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Test section
Test comment. — Qwerfjkl  talk  09:32, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
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Mentor
You are my new mentor, hello Koolcatz34 (talk) 13:12, 10 September 2022 (UTC)

Question from Searchingall (18:11, 10 September 2022)
HELLO May I use photographs of Dulcimers on a Dulcimer Website I am currently building. It will be called The Dulcimer Library. Many thanks Michael Horsfall --Searchingall (talk) 18:11, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
 * @Searchingall, it depends on the exact photographs. Most images list the licencing on their description page. For example, if you wanted to use File:Early dulcimer made in Belgium.jpg it needs to comply with the Creative Commons licence as described at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en. You can see some information by clicking on files. — Qwerfjkl  talk  20:48, 10 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #537
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 12, 2022: Sixth session of our summer/fall project working with diverse children's book metadata. We'll be creating items for books (works and editions) in Wikidata. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in our project series will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Links will be added to the event page when available. Wikidata Working Hour Event page
 * Webinar: Querying Wikidata: All the Knowledge in the World. Sep 15, 2022 5:00 PM Central European Summer Time
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #58, City


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Videos
 * Introducing Knowledge Graphs featuring Elena Simperl - YouTube
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #89 - YouTube
 * Wikidata Tutorials by OpenGLAM Switzerland
 * Adding the address of an institution (in French) - YouTube
 * Dataviz
 * All Tour de France's stage winners from 1903 to today
 * All Vuelta's stage winners by country of citizenship


 * Tool of the week
 * View it! Tool - (based on Wikidata) allows viewing a multitude of images that depicts a given topic on Wikipedia.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * You can send a contribution to Wikidata's 10th birthday celebration video until Sunday, September 18th.
 * Job opening:
 * Community Relations Specialist (contractor) at Wikimedia Foundation // Commons and Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Kloster- und Ordenslexikon ID, Hesperomys taxon ID, Colorado Plant Database ID, Digital Foundry game ID, IGDB game engine ID, Odnoklassniki artist ID, ZineWiki ID, Disney+ Hotstar ID, Odnoklassniki album ID, Mindat.org Glossary of Mineralogical Terms ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Transcribed by, annotator, SHAARD-ID, associated locality, cadastral municipality name, NARA File Format Preservation Plan ID, reduces
 * External identifiers: National Library of Indonesia Control Headings, ROSSIO Infrastructure ID, MTV Germany music video ID, fedpress.ru persons ID, epsd2 identifier, Naver game lounge ID, SR-Archiv band ID, SR-Archiv company ID, SR-Archiv record ID, SR-Archiv person ID, SR-Archiv print media ID, BIBFRAME Hub ID, eGardenGo plant ID, IAHR member ID, FrameNet frame ID, FrameNet Lexical Unit ID, IRIS Calabria IDs, legislation.govt.nz ID, Nintendo Switch title ID, Chess.com player ID, Chrome Platform Status feature ID, Wörterbuch zur Verbvalenz ID


 * Query examples:
 * Language Wikipedias having biographies on recent UK Prime Ministers - (source)
 * Has Wikidata been updated to show replacement UK ministers post the Great Boris Resignation of July 2022? - (source)
 * Map of Global Administrative Areas (GADM) with links to Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) datasets (source)
 * Places of birth of heads of the city of Riga 1890-2022 (source)
 * Things named after Queen Elizabeth II (source)
 * Essential Open-Source Software funded by CZI Science (source)


 * Development
 * REST API: Continued work on the endpoint for changing a statement (T306934)
 * Lexicographical data: Made sure that the new Lexeme creation page also is shown in older browsers (T311157), which was one of the last remaining issues before we can switch out the existing page (T307866)
 * Continued work on enabling sitelinks for redirects under certain conditions (T278962)
 * Spend a few days with people from Wikimedia Indonesia to discuss our partnership

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 13:32, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-37
 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 search servers have been upgraded to a new major version. If you notice any issues with searching, please report them on Phabricator.

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).
 * Syntax highlighting is now tracked as an expensive parser function. Only 500 expensive function calls can be used on a single page. Pages that exceed the limit are added to a tracking category.

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01:48, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #538
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * بوٹ دا عثمان
 * Task/s:
 * Dual script support for Punjabi Wikidata labels and descriptions in Gurmukhi (pa) and Shahmukhi (pnb), taking a conservative approach (only making "obvious" transliterations).
 * Addition of labels and descriptions entirely consistent of information which can be inferred from other language labels (again, only for "obvious" cases).


