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Tech News: 2021-45
 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
 * Mobile IP editors are now able to receive warning notices indicating they have a talk page message on the mobile website (similar to the orange banners available on desktop). These notices will be displayed on every page outside of the main namespace and every time the user attempts to edit. The notice on desktop now has a slightly different colour.

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 * Wikidata will be read-only for a few minutes on 11 November. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * In the future, unregistered editors will be given an identity that is not their IP address. This is for legal reasons. A new user right will let editors who need to know the IPs of unregistered accounts to fight vandalism, spam, and harassment, see the IP. You can read the suggestions for how that identity could work and discuss on the talk page.

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20:35, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

MusikBot's indentation level for WP:PERM
A level of indentation was removed from the template rfp, so MusikBot's automated comments at WP:PERM may now be overindented. Winston (talk) 09:40, 4 November 2021 (UTC)


 * ✅, along with User:MusikAnimal/responseHelper.js and User:MusikAnimal/userRightsManager.js. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  19:48, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

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Recent changes
 * Most large file uploads errors that had messages like " " or " " have now been fixed. An incident report is available.

Problems
 * Sometimes, edits made on iOS using the visual editor save groups of numbers as telephone number links, because of a feature in the operating system. This problem is under investigation.
 * There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error.

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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22:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

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 * The template dialog in VisualEditor and in the new wikitext mode Beta feature will be heavily improved on a few wikis. Your feedback is welcome.

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20:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 November 2021
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help with script needed
I need help with my JS script i used youre script loader


 *  Eug lou talk 14:33, 27 November 2021 (UTC)


 * @Euglou I see you installed User:MusikAnimal/userRightsManager.js. This is an admin-only script and will not work on your account. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  17:31, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
 * @User:MusikAnimal must I delet the script or will it delete itself ?? |  Eug lou talk 19:48, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
 * You used the script-installer gadget to install it, so you should be able to uninstall scripts just as easily. Look for the "Uninstall" button at User:MusikAnimal/userRightsManager, or in the heading when viewing User:MusikAnimal/userRightsManager.js. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  20:37, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

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21:13, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Need protection and support/help
Hi, I need some assistance on Deri Lorus (singer) page. An user continues to placing the CSD for an article. Not allowing me to do anything. Help me. Thank you! Nonsmoker0000 (talk) 08:58, 3 December 2021 (UTC)


 * I encourage you to run a check on the OP and compare with ; Nonsmoker seems to be a sock for removing the G4 template. Note also the other edits of this editor.  Java Hurricane  09:01, 3 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Nonsmoker0000 is indefinitely blocked as a sockpuppet. JBW (talk) 09:23, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

Font attributes
Would you please take a look there, Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-header/Normal? --Mahmudmasri (talk) 16:32, 4 December 2021 (UTC)


 * @Mahmudmasri This seems like a very narrow use-case, but I don't have anything against the idea. Still, I'd rather defer to someone else (I assume you came to me because my bot protected the page). To request changes to protected pages, you should make an edit request, in this case using the edit template-protected template. In my opinion it would be helpful to be more specific on exactly what changes you'd like to make. I assume there are also other templates used throughout the Signpost that you may also want to modify accordingly. For this reason, it may be worthwhile to seek broader input at Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost, since what you're trying to do is supposed to be a long-term change. Others may have input on the implementation. For instance, the words within CSS class names are usually hyphenated rather than CamelCase like you are using. Kind regards and hope this helps, &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  19:00, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

MusikBot and Template:already done at PERM
Hi MusikAnimal. Per the recent RfA RfC and,  will soon be unbundled from the admin toolset. Would it therefore be possible to stop MusikBot making this kind of edit at PERM? Thanks. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 13:52, 5 December 2021 (UTC)


 * I was hoping my bot was smart enough to actually check that the user has the said permission, and not just blindly assume it's part of the  user group, but nope! It's an easy fix, though. I'll get on that soon. For now, we should feel free to remind admins that they can assign autopatrolled to themselves. &mdash;  MusikAnimal  talk  19:15, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Maybe an automated reminder would be helpful, but I would guess if an admin as made it all the way to PERM that they've considered and rejected the idea of assigning it themselves? (For laudable reasons of transparency etc.) –&#8239;Joe (talk) 19:22, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I agree, and besides I'd rather not hardcode any policy-based logic. This bot task is someday supposed to work on other wikis, too (it's a long ways from that now, but I don't want to add more enwiki-specific things). So unless others request it I won't add any sort of automated reminder. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  19:28, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

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Problems
 * MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.

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).
 * At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at  . It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API (which was created in 2008), , will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module.
 * Octicons-tools.svg An old ResourceLoader module, , which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to  instead.

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21:58, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).



Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg A Train • Berean Hunter • Epbr123 • GermanJoe • Sanchom • Mysid

Technical news
 * Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page.
 * The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse.

Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
 * The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.

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Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Bot didn't remove template until a while after protection expired
Hey! So your bot is supposed to remove protection templates from pages without protection. However on Jun Matsumoto the last protection of the page expired on November 28. However, the bot didn't remove the template for protection until today. Any reason why the bot waited so long? From what I've seen the bot removes the protection template shortly after it expires. ― <b style="background:#0d1125;color:#51aeff;padding:1q;border-radius:5q;">Blaze The Wolf</b>Talk<sub title="Discord Username" style="margin-left:-22q;">Blaze Wolf#6545 22:37, 9 December 2021 (UTC)


 * @Blaze The Wolf It works off of Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates, so for whatever reason it must not have been in that category until today. A simple software glitch could explain this; with background jobs failing to start, etc., and at some point that job finally ran (or maybe a purge to the article) which then caused it get added to the category. I can't say I've seen this specific issue much, but the other side of this bot task (adding protection templates to protected pages) does occasionally miss pages for completely different reasons. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  03:33, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2021-50
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Recent changes
 * There are now default short aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> will go to the local language default for the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via the usual process.

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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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22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Musikbot incorrectly clerking WP:PERM/AP
Hi, It seems MusikBot hasn't been updated yet to acknowledge the fact that admins no longer have the autopatrolled right as part of the  group, as its still marking request from admins as already done (see eg ). Could the bot be updated to reflect the fact admins no longer have that right? Thanks in advance, -- Asartea   Talk  &#124;  Contribs  09:54, 20 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Oops, I meant to fix this last week but I forgot. It's now, though :) Thanks for letting me know, &mdash;  MusikAnimal  talk  17:16, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

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 * Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 10 January 2022.

Recent changes
 * Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> ) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis.

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 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

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 * The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February.

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22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

EasyWikiDev
Hi! I'm User:Ed6767. I'm probably best known for founding and developing RedWarn, which is now one of the most used user scripts on the English Wikipedia. I couldn't help but notice that you also develop user scripts, so I was wondering if I could ask you to try and give me feedback on my new tool called EasyWikiDev. It's a new way to develop user scripts quickly and easily using Visual Studio Code, and only takes a few minutes to set up and install on your computer, whilst saving you the headache of constantly having to save edits and reload the page for every single change to your script you'd like to test. EasyWikiDev makes it so you can develop your script locally, on your own computer, and only publish the changes to your users when you are ready to - and unlike other solutions, EasyWikiDev reloads the page right away when you make a change, so you always see the latest version of your script. Plus, by using Visual Studio Code, you have access to some of the most extensive and helpful extensions and tools available to developers right now.

