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Archive 1

Welcome!

A cup of hot tea to welcome you!

Hello, CanadianOtaku, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Below are some pages that you might find helpful. For a user-friendly interactive help forum see the Wikipedia Teahouse.

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. Again, If you need help visit the Teahouse or you can to ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! We are so glad you are here! Nick Moyes (talk) 02:33, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Your thread has been archived

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Tech News: 2021-07

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 were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned. [1][2]
• Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [3]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).

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17:54, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-08

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 visual editor will now use MediaSearch to find images. You can search for images on Commons in the visual editor when you are looking for illustrations. This is to help editors find better images. [4]
• The syntax highlighter now works with more languages: Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU. [5]

Problems

• Editing a timeline might have removed all text from it. This was because of a bug and has been fixed. You might need to edit the timeline again for it to show properly. [6]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 February. It will be on all wikis from 25 February (calendar).

Future changes

• There is a user group for developers and users interested in working on Wikimedia wikis with the Rust programming language. You can join or tell others who want to make your wiki better in the future.

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Tech News: 2021-09

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

• Wikis using the Growth team tools can now show the name of a newcomer's mentor anywhere through a magic word. This can be used for welcome messages or userboxes.
• A new version of the VideoCutTool is now available. It enables cropping, trimming, audio disabling, and rotating video content. It is being created as part of the developer outreach programs.

Problems

• There was a problem with the job queue. This meant some functions did not save changes and mass messages were delayed. This did not affect wiki edits. [7]
• Some editors may not be logged in to their accounts automatically in the latest versions of Firefox and Safari. [8]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 March. It will be on all wikis from 4 March (calendar).

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Tech News: 2021-10

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

Recent changes

• Section translation now works on Bengali Wikipedia. It helps mobile editors translate sections of articles. It will come to more wikis later. The first focus is active wikis with a smaller number of articles. You can test it and leave feedback.
• Flagged revisions now give admins the review right. [9]
• When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article. [10]

Problems

• Many graphs have JavaScript errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing. [11]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 March. It will be on all wikis from 11 March (calendar).
• The New Discussion tool will soon be a new discussion tools beta feature for on most Wikipedias. The goal is to make it easier to start new discussions. [12]

Future changes

• There will be a number of changes to make it easier to work with templates. Some will come to the first wikis in March. Other changes will come to the first wikis in June. This is both for those who use templates and those who create or maintain them. You can read more.
• Reference Previews will become a default feature on some wikis on 17 March. They will share a setting with Page Previews. If you prefer the Reference Tooltips or Navigation-Popups gadget you can keep using them. If so Reference Previews won't be shown. [13][14]
• New JavaScript-based functions will not work in Internet Explorer 11. This is because Internet Explorer is an old browser that doesn't work with how JavaScript is written today. Everything that works in Internet Explorer 11 today will continue working in Internet Explorer for now. You can read more.

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17:50, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Your thread has been archived

Hi CanadianOtaku! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, Need help, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days (usually at least two days, and sometimes four or more). You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please feel free to . The archival was done by Lowercase sigmabot III, and this notification was delivered by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} here on your user talk page. Muninnbot (talk) 19:04, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-11

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

Recent changes

• Wikis that are part of the desktop improvements project can now use a new search function. The desktop improvements and the new search will come to more wikis later. You can also test it early.
• Editors who put up banners or change site-wide JavaScript code should use the client error graph to see that their changes has not caused problems. You can read more. [15]

Problems

• Due to database issues the Wikimedia Beta Cluster was read-only for over a day.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 March. It will be on all wikis from 18 March (calendar).

