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Question from Consistentchange33 (17:30, 20 October 2023)
have you been in touch with human hybrids? i need to know my ancestors lineage. pls reply. much love, 11/11 --Consistentchange33 (talk) 17:30, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Consistentchange33, the reference desk can help with questions about biology :) — Frostly (talk) 21:39, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Question from RI-spaceman (11:53, 21 October 2023)
Hello and thanks for mentoring. I am joining primarily to correct an error on my Wiki page. They have me as dead; died on October 13, 2023. I am not dead, and the error is sweeping through the social networks and causing problems and concern. Obviously, no one verified the "fact" that I am deceased, because I am not. What can I do to make the correction faster than waiting a few weeks? --RI-spaceman (talk) 11:53, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
 * @RI-spaceman, welcome to Wikipedia! Could you please link to the article in question? Thanks, Frostly (talk) 19:37, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Frostly
 * don’t know how to link RI-spaceman (talk) 19:46, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
 * @RI-spaceman how about the page title? Frostly (talk) 19:46, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
 * If you Google Sherwood spring, the wiki page that comes up has me dead as of Oct 13 this year RI-spaceman (talk) 19:52, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I just looked again. Apparently I am now still alive.
 * thanks to whoever did that for me RI-spaceman (talk) 19:55, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
 * RI-spaceman, I've warned the user that made the unreferenced edit. Best, — Frostly (talk) 19:57, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

Question from Care3much (00:56, 22 October 2023)
Is it possible that I could make an article about a person that I know? They have contributed extraordinarily to the internet. --Care3much (talk) 00:56, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Care3much, we welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with people you write about, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline for more information. We ask that you: avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, etc.propose articles through the requested articles processdisclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see )do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. — Frostly (talk) 01:28, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 October 2023
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Tech News: 2023-43
 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
 * There is a new Language and internationalization newsletter, written quarterly. It contains updates on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects, and related support work.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Source map support has been enabled on all wikis. When you open the debugger in your browser's developer tools, you should be able to see the unminified JavaScript source code.

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Question from Ekramul ansari (09:18, 24 October 2023)
mujhe you tube ke liye content chahiye --Ekramul ansari (talk) 09:18, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Ekramul ansari, advertising and promotion is prohibited on Wikipedia.<span id="Frostly:1698160374349:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 15:12, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Question from 2322.(Wiki) on REST (10:52, 25 October 2023)
Why the recaptcha my google nest accont password manage .yes.No.plz my problam solve --2322.(Wiki) (talk) 10:52, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
 * 2322., please contact Google for support with their products.<span id="Frostly:1698246865676:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 15:14, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red - November 2023
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Tech News: 2023-44
<section begin="technews-2023-W44"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The Structured Content team, as part of its project of improving UploadWizard on Commons, made some UX improvements to the upload step of choosing own vs not own work (T347590), as well as to the licensing step for own work (T347756).
 * The Design Systems team has released version 1.0.0 of Codex, the new design system for Wikimedia. See the full announcement about the release of Codex 1.0.0.

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).
 * Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 2 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for many languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more.
 * Starting November 1, the impact module (Special:Impact) will be upgraded by the Growth team. The new impact module shows newcomers more data regarding their impact on the wiki. It was tested by a few wikis during the last few months.

Future changes
 * There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. You can help by reviewing this proposal and sharing what you think about it.
 * The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:19, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

November Articles for creation backlog drive
<div style="border: 2px solid #484898; background: #FFF; background-color:#98FB98; padding: 1ex 1ex 1ex 1.5ex; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em; font-size: 99%"> Hello Frostly:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!

