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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
226	Urban rail transit in China (talk)	Add sources
70	British Rail Class 04 (talk)	Add sources
6	Chengdu–Lanzhou railway (talk)	Add sources
212	Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport (talk)	Add sources
16	Haymarket Shopping Centre (talk)	Add sources
10	International School of Aberdeen (talk)	Add sources
17	Bridgwater railway station (talk)	Cleanup
222	High-speed railway in Indonesia (talk)	Cleanup
62	Luzhou (talk)	Cleanup
2	Jingkou railway station (talk)	Expand
3,105	Tel Aviv (talk)	Expand
32	Transport in Scotland (talk)	Expand
184	Indian community of London (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
72	Get Your Own Back (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
11	Newtonhill (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
18	Hainan eastern ring high-speed railway (talk)	Merge
34	A roads in Zone 1 of the Great Britain numbering scheme (talk)	Merge
19	Historical Vaikundar (talk)	Merge
43	David Schaal (talk)	Wikify
27	David Kynaston (talk)	Wikify
12	St Vigeans (talk)	Wikify
2	Nanning–Yulin high-speed railway (talk)	Orphan
12	Michael Cardoza (talk)	Orphan
2	Kingsweston Iron Bridge (talk)	Orphan
6	Chengdu–Guiyang high-speed railway (talk)	Stub
8	Hangzhou West railway station (talk)	Stub
4	Hardo Warpal (talk)	Stub
4	A944 road (talk)	Stub
18	Beijing Fengtai railway station (talk)	Stub
3	Chongqing–Huaihua railway (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2023-20

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Problems

Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN are currently broken. This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing to restore this feature. [1]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 May. It will be on all wikis from 18 May (calendar).
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Gorontalo Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Hakka Chinese Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Fiji Hindi Wikipedia, Croatian Wikipedia, Upper Sorbian Wikipedia, Haitian Creole Wikipedia, Interlingua Wikipedia, Interlingue Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Iloko Wikipedia, Ingush Wikipedia, Ido Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Inuktitut Wikipedia, Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, Javanese Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [2]

Future changes

There is a recently formed team at the Wikimedia Foundation which will be focusing on experimenting with new tools. Currently they are building a prototype ChatGPT plugin that allows information generated by ChatGPT to be properly attributed to the Wikimedia projects.
Gadget and userscript developers should replace jquery.cookie with mediawiki.cookie. The jquery.cookie library will be removed in ~1 month, and staff developers will run a script to replace any remaining uses at that time. [3]

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Concern regarding Draft:M1 Cribbs Causeway–Hengrove Park

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Tech News: 2023-21

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Recent changes

The "recent edits" time period for page watchers is now 30 days. It used to be 180 days. This was a Community Wishlist Survey proposal. [4]

Changes later this week

An improved impact module will be available at Wikipedias. The impact module is a feature available to newcomers at their personal homepage. It will show their number of edits, how many readers their edited pages have, how many thanks they have received and similar things. It is also accessible by accessing Special:Impact. [5]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).

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Tech News: 2023-22

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

Citations can once again be added automatically from ISBNs, thanks to Zotero's ISBN searches. The current data sources are the Library of Congress (United States), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (French National Library), and K10plus ISBN (German repository). Additional data source searches can be proposed to Zotero. The ISBN labels in the VisualEditor Automatic tab will reappear later this week. [6]
The page Special:EditWatchlist now has "Check all" options to select all the pages within a namespace. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [7]

Problems

For a few days earlier this month, the "Add interlanguage link" item in the Tools menu did not work properly. This has now been fixed. [8]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 May. It will be on all wikis from 1 June (calendar).
VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on small and medium wikis this week. Large wikis will follow in the coming weeks. This is part of the effort to move Parsoid into MediaWiki core. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [9]

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
12	Chapelton, Aberdeenshire (talk)	Add sources
22,071	Leicester City F.C. (talk)	Add sources
46	Oadby (talk)	Add sources
24	A90 road (talk)	Add sources
10	Melksham railway station (talk)	Add sources
5	West End, Aberdeen (talk)	Add sources
260	A1 road (Great Britain) (talk)	Cleanup
30	Wigan North Western railway station (talk)	Cleanup
378	University of Aberdeen (talk)	Cleanup
19	Liskeard railway station (talk)	Expand
9	Politics of Aberdeen (talk)	Expand
638	Leicestershire (talk)	Expand
38	London General (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
22	Sheldon School (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
3	Heather Tanner (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
36	Standings (talk)	Merge
19	The Divine Image (talk)	Merge
318	Ranking (talk)	Merge
20	Penistone railway station (talk)	Wikify
5	Sault Ste. Marie Transit Services (talk)	Wikify
36	Stapleford, Nottinghamshire (talk)	Wikify
2	Bishopmill Bridge (talk)	Orphan
2	Amal Galal Sabry (talk)	Orphan
2	Alex Blanc (talk)	Orphan
10	Stonehaven railway station (talk)	Stub
23	Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (talk)	Stub
11	Pick Everard (talk)	Stub
3	Carron Water, Aberdeenshire (talk)	Stub
24	Listed buildings in Scotland (talk)	Stub
15	Hieronymus Schlick (talk)	Stub

