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Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)
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Tech News: 2018-12
 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 March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg There is no Editing team meeting this week.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days.
 * In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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Tech News: 2018-13
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate.
 * TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details.
 * Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment
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Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018
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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine
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Tech News: 2018-14
 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
 * Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.

Problems
 * MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week.
 * The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg User subpages ending in  will now be protected from other people editing them, like   and   pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like   to do this without concerns.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time.
 * Octicons-tools.svg AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks.
 * In Special:Preferences, the preference "" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist.
 * You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed.
 * You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
 * Octicons-tools.svg On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement.

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Please comment on Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Osmosis RfC
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Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)
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Tech News: 2018-15
 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
 * Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it.
 * You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey last year.
 * The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details.
 * Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left).

Problems
 * The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed.
 * For a week in March rollbacks got both the  and the   tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (calendar).
 * Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The iOS and Android apps will get synced reading lists later in April.

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Please comment on Wikipedia:Wikidata/2018 Infobox RfC
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Tech News: 2018-16
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons ( and  ) will be affected leaving the values unchanged.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The new PDF renderer could not create PDFs from books. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki. PediaPress will take over development of the books-to-PDF function.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Volunteer developers can fill out the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey. The last day is April 22 (UTC). This is a third-party service survey. See the privacy statement.

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Please comment on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Event coordinator proposal
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Thanks a bunch
I'm very delighted you thanked me for my edit. Rock on. UnsungKing123 (talk) 23:37, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. I'm watching them now. Unfortunately Sonia Fowler attracts a lot of vandalism. 5 albert square (talk) 23:43, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Your question
Hello 5 albert square, this was Edit-War and insult, that is not acceptable, therefore, the message. Regards --Serols (talk) 14:42, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, blocked now. --5 albert square (talk) 15:07, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Hollyoaks epsiode
I have a couple of question for you regarding the TV show Hollyoaks and an editor you've encountered before.


 * 1) Is this article --  Episode 4889 -- created yesterday by a brand-new account, well, overkill?
 * 2) The only other article like this was created by, who was blocked nearly two years ago. Does this look like a block-evading sockpuppet to you, based on your experience?


 * --Calton | Talk 16:27, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Another editor and I actually thought the same thing as you a couple of weeks ago, but there wasn't enough evidence to open an SPI case then. - JuneGloom07 Talk  17:23, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I'd say it is overkill. You don't need an article for every episode.


 * I'd say it's also likely that they're a sock. They're editing the same type of articles and performing the same type of edits. Also, Garlicbread95 seems to know a lot for a supposed newbie, such as creating articles in userspace first and how to upload screenshots.


 * On that, I'm going to block as a suspected sock. I'll also record this at SPI but only for reference purposes. Nothing further SPI would be able to do anyway due to age. 5 albert square (talk) 22:52, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Insulted how nobody bothers to ask whether or not I was connected to this apparent user! Just shows autistic people ain’t wanted on Wikipedia. You didn’t even present one iota of evidence. Just two people’s allegations. Shame on you targeting an autistic person! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.132.230.222 (talk) 17:06, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Your autism has nothing to do with it, in fact there's no way any of us could even know you have autism without you saying something. You were blocked because you've socked, insulted and caused disruption to the project and its editors. The behavioural evidence of the editor above spoke for itself, but I guess we could ask a CheckUser to take a look. - JuneGloom07 Talk  17:16, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi IP,


 * Firstly you have not been blocked because you are autistic. You have been blocked because I suspect you are a sockpuppet. Your subsequent IPs have been blocked because you have insulted other editors and caused further disruption to the encyclopedia. As an administrator it is my job to block anyone who disrupts the encyclopedia in any way shape or form.


 * My 9 years experience of editing Wikipedia has taught me this. If I asked you if you were the other editor, you would say you weren't regardless. I did provide evidence of my suspicions here. I didn't request Checkuser evidence, that's because from my experience Checkuser wouldn't be able to do anything in this case. They would make a decision based on behavioural evidence. I can do that, therefore requesting Checkuser evidence would have been a waste of time. The fact that you're making the same type of edits to the same articles has led me to believe that the accounts may be linked.


 * Pinging in and  as they are Checkusers and to see if they would be kind enough to look into this. 5 albert square (talk) 18:44, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
 * If you think the IP is a sock, block them. You don't need a CU, and, besides, I can't really do anything in these circumstances anyway. Nice hearing from you, though.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:16, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Hey nice to hear from you too.  Yes, I didn't think Checkuser would be able to do anything due to the previous account being a couple of years old.  Thanks for responding though.--5 albert square (talk) 20:32, 22 April 2018 (UTC)