User talk:Eejit43/Archive 2

File request
@Eejit43 SM City Sorsogon Upload help my request 210.23.189.140 (talk) 13:21, 14 March 2023 (UTC)


 * There is nothing we can do unless you provide proof that the file is correctly licensed to be used on Wikipedia. If you are the original copyright holder, an email can be send to WP:VRT with proof of content ownership. ~ Eejit43 ( talk ) 13:41, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
 * @Eejit43 how copyright declined and Accepted? 210.23.189.140 (talk) 13:51, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I fail to understand what you are asking. ~ Eejit43 ( talk ) 14:17, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

March 2023
Hello. I have noticed that you edit without using an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This helps your fellow editors use their time more productively, rather than spending it unnecessarily scrutinizing and verifying your work. Even a short summary is better than no summary, and summaries are particularly important for large, complex, or potentially controversial edits. To help yourself remember, you may wish to check the "prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" box in your preferences. Thanks! –DMartin 23:28, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I reverted your edit becuase it was unexplained and seemed non-constructive. –DMartin  23:29, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Not to be rude, but how is "Changing short description from "Wikipedia list article" to one that is intentionally blank" an empty edit summary!? It even links to the designated guideline, WP:SDNONE, which describes when short descriptions should be "none". ~ Eejit43 ( talk ) 00:33, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
 * "Wikipedia list article" is a short description that should never be used, and if you do a quick search, you can see it isn't found on any other pages. ~ Eejit43 ( talk ) 00:33, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Draft:SM City Sorsogon Design accepted
@Eejit43 stub Supermalls pls accepted ok 112.209.16.36 (talk) 06:42, 15 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Submission denied. ~ Eejit43 ( talk ) 12:05, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Question regarding Paul, Crown Prince of Greece
Hi, I saw that you reverted my change in that wiki page. It is the first time I try to submit a change and would appreciate some help. I have 2 sources that prove that the title "Crown Prince of Greece" doesnt stand. 1) Constitution of Greece, Article 1 of the Constitution of Greece states that "Greece is a parliamentary republic," while Article 2 specifies that "The form of government is a democratic republic." and 2) "Constitutional Monarchy: An Outdated Form of Government?" by Kevin J. Connolly, which states that "when a monarchy is abolished, the office of Crown Prince ceases to exist". Since those are concrete data that prove that title "Crown Prince of Greece does not exist, how can I add them? Gtx30bp (talk) 21:24, 17 March 2023 (UTC)


 * @Gtx30bp while I'm not familiar with the subject area, such major changes to an article, especially a biography of a living person, needs reliable sources (see this guide to referencing). If the changes could potentially controversial (I'm not saying this necessarily is), they should be discussed on the article's talk page first. Additionally, a few sentences (or more) should probably be added to the article to note such a major change. If you have further questions, feel free to ask them at the Teahouse. Welcome to Wikipedia! ~ Eejit43 ( talk ) 01:53, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

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Can collecting edit
Hi Eejit! Just one word of advice: I saw you edited the page of can collecting which I am working on. I will ask you that when you see the inuse tag, to please refrain from making any edits yourself. I was making an edit at that time and when you put the tag in there, it caused an edit conflict, which in turn caused me to lose all the info I had written and made me have to write it again. That is the reason the inuse tag itself says to please not make any edits yourself while it is there. I'm ok with it because I myself have done things that I later reverted on these pages, but many other editors might find this annoying and maybe even get angry at you next time you do that. Once "inuse" is gone you can and are, of course, welcome to edit the page. Thanks and God bless you! Sincerely yours, Antonio Life is like a pop soda Martin (wassap) 13:28, March 22, 2023 (UTC)
 * @AntonioMartin I did refrain from making edits to content you had written, and simply removed an invalid DEFAULTSORT (I do realize now I also tagged an empty section). If you do encounter an edit conflict, you can scroll down and find the content you had written, it has not disappeared. inuse is generally intended for making general changes to an article's content, not the simple changes I made. I'm sorry I caused you to lose your work. ~ Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 14:43, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Declined Pages - not enough sources
Hi Eejit43 - our page was declined after submission for not having enough sources. I have cited and referenced throughout the page using true and official media coverage. Can you specify how many sources are needed for a page to be accepted and different types of sources required please? Thank you! Z4r4$m1th123 (talk) 16:53, 22 March 2023 (UTC)


 * @Z4r4$m1th123 sorry but I'm not currently in a state to be able to respond to this appropriately. Please ask any questions you have at the Teahouse. ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 17:58, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Steven Harris Ramdev
This was accpeted by on March 4, 2023 and then moved back and forth. Has a "C" rating per User talk:Indiantalentnews123? -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 12:07, 24 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Sounds good to me! ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 12:51, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Vandals: Dmhw, Ylogm
Hi, I noticed that recently User:Dmhw and User:Freeman6000 have vandalized and blanked several pages regarding the Ming dynasty of China. They have been warned numerous times to stop blanking and removing content from pages, yet they continue to do so.