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Hello there

Hello there, Garuda, or NemsisAT on the talk page of MiWay. I’m trying to update the fleet table of the mentioned transit system. But changes were reverted by ajf. Says it’s unsourced. I saw a talk topic on the talk page for MiWay and it was an argument about this same thing back in 2021. What should I do? Miway.photos (talk) 14:51, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2023-23

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Recent changes

The RealMe extension allows you to mark URLs on your user page as verified for Mastodon and similar software.
Citation and footnote editing can now be started from the reference list when using the visual editor. This feature request was voted #2 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [10]
Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference for "Group results by page". This has now been fixed. [11]

Problems

For a few days last week, some tools and bots returned outdated information due to database replication problems, and may have been down entirely while it was being fixed. These issues have now been fixed. [12]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
Bots will no longer be prevented from making edits because of URLs that match the spam blacklist. [13]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:50, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Coastliner 36

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:59, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:X77 Glasgow–Ayr

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Your draft article, Draft:McGinty’s Group

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Tech News: 2023-24

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the Dutch, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias. This was the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [14]
The Search Preview panel has been deployed on four Wikipedias (Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian and Norwegian). The panel will show an image related to the article (if existing), the top sections of the article, related images (coming from MediaSearch on Commons), and eventually the sister projects associated with the article. [15]
The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software. [16]
The default project license has been officially upgraded to CC BY-SA 4.0. The software interface messages have been updated. Communities should feel free to start updating any mentions of the old CC BY-SA 3.0 licensing within policies and related documentation pages. [17]

Problems

For three days last month, some Wikipedia pages edited with VisualEditor or DiscussionTools had an unintended __TOC__ (or its localized form) added during an edit. There is a listing of affected pages sorted by wiki, that may still need to be fixed. [18]
Currently, the "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is broken. Existing {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords incorrectly appear as missing templates in VisualEditor. Developers are exploring how to fix this. In the meantime, those wishing to edit the default sortkey of a page are advised to switch to source editing. [19]
Last week, an update to the delete form may have broken some gadgets or user scripts. If you need to manipulate (empty) the reason field, replace #wpReason with #wpReason > input. See an example fix. [20]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).
VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on English Wikipedia on Monday, and all other large wikis on Thursday. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [21]

Future changes

From 5 June to 17 July, the Foundation's Security team is holding a consultation with contributors regarding a draft policy to govern the use of third-party resources in volunteer-developed gadgets and scripts. Feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome at Third-party resources policy on meta-wiki.

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
36	Basingstoke railway station (talk)	Add sources
129	British Rail Class 86 (talk)	Add sources
20	Kingston railway station (England) (talk)	Add sources
19	Littlehampton railway station (talk)	Add sources
205	Clapham Junction railway station (talk)	Add sources
15	East Kilbride railway station (talk)	Add sources
9	Chapel-en-le-Frith railway station (talk)	Cleanup
20	Wigan Wallgate railway station (talk)	Cleanup
7	Whaley Bridge railway station (talk)	Cleanup
8	Linlithgow railway station (talk)	Expand
54	Blackpool North railway station (talk)	Expand
6	Kirknewton railway station (talk)	Expand
744	Anti-Russian sentiment (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
204	Isleworth (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
24	Newark Northgate railway station (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,373	Paytm (talk)	Merge
3,006	Ronnie Wood (talk)	Merge
106	Party bike (talk)	Merge
8	South Wales Mineral Railway (talk)	Wikify
46	Shanghai railway station (talk)	Wikify
10	Highbury Vale (talk)	Wikify
14	Sailo (talk)	Orphan
34	Abdallah Abu Sheikh (talk)	Orphan
2	Amelia S. Givin (talk)	Orphan
13	Stonehaven Open Air Pool (talk)	Stub
8	Dunfermline Queen Margaret railway station (talk)	Stub
8	Howden railway station (talk)	Stub
9	Dinsdale railway station (talk)	Stub
9	Justin Hayward and Friends Sing the Moody Blues Classic Hits (talk)	Stub
8	Croy railway station (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2023-25

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Recent changes

Flame graphs are now available in WikimediaDebug. [22][23]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
There is now a toolbar search popup in the visual editor. You can trigger it by typing \ or pressing ctrl + shift + p. It can help you quickly access most tools in the editor. [24][25]

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Tech News: 2023-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

The Action API modules and Special:LinkSearch will now add a trailing / to all prop=extlinks responses for bare domains. This is part of the work to remove duplication in the externallinks database table. [26]

Problems

Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours. [27][28]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
The Minerva skin now applies more predefined styles to the .mbox-text CSS class. This enables support for mbox templates that use divs instead of tables. Please make sure that the new styles won't affect other templates in your wiki. [29][30]
Gadgets will now load on both desktop and mobile by default. Previously, gadgets loaded only on desktop by default. Changing this default using the |targets= parameter is also deprecated and should not be used. You should make gadgets work on mobile or disable them based on the skin (with the |skins= parameter in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition) rather than whether the user uses the mobile or the desktop website. Popular gadgets that create errors on mobile will be disabled by developers on the Minerva skin as a temporary solution. [31]
All namespace tabs now have the same browser access key by default. Previously, custom and extension-defined namespaces would have to have their access keys set manually on-wiki, but that is no longer necessary. [32]
The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized user interface components. [33]

Future changes

How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change in the coming weeks at group2 wikis. This change improves the accessibility of content. You may need to update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to check, how to update the code, and where to report any related problems. [34]

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