User talk:Joseph2302/Archives/2021/May

DYK for Aurélie Groizeleau
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Camillo Vaz
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 12:02, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-18
 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
 * Twinkle is a gadget on English Wikipedia. It can help with maintenance and patrolling. It can now be used on other wikis. You can get Twinkle on your wiki using the twinkle-starter GitHub repository.

Problems
 * The content translation tool did not work for many articles for a little while. This was because of a bug.
 * Some things will not work for about a minute on 5 May. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This will affect the content translation tool and notifications among other things. This is because of an upgrade to avoid crashes.

Changes later this week
 * Reference Previews will become a default feature on a number of wikis on 5 May. This is later than planned because of some changes. You can use it without using Page Previews if you want to. The earlier plan was to have the preference to use both or none.
 * 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 CSS classes,   and   do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead.

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15:42, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Linn Sömskar
— Maile (talk) 00:01, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 2021 British Athletics Marathon and 20km Walk Trial
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 2021 British Athletics Marathon and 20km Walk Trial 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 MWright96 -- MWright96 (talk) 18:01, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 2021 British Athletics Marathon and 20km Walk Trial
The article 2021 British Athletics Marathon and 20km Walk Trial you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:2021 British Athletics Marathon and 20km Walk Trial for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MWright96 -- MWright96 (talk) 19:21, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Emma Mullin
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Martin Willock
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 12:31, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of 2021 British Athletics Marathon and 20km Walk Trial
The article 2021 British Athletics Marathon and 20km Walk Trial you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:2021 British Athletics Marathon and 20km Walk Trial for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MWright96 -- MWright96 (talk) 18:41, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-19
 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
 * 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
 * You can see what participants plan to work on at the online Wikimedia hackathon 22–23 May.

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15:08, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

closing parenthesis
are you currently aware that the closing parenthesis in your signature is linked to your talk page, while the opening parenthesis is not?i apologize in advance if the effect was deliberate. it doesn't violate any policies that i'm aware of, and i don't have a preference either way, but i only brought it up to be helpful in case it was an error that you were unaware of. dying (talk) 15:04, 11 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I wasn't aware, and have now fixed it. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:38, 11 May 2021 (UTC)


 * no problem. glad i could help.  dying (talk) 20:53, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Sissel Grude
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:03, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Racing Club de Lens Féminin
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-20
 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 toolbar in the Reply tool. It works in the wikitext source mode. You can enable it in your preferences.
 * Wikimedia mailing lists are being moved to Mailman 3. This is a newer version. For the character encoding to work it will change from  to.
 * Octicons-tools.svg An earlier issue of Tech News said that the citoid API would handle dates with a month but no days in a new way. This has been reverted for now. There needs to be more discussion of how it affects different wikis first.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg  will be renamed  . The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles.
 * 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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13:48, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Napolioni Bolaca
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:03, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

Discussion
Hi, I request you to share your thoughts on the discussion about requested move of the pages ICC Test Championship, ICC ODI Championship and ICC T20I Championship. Thank you. Selva15469 (talk) 02:52, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Commented on all of them. In future, you can list them all in one requested move by using the process at WP:Requested moves. Also, as long as it shows up in the cricket alerts here then I'll eventually find it anyway. Joseph2302 (talk) 12:52, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-21
 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 Wikimedia movement has been using IRC on a network called Freenode. There have been changes around who is in control of the network. The Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts have decided to move to the new Libera Chat network instead. This is not a formal decision for the movement to move all channels but most Wikimedia IRC channels will probably leave Freenode. There is a migration guide and ongoing Wikimedia discussions about this.

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).

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17:05, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Eilidh McIntyre
Hello! Your submission of Eilidh McIntyre 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) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! SL93 (talk) 00:20, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

US shootings
Darnit, I missed my chance to weigh in on the deadliest shooting to hit San Jose since last Thursday... At least I got to eat some popcorn while reading the debate on the candidate page though. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 10:26, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Too many mass shootings get nominated at ITNC. But there's always some people who want to argue their importance for the front page. <b style="color:#0033ab">Joseph</b><b style="color:#000000">2302</b> (talk) 10:46, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Margaret Saurin
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 30 May 2021 (UTC)