Hola, hice mi primera edición de un artículo y mencioné un episodio de un programa de televisión. Lo rechazaron porque decía que no se había citado una fuente confiable. El episodio del programa de televisión en sí es la fuente. ¿Puedes ayudarme a aprender a citar un episodio de un programa de televisión? --DoogieDoo ( discusión ) 07:15, 9 de marzo de 2023 (UTC) [ responder ]
Hola, usuario: DoogieDoo. Te recomiendo que leas el mensaje que dejó en tu propia página de discusión el usuario: Doniago , que proporcionó un enlace a un excelente recurso sobre abastecimiento. Te recomiendo que leas el enlace que dejó , y en particular el tercer párrafo:
Aunque algunas referencias pueden verificarse claramente mediante fuentes primarias, esto no demuestra la importancia de la referencia. Además, cuando la fuente primaria en cuestión solo presenta la referencia, la interpretación de esta puede constituir una investigación original cuando la referencia en sí es ambigua. Si una referencia cultural es genuinamente significativa, debería ser posible encontrar una fuente secundaria confiable que respalde ese juicio.
que describe que debes usar fuentes secundarias, no el programa en sí. Requerimos que la información en Wikipedia sea Notable y citada en Fuentes confiables independientes . Para ayudarte a citar cuando tengas una fuente, consulta la otra página Usuario:Doniago vinculado: Ayuda:Referencias para principiantes . Feliz edición. Soy un caos 00:27, 10 de marzo de 2023 (UTC) [ responder ]
Creo que no estoy siguiendo... ¿Por qué no se puede citar el material original como referencia? Es posible que nadie más que yo haya notado el detalle que mencioné en mi edición, por lo que no habrá otras fuentes que lo citen. Por ejemplo, si alguien hace una edición que dice "Al final de Star Wars, la Estrella de la Muerte explota", ¿no sería la película en sí la referencia? ¿Por qué necesitamos encontrar otro lugar que mencione la explosión de la Estrella de la Muerte cuando cualquiera puede simplemente ver la película para ver que esa información es verdadera? DoogieDoo ( discusión ) 04:28 10 mar 2023 (UTC) [ responder ]
Boletín informativo de marzo de 2023 del Gremio de Editores de Textos
Hola! Solo quiero confirmar si está bien que edite cosas. No soy una persona que ande por ahí arruinando páginas, tal vez solo quiera corregir la gramática o algo así. Si alguien más ya lo hace, no editaré nada. ¡Gracias! --Boronij ( discusión ) 00:13 23 mar 2023 (UTC) [ responder ]
Boletín informativo de WikiProject Scouting: marzo de 2023
A partir de esta semana, algunos navegadores antiguos no podrán utilizar JavaScript en los wikis de Wikimedia. Esto afecta principalmente a los usuarios de Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
La reversión de Vector 2022 RfC no ha encontrado consenso para volver a la versión heredada de Vector, pero ha encontrado un consenso aproximado para deshabilitar el modo de "ancho limitado" de forma predeterminada.
Ahora aparecerá un enlace a la página Special:CentralAuth del usuario en los enlaces de subtítulos que se muestran en Special:Contributions . Esta opción fue votada como la número 17 en la encuesta de lista de deseos de la comunidad de 2023.
Se ha iniciado el avance del proyecto de mejora de Page Triage . Esto tiene como objetivo abordar las inquietudes planteadas por la comunidad en su carta de WMF de 2022 en la que solicitaban que se realizaran mejoras en la herramienta.
El borrador del plan anual 2023-2024 de la Fundación Wikimedia está abierto a comentarios y aportes hasta el 19 de mayo. El plan final se publicará en julio de 2023.
Hola a todos. Otra edición irregular del boletín; perdonen la diferencia de seis meses. Me inspiró a recopilar esto después de ver cuánta actividad hay en el espacio de GA en el frente de la medicina. Revisen un GAN si tienen tiempo y ayuden a dar la bienvenida a más editores de medicina al grupo:
Noticias de WP:MED
Wikipedia:La reevaluación de artículos está de vuelta con un nuevo proceso y nuevos coordinadores. Si ve asistentes generales relacionados con la medicina que ya no cumplan con los criterios de asistencia general , no dude en nominarlos para que se les preste atención o se los reevalúe (no demasiados a la vez, para no agobiarnos). Los incorporaré a las listas anteriores.
El trastorno depresivo mayor , la esquizofrenia y el dengue son artículos destacados que necesitan una actualización. No dudes en participar en las páginas de discusión o en WT:MED si tienes tiempo o ancho de banda para ayudar a actualizar. Es probable que pasen a la revisión de artículos destacados para recibir más comentarios en un futuro cercano (probablemente en el orden indicado).
Ideas, comentarios y críticas para el boletín son bienvenidos aquí .
Recibes esto porque has añadido tu nombre a la lista de correo de WikiProject Medicine . Si ya no deseas recibir el boletín, elimina tu nombre .
Solo un aviso amistoso en caso de que aún no lo sepas, ya que está instalado en tu common.js: el uso descuidado de ReferenceExpander ha causado serios problemas. Actualmente está en MFD y se está llevando a cabo un gran proyecto de limpieza para reparar las citas dañadas por el script. Yo y varios otros usuarios hemos votado a favor de que se elimine o deshabilite el script, y no recomendaría usarlo en absoluto a menos que verifiques minuciosamente cada referencia que modifica con la revisión anterior. Si estás interesado en una explicación más detallada de los problemas del script, Folly Mox ha proporcionado un excelente resumen en el MFD. — SamX [ discusión · contribuciones ] 05:15, 1 de junio de 2023 (UTC) [ responder ]
Desactivado por ahora. Feliz edición. Soy un caos 16:14, 14 de junio de 2023 (UTC) [ responder ]
A raíz de un RfC , los editores baneados indefinidamente del sitio por consenso de la comunidad ahora tendrán todos los derechos eliminados, incluido el de administrador.
