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Tech News: 2022-18
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 * On all remaining wikis (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years.

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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).

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19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-19
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Recent changes
 * You can now see categories in the Wikipedia app for Android.

Problems
 * Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed.
 * Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
 * Incompatibility issues with Kartographer and the FlaggedRevs extension will be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the extension on May 24.
 * The Vector (2022) skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update about Vector (2022).

Future meetings
 * The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.

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15:21, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

Administrator changes
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 * Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
 * Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.

Technical news
 * The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

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Tech News: 2022-20
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 * Some wikis can soon use the add a link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are . This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.
 * The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
 * 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 soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons.

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18:57, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

File licensing question
Hi King of Hearts. Would you mind taking a look at User talk:Rbmn? Perhaps you could help sort this file's licensing out. Feel free to correct or clarify anything I posted as needed. It seems as if the file in question should PD and OK for Commons, but I'm not totally sure. Just from looking at all of the file related notifications on this user's talk page, it appears that many of their uploads have been deleted in the past for one reason or another. Perhaps some of these might also be PD now. For reference, I only came across this file because it was licensed as non-free content and ended up being recently removed by a bot from the user's sandbox for WP:NFCC reasons. (This user even seems to have been edit warring with the bot over this, but that's probably not relevant if the file is PD) TAnyway, te file didn't have a non-free use rationale which meant it was eligible for speedy deletion per WP:F6; there would, however, be no need for a non-free use rationale if the file is PD. Another file (File:Tracteur Chatillon-Panhard 1914.jpg) uploaded by the same user might also be PD. It too was originally uploaded as non-free, but the user has also relicensed it as CC-by-sa-4.0. Finally, there does seem to be some COI issues as well, but those are separate from the file's licensing issues. -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:41, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
 * There are three ways the portrait could be PD in France:
 * The author is known to have died before 1952 (c:Template:PD-old);
 * The author has never been known, and the work was published before 1952 (c:Template:PD-anon-70-EU or c:Template:PD-EU-no author disclosure); or
 * The author transferred copyright to the subject, and the uploader releases it under PD (c:Template:PD-heirs).
 * Each of these requires different evidence:
 * For PD-old, the author's name and proof of their year of death.
 * For PD-anon-70EU/PD-EU-no author disclosure (which are basically duplicates, so take your pick), the specific requirements are a little bit murky, but you can find some discussion at c:Commons:Deletion requests/Template:PD-EU-no author disclosure.
 * For PD-heirs, proof via VRTS that the uploader is in fact an heir, and some sort of documentation on transfer of copyright.
 * King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 03:01, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the detailed response. File:Krebs Portrait 1910-01.jpg was actually already uploaded to Commons as File:Arthur Constantin Krebs.jpg by a different user back in 2015. It was licensed as PD-US, but I'm not sure that's totally correct. I'm also not sure whether there needs to be two of the same file since they're essentially the same. Any suggestions on what to do now? Just let the local file be deleted and ask the great-grandson to use the one already on Commons? Something else? -- Marchjuly (talk) 03:59, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Have the two local files been published anywhere in the world before 1927? Then they are OK to keep on English Wikipedia as PD-US. It is on Commons that we have a stricter requirement of PD in the source country, which requires knowledge of authorship. -- King of ♥<b style="color:red"> ♦</b><b style="color:black"> ♣</b><b style="color:black"> ♠</b> 04:08, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
 * That's something I don't know. Based upon the discussion I had with the uploader on his user talk page, I'm not sure whether even he knows. I don't even know whether he knew about the Commons files since they don't seem to have been being used on Wikipedia. He uploaded those two local files in May 2006 which was well before they were uploaded to Commons; so, he might not have noticed they were subsequenty uploaded to Commons. FWIW, I'm unable to get the source url given for the Commons portrait file to work to check the files origin, but there's no mention of this website on local portrait file's page. Given the local file was uploaded as non-free many years before it was uploaded to Commons, it's possible the source for the Commons file got its version from Wikipedia. Someone then wanting to use the file on some other language Wikipedia may have found it on that wesbite, thought it was PD, and uploaded it to Commons. Anyway, it's only been a day since my last post on the great-grandson's user talk page. Maybe he'll reply sometime soon, and I can try and pin things down with respect to the dates of first publication for these files. Do you think, in the meantime, that the Commons files need to be taken to DR? File:Artillery Tractor Chatillon-Panhard 1914.jpg is licensed as "PD-old-70-1923" and the source url given is actually the great-grandson's wesbite. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:37, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Currently there is not enough information to support a declaration of PD-old at Commons, so a DR would need to be started if we don't find out anything more. On the contrary, our standard for publication is often murky; sometimes we just accept images if they have a date, look like they're plausibly from that date, and seem like they were published contemporarily. -- <b style="color:red">King of ♥</b><b style="color:red"> ♦</b><b style="color:black"> ♣</b><b style="color:black"> ♠</b> 04:43, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
 * After further queries, the uploader has posted that they think the photo was first published in Revue aéronautique de France (here) in 1924. It's a very low quality representation, but it looks like it's the same photo. Since the publication is in French, I assuming the first publication was also in France. No information provided about who took the photo, though the uploader did change the file's description so that it now reads "a photographer paid by Krebs" instead of "own". It appears the uploader seems to think it was a "work for hire", but theye also seem to think that asking someone to your photo also automatically means a transfer of copyright from them to you. Maybe the best that can be done here would be to treat this an unknown work under EU copyright law for Commons purposes, but that seems like it would be really complicated to sort out. Your suggestion about keeping the local photo as "PD-US" seems more promising. Do you think PD-US-expired-abroad would be a possible option here? If the photo was taken in 1910, then it would most likely also be PD in France in 2031 after 120 years have passed if author is unknown, right? Perhaps, in the meantime, the local file could be relicensed as ? -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:30, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Perfect, I've fixed the licensing on this image. -- <b style="color:red">King of ♥</b><b style="color:red"> ♦</b><b style="color:black"> ♣</b><b style="color:black"> ♠</b> 01:07, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for helping to sort this one out. I'm assuming the corresponding Commons file is now going to need to be DR'd. Any ideas on how to try and resolve File:Tracteur Chatillon-Panhard 1914.jpg? This one might not be a directly connected to the uploader's great grandfather as the other photo was, but it might also be easier to figure out when it was first published. As I posted above, the source given for the Commons file is the great-grandson's website, which may not be the first instance of publication. -- Marchjuly (talk) 09:17, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
 * http://rbmn.free.fr/Tracteur_Chatillon-Panhard_1911.html seems to imply that it is from a 1914 book, and the page crease on the right of the image is consistent with it being from a book. So I'm pretty sure it is PD in the US. But without authorship information we don't know its status in France. -- <b style="color:red">King of ♥</b><b style="color:red"> ♦</b><b style="color:black"> ♣</b><b style="color:black"> ♠</b> 20:23, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
 * The uploader responded to my query about its provenance and stated it's from a postcard, but I'm not sure that means it's a postcard that was published in a book or it's a postcard that someone sent their family. Either way, I don't think it's unreasonable to assume it was "published" somewhere (even a postcard (as the word is commonly used) would seem to meet c:COM:PUBLISHED for the US) and that it was published prior to 1927. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:36, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