The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Question from Resolutionstogether (19:22, 1 November 2023)
Hi there - What information should go on a userpage? --Resolutionstogether (talk) 19:22, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Resolutionstogether, this page has some helpful info! Best,<span id="Frostly:1698967181711:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 23:19, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Iforishwar (12:06, 2 November 2023)
May I create my page too ? --Iforishwar (talk) 12:06, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Iforishwar, of course! See this page for some helpful advice. Cheers,<span id="Frostly:1698967209857:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 23:20, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from I love Aloha (13:42, 2 November 2023)
Hi, im new to wikipedia. I heard from my friend, that there are sometimes fake stuff propagated in wikipedia. He edits wikipedia too, but frequently gets his edits reverted even though he tries to correct the wikipage. Is this true? --I love Aloha (talk) 13:42, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I love Aloha, welcome to Wikipedia! Edits can be reverted for a variety of reasons, such as not abiding by Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you have a concern regarding a specific edit, feel free to link it here!<span id="Frostly:1698967273362:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 23:21, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Krikey919 on Jon Francis (16:19, 2 November 2023)
How do I delete this page? --Krikey919 (talk) 16:19, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Krikey919, welcome to Wikipedia! See here for information on how to propose deletion. Note that you need to make an argument supported by policy 😊 Sincerely,<span id="Frostly:1698967386887:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 23:23, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you, and sorry I don't know how this all works. I just now saw the reply button. I am the subject of this, and problems and gossip have just arisen from this. I had someone steal my identity decades ago, and have ALWAYS been extremely cautious/paranoid ever since. Krikey919 (talk) 14:17, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

WikiProject Tree of Life Newsletter Issue 23



 * October 2023&mdash;Issue 023


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Question from Ainsley3139 (16:48, 2 November 2023)
Hi, I want to make a page about myself for fun I have a picture of me to add but I tried to debit myself and got no where... is there any other way to do it? I thought it would be so simple like creating a website... it might be but I'm not seeing the easiness of it --Ainsley3139 (talk) 16:48, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Ainsley3139, Wikipedia isn't a web host; if you're looking to create a website, you can ask for some suggestions of hosting services at the reference desk.<br style="margin-bottom:0.5em"/>If you want to contribute to Wikipedia, though, and would like to write a bit about yourself, you can create a user page: see here for instructions. Warmly,<span id="Frostly:1698967527606:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 23:25, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Zaira rather (10:11, 3 November 2023)
hello how can i create my college page on Wikipedia --Zaira rather (talk) 10:11, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Zaira rather, please see this page for a guide on conflicts of interest and Wikipedia. Regards,<span id="Frostly:1699129463068:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 20:24, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup 2023 November newsletter
The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-


 * BeanieFan11 with 2582 points
 * Thebiguglyalien with 1615 points
 * Epicgenius with 1518 points
 * MyCatIsAChonk with 1012 points
 * BennyOnTheLoose with 974 points
 * AirshipJungleman29 with 673 points
 * Sammi Brie with 520 points
 * Unlimitedlead with 5 points

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the competition, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.


 * Unlimitedlead wins the featured article prize, for 7 FAs in total including 3 in round 2.
 * MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in total.
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski wins the featured topic prize, for a 6-article featured topic in round 4.
 * MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured picture prize, for 6 FPs in total.
 * BeanieFan11 wins the good article prize, for 75 GAs in total, including 61 in the final round.
 * Epicgenius wins the good topic prize, for a 41-article good topic in the final round.
 * LunaEatsTuna wins the GA reviewer prize, for 70 GA reviews in round 1.
 * MyCatIsAChonk wins the FA reviewer prize, for 66 FA reviews in the final round.
 * Epicgenius wins the DYK prize, for 49 did you know articles in total.
 * 🇺🇦 Muboshgu wins the ITN prize, for 46 in the news articles in total.

The WikiCup has run every year since 2007. With the 2023 contest now concluded, I will be standing down as a judge due to real life commitments, so I hope that another editor will take over running the competition. Please get in touch if you are interested. Next year's competition will hopefully begin on 1 January 2024. You are invited to sign up to participate in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors. It only remains to congratulate our worthy winners once again and thank all participants for their involvement! (If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.) Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:51, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 6 November 2023
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Tech News: 2023-45
<section begin="technews-2023-W45"/> 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
 * In the Vector 2022 skin, the default font-size of a number of navigational elements (tagline, tools menu, navigational links, and more) has been increased slightly to match the font size used in page content.

