User talk:Joseph2302/Archives/2020/April

Tech News: 2020-15
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. 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 7 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April (calendar).

Future changes
 * MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user . This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to.

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DYK for Emma Wilson (sailor)
--valereee (talk) 00:02, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

The 100 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal

 * Thank you. Joseph2302 (talk) 08:07, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Maybe you find this interesting
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football --Sb008 (talk) 16:09, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Troy Collings
— Maile (talk) 00:01, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-16
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now use the  search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic.
 * You can see wiki tools in the new Tools Gallery.
 * You can see edits from the Wikimedia Cloud Services in a new dashboard.
 * When you use filters on a history page you sometimes don't see any edits. There is a text explaining this now. Before it was just empty.
 * There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog.

Problems
 * There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 15. It will be on all wikis from April 16 (calendar).

Future changes
 * Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed.
 * The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
 * For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated  tag, as well as the use of the deprecated   parameter, will add tracking categories.

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DYK nomination of Admiral's House, Hampstead
Hello! Your submission of Admiral's House, Hampstead at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 09:41, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Hans Lauda
— Maile (talk) 00:05, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 1861 Tooley Street fire
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 1861 Tooley Street fire you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of No Great Shaker -- No Great Shaker (talk) 14:41, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 1861 Tooley Street fire
The article 1861 Tooley Street fire you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:1861 Tooley Street fire for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of No Great Shaker -- No Great Shaker (talk) 12:21, 20 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the speedy review. Joseph2302 (talk) 15:11, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-17
 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 4 May 2020.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed.  is now  .   is now  .   is now  . This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011.
 * The font in the diffs will change.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar).

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Autopatrolled granted
Hi Joseph2302, I just wanted to let you know that I have [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&page=User%3AJoseph2302 added] the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the autopatrolled right, see Autopatrolled. However, you should consider adding relevant wikiproject talk-page templates, stub-tags and categories to new articles that you create if you aren't already in the habit of doing so, since your articles will no longer be systematically checked by other editors (User:Evad37/rater and User:SD0001/StubSorter.js are useful scripts which can help). Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! ~Swarm~ {sting} 19:30, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Joseph<b style="color:#00FF00">2302</b> (talk) 07:05, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

The 50,000 Destubbing Challenge Summer Focus of the Week
Hi, just to announce that I've filed a £250 grant request for a "Summer Focus of the Week" feature for destubbing articles which will be run from May 1 to the end of July. £20 is planned to be rewarded each week, £10 most articles destubbed for the allocated focus of the week and £10 for the most destubbed for any topic of choice in total, a full £20 if most for the focused area. While it is intended to be more relaxed and open than an official contest, allowing editors to take a break some weeks from staying on focus and editing as they normally do, the winner will be whoever wins the most prize money at the end, so it is likely that some weeks they will need to tackle entries from the regional area allocated. The Summer Focus of the Week is planned to commence on May 1 with a 10 day focus on SouthEast England but will cover many regions of the globe by the end of the scheme. S E England was originally planned as a full blown contest (which you signed up for) but it will now be run as part of this 50,000 Challenge and I will redirect the contest page to the 50,000 Challenge. Please sign up on the The 50,000 Destubbing Challenge page if interested if you haven't already and hope this will be something enjoyable over the next few months!† Encyclopædius


 * Thanks, SE England and London weeks will be most relevant to me, but I may get involved with others. <b style="color:#CCCC00">Joseph</b><b style="color:#00FF00">2302</b> (talk) 14:39, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Silke Bühler-Paschen
Well spotted, apologies, I've self-reverted and restored the original date format. GiantSnowman 11:54, 23 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Only reason I noticed is because I'd run the same scripts a few days ago. <b style="color:#CCCC00">Joseph</b><b style="color:#00FF00">2302</b> (talk) 17:17, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Nelson House, London
— Maile (talk) 12:02, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Rotherhithe Street
— Maile (talk) 12:02, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Lucien Sève
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Alexandre Maspoli
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 29 April 2020 (UTC)