Future changes

• You can add a newline or carriage return character to a custom signature if you use a template. There is a proposal to not allow them in the future. This is because they can cause formatting problems. [16][17]
• You will be able to read but not edit 12 wikis for a short period of time on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
• You can use Quarry for SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. PAWS and other ways to do SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later. [18]

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23:20, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Your thread has been archived

Hi CanadianOtaku! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, IPv6 question, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days (usually at least two days, and sometimes four or more). You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please feel free to . The archival was done by Lowercase sigmabot III, and this notification was delivered by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} here on your user talk page. Muninnbot (talk) 19:01, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Remark42, Text removed

Hi, regarding Remark42 - if you have strong reason to suspect a violation of copyright policy and some, but not all, of the content of a page appears to be a copyright infringement, then the infringing content should be removed with the source url in the edit summary if possible. Revision deletion should then be requested by placing {{copyvio-revdel}} on the article page or directly contacting an administrator on their talk page. Administrators may at their discretion unilaterally revision delete copyrighted content. A note explaining the removal may also be made on the discussion page, along with the original source, if known. {{subst:Cclean|url=insert URL or description of source here (optional)}} has been created for this. If the copyright holder's permission is later obtained, the text may be restored. See here WP:DCV. CommanderWaterford (talk) 21:08, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you. CanadianOtaku ^{Talk Page} 21:14, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

 Self-trout, it was one of the references that was a copyvio, not the section itself. CanadianOtaku ^{Talk Page} 01:20, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

I'm wrong again, i'll just go to sleep now. CanadianOtaku ^{Talk Page} 01:22, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard-March 2021

Hello, CanadianOtaku! Here is the March 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard.

Wikipedia News

• I came across an interesting article about Wikipedia.
• TJMSmith had a successful RFA, Congrats!

Humour

This section was written by User:Canadian Otaku, I hope you enjoy it as much as I (Tsugaru) did!

• If you edit Wikipedia around 1-5 AM, beware, as any admin could block you for being up too late!
• It's really easy to break Wikipedia, just click here.
• Ignore people telling you to stop putting "Hrrnngg,,,beans" on the article Bean (film), they don't know what good edits are.
• Jimbo is god, and can do anything he wants to!

Notes

• There are 2 new editors now, one of them Berrely, and CanadianOtaku. As mentioned Berrely is our new proofreader (typos beware) and Canadian Otaku is now going to be writing our Humor sections, I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks for joining us, and remember, if you want to join, just let me know!

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To change your subscription, or to subscribe click Here. Enjoy this Issue and stay safe! --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 01:22, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Genozip AfD

Hi @CanadianOtaku:, regarding the AfD of Genozip - I have added some more sources - this article has now a total of 6 secondary sources in a addition to 2 primary sources. The secondary sources include three review articles specifically about this software (in English, Japanese and Korean) and three academic papers about other compression tools, that benchmark against this software. Can you take another look? Thanks, appreciate your time. Jokerman71 (talk) 23:23, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

@Jokerman71: Source two looks unreliable, but the other sources that you have added look good to me. CanadianOtaku ^{Talk Page} 00:07, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

I've now done some cleanup, still needs some work. CanadianOtaku ^{Talk Page} 00:25, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-12

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

Recent changes

• There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. They don't have a touch screen so readers navigate with the phone keys. There is now a simulator so you can see what it looks like.
• The reply tool and new discussion tool are now available as the "Discussion tools" beta feature in almost all wikis except German Wikipedia.

Problems

• You will be able to read but not edit twelve wikis for a short period of time on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This can also affect password changes, logging in to new wikis, global renames and changing or confirming emails. This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 March. It will be on all wikis from 25 March (calendar).
• Syntax highlighting colours will change to be easier to read. This will soon come to the first wikis. [19]

Future changes

• Flagged revisions will no longer have multiple tags like "tone" or "depth". It will also only have one tier. This was changed because very few wikis used these features and they make the tool difficult to maintain. [20][21]
• Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015 this was moved from wg* to mw.config. wg* will soon no longer work. [22]

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16:51, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-13

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

Recent changes

• Some very old web browsers don’t work well with the Wikimedia wikis. Some old code for browsers that used to be supported is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. [23]
• IRC recent changes feeds have been moved to a new server. Make sure all tools automatically reconnect to irc.wikimedia.org and not to the name of any specific server. Users should also consider switching to the more modern EventStreams. [24]

Problems

• When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split. It might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. [25]
• Some translatable pages on Meta could not be edited. This was because of a bug in the translation tool. The new MediaWiki version was delayed because of problems like this. [26][27]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 March. It will be on all wikis from 1 April (calendar).

