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Books & Bytes – Issue 37
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 37, November – December 2019 
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 * Wikimedia and Libraries User Group

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Ergo Sum • Nick Moyes • QEDK • Wugapodes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Dennis Brown
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Aude • BrownHairedGirl • CALR • Jengod • John Reaves • J.smith • Kim Dent-Brown • K1Bond007 • MECU • Refdoc • RHaworth



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Partial blocks.
 * The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

Technical news
 * Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating.  There is currently one template: uw-pblock.
 * When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title.

Arbitration
 * Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
 * The English Wikipedia has reached six million articles. Thank you everyone for your contributions!

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This Month in Education: January 2020
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Wikidata weekly summary #401
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Mike Peel


 * Events
 * Past: | Wikidata in Social Science Classroom - Workshop, Dubai, January 21st
 * Upcoming: Wikibase Community User Group online meeting (date to be decided, you can vote here)
 * Upcoming: OSM TW x Wikidata Taiwan meetup, February 10th, Taipei


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * A newbie's guide to querying Wikidata, by Mark Needham


 * Tool of the week
 * VizQuery allows you to use the Wikidata Query Service without having to know SPARQL. Simply use a couple of autocomplete input boxes and you can do most basic queries.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Bruno and Denny present how to use Lexical Masks in ShEx to validate lexemes, including a first set of example schemata. They also invite everyone to work on more languages, and will keep adding more ShEx schema over time.
 * 2020 report on Property constraints by user:Abián
 * Wikimedia Hackathon in Tirana: scholarship requests and registration for people needing visa support are open until February 9th.
 * Mismatched reference: first version to be deployed this week
 * OpenRefine 3.3 was released


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: category for maps, number of reviews/ratings, merged into, 8-bits.info ID
 * External identifiers: CoBiS author ID, marterl.at ID, NPDRIM record ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory node ID, Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID, PCBdB game ID, Diccionari del cinema a Catalunya ID, EFIS film festival ID, EFIS person ID, Eurogamer ID, FlashScore.com team ID, GameStar ID, Soccerdonna team ID, The Video Games Museum game ID, Voetbal International player ID, Games Database game ID, ft.dk politician identifier, Historical Marker Database ID, Joconde Inscription ID, Joconde time period ID, Media Art Database ID, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology ID, EFIS filmfirm ID, EFIS film ID, Ciência ID, Swedish School Registry ID, Whaling History ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: hierarchy switch, Wikipedia infobox field, ontological level of Wikidata item, status of mortal remains, TheTVDB person ID, fails compliance with
 * External identifiers: Gamekult company ID, Gamekult franchise ID, CNGB project ID, Gamekult platform ID, Adelsvapen ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina ID, Clavis Clavium ID, FEMA number, SerialStation game ID, GBAtemp game ID, AnimalBase ID, RPGamer ID, Denkmalatlas Niedersachsen Objekt-ID, DR music artist ID, Jurisdiction List Number, Médias 19 ID, ArchiWebture ID, MOCAGH ID


 * Query examples:
 * Number of cases coronavirus reported per country
 * Release date of albums from before 1980 by artists of the EDM genre (source)
 * Books related to LGBTI+ topics (source)
 * Map of medical facilities in Kalimpong district, India, color-coded by type (source)


 * Development
 * Enable the first version of tainted/mismatched references on wikidata.org
 * Work on adding a button to hide the notification (T234789)
 * Show the icon after canceling editing if the icon was shown before (T234790)
 * More work on Wikidata Bridge (restrict editing based on user rights or data types)
 * More work on wb_terms migration

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:00, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Tech News: 2020-06
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 February. It will be on all wikis from 6 February (calendar).

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 12
 News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (December 2019 and January 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 12th issue issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg XFDcloser (now a gadget) is this issue's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Suffusion of Yellow's mark-reverted* Majavah's unslashifier
 * Guywan's BulletSort and HistoryHighlight
 * BrandonXLF's QuickEdit and CompareRevisions


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Enterprisey's fancy-diff should now be able to handle everything the parser can throw at it.
 * Twinkle has a new update (more). It now supports partial blocks and includes the select2 library as a dependency. Select2 is available at MediaWiki:Gadget-select2.min.js for other gadgets and scripts to use.

Miscellaneous
 * Until now, this newsletter has been written primarily by me (DannyS712).
 * If others would like to contribute, help is always appreciated;
 * this was intended to be a community newsletter.

