User talk:TheSandDoctor/Archives/2024/March

Administrators' newsletter – March 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Sdkb · The Night Watch
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg East718 · Isabelle Belato · Mzajac · Staecker · Stan Shebs · Sugarfish · Tamzin



Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg SilkTork

Guideline and policy news
 * Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
 * Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news
 * The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
 * Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

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Tech News: 2024-10
 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  page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the Wikisource extension.
 * Wikitech now uses the next-generation Parsoid wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the Known Issues discussion page. You can use the ParserMigration extension to control the use of Parsoid; see the ParserMigration help documentation for more details.
 * Maintenance on etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The  and  namespaces and  user right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made.
 * A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header.

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
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
 * The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See Heading HTML changes for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add  to your URL (more info) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (more info).

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:45, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from Ylizalewallen (22:59, 25 February 2024)
Can I change my username? And put About:BankofLewallen? --Ylizalewallen (talk) 22:59, 25 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi ! My apologies for the delayed response. I would recommend reading Changing username. However, you can't have "About:" as a prefix to the username and the username must comply with WP:UPOL, which "BankofLewallen" would not as there is a "Bank of Lewallen" in existence. Do you work for the bank? The SandDoctor  Talk 21:50, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

TheSandBot task 3
Hi TheSandDoctor - I just came across made by TheSandBot task 3 in 2019, where a talk page was moved, but its archive page was left behind at the old name. I've fixed the seven cases Quarry tells me still had non-moved subpages from task 3, but I just wanted to let you know for your information (although I appreciate that this was a few years ago now!)

All the best :) &zwj;—&zwj; a smart kitten [  meow ] 03:29, 2 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi ! (I love that username, by the way!) Thank you for this report. Task #3 was a one-time run from 2019 so any errors that it did make are not something that it is at risk of repeating in the future. I thank you for fixing that error and apologize that it occurred. The SandDoctor  Talk 21:47, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from Bs232 (11:59, 7 March 2024)
Hello, I wanted to make a page for my favorite music artist, named C2d, he is a rather underground artist. So there is limited info available on them but they did have a song with about 90 million listens. If you have any advice for making their wiki page I would appreciate it! --Bs232 (talk) 11:59, 7 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi ! My apologies for the delayed response. The notability criteria that you would be looking to demonstrate C2d passes would be WP:MUSICBIO. I would recommend giving that link a read and start looking around for sourcing. Without significant, independent coverage in reliable sources, unfortunately there cannot be an article one Wikipedia. The SandDoctor  Talk 21:44, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from OGOSADE (08:01, 10 March 2024)
How to fully write an art --OGOSADE (talk) 08:01, 10 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi ! I think you'd be looking for this guide. In looking at your user page, I would also point you to WP:NOT. The SandDoctor  Talk 21:41, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-11
 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).
 * After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed.
 * The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices.
 * Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost.

Future changes
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:02, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

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Question from NaahtYaarAryaaaah (23:35, 16 March 2024)
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Tech News: 2024-12
 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 notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher.
 * Octicons-tools.svg IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes.
 * Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown.

Problems
 * RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now.

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).
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC.

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MediaWiki message delivery 17:38, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from Smartypants327 (02:40, 13 March 2024)
Hello, how can I make an article be noticed a bit more? --Smartypants327 (talk) 02:40, 13 March 2024 (UTC)


 * What do you mean? The SandDoctor  Talk 00:59, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
 * How do you get more views on your article Smartypants327 (talk) 02:43, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Could you link the article that you're referring to? I am afraid that I do not think I am following what you're asking. The SandDoctor  Talk 04:56, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
 * 2024 KBO League season Smartypants327 (talk) 16:41, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from Mushtaq Ahmad Khan (RA) (12:42, 20 March 2024)
Which cite sources are not reliable for Wikipedias article --Mushtaq Ahmad Khan (RA) (talk) 12:42, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Sock blocked. --Yamla (talk) 15:55, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from Darko100x (20:01, 20 March 2024)
Hey! How can I create a new article? --Darko100x (talk) 20:02, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-13
 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 An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin. A checklist is provided for site admins to follow.

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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MediaWiki message delivery 18:54, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

WP:AE appeal
See my appeal at Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement. tgeorgescu (talk) 23:22, 28 March 2024 (UTC)