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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-18

The winner this Translation of the week is en:K-ration Please be bold and help translate this article! The K-ration was an individual daily combat food ration which was introduced by the United States Army during World War II. It was originally intended as an individually packaged daily ration for issue to airborne troops, tank crews, motorcycle couriers, and other mobile forces for short durations. The K-ration provided three separately boxed meal units: Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper. (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.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:24, 04:04, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Hanger Lane gyratory

— *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page —Preceding undated comment added 10:10, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Must've signed it with the three-tilde signature, my bad. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 10:16, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

It's alright, not a massive problem and can be easily solved --Ferien (talk) 10:16, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

page deleting

hi why are you deleting the page please elaborate it Mr singla112211 (talk) 14:56, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Please remember to sign when you leave messages

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! Just in case you didn't know, when you post messages on talkpages and Wikipedia pages, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ("~~~~") at the end of your message. You can also click on the signature button ( or ), located in the edit toolbar, which is above the change window. This will put a signature containing your user name or IP address and the time you posted the message. This information is useful because other users will be able to tell who said what, and when. Pages that may require a signature, such as User talk:98.101.94.74, User talk:39.40.196.187, User talk:198.24.31.123. Thank you for your participation. --Cewbot (talk) 16:50, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-18

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

• On all remaining wikis (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [1][2]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 May. It will be on all wikis from 5 May (calendar).

Future changes

• The developers are working on talk pages in the Wikipedia app for iOS. You can give feedback. You can take the survey in English, German, Hebrew or Chinese.
• Most wikis will receive an improved template dialog in VisualEditor and New Wikitext mode. [3] [4]
• If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme. [5]
• Several CSS IDs related to MediaWiki interface messages will be removed. Technical editors should please review the list of IDs and links to their existing uses. These include #mw-anon-edit-warning, #mw-undelete-revision and 3 others.

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19:34, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-19

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Cyrus the Great Day Please be bold and help translate this article! Cyrus the Great Day (Persian: روز کوروش بزرگ, romanized: ruz-e kuroš-e bozorg) is an unofficial Iranian holiday that takes place on the seventh day of Aban, the eighth month of the Solar Hijri calendar (October 29th on the Gregorian calendar), to commemorate Cyrus the Great, the founder of the ancient Achaemenid Persian Empire. (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.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 02:01, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-19

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 now see categories in the Wikipedia app for Android. [6]

Problems

• Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed. [7]
• Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change. [8]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [9]
• Incompatibility issues with Kartographer and the FlaggedRevs extension will be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the extension on May 24.
• The Vector (2022) skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update about Vector (2022).

Future meetings

• The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.

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15:22, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Translation

Hello Ferien! Goggle Translate has approved Meitei language (Manipuri language) yesterday! In your desktop/laptop screen, are the scripts still in boxes? And please visit any Meitei language website and please see if the translation is ok at your region! A few hours back, USA & Canada people told me they are ok, but in India, it was not ok. But it's almost ok right now! I want to know about UK! :-) --Haoreima (talk) 10:59, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello Haoreima, I've checked Google Translate and Manipuri/Meitei isn't an option for me yet, and the scripts are still boxes on mni.wiki.x.io. --Ferien (talk) 17:52, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Is there any way to download the unicode for this? I am unfortunately just seeing numerous boxes on mni.wiki.x.io because apparently my computer does not support it. MrMeAndMrMe_{Let's talk} 01:33, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

@Ferien and MrMeAndMrMe: I have asked a question to Google Translate team for the irregularities among the countries across the world regarding the accessibility to the tool for translating Meitei language, despite the language was announced to be added on 11th May, 2022 (2 days ago). The GT team replied that it will take around 1 week for global rollout (to make all the countries accessible to the translation tool for the newly added 24 languages). Yesterday,User:SHB2000 (from Australia) had some problems with the translation tool for his country. But he said he could access by using other countries' ip. For myself (I am in India), late yesterday night, the tool was ok. I have also updated the information on the article Google Translate. --Haoreima (talk) 03:43, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Idk if you guys use Google Translate app or web. For me, I use https://translate.google.co.in/ . At this, it's ok for me. Now, this tool will help me a lot in creating Wikipedia articles. 😃 --Haoreima (talk) 03:45, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Haoreima Apparently it's already available here in Indonesia, that's nice to know. @MrMeAndMrMe I recommend Unifont, it's a great fallback font for... almost every script! Though it is monospace and pixels, it does the job at displaying characters that are not compatible with most fonts. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 03:47, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