If you're interested, you can find the GitHub repository here and a video tutorial that shows both how to set up EasyWikiDev and how to use it (which you should watch) here. When you have tried it and would like to give feedback, or just need help, please let me know by pinging me - you'd play a big part in my goal to make user script development easier for all Wikipedians. Thanks again for your consideration, ✨ <span style="font-family:'Roboto',sans-serif;font-weight:300;text-shadow: 2px 2px 10px black;color:black;">Ed  talk!  ✨ 12:48, 17 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Sounds very cool! I'm part of the IntelliJ family myself and am not looking to switch IDEs at this time, but I'm sure there are plenty who would make use of your plugin. I use a simple Node server (example) to serve my user scripts to the wiki and be able to develop from my IDE, which I'm guessing is basically how your plugin works. Anyway if/when you make an IntelliJ plugin, please ping me :) &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  19:12, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks, and Visual Studio Code only serves as a user friendly way to start the server (mainly for node newbies). You can use the server script without Visual Studio Code, just run  from the root directory of the project. ✨ <span style="font-family:'Roboto',sans-serif;font-weight:300;text-shadow: 2px 2px 10px black;color:black;">Ed   talk!  ✨ 03:09, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
 * @Ed6767 Nice! I applaud you for making this easier for newbies. We need more of that across the board! As an aside, is there a reason User:Ed6767/EasyWikiDev.js has everything in the global scope? I would recommend wrapping it in an anonymous function and assign things to the  if necessary. I was also going to ask how it knows what dependencies the script you're developing requires, but I guess the script you're developing is responsible for using   etc. (which makes sense). When working on gadgets though, you don't normally use   because the ResourceLoader definition has that, so I guess in that situation you should have a local wrapper script. Just goes to show how complicated this process really is! :) &mdash;  MusikAnimal  talk  04:24, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * @MusikAnimal, I didn't wrap the code because I wrote it in a few hours quite early in the morning lol but it should be, thanks for pointing that out - the script doesn't need any dependencies, it basically runs as a user script would, and indeed, it can get quite complex and confusing sometimes ✨ <span style="font-family:'Roboto',sans-serif;font-weight:300;text-shadow: 2px 2px 10px black;color:black;">Ed  talk!  ✨ 05:47, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#606060; background-color:#f8f8f8; border-width:2px; text-align:left; padding:7px; border-radius:1em; box-shadow:0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);" class="plainlinks"> Hello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Featured script
 * LuckyRename, by Alexis Jazz, is this month's featured script. LuckyRename makes requesting file moves easier, and automates the many steps in file moving (including automatic replacement of existing usage). Give it a shot!

Updated scripts
 * SD0001: hide-reverted-edits has been updated to take into account changes in reversion tools like Twinkle and RedWarn.
 * Writ Keeper: massRollback.js has added a rollback-some option (missed in last issue).
 * ClaudineChionh: SkinSwitcher (a fork and update of Eizen's script) provides an options menu/toolbox/toolbar allowing users to view a given page in MediaWiki's default skins.

Pending requests
 * Mass-patrolling at Special:NewPages
 * Taking up the mantle of an almost completed peer review javascript bot
 * Restore the Wikipedia Citation Tool for Google Books
 * Autohighlighting specific characters (Greek)
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests

Miscellaneous
 * User scripts/Ranking is a sortable table of Wikipedia's thousand-or-so most commonly used scripts; it includes their author, last modification date, installation count, and sometimes a short description.
 * Toolhub is a community managed catalog of software tools used in the Wikimedia movement. Technical volunteers can use Toolhub to document the tools that they create or maintain. All Wikimedians can use Toolhub to search for tools to help with their workflows and to create lists of useful tools to share with others.

New scripts
 * Ahecht:
 * draft-sorter sorts AfC drafts by adding WikiProject banners to their talk pages. It supersedes User:Enterprisey/draft-sorter, adding a few features and fixing some bugs.
 * massmove, a modified User:Plastikspork/massmove.js that adds a link to the left column, allows adding and removing both prefixes and suffixes.
 * watchlistcleaner removes missing pages (redlinks), redirects, pages you haven't edited recently, and/or pages you've never edited from your watchlist.
 * Awesome Aasim:
 * Infiniscroll adds infinite scrolling to user contributions, page histories, and log pages.
 * Quick create allows for the fast creation of red-linked pages with two clicks.
 * Caburum:
 * UTCclock adds a clock displaying the current UTC time.
 * Chlod:
 * CopiedTemplateEditor, mainly for CCI case handlers, allows graphically editing a talk page's copied templates.
 * DaxServer:
 * BooksToSfn adds a portlet link in Visual Editor's source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one inside a   tag block into an.
 * FlightTime:
 * OneClickArchiver is a custom version of User:Technical_13/Scripts/OneClickArchiver which doesn't prepend Clear to the top of each section on the archive page.
 * Jon Harald Søby:
 * diffedit enables editing directly from viewing a diff "when, for instance, you notice a tiny mistake deep into an article, and don't want to edit the entire article and re-find that one line to fix that tiny mistake".
 * warnOnLargeFile warns you if you're about to open a very large file (width/height >10,000px or file size >100 MB) from a file page.
 * JPxG:
 *  PressPass  adds a collection of tools for Newspapers.com including configurable automatic citation generation in five different formats.
 * CurrentSwitcher gives you links on the contribs page to hide duplicate entries, current revisions, rollbacks, huggles, twinkles, and redwarns.
 * TrackSum lets you automatically sum the lengths of tracks in templates like track listing and get total runtimes.
 * Nardog:
 * CopySectLink adds a button to copy the unencoded page title or section path next to each heading.
 * IPAInput allows you to type in IPA symbols by directly looking at an IPA key like Help:IPA/English and clicking on the symbols.
 * TemplatePreviewGuard warns when you try to use "Preview page with this template" with a page that doesn't transclude the template.
 * NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh:
 * ContribsTabVector adds "Contributions" and "Statistics" tabs to user and user talk pages on the Vector skin.
 * CopyvioChecker adds a "CopyvioCheck" tab to all pages, except Special (Vector skin only).
 * LiveDiffLink is a version of Equazcion's LiveDiffLink which shows a wikilink instead of a URL.
 * QuickDiff (by OneTwoThreeFall at Fandom) lets you quickly view any diff link on a wiki, whether on Recent Changes, contribs pages, history pages, the diff view itself, or elsewhere. For more information, view its page on Fandom.
 * Novem Linguae:
 * DetectSNG scans a list of 1,600 SNG keywords and displays them at the top of the article.
 * NotSoFast highlights recently created articles in the new pages feed, to discourage patrolling them too quickly.
 * UserRightsDiff concisely displays what perm was added or removed when viewing Special:UserRights.
 * VoteCounter displays a rough count of keeps and deletes at XFDs, RFCs, etc.
 * WatchlistAFD automatically watchlists the AFDs of any pages you AFC accept or NPP patrol, to help you calibrate your reviewing.
 * P.T.Đ:
 * TwinkleMobile enables Twinkle on mobile view (Minerva skin).
 * Qwerfjkl:
 * editRedirect adds a → link after redirects to edit them.
 * RegExTypoFix, a script for fixing typos, is a wrapper for User:Joeytje50/RETF.js.
 * talkback creates links after user talk page links like this: | |  (with the first linking to the user's contributions, and the latter giving the option of sending a talkback notice). It also adds a [] link next to section headers.
 * Rublov:
 * diff-link shows "copy" links on history and contributions pages that copy an internal link to the diff (e.g., Special:Diff/1026402230) to your clipboard when clicked.
 * Rummskartoffel:
 * auto-watchlist-expiry automatically watchlists every page you edit for a user-definable duration (you can still pick a different time using the dropdown, though).
 * generate pings generates the wikitext needed to ping all members of a category, up to 50 editors (the limit defined by MediaWiki).
 * share ExpandTemplates url allows for easy sharing of your inputs to Special:ExpandTemplates. It adds a button that, when clicked, copies a shareable URL to your exact invocation of the page, like this. Other editors do not need to have this script installed in order to access the URL generated.
 * show tag names shows the real names of tags next to their display names in places such as page revision histories or the watchlist.
 * Tol:
 * VisualEditor Citation Needed adds a button (under "Insert") in VisualEditor to add a citation needed tag.
 * Venkat TL:
 * ColourContrib color-codes the user contributions page so that pages you've edited last are sharply distinguished from pages where another editor was the last to edit the page.
 * Vukky:
 * StatusChanger is a fork of Enterprisey's Status Changer, which adds a UI to the script. (using Morebits, so you'll need to have Twinkle enabled to use it).