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17:29, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-14

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

• Editors can collapse part of an article so you have to click on it to see it. When you click a link to a section inside collapsed content it will now expand to show the section. The browser will scroll down to the section. Previously such links didn't work unless you manually expanded the content first. [28]

Changes later this week

• The citoid API will use for example 2010-12-XX instead of 2010-12 for dates with a month but no days. This is because 2010-12 could be confused with 2010-2012 instead of December 2010. This is called level 1 instead of level 0 in the Extended Date/Time Format. [29]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 April. It will be on all wikis from 8 April (calendar).

Future changes

• PAWS can now connect to the new Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 28 April. There is a new way to connect to the databases. Until 28 April both ways to connect to the databases will work. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech.

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19:38, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Notifying myself

Please read this notification carefully, it contains important information about an administrative situation on Wikipedia. It does not imply any misconduct regarding your own contributions to date.

A community decision has authorised the use of general sanctions for pages related to the blockchain and cryptocurrencies. The details of these sanctions are described here. All pages that are broadly related to these topics are subject to a one revert per twenty-four hours restriction, as described here.

General sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimise disruption in controversial topic areas. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to these topics that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behaviour, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. An editor can only be sanctioned after he or she has been made aware that general sanctions are in effect. This notification is meant to inform you that sanctions are authorised in these topic areas, which you have been editing. It is only effective if it is logged here. Before continuing to edit pages in these topic areas, please familiarise yourself with the general sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions.

CanadianOtaku ^{Talk Page} 16:20, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

TWW

• Hi! Do you have a humour section ready for TWW? Please note depending on the time I have left, I may save yours for next month's issue. Thanks very much! --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 02:52, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

Yep, it's ready. CanadianOtaku ^{Talk Page} 03:04, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Cryptojacking has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Cryptojacking. Thanks! Robert McClenon (talk) 03:54, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. CanadianOtaku ^{Talk Page} 22:27, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard-April 2021

Hello, CanadianOtaku! Here is the April 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard.

Wikipedia News

• MediaWiki has a new logo. Looks great, doesn't it?
• Did you get to see the April Fools DYK for the Main Page? If not, catch them here (Under April 1)
• In the Beta Features, try out "Discussion tools" it is a very useful feature for replying to talkpage messages. You will need an account to do so!

Memorials

• Pi zero has passed away. Our condolences go out for Pi zero and anyone who knew him. Thank you Pi zero for your service here at Wikimedia. We are very sorry to hear this. We will never forget your valuable contributions to Wikipedia and it's sister projects.

Humour

Tsugaru's Humour Section

• April Showers can't Bring May Flowers, if the Flowers ran away to June!
• You can't get in trouble, if you don't cause trouble!
• The May Flowers can't be flowers if they are roses!

Please find CanadianOtaku's Humour Section below

• Sadly, there was no edit war of 2021, maybe next year.
• This joke space is up for rent!
• You too can be a hacker by removing everything in an article!
• Error 410: I dropped this joke and I can't find it.

Editor's Notes

• Just a reminder that TWW is delivered between the 16th to the 20th of each month

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To change your subscription, or to subscribe click Here. Enjoy this Issue and stay safe! --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 23:53, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2021-16

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

• Email to the Wikimedia wikis are handled by groups of Wikimedia editors. These volunteer response teams now use Znuny instead of OTRS. The functions and interface remain the same. The volunteer administrators will give more details about the next steps soon. [30][31]
• If you use syntax highlighting, you can see line numbers in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors when editing templates. This is to make it easier to see line breaks or talk about specific lines. Line numbers will soon come to all namespaces. [32][33][34]
• Because of a technical change there could be problems with gadgets and scripts that have an edit summary area that looks similar to this one. If they look strange they should use mw.loader.using('mediawiki.action.edit.styles') to go back to how they looked before. [35]
• The latest version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis last week. There was no Tech News issue last week.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in two weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.

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16:47, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-17

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

• Templates have parameters that can have specific values. It is possible to suggest values for editors with TemplateData. You can soon see them as a drop-down list in the visual editor. This is to help template users find the right values faster. [36][37][38]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 April. It will be on all wikis from 29 April (calendar).

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21:23, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-18

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

• Twinkle is a gadget on English Wikipedia. It can help with maintenance and patrolling. It can now be used on other wikis. You can get Twinkle on your wiki using the twinkle-starter GitHub repository.

