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Tech News: 2022-27

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 new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 5 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 7 July at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
This change only affects pages in the main namespace in Wikisource. The Javascript config variable proofreadpage_source_href will be removed from mw.config and be replaced with the variable prpSourceIndexPage. [1]

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19:30, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Alice Ripley page

Hoping you can advise. An editor on the noticeboard is speculating that Ripley is the one who deleted info, but she is currently working in Barcelona. Wouldn't her IP address show her to be in Barcelona? Thank you. JunoSpriteRocket (talk) 16:50, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm not going to speculate on that sort of off-wiki situation here. DMacks (talk) 17:10, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Okay, no problem. What does off-wiki mean? JunoSpriteRocket (talk) 17:46, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

"On-wiki" means looking at specific edits made, and comparisons of account names and IPs that seem to be focused on a certain topic. "Off-wiki" means things about the person suspected of making edits that have not been confirmed by on-wiki actions, or other real-world aspects of the editor. So obviously I can talk about where an IP geo-locates (pure technical fact) and one can often know where a well-known public person is and other media-reported aspects of their public life (off-wiki behavior, though I don't follow celebs or reports on them) and that an IP's edits might seen to be biased or violate a policy/guideline (on-wiki behavior). But I myself am not going to bring together all those aspects to make a conclusion about what's happening in this wiki article. DMacks (talk) 18:19, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. JunoSpriteRocket (talk) 18:30, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

Administrator changes

AA • Gwalla • Ioeth • Laurascudder • Moriori (deceased) • Nat • Rfl

Drilnoth → AFigureOfBlue

Bureaucrat changes

Lee Vilenski

Interface administrator changes

Nihiltres

Technical news

user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

Arbitration

An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.

Miscellaneous

The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:28, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-28

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

In the Vector 2022 skin, the page title is now displayed above the tabs such as Discussion, Read, Edit, View history, or More. Learn more. [2]
It is now possible to easily view most of the configuration settings that apply to just one wiki, and to compare settings between two wikis if those settings are different. For example: Japanese Wiktionary settings, or settings that are different between the Spanish and Esperanto Wikipedias. Local communities may want to discuss and propose changes to their local settings. Details about each of the named settings can be found by searching MediaWiki.org. [3]
The Anti-Harassment Tools team recently deployed the IP Info Feature as a Beta Feature at all wikis. This feature allows abuse fighters to access information about IP addresses. Please check our update on how to find and use the tool. Please share your feedback using a link you will be given within the tool itself.

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 12 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.

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19:23, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Tranny lead

Could you explain what u meant by your change to the tranny article please? I didn't understand what you meant.

Also I'm a trans woman so I can use this word 78.149.121.207 (talk) 04:54, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

The article said:

"whether the term was a pejorative, or was still considered acceptable, or a reappropriated term of unity and pride."

so that is three choices (reappropriated, acceptable, pejorative). You changed it to:

"whether the term was a reappropriated term of unity and pride."

That's only two choices (it is, or it isn't). So if it is not reappropriation, your wording removed the idea that it could still be one of two alternatives (acceptable or pejorative) rather than just "not reappropriation". DMacks (talk) 06:01, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-29

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

The feature on mobile web for Nearby Pages was missing last week. It will be fixed this week. [4]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).

Future changes

The Technical Decision Forum is seeking community representatives. You can apply on wiki or by emailing [email protected] before 12 August.

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22:58, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-30

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 www.wikibooks.org and www.wikiquote.org portal pages now use an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [5]

Problems

Last week, some wikis were in read-only mode for a few minutes because of an emergency switch of their main database (targeted wikis). [6]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
The external link icon will change slightly in the skins Vector legacy and Vector 2022. The new icon uses simpler shapes to be more recognizable on low-fidelity screens. [7]
Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. [8]

Future meetings

The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (26 July).