Problems
 * Last week, there was a problem displaying some recent edits on a few wikis, for 1-6 hours. The edits were saved but not immediately shown. This was due to a database problem.

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).
 * The Growth team will reassign newcomers from former mentors to the currently active mentors. They have also changed the notification language to be more user-friendly.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).



Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg 0xDeadbeef
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Tamzin
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Pppery
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ragesoss · TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news
 * The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
 * There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

Arbitration
 * Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
 * , and  have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections.  is the reserve commissioner.
 * Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
 * Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
 * Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
 * Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
 * An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous
 * The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

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The Bugle: Issue 211, November 2023
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This Month in GLAM: October 2023
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Question from Rachelhud on Raymond Russell (boxer) (16:05, 11 November 2023)
There’s an actual picture of Raymond Russell, how can it be added? https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php/Raymond_Russell --Rachelhud (talk) 16:05, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Rachelhud, welcome to Wikipedia! Images on this site, especially those of living people, need to be freely-licensed. See this page for more information!<span id="Frostly:1699728862418:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 18:54, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Wikipedia Arbitration Committee Elections 2023 voter guides


A tag has been placed on Category:Wikipedia Arbitration Committee Elections 2023 voter guides indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 03:13, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-46
<section begin="technews-2023-W46"/> 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
 * Four new wikis have been created:
 * a Wikipedia in Moroccan Amazigh
 * a Wikipedia in Dagaare
 * a Wikipedia in Toba Batak
 * a Wikiquote in Banjar

Problems
 * Last week, users who previously visited Meta-Wiki or Wikimedia Commons and then became logged out on those wikis could not log in again. The problem is now resolved.
 * Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong font size. The problem is now resolved.

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).

Future changes
 * Reference Previews are coming to many wikis as a default feature. They are popups for references, similar to the PagePreviews feature. You can opt out of seeing them. If you are using the gadgets Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews. Deployment is planned for November 22, 2023.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Canary (also known as heartbeat) events will be produced into Wikimedia event streams from December 11. Streams users are advised to filter out these events, by discarding all events where <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . Updates to Pywikibot or wikimedia-streams will discard these events by default.

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Question from Maxine Rivers (02:30, 15 November 2023)
Hey I'm having trouble adding a reference --Maxine Rivers (talk) 02:30, 15 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi there @Maxine Rivers, try Help:Referencing for beginners! If that doesn't work, could you be a bit more specific what the issue you are experiencing?  Just ' i ' yaya  02:33, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Avnerd23 on Air Canada fleet (05:56, 20 November 2023)
Hi, the last 330 with the XM cabins is now in Singapore for retrofit, we will never see the 292 pax version again. Thx --Avnerd23 (talk) 05:56, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Avnerd23, welcome to Wikipedia! If you have any questions about editing, let me know :)<span id="Frostly:1700504145986:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 18:15, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
 * hey @Frostly yeah I had pressed the edit button but it looked a little complicated, or at least, I didn't want to mess anything up. Avnerd23 (talk) 18:18, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 November 2023
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Question from DeepInnBlue5 (19:13, 20 November 2023)
Thank you! --DeepInnBlue5 (talk) 19:13, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
 * DeepInnBlue5, you're welcome! Let me know if you have any questions.<span id="Frostly:1700681162536:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 19:26, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-47
<section begin="technews-2023-W47"/> 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
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
 * 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.
 * The Vector 2022 skin will have some minor visual changes to drop-down menus, column widths, and more. These changes were added to four Wikipedias last week. If no issues are found, these changes will proceed to all wikis this week. These changes will make it possible to add new menus for readability and dark mode. Learn more.

