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Tech News: 2024-28
changeLatest 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
- At the Wikimedia Foundation a new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graph with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Chart. You can subscribe to the newsletter to get notified about new project updates and other news about Chart.
- The CampaignEvents extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on your wiki. This extension helps in managing and making events more visible, giving Event organizers the ability to use tools like the Event registration tool. To learn more about the deployment status and how to request this extension for your wiki, visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-wiki.
- Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.
- Thank you to all of the authors who have contributed to MediaWiki Core. As a result of these contributions, the percentage of authors contributing more than 5 patches has increased by 25% since last year, which helps ensure the sustainability of the platform for the Wikimedia projects.
Problems
- A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed.
Future changes
- The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation explaining how to do the update. Learn more.
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Talkback
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Message added 08:23, 9 July 2024 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 08:23, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Cactusisme: sorry for the mistake, I had not noticed that you were the author. For future, please ping me to matters such as these, or if using talkback, please specify which RfD you are referring to, as I wasn't sure at first having been away. Thank you, --Ferien (talk) 20:15, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- Will do it in the future and @Ferien today as I was logging in I saw a message that shows 9 failed login attempts from a new device any idea what happened? Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 22:12, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Cactusisme: It is quite likely someone tried to login to your account but did not use the correct password. So long as your password is safe and secure with you, they won't be able to get into your account. If you want extra reassurance that no-one else will get into your account, you can read into m:2FA. Login attempts such as these often come from this editor and simply aim to scare you with the notification, although I can't say for definite who would have made those attempts. --Ferien (talk) 22:20, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- Oh, okay thanks Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 07:31, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Cactusisme: It is quite likely someone tried to login to your account but did not use the correct password. So long as your password is safe and secure with you, they won't be able to get into your account. If you want extra reassurance that no-one else will get into your account, you can read into m:2FA. Login attempts such as these often come from this editor and simply aim to scare you with the notification, although I can't say for definite who would have made those attempts. --Ferien (talk) 22:20, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- Will do it in the future and @Ferien today as I was logging in I saw a message that shows 9 failed login attempts from a new device any idea what happened? Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 22:12, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-29
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Adumu, is a type of dance that the Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania practice. Young Maasai warriors generally perform the energetic and acrobatic dance at ceremonial occasions including weddings, religious rites, and other significant cultural events. The Adumu dance is characterized by a sequence of jumps performed by the dancers, who stand in a circle and alternately jump while keeping their bodies as straight and upright as possible. In addition to wearing vividly colored shúkàs (clothes) and beaded jewelry, the dancers are typically clad in traditional Maasai costume. Traditional Maasai songs and chants are also performed during the dance.
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Tech News: 2024-29
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Recent changes
Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status page.- The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10.
- Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team. You can read more about this project on Diff blog.
- Editors who have access to The Wikipedia Library can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation contacted them to restore access. You can read more about this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week.
Changes later this week
- This week, dark mode will be available on a number of Wikipedias, both desktop and mobile, for logged-in and logged-out users. Interface admins and user script maintainers are encouraged to check gadgets and user scripts in the dark mode, to find any hard-coded colors and fix them. There are some recommendations for dark mode compatibility to help.
Future changes
- Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page. [1]
- Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload and discussion at Commons:Village Pump.