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19:26, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-31

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

Improved LaTeX capabilities for math rendering are now available in the wikis thanks to supporting Phantom tags. This completes part of the #59 wish of the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).
The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 0. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.

Future meetings

This week, three meetings about Vector (2022) with live interpretation will take place. On Tuesday, interpretation in Russian will be provided. On Thursday, meetings for Arabic and Spanish speakers will take place. See how to join.

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21:20, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

This Month in Education: July 2022

This Month in Education

Volume 11 • Issue 7 • July 2022

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

Administrator changes

Valereee

Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

Guideline and policy news

An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news

The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration

The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:44, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-32

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

GUS2Wiki copies the information from Special:GadgetUsage to an on-wiki page so you can review its history. If your project isn't already listed on the Wikidata entry for Project:GUS2Wiki you can either run GUS2Wiki yourself or make a request to receive updates. [9]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 9 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 11 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future meetings

The Wikimania Hackathon will take place online from August 12–14. Don't miss the pre-hacking showcase to learn about projects and find collaborators. Anyone can propose a project or host a session. Newcomers are welcome!

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19:48, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-33

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 Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia community decided to block IP editing from October 2021 to April 2022. The Wikimedia Foundation's Product Analytics team tracked the impact of this change. An impact report is now available.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 August. It will be on all wikis from 18 August (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 16 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 18 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 1. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes. [10][11][12]

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21:07, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-34

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

Two problems with Kartographer maps have been fixed. Maps are no longer shown as empty when a geoline was created via VisualEditor. Geolines consisting of points with QIDs (e.g., subway lines) are no longer shown with pushpins. [13][14]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 25 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
The colours of links and visited links will change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. [15]

Future changes

The new [subscribe] button helps newcomers get answers. The Editing team is enabling this tool everywhere. You can turn it off in your preferences. [16]

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00:10, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-35

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 Realtime Preview is available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 2. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals. Please note that when this Beta feature is enabled, it may cause conflicts with some wiki-specific Gadgets.

Problems

In recent months, there have been inaccurate numbers shown for various Special:Statistics at Commons, Wikidata, and English Wikipedia. This has now been fixed. [17]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 30 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future changes

The Wikimedia Foundation wants to improve how Wikimedia communities report harmful incidents by building the Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) to make it easy and safe for users to make reports. You can leave comments on the talk page, by answering the questions provided. If you have ever faced a harmful situation that you wanted to report/reported, join a PIRS interview to share your experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

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23:03, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).

Administrator changes

DanCherek • DatGuy • Femke • Z1720

Aldux • Graham Beards • Nyttend

Interface administrator changes

Mr. Stradivarius

Guideline and policy news

A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news

The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

Arbitration

An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:11, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Wl

Template:Wl has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:11, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-36

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 new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 6 September at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 8 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
On Special pages that only have one tab, the tab-bar's row will be hidden in the Vector-2022 skin to save space. The row will still show if Gadgets use it. Gadgets that currently append directly to the CSS id of #p-namespaces should be updated to use the mw.util.addPortletLink function instead. Gadgets that style this id should consider also targeting #p-associated-pages, the new id for this row. Examples are available. [18][19]

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23:19, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

This Month in Education: August 2022

This Month in Education

Volume 11 • Issue 8 • August 2022

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About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: ZI Jony 16:00, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-37

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

Recent changes

The search servers have been upgraded to a new major version. If you notice any issues with searching, please report them on Phabricator. [20]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).
Syntax highlighting is now tracked as an expensive parser function. Only 500 expensive function calls can be used on a single page. Pages that exceed the limit are added to a tracking category. [21]

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01:47, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Master of computer application

Master of computer application in India is different from master of information science it is utterly different we can see in the MCA! =MSIT .please dont change the Wikipedia or make a new Wikipedia page to understand yours information Arghaya das dev (talk) 12:33, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

MSIT only science student do MCA any bachelor degree gay can do in india Arghaya das dev (talk) 12:34, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Double bond rule--what a coincidence!