All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp×g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp×g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

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MusikBot
Hello, any idea why this was created? User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 18:52, 30 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Some faulty logic in fetching the WikiProjects from the talk page. I believe that code predates Special:PageAssessments. These days we can query the API to get the WikiProjects. I'll try to fix this soon. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  20:42, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject Good articles at 21:18, 31 December 2021 (UTC).

bot help
Hello. I went through Help:Creating a bot, and related pages, and a few meta pages regarding pywikibot as well, but I couldn't find the answers I was looking for. Would it be okay if I email you with two - three questions? —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 21:02, 29 December 2021 (UTC)


 * @Usernamekiran I am not a user of Pywikibot, sorry! But there is lots of info on Mediawiki.org and Wikitech, for instance mw:Manual:Pywikibot and wikitech:Help:Toolforge/My first Pywikibot tool. There is fairly large community of volunteers who work with this framework who I'm sure could help you. You could try asking your questions on the mailing list, at mw:Manual talk:Pywikibot, or in real-time on IRC at . Hope this helps. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  22:23, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
 * well, it's not a pywikibot either. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 22:31, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I see. Well, unless it's something sensitive, I generally recommend asking at public venues like wikitech-l so others can weigh in, and for searchability for others with the same questions, but you most certainly are welcome to email me. There's no need to ask first :) &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  22:51, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
 * thanks. It's a pretty simple, and non-confidential doubt. But it's that simplicity which makes it embarrassing lol. Hence the email. I will mail you in around 24 hours. Thanks a lot. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 22:55, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

sent. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 17:37, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I found mw:Manual:Pywikibot/replace.py, but not how to deploy it. Its in python though, not in ruby. I am comfortable with C#/.net but I think I can work with python too —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 21:53, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
 * updated on, I dont I like python. 22:21, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I also found dotnetwikibot. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 22:21, 31 December 2021 (UTC)


 * I posted in detail at Bots/Noticeboard, your input will be appreciated a lot. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 23:44, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! Hello MusikAnimal: Thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia, and have a great New Year! Cheers, User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk)  23:47, 31 December 2021 (UTC) <small style="margin-left:15px">Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year snowman}} to people's talk pages with a friendly message.


 * Same to you, thanks! &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  03:57, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Merchandise giveaway nomination

 * I commented on the Meta page but will write here for the record, that while I appreciate the sentiment, I have declined the offer given I am WMF staff. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  03:59, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Abhira tribe
Hello Sir Why incomplete information attached? I want to add some information in Abhira tribe please unprotection this Page 2409:4053:E0D:579D:0:0:5789:2B10 (talk) 07:45, 1 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi, I'm afraid due to frequent disruption this page cannot be unprotected at this time. You can make an edit request and someone else can implement the changes for you. Best, &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  04:03, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).

Administrator changes
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Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Mr. Stradivarius



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Cabayi • Donald Albury • Enterprisey • Izno • Wugapodes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Opabinia regalis
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Casliber • David Fuchs • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy

Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Cabayi • Donald Albury • Enterprisey • Izno • Wugapodes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Opabinia regalis
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Casliber • David Fuchs • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy

Guideline and policy news


 * Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.


 * Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of an administrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions.

Arbitration


 * Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , , , ,.

Miscellaneous


 * The functionaries email list () will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.

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My more menu gadget appears blank
I have rised a request on Teahouse and somebody pinged you there. could you check my request ?  O n m yw a y 22  talk 17:27, 6 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Replying here for the record that I followed up at the Teashouse and the issue has been resolved. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  19:51, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

TemplateProtector and sandboxes
Hi MusikAnimal, there have been a couple of cases recently where a template sandbox was used in article space and got a high enough transclusion count that the bot protected it and it had to got to RfPP to be unprotected. Do you think it would be sensible to exclude sandbox pages from the bot? In an ideal world recent editors of the sandbox and template would get some sort of warning that they were using the sandbox live so they could fix it. User:GKFXtalk 19:35, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
 * hmmmm - if the sandbox is being used in articles, it would be a ripe vandalism target though, wouldn't it? — xaosflux  Talk 19:50, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, it’s certainly a risk. I guess it’s not too much of a burden to go to RfPP, provided someone notices the problem. Automatic unprotection after the sandbox is removed from articles would be another answer; I know that would need to go through bot approval again. User:GKFXtalk 19:53, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
 * @GKFX I like your ideal world! That's a solution I will definitely look into. For now, we absolutely cannot exempt sandboxes. On many or perhaps most occasions, the editor forgot they were transcluding the sandbox version, in some cases with millions of transclusions. The automatic protection in those cases to me is more of a feature, not a bug, since it surfaces the mistakes. But as you say there are other ways to do that, too :) Thanks for the fine idea! I'm going to be extremely busy for the next few weeks but after that I should have time to work on this. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  19:50, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-02
<section begin="technews-2022-W02"/> 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg A <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> variable has been added to the AbuseFilter to enable identifying changes made by specific tools.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets are now able to directly include JSON pages. This means some gadgets can now be configured by administrators without needing the interface administrator permission, such as with the Geonotice gadget.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets can now specify page actions on which they are available. For example, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> will load a gadget only while editing and on history pages.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets can now be loaded on demand with the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> URL parameter. This can be used to replace an earlier snippet that typically looks like <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> or <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">.
 * Octicons-tools.svg At wikis where the Mentorship system is configured, you can now use the Action API to get a list of a mentor's mentees.
 * The heading on the main page can now be configured using MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin for logged-in users and MediaWiki:Mainpage-title for logged-out users. Any CSS that was previously used to hide the heading should be removed.
 * Four special pages (and their API counterparts) now have a maximum database query execution time of 30 seconds. These special pages are: RecentChanges, Watchlist, Contributions, and Log. This change will help with site performance and stability. You can read more details about this change including some possible solutions if this affects your workflows.
 * The sticky header has been deployed for 50% of logged-in users on more than 10 wikis. This is part of the Desktop Improvements. See how to take part in the project.

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).

Events
 * Community Wishlist Survey 2022 begins. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 18:00 UTC to  18:00 UTC. Learn more.

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Tech News: 2022-03
<section begin="technews-2022-W03"/> 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 using WikiEditor (also known as the 2010 wikitext editor), people will now see a warning if they link to disambiguation pages. If you click "" in the warning, it will ask you to correct the link to a more specific term. You can read more information about this completed 2021 Community Wishlist item.
 * You can automatically subscribe to all of the talk page discussions that you start or comment in using DiscussionTools. You will receive notifications when another editor replies.  This is available at most wikis.  Go to your Preferences and turn on "".
 * When asked to create a new page or talk page section, input fields can be "preloaded" with some text. This feature is now limited to wikitext pages. This is so users can't be tricked into making malicious edits. There is a discussion about if this feature should be re-enabled for some content types.

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).

Events
 * Community Wishlist Survey 2022 continues. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 18:00 UTC to  18:00 UTC. Learn more.

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19:53, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-04
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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 following languages can now be used with syntax highlighting: BDD, Elpi, LilyPond, Maxima, Rita, Savi, Sed, Sophia, Spice, .SRCINFO.
 * You can now access your watchlist from outside of the user menu in the new Vector skin. The watchlist link appears next to the notification icons if you are at the top of the page.

Events
 * You can see the results of the Coolest Tool Award 2021 and learn more about 14 tools which were selected this year.
 * You can translate, promote, or comment on the proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. Voting will begin on.

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The Signpost: 30 January 2022
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Edit Filter #846
Hello!

Is there any way that I could request some changes to filter 846 (T-Mobile/LTA tracking)?

2607:fb90:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 is currently globally blocked, so there's no real need to have that anymore. 2607:FB91:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 would be good to add, though.