Pending requests A number of requests are listed at User scripts/Requests. Some of the remaining ideas include scripts to: ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests
 * expand a diff until it covers all contiguous edits made by that user
 * highlight which content (in the HTML) comes from which template
 * hyperlink "per X" to the last comment X made
 * show a pop-up section preview when you hover over its TOC link



Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 06:12, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #402
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Nomen ad hoc


 * Events
 * Learn about the use of Wikidata, Wikipedia and sister projects in education, at the Wikimedia in Education UK Summit at Coventry University on 26 February
 * Hackday Niederrhein, Germany, on March 28-29, including a Wikidata workshop
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: further discussion of labels and aliases; start looking at Google Sheets, 11 February. Agenda
 * WikiCite meetup in Melbourne, Australia, on February 14th
 * Wikidata Wednesday in Vienna, Austria, on February 19th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata and Beyond – Knowledge for everyone by everyone, keynote video from Denny Vrandečić at SWAT4HCLS 2019
 * Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2019 edition, by Jean-Frédéric
 * Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata, by Tom Hanika, Maximilian Marx and Gerd Stumme.


 * Tool of the week
 * Reasonator offers a visual formatted display of Wikidata information. It is useful for introducing Wikidata to new audiences and can help find missing or incorrect data by presenting a different view than the standard editing interface.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Kensho Derived Wikimedia Dataset is a a cleaned English subset of Wikipedia/Wikidata with 2.3B tokens, 5.3M pages, 51M nodes, and 120M edges for use in natural language processing (NLP) research
 * Property talk pages now include a link to query for a few random items using the "SERVICE bd:sample" in SPARQL. Example: look for "random list" on d:Property talk:P279
 * "Status of Wikidata Query Service" update from WMF, on Wikidata mailing list
 * Facebook page of a volunteer working on Wikidata about the French local elections in Conflans
 * Swiss newspaper Le Temps built a new front-end to interact with a Wikibase backend developed by nonprofit PersonalData.IO to power its citizen-led investigation of personal data flows.
 * There are now 100,000 people with the name "John" in Wikidata. "Elizabeth" is now the most frequent female given name.
 * Knowledge Grapher is a new tool to create Wikidata knowledge graphs without needing any knowledge of Wikidata Query or SPARQL code. Developed by Fuzheado, it is currently in early testing mode and helps create graphs as described by MartinPoulter at his 2019 blog post Making Wikidata Visible. Feedback is appreciated.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Academia.edu publication ID, TI-99/4A Videogame House ID, National Aviation Hall of Fame ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: гражданский чин, uses dataset, CVR person ID, description, Wikimedia community discussion, The Great Biography
 * External identifiers: Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry ID, CYRI ID, Mendeley publication ID, CODEPAC-Bauru ID, Daughters of the American Revolution ancestor ID, PC Games Database.de game ID, Encyclopedia of Chicago, DANFS ID, Deutsche Biographie ID, Haz-Map ID, RAL ID, PC Games Database.de company ID, Kickstarter project ID, Adventure Games company ID, VcBA ID, Adventure Games series ID, Hrvatska enciklopedije ID, Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland: 1880-2000 ID, Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development ID, Trakt.tv uri, Open Food Facts label, Compendium heroicum ID, Gry Online game ID, Gram.pl game ID, startrekdb.se query, Legislative Assembly of Ontario MPP ID, Gry Online company ID


 * Deleted properties: lithography (P2157)
 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of same-sex marriage legalization in various countries (source)
 * Chart of the number of infections and deaths casued since the outbreak of novel coronavirus, as reported by the World Health Organisation
 * Adjacent constituencies of the UK Parliament - query federated with Ordnance Survey's SPARQL endpoint. (source)
 * List of this year’s Academy Awards winners


 * Development
 * Wikidata Bridge: more work on enabling error messages for various cases (datatype not supported, user can't edit on client or repo, etc.)
 * Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (T233295)
 * Mismatched references: follow-up of the deployment in production, adding the "remove warning" button
 * Monitoring the number of times the feature reference warnings are being triggered and opened (T231731)
 * Fixing some issues connected to the train deployment
 * Fixing an issue with new edit summaries not being displayed on client wikis (T244129)
 * Fixing an issue with ittem having label conflict with itself (T243158)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2020-07
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Recent changes
 * There is a new version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem.