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Article wizard
changeOn some pages of the article wizard, there are tabs with redlinks. They are pages such as:
- Wikipedia:Article wizard/Redirect
- Wikipedia:Article wizard/Category
- Wikipedia:Article wizard/Disambiguation
- Wikipedia:Article wizard/Advertising
- Wikipedia:Article wizard/Content
There are links on the tabs that say "Introduction", "Subject", and in some cases, "Notability" and "Sources". But are these necessary? 2607:F140:6000:806A:755A:8FB:CCBA:6EB4 (talk) 04:10, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
- An example was here: Wikipedia:Article wizard/version1/Content. This page was created over a redlink because they thought it was the right place to create an article. 2607:F140:6000:806A:755A:8FB:CCBA:6EB4 (talk) 04:13, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) It may be neccessary to keep uniformity between the different pages Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 12:55, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
- I honestly don't know why we even have the Article Wizard when it doesn't even function, I've only seen it being use twice in the last two years, I think? But this discussion probably benefits from having more eyes at WP:Simple talk instead of Ferien's user talk page. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 13:00, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
- Agreed, a discussion like this shouldn't be confined to an user's talk page.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 13:06, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Fehufanga It gets used a lot. See Category:Pages created with the Article Wizard. 2601:644:9083:5730:699C:4277:F713:D4C3 (talk) 16:00, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
- @2601:644:9083:5730:699C:4277:F713:D4C3 That's a lot, maybe move this discussion to simple talk based on other admin and editor comments, you would get more comments there and maybe even a solution. :) Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 22:54, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
- @FusionSub@Fehufanga Moving this to WP:simple talk Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 08:18, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
- @2601:644:9083:5730:699C:4277:F713:D4C3 That's a lot, maybe move this discussion to simple talk based on other admin and editor comments, you would get more comments there and maybe even a solution. :) Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 22:54, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
- I honestly don't know why we even have the Article Wizard when it doesn't even function, I've only seen it being use twice in the last two years, I think? But this discussion probably benefits from having more eyes at WP:Simple talk instead of Ferien's user talk page. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 13:00, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
- Another example of the issue is here: Wikipedia:Article wizard/version1/Introduction. The page was created because there was a redlink there, and the user probably thought that's how to create an article. 2601:644:9083:5730:4439:7BA4:F3E9:85FE (talk) 03:30, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Even though the discussion on Simple talk has now been archived, I'd appreciate it if you could keep this conversation on simple talk. You can do that either by taking it out of the archive or starting a new discussion on it linking it. I have nothing to add to this topic and it's just adding notifications to my talk page. Sorry for the inconvenience, --Ferien (talk) 14:05, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Since I moves it to simple talk, am I supposed to take it out? Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 22:23, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Cactusisme, no, you don't need to remove this discussion. Sometimes when discussions are moved they are removed entirely at the venue they're no longer at, but I don't think that's necessary here - you've made it obvious the discussion should now take place at simple talk. --Ferien (talk) 22:25, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Ferien I meant removing from archive and placing on Wp:Simple talk, not removing from here. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 07:41, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Cactusisme, oh, in that case, I'd say to keep the archive on simple talk. --Ferien (talk) 10:45, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Oh, okay. Thanks Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 11:55, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Cactusisme, oh, in that case, I'd say to keep the archive on simple talk. --Ferien (talk) 10:45, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Ferien I meant removing from archive and placing on Wp:Simple talk, not removing from here. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 07:41, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Cactusisme, no, you don't need to remove this discussion. Sometimes when discussions are moved they are removed entirely at the venue they're no longer at, but I don't think that's necessary here - you've made it obvious the discussion should now take place at simple talk. --Ferien (talk) 22:25, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Since I moves it to simple talk, am I supposed to take it out? Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 22:23, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Even though the discussion on Simple talk has now been archived, I'd appreciate it if you could keep this conversation on simple talk. You can do that either by taking it out of the archive or starting a new discussion on it linking it. I have nothing to add to this topic and it's just adding notifications to my talk page. Sorry for the inconvenience, --Ferien (talk) 14:05, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-30
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The Rathaus-Glockenspiel is a large mechanical clock located in Marienplatz Square, in the heart of Munich, Germany. Famous for its life-size characters, the clock twice daily re-enacts scenes from Munich's history. First is the story of the marriage of Duke Wilhelm V to Renata of Lorraine in 1568, followed by the story of the Schäfflerstanz, also known as the coopers' dance.
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Tech News: 2024-30
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Feature News
- Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
- Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [2]
- Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. [3]
- Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
- Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons. [4]
Project Updates
- Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.
Learn more
- Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff.
- How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin and Add a Fact, to help take Wikimedia into the future.