Como parte del proyecto de enmascaramiento de IP de la Fundación Wikimedia, se ha creado una nueva política que rige el acceso a las direcciones IP de cuentas temporales. Se ha creado una sección de preguntas frecuentes asociada y las comunidades individuales pueden aumentar los requisitos para ver las direcciones IP de cuentas temporales.
Noticias técnicas
Los operadores de bots y los encargados del mantenimiento de herramientas deberían programar tiempo en los próximos meses para probar y actualizar sus herramientas para los efectos del enmascaramiento de IP. El enmascaramiento de IP no se implementará en ninguna wiki de contenido hasta al menos octubre de 2023 y es poco probable que se implemente en la Wikipedia en inglés hasta algún momento de 2024.
Arbitraje
El caso de arbitraje La Segunda Guerra Mundial y la historia de los judíos en Polonia ha sido cerrado. El área temática Historia de Polonia durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1933-1945) e historia de los judíos en Polonia está sujeta a una restricción temática de "consenso de fuentes fiables".
Boletín de noticias de la Patrulla de Nuevas Páginas de junio de 2023
Hola IAmChaos,
Nueva cola de revisión de páginas de abril a junio de 2023
Reserva
Campaña de redireccionamiento : en respuesta a una acumulación de redireccionamientos inusualmente alta, llevamos a cabo una campaña de redireccionamientos en mayo. La campaña se completó con 23851 revisiones realizadas en total, lo que elevó la acumulación de redireccionamientos a 0 (momentáneamente). Felicitaciones a Hey man im josh , quien lideró con la asombrosa cantidad de 4316 puntos, seguido de Meena y Greyzxq con 2868 y 2546 puntos respectivamente. Consulte esta página para obtener más detalles. La cola de redireccionamientos está aumentando constantemente nuevamente y se acerca constantemente a los 4000. Continúe ayudando, incluso si es solo para algunas revisiones o incluso una por día.
Redireccionamiento automático : todos los administradores sin control automático se han agregado a la lista de redireccionamiento automático. Si ve usuarios que crean constantemente cantidades significativas de redireccionamientos de buena calidad, considere solicitar el control automático de redireccionamiento para ellos aquí .
Trabajo de WMF en PageTriage : El equipo de herramientas de moderación de WMF, formado por Sam, Jason y Susana , y también algunos parches de Jon , ha estado trabajando arduamente para actualizar PageTriage . Están centrando sus esfuerzos en modernizar el código de la extensión en lugar de en corregir errores o agregar nuevas funciones, aunque se priorizará algún trabajo orientado al usuario. Esto ayudará a garantizar que esta extensión no quede obsoleta y que sea más fácil trabajar en ella en el futuro. En el próximo mes, aproximadamente, tendremos una prueba beta opcional en la que los nuevos patrulleros de páginas podrán ayudar a probar la reescritura de Special:NewPagesFeed para ayudar a encontrar errores. Publicaremos más detalles en WT:NPPR cuando estemos listos para los evaluadores beta.
Artículos para la creación (AFC) : todos los revisores de páginas nuevas ahora son aprobados automáticamente para la revisión de borradores de Artículos para la creación (no es necesario que se postule en WT:AFCP como se requería anteriormente). Para instalar el script de ayuda de AFC , visite Special:Preferences , visite la pestaña Gadgets, marque "Otro script de ayuda de AFC" y luego haga clic en "Guardar". Para encontrar borradores para revisar, visite Special:NewPagesFeed y, en la parte superior izquierda, marque "Artículos para la creación". Para revisar un borrador, visite un borrador enviado, haga clic en el menú "Más" y luego haga clic en "Revisar (AFCH)". También puede comentar y enviar borradores que no se hayan enviado utilizando el script.
Puedes revisar el flujo de trabajo de AFC en WP:AFCR . Depende de ti si también quieres marcar tus aceptaciones de AFC como revisadas por NPP (esto está permitido pero es opcional, depende de si quieres que un segundo par de ojos revise tus aceptaciones). No olvides que el espacio de borradores es opcional , por lo que los movimientos de borradores al espacio principal (incluso si no están listos) no deben revertirse, excepto posiblemente si hay un conflicto de intereses.
Consejo profesional : ¿Sabías que los artistas visuales, como los pintores, tienen su propio SNG ? La parte más común de este criterio de "profesionales creativos" que se aplica a los artistas es WP:ARTIST 4b (exposición individual, no exposición colectiva, en un museo importante) o 4d (estar representado dentro de las colecciones permanentes de dos museos).
Recordatorios
Comentarios sobre el boletín: responda esta breve encuesta sobre el boletín.
Hay un chat en vivo con patrulleros en el Discord de New Page Patrol y una conexión #wikimedia-npp en IRC.
Nuevas páginas en espera de revisión a partir del 30 de junio de 2023.
Hola IAmChaos,
El equipo de New Page Patrol le envía este mensaje improvisado para informarle de un aumento vertiginoso de la cantidad de artículos pendientes de revisión. Si tiene tiempo libre, considere revisar uno o dos artículos por día para ayudar a reducir la cantidad de artículos pendientes. Puede comenzar a revisarlos visitando Special:NewPagesFeed . Muchas gracias por su ayuda.