May 22: Wiki-Picnic and Hackathon in Brooklyn
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Happy Adminship Anniversary!
<div style="display: flex; align-items: center; height: 50px; padding: 2em 1em 2em 1em; border: solid 3px #2B547E; background-color: #E6E6FA;"> Wishing King of Hearts a very of Hearts happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!  interstatefive  (talk) - just another roadgeek 00:04, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Cwf97
Cwf97 is asking to be unblocked. You were the original blocking admin, and I think Cwf97 could probably benefit from a second chance. I don't think Cwf97 is a sock puppet of CensoredScribe, and there isn't any evidence of recent block evasion (though, for what it worth, I doubt Cwf97 could have easily evaded the hard block I did after the last socking incident). The current unblock request isn't perfect, but I think the editor understands why they were blocked. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 01:53, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I have no objections to whatever you decide. -- <b style="color:red">King of ♥</b><b style="color:red"> ♦</b><b style="color:black"> ♣</b><b style="color:black"> ♠</b> 02:02, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!
<div style="display: flex; align-items: center; height: 60px; padding: 1em; border: solid 7px orchid; background-color: yellow;"> '''Wishing King of Hearts a very of Hearts happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Birthday Committee! Best wishes! CAPTAIN RAJU''' (T) 20:48, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-21
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 * Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages.
 * The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months.

Problems
 * The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all.
 * Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation.

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00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-22
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 * Octicons-tools.svg In the AbuseFilter extension, an   function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple   expressions joined by   into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage.
 * The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org.

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 * Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
 * The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the   parameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit.
 * A new parser function will be introduced: <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates.

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20:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Featured picture scheduled for POTD
Hi King of Hearts,

This is to let you know that File:Lower Manhattan from Governors Island August 2017 panorama.jpg, a featured picture you uploaded, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for September 11, 2022. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2022-09-11. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! --Ahecht (<span style="color:#FFF;background:#04A;display:inline-block;padding:1px;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK PAGE ) 15:04, 31 May 2022 (UTC)