User talk:The Anome/Archive 11

2019 US Banknote Contest
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Tech News: 2019-43
 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' prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.]] The API sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as . API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives.

Problems
 * There is a translation tool we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed.
 * The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (calendar).
 * Reference Previews will be a beta feature on all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 October. See how to join.

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Chera dynasty
Extended confirmed protection: Needed - High level of deliberate vandalism. StephenPaa (talk) 11:31, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Category:Universities in Stockholm
Hi, do you remember creating Category:Universities in Stockholm in 2016? It looks like a near duplicate of Category:Higher education in Stockholm, but only contains three former women's colleges, so I think it could be merged with Category:Defunct universities and colleges in Sweden. TSventon (talk) 10:55, 25 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the heads-up. I've recategorized the articles, and deleted the category. -- The Anome (talk) 13:08, 25 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank you, it is always good to avoid an unnecessary CfD discussion. TSventon (talk) 08:27, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-44
 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 post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
 * Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist.
 * You can share feedback and ideas on the Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
 * Octicons-tools.svg OOUI now allows using  (pixels) instead of   (em) for some specific cases.

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).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named  to  . The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can know more about it and tell the developers if you want to try this out on your wiki first.

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Relay Ball games
I seen you add Quidditch I would like to add this sport Relay Ball Relay Ball also known as Relayball is a ball and sports game developed by Zane Gardner and is created in his back yard of DeKalb Junction, New York and it's a non contact sport involves passing. ... Developed as passing game designed for all players with all types of abilities to enjoy the game. Relayball47 (talk) 16:59, 30 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia is generally not a place to publish original research. If you wanted to add an article about this, you would first need to be able to demonstrate that the game had received coverage in multiple verifiable reliable sources. -- The Anome (talk) 11:06, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

I do have a medium app for use Relayball47 (talk) 00:01, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Relay Ball Medium
https://medium.com/@zanegardner/relay-ball-a-new-ball-and-game-sport-idea-developed-by-zane-gardner-you-kick-the-ball-and-try-to-5d76371dd5d1 Relayball47 (talk) 00:04, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Can this happen new and unique sports
https://www.topendsports.com/sport/new/list.htm Some sports don’t get enough recognition I do believe Relayball47 (talk) 00:24, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-45
 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
 * At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites.

Changes later this week
 * can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use  to set a different default block length for IP editors.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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"Computing platform (version 2)" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Computing platform (version 2). Since you had some involvement with the Computing platform (version 2) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 08:40, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

Bussy4life
Please revoke TP access for user:Bussy4life asap. He is posting lewd pics. CLCStudent (talk) 15:24, 9 November 2019 (UTC)


 * I've done so, and indef protected their talk page. -- The Anome (talk) 15:30, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you! CLCStudent (talk) 15:31, 9 November 2019 (UTC)


 * You might also want to delete the edit summaries from the edits in the sandbox that got him blocked in the first place for those contain the same image. CLCStudent (talk) 15:32, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I have just done so, and I've also put the image on the Bad Image List. -- The Anome (talk) 15:46, 9 November 2019 (UTC)


 * He is back as user:IloveCLCstudent. CLCStudent (talk) 15:51, 9 November 2019 (UTC)


 * This sounds like a job for WP:AN/I. -- The Anome (talk) 17:54, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-46
 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
 * MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.

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

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.

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Block?
Why have you blocked 4o4NotFoundBot? Wikipedia’s bot policy states that unauthorized bots may still edit their owner’s subpages. Please consider unblocking it. You are making Mr.PHP very sad.

😥, E Super Maker (talk) 00:52, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

Unblock
I've unblocked User:TTMzero GmbH now User:Opt.Reg.19 after processing the rename. Let me know if I missed something and I shouldn't have unblocked.  Maxim (talk)  02:21, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-47
 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
 * You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the  database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames.

Changes later this week
 * You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2019-48
 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
 * The mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script.
 * Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view.

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Coords on WikiData
Hi, your bot added a {coord missing} on this page, but the coordinate is already available at WikiData. Aren't you checking there first? —capmo (talk) 16:37, 27 November 2019 (UTC)


 * I'm not currently doing this, as the problem is a bit more complex than it first appears. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geographical coordinates for current discussion of how this might be fixed. -- The Anome (talk) 16:57, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-49
 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
 * Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The  magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns   (empty string). When you read a page it returns   (dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces.