Recordatorios :
Hay un chat en vivo con patrulleros en la nueva página de Discord de Patrol.
Está abierta la discusión sobre una propuesta de política global en relación con los recursos de terceros. Los recursos de terceros son recursos informáticos que se encuentran fuera de los sitios web de producción de Wikimedia.
Arbitraje
Actualmente hay dos casos de arbitraje abiertos. Se espera que las decisiones propuestas se dicten el 5 de julio de 2023 en el caso Scottywong y el 9 de julio de 2023 en el caso AlisonW .
Luego de un RfC , los TFA estarán semiprotegidos automáticamente el día anterior a su publicación en la página principal y durante el día siguiente.
En una discusión en WP:VPP sobre la eliminación de revisiones y la supervisión de nombres inactivos se descubrió que los administradores pueden optar por utilizar revdel si, en su opinión, es la herramienta adecuada para esta situación, y no necesitan utilizar la supervisión de forma predeterminada. Pero la supervisión bien podría ser adecuada cuando existe un riesgo particularmente alto para la persona. Use su criterio .
Noticias técnicas
Especial: Las contribuciones ahora muestran el recuento de ediciones locales del usuario y la fecha de creación de la cuenta. (T324166)
Arbitraje
El caso de disputa de SmallCat ha sido cerrado. Como parte de la decisión final, se ha recordado a los editores que participan en XfD que tengan cuidado al formar un consenso local que puede o no reflejar el consenso más amplio de la comunidad . También se animó a quienes cierran regularmente los foros de XfD a que indiquen cuándo sería útil un debate más amplio de la comunidad o cambios en las políticas y pautas .
Misceláneas
Consejo técnico : el banner "Explorar historial de forma interactiva" que se muestra en la parte superior de Special:Diff se puede usar para mirar fácilmente un historial, ensamblar diferencias compuestas o averiguar en qué archivo terminó algo.
Pregunta de Vinusclick (15:13, 22 de septiembre de 2023)
Soy nuevo aquí, por favor, guíenme para investigar y editar un artículo. --Vinusclick (discusión) 15:13 22 sep 2023 (UTC) [ responder ]
Boletín de noticias de patrulla de nuevas páginas
Hola IAmChaos,
Cola de artículos de revisión de páginas nuevas, de marzo a septiembre de 2023
Actualización de la lista de espera:
en el momento de este mensaje, hay 11 300 artículos y 15 600 redirecciones pendientes de revisión. Se trata del mayor número de artículos pendientes en mucho tiempo. ¡Ayúdenos a realizar revisiones adicionales!
Campaña de eliminación de atrasos de octubre : ¡En una semana comenzará una campaña de eliminación de atrasos de un mes para octubre! Se otorgarán Barnstars en función de la cantidad de artículos y redirecciones vigiladas. Los artículos obtendrán 4 veces más puntos en comparación con las redirecciones. Puedes registrarte aquí .
Actualizaciones del código de PageTriage : las actualizaciones del código de PageTriage, iniciadas por la carta abierta de NPP en 2022 y puestas en marcha por el equipo de herramientas de moderación de WMF en 2023, están en curso. Puede encontrar más información aquí . Como parte de este trabajo, Special:NewPagesFeed ahora tiene una nueva versión en versión beta. La actualización deja la apariencia y la función de NewPagesFeed prácticamente idénticas a la anterior, pero actualiza el código subyacente, lo que facilita el mantenimiento y ayuda a garantizar que la extensión no se desactive debido a problemas de mantenimiento en el futuro. Puede probar el nuevo Special:NewPagesFeed aquí; reemplazará a la versión actual pronto.
Consejo de notoriedad : Los profesores pueden cumplir con el objetivo WP:PROF n.° 1 si sus trabajos académicos son ampliamente citados por sus pares. Al revisar los artículos de los profesores, es una buena idea buscar su perfil de Google Scholar o Scopus y echar un vistazo a su índice h y al número de citas. Como regla general , para la mayoría de los campos, es probable que los artículos sobre personas con un índice h de veinte o más , un artículo de primer autor con más de mil citas o varios artículos cada uno con más de cien citas se conserven en AfD.
Consejo de revisión : si desea una segunda opinión sobre sus revisiones o simplemente quiere que otro revisor de páginas nuevo esté a su lado cuando esté revisando, le recomendamos que haga una revisión en pares. En este caso, dos revisores usan el chat de voz de Discord y comparten la pantalla para comunicarse entre sí mientras revisan el mismo artículo simultáneamente. Esta es una excelente manera de aprender y transferir conocimientos.
Recordatorios:
Puedes acceder al chat en vivo con los patrulleros en el Discord de New Page Patrol.
Una RfC está abierta a modificar la política de divulgación de contribuciones pagadas para agregar el siguiente texto: Cualquier administrador que solicite clientes para servicios pagos de consultoría o asesoramiento relacionados con Wikipedia que no estén cubiertos por otras reglas de contribución pagada debe divulgar todos los clientes en su página de usuario.