Here are all the ranges used by T-Mobile as well: https://isprangefinder.toolforge.org/hint.php?type=asn&range=21928 (it's a lot)

wizzito &#124;  say hello!  20:10, 30 January 2022 (UTC)


 * @Wizzito I'm afraid I'm not sure what we're tracking with this filter. I don't personally use it. @TheresNoTime and @Beetstra are probably the better edit filter managers to consult about this. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  22:11, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Meh, I don't know this filter either - I don' t use it. I guess your best bet will be to go to the Edit Filter Request page and see whether it needs to be updated. Dirk Beetstra T  C 05:51, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi!
Are you the responder at Wishlist on meta right? Can I add another proposal there? –Ctrlwiki (talk) 02:07, 31 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Sorry, we are no longer accepting new proposals. I see you got in a few at least, so that's nice :) Hope you see you voting, and further participation in next Survey, too! Regards, &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  04:20, 31 January 2022 (UTC)


 * When the next wishlist? –Ctrlwiki (talk) 04:46, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
 * To be determined! At least a year, perhaps two years – since we've received a lot of feedback that it's better to work on addressing older wishes than running a new survey. You can watchlist Community Wishlist Survey/Updates for updates. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  17:21, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-05
<section begin="technews-2022-W05"/> 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg If a gadget should support the new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> URL parameter that was announced 3 weeks ago, then it must now also specify <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> in the gadget definition (documentation).

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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 * The user group  will be renamed  . This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in three weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. As usual, these labels can be translated on translatewiki (direct links are available) or by administrators on your wiki.

Events
 * You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 28 January and 11 February. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg AustralianRupert • Cimon Avaro • Euryalus • Jehochman • Nunh-huh
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg 28bytes

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg 28bytes



Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Evad37 • Galobtter
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news
 * The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.

Technical news
 * The user group  will be renamed   in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
 * The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration
 * Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
 * The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
 * A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
 * Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.

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Tech News: 2022-06
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Recent changes
 * English Wikipedia recently set up a gadget for dark mode. You can enable it there, or request help from an interface administrator to set it up on your wiki (instructions and screenshot).
 * Category counts are sometimes wrong. They will now be completely recounted at the beginning of every month.

Problems
 * A code-change last week to fix a bug with Live Preview may have caused problems with some local gadgets and user-scripts. Any code with skin-specific behaviour for <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> should be updated to also check for <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . A code-snippet, global search, and example are available.

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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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21:14, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikimedia NYC: Strategic Planning Survey for our community
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responseHelper indentation
Hi MusikAnimal! Regarding your responseHelper script, I think it would make sense to change the indentation for WP:AIV (line 53) and WP:UAA (line 173) from  to   to match the current bullet formatting used on those pages. This would make the script consistent with the recommended indentation in the editnotices for those pages (see AIV and UAA), fix an issue that was mentioned here, and it would also help my new script for removing false positive bot reports at UAA. Thank you! DanCherek (talk) 18:29, 13 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Sure thing, ✅. Thanks for letting me know! &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  04:08, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-07
<section begin="technews-2022-W07"/> 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
 * Purging a category page with fewer than 5,000 members will now recount it completely. This will allow editors to fix incorrect counts when it is wrong.

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).
 * Octicons-tools.svg In the AbuseFilter extension, the  function has been updated so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of   with   wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage.

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19:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

WP:AFC Helper News
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest. Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
 * AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
 * The template db-afc-move has been created - this template is similar to db-move when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

Tech News: 2022-08
<section begin="technews-2022-W08"/> 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
 * Special:Nuke will now provide the standard deletion reasons (editable at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown ) to use when mass-deleting pages. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * At Wikipedias, all new accounts now get the Growth features by default when creating an account. Communities are encouraged to update their help resources. Previously, only 80% of new accounts would get the Growth features. A few Wikipedias remain unaffected by this change.
 * You can now prevent specific images that are used in a page from appearing in other locations, such as within PagePreviews or Search results. This is done with the markup <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . For example,.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There has been a change to the HTML of Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory, and History pages, to support the grouping of changes by date in the mobile skin. While unlikely, this may affect gadgets and user scripts. A list of all the HTML changes is on Phabricator.

Events
 * Community Wishlist Survey results have been published. The ranking of prioritized proposals is also available.

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
 * The software to play videos and audio files on pages will change soon on all wikis. The old player will be removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Toolforge's underlying operating system is being updated. If you maintain any tools there, there are two options for migrating your tools into the new system. There are details, deadlines, and instructions on Wikitech.
 * Administrators will soon have the option to delete/undelete the associated "talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option will also be available. This was a request from the 2021 Wishlist Survey.

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19:10, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

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Banksy
Could you possibly unprotect this article? It's been protected for five years and the protecting administrator is no longer active. 156.61.250.251 (talk) 13:43, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
 * The best place to ask is WP:RFPP. Near the bottom of that page are requests for reduced protection.  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 16:05, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 February 2022
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Pageviews analysis
Why is the pageviews analysis not working for massviews and others, and why did the look for the pageviews analysis change into a Times New Roman font that looks like it hasn't loaded? Could this be fixed soon? Thanks, Nearly but not perfect (talk) 06:48, 27 February 2022 (UTC)


 * @I'm not perfect but I'm almost Are you using a privacy browser plugin such as PrivacyBadger or uBlock? You will need to disable it for wmcloud.org. The fix to the ad blockers has been merged and will soon make its way to your plugins, at which time you can remove wmcloud.org from your allowlist if you want. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  19:03, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
 * @MusikAnimal, yes, I do use uBlock origin. That's why it wasn't working. Thanks a lot! Nearly but not perfect (talk) 04:31, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-09
<section begin="technews-2022-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.

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)

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

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Modussiccandi
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg BOZ • Brookie (deceased) • Jackmcbarn • Jamesday • Jonathunder • Master of Puppets • Saravask



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Callanecc

Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Callanecc

Guideline and policy news
 * A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
 * A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

Technical news
 * The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project.
 * Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022.
 * The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.

Arbitration
 * Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
 * Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
 * The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.

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Tech News: 2022-10
<section begin="technews-2022-W10"/> 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
 * 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)

Requests for permissions/Pending changes reviewer
Hi MusikAnimal. MusikBot doesn't seem to want to archive this section. I'm guessing it's user error 😬, could you tell us what we're doing wrong? Courtesy ping for @Usernamekiran Thanks,  F ASTILY   00:02, 9 March 2022 (UTC)


 * @Fastily This is one is quite interesting... the bot is genuinely confused! Anyways, this is what User:MusikBot/archivenow is for. That worked when I used it. It archives as the most recent overridden resolution (✅ in this case because of the use of User:MusikBot/override} at Special:Diff/1076012502). It seems the bot's logic around archiving when someone doesn't have the said permission is perhaps overly aggressive. I will investigate when time allows, but in the meantime, User:MusikBot/archivenow should always work if all else fails. Sorry for the bugginess! &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  06:47, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Twinkle
Hi! MusikAnimal, I know you are one of the contributors to Twinkle, I have a request given on the Twinkle talk page, the concerned users made a Ticket for my request, but still no consensus is happening. What I want to happen is, at the moment, after I revert, I warn the user, and their talk page opens in another Tab, and this is Twinkle's default settings. My request is, I would like to open after I revert, the user talk page on the same Tab, like RedWarn, because I am a mobile user. RedWarn team process RedWarn users requests promptly. In RedWarn, after rollback, the Warn menu opens and goes straight to war, and the page will reload to the user who was warned. That's what I want to happen with Twinkle, hopefully it will work out, even if it makes option settings for mobile users only, thanks. —Ctrlwiki (talk) 12:14, 14 March 2022 (UTC)


 * I don't have time to work on this right now, but it seems from both the on-wiki discussion and the GitHub issue, that the consensus is to make it opt-in. So I feel there is a path forward, once a willing developer devotes the time to implement it. It's also worth mentioning Twinkle isn't (yet) designed to work on mobile, so the use-case is perhaps questionable. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  19:51, 14 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.