Future changes
 * There is an update on re-enabling the Graph Extension. To speed up the process, Vega 2 will not be supported and only some protocols will be available at launch. You can help by sharing what you think about the plan.

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Question from Khocoholic (14:33, 21 November 2023)
hii how can I get better at editing? --Khocoholic (talk) 14:33, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Khocoholic, I recommend the Wikipedia Adventure! It's a fun introduction :) Sincerely,<span id="Frostly:1700681111310:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 19:25, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Gopikajayakumar (08:22, 22 November 2023)
Hello, Can i know what i am lagging for getting move option access --Gopikajayakumar (talk) 08:23, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Gopikajayakumar, welcome to Wikipedia! I see that you've figured out how to move pages :) Users need to be autoconfirmed to do so. Best,<span id="Frostly:1700681061227:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 19:24, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Feedback request: Wikipedia policies and guidelines request for comment
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Question from Vcxzzubair (17:48, 24 November 2023)
apknation.net plzz my wpsite --Vcxzzubair (talk) 17:48, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Vcxzzubair, I'm not sure that I fully understand your question. Could you please try rephrasing it? Thanks!<span id="Frostly:1700852212860:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 18:56, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Gopikajayakumar (11:35, 25 November 2023)
Hi I am running a vending machine business i am South India's First Vending Machine company. I want to make an Wikipedia regarding my company and make people know and aware about what is vending machine. But i try moving but article getting deleted continuously. help me know the reason and solution --Gopikajayakumar (talk) 11:35, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Gopikajayakumar, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted.<span id="Frostly:1700977919711:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 05:51, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Stamba Mamba (22:30, 25 November 2023)
yo i made an translation but it got put in the incubator, now i made a better one i hope to get freed from the incubator! --Stamba Mamba (talk) 22:30, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 59
<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes

Issue 59, September – October 2023 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: 1.2em">
 * Spotlight: Introducing a repository of anti-disinformation projects
 * Tech tip: Library access methods

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Women in Red December 2023
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Tech News: 2023-48
<section begin="technews-2023-W48"/> 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
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 * Octicons-tools.svg MediaWiki's JavaScript system will now allow <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> / syntax in gadgets and user scripts. Gadget authors should remember that users' browsers may not support it, so it should be used appropriately.
 * The deployment of "Add a link" announced last week was postponed. It will resume this week.

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Question from Cfaso2000 (08:49, 28 November 2023)
Hello, How do I create the box by the right of wikipedia articles where peoples biographical information like spouses, offices occupied, preceded by, children etc information are placed.?? --Cfaso2000 (talk) 08:49, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Cfaso2000, welcome to Wikipedia! You're referring to an infobox; see that page for more information. Best,<span id="Frostly:1701190046030:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 16:47, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Film pod (09:48, 28 November 2023)
Hi this may seem like a strange question, but i have held off on this , im an actor with 30 titles to my name but when people search my name they get a baseball player , I have absolutely no idea how to just make a small page for myself --Film pod (talk) 09:48, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Film pod, editing about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors is not allowed. Thank you,<span id="Frostly:1701189958194:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 16:45, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from AliceInWikiland 7c7 (12:21, 29 November 2023)
Hello!

I have a question regarding the content I added to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Outlander_episodes

If you look at the 'Short summary' entries for the earlier seasons (not by me), they are not all that short, and contain multiple spoilers. For my entries in Season 7, I've opted for a briefer and (in general) spoiler-free summary.

Obviously spoilers abound on articles dedicated to specific episodes, and even short summaries which do not spoil the episode they summarise may nonetheless spoil earlier episodes (I did this for my summary of S07E03, for example). But does Wiki have a specific policy on this, or is this just a matter of taste?

