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Tech News: 2021-27
 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 19 July.

Recent changes
 * AutoWikiBrowser is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON.  has moved to   and  .   has moved to  . The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes.

Problems
 * InternetArchiveBot helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from  to.

Changes later this week
 * The tool to find, add and remove templates will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year.
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful.

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17:31, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Anaëlle Wiard
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Sky Brown Birthday
Hello, I work for the Talent Agency that manages Sky Brown. The correction to her birth date needs to be edited by tomorrow, as her birthday is tomorrow, July 7th. Her birthday is not July 12th. Please see this source from our Talent Information Board: https://onesheets.creatoriq.com/Sky_Brown. Please let me know if you have any other questions. This needs to be updated as soon as possible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lean1015 (talk • contribs) 22:57, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I have started a discussion at WP:BLPN to try and resolve this issue. Many newspaper articles give her birth date as 12 July 2008, which is why we are doing so currently. Joseph2302 (talk) 23:18, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Although Wikipedia has no deadline, so "it must be edited by tomorrow" is unlikely to occur. Joseph2302 (talk) 23:19, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
 * The outcome of that discussion was not to include any birth date, for privacy reasons, especially as she is a minor. Joseph2302 (talk) 10:55, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

Articles for Creation July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive
 Hello :

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

The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running until 31 July 2021.

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

There is currently a backlog of over articles, so start reviewing articles. We're looking forward to your help!

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject Articles for Creation at 21:54, 7 July 2021 (UTC). If you do not wish to recieve future notification, please remove your name from the mailing list.

July 2021
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your edits to Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/204, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history, as well as helping prevent edit conflicts. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the article will look like without actually saving it.

It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. WP:CIR Joseph</b><b style="color:#000000">2302</b> (talk) 10:56, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Overlinking
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In your recent edit to 2021 British Athletics Championships, you added links to an article which did not add content or meaning, or repeated the same link several times throughout the article. Please see Wikipedia's guideline on links to avoid overlinking. Thank you. <b style="color:#0033ab">Joseph</b><b style="color:#000000">2302</b> (talk) 09:16, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

DYK for 2021 British Athletics Championships
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

Interested in talking to the media?
Kia ora Joseph, greetings to Sussex the contemporary New Zealand way! Good working with you on the Olympics DYK initiative. A year ago or so, we had a big RfC on the use of macrons in New Zealand English (warning – only read it if you have half an hour to spare) and it got a bit of media attention. I was thinking that I should perhaps send out a press release about the New Zealand rowers that are going to feature on Wikipedia's homepage. It's always good if journalists have someone to talk to (or exchange emails with) and it might intrigue them if one of the contacts is from the other side of the world. Would you be interested in being part of approaching the media? I would write the words in Google Docs (you would be most welcome to contribute), I'd send it out, and would then avail ourselves to any questions anybody might have. You could provide a real name plus email address, or we could use your user name plus the WP "email this user" link. My experience is that most journos would just work with the content of the press release and not make contact. What do you think?  Schwede 66  21:41, 18 July 2021 (UTC)


 * I can do, though you did most of the work for it. Great that we got 30 free photos too. Please send me an email on what I need to do. <b style="color:#0033ab">Joseph</b><b style="color:#000000">2302</b> (talk) 17:07, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-29
<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/> 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 tool to find, add and remove templates was updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It was supposed to come to the first wikis on 7 July. It was delayed to 12 July instead. It will come to more wikis later this year.
 * Special:UnconnectedPages lists pages that are not connected to Wikidata. This helps you find pages that can be connected to Wikidata items. Some pages should not be connected to Wikidata. You can use the magic word  on pages that should not be listed on the special page.

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 How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will soon change. This can affect bots, gadgets, user scripts and extensions. You can read more. You can test it on Testwiki or Testwiki 2.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more.

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15:30, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks . I was aiming to try and create 100 articles this year, but pandemic + Olympics means it'll probably be higher than that. <b style="color:#0033ab">Joseph</b><b style="color:#000000">2302</b> (talk) 15:53, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Lisa Barbelin
— Maile (talk) 00:03, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

August Editathons from Women in Red
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:26, 23 July 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging

DYK for Hélène Defrance
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Josh de Caires
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:03, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 July 2021
<div class="hlist" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:11, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Steven Weinberg RD
good morning, there are now RSes for his passing. Thanks Bumbubookworm (talk) 23:19, 25 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for sorting, looks like it's already been posted (otherwise I would have gone and changed to support). <b style="color:#0033ab">Joseph</b><b style="color:#000000">2302</b> (talk) 09:04, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Michael McIntyre (sailor)
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-30
<section begin="tech-newsletter-content"/> 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
 * A new version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis the week before last week. This was not in Tech News because there was no newsletter that week.

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
 * If you use the Monobook skin you can choose to switch off responsive design on mobile. This will now work for more skins. If  is unticked you need to also untick the new preference  . Otherwise it will stop working. Interface admins can automate this process on your wiki. You can read more.

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21:09, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Mandy Bujold
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

DYK for 1978 Chicago Marathon
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:03, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Mark Stanforth
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:03, 30 July 2021 (UTC)