Also, their editing habits appear similar to User:Ylogm who was blocked here:. For example, Ylogm and Dmhw have similar usernames (string of random letters). They also edit similar articles within a close time interval that few other users edit such as, , , , , , , , any many other articles.

These similar editing habits suggest that Ylogm, Dmhw are the same user. After Ylogm was blocked on March 3, 2023, the account Dmhw was created on March 8 to evade the block.

Do you know how Dmhw can be stopped?

Thank you very much. EchoAyatoZhao53 (talk) 01:02, 24 March 2023 (UTC)


 * @EchoAyatoZhao53 thanks for letting me know, I'll reopen the SPI case for the main user! ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 01:06, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I would put both users User:Dmhw and User:Freeman6000 as they both display these similarities in destructive editing behavior to User:Ylogm. EchoAyatoZhao53 (talk) 01:07, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I see that you've already contacted The Blade of the Northern Lights, and Drmies handled it. Thanks! ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 01:09, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Dmhw / Ylogm is back again under the new account User:Victor Huang Ming, blanking contents from the same pages:, ,. Could this account be stopped as well? Thank you. EchoAyatoZhao53 (talk) 04:41, 25 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Seems to already have been handled. In the future, please note I'm not an administrator so I cannot directly handle an issue, I have to contact someone separately. Thanks for noticing this! ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 12:39, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:11, 28 March 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Nabab Nandini (disambiguation)


A tag has been placed on Nabab Nandini (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
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Gemma Collis
Hi Eejit43,

I'm happy to accept I didn't make my edits the right way - I jumped into this after a conversation with Gemma herself, who is no longer married and desperately wants her ex-husband's name removed from the title of the page. I've never edited on wikipedia before. I'll try and find a reference for the separation, but I don't think I have edit permissions for the title of a page without being an admin. Musashi1286 (talk) 16:25, 3 April 2023 (UTC)


 * If you have a reliable source for this, I'd be happy to make that move for you! :)
 * In the future you can also make requests through WP:RM/TR before you gain the autoconfirmed right. ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 16:27, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

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A request on rmtr-helper script
Hi there! Thanks for writing the userscript. It has been helpful. A minor request: when there's no more request left after processing (i.e. Special:Diff/1148206293), indicate in the edit summary as so (i.e. Special:Diff/1148179135). It would be helpful for those who are looking through their Watchlist for new requests to be processed. – robertsky (talk) 18:37, 4 April 2023 (UTC)


 * That is a great idea, I'll add that later today. :) ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 19:06, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
 * @Robertsky done! It will look like "Handled 2 requests: Removed Main Page, Test as completed (no requests remain) (via script)" now. Sorry that took a whole day, I was working on some other things :) ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 01:28, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
 * No worries! I expect delays anyway, as part and parcel of software development. :3 Thanks for working on this. :) Cheers! – robertsky (talk) 02:17, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

rmtr-helper bug
Hi, there seems to be bugs with the script when I tried to clear some entries:

Revision occured: Special:Permalink/1148654544 – robertsky (talk) 15:35, 7 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you, I will quickly patch that! ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 15:52, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

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I tagged The Last Kingdom talk: Seven Kings Must Die for deletion
Seemed like a mistake while you were testing your script. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 05:11, 15 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Hrm not sure why that happened, that must be an issue with the original AFCRHS script... I'll look into it later! ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 14:37, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Fixed, thanks! ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 18:01, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

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New Page Patrol – May 2023 Backlog Drive
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Dimapur railway station
I think that Dimapur Railway Station should be moved to Dimapur railway station to be consistent with other railway stations in India. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 23:50, 20 April 2023 (UTC)


 * @Eastmain Done, not sure why I made the move in the opposite direction in the first place, you are definitely correct! ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 00:13, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Article edit
Hello, can you review this article, Draft:Agladze Giga Ggrusin (talk) 18:27, 18 March 2023 (UTC)