*Fehufangą Thank you for your information! --Haoreima (talk) 03:55, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, Fehufanga. MrMeAndMrMe_{Let's talk} 03:56, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

MrMeAndMrMe I think this English wiki page en:Wikipedia:Meitei script display help will help you! --Haoreima (talk) 03:57, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

@Haoreima Manipuri has finally appeared on my Australian IP, along with the many other languages like Assamese :-). SHB2000 (talk) 11:52, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

SHB2000 Thanks SHB2000! for the update! :-) --Haoreima (talk) 11:57, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

@Ferien and SHB2000: Hey guys! I found this short video, thanks to Sister Sakura emad. She found out the problem behind not seeing Meitei script in some people's computers! :-) --Haoreima (talk) 14:08, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-20

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Lift Every Voice and Sing Please be bold and help translate this article! "Lift Every Voice and Sing" – often referred to as the Black national anthem in the United States – is a hymn with lyrics by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) and set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954), for the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's birthday in 1900 (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.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:57, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-20

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

• Some wikis can soon use the add a link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are Catalan Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [10]
• The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 May. It will be on all wikis from 19 May (calendar).

Future changes

• You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons. [11]

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18:58, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

page move on Amber name articles

Was there a reason by which "Amber (given name)" was retitled "Amber (name)"? Can you please clarify the reason for this move? Angela Kate Maureen Pears 23:12, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

Tropical Storm Angela, yes, Amber isn't used as a surname so there is no need to have "given" as part of the disambiguation because there is only one name, the given name. --Ferien (talk) 05:43, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Question

At the risk of showing my ignorance, how do you identify an open proxy? --Auntof6 (talk) 19:20, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Auntof6, the way I usually check is to use the proxy API checker. The link to check a specific IP is at the bottom of an IP's contributions page under "Proxy Checker". Open proxies are also blocked a lot on enwiki, so it is worth checking enwiki contributions to see whether that IP was blocked as an open proxy IP. If a range is blocked on enwiki, I check the IP on Proxy Checker, just to make sure it is an open proxy and then block the range here as well, but roughly until the end of the block on enwiki so I know I'm definitely not blocking for longer than necessary. Most of the time, though, these open proxies are blocked by stewards so most of the time, when you check an IP, it usually won't be a proxy. --Ferien (talk) 19:33, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 19:35, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-21

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

• Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. [12]
• The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [13]

Problems

• The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [14]
• Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation. [15]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).

Future changes

• Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers. [16]

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00:21, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

User:Dolon Provas

Hello friend, I would like to speak with you about this editor. Well this editor (belongs to my nation as per his edit style) is copying article from enwiki to this wiki especially those of having very low profile (for eg:- a local parliamentarian, local college or such article which does not have high profile). And when he copied a article (violating A3), I gave a QfD but he replied me like this,

Thank you so muck Jauna Murmu. Show this article Sir. Please aproved this article because main wikipedia is already aproved. Sir. Dolon Provas

Doesn't have any sense. I didn't understand this message. And now he added a wait tag without any reason. Please if you review his changes, and see is he fit to do changes in here or not and also please inform me ok. Best wishes, TTP1233 (--Jyoti Roy (talk) 05:19, 29 May 2022 (UTC))

Its ok, buddy. @Macdonald-ross: and @Operator873: have already taken actions against him.--Jyoti Roy (talk) 05:50, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-22

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Zangbeto Please be bold and help translate this article! Zangbeto are the traditional voodoo guardians of the night among the Ogu or Egun people of Benin, Togo and Nigeria. A traditional police and security institution, the Zangbeto cult is charged with the maintenance of law and order, and ensures safety and security within Ogu communities (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.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 02:05, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-22

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 AbuseFilter extension, an ip_in_ranges() function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple ip_in_range() expressions joined by | into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [17]
• The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wiki.x.io.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (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 31 May at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [18][19]
• The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the uciprange parameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit. [20]
• A new parser function will be introduced: {{=}}. It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates. [21]

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20:28, 30 May 2022 (UTC)