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Tech News: 2020-03
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade attacks. Since 9 December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can read the browser recommendations.
 * Special:LinkSearch has been moved from the "" section on Special:SpecialPages to the "" section.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are and . If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be on all wikis from 16 January (calendar).

Future changes
 * Deepcat and Catgraph will stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can now use the normal search function instead.
 * You can use  to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad was shown outside the list. This will change and you will see an error message instead.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:WikiProject Editors Forum


A tag has been placed on Category:WikiProject Editors Forum requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian (talk) 16:40, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Years in European Union


Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Years in European Union requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. buidhe 17:17, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
 * hi. thanks for your helpful notice above!! I went in and fixed it. let me know if anything else is needed. tagging as well. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 13:47, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid you jumped the gun in uploading the page. I think the idea is good, and I'm sure there is plenty of information available for each of the years in question. It is neither my area of expertise nor interest, so I do not think I can help much. Michael E Nolan (talk) 15:12, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I have just looked at the History of the European Union page which is very out-of-date. I honestly think it would be better to improve this existing article than to start another on essentially the same subject, albeit with a different focus. Perhaps this article can be put into "draft" status until more info is available. Michael E Nolan (talk) 15:27, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
 * thanks!! actually, I totally agree with you. and I totally agree with your recommendation above that the history article for the EU needs to be updated. just to clarify, the article Years in the European Union isnot a historical article, at all; it is merely a set of links, pointing to each of the articles that cover a specific year in EU history. So this umbrella article is no different than many other umbrella articles thats erve exactly the same purpose here, such as eg List of years in the arts, List of years in science, etc etc. so I appreciate your points, and I agree with them. if you want to update the EU article at any time, then i fully encourage you to do so. I appreciate your ideas. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 15:30, 29 January 2020 (UTC)