User talk:Joseph2302/Archives/2022/February

DYK for Deon Lendore
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:03, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

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Sinhalese names
Hi, how are you doing? I have seen you have edited some Sinhalese name articles. For example, Shanaka. I got the feeling you are unfamiliar with Sinhala naming conventions. So I thought of giving you a brief intro. Before the 16th century, Sinhala personal name had the following order.


 * Family names + Personal names

The family name is called the ge name because they usually end with the suffix ge, Sinhalese possessive suffix. After the Portuguese contact in 1505, the naming convention mixed with European naming conventions.


 * Family names (some used/some did not) + Personal names + European surname (Mostly Portuguese ones, rarely British. Only those who lived in maritime provinces influenced by this) + Sinhalese Surname

Here are some examples.

Hope you find this useful. Regards-- Chanaka L ( talk ) 05:01, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the information, and apologies for being incorrect on the Shanaka dab page. In future, I'll probably leave it to people who know more on the subject (as there's no way I'd be able to tell which of those names is the "surname", if any). Joseph2302 (talk) 09:03, 31 January 2022 (UTC)


 * I can understand that foreigners would find it difficult to identify the surname by contemporary Sinahala naming customs. You don't need to apologise for that. I recently learned that in Korean names, family name precedes given names only after watching the movie, Parasite. We are all more or less, unfamiliar with foreign naming conventions. Cheers.-- Chanaka L ( talk ) 09:40, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

February with Women in Red
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Tech News: 2022-05
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 * Octicons-tools.svg If a gadget should support the new  URL parameter that was announced 3 weeks ago, then it must now also specify  in the gadget definition (documentation).

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 * A change that was announced last year was delayed. It is now ready to move ahead:
 * The user group  will be renamed  . This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in three weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. As usual, these labels can be translated on translatewiki (direct links are available) or by administrators on your wiki.

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 * You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 28 January and 11 February. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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17:41, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-06
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 * English Wikipedia recently set up a gadget for dark mode. You can enable it there, or request help from an interface administrator to set it up on your wiki (instructions and screenshot).
 * Category counts are sometimes wrong. They will now be completely recounted at the beginning of every month.

Problems
 * A code-change last week to fix a bug with Live Preview may have caused problems with some local gadgets and user-scripts. Any code with skin-specific behaviour for  should be updated to also check for  . A code-snippet, global search, and example are available.

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21:14, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Reverted bot
Hi! You reverted my bot here as a cosmetic edit. This is not cosmetic - short descriptions are displayed in several different locations (search results, related articles, Annotated link) and the convention is to capitalise them. &#8213; Qwerfjkl  talk  07:08, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I know but However, the term cosmetic edit is often used to encompass all edits of such little value that the community deems them to not be worth making in bulk, even though those edits might change the output HTML or readable text in subtle ways. I don't see the value in bulk changing the capitalisation on short descriptions, because most readers wouldn't know the difference, so I don't see how this adds any value. <b style="color:#0033ab">Joseph</b><b style="color:#000000">2302</b> (talk) 10:30, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Edits to change articles to conform to MOS, or in this case WP:SDFORMAT, are not cosmetic. This bot was approved in a BRFA. It can be appealed through the appropriate venue. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:54, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
 * What would be the most appropriate venue for discussing this? The Bot approval pages seem as clear as mud to me, not clear where the correct place to discuss would be. <b style="color:#0033ab">Joseph</b><b style="color:#000000">2302</b> (talk) 15:09, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Probably Bots/Noticeboard (or maybe the talk page of the BRFA?). @ProcrastinatingReader who approved this task. &#8213; Qwerfjkl  talk  16:45, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of Trevor Kirczenow for deletion
 Words in the Wind  (talk) 22:22, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-07
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 * Purging a category page with fewer than 5,000 members will now recount it completely. This will allow editors to fix incorrect counts when it is wrong.

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 * 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).
 * Octicons-tools.svg In the AbuseFilter extension, the  function has been updated so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of   with   wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage.

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19:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Request
Joseph, please stop attacking me personally, such as in sneaky snide remarks via the supposedly hidden edit summary, which isn't hidden from knowledgeable users.

I've never said any IP user had an "obligation to create an account." I only suggested that the person at issue "consider registering as a user."

In commenting on that suggestion, you in effect implied something that's not true. That's beneath the fairness expected of an administrator.

Truce. – Sca (talk) 23:28, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * You claimed the IP user only had 4 edits, all there- which is clearly wrong, as they explained to you, their IP address changes. And every post, you tell them to register. And almost all your editing is at WP:ITNC, that is a fact, not an attack. <b style="color:#0033ab">Joseph</b><b style="color:#000000">2302</b> (talk) 08:17, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes Sca, you do nothing but post banal “jokes” at ITNC. You should find something more constructive to do, otherwise you’ll find yourself on the receiving end of a WP:NOTHERE ban. 125.209.128.126 (talk) 08:56, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Ridiculous. I make many comments on the editorial merits of nominations at ITN/C, and elsewhere. From now on, I will not respond to any of the (invariably) derogatory and offensive comments you post about me. Goodbye. – Sca (talk) 13:12, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Whatever. But I and others will call you out when you make pointless comments on ITNC. And if you cared about the encyclopedia, maybe you'd actually write some article content..... <b style="color:#0033ab">Joseph</b><b style="color:#000000">2302</b> (talk) 13:48, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

WP:AFC Helper News
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest. Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
 * AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
 * The template db-afc-move has been created - this template is similar to db-move when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

DYK for Katie Vesterstein
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:03, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-08
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 * Special:Nuke will now provide the standard deletion reasons (editable at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown ) to use when mass-deleting pages. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * At Wikipedias, all new accounts now get the Growth features by default when creating an account. Communities are encouraged to update their help resources. Previously, only 80% of new accounts would get the Growth features. A few Wikipedias remain unaffected by this change.
 * You can now prevent specific images that are used in a page from appearing in other locations, such as within PagePreviews or Search results. This is done with the markup <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . For example,.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There has been a change to the HTML of Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory, and History pages, to support the grouping of changes by date in the mobile skin. While unlikely, this may affect gadgets and user scripts. A list of all the HTML changes is on Phabricator.

Events
 * Community Wishlist Survey results have been published. The ranking of prioritized proposals is also 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
 * The software to play videos and audio files on pages will change soon on all wikis. The old player will be removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Toolforge's underlying operating system is being updated. If you maintain any tools there, there are two options for migrating your tools into the new system. There are details, deadlines, and instructions on Wikitech.
 * Administrators will soon have the option to delete/undelete the associated "talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option will also be available. This was a request from the 2021 Wishlist Survey.

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19:10, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Kirsty Muir
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Joséphine Pagnier
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

March editathons
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