 * @Ggrusin as I reviewed the draft originally, I'll let another user review it this time. If I get a chance, however, I may look at it in a few days. ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 21:55, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello, when you'll be able to review this article? thank you very much Ggrusin (talk) 11:41, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I've reviewed the article, and denied it. You can see my comments on the page. ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 12:59, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Dear Eejit43, I'm a huge fan of this person, I love what he is doing and it was unexpected for me that I could not find this person on wikipedia, that's why I decide to create his article, I have huge information and it very easy to find out who is this person like musician, songwriter, movie director, producer and script writer and winemaker, he is one of the best artist, I almost have all articles saved as pdf files from another sources, last year Giga Agladze and David Lynch was nominated and was winner of A category film festival, best producer on Septimius awards 2022, last year he dedicated live concert to Ukraine with his live band "Killer Band"  I can send all sources if you wish. He shot a couple of documentaries, short and fiction movies, like: Alan, Iron Curtain, Henry, 48 Days of May and The Other Me which executive producer is David Lynch, also I can show you all sources  and I can add lot of information about his works: commercials, music videos and etc. he is from Georgian and his DOB I took from National Filmography of Georgia's website http://geocinema.ge//en/persons/5563 and from Nation Library of Georgia http://www.nplg.gov.ge/bios/ka/00018322/  One of his best Georgian song "Beautiful day" (ლამაზი დღე) was best song year and the last information that I have, he has the new position from the Georgian government, he is culture ambassador in USA, its very strange that this is not enough info for wikipedia, thank you for your attention  Ggrusin (talk) 22:32, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Now that is information that could be extremely helpful to improve the article. Ensure you add those sources for his DOB, and make additional information to prove notability. After that, please wait for a different AfC reviewer to come along and review the article. Thanks! ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 22:45, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your prompt reply, I already made article correction as you suggested, if you need something more please do not hesitate and let me know Ggrusin (talk) 23:02, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. Feel free to resubmit and wait for another AfC reviewer to take a look eventually. ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 23:07, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello Eejit43, when it will be reviewed? Ggrusin (talk) 19:09, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
 * @Ggrusin when someone gets to it, there is a long backlog. Sorry. ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 19:40, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

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 * Due to security issues with the Graph extension, graphs have been disabled in all Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Foundation teams are working to respond to these vulnerabilities.
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 * Octicons-tools.svg  will be removed from the MediaWiki core. This will affect some user scripts. Many lines with   can be commented out.   can be used to keep things working like they are now. You can read more and read about how to find broken scripts.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:34, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Singular error
On 13 May you changed a section heading of HMS Port Napier from "External link" to "External links", and you described your edit as "Fix improper section titles". Port Napier has only one external link, so the heading was not "improper", and you have not "fixed" it.

This is not the first time you have changed the heading of such a section from singular to plural, when there was only one item in the section. It is not correct grammar. If in future a contributor adds a second item to a section that has only one, that is the time to change the heading from singular to plural. Please trust other contributors to be literate enough to do so.

Thankyou. Motacilla (talk) 06:57, 13 May 2023 (UTC)


 * @Motacilla that is actually incorrect per MOS:LAYOUTEL. It states that "External links" should be plural, even if it lists only a single item. :) ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 15:06, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

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.

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).
 * Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" . This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.

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.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadget and userscript developers should replace <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> library will be removed in ~1 month, and staff developers will run a script to replace any remaining uses at that time.

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Tech News: 2023-21
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Recent changes
 * Octicons-gift.svg 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.

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.
 * 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).

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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.
 * Octicons-gift.svg The page now has "" options to select all the pages within a namespace. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.

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.

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).
 * 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.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:59, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Oestrogen wikipedia page
You told me that "Estrogen" wasn't a spelling mistake, I'm 100% sure it is spelt Oestrogen, as is shown in the dictionary - the page you told me it wasn't spelt wrong was this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrogen 14sirs (talk) 11:31, 30 May 2023 (UTC)


 * @14sirs per MOS:ENGVAR, The English Wikipedia prefers no national variety over others. "Oestrogen" is the British English spelling, whereas "estrogen" is the American English spelling, as seen here and here. Editors should not change between there variations, at least without general consensus, especially seeing as "estrogen" has been the spelling that has existed for the entire page history. ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 11:44, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I didn't realise that Estrogen was the American english version, I thought it was a typo 14sirs (talk) 10:35, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
 * No worries! :) ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 11:53, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

User:Eejit43/scripts/AFCRHS
I've been absent from WP:AFCRC for a while, and I noticed this new script. Great work! If you ever have the time, here's a couple of feature requests:<ul><li>Allow addition of multiple rcats</li><li>Allow adding parameters to rcats (the only rcat I can think of for this is, but I'm sure there are more.</li></ul>Hope everything's going well, and happy editing!<span id="Qwerfjkl:1685828654333:User_talkFTTCLNEejit43" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  21:44, 3 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you! Both of those are now on my todo list, I'll add them when I eventually migrate the script to OOUI! ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 21:46, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