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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).
 * When using <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> 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)

The page of Djibouti
Can you either lower the protection For this page? Skyscapercity (talk) 17:23, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Mar 27: Wiki-Tent Brunch in Brooklyn
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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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WikiWednesday tonight + Sunday Wiki-Tent Brunch
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Tech News: 2022-13
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Recent changes
 * There is a simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.

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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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19:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
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Tech News: 2022-14
<section begin="technews-2022-W14"/> 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
 * For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were not tagged in the feed. This bug has been 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).
 * 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 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

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 * Starting next week, Tech News' title will be translatable. When the newsletter is distributed, its title may not be  anymore. It may affect some filters that have been set up by some communities.
 * Over the next few months, the "Add a link" Growth feature will become available to more Wikipedias. Each week, a few wikis will get the feature. You can test this tool at a few wikis where "Link recommendation" is already available.

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21:00, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Requests for permissions/Rollback
Hi MusikAnimal. I think we managed to break the bot again. Whenever you have a moment, could you please take a look at this section and tell me what we've done wrong? Thanks,  F ASTILY   21:22, 6 April 2022 (UTC)


 * See Special:Diff/1081358452. The issue here was the mix of ✅ and ❌, so the bot didn't know where to archive. I recommend relying on any combination of User:MusikBot/override and User:MusikBot/archivenow, but generally you shouldn't need the latter. The admin instructions (linked at the top-right of each WP:PERM page) is meant to explain this, though I admit it's still confusing! The bot could probably go by the latest comment with a resolution template, but I seem to recall there was a reason it wasn't programmed that way. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  00:36, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
 * (note I accidentally force-archived as done, when it should be not done... fixed now :) &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  00:41, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Ah, that makes sense. Thanks! -  F ASTILY   07:06, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Firefly • Sdrqaz
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ad Orientem
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Geschichte • Ryan Postlethwaite • Sabine's Sunbird • Wassupwestcoast



Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Evad37

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.

Technical news
 * Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the  and   rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators.
 * When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present.

Arbitration
 * has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
 * A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
 * A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.

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Tech News: 2022-15
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Recent changes
 * There is a new public status page at www.wikimediastatus.net . This site shows five automated high-level metrics where you can see the overall health and performance of our wikis' technical environment. It also contains manually-written updates for widespread incidents, which are written as quickly as the engineers are able to do so while also fixing the actual problem. The site is separated from our production infrastructure and hosted by an external service, so that it can be accessed even if the wikis are briefly unavailable. You can read more about this project.
 * On Wiktionary wikis, 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.

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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19:43, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Apr 24: Wiki-Picnic and WikiSeder in Brooklyn
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New administrator activity requirement
22:53, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-16
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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).
 * 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 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
 * Administrators will now have the option to delete/undelete the associated "Talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is also available. This concludes the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * On selected wikis, 50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents. When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements project.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS classes:,  ,  . The styles for those classes and   will be removed from MediaWiki core. This only affects wikis that use these classes in wikitext, or change their appearance within site-wide CSS. Please review any local usage and definitions for these classes you may have. This was previously announced in the 28 February issue of Tech News.

Future changes
 * Kartographer will become compatible with FlaggedRevisions page stabilization. Kartographer maps will also work on pages with pending changes. The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated.

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Tech News: 2022-17
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Recent changes
 * On many wikis (group 1), 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.

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).
 * 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).
 * Some very old browsers and operating systems are no longer supported. Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in very old browsers like Internet Explorer 9 or 10, Android 4, or Firefox 38 or older.

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22:54, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Apr 27: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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Tech News: 2022-18
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Recent changes
 * 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.

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
 * The developers are working on talk pages in the Wikipedia app for iOS. You can give feedback. You can take the survey in English, German, Hebrew or Chinese.
 * Most wikis will receive an improved template dialog in VisualEditor and New Wikitext mode.
 * If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Several CSS IDs related to MediaWiki interface messages will be removed. Technical editors should please review the list of IDs and links to their existing uses. These include,   and 3 others.

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19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!
<div class="boilerplate metadata" style="background-color:#fffec2; border: 1px solid #d6d442; margin: 0.5em auto; padding: 0.5em; width:90%; text-align: center"> Have a Happy Adminship Anniversary! Hey there MusikAnimal, I'd like to wish you a happy adminship anniversary! Congratulations on your special day, and thank you for all the contributions you've made.

𝕸𝖗 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕿𝖚𝖗𝖙𝖑𝖊 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 (talk) 01:32, 28 April 2022 (UTC) On behalf of the Birthday Committee OMG IT'S MUSKIANIMAL THE INVENTOR OF THE MUSKIBOT. I AM JUST IN AWE! 𝕸𝖗 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕿𝖚𝖗𝖙𝖑𝖊 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 (talk) 01:32, 28 April 2022 (UTC)


 * A belated thank you :) &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  22:00, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Potential MusikBot II Bug
I was looking through Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates manually as i do a lot, and i noticed that the bot had added the pp-move template to a move protected page (Anantapur), which makes sense. However, the protection level was set to autoconfirmed, which is the default protection level for moving pages anyways. Because of that, pp-move actually considers this an invalid use and flags it (See Module:Protection banner line 120). To be fair its probably more the fault of the person who protected the page for adding a functionless protection (I've already asked the acting person if the action was a mistake, so dw), but I'd recommend checking for this anyways. Hope this helps. Aidan9382 (talk) 06:12, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Note: The bot reverted my edit (Despite what the BRfA summary says about it not. I dunno, I probably somehow confused it or whatever), and ive noticed its not exclusion compliant. I'm not even gonna try edit war with a bot, so when you do fix this, please also correct the page. Thanks! Aidan9382 (talk) 06:15, 5 May 2022 (UTC) I think the error it had earlier today caused it to get a bit confused. I reverted it again and it hasnt added it back in its most recent edits, so im assuming its fine on that front. Aidan9382 (talk) 11:14, 5 May 2022 (UTC)


 * I think I may need to add some special handling for this. Thanks for letting me know! Right now I'm working on migrating all bot tasks to the new Toolforge jobs framework. The bot was edit warring with you probably while I was doing tests; it shouldn't normally look at pages that were protected that long ago. So anyway, there may be more of this today and tomorrow while I get things migrated. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  16:21, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-19
<section begin="technews-2022-W19"/> 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 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
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Colin M
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg David.Monniaux • Fribbler • Grue • Kpjas • West.andrew.g



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ks0stm

Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ks0stm

Guideline and policy news
 * 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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Changes later this week
 * 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)

MusikBot – DYK
Hi, MusikBot hasn't taken care of the daily DYK headings for a couple of days (User:MusikBot/RotateTDYK).   M ANdARAX       XAЯAbИA M    07:49, 14 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the heads up! Something apparently broke with the migration to the new Toolforge jobs framework. What's weird is it's reporting that it has been successfully running, and there are no errors. I'm going to have to debug this by running the script manually right at 00:00 UTC, which I won't be able to do tonight but should be able to tomorrow. Sorry for the inconvenience. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  19:56, 14 May 2022 (UTC)


 * I just manually updated the page to add May 15, and also to move the Current nominations section header to its proper place in the list. MusikAnimal, I'll be sure not to do so for tomorrow unless given the all-clear here. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:06, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I tested from my local and on Toolforge (running the script directly) and it worked just fine. This suggests the Toolforge jobs framework is to blame, since it's not outputting any errors. I'm going to get in touch with the Cloud Services team and see if they have any ideas. Otherwise I can move this task back to the old grid engine, which should work.
 * Just in case I can't get it fixed in time, I should let you know I'll be on holiday from this Wednesday through the end of the month. So in worst case this won't be fixed until June 1 at the earliest. I've got a lot of things to do before I leave but I will try to address this issue before then. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  00:13, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks, MusikAnimal. I saw that tonight's update was made (twice!). I hope you'll be able to get help from Cloud Services, or otherwise manage to fix things. Let us know if it's a worst case situation, and I'll do my best to do daily manual updates as long as necessary—after all, I was one of those who did them in the manual-update days before you added the job to your bot. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:28, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm happy to report that MusikBot updated the headers on the DYK Nominations page at midnight, so I think we're all set. I'll keep an eye on it, but I doubt it's necessary. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:16, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

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Tunneling into the replica English Wikipedia database via PHP on Windows
Hi. Nearly seven years ago you helped me with connecting to the replica database on Labs and we got as far as you can see your Labs MySQL credentials with.