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call September 20, 2022: Michael Jones (National Library of Wales) on his work using machine learning, Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), and Wikidata with historical newspaper collections. Agenda
 * The Climate Knowledge Hunt Hackathon: IPCC reports → Wikidata event on September 24. Registration
 * Ongoing:
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #59, Election
 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Vue le vue, by Magnus Manske
 * Using Wikidata to check votes of the Wikimedia Foundation board election
 * Papers
 * Compositional Generalization in Multilingual Semantic Parsing over Wikidata
 * Hidden Author Bias in Book Recommendation
 * WikiGOA: Gene set enrichment analysis based on Wikipedia and the Gene Ontology (uses Wikidata prominently)
 * Scholia for Software by Lane Rasberry, Daniel Mietchen
 * Videos
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #90 #softwarefreedomday
 * Using Wikidata to explore depictions of nature in the fine arts
 * Wikidata and GLAM 2021 (in French)
 * Wikidata, Mix'N'Match and the Wikibase Ecosystems
 * Wikibase project "Resistants" at the State Archives in Belgium
 * ContribuLing 2021
 * Explore, Analyse and Translate Multilingual Wikidata Properties
 * Wikidata Lexemes, Where to Find Them and How to Use Them
 * Wikidata tutorial: How to get a Twitter user's numeric ID by "Report an issue" method
 * Dataviz
 * A tribute to Jean-Luc Godard
 * Presentation
 * New Zealand Thesis Project - Institutional Repository Day 2022


 * Tool of the week
 * WD-FIST is a userscript that checks Wikipedia pages for available images if the item doesn't have one (automatically or manually via sidebar link).


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The Govdirectory recognized as Digital Public Goods


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: grammatical person, grammatical number
 * External identifiers: DiACL lexeme ID, Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary ID, Royal Collection (UK) ID, Naver game lounge ID, IRIS UNIRC author ID, IRIS UNICZ author ID, IRIS UNICAL author ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Bank of information on the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus, river system's length, National Olympic Committee, autosuggest value, Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
 * External identifiers: Código de Identificação do Aeródromo, identifiant Championnat de France de basket-ball (nouveau format), JCDb ID, UniChem compound ID, Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures ID, BindingDB ID, Drugcentral ID, Probes And Drugs ID, VMH (compound) ID, ID for IFUW members database, Rowing Australia ID, Chess Federation of Canada ID, British Athletics ID, AustralasiaTour player ID, England Hockey ID, Athletics Canada ID (New), Golfdata ID, Latindex 2022 ID, British Swimming IDs, Professional Referee Organization ID, BSDB player ID


 * Query examples:
 * Timeline of movies directed by Jean Luc Godard (source)
 * Map of narrative locations of movies directed by Jean-Luc Godard (source)
 * List of actors and actresses who have worked with Jean-Luc Godard by number of movies (source)
 * Route of the Aberdeenshire Canal, as indicated by its remains (source)
 * People born in Rennes classified according to the number of links pointing to them (source)
 * French heads of state and government who were not born on current French territory (and after 1789) (source)
 * Where were the players in the FIFA 2022 Sticker Album born? (source)
 * World Cup Qatar 2022: The heaviest team is Ghana, averaging 87 kilos, and the lightest is Qatar, averaging 70 kilos (source)
 * Streets of Milan, Italy named after males (blue) vs. females (orange) (source)
 * Map of Roman theaters and amphitheaters (source)
 * Chart of English monarch names by cause of death
 * Cause of death of US presidents by party


 * Development
 * REST API:
 * Finished the endpoint for editing statements (T306934)
 * Working on automated edit summaries (T312811)
 * Making small modifications to the response format for statements (T317866)
 * Lexicographical data:
 * Special:NewLexemeAlpha now uses the new search profile for languages, which makes it easier to select a language Item for the language of the new Lexeme (T312853)
 * Finished the work on making sure that the example Lexeme falls back to other locally defined examples for languages other than English instead of the pre-set example Lexeme (T313599)
 * Working on making sure that only *-x-Q123, not *-x-q123, can be used as a Lexeme language code (T317863)
 * Sitelinks to Redirects are now available for testing on test.wikidata.org
 * Improved the wrapping and selection behavior of aliases in the header of an Item (T315991) Thanks Fomafix for the patch!
 * Improved the translations of the Lexeme and EntitySchema namespaces (T316770) Thanks to Amire80 for the patch!
 * Started supporting Codex work for some Wikidata-specific work needed in the new design system (T306932)

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


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

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:20, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-38
 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 Two database fields in the  table are now being dropped:  and  . Any queries that rely on these fields need to be changed to use the new normalization field called  . See T299417 for more information. This is part of normalization of links tables.