List of Goan Brahmin communities
Hello,

I reverted your AGF revision because of the issue where it is not clear and is not sufficiently detailed which allows for an exception under WP:SDNONE. 05:49, 6 May 2023 (UTC) ThatFungi (talk) 05:49, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
 * @ThatFungi There has been consensus that "none" is the appropriate description in these cases, if you do a quick search you will see that no other pages have that short description. Another edit has already reverted your revert. ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 16:43, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
 * But again, it is an informational page, not a policy. Exceptions can be made and none is to be used if the title is a clear cut case of what it the article is about. I do not know anything about Goan Braham Communities (like where they are located or what they are and what they represent). If you look at WP:SDNONE it gives a clear cut example of one that would use none because the title explains exactly what it is about. ThatFungi (talk) 16:50, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I never stated it was a policy. And to respond to the latter part of your statement, how on earth would "Wikimedia list article" help? It specifically says "List of" in the title. Out of the thousands of list articles on enwiki, all use "none", there isn't a single page using "Wikipedia/Wikimedia list article". That is only used on Wikidata, and they have different reasoning for doing so. I won't debate this further, I'm just saying that this is the longstanding precedent to have "none" in these places (there are event bot accounts that have been approved that go around fixing these). ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 16:57, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I’ll stay away from list articles then and let the bot fix it. Thanks. When you say consensus I take it as it became policy as that is usually what people are voting for. ThatFungi (talk) 17:02, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
 * My bot was approved for this; I only ever ran it once, on around 100,000 articles. I could run it again if there's a need.<span id="Qwerfjkl:1685828373865:User_talkFTTCLNEejit43" class="FTTCmt"> — Qwerfjkl  talk  21:39, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
 * @Qwerfjkl shouldn't be any need, there are currently only 5 pages with that short description by my count, unless I'm missing any... thanks though! ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 21:41, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
 * About 500 from  and   together. Still probably not worth running a bit on though (and I haven't restricted it to list articles).<span id="Qwerfjkl:1685829012982:User_talkFTTCLNEejit43" class="FTTCmt"> —  Qwerfjkl  talk  21:50, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Ah... I was only checking for, I didn't think of the possibility "article" wouldn't be included. Anyway, that short description shouldn't be present on any non-list pages, so I think it would be fine to run, if you want to of course :) ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 21:54, 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.
 * Octicons-gift.svg 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.
 * Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference for "". This has now been fixed.

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.

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).
 * Bots will no longer be prevented from making edits because of URLs that match the spam blacklist.

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

Draft:Agladze Giga
Hello, I'm still waiting for article review Draft:Agladze Giga it has been fourth month when I created this article and I still waiting for review, I understand that you have a lot of jobs but please be kind and lets checkout this draft, thank you in advance Ggrusin (talk) 21:15, 5 June 2023 (UTC)


 * As I have stated numerous times, you will have to wait for another reviewer to step in and review the article. I'm sorry the backlog is so long! ~ <b style="color: #00733f">Eejit43</b> ( talk ) 00:53, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-24
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Recent changes
 * Octicons-gift.svg 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.
 * 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.
 * The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software.
 * 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.

Problems
 * For three days last month, some Wikipedia pages edited with VisualEditor or DiscussionTools had an unintended  (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.
 * Currently, the "" feature in VisualEditor is broken. Existing  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.
 * Octicons-tools.svg 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 <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr" style="white-space: nowrap;"> . See an example fix.

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).
 * 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.

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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MediaWiki message delivery 14:48, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Feedback request: Wikipedia policies and guidelines request for comment
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Tech News: 2023-25
<section begin="technews-2023-W25"/> 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 Flame graphs are now available in WikimediaDebug.

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  . It can help you quickly access most tools in the editor.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:07, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-26
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Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Action API modules and Special:LinkSearch will now add a trailing <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> to all <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> responses for bare domains. This is part of the work to remove duplication in the  database table.

Problems
 * Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours.

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).
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Minerva skin now applies more predefined styles to the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> 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.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets will now load on both desktop and mobile by default. Previously, gadgets loaded only on desktop by default. Changing this default using the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> 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 <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> 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.
 * 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.
 * The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized user interface components.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg 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.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:17, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2023-27
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Recent changes
 * Octicons-gift.svg As part of the rolling out of the audio links that play on click wishlist proposal, small wikis will now be able to use the inline audio player that is implemented by the Phonos extension.
 * Octicons-tools.svg From this week all gadgets automatically load on mobile and desktop sites. If you see any problems with gadgets on your wikis, please adjust the gadget options in your gadget definitions file.

Changes later this week
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MediaWiki message delivery 22:49, 3 July 2023 (UTC)