Noticias técnicas
Los administradores ahora pueden optar por agregar la página de usuario del usuario a su lista de seguimiento al cambiar los grupos de usuarios de un usuario. Esto funciona tanto a través de Special:UserRights como a través de la API. (T272294)
Pregunta de CalebCuebas (20:09, 16 de octubre de 2023)
¿Puedo crear una wiki para este 1 YouTuber --CalebCuebas ( discusión ) 20:09 16 oct 2023 (UTC) [ responder ]
Pregunta deFan de Wiki(09:17, 17 de octubre de 2023)
Hola jefe, espero estar escribiendo esto en el cuadro de diálogo correcto. Solo tengo una pregunta. El artículo que escribí se convirtió en borrador. ¿Cómo puedo hacer que alguien lo revise y lo apruebe? Gracias. -- Fanofwikii ( discusión ) 09:17 17 oct 2023 (UTC) [ responder ]
Pregunta de Sky9183 sobreUsuario:Rododendritas(18:05, 17 de octubre de 2023)
Cine este Sebastián Trifu? --Sky9183 (discusión) 18:05, 17 de octubre de 2023 (UTC) [ respuesta ]
Artículos de noviembre para impulsar la creación de cartera de trabajos
Hola IAmChaos:
WikiProject Articles for creation está llevando a cabo una campaña de recuperación de trabajos pendientes de un mes de duración .
El objetivo de esta campaña es reducir la acumulación de borradores pendientes de revisión a menos de 2 meses de los más de 4 meses actuales. Se otorgarán puntos de bonificación por revisar borradores que hayan estado esperando más de 30 días. La campaña se llevará a cabo desde el 1 de noviembre de 2023 hasta el 30 de noviembre de 2023.
Al final del recorrido se entregarán estrellas de barn como premios.
Hay un retraso de más de 1200 páginas, así que empieza a revisar los borradores. ¡Esperamos tu ayuda! Entrega de mensajes de MediaWiki ( discusión ) 13:24 31 oct 2023 (UTC) [ responder ]
La WMF está trabajando para que los administradores puedan editar la configuración de MediaWiki directamente. Esto es similar a un trabajo previo en Special:EditGrowthConfig. Se está llevando a cabo una convocatoria técnica hasta el 8 de noviembre, en la que puedes enviar comentarios.
Se ha propuesto un plan para volver a habilitar la extensión Graph. Se solicitan comentarios sobre esta propuesta.
Tras una moción , se eliminó la designación de tema polémico de Prem Rawat . Las acciones emprendidas anteriormente utilizando esta designación de tema polémico siguen vigentes.
Tras varias mociones , varias áreas temáticas ya no se designan como temas polémicos. Estas designaciones de temas polémicos se debieron a la conducta del Editor en artículos sobre cigarrillos electrónicos , Liancourt Rocks , Longevidad , Medicina , teorías conspirativas del 11 de septiembre y casos de cuestionamiento de la autoría de Shakespeare .
A raíz de una moción , se han rescindido los recursos 3.1 (Todos los artículos relacionados con el 1RR siempre que se trate de una disputa sobre la denominación), 6 (Resolución de un punto muerto) y 30 (Supervisión administrativa) del caso Macedonia 2 .
A raíz de una moción , se modificó el remedio 6 (regla de una sola reversión) del caso The Troubles .
Pregunta de JenGaudet93 (14:22, 14 de noviembre de 2023)
¡Hola! Acabo de enviar un borrador de página para Wanda Lefurgey Wyatt, una persona histórica aquí en mi provincia natal en Canadá. Hace tiempo que quería crear una página para ella. Fue muy influyente aquí. Su padre tiene una página wiki desde hace mucho tiempo, pero ella nunca ha tenido una que yo pueda ver. Es la primera vez que envío una página. Por favor, avísenme si hay algún problema con ella. ¡Me encantaría aprender! Planeo agregar más cosas a la página una vez que se publique. ¡Gracias! :) - Jenna --JenGaudet93 ( discusión ) 14:22, 14 de noviembre de 2023 (UTC) [ responder ]
Pregunta de 3XYEMaj (22:54, 22 de noviembre de 2023)
Hola IAMChaos, me acabo de sumergir en mi sandbox y creé un artículo desde cero que había redactado sin conexión primero sin darme cuenta de lo fácil de usar que sería la creación en Wikipedia. ¿Algo que deba hacer después de hacer clic en Publicar desde el Sandbox? ¿Los editores adicionales de Wikipedia se encargarán de esto desde aquí o el Sandbox es un verdadero ensayo y necesito copiar/pegar mi artículo del Sandbox en otro lugar para publicarlo en vivo en Wikipedia? Gracias de antemano por su orientación. --3XYEMaj ( discusión ) 22:54, 22 de noviembre de 2023 (UTC) [ responder ]
Por favor ayúdenme a publicar mi primer artículo
Por favor, ayuda a publicar Indianfilmwriter ( discusión ) 15:41, 26 de noviembre de 2023 (UTC) [ responder ]
Pregunta de 1984ngr (17:52, 26 de noviembre de 2023)
Hola, no puedo encontrar mi artículo --1984ngr ( discusión ) 17:52 26 nov 2023 (UTC) [ responder ]
Mensaje para los votantes de las elecciones ArbCom 2023
El Comité de Arbitraje es el panel de editores responsable de llevar a cabo el proceso de arbitraje de Wikipedia . Tiene la autoridad de imponer soluciones vinculantes a las disputas entre editores, principalmente en el caso de disputas de conducta graves que la comunidad no ha podido resolver. Esto incluye la autoridad para imponer prohibiciones de sitios , prohibiciones de temas , restricciones de edición y otras medidas necesarias para mantener nuestro entorno de edición. La política de arbitraje describe las funciones y responsabilidades del Comité con mayor detalle.
Tras una moción , se modificó la Restricción de Confirmación Extendida , eliminando la autorización para que los editores no confirmados por extensión publiquen comentarios constructivos en el espacio de nombres "Discusión:". Ahora, los editores no confirmados por extensión pueden usar el espacio de nombres "Discusión:" únicamente para realizar solicitudes de edición relacionadas con artículos dentro del área temática, siempre que sus acciones no sean disruptivas.