Problems

• The content translation tool did not work for many articles for a little while. This was because of a bug. [39]
• Some things will not work for about a minute on 5 May. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This will affect the content translation tool and notifications among other things. This is because of an upgrade to avoid crashes. [40]

Changes later this week

• Reference Previews will become a default feature on a number of wikis on 5 May. This is later than planned because of some changes. You can use it without using Page Previews if you want to. The earlier plan was to have the preference to use both or none. [41][42]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

Future changes

• The CSS classes .error, .warning and .success do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead. [43]

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15:42, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-19

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 11 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 May. It will be on all wikis from 13 May (calendar).

Future changes

• You can see what participants plan to work on at the online Wikimedia hackathon 22–23 May.

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15:08, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

TWW

• Do you have a humour section ready? Thanks! つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 20:13, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Indeed I do. CanadianOtaku ^{Talk Page} 22:18, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

WP:CRYPCUR

Hi CanadianOtaku, I saw that you have the WikiProject Cryptocurrency userbox on your page, but you did no place your signature on the member list. Would you be willing to insert your signiture their? Jerm (talk) 02:23, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Sure. CanadianOtaku ^{Talk Page} 02:32, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Project Borealis (May 16)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by CommanderWaterford was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Project Borealis and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Project Borealis, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
• If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

CommanderWaterford (talk) 14:21, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Hello, CanadianOtaku! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! CommanderWaterford (talk) 14:21, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-20

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 toolbar in the Reply tool. It works in the wikitext source mode. You can enable it in your preferences. [44] [45] [46]
• Wikimedia mailing lists are being moved to Mailman 3. This is a newer version. For the character encoding to work it will change from UTF-8 to utf8mb3. [47][48]
• An earlier issue of Tech News said that the citoid API would handle dates with a month but no days in a new way. This has been reverted for now. There needs to be more discussion of how it affects different wikis first. [49]

Changes later this week

• MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklist will be renamed MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist. The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles. [50]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 May. It will be on all wikis from 20 May (calendar).

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13:47, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-21

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 Wikimedia movement has been using IRC on a network called Freenode. There have been changes around who is in control of the network. The Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts have decided to move to the new Libera Chat network instead. This is not a formal decision for the movement to move all channels but most Wikimedia IRC channels will probably leave Freenode. There is a migration guide and ongoing Wikimedia discussions about this.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 May. It will be on all wikis from 27 May (calendar).

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17:05, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard-May 2021

Hello, CanadianOtaku! Here is the May 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard.

Wikipedia News

• The Simple English Wikipedia was mentioned in a article online very recently, you can read the article here.
• Meta is looking for Board Election Volunteers you can read up more by following that link.
• The English Wikipedia, has just passed 6,300,000 articles!

Tip of the Month

This tip is one of the many ways to combat spam on Wikipedia:

• On Wikipedia, articles either meet the General Notability Guideline or not. When you come across a new article, it is extremely important to determine if it is a real article, or just a spam article. Start with a search on Google, for reliable sources, if you get none in return, then look at the article for non-NPOV content, also scan the references section in the article to see what sources it uses, and check the 'other languages' section and Wikidata to see if it is on other Wikipedias. If other Wikipedias have the same content and/or a CSD or AfD tag (WP:AFD) it is likely spam or not notable, so you can then nominate it for deletion to get input, remember that CSD criterion does not always apply to these articles depending on the content/contex. Also remember to check for copyright violations via earwig's

Memorials

• SlimVirgin has sadly passed away this month, you can read more about SlimVirgin's passing here
• Moroboshi also sadly passed away earlier this month.

Our condolences go out to the editors and their families, thank you for your work on Wikimedia projects.

Humour

• This section was made by CanadianOtaku, please note it contains some emojis, so you might just see a box if your browser doesn't support them. -つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁

• Got blocked on the English Wikipedia because of your epic hacking skills? Start hacking other Wikimedia projects, they ca- This user account is currently locked across all Wikimedia projects.
• This joke is a work in progress, so I might drop some hammers.

• This joke is 2 spaces away, so ａ🔨ｎ- woah that was close!

