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Can you please review my article Draft:Nanna Prakara please please and move it to article.pleaseShreyashv26 (talk) 17:07, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
 * , ___CAPTAIN MEDUSA  talk   14:36, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

Mam now can you please review my article Draft:Nanna Prakara please please and move it to article.pleaseShreyashv26 (talk) 13:19, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
 * :✅___CAPTAIN MEDUSA talk   09:42, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Can you please review my article Gubbi Mele Brahmastra and Mahira (film) please pleaseShreyashv26 (talk) 12:44, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
 * , ✅ ___CAPTAIN MEDUSA talk   12:12, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Mike Wallace Is Here
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DYK for Trust Exercise (novel)
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DYK for Samragyee RL Shah
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Request on 07:10:01, 7 September 2019 for assistance on AfC submission by Mohamadhadikoochak
Dear Thank you for your comments. Could you please review my article Draft:Hamideh Jahangiri. Please please and move it to article. (Mohamadhadikoochak (talk) 07:26, 7 September 2019 (UTC)).
 * , as another user has reviewed the article. their comments reads " This article still needs independent, reliable sourcing. Currently, I have OR concerns with some of the source usage. See my talk page for more notes". Please fix these notes than it can be in mainspace. also the article includes too many sources. Please remove unreliable sources and keep reliable sources. Thank you. ___CAPTAIN MEDUSA talk   11:52, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Mike Wallace Is Here
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hlw
@CAPTAIN MESUDA needed help182.54.155.4 (talk) 12:09, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, how may I help you? ___CAPTAIN MEDUSA talk   12:11, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

I created Article book in draft and fix all issue and its meet WP:NB at least one criteria  for notability. But no one found to review it.can you review it??182.54.155.4 (talk) 12:15, 8 September 2019 (UTC) review it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Mashrafe_(book) 182.54.155.4 (talk) 12:26, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ ___CAPTAIN MEDUSA talk   12:47, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks and sorry but you change the whole book scenario. I think whatever I added it gave a brief details about the book. And reduced maximum sources to risky, because others admin will request article for deletion because there have now less sources. 182.54.155.4 (talk) 12:52, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I removed the useless information. I did some copyediting to make the article look better. And I've added reliable sources to pass, book criteria. I don't think it will be deleted. Thanks. ___CAPTAIN MEDUSA <em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#000000">talk   12:54, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Verdis
template message Sorry, never mind, fat fingers, my mistake.  Daß &thinsp;  Wölf  14:39, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Aama (film)
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DYK for On Her Shoulders
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Hi, CAPTAIN MEDUSA I found your account in active afc reviewer list, I saw 5-6 accounts but seen that only you are active in editing. If possible review my article which was in draft. Link : Draft

Thank You :) 154.57.3.17 (talk) 05:28, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: this article with same reference & same text was deleted some days ago. Articles for deletion/Mashrafe (song). --আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 03:11, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Draft article is deleted. Let me know if you have further queries. Thanks.___<em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#aa6ef4">CAPTAIN MEDUSA <em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#000000">talk  (We are the champions, my friends)  11:36, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Dirty God
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Restore my draft and review
hlw my Draft:Mashrafe (2017 song) was deleted and deletion log I saw created by banned user and same text. For your info I created this draft first time and I don't know Who created before. And I created first time so please look at the others draft you are talking about which is deleted the difference.I kindly request you to restore my draft. Its unfair to false allegation and without reviewing my draft was deleted. If I was created before this I never message you. So please restore my draft. After reviewing if my draft will decline then, I will request to delete my draft myself. I spent 3 days days on this draft and it was deleted before reviewing I am not feeling good. Can I re-create my draft?? I don't know someone have issue with me that's why removed my draft before reviewing, please help me  154.57.3.17 (talk) 13:21, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Your IP address appears to be same as the original author of the article as stated by RHaworth. Please contact if you believe the article should be restored. I can see you already aporched him with the same text.___<em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#aa6ef4">CAPTAIN MEDUSA  <em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#000000">talk  (We are the champions, my friends)  13:27, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't understand whatever ips you are saying can you tell me clearl, but this draft is my first created I didn’t kmow before anyone created or nor! What should I do now, I'm upset154.57.3.17 (talk) 13:36, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * The deleting admin has said the article created by another editor, is same as your draft article created by you. Both articles include the same references.___<em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#aa6ef4">CAPTAIN MEDUSA <em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#000000">talk  (We are the champions, my friends)  13:40, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * He didn’t reply can you restore my draft? 154.57.3.17 (talk) 18:24, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * As I am not a admin in English Wikipedia, I cannot do that. You can use Requests for undeletion, if you have a valid reason for the undeletion.___<em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#aa6ef4">CAPTAIN MEDUSA <em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#000000">talk  (We are the champions, my friends)  22:49, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Also please do not edit over comments left by other users. Thanks.___<em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#aa6ef4">CAPTAIN MEDUSA <em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#000000">talk  (We are the champions, my friends)  22:53, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi can you review my draft I recreted newly with new text, because someone intentionally report my draft and trying to remove. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Mashrafe_(tribute_song) —Please review soon.