El Comité de Arbitraje ha anunciado una convocatoria para Checkusers y Oversighters, indicando que actualmente aceptará solicitudes para permisos de CheckUser y/o Oversight en cualquier momento del año.
Pregunta de GennⒶrinoRosso (10:30, 25 de diciembre de 2023)
Hola :) Gracias por recibir este mensaje.
Con respecto a mi primera edición: pensé que, dado que las fuentes ya están verificadas para la página wiki italiana sobre Oilvetti, ¿es un problema si traduzco de manera directa y cuidadosa mientras uso enlaces para implementar la velocidad de lectura y conexiones? --GennⒶrinoRosso (discusión) 10:30, 25 de diciembre de 2023 (UTC) [ responder ]
Boletín informativo Scripts++ – Número 23
Año nuevo, scripts nuevos. Bienvenidos al número 23 del boletín de Wikipedia Scripts++ , que cubre alrededor del 39 % de nuestros scripts de usuario nuevos y actualizados favoritos desde el 24 de diciembre de 2021. Así es, ¡no hemos publicado en dos años! ¿Puedes creerlo? ¿Nos extrañaste?
¿Tienes algo bueno? ¡Cuéntanos sobre tu script nuevo, mejorado, antiguo o estropeado aquí !
Guión destacado
RefRenamer de Nardog es el script destacado de este número. Por alguna razón, la fundación solo nos dará mejores nombres de referencia enVisualEditorsideseamosen la próxima encuesta. ¡Nardog al rescate! Este script tiene un montón de opciones para satisfacer a casi cualquiera que desee utilizar nombres de referencia mejores que":0" y ":418".
Scripts actualizados
Nardog : MoveHistory ahora puede buscar el historial de movimientos de cualquier página desde cualquier lugar del sitio.
Usuario:Alexander Davronov/HistoryHelper ahora se ha vuelto estable con algunas correcciones de errores y características como resaltar automáticamente resúmenes de ediciones potencialmente incivilizados y hacer ping automáticamente a todos los usuarios seleccionados.
Wikipedia:AutoEd/unicodehex.js ya no reemplazará las antiguas entidades de punto de MediaWiki (punto seguido de dos caracteres alfanuméricos en mayúsculas) en los enlaces de artículos, lo que causaba que varios enlaces se rompieran.
Captura de pantalla de RefRenamer, un script de usuario que ayuda a reemplazar nombres de referencia no descriptivos
En menor medida, ocurre lo mismo con User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js. Me gustaría que alguien integrara las clasificaciones en el menú de clasificación en lugar de agregar 11 enlaces de portlet.
Aaron Liu : Watchlyst Greybar Unsin es una reescritura del Notificador de lista de seguimiento de Ais con API modernas y varias características nuevas, como no mostrar los elementos de la lista de seguimiento marcados como vistos (de ahí el nombre), no poner en negrita las diferencias de los elementos de la lista de seguimiento no vistos, lo que de todos modos no funciona correctamente, mostrar el resumen de edición renderizado, visualización adecuada del registro y las acciones de creación y más enlaces.
Alexis Jazz : Factotum es un sucesor espiritual de reply-link con una serie de características adicionales como agregar secciones, reescritura de enlaces, expresiones regulares y más.
Usuario: Aveaoz/AutoMobileRedirect : Este script redireccionará automáticamente MobileFrontend (en.m.wikipedia) a la Wikipedia normal. A diferencia de los scripts existentes, este verificará si su navegador es móvil o no a través de su cadena de agente secreto, ¡para que pueda permanecer conectado en el móvil! ¡Hurra por la pantalla!
Clod :
Deputy es un conjunto de herramientas de limpieza de derechos de autor, el primero de su tipo. Reemplaza la interfaz de las investigaciones de derechos de autor de Wikipedia:Contribuidor para facilitar el procesamiento de los casos. También incluye la funcionalidad de los siguientes scripts (también nuevos):
¿Con frecuencia incluyes enlaces a Wikipedia en tus sitios web pero te resulta muy complicado generar créditos CC-BY? ¡No digas más! User:Luke10.27/attribute lo hará automáticamente por ti y copiará el crédito en tu portapapeles.
Usuario:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft , un sucesor espiritual (es decir, una bifurcación) del script de Evad37 , con algunos errores resueltos y una serie de características adicionales como casillas de verificación para elegir motivos de borrador, notificación a múltiples contribuyentes y advertencias apropiadas basadas en el tiempo de la última edición.
/CopyCodeBlock : una de las operaciones más importantes para cualquier programador y usuario de scripts es copiar y pegar. Este script agrega un botón de copia en la parte superior derecha de cada bloque de código (no debe confundirse con <code>) que, bueno, ¡lo copiará al portapapeles!
m:User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AceForLuaDebugConsole.js agrega el editor Ace (también conocido como el editor que se ve al editar JS, CSS y Lua en los wikis de Wikimedia) a la consola de depuración de Lua. "En mi opinión, quien lo diseñó para que fuera un <textarea> simple debería reconsiderar seriamente su decisión".
DraftCleaner corrige el formato de los artículos nuevos.
GANReviewTool cierra rápida y fácilmente las nominaciones de buenos artículos.
ReviewStatus muestra si una página del espacio principal está marcada como revisada o no.
SpeciesHelper intenta agregar el cuadro de especie, la categoría, la barra de taxón y la plantilla de esbozo correctos a los artículos de especies.