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DS alert
QuackGuru ( talk ) 13:23, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

The Anomebot2 and blank lines preceding stub templates
Don't know if this has been brought up before. It's long-standing custom to have two blank lines before stub templates, as described at (WP:STUBSPACING). But The Anomebot2 removes these when it places the &#123;&#123;coord missing&#125;&#125; template. Should this be the case? --Paul_012 (talk) 13:26, 5 December 2019 (UTC)


 * It shouldn't be: the bot tries to place the tag before the category and DEFAULTSORT lines, if present, which should precede the stub templates, which should by convention be the final lines in the source text. Can you give me an example of this happening? If it is, I will do my best to fix it. -- The Anome (talk) 18:55, 5 December 2019 (UTC)


 * The bot's latest edit is one example. --Paul_012 (talk) 00:45, 6 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I'll work on fixing it. -- The Anome (talk) 12:05, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-50
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Recent changes
 * Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article.

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Tech News: 2019-51
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Problems
 * The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again.
 * Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem.

Changes later this week
 * You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now.

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Nomination of Color magazine for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Color magazine is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Color magazine until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Clarityfiend (talk) 07:10, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-52
<section begin="technews-2019-W52"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News
 * Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.

Recent changes
 * All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "advanced mode".

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

Future changes
 * You can use  in the URL to change the user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if Javascript is not working in your browser.

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Good luck
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:blue; background-color:#fff; border-width:2px; text-align:left; padding:8px; " class="plainlinks"> 豊かな十年へようこそ/WELCOME TO THE D20s Miraclepine wishes you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and a prosperous decade of change and fortune. このミラPはThe Anomeたちのメリークリスマスも新年も変革と幸運の豊かな十年をおめでとうございます！ フレフレ、みんなの未来！/GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR FUTURE! ミラP 04:05, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

Resources for finding county-level statistics

 * Census QuickFacts
 * Social Capital Variables Spreadsheet for 2014, PennState College of Agricultural Sciences, Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
 * Social Capital Project: Social Capital Index Data spreadsheet accompanying the U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, Social Capital Project. “The Geography of Social Capital in America.” Report prepared by the Vice Chairman’s staff, 115th Cong., 2nd Sess. (April 2018)
 * Religious statistics by county
 * PeakVisor, search for "X County" to find high points in a county
 * ebird, gives bird species lists for each county
 * Midwest Herbaria, search to generate plant species lists for each county
 * Mycoportal, search to generate fungus and bryophyte species lists
 * NASS QuickStats database, gives agricultural figures by county for many data points
 * bestplaces.net--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 21:31, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-02
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Changes later this week
 * When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 January. It will be on all wikis from 9 January (calendar).

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Fixing wikibot blank line behavior
Thanks for your bug report. After the Christmas break, I've tidied up my old and rather sprawling bot codebase, which includes almost a decade of spaghetti code, and isolated the lines of code which cause the unwanted behavior into a single subroutine. I'll do a fix tomorrow, then go back to running the bot. Thanks for giving me the incentive to clean things up. -- The Anome (talk) 00:02, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-03
<section begin="technews-2020-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
 * 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  tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The timing for this cut may change. You can discuss in Phabricator if this affects you.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can read about coming technical events and mentoring interns.

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Discussion at Template talk:2019 SI redefinition
You are invited to join the discussion at Template talk:2019 SI redefinition. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 09:59, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-05
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Problems
 * Some mobile diffs have problems. A couple of buttons are not shown. Structured data diffs on Commons are confusing. The developers are working on fixing it.
 * Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions can't move discussion pages. This is a bug. The developers are working on fixing it.

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

Future changes
 * There is JavaScript code on Special:Undelete for administrators that makes it possible to automatically select multiple checkboxes by holding the "Shift" key and clicking. This code is also loaded by accident on other special pages and on articles. This makes pages slower to load. This will be fixed. If you know of other special pages where this is useful please tell the developers at T232688.

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Pings must be signed
Regarding [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)&curid=3252662&diff=937977801&oldid=937977700], Help:Notifications says: "if the mention is not on a completely new line with a new signature, no notification will be sent". Jason Quinn will probably look for replies anyway so this is just orientation for the future with no need to fix this ping. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:49, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Ineffective partial blocks
Hello The Anome. I have noticed that two users who you blocked today are in fact not blocked at all: Special:Contributions/Sagehippyfuckup and Special:Contributions/Rinkutechservices. They are partial-blocked with no namespaces or pages listed to be blocked. This is because you either unchecked "editing" on the block form, or selected "partial" but didn't choose any pages to block them from. Can you have a look at them please? Regards, ST47 (talk) 01:38, 29 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Wow. Thanks for letting me know. However it happened, it is not a good thing -- I will try to find out the path through the UI that I followed that led to this. Fortunately, this only seems to have happened 4 times in my last 10,000 log entries, and all seem to be fixed now, but that's still 4 times too many. -- The Anome (talk) 10:56, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-06
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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 4 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 February. It will be on all wikis from 6 February (calendar).