I was JUST looking at the article on Double Bond Rule, and reminding myself that last January I posted a question on the talk page. It seemed to me that something there contradicted itself. It seems that nobody noticed the question, and I was about to take it to the chemistry project. But I was looking around on line, first.

While I was looking, you changed it!

By the way, looking around on line, I found that the statement here in Wikipedia has been copied many times. Uporządnicki (talk) 22:14, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

Ha! I don't think that page has many people watching it. Indeed WP gets copied without attribution all over the place. I'm always amazed when those copies include typos or even transient vandalism that the copier didn't notice. DMacks (talk) 22:17, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

Well, so now I'm curious. Was it just an incredible coincidence that you happened to come along and correct it just when I was recontemplating it months later? Or did I do something that somehow brought it to your attention? Uporządnicki (talk) 01:49, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-38

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

Recent changes

Two database fields in the templatelinks table are now being dropped: tl_namespace and tl_title. Any queries that rely on these fields need to be changed to use the new normalization field called tl_target_id. See T299417 for more information. This is part of normalization of links tables. [22][23]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar).
In Kartographer maps, you can use icons on markers for common points of interest. On Tuesday, the previous icon set will be updated to version maki 7.2. That means, around 100 new icons will be available. Additionally, all existing icons were updated for clarity and to make them work better in international contexts. [24][25]

Future changes

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:13, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-39

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

Parsoid clients should be updated to allow for space-separated multi-values in the rel attribute of links. Further details are in T315209.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 September. It will be on all wikis from 29 September (calendar).
Visual diffs will become available to all users, except at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [26]
Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. [27] [28]
In the Module namespace, pages ending with .json will be treated as JSON, just like they already are in the User and MediaWiki namespaces. [29]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:27, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for taking care of the anisidine issues. The IP editor that I was chiding or cautioning seems well-intentioned but edits are generally generic at best (linking "used") or just squirrelly (inventing references). Nothing evil. But thank you for watching over things. --Smokefoot (talk) 19:08, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

You're welome, as always. DMacks (talk) 20:44, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Merging multiple sections from a sock... =

Dear thank you for your attention

I really don’t know how to save this and appear it ! But i really need help ! Please help me to make this happen ! All of the article have a source. Good source but i don’t know how should i do it Madamexxxx (talk) 05:09, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

I responded on your user-talk page (User talk:Madamexxxx). Let's try to keep the discussion in one place. DMacks (talk) 05:38, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi dear

I’m learning to work here! You know irans situation right now Salar been jailed and they called him last night and theybwatned him that we put you in jail i’m his best assistant ! We are team workers ! Our intentions are good Madamexxxx (talk) 05:48, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Dear

If you have time to guide me i’ll be so glad Madamexxxx (talk) 05:48, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

I don’t know why are you so angry at us

Or what do you want from us ? It does not matter if we dont have a wikipedia! I just wanna try and no body helps me to save salar from this regime.he’s a very good boy ! More than 500 global artists are his friends ! I don’t know what you are saying by the same editor here in Iran no one makes wikipedia if they did i would pay them Madamexxxx (talk) 06:39, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

I have no idea what this message means. But I am not involved emotionally at all. I am merely telling you what Wikipedia is, and is not. That way you can decide how to use it (or you can decide not to use it, if it does not allow you to do what you are trying to do). Please see WP:YFA. Or try a wikipedia in a different language (for example, we have [fa.wikipedia.org] if Farsi/Persian is more comfortable for you). DMacks (talk) 06:58, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

Administrator changes

ScottishFinnishRadish

Staxringold

Ahoerstemeier (deceased) • Ched

Interface administrator changes

Cyberpower678

CheckUser changes

GorillaWarfare

Guideline and policy news

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

Technical news

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

Arbitration

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

Miscellaneous

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

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:42, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