I didn't actually ever get that far because, as I recall, someone else picked up the ball I was carrying, and... figuring it all out was just too hard and time-consuming.

Fast forward seven years and now I've picked up another ball which I resolved to hold onto until either I solved it or someone else took the ball.

I successfully installed PuTTY and finally logged into my account on

_____ _____   _____         ______  _____   ______  ______  _______   |    |     | |     | |      |______ |     | |_____/ |  ____ |______   |    |_____| |_____| |_____ |       |_____| |    \_ |_____| |______

"...a server of the tools Cloud VPS project, the home of community managed bots, webservices, and tools supporting the Wikimedia movement."

where after getting stuck at  I kept getting   until ~two days later I had an epiphany and remembered it!

Then  revealed my user ID and password. (I needed to type  rather than  )

Then I successfully installed MySQL Workbench and got it working by following these instructions. I've successfully used MySQL Workbench to make the same queries I made on Quarry (and got the same results).

Now I'm stuck at The next part is figuring out how to get your PHP app to connect to the database through the SSH tunnel... maybe with the connection open through Putty and your credentials defined in the app it will just work, I'm not sure. E.g. if the PHP app is looking for a local MySQL database and 127.0.0.1:3306 (default port) is routed to the labs db through the SSH tunnel, you might be all set.

See the example code at wikitech:Help:Toolforge/Database. I've tried both PDO and MySQLi and it fails the same way on both:

The line where it fails only specifies four of the nine or ten parameters I needed to set for MySQL Workbench to work.
 * $db = new PDO("mysql:host=enwiki.analytics.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud;dbname=enwiki_p", $ts_mycnf['user'], $ts_mycnf['password']);
 * $mysqli = new mysqli('enwiki.analytics.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud', $ts_mycnf['user'], $ts_mycnf['password'], 'enwiki_p');

The PHP installation manual says:

In the official PHP Windows distributions, MySQL Native Driver is enabled by default, so no additional configuration is required to use it. All MySQL database extensions will use MySQL Native Driver in this case.

So I assume that the other five or six parameters need to be specified in the MySQL Native Driver somehow? wbm1058 (talk) 17:01, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
 * To clarify the above, when I try
 * ..., I get
 * "No such host is known"
 * and when I try
 * ..., I get
 * "No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it" – wbm1058 (talk) 22:59, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Connecting to the database replicas from your own computer says to set up a tunnel so that connections to port 4711 on your own computer will be relayed to the enwiki.analytics.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud database replica's MySQL server on port 3306. This tunnel will continue to work as long as the SSH session is open.

Also, Windows 10 has OpenSSH included and the command can be used. On older versions of Windows, you can use the tool PuTTY by add in Connection → SSH → Tunnels the following settings.

I'm still running Windows 7 on my desktop which is my main Windows machine supporting Wikipedia 24×7. I have a Windows 10 laptop which I use for backup but which is often powered down. I can try the Windows 10 SSH command later but first I want to get this running on my desktop using PuTTY. My PuTTY session is still open, and my understanding is that I need to keep my PuTTY session open 24×7 to be able to run a PHP bot that tunnels to the database 24×7. I configured my PuTTY per How to set up PuTTY for direct access to your Toolforge account. There the  configuration says to specify port 22. Why 22 and not 4711 or 3306? All these port numbers are confusing for someone still trying to understand what they all mean.

I see from the banner at the top that "This user is busy in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries." Sure wish you had a nice talk page watcher or stalker who could help. Trying to ask these questions via email or IRC seems difficult. wbm1058 (talk) 16:21, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Hey, I solved it!!! I uploaded a picture of the key dialog box I needed to fill out. wbm1058 (talk) 01:54, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I think I understand now that port 22 is for the bastion. Only PuTTY needs to know port 22 to get bastion authorization. Once PuTTY is inside, it can be configured to allow my PHP to tunnel in without needing to know the bastion's port number. – wbm1058 (talk) 02:15, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022
Hello ,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently Special:ListUsers/patroller New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing on their talk page.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.

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Tech News: 2022-21
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Recent changes
 * 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.

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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 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers.

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MusikBot and educated vandals
Can MusikBot please have a longer delay after protection templates are added to an unprotected page before it removes them? Some more innovative vandals add protection templates on with their vandalism, and the bot's removal of the template makes rollback useless. Mako001 (C) (T)  🇺🇦 07:37, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 May 2022
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A message from Letsnotstart re: Revision Deletion, Vandalism
Hello Looking for a revision deletion for page Rory Phillips of all 4 edits made by IP 95.147.222.131 on 27 March 2022 as these constitute vandalism, containing defamatory and unverified accusations of abuse, as well as some frankly childish digs. Also a revision deletion of subsequent edits made undoing them If this content would still be visible in those. Appreciate your help and apologise for my lack of rhyming. I blame the timing. Letsnotstart (talk) 13:43, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-22
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Recent changes
 * 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.

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).
 * 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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Editing newsletter 2022 – #1
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The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at most WMF-hosted wikis. You can join the discussion about this tool for the English Wikipedia is at Village pump (proposals). You will be able to turn it off in the tool or at Special:Preferences.

The Editing team plans to change the appearance of talk pages. These are separate from the changes made by the Desktop improvements project and will appear in both Vector 2010 and Vector 2022. The goal is to add some information and make discussions look visibly different from encyclopedia articles. You can see some ideas at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

23:14, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Something wrong with MusikBot
It seems that MusikBot perm clerking is saying that all users have 0 edits in mainspace, I have checked a few contributions pages and it seems untrue, just wondering if someone’s messed up the JSON or if the bot is broken. &#124; <b style="color:green">Zippybonzo</b> &#124;  <b style="color:red">Talk</b> &#124;  12:44, 1 June 2022 (UTC)


 * I believe this was due to T309569; basically it was some maintenance the Cloud Services team was doing. I've removed the incorrect comments and the bot isn't re-adding them so I think we're back to normal now. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  18:26, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Tamzin
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Barek • Darkwind • Geometry guy • ProcseeBot • RoyBoy • Sean Whitton • Valereee • Visorstuff • WAvegetarian
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news
 * Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.

Technical news
 * Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages.
 * The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under . Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
 * An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.

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NYC Wiknic, June 26
Hold the date. Meetup/NYC Wiknic in Crotona Park, Sunday June 26.

Watch Meetup/NYC/Wiknic June 2022 for further details as they become available.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:31, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Barnstar of Awesomeness

 * My pleasure! Thanks for the barnstar :) &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  22:06, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Couple of questions about TemplateProtector
Hey! I was looking over User:MusikBot II/TemplateProtector for various reasons, and I noticed that, in the /config, for the,   is missing an  , so that might be worth adding. Bit of a picky thing to point out, but I thought I'd mention it anyways. (Small request. Used to be bigger, but then I realised im a moron, so sorry about that) Aidan9382 (talk) 18:14, 6 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for letting me know :) &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  18:53, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-23
<section begin="technews-2022-W23"/> 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 . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg A new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> function can be used in abuse filters to replace parts of text using a regular expression.

