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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
749	Great Firewall (talk)	Add sources
71	Lothian Buses (talk)	Add sources
143	Dialog box (talk)	Add sources
16	National Museum (Oman) (talk)	Add sources
90	South Gloucestershire (talk)	Add sources
90	Terry Higgins (talk)	Add sources
301	Hefei (talk)	Cleanup
8	Shatian station (talk)	Cleanup
2	1943 Wisła Kraków season (talk)	Cleanup
325	Zero-energy building (talk)	Expand
11	Line 1 (Nanjing Metro) (talk)	Expand
11	Stagecoach Midlands (talk)	Expand
21	BT 21CN (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
42	London General (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
38	O2 (Ireland) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
185	Chitral (talk)	Merge
6	Mastuj Tehsil (talk)	Merge
21	Starmus Festival (talk)	Merge
40	TAT-14 (talk)	Wikify
40	HM Prison Leicester (talk)	Wikify
14	Stokenchurch BT Tower (talk)	Wikify
2	Bishopmill Bridge (talk)	Orphan
4	Moyka (singer) (talk)	Orphan
4	Origin of Malankara Church of God Thrikkannamangal (talk)	Orphan
7	Chitral Tehsil (talk)	Stub
124	David Brett (talk)	Stub
4	2022 Winter Paralympics torch relay (talk)	Stub
67	Marc Allera (talk)	Stub
7	Higham on the Hill (talk)	Stub
5	Wuchang railway station (talk)	Stub

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Happy Holidays

		Happy Holidays
		Hello, I wish you the very best during the holidays. And I hope you have a very happy 2023! Bruxton (talk) 17:39, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

@Bruxton:, thank you, and to you! Merry Christmas Garuda3 (talk) 21:56, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
10	Stoke Golding (talk)	Add sources
2,107	Aparna Balamurali (talk)	Add sources
1,095	Oti Mabuse (talk)	Add sources
3	George Smith (philanthropist) (talk)	Add sources
114	Castle Donington (talk)	Add sources
1,275	Ram Nath Kovind (talk)	Add sources
223	M4 motorway (talk)	Cleanup
1,127	Calligraphy (talk)	Cleanup
3	2017–18 Wisła Kraków season (talk)	Cleanup
1,204	Maglev (talk)	Expand
91	Eir (telecommunications) (talk)	Expand
6	Digital access carrier system (talk)	Expand
115	Smart motorway (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
606	COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
226	LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
11	Hydrogenophilaceae (talk)	Merge
3	Apostolic Vicariate of Keewatin (talk)	Merge
39	Chernigov Governorate (talk)	Merge
11	Sub-Central line (talk)	Wikify
22	Storefront school (talk)	Wikify
42	Shepshed (talk)	Wikify
9	Austin Coleman (talk)	Orphan
3	Nirad Solanki (talk)	Orphan
2	Alexandre Egorov (talk)	Orphan
144	Katie McGlynn (talk)	Stub
48	Laya Lewis (talk)	Stub
11	Beckenham Beacon (talk)	Stub
16	Fairfield General Hospital (talk)	Stub
6	Kinbrace railway station (talk)	Stub
9	Leamington Spa Hospital (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2023-02

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Recent changes

You can use tags to filter edits in the recent changes feed or on your watchlist. You can now use tags to filter out edits you don't want to see. Previously you could only use tags to focus on the edits with those tags. [1]
Special:WhatLinksHere shows all pages that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype for how to sort those pages alphabetically. You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket.
You can now use the thanks function on your watchlist and the user contribution page. [2]
A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you don't have to write the explanation every time. [3]
Matrix is a chat tool. You can now use matrix: to create Matrix links on wiki pages. [4]
You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also hide subpages which are translation pages. [5]

Changes later this week

Realtime preview for wikitext is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it in the editor toolbar.
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 10 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 12 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 January. It will be on all wikis from 12 January (calendar).

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Cookies

Did you bake these cookies? Ilovejames 5🚂:) 08:50, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of 747 Uppingham–Leicester for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article 747 Uppingham–Leicester is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/747 Uppingham–Leicester until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Pkbwcgs (talk) 19:46, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-03

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Problems

The URLs in "prev" links on page history now contain diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID] in place of diff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]. This is to fix a problem with links pointing to incorrect diffs when history was filtered by a tag. Some user scripts may break as a result of this change. [6]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).
Some changes to the appearance of talk pages have only been available on Talk: and User talk: namespaces. These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such as Wikipedia talk:. They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including Wikipedia: pages (e.g., at the Village Pump). You can change your preferences (beta feature). [7]
On Wikisources, when an image is zoomed or panned in the Page: namespace, the same zoom and pan settings will be remembered for all Page: namespace pages that are linked to a particular Index: namespace page. [8]
The Vector 2022 skin will become the default for the English Wikipedia desktop users. The change will take place on January 18 at 15:00 UTC. Learn more.

Future changes

The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey, which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts next week on 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. You can start drafting your proposals in the CWS sandbox.