Problems
 * There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg The MediaWiki action API is used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change. Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be on all wikis from 13 February (calendar).

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This Month in GLAM: January 2020
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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020
Hello ,

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.
 * Source Guide Discussion

New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.
 * Redirects


 * Discussions and Resources
 * There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
 * A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
 * A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
 * A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.

Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.
 * Refresher

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Wikidata weekly summary #403
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 * Discussions
 * Versionize property definitions ?
 * Closed request for comments: Non-free content


 * Events
 * Past: Warsaw, 13-14 February: Workshop to develop the data model for taxonomic and nomenclatural data in Wikidata
 * Upcoming: March 12, Amsterdam: Datasprint Amsterdam Time Machine/Golden Agents with the ECARTICO and ONSTAGE datasets, involving Wikidata.
 * Upcoming: FindingGLAMs Wikidata editing challenge, improve data about cultural heritage institutions, from February 17th to 23rd


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * "Wikidata is just a matter of facts", blog post on the Workshop to develop a data model for taxonomic and nomenclatural data in Wikidata
 * Vandalism Detection in Crowdsourced Knowledge Bases by Stefan Heindorf


 * Tool of the week
 * Looking for one of the 7000+ Wikidata properties? Try Propbrowse to search and browse all properties.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Cradle tool can now generate forms based on Schemas (example for human)
 * Loading time of pages on Wikidata and Commons has been improved. You can learn more about page load performance and developing with ResourceLoader.
 * Science Stories by Kat Thornton and Kenneth Seals-Nutt, an application that tells stories about underrepresented people in STEM using Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, is the winner of the LODLAM 2020 Challenge!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: gained territory from, gave up territory to
 * External identifiers: MOCAGH ID, Denkmalatlas Niedersachsen Objekt-ID, Encyclopedia of Chicago ID, Deutsche Biographie ID, AnimalBase ID, Canmore maritime-type ID, Canmore object-type ID, Clavis Clavium ID, CYRI ID, DANFS ship ID, Gamekult company ID, Gamekult franchise ID, Gamekult game ID, Gamekult platform ID, GBAtemp game ID, Mendeley publication ID, Museums in Austria Code, Médias 19 ID, SerialStation game ID, TheTVDB person ID, TrueAchievements series ID, Canmore monument-type ID, Bollywood Hungama person alphabetic ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina ID, Jurisdiction List number, Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: energy consumption per transaction, yearly energy consumption, church patron saint, national identification number, Democracy Index, business model, intended subject, examination jury, depicted format, DoME artist ID, historic county, код персоны на elibrary.ru, applies if regular expression matches
 * External identifiers: Patamu Certificate ID, Colecovision Addict ID, Annuaire des Maîtres d'art, Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte Südosteuropas ID, GameReactor game ID, Fandango performer ID, Cell Ontology ID, ColecoVision.dk ID, BioLexSOE ID, EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History ID, NHS Health A to Z ID, Corpus Corporum author ID, Colecovision Zone ID, Catalogue of Life ID, GreatSchools ID, Clavis Patrum Graecorum ID, Clavis Patrum Latinorum ID, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca ID, Podchaser podcast ID, Mirabile author ID, Mirabile saint ID, Kanopy ID, Czech War Graves Register


 * Query examples:
 * Place names of Bergamo: map with pronunciation audio files (source)
 * Number words whose number of letters equals their value: with Lexemes (source), with labels (source)
 * Graph of the extended Kardashian clan (source)
 * Scottish monuments with a commons sitelink, but no image (source)
 * Number of films with LGBT representation per country (source)


 * Development
 * Wikidata Bridge: more work on unsupported edit cases (unsupported datatypes T235753, ambiguous statements T240212, deprecated statements T238660, unknown value or no value statements T242747)
 * Including the property label in the title of the Data Bridge dialog (T233295)
 * Making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (T238662)
 * Style fixes and font size adjustments (T239421, T243192)
 * Create Grafana boards to track the results of the tainted references feature
 * Increase factor for query service that is taken into account for maxlag (later reverted) (T244722)
 * Fix edit summaries not displayed on client wikis (T244129)
 * Fixed some issues causes by the wb_terms migration

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Tech News: 2020-08
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Wikidata weekly summary #404
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: DannyS712, Fralambert
 * Possible change of usage of "located in administrative territorial entity" (P131)