Best, AliceInWikiland 7c7 --AliceInWikiland 7c7 (talk) 12:21, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
 * AliceInWikiland 7c7, welcome to Wikipedia! Spoilers are allowed on Wikipedia; see this page for more info. Best,<span id="Frostly:1701286318215:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 19:31, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

WikiProject Tree of Life Newsletter Issue 24



 * November 2023&mdash;Issue 024


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Growth team newsletter #29
Welcome to the twenty-ninth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations

Community Conversations
The Growth team will host its first community conversation Monday, 4 December (19:00 - 20:30 UTC). The topic for this meeting will be Mentorship.

This first meeting language will be English, but we plan to host conversations in other languages, and about other topics. Please visit the conversation page on-wiki for the details on how to join. You can also watch the page, or suggest ideas for upcoming conversations there.

Impact Module
At the beginning of November 2023, the Growth team deployed the New Impact Module to all Wikipedias. We recently released a follow up improvement to how edit data was displayed based on editor feedback. 

Add a Link
We released “add a link” to 35 more Wikipedias. 

We have a few Wikipedias remaining:
 * German and English Wikipedia will be contacted at the beginning of January 2024.
 * There are a few small wikis that will not receive the task until they have enough articles for the algorithm to work properly.

Community Configuration

 * We shared Community Configuration 2.0 plans with technical stakeholders. 🖂
 * Initial Community Configuration design ideas have been shared and discussed with community members.
 * A basic Community Configuration 2.0 demo is released on ToolForge.
 * Developers can find some initial proof of concept code shared on gitlab.

Mentorship
When a mentor marked themselves as "Away", they were not getting their name assigned to new accounts when they returned. This has been fixed. 

We improved the message received by newcomers when their mentor quits, to reduce confusion. 

We worked on ensuring that all mentees are assigned to an active mentor. This required reassigning mentees with no mentors to a new mentor. We paused this as the clean-up script confused some editors. We will resume it when the identified blockers are resolved. 

It is now possible to create an Abuse Filter to prevent one user from signing up as a mentor. 

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Question from MediaDua (16:15, 2 December 2023)
hi there. Can you provide me with the best steps to take as a new contributor to build up confidence on Wikipedia/ --MediaDua (talk) 16:15, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * MediaDua, welcome to Wikipedia! I recommend trying out the Wikipedia Adventure. Best,<span id="Frostly:1701648461420:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 00:07, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2023-49
<section begin="technews-2023-W49"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The spacing between paragraphs on Vector 2022 has been changed from 7px to 14px to match the size of the text. This will make it easier to distinguish paragraphs from sentences.
 * The "" feature in VisualEditor is working again. You no longer need to switch to source editing to edit <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> keywords.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
 * On 6 December, people who have the enabled the preference for "" will notice the talk page usability improvements appear on pages that include the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> magic word. If you notice any issues, please share them with the team on Phabricator.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Toolforge Grid Engine shutdown process will start on December 14. Maintainers of tools that still use this old system should plan to migrate to Kubernetes, or tell the team your plans on Phabricator in the task about your tool, before that date.
 * Communities using Structured Discussions are being contacted regarding the upcoming deprecation of Structured Discussions. You can read more about this project, and share your comments, on the project's page.

Events
 * Registration & Scholarship applications are now open for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 that will take place from 3–5 May in Tallinn, Estonia. Scholarship applications are open until 5 January 2024.

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Question from Bonbonzilla (04:03, 6 December 2023)
Hello there Frostly! I wanted to thank you for volunteering to become a mentor, and also to ask you a question.

On the page for Body Image, I decided to cut out most of the 'History' section because I felt it wasn't relevant to the actual section and the article. Can you please review my edit and tell me if it was called for? Thank you for your time, and for listening! --Bonbonzilla (talk) 04:03, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Bonbonzilla, welcome to Wikipedia! I would personally include the information inside the article, as I think that it might be relevant as context. Some of the information regarding beauty standards could be connected to body image as well. I would ask the folks at WikiProject Psychology if you'd like a third opinion! Sincerely,<span id="Frostly:1701843759677:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 06:22, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Jaafar Jackson has been accepted
<div style="border:solid 1px #57DB1E; background:#E6FFE6; padding: 0.5em 1em; color: #000; margin: 1.5em; width: 90%;"> Jaafar Jackson, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the  [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk/New_question&withJS=MediaWiki:AFCHD-wizard.js&page=Jaafar_Jackson help desk] . Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider.