Usuario:Opencooper/svgReplace y la bifurcación de Tol reemplaza todos los SVG rasterizados con sus códigos SVG originales para que puedas disfrutar de la carga. ¡Cuéntanos cuál es mejor!
ArticleInfo displays page information at the top of the page, directly below the title.
/HeaderIcons takes away the Vector 2022 user dropdown and replaces it with all of the icons within, top level, right next to the Watchlist. One less click away! There's also an alternate version that uses text links instead of icons.
Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
Please help. I started the new article surrogate partner therapy because sexual surrogate is no longer an accepted term in the field. Surrogate partner therapist teach self esteem, confidence, and relationship building skills. This is 90% of their work and only 10% of clients require erotic education. Most often learning the basics allows clients to find a partner in the wild to organically work on this final phase with. Other SPTs have tried to open this conversation in response to the original article termed “sexual surrogate” which my peers in this field wish would be retired or renamed. I most respectfully ask you to honor these changes and the term we prefer as professionals. Thank you. Colleen Murphy, MD, PhD, DD - Surrogate Partner Therapist The Leading Authority (talk) 16:31, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, Colleen. I see why you reached out to me. I approved the redirect that was created by Courtesy ping: Alalch E.. who changed your article into a redirect in this edit. As you see from the edit summary they cited the page WP:CFORK, and as I look back at the original page, I see that it wasn't quite set up like a Wiki article normally is. I have pinged Alalch here, who may chime in if they please. May I also suggest you start an article as a draft, see more information at HELP:YFA. Happy Editing--IAmChaos 16:39, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@The Leading Authority: I am genuinely sorry for not notifying you about my blank-and-redirect of your article, which is something that I normally always do (using {{uw-blar}}), and in this case I fell asleep in the middle of the editing session due to fatigue from work, and didn't finish the job. If I had done so, I would have told you that the article was converted into a redirect due to this topic already being covered, and would have explained to you what you can do to bring this, already existing article, to be in line with your expectations. Namely, what you want is that the article be renamed ("moved") and terminology and focus of coverage altered in the direction which you consider to be more appropriate. I think that you should simply edit the existing article in a way which complies with Wikipedia policy, and propose its renaming using the requested move process. Other editors may also have ideas about it, and the outcome will be the result of the collaborative process. Two articles about essentially the same topic using different language and having a somewhat different focus should not exist at the same time. Editors should form a consensus about how to cover everything coherently in one article, and to incorporate possible different viewpoints in that one article. You can access the content of the page which you created from page history at Surrogate Partner Therapy. Sincerely —Alalch E. 16:53, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your suggestion. I am new at this and performed the move function but seem to have lost the original content. I am uncertain what I have done incorrectly. Any input or assistance is greatly appreciated. Thank you. Colleen The Leading Authority (talk) 17:09, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. Your help is appreciated. I am working to resolve the discrepancies and learning as I go. The Leading Authority (talk) 17:10, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
Featured script
Making user scripts load faster by SD0001 is this month's featured script, which caches userscripts every day to eliminate the overhead caused by force-downloading the newest version of scripts every time you open a Wikipedia page. Despite being released in April 2021, our best script scouters have failed to locate it due to its omission from the US of L. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.
Newly maintained scripts
After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...
Aaron Liu has created What redirects here from Guarapiranga/WhatRedirectsHere; his fork includes support for every MediaWiki wiki, corrected link positions, an access key, and some rudimentary translation.
Ahecht has created a fork of SiBr4/TemplateSearch, which adds the "TP:" shortcut for "Template:" in the search box, and updated it to be compatible with Vector 2022.
AquilaFasciata/goToTopFast is a much faster fork of the classic goToTop script that also adds compatibility for Minerva and Vector 2022.
Without caching. Each script takes 400–500ms. A particularly large script takes 1.11 s! Internet download speed is 50 Mbps.With caching enabled. Each script takes just 1-2 ms to load.
Improve a script
Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!
To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
Diegodlh/Web2Cit/script adds an option to use m:Web2Cit (which WP:ProveIt also uses) instead of mw:Citoid to generate citations in the Visual Editor.
Dragoniez/SuppressEnterInForm stops you from accidentally submitting anything due to pressing enter while in the smaller box, and works on almost anything... except the InputBox element itself, used in subscription lists and the Signpost Crossword! Oh, the humanity!
Doǵu/Adiutor(pictured) provides a nice, integrated interface to do some twinkley tasks such as copyvio detection, CSD tagging, and viewing the most recent diff.
Eejit43 has quite the aesthetically pleasing scripts, all made in TypeScript.
/afcrc-helper is a replacement for the unmaintained Enterprisey/AFCRHS and processes Redirects for Creation and Categories for Creation requests.
/ajax-undo stops the "undo" button from taking you to another page while providing a text box to provide a reason for the revert.
/redirect-helper(pictured) adds a much better interface for editing and redirects, including categorization, for which valid categories are dictated by /redirect-helper.json.
/rmtr-helper helps process technical requested moves without being able to actually move them.
Guycn2/UserInfoPopup(pictured) adds a flyout after the watchlist star on userspace pages that displays the common information you might use about a user.
Jeeputer/editCounter, under userspace, adds a portlet link to count your edits by namespace, put them in a table, and put that table in a hardcoded subpage, all in the background.
Hilst/Scripts/sectionLinks converts all section links to use the § sign, which are known to be preferred over the ugly # by 99% of the devils I've met.