Editor's Notes

• If you want to join TWW, please leave us a message!

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Cryptojacking, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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Tech News: 2021-22

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 an issue on the Vector skin with the text size of categories and notices under the page title. It was fixed last Monday. [51]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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17:04, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Project Borealis (June 7)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by IceWelder was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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Tech News: 2021-23

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 8 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 June. It will be on all wikis from 10 June (calendar).

Future changes

• The Wikimedia movement uses Phabricator for technical tasks. This is where we collect technical suggestions, bugs and what developers are working on. The company behind Phabricator will stop working on it. This will not change anything for the Wikimedia movement now. It could lead to changes in the future. [52][53][54]
• Searching on Wikipedia will find more results in some languages. This is mainly true for when those who search do not use the correct diacritics because they are not seen as necessary in that language. For example searching for Bedusz doesn't find Będusz on German Wikipedia. The character ę isn't used in German so many would write e instead. This will work better in the future in some languages. [55]
• The CSRF token parameters in the action API were changed in 2014. The old parameters from before 2014 will stop working soon. This can affect bots, gadgets and user scripts that still use the old parameters. [56][57]

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20:01, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-24

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

• Logged-in users on the mobile web can choose to use the advanced mobile mode. They now see categories in a similar way as users on desktop do. This means that some gadgets that have just been for desktop users could work for users of the mobile site too. If your wiki has such gadgets you could decide to turn them on for the mobile site too. Some gadgets probably need to be fixed to look good on mobile. [58]
• Language links on Wikidata now works for multilingual Wikisource. [59]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• In the future we can't show the IP of unregistered editors to everyone. This is because privacy regulations and norms have changed. There is now a rough draft of how showing the IP to those who need to see it could work.
• German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [60]
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 28 June. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [61][62]

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20:25, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Humour

Do you have one ready? :) Thanks! --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 01:50, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

つがるYep. CanadianOtaku ^{Talk Page} 03:18, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-25

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 otrs-member group name is now vrt-permissions. This could affect abuse filters. [63]

Problems

• You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [64]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 June. It will be on all wikis from 24 June (calendar).

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15:47, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2021-26

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

• Wikis with the Growth features now can configure Growth features directly on their wiki. This uses the new special page Special:EditGrowthConfig. [65]
• Wikisources have a new OCR tool. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add .ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; } to your common.css page. [66]

Problems

• You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [67][68]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 June. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).

Future changes

• Threshold for stub link formatting, thumbnail size and auto-number headings can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback.
• A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users. [69][70]

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16:30, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard-June 2021

Hello, CanadianOtaku! Here is the June 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard.

Wikipedia News

• The IRC channels used for Wikipedia have changed, you can read more on it here. While TWW was aware of this in the last issue, we decided to wait and publish this in this issue, when the issue is not as new any more, and more information has been developed.
• There was quick interruption in editing on Wikipedia, that was to test server switching should an emergency happen, more details can be found here.

Humour

This section was written by CanadianOtaku --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁

• Internet Explorer still thinks freenode is the best IRC service!
• It has been proven that editing the article Cheese while eating Cheese is considered a WP:COI.
• This joke has been donated to us from aliens, hopefully they learned UTF-8: £

Editor's Notes

• Thanks for your patience as we experienced delays in publishing this issue.

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"Memecoin" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Tech News: 2021-27

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

Tech News

• The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 19 July.

Recent changes

• AutoWikiBrowser is a tool to make repetitive tasks easier. It now uses JSON. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPageJSON and Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Config. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/Version has moved to Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage/VersionJSON. The tool will eventually be configured on the wiki so that you don't have to wait until the new version to add templates or regular expression fixes. [71]

Problems

• InternetArchiveBot helps saving online sources on some wikis. It adds them to Wayback Machine and links to them there. This is so they don't disappear if the page that was linked to is removed. It currently has a problem with linking to the wrong date when it moves pages from archive.is to web.archive.org. [72]

Changes later this week

• The tool to find, add and remove templates will be updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It will come to the first wikis on 7 July. It will come to more wikis later this year. [73][74]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Some Wikimedia wikis use Flagged Revisions or pending changes. It hides edits from new and unregistered accounts for readers until they have been patrolled. The auto review action in Flagged Revisions will no longer be logged. All old logs of auto-review will be removed. This is because it creates a lot of logs that are not very useful. [75]