Thanks again, and happy editing! Frostly (talk) 05:42, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Fredriksommerseth (10:15, 8 December 2023)
how do i make an article? --Fredriksommerseth (talk) 10:15, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Fredriksommerseth, I recommend the Article Wizard! Best,<span id="Frostly:1702064475894:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 19:41, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Ganesha811 · JPxG
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ajpolino · Lourdes · Mairi · RockMFR · Somno · WilyD
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Beeblebrox · Opabinia regalis

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Beeblebrox · Opabinia regalis

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.

Arbitration
 * Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
 * The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
 * Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

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Question from Bhrigu Kumar patgiri (17:31, 8 December 2023)
Assignment --Bhrigu Kumar patgiri (talk) 17:31, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Bhrigu Kumar patgiri, I'm not sure I understand your question. Could you please try rephrasing it? Thanks!<span id="Frostly:1702064448406:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 19:40, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 212, December 2023
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 00:00, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors December 2023 Newsletter
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This Month in GLAM: November 2023
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Question from Handscobe (16:49, 11 December 2023)
Handscobe --Handscobe (talk) 16:49, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Handscobe, I'm not sure I understand your question. Could you please try rephrasing it? Thanks!<span id="Frostly:1702318803495:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 18:20, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-50
<section begin="technews-2023-W50"/> 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
 * On Wikimedia Commons, there are some minor user-interface improvements for the "choosing own vs not own work" step in the UploadWizard. This is part of the Structured Content team's project of improving UploadWizard on Commons.

Problems
 * There was a problem showing the Newcomer homepage feature with the "impact module" and their page-view graphs, for a few days in early December. 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).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The 2023 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 5 January 2024, and has an associated privacy statement.

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Tech News: 2023-51
<section begin="technews-2023-W51"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News
 * The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2024 because of the holidays.

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). There is no new MediaWiki version next week.
 * Starting December 18, it won't be possible to activate Structured Discussions on a user's own talk page using the Beta feature. The Beta feature option remains available for users who want to deactivate Structured Discussions. This is part of Structured Discussions' deprecation work.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There will be full support for redirects in the Module namespace. The "Move Page" feature will leave an appropriate redirect behind, and such redirects will be appropriately recognized by the software (e.g. hidden from ). There will also be support for manual redirects.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The MediaWiki JavaScript documentation is moving to a new format. During the move, you can read the old docs using version 1.41. Feedback about the new site is welcome on the project talk page.
 * The Wishathon is a new initiative that encourages collaboration across the Wikimedia community to develop solutions for wishes collected through the Community Wishlist Survey. The first community Wishathon will take place from 15–17 March. If you are interested in a project proposal as a user, developer, designer, or product lead, you can register for the event and read more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:16, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

New pages patrol January 2024 Backlog drive
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Question from Hansserd (18:55, 21 December 2023)
Hi frostly, I’m Hansserd --Hansserd (talk) 18:55, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I’m wondering how to get to sandbox mode Hansserd (talk) 18:56, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Hansserd, welcome to Wikipedia! This link will take you to the Sandbox. Cheers,<span id="Frostly:1703265847647:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 17:24, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

About vandalism on a page
How to report users who are vandalizing pages KRFAAR (talk) 10:11, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
 * KRFAAR, please see this guide for more information! Best,<span id="Frostly:1703265996080:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 17:26, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Bigeditingideas (03:54, 23 December 2023)
Hello.