 * are you active?? Please help me 154.57.3.17 (talk) 21:31, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

please see, and notifying .___<em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#aa6ef4">CAPTAIN MEDUSA <em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#000000">talk  (We are the champions, my friends)  21:39, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Ask Dr. Ruth
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My QPQ is done!
My QPQ for my DYK? nomination is now done: Template:Did you know nominations/Unconstitutional constitutional amendment. Thus, please take another look at it whenever you can! Futurist110 (talk) 02:47, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

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 * , Thank you soooooo much!!!. ___<em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#aa6ef4">CAPTAIN MEDUSA <em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#000000">talk  (We are the champions, my friends)  12:12, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
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DYK nomination of Kim Kardashian, Superstar
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Mozella
Hi. I noticed that last month you tagged the Mozella article for the need for more citations. Although I have been an editor for a few years now, I am always open to improving, especially on pages I've done rewrites or edits. My question is this: Are you referring to the charts below? I ask because I reviewed the references on the text and the sources appear to be valid. Please help me with understanding so I can improve the article. EllenZoe (talk) 15:43, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
 * , Hello EllenZoe, the article needs several sources in Touring section. Also Discography, and Songwriting credits section is completely unsourced. ___<em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#aa6ef4">CAPTAIN MEDUSA <em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#000000">talk  (We are the champions, my friends)  20:33, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you . I am going to work on sourcing now. EllenZoe (talk) 18:08, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

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Azerbaijan
Is this all you want, or should I wait for a final roundup of changes on this template? Cabayi (talk) 11:44, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
 * , I will update the sandbox within a few days. I will notify you for a final roundup of changes. Thanks. ___<em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#aa6ef4">CAPTAIN MEDUSA <em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#000000">talk  (We are the champions, my friends)  11:45, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I've marked the request as being on hold 'til you're ready. Cabayi (talk) 11:55, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Wikipedia requested maps in Nottinghamshire


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WikiProject Nottinghamshire
What is the point of Template:WikiProject Nottinghamshire/importance? The importance scale that it defines is no different from the default scale. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 18:37, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
 * at the documentation it said some of importances can be disabled. I don't see why that would be useful.___<em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#aa6ef4">CAPTAIN MEDUSA <em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#000000">talk  (We are the champions, my friends)  12:05, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Indeed, some of the importance ratings can be disabled, but this was not done. Template:WikiProject Nottinghamshire/importance has  none of which has any effect: the first six are the default settings, whilst the seventh does nothing because NA-importance cannot be disabled.
 * Also, a custom rating scale should only be used if the WikiProject itself decides to do so, and I see no relevant discussion at either Template talk:WikiProject Nottinghamshire or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Nottinghamshire. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 14:27, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
 * As I was saying the ratings can be disabled, if desired by the WikiProject members for future. This was not done at the Template:WikiProject Nottinghamshire/importance. If some ratings need to be disabled I will open a discussion at talk page of the WikiProject. Thanks.___<em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#aa6ef4">CAPTAIN MEDUSA <em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#000000">talk  (We are the champions, my friends)  15:44, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
 * What I am saying is that there is no point in setting up an importance scale subpage until there is a need to do so. Custom importance scales are used so rarely that setting up an importance scale subpage on the grounds that one might be needed in future is likely to be a complete waste of time. When I say "rarely", I mean that I know of no more than thirty instances, out of more than 1600 WikiProject banners, which is less than 2%. Of those, most take the five standard ratings (Top, High, Mid, Low, NA) and add one extra, usually Bottom. A few (including Bhutan, Nepal and Nottinghamshire, all of which were set up by yourself) merely specify the five standard ratings and make no variation. There are none that disable any of the five standard ratings; the possibility of a WikiProject doing that in the future is remote. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 23:29, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

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 * Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

Technical news
 * As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

Arbitration
 * The 2019 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place October 4th to 10th.
 * The arbitration case regarding was closed.  While there will be a local RfC focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.

Miscellaneous
 * The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.