Sock puppet of Cheng123xx, Vandalism

Please block SCP-2000 and 弟魯, the are the sock puppets of Cheng123xx, they vandalise the chinese wiki in pages of Hong Kong and one of them request some building photo for deletion with reason poor quality. Some of their contributions are same as Cheng123xx did.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hmt_hill_buildings.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

Please revert these pages below which are vandalised by them

124.217.189.120 (talk) 15:22, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

This is the English Wikipedia. We have no control over other language wiki sites. I'm not seeing any evidence of bad edits from User:SCP-2000 on enwiki. And if m:Talk:Steward_requests/Global#Global_lock_for_Cheng123xx,_sock_puppet happens, then we don't need to block. And if it doesn't happen, then there's no clear basis for blocking here. DMacks (talk) 15:28, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

This Month in Education: September 2022

This Month in Education

Volume 11 • Issue 9 • September 2022

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Tech News: 2022-40

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

Recent changes

Kartographer maps can now show geopoints from Wikidata, via QID or SPARQL query. Previously, this was only possible for geoshapes and geolines. [30] [31]
The Coolest Tool Award 2022 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 12 October.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar).
Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. (Last week's release was delayed) [32] [33]
The scribunto-console API module will require a CSRF token. This module is documented as internal and use of it is not supported. [5]
The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikimedia projects. Learn more.

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Editor you warned

[34]. Their edits may not be all disruptive, but they keep making edits like [35][36] which are, not sure if it's over the line. The story of these people is told differently in Diriliş: Ertuğrul, that may have something to do with it. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 13:48, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Deft rebel (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)

Thanks for the heads-up. I don't know the details of this topic. However, I blocked them 31h for repeating to make edits that contradict cited refs in BLP articles (various birthdates). DMacks (talk) 14:10, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

And thank you. Primer: Take the titular character Ertuğrul from the series that bears his name. For those who don’t know, Ertuğrul was the father of Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Dynasty – and that is all historians are able to say about him with certainty. Everything else is shrouded in mystery. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:43, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Keeps making edits like [37], that is not the DOB in the source, which seems ok. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:31, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

Level4-warned. The impending block will be indef. DMacks (talk) 18:40, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

Meh, I went with just a month. DMacks (talk) 20:45, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

We'll see what happens. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:07, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).
On some wikis, Kartographer maps in full size view will be able to display nearby articles. After a feedback period, more wikis will follow. [38][39]

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14:06, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Chemistry edits by Ranjit41771

Something interesting about these edits – in addition to having comically undue weight and likely pushing a COI – is that they are also being published as "minor edits". One can choose to interpret this as an honest mistake or less generously as an attempt to cover up COI editing from page watchers, but given 1) this option isn't checked by default and 2) they chose not to use this on their talk page edit, I suspect the latter. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 08:50, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

Good observation about the 'minor' option. While they did eventually respond on their talkpage, even WP:AGF (though I obviously share your suspicions) the content is inappropriate. DMacks (talk) 16:47, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

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The recently implemented feature of article thumbnails in Special:Search will be limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in T320510. [40]
A bug that caused problems in loading article thumbnails in Special:Search has been fixed. Further details are in T320406.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 October. It will be on all wikis from 20 October (calendar).
Lua module authors can use mw.loadJsonData() to load data from JSON pages. [41]
Lua module authors can enable require( "strict" ) to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces "Module:No globals" on most wikis. [42]

Future changes

The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated at most wikis. The "reply" button will look different after this change. [43]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:44, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Bollywood Hungama

Bollywood Hungama is poor source for you Lamo Robertkiyosakii (talk) 16:18, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

It's a source, that is cited. Therefore it's better than nothing or just what a WP editor claims to have heard. And it's obviously bad form to contradict a cited ref or remove a ref and replace it with nothing just because you don't like it. How does Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard or the various India/Film task-forces feel about it? DMacks (talk) 16:28, 18 October 2022 (UTC)