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Tech News: 2023-14
 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 system for automatically creating categories for the Babel extension has had several important changes and fixes. One of them allows you to insert templates for automatic category descriptions on creation, allowing you to categorize the new categories.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Some older Web browsers will stop being able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can try to upgrade to a newer version.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The deprecated  module has been removed. This module could be used by gadgets and user scripts, to create an artificial delay in how JavaScript responds to a hover event. Gadgets and user scripts should now use jQuery  or  instead. Examples can be found in the migration guide.
 * Some of the links in will be re-arranged. There will be a clearer separation between links that relate to all users, and links related to your own user account.
 * You will be able to hide the Reply button in archived discussion pages with a new  magic word. There will also be a new  CSS class for hiding the Reply button in individual sections on a page.

Future changes
 * The Vega software that creates data visualizations in pages, such as graphs, will be upgraded to the newest version in the future. Graphs that still use the very old version 1.5 syntax may stop working properly. Most existing uses have been found and updated, but you can help to check, and to update any local documentation. Examples of how to find and fix these graphs are available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:38, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

March songs
sharing impressions from vacation on Madeira 20-30 March, pics now at 25 March with ups and downs and two cats -- where does Mozart sit in your thoughts regarding infoboxes? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:22, 31 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Gerda Arendt, that looks like a lovely vacation! I looked at Mozart. I like the links to List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Mozart family. I think that is a clever way to accommodate the concern some editors have that infoboxes present incomplete or decontextualized information. It points readers to more detailed information and avoids the need to pick-and-choose what compositions to feature (for example). In some ways, it's almost like it serves as a navigation box for the Mozart topic, pointing out related articles that may be more relevant to readers. — Wug·a·po·des 01:16, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, vacation was great, and more pics to follow. Yes, a clever way. Something like this was added by Brian Boulton to his featured article Percy Grainger, in 2013, and to Beethoven in 2015, as the community consensus, by the arb who had written the infoboxes case, where I had proposed it, - my favourite edit, I felt so forgiven! - I wrote a little history, - admittedly as a polemic response to the (later collapsed) following invitation to the RfC on Classical music. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:40, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I appreciate that brief history. I know we've talked some about seeing if there's an RfC that could be put together to synthesize some of those discussions. I plan to take a short break from Arb business in late May/early June. If you'll be around then I'd be interested in seeing what we could put together. — Wug·a·po·des 00:55, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).

Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ferret

Guideline and policy news
 * A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

Technical news
 * Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11.
 * The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
 * A link to the user's page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on . This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

Arbitration
 * The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
 * A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

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Tech News: 2023-15
 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-gift.svg In the visual editor, it is now possible to edit captions of images in galleries without opening the gallery dialog. This feature request was voted #61 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * Octicons-gift.svg You can now receive notifications when another user edits your user page. See the "" option in your Preferences. This feature request was voted #3 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.

Problems
 * There was a problem with all types of CentralNotice banners still being shown to logged-in users even if they had turned off specific banner types. 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 . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" . This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:04, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

A minor suggestion
Regarding your recent evidence, the better diff (with relevant editing summary) regarding my edit would likely be this rather than the later edit summary related to a different edit in a series of three I made.

