from the history of Belgium. Anyway, I have opened a follow-up discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Belgium#Deletion of years in Austrian Netherlands. – Fayenatic London 15:42, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

"ProJared" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect ProJared has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 March 12 § ProJared until a consensus is reached. QuickQuokka [⁠talk • contribs] 14:52, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #563

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Open Etymology Map - is an interactive map that shows the etymology of names of streets and points of interest. (blogpost in Polish)
  • Development
    • Query Builder: We continued the work on making it possible to switch the language of the UI (phab:T328764)
    • EntitySchemas: We started the development of version 2 with some underlying cleanup and technical improvements.
    • REST API:
      • We worked on getting full URLs for sitelink data in the responses (phab:T330252)
      • We worked on a dedicated way to get the aliases of an Item (phab:T327882)

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

Tech News: 2023-11

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 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. [6][7]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:18, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors March 2023 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2023 Newsletter


Hello and welcome to the March 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December and our Annual Report for 2022. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members, including those who have signed up for our current March Backlog Elimination Drive. We wish you all happy copy-editing.

Election results: In our December 2022 coordinator election, Reidgreg and Tenryuu stepped down as coordinators; we thank them for their service. Incumbents Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo were returned as coordinators until 1 July. For the second time, no lead coordinator was chosen. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators open on 1 June (UTC).

Drive: 21 editors signed up for our January Backlog Elimination Drive, 14 of whom claimed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 170 articles totaling 389,737 words. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: Our February Copy Editing Blitz focused on October and November 2022 requests, and the March and April 2022 backlogs. Of the 14 editors who signed up, nine claimed at least one copy-edit; and between them, they copy-edited 39,150 words in 22 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: Sign up now for our month-long March Backlog Elimination Drive. Barnstars awarded will be posted here after the drive closes.

Progress report: As of 12:08, 19 March 2023 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 73 requests since 1 January 2023, all but five of them from 2022, and the backlog stands at 1,872 articles.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo.

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The Signpost: 20 March 2023

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Wikidata weekly summary #564

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • EntitySchemas: We are preparing for adding a new datatype and other changes by improving tests, documentation, etc.
    • Date input: We did a bug triage hour around issues with date parsing and improved it for Japanese dates (phab:T214002)
    • Ontology issues: We started evaluating the survey responses for the survey about different types of ontology issues reusers are facing. More work is needed before we have results.
    • REST API: We finished work on including the URL of an article in sitelink data (phab:T330252) as well as providing all aliases of an Item (phab:T327882)

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

Tech News: 2023-12

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, some users experienced issues loading image thumbnails. This was due to incorrectly cached images. [8]

Changes later this week

Meetings

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

signature

hello @Qwerfjkl-san i am here to ask about your signature length, the signature code seems fairly long for the signature length so can i know how did you save your signature? —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 17:19, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

@Sakura emad, due to Factotum. See User talk:Qwerfjkl/Archive 24#Your signature. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:30, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
(talk page watcher) @Sakura emad: It's 252 characters, which is permitted (with care, it can be 243 chars and be identical in appearance). --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:26, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
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