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02:45, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

julio marcio silva
🍡🍕🍔🍖🍗🍘🍙🚄🚥⛅ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2804:18:CD:C754:69D1:3AC4:B342:B9FC (talk) 17:01, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-24
<section begin="technews-2022-W24"/> 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
 * All wikis can now use Kartographer maps. Kartographer maps now also work on pages with pending changes.

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).
 * 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 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
 * Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" . This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.
 * The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences.

Future meetings
 * The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place today (13 June). The following meetings will take place on: 28 June, 12 July, 26 July.

Future changes
 * By the end of July, the Vector 2022 skin should be ready to become the default across all wikis. Discussions on how to adjust it to the communities' needs will begin in the next weeks. It will always be possible to revert to the previous version on an individual basis. Learn more.

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16:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-25
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Recent changes
 * The Wikipedia App for Android now has an option for editing the whole page at once, located in the overflow menu (three-dots menu Ic more vert 36px.svg).
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some recent database changes may affect queries using the Quarry tool. Queries for <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> at English Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata will need to be updated. Read more.
 * Octicons-tools.svg A new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> variable can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users.

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).
 * Users of non-responsive skins (e.g. MonoBook or Vector) on mobile devices may notice a slight change in the default zoom level. This is intended to optimize zooming and ensure all interface elements are present on the page (for example the table of contents on Vector 2022). In the unlikely event this causes any problems with how you use the site, we'd love to understand better, please ping Jon (WMF) to any on-wiki conversations.

Future changes
 * The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different.  You can see some of the proposed changes.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Parsoid's HTML output will soon stop annotating file links with different <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> attribute values, and instead use <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> for all types. Tool authors should adjust any code that expects: <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> , or <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">.

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20:17, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

June 22: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC
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Draft:Shrien Dewani
MuskiBot II which you run has placed my article "Shrien Dewani" in draft. Please kindly remove it from Draft's. Thank you kindly. WikiHuman2021 (talk) 23:48, 21 June 2022 (UTC)


 * @WikiHuman2021 You created the draft, which I assume was by mistake. The bot is removing the protection templates you incorrectly keep adding to the page. Only admins can protect pages, but this is only done when there has been disruption from other users. Anyway, if you feel the article is ready for the mainspace, you can simply move it as you have the rights to do so. Let me know if you need help. Best, &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  01:19, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Actually, I just noticed that Shrien Dewani already exists as a redirect to Murder of Anni Dewani. In that case, you may wish to expand the current redirect with the contents of the draft article. The old draft can then be deleted. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  01:24, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

@MusikAnimal Thank you kindly for your timely response and assistance it's greatly appreciated. There is no article/page directly for the individual Shrien Dewani, only a redirect to his ex wife's murder article. Therefore that's why I've created him his own article/page. If you can please kindly assist in moving it so he can have his own. Really thankful for your help. WikiHuman2021 (talk) 07:37, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Update: I've managed to successfully fix the redirect and Shrien Dewani's page/article. The draft page will now be required to be deleted which I may need assistance in doing. Thank you again for your help. WikiHuman2021 (talk) 08:23, 22 June 2022 (UTC)


 * I've just changed the draft page to be a redirect to the mainspace page. Have a great day, &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  14:49, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022
Hello ,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 at the end of May.
 * Backlog status

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. Barnstars will be awarded.
 * Backlog drive

Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.
 * TIP – New school articles

There is a new template available,, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:
 * Misc

There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.


 * Reminders
 * Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
 * If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing on their talk page.
 * If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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More Menu
Hi Musik. I am here to talk about MoreMenu which you have created. It is a really useful gadget, and it has helped me a lot. Analysis has been lot easy because of your gadget. But one thing I don't understand is, what is the need of the "user thanks received" section? Many things, like RfA, RfB and all are important, but why did you include the user thanks received link? Can that be removed? No, I mean, I am not telling you to remove something just for my suggestion. You can start an RFC if you want. But how can I remove that for my use only. I think that is unnecessary for me atleast. <b style="background:#bf4949;border:2px solid #000;padding:2px;color:#fffb8c;">Itcouldbepossible</b> Talk 14:33, 24 June 2022 (UTC)


 * @Itcouldbepossible Many people are interested to know how many thanks a user has received, as it sort of helps gauge how impactful their work has been. For similar reasons we recently added a "thanks counter" to XTools (T283542). Anyway, all links in MoreMenu have unique IDs, so you can hide them with your personal CSS. For this link, specifically, add the following to your global.css: That should do it. Kind regards, &mdash;  MusikAnimal  talk  19:57, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks Musik. Yes, according to you the "received thanks" section is useful. But thanks for giving me a work around. Where can I get the other mm ids from? And like this, can I also some general links that wikipedia provides, like for example, I don't need the "Current events", "contact us", all the things under the "contribute" section and many other like this. If I get the id, then I can set it to not display it. Thanks for helping out this newcomer. Sincerely, <b style="background:#bf4949;border:2px solid #000;padding:2px;color:#fffb8c;">Itcouldbepossible</b> Talk 05:55, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 June 2022
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Tech News: 2022-26
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Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikimedia Enterprise API service now has self-service accounts with free on-demand requests and monthly snapshots (API documentation). Community access via database dumps & Wikimedia Cloud Services continues.
 * Octicons-tools.svg All Wikimedia wikis can now use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua after creating local modules and templates. Discussions are welcome on the project talk page.

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).
 * 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 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
 * Some global and cross-wiki services will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on at 06:00 UTC. This will impact ContentTranslation, Echo, StructuredDiscussions, Growth experiments and a few more services.
 * Users will be able to sort columns within sortable tables in the mobile skin.

Future meetings
 * The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (28 June). The following meetings will take place on 12 July and 26 July.

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20:01, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!
(t &#183; c)  buidhe  20:26, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-27
<section begin="technews-2022-W27"/> 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 . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * 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 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
 * The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different.  You can see some of the proposed changes.
 * Octicons-tools.svg This change only affects pages in the main namespace in Wikisource. The Javascript config variable <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> will be removed from <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> and be replaced with the variable <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">.

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19:30, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

NPP -'NOINDEX'
Hi. Do we have an update on what's happening? It was thrown out of Phab because someone decided it needed yet another (3rd) RfC although the previous ones had clear consensus. Apparently one was started at the VP but I can't find it. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 07:02, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

I finally located the post at the VP. It was indeed only a notification about the RfC at WT:NPR, which still has consensus as did the earlier original RfC which got somehow swept under the carpet. So as far as I can see there should be no reason for anyone to post at Phab in order to stall the request. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 08:35, 3 July 2022 (UTC)


 * There's nothing holding this back on the developer side. It is purely in the community's hands. Some editors ( and namely) have expressed it needs broader input, which I personally don't disagree with. Consensus within the NPP community I don't feel is sufficient, especially with two functionaries -- one of them a bureaucrat -- questioning if the current discussion accurately represents community-wide opinion. At any rate, I don't really have any desire to be a part of this debate. I would have been happy to help with the technical bits but that is already done. I suggest at minimum a formal closure by an uninvolved admin for the discussion at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers, but I think first advertising it at WP:CENT for a week or so would be better. &mdash;  MusikAnimal  talk  17:44, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

FixPP Behaviour question
Hey! I have a question regarding this edit and others like it. Shouldn't the bot consider using a redirect-based template (like R semiprotected) when sorting protection templates on protected redirects? Aidan9382 (talk) 21:53, 3 July 2022 (UTC)


 * This is a good idea, but then the bot has to know about redirect category shell and use it properly. So it's not a simple change. Unless there's a policy-based reason for using R semi-protected, I may wish to decline this request on the basis of unnecessary added complexity. At any rate I'm afraid I won't have time to work on it in the near future. Sorry! If it is causing problems, I can at least have the bot skip the tagging of redirects, if that helps. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  22:25, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg AA • Gwalla • Ioeth • Laurascudder • Moriori (deceased) • Nat • Rfl
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Lee Vilenski



Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Nihiltres

Technical news
 * is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users.

Arbitration
 * An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.

