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The da Vinci Barnstar
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| For your recent exceptional work in kickingUser:DPL botin places which must have hurt.Narky Blert(talk)21:15, 6 November 2017 (UTC) |
Thank you!:-)R'n'B(call meRuss)21:20, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Special Barnstar |
| Thanks for you hard work in maintaining Wikipedia.Txantimedia(talk)18:21, 18 November 2017 (UTC) |
A pie for you!
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For helping out fixing all those disambig links on all the newHisatsu Orange Railwaypages, much appreciated!:)RubenSchade(talk)00:12, 29 November 2017 (UTC) |
Some baklava for you!
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A barnstar for you!
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The Barnstar of Diplomacy |
| UeppHotors497F?(talk)23:47, 12 April 2021 (UTC) |
A barnstar for you!
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| For running the disambiguation contest month after month, there are not enough barnstars in the world.BD2412T17:09, 2 February 2024 (UTC) |
Administrators' newsletter – September 2024
[edit]News and updates for administratorsfrom the past month (August 2024).
Guideline and policy news
- Following anRfC,there is a newcriterion for speedy deletion:C4,which
applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past
. - Arequest for commentis open to discuss whetherNotability (species)should be adopted as asubject-specific notability guideline.
Arbitration
- Following amotion,remedies 5.1 and 5.2 ofWorld War II and the history of Jews in Poland(the topic and interaction bans onMy very best wishes,respectively) were repealed.
- Remedy 3Cof theGerman war effortcase( "Cinderella157German history topic ban ") wassuspendedfor a period of six months.
- The arbitration caseHistorical Electionsis currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.
Miscellaneous
- Editors can now enter intogood article review circles,an alternative for informalquid pro quoarrangements, to have aGANreviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
- ANew Pages Patrol backlog driveis happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in thenew pages feed.Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review.Sign up here to participate!
Tech News: 2024-36
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Weekly highlight
- Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You canread more about this project updateand help to test the charts.
Feature news
- Editors who use theSpecial:UnusedTemplatespage can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word
__EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements.[1] - Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, willnow be remindedto add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.
- Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now.[2]
- Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with thenew dropdown menu.
Project updates
- A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIshas been published on Meta-Wiki.The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome onthe proposed update’s talk pageuntil September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.
Learn more
- To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
- Charts, the successor of Graphs - A secure and extensible tool for data visualization(25 mins) – about the above-mentioned Charts project.
- State of Language Technology and Onboarding at Wikimedia(90 mins) – about some of the language tools that support Wikimedia sites, such asContent/Section Translation,MinT,and LanguageConverter; also the current state and future of languages onboarding.[3]
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Tech News: 2024-37
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Feature news
- Starting this week, the standardsyntax highlighterwill receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on thehelp page.[4][5]
- Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions
entity:getSitelink()andmw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid)will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications frominconsistent sitelinks tracking.[6]
Project updates
- Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.[7]
- Contributors of11 Wikipedias,including English will have a new
MOSnamespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning withMOS:(usually shortcuts to theManual of Style) are not broken byMooréWikipedia (language codemos).[8]
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Tech News: 2024-38
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Improvements and Maintenance
Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area,Template recall and discovery,and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue addingnew wishes.- The new automatedSpecial:NamespaceInfopage helps editors understand whichnamespacesexist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements.[9]
- References Checkis a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed.[10]
- It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so canrequesta configuration change to display them in alphabetical order.[11]
Tool authors can now access ToolsDB'spublic databasesfrom bothQuarryandSuperset.Those databases have always been accessible to everyToolforgeuser, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now bequeried from Quarry itself.This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.- Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes
mw-message-boxneed to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use aglobal-searchto determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newercdx-messagegroup of classes as a replacement (seethe relevant Codex documentation,andan example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best.[12]
Technical project updates
- Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at15:00 UTC.This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes.This maintenance process also targets other services.The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible.[13]
Tech in depth
- The latest monthlyMediaWiki Product Insights newsletteris available. This edition includes details about: research abouthookhandlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
- To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
- Hackathon Showcase(45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There aremore details and links availablein the Phabricator task.
- Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem(40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.
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Tech News: 2024-39
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Weekly highlight
- All wikis will beread-onlyfor a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at15:00 UTC.Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.
Updates for editors
- Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see theAlt Text suggested-edit experimentafter editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image".Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback onthe discussion page.
- The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. Themost noticeable changesfor editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
- It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within
<syntaxhighlight>tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax{{…}}are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements.[14] - Two bugs were fixed in theGlobalVanishRequestsystem by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message.[15][16]
- View all 25 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- FromWikimedia Enterprise:
- The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained onthe project's blog post.While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.
- The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.
In depth
- The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of theWDQS Graph Split project,we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly"and"main"subgraphs of Wikidata. Thequery.wikidata.org endpointwill continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please seethe announcement on Wikidata.
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Tech News: 2024-40
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Updates for editors
- Readers of42 more wikiscan now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use thenight-mode-checker toolif you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. Therecommendations pageprovides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
- Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding
?veaction=editsourceto the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set inyour preferences.[17] - For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin.Learn moreabout the changes related to donor experiences.[18]
- The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has beenenabledon Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki.Chinese Wikipedia has decidedto enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progresson Spanish Wikipediaandon Wikidata.To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visitthe CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
- View all 22 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki shouldcheck if any action is requiredfor their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.
In depth
- Theserver switchwas completed successfully last week with a read-only time ofonly 2 minutes 46 seconds.This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes.[19]
Meetings and events
- October 4–6:WikiIndaba Conference's Hackathonin Johannesburg, South Africa
- November 4–6:MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024in Vienna, Austria
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2024
[edit]News and updates for administratorsfrom the past month (September 2024).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- Administrator electionsare a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative torequests for adminship(RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, withcandidate sign-upfrom October 8 to 14, adiscussion phasefrom October 22 to 24, andSecurePoll votingfrom October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page atWikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
- Followinga discussion,the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterionG8toF2.This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
- Arequest for commentis open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have anadministrator recallprocess.
Arbitration
- The arbitration caseHistorical electionshas been closed.
- An arbitration case regardingBacklash to diversity and inclusionhas been opened.
- Editors are invited tonominate themselvesto serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC).
Miscellaneous
- If you are interested in stopping spammers, please putMediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelistandMediaWiki talk:Spam-blackliston your watchlist, and help out when you can.