As for additional external publications, check links in my User:Piotrus/Response for links to additional 2023 newspaper publications by G&K and me. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 02:36, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I tried to follow objective criteria when selecting and linking diffs, so where multiple edits appeared in a row, I diffed them together. When actually citing them in, say, the summary, I agree the more specific diff should be used for clarity. I also appreciate the additional links; I'll look through them as well. — Wug·a·po·des 22:02, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Question from Hardword1 (21:52, 4 April 2023)
HI, I WANT TO CREATE a page called listed buildings in Exeter, which contains some information and photos of different categories of listed buildings, Although there is no existing  page with this name, but I discovered two pages in wikipedia,  one is Listed building in Exeter  grade II And another one for grade I* Do you think I shouldn't  create my page to prevent it from being deleted. Thanks a lot. --Hardword1 (talk) 21:52, 4 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi @Hardword1! I'm sorry it took me a few days to reply to you. Are there listed buildings in Exeter that are not Grade I or Grade II*? It looks like those lists are complete, so we do not need a more general list unless there are buildings we are missing. — Wug·a·po·des 22:06, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Question from Mikhailbot (16:45, 5 April 2023)
Hey I noticed that a page was deleted under incorrect information. How do I go about fixing it? --Mikhailbot (talk) 16:45, 5 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi@Mikhailbot, you should ask at deletion review. — Wug·a·po·des 22:07, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Question from Shaswat yadav (14:57, 7 April 2023)
Hello how I may publish my own article --Shaswat yadav (talk) 14:57, 7 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi @Shaswat yadav! Creating a new article is difficult, so be sure that you follow our inclusion criteria so that it doesn't get rejected during review. I would recommend this help page. — Wug·a·po·des 22:09, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Wuhan
It's been 3 years, and the worst of the COVID pandemic is over (at least, compared to how bad it was back in 2020). Is it perhaps time to try unprotection? (Asking you as you were the last user to protect) 47.227.95.73 (talk) 23:15, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ let's hope there aren't issues. — Wug·a·po·des 23:28, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Much appreciated. Thanks, 47.227.95.73 (talk) 23:31, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Question from Freddyy0001 (16:36, 14 April 2023)
How can I edit as a learner --Freddyy0001 (talk) 16:36, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi and welcome! If you are learning English, then you should visit our sister project: the Simple English Wikipedia. The Simple English Wikipedia is written by and for learners of English. I think you will enjoy editing there too! For this Wikipedia, you can try making edits that do not need a high level of language proficiency. We have jobs like sorting "stubs" which are very short articles. Thanks, and I look forward to your edits! I am also happy to answer any other questions you might have. — Wug·a·po·des 00:40, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Your removal
Hello, in reference to your removal, I pointed out a severe error of omission in your writing. I do not intend to submit evidence in the case, I do not want to face the obvious payback cost of being hounded by the Poles across articles I do care about. 209.171.238.138 (talk) 09:52, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-16
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now see nearby articles on a Kartographer map with the button for the new feature "". Six wikis have been testing this feature since October.
 * Octicons-gift.svg The Special:GlobalWatchlist page now has links for "" for each entry. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.

Problems
 * At Wikimedia Commons, some thumbnails have not been getting replaced correctly after a new version of the image is uploaded. This should be fixed later this week.
 * Octicons-tools.svg For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. 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 . 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 01:53, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

New Page Patrol – May 2023 Backlog Drive
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Tech News: 2023-17
 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-gift.svg The date-selection menu on pages such as will now show year-ranges that are in the current and past decade, instead of the current and future decade. This feature request was voted #145 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.

Problems
 * Due to security issues with the Graph extension, graphs have been disabled in all Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Foundation teams are working to respond to these vulnerabilities.
 * For a few days, it was not possible to save some kinds of edits on the mobile version of a wiki. This has been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC.
 * 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 Editing team plans an A/B test for a usability analysis of the Talk page project. The planned measurements are available. Your wiki may be invited to participate. Please suggest improvements to the measurement plan at the discussion page.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input until May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023 on Meta-wiki.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:02, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 April 2023
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April songs
Today is the 80th birthday of John Eliot Gardiner, who's going to conduct on 6 May. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:51, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Yesterday's story was around Messiaen, and I got no protest, - perhaps the ice age is going to end? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:08, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Feedback request: All RFCs request for comment
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Message regarding Capricorn from Skarmory
Hey! I'm finding that the "Create a redirect from this page with Capricorn" is not showing up for me normally, but it is showing up on talk pages that have a corresponding mainspace page. Any clue why that's happening?

(By the way, Capricorn is incredibly helpful. Thanks for creating it!) Skarmory   (talk •   contribs)  01:23, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-18
 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-gift.svg The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the French and Italian Wikipedias. More languages will be added in the near future. This is part of the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * The Video2commons tool has been updated. This fixed several bugs related to YouTube uploads.
 * The page has been redesigned on mobile web. The new design makes it easier to browse the different categories and settings at low screen widths. You can also now access the page via a link in the Settings menu in the mobile web sidebar.

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 01:43, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup 2023 May newsletter
The second round of the 2023 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to have scored 60 points to advance into round 3. Our top five scorers in round 2 all included a featured article among their submissions and each scored over 500 points. They were:


 * Iazyges (1040) with three FAs on Byzantine emperors, and lots of bonus points.
 * Unlimitedlead (847), with three FAs on ancient history, one GA and nine reviews.
 * Epicgenius (636), a WikiCup veteran, with one FA on the New Amsterdam Theatre, four GAs and eleven DYKs
 * BennyOnTheLoose (553), a seasoned competitor, with one FA on snooker, six GAs and seven reviews.
 * 🇩🇪 FrB.TG (525), with one FA, a Lady Gaga song and a mass of bonus points.

Other notable performances were put in by Sammi Brie,  Thebiguglyalien,  MyCatIsAChonk,  PCN02WPS, and  AirshipJungleman29.