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Growth team updates #10
Welcome to the tenth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

General news

 * Growth team features are now fully deployed in Arabic Wikipedia and Basque Wikipedia (along with Czech, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias). If your community is enthusiastic about welcoming newcomers, we encourage you to contact us so that we can verify together if your wiki is eligible. Then, go through the checklist to start the process of configuring the features.
 * We have deployed features that help newcomers find their newcomer homepage. These features were successful, and more than doubled the number of newcomers who find their homepage.  In Czech Wikipedia, 72% of newcomers visit their homepage and in Korean Wikipedia, 49% of newcomers visit their homepage.
 * You can now join the Growth discussion space on the Wikimedia Space. This space has been created during Wikimania, to coordinate initiatives around welcoming newcomers. Please come and say hello!

Growth at Wikimania

 * Several members of the Growth team attended Wikimania in Stockholm. We helped organize a conference track around Community Growth, presented about our team's work, and had many conversations with community members from around the world.
 * Here are the most important links:
 * Notes and learnings from Wikimania
 * Video of Growth team presentation about our work and learnings from the past year
 * Slides from Growth team presentation
 * These are some of our topline notes:
 * Alignment on newcomer retention: It seems like Wikimania attendees generally believe that newcomer retention is an important problem.
 * Connecting offline to online: Enthusiasm for ideas that connect our features better to offline events, such as making homepage mentors correspond to offline mentors.
 * Mentor dashboard: Experienced users requested a dashboard with which they could monitor newcomers who may need help.

Newcomer tasks -- feedback needed!

 * The Growth team's main project right now is newcomer tasks, which will suggest easy edits for newcomers. It will be built as a new module for the newcomer homepage.
 * We hope that this project will help newcomers build their skills before attempting more difficult edits, such as creating new articles or adding images.
 * These are the three main challenges we've been working on:
 * Where to find the tasks? After considering many different sources for tasks, we've decided to start by using maintenance templates, which are applied by editors on most wikis, and including tasks like copy editing, adding links, and adding references.
 * How to match to interests? Research shows that users are more likely to work on articles that are related to their interests.  We are currently prototyping methods to ask newcomers their interests and then find articles that match.
 * How to guide the newcomer? Once a newcomer has selected a recommended article, they will need guidance on how to complete the edit.  We have decided to use the help panel to provide that guidance while the newcomer edits.
 * We are currently engineering on this feature, and we recently published notes from user tests that give mostly positive feedback.
 * You can explore the design for newcomer tasks in these interactive mockups. We hope to hear from you about your thoughts on the project talk page.  Do you think this could be helpful for newcomers?  What are we missing?

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DYK for Ask Dr. Ruth
— Maile (talk) 00:03, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

Precious
You are recipient no. 2292 of Precious, a prize of QAI. Good wishes for your time of grieving; - I smiled when I saw the precious from an anonymous admirer in your archive. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:35, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
 * , Thank you so much. Also, I like to thank you for your work on Wikipedia since 2009. ___<em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#aa6ef4">CAPTAIN MEDUSA <em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#000000">talk  (We are the champions, my friends)  11:28, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

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DYK for Mike Wallace Is Here
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 9
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#606060; background-color:#f8f8f8; border-width:2px; text-align:left; padding:7px; border-radius: 1em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);;" class="plainlinks"> News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (August and September, 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 9th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Enterprisey's links-in-logs


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Tokenzero's infoboxJournal* SD0001's RFUD-helper* Danski454's code edit window size
 * BrandonXLF: FloatHead* ShowRevisionID* EditorFirst
 * Þjarkur: NeverUseMobileVersion* CleanDiffURLs
 * Galobtter's admin highlighter* ZLEA's Dashboard* Cobaltcigs's DisableDragDrop


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg SD0001's archived section finder

Miscellaneous
 * MJL's Archer was used to break a Wikipedia record. See the edit in question & the updated records page for more.

Sorry for falling behind a bit. Please let me know if I missed any new scripts. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 01:55, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Pending requests
 * A script to simplify merging
 * A script to tweak rollback links
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



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Tech News: 2019-41
<section begin="technews-2019-W41"/> 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg The abuse filter function now has a faster parser. This is to shorten the waiting time when you save an edit.

Problems Changes later this week Meetings
 * There is a problem in the visual editor when you copy or delete text with footnotes. It will be fixed soon.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 October. It will be on all wikis from 10 October (calendar).
 * 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 9 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The Community Wishlist Survey has a new format. It will focus on wikis that typically get less support. It will probably go back to the normal format next year. It is not decided exactly how it will work this year. You can leave feedback.
 * The URL of the Wikimedia wiki main pages could be changed. This is because the current URLs cause several problems. For example  would be   instead. You can tell the developers if this would cause problems for your wiki.
 * There is a new technical community newsletter. You can read more about the work of Wikimedia's technical community. Subscribe to get the information in the future.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Outreachy is an internship program for groups who are underrepresented in free and open-source software. There are seven Wikimedia projects about coding, documentation and quality assurance in the next round. Persons who fit the criteria can apply. The last day to apply is 5 November.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2019-W41"/> 15:35, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Proposals regarding AfC & NPP
You are invited to comment at discussion currently taking place at Relationship of Articles for Creation and New Page Reviewer for pre-opinion on the combined functions of Articles for Creation (AfC) and New Page Review (NPR). This mass message invitation is being sent to subscribed members of the work group at the project The future of NPP and AfC. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:11, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

