User talk:Legoktm/February 2023

Administrators' newsletter – February 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Gimmetrow
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Bjelleklang · Bob the Wikipedian · Leithp · WhisperToMe · 100 inactive admins



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg BDD · Bradv · Donald Albury · Maxim · MusikAnimal

Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg BDD · Bradv · Donald Albury · Maxim

Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
 * Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.

Technical news
 * The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

Arbitration Miscellaneous
 * The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
 * In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.
 * Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
 * Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
 * Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:38, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

User:HaleBot
Hello, Legoktm,

I'm just checking in to see if everything is working okay with my favorite bot. It regularly issues Database reports/Empty categories at 01:02 UTC like clockwork but no report tonight. Just thought I'd see if everything is working well. Thank you for checking! Liz Read! Talk! 01:08, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
 * It posted the database report at 01:25 UTC but I think I'll leave this message here rather than removing it so you can know there was some kind of glitch. Thanks! Liz Read! Talk! 02:19, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
 * @Liz: for reasons I don't fully understand, the Polluted categories report keeps shifting times, today it got kicked off with the 1:00 UTC run, which delayed the Empty categories report since they go one after another. I'm overdue on improving the scheduling system so it's more consistent and predictable, I'll try to get to that in the next few days. Legoktm (talk) 06:04, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Okay, well I appreciate the explanation. It's not super urgent but bots are ordinarily so predictable, it got my attention. Liz Read! Talk! 01:09, 23 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Database reports/Empty categories keeps getting issued later and later from 01:02 UTC to 02:02 UTC to now 03:02 UTC (that's 7 pm for me so not so bad). But I'm worried to keep seeing it moving up later and later. Any chance we could bring it back to between 00:00 and 01:00 UTC? It would even be okay during the day, at least for me. Thanks for your help. Liz Read! Talk! 02:39, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
 * It should always run at 1:00 UTC starting today, if I got the code right. Legoktm (talk) 00:36, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
 * @Liz: OK, should be back to the normal schedule now, for good. I tried to document the expectations on updating on the bot's user page. In short, for most reports it tries to run at the same time it did previously but there's no guarantee. Just let me know which reports you want to update when and I can set them to always update at that time. Legoktm (talk) 02:46, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2023-06
 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
 * In the Vector 2022 skin, logged-out users using the full-width toggle will be able to see the setting of their choice even after refreshing pages or opening new ones. This only applies to wikis where Vector 2022 is the default.

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).
 * Previously, we announced when some wikis would be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. These switches will not be announced any more, as the read-only time has become non-significant. Switches will continue to happen at 7AM UTC on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
 * Across all the wikis, in the Vector 2022 skin, logged-in users will see the page-related links such as "What links here" in a new side menu. It will be displayed on the other side of the screen. This change had previously been made on Czech, English, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
 * Community Wishlist Survey 2023 will stop receiving new proposals on Monday, 6 February 2023, at 18:00 UTC. Proposers should complete any edits by then, to give time for translations and review. Voting will begin on Friday, 10 February.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets and user scripts will be changing to load on desktop and mobile sites. Previously they would only load on the desktop site. It is recommended that wiki administrators audit the gadget definitions prior to this change, and add  for any gadgets which should not load on mobile. More details are available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 10:19, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Another safe tt tag pattern for your bot
While cleaning up talk pages with very large numbers of tags, I have come upon a repeated pattern of editors using  to wrap emoticons. I have been swapping it for mono, which gets the job done (I was wary of starting an argument with : or ; but they appear to work). Here's my current regex, which covers the most common emoticons:  There are no doubt more varieties of emoticons than appear in this regex; a possibly too-broad search finds 2,600 pages, with some likely false positives. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:16, 12 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Implemented it, will try it out on some of those pages in the next few days. Legoktm (talk) 07:24, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-07
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * On wikis where patrolled edits are enabled, changes made to the mentor list by autopatrolled mentors are not correctly marked as patrolled. It will be fixed later this 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).
 * The Reply tool and other parts of DiscussionTools will be deployed for all editors using the mobile site. You can read more about this decision.

Future changes
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:47, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 February 2023
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Tech News: 2023-08
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Last week, during planned maintenance of Cloud Services, unforeseen complications forced the team to turn off all tools for 2–3 hours to prevent data corruption. Work is ongoing to prevent similar problems in the future.

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).
 * The voting phase for the Community Wishlist Survey 2023 ends on 24 February at 18:00 UTC. The results of the survey will be announced on 28 February.

Future changes
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:56, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-09
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Last week, in some areas of the world, there were problems with loading pages for 20 minutes and saving edits for 55 minutes. These issues were caused by a problem with our caching servers due to unforseen events during a routine maintenance task.

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).
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:45, 27 February 2023 (UTC)