Miscellaneous
 * The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.

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Thu July 14: Astoria Beer Garden Wiki-Picnic
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Tech News: 2022-28
<section begin="technews-2022-W28"/> 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, the page title is now displayed above the tabs such as Discussion, Read, Edit, View history, or More. Learn more.
 * Octicons-tools.svg It is now possible to easily view most of the configuration settings that apply to just one wiki, and to compare settings between two wikis if those settings are different. For example: Japanese Wiktionary settings, or settings that are different between the Spanish and Esperanto Wikipedias. Local communities may want to discuss and propose changes to their local settings. Details about each of the named settings can be found by searching MediaWiki.org.
 * The Anti-Harassment Tools team recently deployed the IP Info Feature as a Beta Feature at all wikis. This feature allows abuse fighters to access information about IP addresses. Please check our update on how to find and use the tool. Please share your feedback using a link you will be given within the tool itself.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
 * 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).

Future changes
 * The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different.  You can see some of the proposed changes.

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19:23, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-29
<section begin="technews-2022-W29"/> 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
 * The feature on mobile web for Nearby Pages was missing last week. It will be fixed 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).

Future changes
 * The Technical Decision Forum is seeking community representatives. You can apply on wiki or by emailing TDFSupport@wikimedia.org before 12 August.

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22:58, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

responseHelper
Hi MusikAnimal, hope you're doing well. Using the script, doesn't work properly at WP:AN3. It puts the result in the header but not at the bottom. Thanks in advance for looking into it.--Bbb23 (talk) 16:09, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-30
<section begin="technews-2022-W30"/> 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
 * The www.wikibooks.org and www.wikiquote.org portal pages now use an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months.

Problems
 * Last week, some wikis were in read-only mode for a few minutes because of an emergency switch of their main database (targeted wikis).

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 external link icon will change slightly in the skins Vector legacy and Vector 2022. The new icon uses simpler shapes to be more recognizable on low-fidelity screens.
 * Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "" and "" instead of just "" if the user is already blocked.

Future meetings
 * The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (26 July).

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19:26, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

July 27: WikiWednesday Salon NYC (+Aug in-person for Wikimania)
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Tech News: 2022-31
<section begin="technews-2022-W31"/> 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
 * Improved LaTeX capabilities for math rendering are now available in the wikis thanks to supporting <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> tags. This completes part of the #59 wish of the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.

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 Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 0. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

Future changes
 * The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different.  You can see some of the proposed changes.

Future meetings
 * This week, three meetings about Vector (2022) with live interpretation will take place. On Tuesday, interpretation in Russian will be provided. On Thursday, meetings for Arabic and Spanish speakers will take place. See how to join.

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21:20, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

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



Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Valereee
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
 * An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news
 * The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
 * Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration
 * The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous
 * You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
 * Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
 * Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

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Warn the user feature is not working in ckbwiki
Hello MusikAnimal, I'm from ckbwiki. We tried to update Twinkle on ckbwiki and after updating the ckb:میدیاویکی:Gadget-twinklespeedy.js, we have noticed that the "Warn user on their talk page" feature is not working. I think ckb:میدیاویکی:Gadget-Twinkle.js and ckb:میدیاویکی:Gadget-twinkleconfig.js are related to the CSD options. Do you have any idea? If you have time to take a look at this issue, please feel free to use ckb:سخ article and the warning message should available on my talk page. And please, just try to use the first (A1) CSD because we already created the Delete and Notice templates with fully translated. Thanks! ⇒ Aram  Talk  21:26, 5 August 2022 (UTC)


 * @Aram I'm only so-involved with Twinkle development these days. I recommend asking at WT:TW instead. Hope this helps and good luck! &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  21:46, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I understand you and thank you for replying me honestly. ⇒ Aram  Talk  22:15, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

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New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022
Hello ,

After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators and, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.
 * Backlog status

Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.


 * Coordination: and  have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out.  will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.


 * Open letter to the WMF: The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.


 * TIP - Reviewing by subject: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated sorted topic list.


 * New reviewers: The NPP School is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here.


 * Reminders
 * Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
 * If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing on their talk page.
 * If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
 * To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

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Tech News: 2022-32
<section begin="technews-2022-W32"/> 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
 * GUS2Wiki copies the information from to an on-wiki page so you can review its history. If your project isn't already listed on the Wikidata entry for Project:GUS2Wiki you can either run GUS2Wiki yourself or make a request to receive updates.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
 * 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 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future meetings
 * The Wikimania Hackathon will take place online from August 12–14. Don't miss the pre-hacking showcase to learn about projects and find collaborators. Anyone can propose a project or host a session. Newcomers are welcome!

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19:48, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

WikiProject popular pages bot
Hi MusikAnimal: Sorry if you're not the right person to ping here; I got your name from the bot's talk page. The Community Tech bot's popular pages bot seems to have stopped working this morning. It was progressing nicely through this month's list until midnight last night. Now it hasn't updated anything today, despite the fact that there are still dozens of projects awaiting their list. Can you please check and see if something has made it hiccup? Thanks! MeegsC (talk) 08:12, 10 August 2022 (UTC)


 * It appears to be running as expected now. I'm guessing when you checked it was going through one of the really big WikiProjects such as WP:USA. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  15:45, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I was just about to come back and say it appears to have finished running. But I notice that it's skipped all the "newer" projects – that is, all of us who've added ourselves to the bot's list within the last few months. Is there some problem with those? I'm particularly interested in the report for the lichen task force, but I'm guessing a few other projects have been wondering why they don't get a list either! MeegsC (talk) 18:07, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
 * @MeegsC It's likely something covered by troubleshooting tips. If you or whomever is interested can confirm those tips don't help here, I'm happy to troubleshoot it further. I get these requests very regularly and it's almost always a configuration problem, which I'm hoping the community can learn to fix on their own. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  18:33, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
 * That said, it would be helpful if the bot had a log or something that made it clear why a WikiProject was skipped. That's something I can look into when time allows. &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  18:35, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi MusikAnimal. Well, the project shows up as expected in the "Project" box on the Page Assessments page, and we have a subsection on the page we've set up for the results. So it appears that things should have worked. Would you mind having a look when you get the chance? MeegsC (talk) 20:43, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I think I've figured it out. We should have put Fungi/Lichen task force for the name, rather than just Lichen task force. I'll change it for next month. MeegsC (talk) 21:45, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-33
<section begin="technews-2022-W33"/> 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
 * The Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia community decided to block IP editing from October 2021 to April 2022. The Wikimedia Foundation's Product Analytics team tracked the impact of this change. An impact report is now available.

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).
 * 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 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
 * The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 1. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

Future changes
 * The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different.  You can see some of the proposed changes.

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21:07, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

MusikBot clerking on RFP/NPR
I'm a bit confused by this MusikBot edit on Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/New page reviewer. The bot is claiming I have zero mainspace edits, which is off by about 27,000. Did I make an error in my application, or is this a bot error? Cheers, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 04:43, 19 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Commented there. It was a one-off glitch of some sort. My guess is XTools was overloaded at that moment, which the bot should handle gracefully but it doesn't… I will try to look into it when I have time. For now, I have personally granted you NPR rights. Happy reviewing! :) &mdash; MusikAnimal  talk  20:08, 19 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for looking into it, and for the approval! One-off errors are oh so fun to debug. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:42, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

NPP message
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For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated.
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Tech News: 2022-34
<section begin="technews-2022-W34"/> 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
 * Two problems with Kartographer maps have been fixed. Maps are no longer shown as empty when a geoline was created via VisualEditor. Geolines consisting of points with QIDs (e.g., subway lines) are no longer shown with pushpins.

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).
 * 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 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
 * The colours of links and visited links will change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear.

Future changes
 * The new [] button helps newcomers get answers. The Editing team is enabling this tool everywhere.  You can turn it off in your preferences.

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00:10, 23 August 2022 (UTC)