So far contestants have achieved thirteen featured articles between them, one being a joint effort, and forty-nine good articles. The judges are pleased with the thorough reviews that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:15, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Spicy
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ale jrb · Dbachmann · DGG (deceased) · Jimbo Wales



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Jimbo Wales

Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Jimbo Wales

Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news
 * Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.

Arbitration
 * The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.

Miscellaneous
 * The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:23, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 8 May 2023
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Tech News: 2023-19
<section begin="technews-2023-W19"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-gift.svg Last week, Community Tech released the first update for providing better diffs, the #1 request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. This update adds legends and tooltips to inline diffs so that users unfamiliar with the blue and yellow highlights can better understand the type of edits made.
 * Octicons-gift.svg When you close an image that is displayed via MediaViewer, it will now return to the wiki page instead of going back in your browser history. This feature request was voted #65 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * The SyntaxHighlight extension now supports as a selected language. Old alternatives that were used to highlight wikitext, such as, , and , can now be replaced.
 * Preloading text to new pages/sections now supports preloading from localized MediaWiki interface messages. Here is an example at the that uses <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">.

Problems
 * Graph Extension update: Foundation developers have completed upgrading the visualization software to Vega5. Existing community graphs based on Vega2 are no longer compatible. Communities need to update local graphs and templates, and shared lua modules like de:Modul:Graph . The Vega Porting guide provides the most comprehensive detail on migration from Vega2 and here is an example migration. Vega5 has currently just been enabled on mediawiki.org to provide a test environment for communities.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg Until now, all new OAuth apps went through manual review. Starting this week, apps using identification-only or basic authorizations will not require review.

Future changes
 * During the next year, MediaWiki will stop using IP addresses to identify logged-out users, and will start automatically assigning unique temporary usernames. Read more at IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation/Updates. You can join the discussion about the format of the temporary usernames.
 * There will be an A/B test on 10 Wikipedias where the Vector 2022 skin is the default skin. Half of logged-in desktop users will see an interface where the different parts of the page are more clearly separated. You can read more.
 * Octicons-tools.svg  will be removed from the MediaWiki core. This will affect some user scripts. Many lines with   can be commented out.   can be used to keep things working like they are now. You can read more and read about how to find broken scripts.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:34, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Question from The Test For Wikipeadia (22:49, 9 May 2023)
On Wikipedia there is an glich loadstring(game:HttpGet("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/K0t1n/Public/main/Maxwell%20Plushie")) This text keeps popping up and says DOWNLOADS --The Test For Wikipeadia (talk) 22:49, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:COVID-19 pandemic interactive maps/India/India Map Data.json
Template:COVID-19 pandemic interactive maps/India/India Map Data.json has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Q𝟤𝟪 07:49, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-20
<section begin="technews-2023-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.

Problems
 * Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN are currently broken. This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing to restore this feature.

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).
 * Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" . This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.

Future changes
 * There is a recently formed team at the Wikimedia Foundation which will be focusing on experimenting with new tools. Currently they are building a prototype ChatGPT plugin that allows information generated by ChatGPT to be properly attributed to the Wikimedia projects.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadget and userscript developers should replace <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> . The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> library will be removed in ~1 month, and staff developers will run a script to replace any remaining uses at that time.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:43, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

Note
Hi.

Just wanted to thank you for volunteering to close. Closing tends to be a thankless task, and everyone who volunteers to help out in that way deserves a kudos.

I also wanted to let you know that I added the word "granted" to each of the policy pages, per the RfC wording. I wrote it that way in the RfC so to avoid the confusion that someone might accidentally think that automatically added user-rights - like the ability to read the Wiki - are removed.

I hope the day finds you well : ) - jc37 22:27, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Well thank you (and ) for putting together a good RfC! It was probably one of the easier closes despite the size. To your changes on the policy pages, I saw them, and I think has also been doing some copy editing. I just wanted to pop the relevant policies onto everyone's watchlists, so I'm happy to see others working on the precise wordings. — Wug·a·po·des 18:12, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 May 2023
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Tech News: 2023-21
<section begin="technews-2023-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
 * Octicons-gift.svg The "recent edits" time period for page watchers is now 30 days. It used to be 180 days. This was a Community Wishlist Survey proposal.

