User talk:Moonythedwarf/Archives/2020/April

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 14

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (March 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 14th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Danski454's code-link is this month's featured script

RealFakeKim's pageInfo • Guywan: InsertShortcuts • ConfirmLogout

Headbomb's Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector has been updated to include more sources

Evad37's rater script is now on version 2.5. New features include:

No longer showing dropdowns for projects without ratings
Making use of Category:WikiProject banner templates not based on WPBannerMeta to detect templates
Automatically detecting Good Article, Featured Article, and Featured List status, and limiting ORES predictions to B-class

An updated version of Twinkle was released. Features relating to the recently-enabled
partial blocks include automatic lookup of pages and expanded options for block templates.
See a full list of changes here
For users of Enterprisey's easy-brfa script, the bug with transcluding new BRFAs has been resolved
Guywan's RefCruncher has had minor updates

Miscellaneous

For any scripts that previously made use of the edit API to change a page's content model,
a new API module is available: use action=changecontentmodel to specify the new
content model of an existing page. Documentation is available: mw:API:ChangeContentModel.
The dispute resolution noticeboard wizard is no longer a gadget, but rather is loaded using
withJS and withCSS. See the discussion at MediaWiki talk:Gadget-DRN-wizard.js

Pending requests

A script to help file movers process requests, including
1. renaming the file
2. updating file links
3. removing the {{Rename media}} template (when relevant)
...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Stay safe, --DannyS712 (talk) 05:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).

Administrator changes

Cabayi • Lee Vilenski

Boing! said Zebedee

Jonny-mt • MarkGallagher • PeaceNT

Money emoji → Moneytrees

Bureaucrat changes

SilkTork • WereSpielChequers

CheckUser changes

NativeForeigner

Oversight changes

Someguy1221

Daniel Case

Guideline and policy news

There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news

There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.

Arbitration

Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.

Miscellaneous

The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:00, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2020

Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2020, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2020 and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2020 during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. One Blue Hat ^{❯❯❯ (talk)} 18:24, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2020 for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2020 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 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2020 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. —pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 23:59, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

April's Fools

I'm sorry that I hyped up a bit at early morning of April Fools. Sorry and I ask for your understanding. Cheers, TLOM (The Lord of Math) (Message) 03:46, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

The Lord of Math, Apology accepted. Hopefully there's no repeat of this year. 😅 —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 04:46, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Anyway did you like the User warning at User:The Lord of Math/AprilEF? I might want to make it live at {{Uw-ew-april}}. Thanks, TLOM (The Lord of Math) (Message) 06:08, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Plus, you might want to participate at Wikipedia talk:April Fools/April Fools' Day 2020, in the discussion about a CSD criterion. TLOM (The Lord of Math) (Message) 07:17, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thanks for making a draft to help april fools get better and less vandalismy

Homeof 03:00, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Copied a source on a talk page you created (Encyclopediaman2000)

I copied the welcome message off you. --"Welcome to my wiki" (talk) 13:39, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

"Welcome to my wiki", No need to copy it. use {{W-graphical}} —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 18:47, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-15

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

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. [1]

Changes later this week

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 Maintenance script. 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. [2]

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19:02, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:C++/codebox experiment

Hello, Moonythedwarf. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "codebox experiment".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! JMHamo (talk) 08:20, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-16

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 use the articletopic search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic. [3]
You can see wiki tools in the new Tools Gallery. [4]
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. [5]
There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog. [6]

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. [7][8][9]

Changes later this week

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. [10]
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 <source> tag, as well as the use of the deprecated enclose parameter, will add tracking categories.

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15:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-17

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

Tech News

The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.

Recent changes

The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills. [11]
Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed. div#content is now .mw-body. div.portal is now .portal. div#footer is now #footer. This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them. [12]

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. [13]
The font in the diffs will change. [14]
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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18:45, 20 April 2020 (UTC)