User talk:Joseph2302/Archives/2021/February

DYK for 1991 Chicago Marathon
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:01, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Joseildo da Silva
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Roy Dooney
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 January 2021
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Tech News: 2021-05
 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
 * IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource.
 * Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like  as well as the   syntax for IP ranges.
 * 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
 * Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be . This will happen on February 8. You can read more.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  22:38, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

"Anna Pavilion End" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Anna Pavilion End. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 February 8 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. DigitalChutney (talk) 15:33, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-06
 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 Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app.

Changes later this week
 * You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis.
 * 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
 * When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones.
 * Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead.

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Tech News: 2021-07
 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 were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned.
 * Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance.

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).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  17:54, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

DYK for 2021 Netball Superleague season
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy
Morning - hope you are well. I've been bold and done the move - it was something I was going to do yesterday, but it slipped my mind. I've started off the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy page as an overview. Feel free to work on that with any improvements. I'm now going to fix all the incoming links. Thanks.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 11:08, 20 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Cheers, I'll try and add some stuff to the new page. Joseph2302 (talk) 11:54, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

Your DYK? nomination: QPQ needed
Hi,

You need a QPQ for your DYK? nomination here, but other than that, it should be good to go:

Template:Did you know nominations/Jasmin Taylor

Best regards,

Futurist110 (talk) 01:40, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Done now, thanks for approving. Joseph2302 (talk) 00:46, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-08
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 visual editor will now use MediaSearch to find images. You can search for images on Commons in the visual editor when you are looking for illustrations. This is to help editors find better images.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The syntax highlighter now works with more languages: Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU.

Problems
 * Editing a timeline might have removed all text from it. This was because of a bug and has been fixed. You might need to edit the timeline again for it to show properly.

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 There is a user group for developers and users interested in working on Wikimedia wikis with the Rust programming language. You can join or tell others who want to make your wiki better in the future.

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00:16, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Infobox updates
If you're going to update the updated dates in infoboxes like this, please actually do a full update of the infobox first. On Tash Farrant (and Nat Sciver, Sophie Devine), you changed the updated date, but hadn't updated the career statistics section. Just changing the update date means that updates to information in the infobox may get missed, as it appears from the update date that they've been done, when they have not. Joseph</b><b style="color:#000000">2302</b> (talk) 09:33, 23 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi Joseph, in the above mentioned pages I updated the date and opponents for last ODI played by the cricketers. Thanks,Vikram Maingi (talk) 09:46, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

February, 2021
Hi, Thanks for your advice on my talk page. — Preceding undated comment added 10:09, 25 February 2021 (UTC)