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Wikiproject
changeI have joined your wikiproject, but I won't be active often. Thanks Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 12:58, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
- Cactusisme, thanks :) And it's alright, you can help as little or as often as you would like. Joining the project doesn't mean you have to do a ton of work if you don't want to. --Ferien (talk) 12:59, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Ferien I have filled up all the food categories :) Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 09:15, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- Cactusisme, thank you! --Ferien (talk) 09:56, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Ferien I have filled up all the food categories :) Cactus🌵 spiky ouch 09:15, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
Do you think this is a hoax? An odd amount is the same as en:The Moody Blues. 207.114.136.166 (talk) 21:30, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
- It may be real. They may have just got an article for another band and substituted it in as they might have thought creating an article that way is easier than afresh. But it almost certainly isn't notable, and there are definitely false claims in there, like
the band came to prominence with the UK No. 1 and US Top 10 single "Underneath Your Clothes" in late 2014/early 2015
. I'll nominate it for deletion I think. --Ferien (talk) 21:36, 25 July 2024 (UTC)- Comment: it was created again. 207.114.136.166 (talk) 23:27, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for letting me know. As the RfD closed with no comments, it can't be deleted again with G4 so I've sent it to RfD again. --Ferien (talk) 09:12, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: it was created again. 207.114.136.166 (talk) 23:27, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
Hai Tien
changeblock me please Wyellowgreen (talk) 20:27, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-31
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The Nederlandsche Cocaïnefabriek (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈneːdərlɑntsə koːkaːˈinəfaːˌbrik]; English: Dutch Cocaine Factory) or NCF was an Amsterdam-based company producing cocaine for medical purposes in the 20th century. It imported its raw materials mainly from the Dutch East Indies and sold its products across Europe, making good profits especially in the early years of World War I. The NCF produced morphine, heroin and ephedrine as well.
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Tech News: 2024-31
changeLatest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.
Bugs status
- Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
- Editors can use the IP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
- There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
- There is an update on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Czech (
voy:cs:) [5]
Learn more
- There is a new Wikimedia Foundation data center in São Paulo, Brazil which helps to reduce load times.
- There is new user research on problems with the process of uploading images.
- Commons Impact Metrics are now available via data dumps and API.
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available.
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Request for protecting the article on Alha
changeHi Ferien, hope you are fine. Would request you to look at the revision history of the article on Alha. Persistent caste related POV pushing (disruptive editing) by IP and unexplained reverts have become a regular issue. Please intervene. Thanks & Regards. Alan Charlotte (talk) 02:41, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Alan Charlotte, I protected it for a month. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 19:37, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
Hello, I'm contacting you with respect to Special:Diff/9669853. You may want to check this logged action. Do you think this needs RFDA? MathXplore (talk) 07:50, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- MathXplore, thanks for notifying me about that. I'll keep an eye on the situation, but I don't think I'd want to start a big dispute over that sort of page. It isn't eligible for deletion technically, but I don't really have an issue with the deletion. --Ferien (talk) 11:06, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
Request for protection of article mihir bhoj caste
changeHey Ferien, it’s a request to look at the revision history of the article on mihir bhoj caste. Protection of this article from vandalism is necessary as unsourced editing and unexplained reverts have become a regular issue.Please intervene. Thanks & Regards. 103.46.201.30 (talk) 18:03, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- I don't think protection on that article is necessary. Please report to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard if vandalism on the article gets worse. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 19:37, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-32
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Suffrage drama (also known as suffrage plays or suffrage theatre) is a form of dramatic literature that emerged during the British women's suffrage movement in the early twentieth century. Suffrage performances lasted approximately from 1907-1914. Many suffrage plays called for a predominant or all female cast. Suffrage plays served to reveal issues behind the suffrage movement.
(Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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Tech News: 2024-32
changeLatest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- Two new parser functions will be available this week:
{{#dir}}and{{#bcp47}}. These will reduce the need forTemplate:DirandTemplate:BCP47on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania. [6][7] - Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Wikipedia: or Wikisource: namespaces) if they understand the known limitations. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools in these namespaces.