PrimeHunter/Category source.js adds portlet links to tell you where a category for an article comes from and supports those from template transclusions.
Sophivorus's MiniEdit adds some nice, li'l buttons next to paragraphs to edit their wikitext with a minimal interface.
Edit-listings
Dragoniez/ToollinkTweaks adds more and customizable links next to users in page history, logs, watchlist, recent changes, etc.
Firefly/more-block-info optimizes the display of rangeblocks in contribution pages. Doesn't work outside the English locale of any wiki, unfortunately.
NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader makes paging links (e.g. older 50, 500, newest) load without refreshing and makes you realize how slow your internet actually is.
Appearance-ricing
Ahecht/RedirectID adds the redirect target to all redirects. For all the WP:NAVPOPS haters. (Do these exist?)
Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal: Remember the "strike blocked usernames" gadget? Now you can use a red, dotted line to highlight rangeblocks and global locks!
Jonesey/common(pictured) has some styles to overhaul your Vector 2022 experience. It reduces padding everywhere, and makes the top bar animation faster.
Aaron Liu/V22 is a fork that narrows the sidebars instead of upheaving them, reverts the January 2024 dropdown changes, and restores the old page-link color for links that don't go outside the current wiki.
Nardog: SmartDiff is a spiritual successor to Enterprisey/fancy-diffs. It makes the page title part of links in diffs clickable, along with template and parser function calls. Unnamed parameters can be configured per template to also be linked. All links are styled based on the normal CSS classes of rendered links.
For the paranoid: Rublov/anonymize replaces your username at the top of the screen with the generic "User page" text. Remember, it is your duty to persuade everyone that editing is an honor.
Sm8ps/SectionEditing makes pressing Tab ↹ toggle the visibility of the tiny [ edit ] links next to section headings.. Not a great name, eh?
The wub/tocExpandAll adds a button on top of the floating ToC to expand or collapse subheadings.
Permissions required!
Ahecht/potd-helper: A script to post the picture of the day. A powerful upgrade for your mop.
Dragoniez
/AjaxBlock provides a dialog box for easy input of reasons while blocking users.
/Selective Rollback (pictured) provides a dialog box to customize rollback edit summaries and does them without reloading the page. Seriously, why doesn't MediaWiki already do this?
DreamRimmer/BlankUserPage helps you destroy webhost-ers' hopes and dreams with a user-friendly dialog box.
ESanders (WMF)/commentlinks.js adds a "link" button right after the "reply" button while the WMF struggles to reach feature parity with Convenient Discussions.
/flickrsearch adds a portlet link to search for uploadable flickr images about the subject.
/randomincategory adds a portlet link when on Category pages to go to a random page in the current category.
Vghfr/EasyTemplates adds a portlet link to automatically insert some of the most common inline {{fix}} templates.
Yes, we're just doing 'em as we go now. Thanks for reading through this looong issue, if you did! I'm sure this'll send a record for the longest issue ev-ah. You may need to wait even longer for the last issue, as our reserve of old-y and goodie scripts have ran out... We encourage you to try and do some of the requests or improvement tasks. See you in Summer, hopefully!
The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)
Arbitration
An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
Miscellaneous
Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.
Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.
Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.
Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.
It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!
2023 Awards
Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!
WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.
Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.
Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.
Reminders:
You can access live chat with patrollers on the New Pages Patrol Discord.
Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531
Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!
Reminder to vote now to select members of the first U4C
You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. Please help translate to other languages.
Dear Wikimedian,
You are receiving this message because you previously participated in the UCoC process.
This is a reminder that the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) ends on May 9, 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions on the project talkpage. [1]
The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode. [2]
Problems
You can copy permanent links to talk page comments by clicking on a comment's timestamp. This feature did not always work when the topic title was very long and the link was used as a wikitext link. This has been fixed. Thanks to Lofhi for submitting the bug. [3]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar). [4][5]
Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [6]
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update. [7]
Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis. [8]
If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers. [9][10]
Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. [11]
Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Mandailing (w:btm:) [12]
Problems
Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [13]
Future changes
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Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)
Miscellaneous
The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more
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
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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I hope you are doing great. I'm currently exploring a keen interest in creating articles on Wikipedia. Suffice to say, I've read almost through all the help pages and 'tutorials'. It's been several months now. However, I'm unable to follow the convoluted link-back-and-forth help content! Is there any way you can help me with a step-by-step tutorial of the actual technical steps to creating pages or articles?
For instance, I was thinking if there might be like a Blogger/Blogspot-like post creation interface or a Wordpress page creation page with the corresponding instructional to each element, whether it's about where to insert the textual content, or linking, referencing, or inserting multimedia.
I understand that you will be busy but I really had to resort to writing to you when your name popped up as my mentor her.
Thank you for reading this rather long email.
Audre AudreyLexi22 (talk) 07:45, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
A step-by-step help please!
Hello:
I hope you are doing great. I'm currently exploring a keen interest in creating articles on Wikipedia. Suffice to say, I've read almost through all the help pages and 'tutorials'. It's been several months now. However, I'm unable to follow the convoluted link-back-and-forth help content! Is there any way you can help me with a step-by-step tutorial of the actual technical steps to creating pages or articles?
For instance, I was thinking if there might be like a Blogger/Blogspot-like post creation interface or a Wordpress page creation page with the corresponding instructional to each element, whether it's about where to insert the textual content, or linking, referencing, or inserting multimedia.
I understand that you will be busy but I really had to resort to writing to you when your name popped up as my mentor here.
Thank you for reading this rather long email.