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Tech News: 2020-07
<section begin="technews-2020-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
 * There is a new version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem.

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

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

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Merger discussion for Small penis
An article that you have been involved in editing&mdash;Small penis&mdash;has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Doug Mehus T · C  19:31, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-08
<section begin="technews-2020-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
 * Pages on Wikidata and Commons now load faster. You can read more about page load performance.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 February. It will be on all wikis from 20 February (calendar).

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Page protection
Hi The Anome, can you protect the Navin Ramgoolam page? Thanks. -KH-1 (talk) 10:55, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I've semi-protected it for three days. Please let me know if the problems continue, in which case further measures can be taken. -- The Anome (talk) 10:59, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Cat name
I do not work with category naming much, but Category:Amateur manned rocketry should be Category:Amateur crewed rocketry per this RfC. Would you be able to make that change or tell me how to?  Kees08  (Talk)   17:41, 23 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Good point! I've moved it. -- The Anome (talk) 18:13, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks!  Kees08  (Talk)   18:31, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-09
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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 25 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be on all wikis from 27 February (calendar).

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

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Albertype
Hi The Anome, I have just finished "Albertype" article, that was a stub and you participated writing this article. I have used your recommended bibliography. I´m spanish art historian woman, and I often create my editions in Spanish wikipedia. Please if you want to check it, because I am quite new in the english Wikipedia.

Thanks...--Pirandello3 (talk) 19:58, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for helping me with Albertype, the process is very similar to collotype and ThatMontrealIP has finished improving the article.

On the other hand, I would ask you the favor if you could review this draft on a Spanish disabled photographer and video artist, Víctor Meliveo, here is the draft I´ve written. I need some experienced or responsible editor to check it and say ok. Is it right? Thanks a lot --Pirandello3 (talk) 17:29, 27 February 2020 (UTC)


 * My thanks for the work done with photographer Victor Meliveo, cheers --Pirandello3 (talk) 10:25, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-10
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Problems
 * Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug.

Changes later this week
 * If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for.
 * When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security.
 * On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to.
 * 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 a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback.
 * There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
 * Octicons-tools.svg  was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list.

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Merger discussion for Shiloh Shepherd dog
An article that you have been involved in editing&mdash;Shiloh Shepherd dog&mdash;has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Cavalryman (talk) 02:29, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

The Anomebot2
I don't want to seem importunate, but it's been three months since the bot made a run of adding tags to articles. Are you having problems with it? Deor (talk) 17:15, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I'll get onto it tomorrow. Thanks for the reminder. -- The Anome (talk) 22:19, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm now running the bot: I had to do a fix first to avoid it removing formatting quirks from articles, something that turned out to be quite complex to do correctly given the gnarly nature of raw wikitext. -- The Anome (talk) 12:26, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks. Deor (talk) 16:59, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Perron (columnar monument)
Anomebot2 added " " to this article. The article does not need coordinates. I removed the template and temporaarily blocked Anomebot2 editing this article until the issue can be resolved. Thanks for help. --Robert.Allen (talk) 17:42, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Geocoord missing but not
On this edit of Statue of Unicorn Gundam, updated the coord missing template parameters, but missed that the page had a valid coord already. Not a big issue, just thought i'd let you know. --awkwafaba (📥) 14:29, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

 * please help translate this message into your local language via meta

Thanks again :-) --  Doc James  along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:35, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Idea for Bot
After walking through a Marina a looking at the boats I have had an idea, they most have transponders on them that transmit they location and basic unique identifiers. I thought if there was a bot that dripped that data into wikidata, we could fill in missing identifiers and allow someone use the "around me" function to find out more about the boats going by.

The idea is just in the research phase but wanted to run it past you as the owner of a bot that does Geo stuff.

I have found a couple of DB's that act as repository of this data

https://www.aishub.net/

seems to be a source of data for this but requires purchase and running of a transceiver so as to contribute to the database (not just use the data)

It maybe easier to do an air one first

getting the data from https://opensky-network.org/apidoc/python.html#retrieving-data and using http://www.airframes.org/ to convert the ICAO 24 id to something wikidata supports

What do yo think of this as an idea? Back ache (talk) 08:08, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-11
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Recent changes
 * There is a new search word called . You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 March. It will be on all wikis from 12 March (calendar).