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).
 * In Kartographer maps, you can use icons on markers for common points of interest. On Tuesday, the previous icon set will be updated to version maki 7.2. That means, around 100 new icons will be available. Additionally, all existing icons were updated for clarity and to make them work better in international contexts.

Future changes
 * In a group discussion at Wikimania, more than 30 people talked about how to make content partnership software in the Wikimedia movement more sustainable. What kind of support is acceptable for volunteer developers? Read the summary and leave your feedback.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:14, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Growth team newsletter #22


Welcome to the twenty-second newsletter from the Growth team!

Newcomers tasks reach the 500,000 edits milestone — more data publicly available
As of the last week of June 2022, the newcomers of the world have completed over 500,000 newcomer tasks. In other words, newcomers have made over half a million Wikipedia edits via Growth’s “Suggested Edits” module.
 * About 30% of those edits were completed on mobile devices.
 * Usage continues to increase; in June 2022 almost 50,000 newcomer tasks were completed.

We have added some new data to Grafana. You can now check the number of edits and reverts by task types, or the number of questions asked to mentors. You can filter the data by wiki.

If you have any questions, or there is more data you want access to, please let us know.

Ongoing projects and explorations


We are continuing our work on our new project, Positive Reinforcement. User testing of initial Positive Reinforcement designs was just completed. Interviews were conducted in Arabic, English, and Spanish. The outcome has been published on the Positive Reinforcement page. We are now utilizing user testing feedback along with prior community feedback to iterate and improve designs.

We are exploring the idea of a Copy Edit structured task. We have tested copy edits in Wikipedia articles for arwiki, bnwiki, cswiki, eswiki (Growth pilot-wikis) and enwiki with two different methods: LanguageTool and Hunspell. We will share more details here and on the associated Copy Edit page once the evaluation is complete.

Add an image was utilized at GLAM events in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile. For an overview of what was learned from these events, read: #1Pic1Article I: how Latin American heritage experts added images to Wikipedia (in English).

Experiments analysis
Add a Link Experiment Analysis has been published. The most important points are:
 * Newcomers who get the Add a Link structured task are more likely to be activated (i.e. make a constructive first article edit).
 * They are also more likely to be retained (i.e. come back and make another constructive article edit on a different day).
 * The feature also increases edit volume (i.e. the number of constructive edits made across the first couple weeks), while at the same time improving edit quality (i.e. the likelihood that the newcomer's edits aren't reverted).

Newcomer task edit type analysis has been published.
 * Communities had expressed concern that newcomers whose initial edits were structured tasks wouldn’t go on to learn how to complete more difficult tasks. The Growth team data scientist conducted a Newcomer task edit type analysis to see if this was indeed the case.
 * Results from analysis indicate that this likely isn’t a significant concern. More than 70% of users who start with the easy task "Add a link" also make another task type. Read the full analysis and methodology here.

News for mentors
A new system for the mentors list

The configuration of the mentors list will change over the next weeks. In the future, mentors will sign up, edit their mentor description and quit using Special:MentorDashboard. This new system will make the development of new features for mentors much easier.

At the moment, the mentor list is a simple page anyone can edit, unless it’s protected. With the new page, mentors will be able to edit only their own description, while administrators will be able to edit the entire mentors' list if needed.

The deployment will happen first at the pilot wikis, then at all wikis. Existing lists of mentors will be automatically converted, no action will be needed from the mentors. 

Mentors will be informed about the next steps soon, by a message posted on the talk page of existing Mentor lists.

Learn more about this new structured page on mediawiki.org.

A tip for mentors

Did you know that mentors can filter their mentees' changes at Special:MentorDashboard (and star the ones that require attention)? This feature helps to keep an eye on newcomers' edits, helping mentors to fix minor details, and encourage them if necessary.

And did you know that mentors have special filters to highlight their mentees' edits at Special:RecentChanges? Look for the following filters in RecentChanges:,.

Other improvements

Some improvements will be made to the mentor dashboard in the coming weeks:


 * While we now offer some options for mentors to take a break, the option to quit mentoring was not easy to find. This will be improved.
 * Mentors at wikis using FlaggedRevisions will have a way to discover their mentees' pending edits.
 * Dashboard discovery for new mentors will be improved.

Recent changes and fixed bugs

 * We moved to a new Image Suggestions API. This new API will allow us to deploy Add an Image to more wikis.
 * Starting September 19, a few more wikis now offer Add an image to newcomers. These wikis are, , , ,.
 * Add an image has been disabled for a few days due to technical issue. "Add an image" added a blank line instead of an image. This has been fixed.
 * In order to know if Special:EditGrowthConfig is used by communities, we now instrument page loads and saves of configuration.