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17:31, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-29

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

Recent changes

• The tool to find, add and remove templates was updated. This is to make it easier to find and use the right templates. It was supposed to come to the first wikis on 7 July. It was delayed to 12 July instead. It will come to more wikis later this year. [76][77]
• Special:UnconnectedPages lists pages that are not connected to Wikidata. This helps you find pages that can be connected to Wikidata items. Some pages should not be connected to Wikidata. You can use the magic word __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ on pages that should not be listed on the special page. [78]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 July. It will be on all wikis from 22 July (calendar).

Future changes

• How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will soon change. This can affect bots, gadgets, user scripts and extensions. You can read more. You can test it on Testwiki or Testwiki 2.
• The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more.

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15:29, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

TWW

Hi! How are you doing? Do you have the TWW Humour section ready for this month? If not that is fine, I can make one myself ;) --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 01:11, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, I do not have one this time, as I'm busy with other things. CanadianOtaku ^{Talk Page} 04:15, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

No problem, that's A-Okay! I am actually quite busy (like a lot) with Online School, hence TWW Issue may be delayed again, and also explains my lack of activity on Wikipedia lately. If this was the old me, I would be ignoring school, I have to thank Nick Moyes once again, for encouraging me to focus on the schoolwork over Wikipedia. I understand how important this is now. --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 00:15, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

That remark really makes my day! Nick Moyes (talk) 04:44, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard-Summer 2021

Hello, CanadianOtaku! Here is the Summer 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard.

Wikipedia News

• There is an election that is taking place, for the Wikikmedia Foundation, to read more about it click here
• The Wikipedia Library, has made some updates to their terms of use. You can read more here
• Wikimania took place this month!
• There are a few new admins who have joined the Admin Team, congrats to them! Remember, if you see a use who you believe meets the criteria for adminship here, or on other projects (Please check that Wikipedia/Wikimedia Project's Adminship Criteria page, as they vary by project), you can give it a try and nominate them for adminship if they are okay with it!

Humour

• There is no due date in Wikipedia, so I could take 1000 years to write this issue! ;P
• If you are reading this, you are reading this! (makes no sense, but okay!)
• There is no more Humour to put and this sentence is no longer funny.
• The mess I made in my room is bigger than this city!
• Here's a list of all events that happened between TWW issues

Editors notes

• I have been really busy with school so I was unable to write this issue for a long time. Thanks for your patience. :)

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TheWikiWizard- October 2021

Hi, CanadianOtaku! Here is the October 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard!

Wikipedia News

• Wikimedia Asian Month is beginning once again!
• Check out the 2021 Community Wishlist's results!
• For those interested, check out the "Wikimedia CEE Online Meeting 2021" (Click on link for more details and to find out if you can register!)
• Check out this new feature for The Wikipedia Library!

Humour

• It's Halloween coming up again, and that means you can have an excuse to eat candy and binge edit Wikipedia again
• Frankenstein told me this does not exist... (Does not make sense, but okay...)
• Is Humour funny? I guess we'll have to find out!

Editor's Notes

• Thank you for your patience, I was busy, and still am, so issues of TWW may be delayed.

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I hope all is well! If you have the humor section ready for a future TWW issue, please let me know! thank you --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 20:58, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard- December 2021

Hi, CanadianOtaku! Here is the December 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard!

Humour

• Christmas is here again, time to bug people to get you the stuff you really, really want! (Anyone going to get me some butter cookies, or that giant Costco teddy bear?)
• If you don't like turkey, there's always the rotisserie chicken!
• If you ate too much turkey and regret it, then you should have read the above message ;)

Wikipedia News

We don't have much to report this month, but we do have the following...