I am mainly working on correcting musicians pages. Is there any I can fix along with their errors? --Bigeditingideas (talk) 03:54, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Bigeditingideas, this page lists ways to contribute!<span id="Frostly:1703463809361:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 00:23, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

A solstice greeting
<div style="border:2px solid gold; box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.35); background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #FCFCFC 0%,#F5F5F5 100%); text-align:center; padding:24px; border-radius:7px; width:75%; line-height:2em;"> ❄️Happy holidays!❄️

Hi Frostly! I'd like to wish you a splendid solstice season as we wrap up the year. Here is an artwork, made individually for you, to celebrate. Love the snowflake userpage! Take care, and thanks for all you do to make Wikipedia better!Cheers, &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb }&#125;  talk

&#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 06:38, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Happy holidays to you too, Sdkb! The image looks so magical :)<span id="Frostly:1703464530746:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 00:35, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 December 2023
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Happy holidays!
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#FF4646; background-color:#F6F0F7; 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">Happy Holidays text.png Hello Frostly: Enjoy the holiday season&#32;and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers,  Just ' i ' yaya  15:29, 25 December 2023 (UTC) Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

Question from Prophecion (11:46, 27 December 2023)
Hello! I've just discovered a single sentence in an article that makes an unsourced claim that a certain phrase appears in a specific text, but by my own investigation, I don't think this phrase appears in that text at all. I'm wondering if I should mark the sentence in question with a "Disputed Inline", or if it's specious enough to remove outright (though it seems it's been there long enough that rules recommend against sudden deletion). It's unsourced and I also believe it to be incorrect, so I'd love to know what your thoughts are on the specific steps I should take. --Prophecion (talk) 11:46, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Prophecion, welcome to Wikipedia! It'd be very helpful to have a link to the article, as context may help determine the correct action. In general, if the claim is regarding a living person (or recently deceased one), I would remove it immediately. You can also delete the text if it's clearly inaccurate or contradicted by other reliable sources, but otherwise, you can choose to tag it with disputed inline, and leave a message with your rationale on the article's talk page. Hope that helps!<span id="Frostly:1703905445277:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 03:04, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Purehoney12 (01:00, 29 December 2023)
How can I create collapsed sections --Purehoney12 (talk) 01:00, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Purehoney12, see collapse! Note that it usually shouldn't be used in articles, though.<span id="Frostly:1705967218634:User_talkFTTCLNFrostly" class="FTTCmt"> — Frostly (talk) 23:46, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 23
<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"> New year, new scripts. Welcome to the 23rd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering around 39% of our favorite new and updated user scripts since. That’s right, we haven’t published in two years! Can you believe it? Did you miss us?

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Cscr-featured.svg Featured script

 * RefRenamer by Nardog is this issue's featured script. For whatever reason, the foundation will only give us better reference names in VisualEditor if we wish for it in the next survey. Nardog to the rescue! This script has a ton of options to satisfy almost anyone who wishes to use better refnames than ":0" and ":418".

Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Updated scripts

 * Nardog: MoveHistory can now look up the move history of any page from anywhere on the site.
 * User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink now has a version that copies the Special:Diff link with square brackets.
 * User:GhostInTheMachine/WatchlistTidy now moves the Active Filters panel to the right so that the Show/Hide button doesn't constantly jump.
 * User:Alexander Davronov/HistoryHelper has now become stable with some bugfixes and features such as automatically highlighting potentially uncivil edit summaries and automatically pinging all the users selected.
 * AutoEd/unicodehex.js will no longer replace legacy MediaWiki dot-entities (dot followed by two uppercase alphanumeric characters) in article links, which caused several links to become broken.