Future changes
 * There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
 * The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year.

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Looking for action at Bonnie Vent with COI editing
User:Bvent2000 is a COI editor who has been editing their article for years now. The user has been warned about this (in 2016 on their talk page) but continues to edit their own article, making some very unhelpful edits. - R9tgokunks   ⭕  02:57, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
 * It seems the account also had a sockpuppet (User:Bventmanagement) which was already blocked. - R9tgokunks   ⭕  04:03, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

.MP4
Just an FYI, but Commons does not allow MP4 currently as the format is still encumbered in patents, making the format itself non-free. There are however a number of open proposals to address this at c:Commons:Village_pump/Proposals. G M G <sup style="color:#000;font-family:Impact">talk  18:56, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-12
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Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use  to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).

Future changes
 * If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface.
 * You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.

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Curevac
Can I know this company The more. David Nwankwo (talk) 21:25, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-13
<section begin="technews-2020-W13"/> 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
 * Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
 * There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 March. It will be on all wikis from 26 March (calendar).

Future changes
 * There is a project to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata.

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Unanimity, effective or otherwise...
Although one comment was "jhust" a comment, the same editor confirmed their support. So, in fact, everyone who took part in the discussion did support it, and you were righ the first tiime...the weather outside was frightful, etc :)   ——  SN  54129  13:38, 25 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I've changed the closure notice back to "unanimous". I feel better about it now. -- The Anome (talk) 13:43, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
 * No worries, it's not often we get some pure undriven WP:SNOW, so we might as well enjoy it when it happens :)   ——  SN  54129  13:46, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Requesting kind help
Hi,

Lately I created an article Draft:My body my choice (Feminism) regarding the aprox. 50 years old slogan. I myself want the article to be inclusive and balanced with global perspective. Since I am from south Asian studies I do have my own limitations, and article has rightly came under criticism being not global enough and not critical enough.

Since you have earlier worked on articles like Mouvement de libération des femmes I wish to request you to see if you can support the upcoming article Draft:My body my choice (Feminism). Like french wikipedians have suggested me with example links like


 * https://www.cairn.info/revue-vacarme-2014-2-page-1.html
 * https://cafaitgenre.org/2014/09/15/slogans-4-mon-corps-est-a-moi/

May be above or different sources you would like to support the article in some way.

Some people are getting confused with south Asian article already in main space named Mera Jism Meri Marzi but it has geographically limited context of South Asia i.e. India & Pakistan. Where as Draft:My body my choice (Feminism) is expected to be a global inclusive.

Requesting whatever possible direct editing / copy editing support.

Thanks and warm regards

Bookku (talk) 11:25, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-14
<section begin="technews-2020-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.

Recent changes
 * The beta version of the Wikipedia app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all wikis from 2 April (calendar).

Future changes
 * The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed.
 * There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback.

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Nomination of NHS Nightingale Hospitals for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article NHS Nightingale Hospitals is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/NHS Nightingale Hospitals until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Elshad (talk) 09:59, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-15
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Problems
 * There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April (calendar).

Future changes
 * MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user . This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to.

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Tech News: 2020-16
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Recent changes
 * You can now use the  search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic.
 * You can see wiki tools in the new Tools Gallery.
 * You can see edits from the Wikimedia Cloud Services in a new dashboard.
 * When you use filters on a history page you sometimes don't see any edits. There is a text explaining this now. Before it was just empty.
 * There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog.

Problems
 * There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 15. It will be on all wikis from April 16 (calendar).

Future changes
 * Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed.
 * The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
 * For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated  tag, as well as the use of the deprecated   parameter, will add tracking categories.

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Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools
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The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.



The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.


 * On 31 March 2020, the new tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias:  Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian.  If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
 * The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.  The team will test features such as:
 * an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
 * a rich-text visual editing option, and
 * other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved"  section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:45, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

COVID-19 apps
Covid19 apps monitoring through myData.org volunteers : https://trello.com/b/uKXApmGN/mydata-global-covid-19-app-list. You'll find also list from other sources. I'll update the page with the European apps. Regards, LaMèreVeille (talk) 05:20, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Advert tag on wikiHow page
Hi there, I am the new Community Manager over at wikiHow. I'm pretty new to wikis, so to help build up my knowledge I've been spending some time on Wikipedia - seeing how things work and what another successful wiki culture is like. This week I happened to take a look at the wikiHow page and saw that you placed an tag on it, indicating that it contains content that is written like an advertisement. We would only ever want our page to be informational, not promotional, so I was wondering if you might be able to share some of the specific issues or concerns that could be addressed to improve the article?