• The Simple English Wikipedia has almost reached 200,000 articles!
• Wikipedia Asian Month which took place in November, has finished. Now, all the articles are judged and then it is determined who gets the postcards, even if you don't get one, or didn't participate, there is always next year, and we thank you for everything you have done!
• Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021 took place earlier this month, for elegible editors. (At the time of this writing it was still taking place, but I assumed by the time this issue was sent, it would have been finished - It is set to finish at December 6 2021 at 23:59 UTC )

Editor's Notes

• I haven't forgotten about TWW ;) Don't worry.
• TWW is in the process of getting a new main page, if you have any ideas, or would like to help, please shoot a message on the TWW talk page.
• That's it for this issue! This is the last issue for 2021. See you all in 2022! Have a safe and happy holiday season!

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Thoughts on removal of Jokes section on Gentoo Linux page

Hi CanadianOtaku,

You seem to edit Wikipedia more than myself. As far as I can tell, the recent edits on Gentoo_Linux to remove the practical jokes section do not fall under notability guidelines... The article itself does, but not the contents therein. I'd like to see the Jokes section stay in the article and have been providing sources to upstream (gentoo.org) references, but apparently this is not enough to satisfy the one user who keeps undoing my edits. The best argument I can see for undoing my edits would fall under the principal of Due and undue weight, although these seem somewhat hard to see exactly how they apply to citing facts. Gentoo coverage in academic articles and more generally the news is pretty slim as is, so it's challenging to find "third party reports". Please let me know your thoughts. Thank you! --Maffblaster (talk) 20:38, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Article s6 (init)

Good morning CanadianOtaku. This article s6 (init) is as a draft, I think it should be published because it is relevant to the world of operating systems. Thank you very much. --Rstmnq1000 (talk) 00:42, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard- Jan/Feb 2022

Hi, CanadianOtaku! Here is the first issue of 2022 for the TheWikiWizard!

Humor

• Since it's/was Lunar New Year, you can bug your boss at work for that extra fifty dollar bill ;)
• New Year, New world, Same TWW :P
• Did you work off that turkey? Don't worry, editing Wikipedia burns calories... I am pretty sure...

Wiki(p/m)edia News

• Check out The "Education/Eduwiki Week 2022"!
• Modussiccandi had a successful RFA!
• The 2022 Steward Elections are open to editors who meet the criterion.

Editor's Notes

• We are combining two months' issues into one, to try out a new format. This is the first issue of 2022. Happy New Year!
• That's it for this time, see you in the next issue!

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Wishing you a good 2022! --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 01:50, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

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TheWikiWizard - April 2022

Hi, CanadianOtaku! Here is the April 2022 issue for the TheWikiWizard!

Humour

• April 1 isn't April fools day if you say it isn't...
• April Showers should bring May Money flowers! I'd be rich!
• It's Spring again, Spring out of bed!

Wiki(p/m)edia News

• The final voter results in regards of the Universal Code of Conduct were released
• On the English Wikipedia we have had several successful RFAs! Some include, Colin M's RFA, and Sdrqaz's RFA!
• Check out this event! It's about a conversation that you can join!

Editor's Notes

• Sorry for missing the last issue!
• Have a suggestion or want to help us? Let us know!
• We wish all those in Ukraine and those affected by the war safety and peace :-)

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TheWikiWizard - May 2022

Hey, CanadianOtaku! Here is the May 2022 issue for the TheWikiWizard!

Humor

• What do May Showers bring?
• May the 4th be with you doesn't work anymore, but I can say it again in less than a year!
• If you love Wikipedia, and are editing it, is it a conflict of interest?

Wiki(P/M)edia News

• A discussion took place in regards to the desktop design for certain Wikis. You can find more information here.
• Tamzin, has had a successful RFA! Congrats!
• Check out this Conversation that will be hosted by the team "Community Resilience and Sustainability"! You can find out more details about the meeting by clicking on the link.

Editor's Notes

• We have a IRC Channel! Come by and say Hi! You can find us on Libra.Chat under the channel name #TheWikiWizard ^connect

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See you in the next issue! (Remember, you can help us write our next issue!) --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 00:28, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

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TheWikiWizard - July 2022

Hey, CanadianOtaku! Here is the July 2022 issue for the TheWikiWizard!

Humour

• It's less than 6 months till Christmas (I think...)
• Start making the Christmas list! Never too early, or late for those who think Dec 26 is Dec 25 haha
• If I had a dollar for every word I typed, the world would run out of money ;)

Wiki(p/m)edia News

• The Japanese Wikipedia now uses the new vector skin! For those who speak Japanese or just want to take a look, check it out!
• There is a conversation event that you can check out. More details on the link.
• A meeting had taken place in regards to Interface of MediaWiki. More information of that meeting can be found here.