Have a question? A suggestion?
Please let us know! You can also read our FAQ page.

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Speedy deletion nomination of 1th of January


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Wikidata weekly summary #539
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 * 🧵 Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * JhsBot 6
 * Task/s: Add sitelinks to newly created wikis after wikis have been created and exported from the Wikimedia Incubator.


 * 🎊 Events
 * Upcoming
 * Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, September 26 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Wikidata Working Hour September 30, 2022: the seventh Wikidata Working Hour in the series will be a review session of creating contributor and publisher items in Wikidata. The primary goal of this session is to generate as many contributor and publisher items as we can in advance of the two following sessions which have to do with batch editing -- we want enough to make a good batch! We will review how to add items, but then reserve the bulk of the session for open editing, kind of like a mini-editathon! Naturally, participants can ask questions and share thoughts at any point during the editing! You are, as always, welcome to bring your own data to work on. All sessions in the project series will be recorded. Links will be added when available. Event page
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #60, Cows


 * ✍🏿 Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * 2022 September status on Danish lexemes in Wikidata
 * Papers
 * The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research
 * Videos
 * Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #91 - YouTube
 * How donations to Wikidata work (in English with French subtitles) - YouTube
 * BridgeDB & Wikidata. A powerful combination that generates interoperable open research (in Spanish) - YouTube
 * Presentations
 * Climate knowledge and the Wikimedia ecosystem


 * 🧰 Tool of the week
 * User:Bovlb/notability.js is a userscript that adds a small notability indicator to the top right of an item showing how well the item satisfies the three notability criteria. Left to right, the three columns indicate sitelinks, identifiers and references, and structural need.


 * ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Fork of QuickPresets userscript. Simple/minor updates were made to the script
 * The Elasticsearch 7.10.2 upgrade is now completed.


 * 🤔 Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: ePSD2 identifier, USK ID, Match TV person ID, Chess.com player ID, 64 Parishes encyclopedia ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: membership number, increased by, badge image, historical information sign, is mentioned in, sponsor
 * External identifiers: Professional Referee Organization ID, BSDB player ID, WebKit Feature Status feature ID, Microsoft Edge Platform Status feature ID, Twitter community ID, Linktree ID, Préfets 3, Observation.org place ID, expertes ID, OpenML dataset ID, identifiant inventaire Nouvelle-Aquitaine, MEXT school code, USGS Thesaurus ID, NicoNico ID, Asian Tour player ID, AIBA ID, Illinois Plants ID, Louisiana Plant ID


 * Query examples:
 * Smallest cities with at least two metro lines (source)
 * Chart of occupation of people born in New Zealander (source)
 * Capoeira practitioners through time! (birthdates) (source)
 * Gallery of mid-seventeenth-century bishops (source)
 * Song titles that match female given names (source)
 * Songs about Elizabeth II (source)
 * Student-advisor graph (Stanford University) (source)
 * Official languages of Latin America and the Caribbean! (size proportional to the population of the countries) (source)
 * People in the 2022–2026 parliamentary term of the Swedish Riksdag (source)
 * Software license, by year (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Hiking trails


 * 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
 * Continuing work on making the mul language code work.
 * Continuing work on making Special:UnconnectedPages scale (T300770)
 * Ensuring that Lexeme language codes using mis use uppercase Q consistently in the Item IDs (T317863)
 * REST API: Working on automated edit summaries (T312811)

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


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

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:23, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-39
<section begin="technews-2022-W39"/> 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 Parsoid clients should be updated to allow for space-separated multi-values in the attribute of links. Further details are in T315209.

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).
 * Visual diffs will become available to all users, except at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias.
 * Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information.
 * In the     namespace, pages ending with will be treated as JSON, just like they already are in the      and      namespaces.

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The Signpost: 30 September 2022
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg ScottishFinnishRadish
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Staxringold
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ahoerstemeier (deceased) • Ched

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Cyberpower678

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

Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
 * Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
 * Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.

Technical news
 * The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

Arbitration
 * Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
 * A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
 * The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.

Miscellaneous
 * An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
 * Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October.
 * You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
 * An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
 * Tech tip: You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete.

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Tech News: 2022-40
<section begin="technews-2022-W40"/> 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
 * Kartographer maps can now show geopoints from Wikidata, via QID or SPARQL query. Previously, this was only possible for geoshapes and geolines.
 * The Coolest Tool Award 2022 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 12 October.

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).
 * Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. (Last week's release was delayed)
 * Octicons-tools.svg The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> API module will require a CSRF token. This module is documented as internal and use of it is not supported. [5]
 * The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikimedia projects. Learn more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:22, 4 October 2022 (UTC)