User talk:Legoktm/January 2023

The Signpost: 1 January 2023
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Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits
At List of Wikipedians by number of edits, I see that some users are wikilinked, while others are not. Why is this inconsistency? I remember when the older bot used to make reports, none were wikilinked which was very consistent. Thanks! &#8212;CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 09:14, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Linking some of the usernames is a return to previous behaviour, see Wikipedia talk:List of Wikipedians by number of edits. -- Red rose64 &#x1F98C; (talk) 14:52, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks Redrose64. I was unaware of that discussion. And honestly, I did not read the line explaining this. &#8212;CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 12:26, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg ComplexRational · Extraordinary Writ
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Stephen
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Andrew Yong · Dbenbenn · DESiegel · GlassCobra · Joe Decker · Nancy · Pathoschild · StuffOfInterest · William Pietri · Wwwwolf · Xdamr

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 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ivanvector · SilkTork

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 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Guerillero · SilkTork

Guideline and policy news
 * Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.

Arbitration
 * Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , , , ,.
 * The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
 * The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
 * Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.

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Request for some database reports
Is it possible to get a before-scheduled run for Database reports/Polluted categories and Database reports/Polluted categories (2)? I have just done a very large cleanout and I want to see how many I missed. And thank you for running this task, which is a lifesaver... jp×g 07:36, 7 January 2023 (UTC)


 * @JPxG: the first report is running now, it takes about 25 minutes. For the second report, maybe @DannyS712 can help you with that one. Legoktm (talk) 23:25, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Wow, I missed more than I thought!!! Thanks a bunch. jp×g 02:01, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-02
 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
 * You can use tags to filter edits in the recent changes feed or on your watchlist. You can now use tags to filter out edits you don't want to see. Previously you could only use tags to focus on the edits with those tags.
 * Special:WhatLinksHere shows all pages that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype for how to sort those pages alphabetically. You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket.
 * You can now use the thanks function on your watchlist and the user contribution page.
 * A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you don't have to write the explanation every time.
 * Matrix is a chat tool. You can now use  to create Matrix links on wiki pages.
 * You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also hide subpages which are translation pages.

Changes later this week
 * Realtime preview for wikitext is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it in the editor toolbar.
 * 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) and on  at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
 * 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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MediaWiki message delivery 01:06, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 January 2023
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Tech News: 2023-03
 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg The URLs in "" links on page history now contain  in place of  . This is to fix a problem with links pointing to incorrect diffs when history was filtered by a tag. Some user scripts may break as a result of this change.

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 changes to the appearance of talk pages have only been available on  and   namespaces.  These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such as  .  They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including   pages (e.g., at the Village Pump).  You can change your preferences (beta feature).
 * On Wikisources, when an image is zoomed or panned in the Page: namespace, the same zoom and pan settings will be remembered for all Page: namespace pages that are linked to a particular Index: namespace page.
 * The Vector 2022 skin will become the default for the English Wikipedia desktop users. The change will take place on January 18 at 15:00 UTC. Learn more.

Future changes
 * The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey, which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts next week on 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. You can start drafting your proposals in the CWS sandbox.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:08, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Reorganizing the skin RfC
After discussion the RfC has been reorganized, sorting comments into "support", "oppose," "neutral", and "RfC discussion" subsections. I placed yours into that last one, that cool or do you want it to go under "oppose" or "neutral"? --Kiz o r  23:28, 20 January 2023 (UTC)


 * @Kizor: that's probably fine, my comment is more of a procedural opposition to the RfC in the first place. Thanks for trying to make things more manageable. Legoktm (talk) 01:33, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Wow re editing streaks
Hey, I found your work on editing streaks fascinating, as the #6 human editor on this list ... if it wasn't for WiFi problems at Los Angeles International Airport, I might've been #3! For a long time I've been interested to know whether other users have made more than e.g. 100/200/250 edits per month since June 2005, as I have. Perhaps that'd be harder to calculate, but I thought I'd ask. Also, I know your editing streaks tool is still in very early stages of development, but right now as a screen reader user I have to view the HTML source to be able to make any sense out of the "Streak history"section; for my money that'd probably be best as a table, but YMMV. P.s. now I regret this lack of main namespace editing (due to having a very light watchlist that day), which put me out of contension for the main namespace list. :-) Graham 87 09:57, 21 January 2023 (UTC)


 * @Graham87: thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Unfortunately you learned the hard way to never fly through LAX :p
 * I was thinking of adding an option to adjust the time period, so you could look up consecutive weeks of making an edit or months, I don't think it would be that much more difficult to also add an option to also adjust how many edits were made in that time period. It is more difficult to find all users who meet some streak criteria just because of how slow it is, so far my strategy has been to find all the users who meet the criteria over a short time period (e.g. 1 year) and then follow each user's contribution history individually. I'll think a bit if there's a faster way to look up a streak of 250 edits per month...
 * And I've converted the streak history section to a table, thanks for pointing out that it wasn't accessible. Legoktm (talk) 05:57, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-04
 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, for ~15 minutes, all wikis were unreachable for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a timing issue.

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).
 * If you have the Beta Feature for DiscussionTools enabled, the appearance of talk pages will add more information about discussion activity.
 * The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS), which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts on Monday 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:44, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-05
 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, for ~15 minutes, some users were unable to log in or edit pages. This was caused by a problem with session storage.

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
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikis that use localized numbering schemes for references need to add new CSS. This will help to show citation numbers the same way in all reading and editing modes. If your wiki would prefer to do it yourselves, please see the details and example CSS to copy from, and also add your wiki to the list. Otherwise, the developers will directly help out starting the week of February 5.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:03, 31 January 2023 (UTC)