User talk:Joseph2302/Archives/2022/March

Tech News: 2022-09
 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
 * When searching for edits by change tags, e.g. in page history or user contributions, there is now a dropdown list of possible tags. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * Mentors using the Growth Mentor dashboard will now see newcomers assigned to them who have made at least one edit, up to 200 edits. Previously, all newcomers assigned to the mentor were visible on the dashboard, even ones without any edit or ones who made hundred of edits. Mentors can still change these values using the filters on their dashboard. Also, the last choice of filters will now be saved.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The user group  was renamed  . This is for technical reasons. You may need to update any local references to the old name, e.g. gadgets, links to Special:Listusers, or uses of NUMBERINGROUP.

Problems
 * The recent change to the HTML of tracking changes pages caused some problems for screenreaders. This is being fixed.

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
 * Working with templates will become easier. Several improvements are planned for March 9 on most wikis and on March 16 on English Wikipedia. The improvements include: Bracket matching, syntax highlighting colors, finding and inserting templates, and related visual editor features.
 * If you are a template developer or an interface administrator, and you are intentionally overriding or using the default CSS styles of user feedback boxes (the classes: ), please note that these classes and associated CSS will soon be removed from MediaWiki core. This is to prevent problems when the same class-names are also used on a wiki. Please let us know by commenting at T300314 if you think you might be affected.

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22:58, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

One Love Party
Saved again through AfD. If you don't nominate them again later this year, I will. There are a few other clear candidates I want to try again with so it's just a case of making the arguments. I will always be baffled by the attitude that notability policy counts for everything except political parties! doktorb wordsdeeds 23:10, 1 March 2022 (UTC)￼ doktorb wordsdeeds 23:10, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Ridiculous decision, most of the sources are about him and not the party (and he's been AFDed successfully before). Joseph2302 (talk) 00:04, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank you!

 * Thanks. It's the only running award I'll get in my life ;) Joseph2302 (talk) 09:51, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-10
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Problems
 * There was a problem with some interface labels last week. It will be fixed this week. This change was part of ongoing work to simplify the support for skins which do not have active maintainers.

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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21:15, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Male Egyptian squash players
Hi, I just saw your comment here from January 21st by accident. Although I fully agree on deleting the templates, I just cannot resist pointing out that the current men's world top ten on its own has seven Egyptian players in it, the 10th player being placed on #15. ;-) Just fyi. Best wishes, Squasher (talk) 15:02, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-11
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Recent changes
 * In the Wikipedia Android app it is now possible to change the toolbar at the bottom so the tools you use more often are easier to click on. The app now also has a focused reading mode.

Problems
 * There was a problem with the collection of some page-view data from June 2021 to January 2022 on all wikis. This means the statistics are incomplete. To help calculate which projects and regions were most affected, relevant datasets are being retained for 30 extra days. You can read more on Meta-wiki.
 * There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read pages but could not edit or access uncached content then.

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).
 * When using  to find localisation messages, it will now show all possible message keys for navigation tabs such as "".
 * Octicons-tools.svg Access to has been expanded to include users who have   and   rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the   right could access this special page.
 * On the pages for diffs and revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions.

Future changes
 * The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the IP Masking implementation strategy and next steps. The announcement can be read here.
 * The Wikipedia Android app developers are working on new functions for user talk pages and article talk pages.

Events
 * The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 20-22 May 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world. Grants can be requested until 20 March.

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22:06, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Frida Westman
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

DYK for 2021 Tokyo Marathon
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Shona Brownlee
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:03, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-12
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New code release schedule for this week
 * There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one. This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can read more about this project.

Recent changes
 * You can now set how many search results to show by default in your Preferences. This was the 12th most popular wish in the Community Wishlist Survey 2022.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Jupyter notebooks tool PAWS has been updated to a new interface.

Future changes
 * Interactive maps via Kartographer will soon work on wikis using the FlaggedRevisions extension. Please tell us which improvements you want to see in Kartographer. You can take this survey in simple English.

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15:59, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

April Editathons from Women in Red
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:45, 22 March 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging

WikiProject Deletion sorting/Olympics
Hello. I've begun a deletion sorting page for articles about the Olympics which are nominated at AfD. Hope you find it useful. No Great Shaker (talk) 13:41, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, should hopefully give people a better view of all the Olympians being nominated for deletion (of which I get the feeling that there are many). <b style="color:#0033ab">Joseph</b><b style="color:#000000">2302</b> (talk) 13:50, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Should "not" count?
I think you made a typo at 14:06 today, though your opponent can be oddly persuasive...just a tip. InedibleHulk (talk) 15:27, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, corrected. I've encountered them before so know what they're doing. <b style="color:#0033ab">Joseph</b><b style="color:#000000">2302</b> (talk) 15:42, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
 * He still sometimes surprises me, don't get complacent! But yeah, you clearly win this round. Congratulations. InedibleHulk (talk) 16:05, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 March 2022
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Tech News: 2022-13
<section begin="technews-2022-W13"/> 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 simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.

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).
 * Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular database maintenance. It will be performed on at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on  at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

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19:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

March 2022
This edit restored content at NSPORTS against consensus at Village pump (policy)/Sports notability, specifically subproposals #3. The closing statement stands, as it has not been overturned. Please consider this your final warning; any further attempts to restore the non-consensus version will be reported to ANI. Thank you. –dlthewave ☎ 22:21, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
 * That close did not give you authority to remove everything, this has beem reverted before. Get off your high horse and my talkpage- never post here again. <b style="color:#0033ab">Joseph</b><b style="color:#000000">2302</b> (talk) 22:27, 28 March 2022 (UTC)