Audre AudreyLexi22 (talk) 07:54, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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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. [14]
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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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. [15]
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. [16]
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. [17]
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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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:) [18]
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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Hey there, welcome to the 25th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 March 2024. We've got a ton of wonderful editors taking back their pitchforks today. Don't worry, for they come in peace, to forcibly fix and extend existing scripts you use with sheer passion. There's so many, them forks have got what's basically their own column now! gift us with some rows before it's too late Aaron Liu (talk) 04:01, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
Featured script
inline-diff-inline-patrol by Ponor is this edition's featured script. By loading diffs inline on every page that shows a list of changes, it implements the 2023 community wish m:Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Admins and patrollers/Inline diffs and inline patrol. Hopefully we won't need this script anymore soon, with the WMF's focus on the backlog...
To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
An easily configurable script to add a link to the #p-vector-user-menu-overflow portlet with a name, target, and icon. This one should be a relatively easier one. I would do it myself, but I'm too busy rotting away on Celeste (video game).
After the ＲＩＩＪ update, Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin has a dismiss button that allows you to mark an item as read in one click and cycle to the next Watchlist item.
Lordseriouspig/StatusChangerImproved is just like Enterprisey's script, except you select your status from a dropdown instead of cycling through them with a button. The WMF operates out of car-centric infrastructure anyway. Shame!
Newly maintained scripts
Aaron Liu has created Duplinks from Evad37/duplinks-alt; his fork adds a config variable to automatically highlight duplicate links on the loading of any page where the portlet link would've appeared.
Tired of staring at a bunch of filtering text and waiting for darn filter logs to load? Msz2001/AbuseFilter analyzer can parse abuse filters into a visual syntax tree and evaluate locally on-demand!
Polygnotus/DuplicateReferences finds references with the same link and displays the number of them along with a button to add the {{duplicated citations}} tag under the references section. Being lazy has never been easier!
fastest gun on the net Ponor/really-quick-block really quick add to contribution lists three buttons awesome
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
A tag has been placed on Bobby Witt (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a disambiguation page which either
disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
is an orphaned redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 08:10, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Tech News: 2024-32
Latest 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 for Template:Dir and Template:BCP47 on 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. [19][20]
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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Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.
Latest 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. [21]
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:) [22]
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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. [23]
Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the categories property of mw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [24][25]
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 with Wikipedia 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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Latest 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
Administrators can now test the temporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
Later this week, editors at wikis that use FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface. [26]
Bugs status
Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, will no longer experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
Please review and vote on Focus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
Do you have a project and are willing to provide a three (3) month mentorship for an intern? Outreachy is a twice a year program for people to participate in a paid internship that will start in December 2024 and end in early March 2025, and they need mentors and projects to work on. Projects can be focused on coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, research). See the Outreachy page for more details, and a list of past projects since 2013.
Learn more
If you're curious about the product and technology improvements made by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, read this recent highlights summary on Diff.
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:
Community Configuration - Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together (55 mins) - about the Community Configuration project.
Future of MediaWiki. A sustainable platform to support a collaborative user base and billions of page views (30 mins) - an overview for both technical and non technical audiences, covering some of the challenges and open questions, related to the platform evolution, stewardship and developer experiences research.
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Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.
Miscellaneous
Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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 can read more about this project update and help to test the charts.
Feature news
Editors who use the Special:UnusedTemplates page 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. [27]
Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to 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 were resolved 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. [28]
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 the new dropdown menu.
Project updates
A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has 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 on the proposed update’s talk page until 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 as Content/Section Translation, MinT, and LanguageConverter; also the current state and future of languages onboarding. [29]
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will 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 the help page. [30][31]
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() and mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [32]
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. [33]
Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new MOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with MOS: (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language code mos). [34]
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Tech News: 2024-38
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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 adding new wishes.
The new automated Special:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. [35]
References Check is 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. [36]
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 can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order. [37]
Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, 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 be queried 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 were resolved last week.
Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes mw-message-box need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer cdx-message group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. [38]
Technical project updates
Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 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. [39]
Tech in depth
The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes details about: research about hook handlers 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 are more details and links available in 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
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 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
A screenshot of the interface for the Alt Text suggested-edit feature
Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment after 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 on the discussion page.
The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes for 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. [40]
Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [41][42]
View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
From Wikimedia 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 on the 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 the WDQS Graph Split project, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly" and "main" subgraphs of Wikidata. The query.wikidata.org endpoint will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see the announcement on Wikidata.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
Readers of 42 more wikis can 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 the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides 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=editsource to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences. [43]
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 more about the changes related to donor experiences. [44]
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 been enabled on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Wikipedia has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Wikipedia and on Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required for 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
The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 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. [45]
Meetings and events
October 4–6: WikiIndaba Conference's Hackathon in Johannesburg, South Africa
November 4–6: MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 in Vienna, Austria
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Noticias sobre directrices y políticas
Noticias técnicas
Arbitraje
Misceláneas
Ideas, comentarios y críticas para el boletín son bienvenidos aquí .
Cambios de administrador
Cambios de burócrata
Cambios en el administrador de la interfaz
Beeblebrox → Solo da un paso al costado
Comprobar cambios de usuario
Cambios en la supervisión
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Courtesy ping: Alalch E.. who changed your article into a redirect in this edit. As you see from the edit summary they cited the page WP:CFORK, and as I look back at the original page, I see that it wasn't quite set up like a Wiki article normally is. I have pinged Alalch here, who may chime in if they please. May I also suggest you start an article as a draft, see more information at HELP:YFA. Happy Editing--IAmChaos 16:39, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar). [4][5]
Please review and vote on Focus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.