Of course, because I'm affiliated with the wikiHow project, I might not be the appropriate person to edit the page, but I’d appreciate the chance to find a collaborative path forward to fixing these issues. Since you’re the person who placed the tag, and a highly experienced Wikipedian to boot, I thought you’d be a good person to reach out to. JayneG2 (talk) 17:48, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-17
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Tech News
 * The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed.  is now  .   is now  .   is now  . This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them.

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

Future changes
 * Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011.
 * The font in the diffs will change.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar).

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"Afro-feminism" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Afro-feminism. Since you had some involvement with the Afro-feminism redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 11:05, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

"Landsmalsalfabet" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Landsmalsalfabet. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 May 3 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:45, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Silvercorp USA
Hello The Anome,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Silvercorp USA for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly indicate why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=&action=edit&section=new&preload=Template:Hangon_preload&preloadtitle=This+page+should+not+be+speedy+deleted+because...+ contest this deletion], but don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks!

Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.

Kingsif (talk) 21:57, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-20
<section begin="technews-2020-W20"/> 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
 * Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr.

Problems
 * Commons will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
 * Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 May. It will be on all wikis from 14 May (calendar).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer check multiple keys at once via  or  . You can use   or   to check one at a time instead.

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Sado-masochism protection
Hi, are you opposed to unprotecting Sado-masochism? I don't see any history of vandalism. <b style="font-family:Papyrus"> Anarchyte </b> ( talk •  work ) 10:22, 23 April 2020 (UTC)


 * I think this particular page wasn't a vandalism target, but got protected as part of a series of page protections applying to a range of similar pages that were the target of vandalism. At the moment, it's only semi-protected, so any autoconfirmed editor can edit it, and I think that's probably OK for now. -- The Anome (talk) 11:48, 23 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Note:I've also updated it, and several other similar other redirects, to point to Sadomasochism, instead of BDSM. -- The Anome (talk) 12:42, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Sado-masochism, Consensual sadomasochism, and Sado-Masochism are the only remaining pages in this series that are semi-protected. The rest, initially protected by, have been unprotected because she agreed that they were no longer under threat. I'll default to your ruling on these remaining ones, but I thought you should know that. Additionally, I'd like your opinion on another redirect you protected. was indef full protected after a couple of socks attacked it. Do you think that four years later, we can unprotect it? <b style="font-family:Papyrus"> Anarchyte </b> ( talk  &#8226;  work ) 09:26, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ Thanks for letting me know. Since I protected these to keep them in sync with the others which have now been unprotected. I can't now see any reason to keep them protected. -- The Anome (talk) 09:41, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I've also unprotected WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP. -- The Anome (talk) 09:43, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I've got some more redirects that I'd like you to vet before I take any action. On this page, if you sort by protector, there are some more that relate to other areas of BDSM. I've opened some histories at random and none had any vandalism since you protected them. As it stands, this series of redirects is comprehensively protected, so if you decide to unprotect these I'll follow up with any related ones and try to make sure they're similarly unprotected (if I find any). <b style="font-family:Papyrus"> Anarchyte </b> ( talk •  work ) 09:49, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Just a ping to remind you as you might've missed this message. Cheers, <b style="font-family:Papyrus"> Anarchyte </b> ( talk &#8226;  work ) 11:35, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Recent LTA block
Thanks. Might also want to revdel their usertalk contribs. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 18:15, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-21
<section begin="technews-2020-W21"/> 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
 * If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis.

Problems
 * There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them.
 * Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.

Changes later this week
 * The Wikipedia app for Android can let users add depicts on Commons. The beta version used computer-aided tagging. This was removed to get more specific depicts.
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,   and  . They will have to remove  . You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some CSS for the Vector skin has been changed. This affects ,  ,  ,   and  . They can no longer use  . You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how.

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Tech News: 2020-22
<section begin="technews-2020-W22"/> 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
 * The visual editor will now work in the Modern skin. The changes that needed to happen for this to work could cause problems for some scripts or gadgets.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 27. It will be on all wikis from May 28 (calendar).

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--Bejnar (talk) 16:04, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-23
<section begin="technews-2020-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.