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
2	Ganzhou–Longyan railway (talk)	Add sources
3	Qinhuangdao railway station (talk)	Add sources
8	Packet Switch Stream (talk)	Add sources
21	Rugby Radio Station (talk)	Add sources
615	Leicestershire (talk)	Add sources
166	British Rail Class 455 (talk)	Add sources
9	Communications in the Isle of Man (talk)	Cleanup
10	The Hinckley School (talk)	Cleanup
54	BT Smart Hub (talk)	Cleanup
6	BT Sport Action Woman Awards (talk)	Expand
40	North Kent Line (talk)	Expand
206	British Rail Class 73 (talk)	Expand
13	Shanghai Suburban Railway (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
8	Hull Colour Pages (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
56	UK telephone code misconceptions (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
165	Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) (talk)	Merge
148	Mob programming (talk)	Merge
132	Interface (Java) (talk)	Merge
10	Transport in Bristol (talk)	Wikify
20	Centrebus (talk)	Wikify
106	Home security (talk)	Wikify
10	Bittles Bar (talk)	Orphan
3	Alex Nolan (talk)	Orphan
2	Analytical light scattering (talk)	Orphan
5	Nanchang–Ganzhou high-speed railway (talk)	Stub
7	Ganzhou–Shenzhen high-speed railway (talk)	Stub
7	Weybourne railway station (talk)	Stub
10	Line 19 (Hangzhou Metro) (talk)	Stub
7	Daxing Jichang (Daxing Airport) station (talk)	Stub
6	Hangzhou West railway station (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2023-04

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

Problems

Last week, for ~15 minutes, all wikis were unreachable for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a timing issue. [9]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).
If you have the Beta Feature for DiscussionTools enabled, the appearance of talk pages will add more information about discussion activity. [10][11]
The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS), which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts on Monday 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC.

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Tech News: 2023-05

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

Problems

Last week, for ~15 minutes, some users were unable to log in or edit pages. This was caused by a problem with session storage. [12]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 February. It will be on all wikis from 2 February (calendar).

Future changes

Wikis that use localized numbering schemes for references need to add new CSS. This will help to show citation numbers the same way in all reading and editing modes. If your wiki would prefer to do it yourselves, please see the details and example CSS to copy from, and also add your wiki to the list. Otherwise, the developers will directly help out starting the week of February 5.

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Nomination of 58 Cirencester town service for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article 58 Cirencester town service is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/58 Cirencester town service until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Pkbwcgs (talk) 22:36, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

You're just logging on now to nominate articles I wrote for deletion. Charming. How is this improving the wiki? Garuda3 (talk) 22:53, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
31	Allied Carpets (talk)	Add sources
2,112	New Orleans Saints (talk)	Add sources
9	Styal line (talk)	Add sources
29	Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway (talk)	Add sources
13	Buses in Bristol (talk)	Add sources
5	Chengdu–Lanzhou railway (talk)	Add sources
28	Wigan Wallgate railway station (talk)	Cleanup
10	St Philip's Marsh depot (talk)	Cleanup
31	Beijing–Tianjin intercity railway (talk)	Cleanup
25	Bristol–Exeter line (talk)	Expand
12	Parson Street railway station (talk)	Expand
2,949	David de Gea (talk)	Expand
1,302	Rapid transit (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
73	Internet video (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
137	Bachelor pad (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,217	X Games (talk)	Merge
32	British Rail Class 307 (talk)	Merge
86	Hitachi Rail STS (talk)	Merge
15	Severn Beach line (talk)	Wikify
9	Shijiazhuang–Wuhan high-speed railway (talk)	Wikify
19	Scania N series (talk)	Wikify
1	Belize National Youth Chess Foundation (talk)	Orphan
4	Alma Carrie Cummings (talk)	Orphan
10	Blue Force Gear (talk)	Orphan
2	Liangwu railway station (talk)	Stub
8	Line 1 (Nanhai Tram) (talk)	Stub
52	Queen Elizabeth High School, Hexham (talk)	Stub
18	Beijing Fengtai railway station (talk)	Stub
7	Burnage railway station (talk)	Stub
61	Alison Brittain (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2023-06

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Recent changes

In the Vector 2022 skin, logged-out users using the full-width toggle will be able to see the setting of their choice even after refreshing pages or opening new ones. This only applies to wikis where Vector 2022 is the default. [13]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (calendar).
Previously, we announced when some wikis would be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. These switches will not be announced any more, as the read-only time has become non-significant. Switches will continue to happen at 7AM UTC on Tuesdays and Thursdays. [14]
Across all the wikis, in the Vector 2022 skin, logged-in users will see the page-related links such as "What links here" in a new side menu. It will be displayed on the other side of the screen. This change had previously been made on Czech, English, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. [15]
Community Wishlist Survey 2023 will stop receiving new proposals on Monday, 6 February 2023, at 18:00 UTC. Proposers should complete any edits by then, to give time for translations and review. Voting will begin on Friday, 10 February.

Future changes

Gadgets and user scripts will be changing to load on desktop and mobile sites. Previously they would only load on the desktop site. It is recommended that wiki administrators audit the gadget definitions prior to this change, and add skins=… for any gadgets which should not load on mobile. More details are available.

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Tech News: 2023-07

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

Problems

On wikis where patrolled edits are enabled, changes made to the mentor list by autopatrolled mentors are not correctly marked as patrolled. It will be fixed later this week. [16]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar).
The Reply tool and other parts of DiscussionTools will be deployed for all editors using the mobile site. You can read more about this decision. [17]

Future changes

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [18][19][20]

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