 * Events
 * Scholarships application process for Wikimania 2020 (Bangkok) is now open until March 17th. More information, FAQ, apply
 * Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, one of the themes being how Wikidata can support minority languages, will take place on July 9-10 in Limerick, Ireland. Call for submissions open from February 27th to March 30th.
 * Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: More discussion of pseudonyms and historical place names, 25 February. Agenda
 * Upcoming: Wikimedia Research office hour, February 26th
 * Upcoming: Wikidata x OSM meetup in Taiwan, March 9th


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Wikidata's Linked Data for Cultural Heritage Digital Resources: An Evaluation Based on the Europeana Data Model by Nuno Freire, Antoine Isaac
 * When Humans and Machines Collaborate - Cross-lingual Label Editing in Wikidata, by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee: video during Wikimedia Research Showcase (at 30:00), paper
 * Do you speak data? Wikidata as the Open Internet’s universal language, by Elisabeth Giesemann
 * “Wikidata is just a matter of facts”, by Andra Waagmeester
 * Does Biodiversity Informatics 💘 Wikidata?, by Quentin Groom & Deborah Paul


 * Tool of the week
 * Wiki Art Depiction Explorer is a web interface for adding depiction information for artworks in Wikidata by surfacing frequently used terms and providing suggestions. Read the full project description and documentation


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * QWiki, a mobile game asking geography questions based on Wikidata, now has a new version released as well as a website where one can learn how the game was made and how to contribute;
 * soweego is an artificial intelligence that links Wikidata to large external catalogs. The proposal for version 2 is out for your consideration. review of version 1 is open for discussion.
 * Wikimedia Developer Satisfaction Survey run by the WMF until March 6th (source)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Wikimedia community discussion
 * External identifiers: Open Food Facts label, BioLexSOE ID, Roglo person ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: applies to name of object, Country of registry, Poeti d'Italia in lingua latina author ID, generational suffix
 * External identifiers: RealGM basketball coach ID, Irish playography person ID, Irish playography play ID, Mirabile title ID, Mirabile manuscript ID, Filmfront person ID, Filmfront film ID, Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon ID, Global Music Rights work ID, SESAC work number, The First Amendment Encyclopedia ID, Indiegogo project ID, Glassdoor company ID, block creators, targeted block time, staking ratio, SOCAN work number, NHLR ID, The Washington Post ID


 * Query examples:
 * Importing from ThePeerage (Nov. 2019) added 50% to the number of Johns on Wikidata (source)
 * SF movies and series with a significant character known to have been portrayed by an actor who was born in Liverpool (source)
 * countries in Europe whose ISO 2-letter abbreviation contains letters not in the native language name of their country (source)
 * places names in Wales with Welsh pronunciation audio (source)
 * Map of types of GLAMs in Wales (source)


 * Development
 * Provide better redirect for statement nodes (T203397)
 * Wikidata Bridge: style fixes and font size adjustments (T239421, T243192)
 * making the edit based on the user's fixed/updated choice (T238662)
 * research how to do reference rendering (T244987)
 * showing the loading bar while saving (T237433)
 * More work on wb_terms table and fixing various issues
 * Removing all of pre-entity source based federation code
 * Fixing various issues causing errors in production
 * Investigate on an issue with pasting exact Commons file title (T196165)
 * Update the APIs to specify an errorformat and a uselang parameter (T242769)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2020-09
<section begin="technews-2020-W09"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be on all wikis from 27 February (calendar).

Future changes
 * There will be a reply button after each post on a talk page if you want one. This will soon be a beta feature on the Arabic, French, Dutch and Hungarian Wikipedias. You will have to turn it on if you want to use it. It will come to more wikis later. You can test the reply button. It was briefly shown earlier than planned by mistake on the four first wikis last week.

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Proposal at the Village Pump to streamline the welcome template
You are invited to join the discussion at Village pump (proposals). This may be of interest to you as a member of the Wikipedia Help Project. Sdkb (talk) 04:57, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Scheduling conversation regarding Project Grants Committee
Dear Masssly,

Thank you for your application for candidacy in the Project Grants Committee. We are glad you are interested in serving in this capacity! I would like to speak with you further about this role. Can you please contact me by email at mjohnson @undefined wikimedia · org and let me know 2-3 times when you would be available to meet with me? Looking forward to speaking with you!

Warm regards,

--Mjohnson (WMF) (talk) 22:16, 27 February 2020 (UTC)