- The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.
Project updates
- Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.
- The new parser is being rolled out on Wikivoyage wikis over the next few months. The English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikivoyage were switched to Parsoid last week. For more information, see Parsoid/Parser Unification.
Learn more
- There will be more than 200 sessions at Wikimania this week. Here is a summary of some of the key sessions related to the product and technology area.
- The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available.
- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages; Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and more.
- The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available.
- The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available.
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Misspelled template in one of your archives
changeI noticed that "talkback" is misspelled (as "talback") in one of the "Vandalism" sections of User talk:Ferien/Archives/2021/April, making it show up in wanted templates. I'm just letting you know in case you'd like to fix it. -- Auntof6 (talk) 16:36, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- Auntof6, thanks! I've removed it. --Ferien (talk) 19:36, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
Beauty of the beat
changeHi, I know you're in the middle of something, but since you're online right now, I wanted to report to you the recent changes on Beauty of the beat. The IP keeps removing the RFD template. VirusDontKill (talk) 19:51, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Ferien, I have no objections if you want to delete the article, As there wasn't really a discussion the first time round I thought it should sort of be forced the second time round but yeah I'm not fussed, can be deleted and salted for all I care lol, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 20:03, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- Sorry both @Davey2010 and VirusDontKill: I suddenly had to go a few minutes after I had last edited when you posted that message. I've deleted the page and protected it from creation for 2 weeks. Thanks! --Ferien (talk) 22:55, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Ferien, No worries - real life should always come first over here so no worries, Brilliant thank you for your swift and helpful actions :), Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 23:11, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- Sorry both @Davey2010 and VirusDontKill: I suddenly had to go a few minutes after I had last edited when you posted that message. I've deleted the page and protected it from creation for 2 weeks. Thanks! --Ferien (talk) 22:55, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-33
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In the Australian Aboriginal mythology of the Aboriginal people of south-eastern Australian state of Victoria, the Karatgurk were seven sisters who represented the constellation known in western astronomy as the Pleiades.
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Continuation of my problem
change@Ferien, you told me to move the conversation of the weird logouts to either of our talk pages, so I moved it here.
I don't really get any specific messages; it happens randomly and suddenly. Sometimes it happens when I open a new tab, go to the recent changes, or refresh the page. Haumeon (talk) 20:53, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- Haumeon, ok. When you get logged out, do you have to enter your password again when you log back in? It might be a caching issue. --Ferien (talk) 20:58, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- No, it fills in the password for me. Also an update on the logout problem: It always logs me out when I visit my homepage or userpage, and most of the time when I visit a user-related page like someone's talk page or my contributions. Haumeon (talk) 21:01, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- Haumeon, could I ask you to login on incognito mode and see whether the issue persists? If the login issues don't occur there, it will definitely be some sort of caching issue. --Ferien (talk) 21:03, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- Well, I'm not using a very popular browser, so I'll go try Chrome and see how incognito works there too. Haumeon (talk) 21:05, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- Haumeon, is the issue still occurring? --Ferien (talk) 22:32, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- It's gotten a little bit less common, but it still occurs when I visit my user page or occasionally in other cases. 🪐 Haumeon the Adventurer 🪐 22:38, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, I really don't know what could be causing it at this point. You will probably get a more helpful response from a more technically-minded editor on simple talk. Apologies. --Ferien (talk) 23:36, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks anyway. 🪐 Haumeon the Adventurer 🪐 00:02, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, I really don't know what could be causing it at this point. You will probably get a more helpful response from a more technically-minded editor on simple talk. Apologies. --Ferien (talk) 23:36, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- It's gotten a little bit less common, but it still occurs when I visit my user page or occasionally in other cases. 🪐 Haumeon the Adventurer 🪐 22:38, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- Haumeon, is the issue still occurring? --Ferien (talk) 22:32, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- Well, I'm not using a very popular browser, so I'll go try Chrome and see how incognito works there too. Haumeon (talk) 21:05, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- Haumeon, could I ask you to login on incognito mode and see whether the issue persists? If the login issues don't occur there, it will definitely be some sort of caching issue. --Ferien (talk) 21:03, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- No, it fills in the password for me. Also an update on the logout problem: It always logs me out when I visit my homepage or userpage, and most of the time when I visit a user-related page like someone's talk page or my contributions. Haumeon (talk) 21:01, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-33
changeLatest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- AbuseFilter editors and maintainers can now make a CAPTCHA show if a filter matches an edit. This allows communities to quickly respond to spamming by automated bots. [8]
- Stewards can now specify if global blocks should prevent account creation. Before this change by the Trust and Safety Product Team, all global blocks would prevent account creation. This will allow stewards to reduce the unintended side-effects of global blocks on IP addresses.