Ambox important.svg Improve a script

 * Many of our favorite scripts such as User:Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, User:Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts and User:Bradv/Scripts/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
 * User:Elominius/gadget/media timer works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
 * To a lesser extent, the same goes for User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
 * We want...
 * ...a mark-as-read button for Watchlyst Greybar Unsin
 * ...a tool to automatically fix CAT:BROKENREFs, preferably a fork/addition to User:TheJJJunk/ARA
 * ...a fix/fork of User:DannyS712/SectionRemover.js to make it work

1009Clock.jpg Requested scripts

 * A WP:3O requesting and responding tool, similar to Terasil's classic edit request tool
 * A "bytes removed"/"added" filter on the user contribs page
 * A review tool for WP:proposed deletions
 * Mass patrol new pages by a user for use in WP:RFP/A
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests

Gnome-colors-list-add.svg New scripts

 * Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin is a rewrite of Ais's Watchlist Notifier with modern APIs and several new features such as not displaying watchlist items marked as seen (hence the name), not bolding diffs of unseen watchlist elements which doesn’t work properly anyways, displaying the rendered edit summary, proper display of log and creation actions and more links.
 * Alexis Jazz: Factotum is a spiritual successor to reply-link with a host of extra features like section adding, link rewriting, regular expressions and more.
 * User:Aveaoz/AutoMobileRedirect: This script will automatically redirect MobileFrontend (en.m.wikipedia) to normal Wikipedia. Unlike existing scripts, this one will actually check if your browser is mobile or not through its secret agent string, so you can stay logged in on mobile! Hooray screen estate!
 * Chlod:
 * Deputy is a first-of-its-kind copyright cleanup toolkit. It overrides the interface for Contributor copyright investigations for easy case processing. It also includes the functionality of the following (also new) scripts:
 * Attribution Notice Template Editor (ANTE) graphically modifies content attribution notices. It is the successor to User:Chlod/Scripts/CopiedTemplateEditor and supports more templates than copied ones.
 * Infringement Assistant allows a user to hide sections of a page for suspected copyright violations and report the page to the appropriate Copyright problems noticeboard.
 * User:Elominius/gadget/diff arrow keys allows navigation between diffs with the arrow keys. It also has a version that requires holding Ctrl with the arrow key.
 * Enterprisey
 * diff-permalink-2 allows quickly copying wikilinks to diff and permalink pages from those pages, a variation of existing script User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink
 * archiver is a fork of Σ's Archiver with several bugfixes.
 * /parent-cats highlights categories that are a subcategory of a category already included in a page's categories.
 * User:Guarapiranga/accessKeysCheatSheet adds an access key shortcut to display all shortcuts based on code provided by Nardog and NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh.
 * User:HungKhanh0106/ProperDisplay loads a bunch of fonts to add correct rendering supports for "esoteric" languages.
 * User:Jeeputer/highlightPiped will make piped links irresistible (or else).
 * User:Jerome Frank Disciple/curlyfixer.js adds an WP:AutoEd function that straightens curly quotes per MOS. That's right! Such a module was only made in the 14th year of AutoEd's existence! Configure away!
 * Frequently link to Wikipedia on your websites yet find generating CC-BY credits to be such a hassle? Say no more! User:Luke10.27/attribute will automatically do it for ya and copy the credit to yer clipboard.
 * User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft, a spiritual successor (i.e. fork) to Evad37's script, with a few bugs solved, and a host of extra features like check-boxes for choosing draftification reasons, multi-contributor notification, and appropriate warnings based on last edit time.
 * Nardog
 * /CopyCodeBlock: one of the most important operations for any scripter and script-user is to copy and paste. This script adds a copy button in the top right of every code block (not to be confused with option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Bot passwords and owner-only OAuth consumers can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages.
 * You can now thank edits made by bots.
 * An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024 has been published. Please read and give your feedback.

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 January 17, it will not be possible to login to Wikimedia wikis from some specific old versions of the Chrome browser (versions 51–66, released between 2016 and 2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, or Safari on Mac OS 10.14, may need to login to each wiki separately.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> module was deprecated and replaced with the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> module last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed.

Future changes
 * Wikimedia Deutschland is working to make reusing references easier. They are looking for people who are interested in participating in individual video calls for user research in January and February.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:11, 16 January 2024 (UTC)