Changes later this week
 * An improved impact module will be available at Wikipedias. The impact module is a feature available to newcomers at their personal homepage. It will show their number of edits, how many readers their edited pages have, how many thanks they have received and similar things. It is also accessible by accessing Special:Impact.
 * 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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16:53, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Capricorn
Hi, I was wondering if you could look at the recent discussion on Capricorn. Thanks, greyzxq  talk 19:19, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Growth team newsletter #26
Welcome to the twenty-sixth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations

One million Suggested Edits
We passed the 1 million Suggested edits milestone in late April!
 * The Suggested edits feature (AKA Newcomer tasks) increase newcomer activation by ~12%, which flows on through to increased retention. (source)
 * Suggested edits increase the number of edits newcomers complete in their first two weeks and have a relatively low revert rate. (source)
 * Suggested edits are available on all Wikipedia language editions.
 * Newer Suggested edits, like Add a link and Add an image, aren’t yet deployed to all wikis, but these structured tasks further increase the probability that newcomers will make their first edit. (source)

Positive reinforcement
Positive reinforcement aims to encourage newcomers who have visited our homepage and tried Growth features to keep editing.
 * The new Impact module was released to Growth pilot wikis in December 2022, and we are now scaling the feature to another ten wikis.
 * The Leveling up features are deployed at our pilot wikis.
 * The Personalized praise features were deployed at our pilot wikis on May 24. Mentors at pilot wikis will start to receive notifications weekly when they have “praise-worthy” mentees. Mentors can configure their notification preferences or disable these notifications.

Add an image

 * We are creating a new section-level variation of the “add an image” task. We have tested the accuracy of suggestions, and the development of this new task is well-underway.

Other updates

 * We are progressively releasing Add a link to more wikis.
 * After adding Thanks to Recent Changes, Watchlist and Special:Contributions, we investigated Thanks usage on the wikis. There is no evidence that thanks increased after the feature was added on more pages.
 * We helped with code review for the 2023 Community Wish to add Notifications for user page edits.
 * We have been attending several community events, that we documented in our Growth’s Community events report.

What's next for Growth?

 * We shared an overview of Growth annual planning ideas, and have started community discussion about these potential projects. We would love to hear your feedback on these ideas!

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Tech News: 2023-22
<section begin="technews-2023-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.

Recent changes
 * Citations can once again be added automatically from ISBNs, thanks to Zotero's ISBN searches. The current data sources are the Library of Congress (United States), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (French National Library), and K10plus ISBN (German repository). Additional data source searches can be proposed to Zotero. The ISBN labels in the VisualEditor Automatic tab will reappear later this week.
 * Octicons-gift.svg The page now has "" options to select all the pages within a namespace. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.

Problems
 * For a few days earlier this month, the "Add interlanguage link" item in the Tools menu did not work properly. This has now been fixed.

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May thanks
Thank you for arb work completed in May. - I had a good story on coronation day: the Te Deum we sang that day. And the following day we sang it for the composer ;)

I nominated Soňa Červená for GA just to give her a bit more exposure, and I took some pics of bright scenery - click on songs. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:10, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, an interesting story! It reminds me of my field work a few years ago. I was going around town recording sociolinguistic interviews for data and got to have an interesting chat with a music store owner who apparently was part of a line of accordion salesmen. Concertinas are such interesting instruments! Meanwhile, yes there's been a lot of arb work, and I'm glad to be taking a bit of a break. The Červená article is interesting to me because of her tenure at the San Francisco Opera. This June, the SF Opera is doing Madame Butterfly, and it's something I've been looking forward to on the other side of all the arb work. It's been in the spotlight in the last decade alongside Otello as an example of how racism (historical and contemporary) is perpetuated in Opera. For context, Japantown, San Francisco is one of the oldest ethnic enclaves in the US, and Chinatown, San Francisco is the oldest Chinese enclave in North America, and one of the largest outside Asia. The San Francisco Opera choosing to do Madame Butterfly is provocative, to say the least! From the promotional materials it seems like the creative team is working really hard to stage a production in conversation with these critiques, and reimagining what the show could mean to contemporary audiences. I love that kind of production, where the same source material is used but all the other production elements are used in less traditional ways. I like when creative teams get to play around with what a source could mean rather than get stuck in what it has meant. So I'm fascinated and excited to see what they do. You might see me poking around at the article once the reviews start to come in. — Wug·a·po·des 23:54, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
 * that's interesting because the Oper Frankfurt (the mezzo's European base) also staged a Butterfly recently (interviews mostly in English), and the tenor was one of these tourists who buy sex as an extra part of vacation (house and woman). I wrote the articles of the heroine and the director then, and the tenor (who had been sick on premiere day, so reviews are not about him) is still on my to-do list. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:18, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
 * my story today is that 300 years ago, Bach became Thomaskantor, with BWV 75, writing music history. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:19, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).

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 * The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

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