Project updates
- Nominations are open on Wikitech for new members to refresh the Toolforge standards committee. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open until at least 2024-08-26.
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in West Coast Bajau (
w:bdr:) [9]
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Translation
changeHi, Ferien Recently I have translated my userpage from enwiki, can you help me to merge that or guide me how to do it ? Xegma(talk) 17:38, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Xegma, apologies, I'm a little confused on what you're asking. Which two things do you want to merge? Is this a history merge? --Ferien (talk) 22:30, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- I am talking about this [10], can you merge this ? I can see your userpage also available in en and simple wiki. Xegma(talk) 04:38, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- Ah. If you mean the interwiki links between my user pages, you can just add
[[en:User:Xegma]]to the bottom of your userpage to have "English" appear as another language available for your user page under "In other languages" --Ferien (talk) 12:10, 15 August 2024 (UTC)- Okay, now I have understood this thing and also learned something new. Thanks for the guide. Cheers. :-) Xegma(talk) 13:12, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- No problem, feel free to ask if you need any more help :) --Ferien (talk) 13:14, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- Okay, now I have understood this thing and also learned something new. Thanks for the guide. Cheers. :-) Xegma(talk) 13:12, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- Ah. If you mean the interwiki links between my user pages, you can just add
- I am talking about this [10], can you merge this ? I can see your userpage also available in en and simple wiki. Xegma(talk) 04:38, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
Vandal/Disruptor
changeHi Ferien, hope you are fine. User:38.114.123.42 has been adding cateist nonsense cross-wiki across multiple pages. The highest edits being on here, please restrict the editing rights of this vandal at the earliest. Thanks & Regards. Alan Charlotte (talk) 00:01, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- Alan Charlotte, hi, I can't see this is obvious vandalism and don't understand the topic at hand too much to be able to say this is definitely vandalism. That being said, I've blocked the IP as a VPN. --Ferien (talk) 19:58, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-34
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B1 is a medical-based Paralympic classification for blind sport. Athletes in this classification are totally or almost totally blind. It is used by a number of blind sports including blind tennis, para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing, blind cricket, blind golf, five-a-side football, goalball and judo. Some other sports, including adaptive rowing, athletics and swimming, have equivalents to this class.
The B1 classification was first created by the IBSA in the 1970s, and has largely remained unchanged since despite an effort by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to move towards a more functional and evidence-based classification system. Classification is often handled on the international level by the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) but it sometimes handled by national sport federations. There are exceptions for sports like athletics and cycling, where classification is handled by their own governing bodies.
Equipment utilized by competitors in this class may differ from sport to sport, and may include sighted guides, guide rails, beeping balls and clapsticks. There may be some modifications related to equipment and rules to specifically address needs of competitors in this class to allow them to compete in specific sports. Some sports specifically do not allow a guide, whereas cycling and skiing require one.
(Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.)
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Tech News: 2024-34
changeLatest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
- Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. [11]
- Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the
categoriesproperty ofmw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [12][13]
Bugs status
- Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with
Talk:WP:so that their titles start withWikipedia talk:), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388. - Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
- The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.
Learn more
- The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
- The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.
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