Recent changes
 * There is a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos.

Problems
 * There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May.
 * The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can turn these notifications off for individual pages. You can soon turn them off also in the notifications you get.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 June. It will be on all wikis from 4 June (calendar).

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username block
Hi Anome, I saw you just blocked. This is a person who joined Wikipedia to improve articles related to women's health, anatomy, reproductive health, family planning, etc. They are not selling a service or trolling. Could you elaborate on the block a bit more? Is it that any anatomy is inappropriate in a username? Thanks. --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:12, 2 June 2020 (UTC)


 * It sounds a lot like trolling to me, but I take your point. I will unblock it and notify them about the concern about the name. -- The Anome (talk) 22:16, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry, left part out. The person is participating in a program I'm involved with, so I can confirm they are not a troll. Don't know if this was sufficiently implied by my previous message. Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:37, 2 June 2020 (UTC)


 * I'm happy to un-warn them, then. But I hope you can see the username is still quite unfortunate. -- The Anome (talk) 23:00, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I mean, I can see where it might make sense to disallow reproductive system references or certain parts of human anatomy in usernames, but I wanted to be clear that's the case so I could provide advice to the person accordingly. I'm not all that up on the finer points of the username policy in that regard. It just seems like context should matter, and someone using an anatomical term directly related to their scientific interest in contributing to Wikipedia seems like it's at least on the ok side of the gray area. YMMV. :) Thanks. Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 02:00, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Unblock request
I am denied to edit from my office computer because of an IP block. Please give me a way to edit from my office computer. I am not sure whether IP block exemption works in this case. ~SS49~  {talk}  12:51, 3 June 2020 (UTC)


 * IP block exemption should work for this. You can find out how to request it at IP block exemption. -- The Anome (talk) 13:09, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks The Anome. I requested this at Unblock Ticket Request System. I unintentionally made IP address public in earlier edit in this thread. Please make it invisible by deleting the revision or by any means. Thanks again. ~SS49~   {talk}  13:23, 3 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi The Anome! My request is not responded yet. Please grant IP block exemption privilege. Thanks! ~SS49~   {talk}  03:28, 4 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Granted for the length of time needed. You shouldn't need it indefinitely, so I've set the IP block exemption to expire after the IP block expires. -- The Anome (talk) 10:36, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much. ~SS49~   {talk}  10:45, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

"Paramathi Velur ( Namakkal district)" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Paramathi Velur ( Namakkal district). The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 June 7 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 21:16, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-24
<section begin="technews-2020-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
 * Some articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead. A third click will now take you back to the original sorting.
 * Self-closed tags now work as in the HTML5 specifications. This means you should stop using some of them.  is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work.   can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect   or.
 * There is a banner called . It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on   so that editors know to test and style for mobile too.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11 June (calendar).

Future changes
 * A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 118 wikis need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected.

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Editing news 2020 #2 – Quick updates
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This edition of the Editing newsletter includes information the Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. The central project page is on MediaWiki.org.


 * Reply tool : This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature will get new features soon.  The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing  . You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster.  Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
 * New requirements for user signatures : Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable.  Most editors will not be affected.
 * New discussion tool : The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions.   You can see the initial design on the project page.
 * Research on the use of talk pages : The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles.  We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:11, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-25
<section begin="technews-2020-W25"/> 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 Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.

Problems
 * There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed.
 * Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June (calendar).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help.
 * The selectors  and   will no longer work in the Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts.    should be replaced by  .   should be replaced by.

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Tech News: 2020-26
<section begin="technews-2020-W26"/> 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 are some new tools to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to CSS selectors.  should be replaced with   to fix this.

Changes later this week
 * The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can give feedback.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (calendar).

Future changes
 * A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 91 wikis still need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected.

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QAnon
Just wanted to let you know that an editor is edit-warring to remove the paragraph on "illusory pattern perception" you added to this article. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:54, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Talk:QAnon Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:07, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi. I didn't add the paragraph, which I think is flawed. My edit to it was to remove au unsupported claim that the phenomenon was a mental illness. If anyone wants to remove the paragraph entirely, that's fine with me. -- The Anome (talk) 07:57, 23 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Update: I've checked both sources, and the original paper they reference, and none of them seem to mention QAnon anywhere. This suggests that this is thus original research, and the paragraph needs to be deleted, and not reinstated, per the notice at the top of Talk:QAnon. -- The Anome (talk) 08:09, 23 June 2020 (UTC)