WP India Newsletter
Hi! Good to see this initiative from you. I don't mind contributing in creating/editing these newsletters; if that's ok with you. As starts i feel that instead of bullets lets prose-ify; make paragraphs of what has happened and what is expected to happen in the Project. The news and misc i support keeping in bullets. Btw, how often do you plan to send this? Monthly i suppose. We also need to prepare pages at WikiProject India/Newsletter and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject India/Newsletter. §§<i style="color:#E0115F">Dharmadhyaksha</i>§§ {Talk / Edits} 04:20, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
 * , I plan to send this monthly, and you're welcome to create and edit the newsletter. ___<em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#aa6ef4">CAPTAIN MEDUSA  <em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#000000">talk  (We are the champions, my friends)  08:47, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I dont know if you are aware of this. But something similar was present before as WikiProject India/Outreach. And they have had newsletters too. §§<i style="color:#E0115F">Dharmadhyaksha</i>§§ {Talk / Edits} 08:56, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
 * , I am aware of outreach which is inactive and is retained for historical reference. ___<em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#aa6ef4">CAPTAIN MEDUSA <em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#000000">talk  (We are the champions, my friends)  09:06, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Okay! Lets go ahead then... §§<i style="color:#E0115F">Dharmadhyaksha</i>§§ {Talk / Edits} 09:07, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Captain Medusa:I appreciate your efforts on creating a newsletter. PA TH  SL OP U  14:33, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I've some suggestions. There were a quiz as part of project -WP:PINQ, now it is inactive. This newsletter can be use to reactivate it. It will be better if we can send this to all participants in the project rather than sending to subscribers (some wikiprojects do so) Regards.-- PA TH  SL OP U  15:15, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
 * , we need to get members to join the newsletter. ___<em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#aa6ef4">CAPTAIN MEDUSA <em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#000000">talk  (We are the champions, my friends)  12:19, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Shall we add all members to the news letter subscription list instead of waiting for their self entry. It take much time. That is if a member become a project member (s)he will become the newsletter subscriber automatically. Regards.-- PA TH  SL OP U  13:05, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
 * , as said If a WikiProject wants to include this as part of its communications it seems a bit more acceptable, if Joe Editor makes a list and adds people to it, not so much. A good factor to review is to look at what is the distribution list, how was it made (was it opt-in?), for opt-in's what did people think they were opting-in to. ___<em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#aa6ef4">CAPTAIN MEDUSA  <em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#000000">talk  (We are the champions, my friends)  13:07, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

I've doubt, can we send a mass message to Wikiproject members about the new changes made in Wikiproject and also about the new newsletter? This may help reach out to all members.-- PA TH  SL OP U  13:21, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
 * , I will try to send it tommarow. ___<em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#aa6ef4">CAPTAIN MEDUSA <em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#000000">talk  (We are the champions, my friends)  14:12, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you soo much!___<em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#aa6ef4">CAPTAIN MEDUSA <em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#000000">talk  (We are the champions, my friends)  12:20, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you soo much!___<em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#aa6ef4">CAPTAIN MEDUSA <em style="font-family:grafolitascript;color:#000000">talk  (We are the champions, my friends)  12:20, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-42
<section begin="technews-2019-W42"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now use more advanced editing tools on the mobile web. You can turn them on and off in your preferences in the mobile version.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 October. It will be on all wikis from 17 October (calendar).

Meetings
 * 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 16 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are no longer supported. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They will not get security support. You can't read Wikimedia wikis in Internet Explorer on Windows XP or Windows versions that are older than Windows XP. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them made the wikis less secure for everyone else.
 * In the future section headings might have a share link. This is to make it easier to link to the section. You can read more and discuss.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2019-W42"/> 23:33, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject India/Newsletter
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject India/Newsletter. Please see this page.  PA TH  SL OP U  12:17, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-43
<section begin="technews-2019-W43"/> 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg' prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.]] The API sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as . API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives.

Problems
 * There is a translation tool we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed.
 * The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (calendar).
 * Reference Previews will be a beta feature on all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.

Meetings
 * 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 23 October. See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2019-W43"/> 14:29, 21 October 2019 (UTC)