Editor's Notes

• Please note that due to me being busy/at times not much to report on Wiki(p/m)edia some issues of this newsletter may be skipped. Don't worry I haven't forgotten about it!
• Sometimes during the delivery of the issue, the mass message extension sends it twice for some reason. Please note I only send them once and not twice. I apologise for the inconvenience this causes.
• Remember that the Wikimedia Foundation also hosts other wikis too! So if you want to see what other wikis there are, give it a try! You might find something you like!

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See you in the next issue! Have a great summer! --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 01:00, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

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TheWikiWizard- September 2022

Hey, CanadianOtaku! Here is the September 2022 Issue for the TheWikiWizard in October! We apologize for the delay.

Humor

• It's time for Christmas, summer is coming to an end
• What are you giving Santa for Chirstmas? (He told me to for you to leave more cookies and the Halloween Candy)
• Halloween, give out money instead :P

Wiki(p/m)edia News

• A discussion in regards to the new vector skin on EN Wikipedia had taken place, you can find it here
• The Foundation Elections occurred learn more here
• Quite a few successful RFA's took place, some include Z1720, and Dan Cherek! Congrats to all the successful RFA's!

Editor's Notes

• Thanks for your patience as we are late with issues, you can join us if you want to help out!
• Please note that sometimes the system may deliver this twice to you, but I only send it once

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TheWikiWizard - December 2022

Hey, CanadianOtaku! Here is the December 2022 issue for the TheWikiWizard! We've been dormant for a few months!

Humor

• How many times will you write 2022 in 2023??
• Don't write Christmas Cards/do gift shopping in December, do it in the summer!

Wiki(p/m)edia News

Not much to report this issue, but we do have these to report!

• Quite a few RFAs took place since the last issue of this newsletter. You can view more here!
• The Voting for a sound logo is taking place on Wikimedia Commons, head over to that link to find out more!
• The Arbitration Committee Elections is happening on the English Wikipedia. (The elections may have finished by the time you see this message, please check the page for the date and time of the election deadline)

Editor's Notes

• Have a great holiday and new years! We'll see you in 2023.

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See you next time. Happy Holidays! --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 02:43, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

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TheWikiWizard - February 2023

Hey, CanadianOtaku! Here is the February 2023 issue for the TheWikiWizard!

Humor

• Have you finished raking up those leaves from fall?
• Are you making your list yet for next Christmas? Only 10ish more months to go! It's never too early ;-)

Wiki(P/M)edia News

• Wikipedia (EN) has a new look! Remember, if you prefer the old look and are logged in, you can go to preferences to change back to the old vector skin!
• WMF (Wikimedia Foundation) is going to update it's terms of use, you can find out more here
• There is a planned test that will take place with the servers, and it may affect your ability to make changes for a period of time, more information can be found here
• We've got some new RFA's (Requests for Adminship) on EN Wikipedia that took place since the last issue!

Editor's Notes

• Happy 2023! This is the first issue of the year!
• If you ever want to help out with TWW please let us know! Please note TWW issues may be delayed, but we haven't forgotten about TWW!

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See you next time. We hope you have a great 2023! --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 01:10, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

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TheWikiWizard - May 2023

Hey, CanadianOtaku! Here is the May 2023 edition for the TheWikiWizard!

Humor

• Now is the time to start writing those Christmas cards and do the Christmas shopping! Come December, you can sit back and edit Wikipedia! ;)
• When it snows in December/Winter, stock up the snow in your freezer, so when it gets hot you can do a snowball fight in the summer!

Wiki(P/M)edia News

• A conversation with trustees event took place on the 18th of May. You can read more details on the event here!
• On the English Wikipedia some RFAs which took place the past few months. You can see the full details at the RFA main page.
• There is a event (Conference) that is taking place in city of Belgrade. More details on the event can be found by clicking on the link!

Editor's Notes

• I apologies for the delay in the issues, however I can guarantee you that I am always thinking of TWW and haven't forgotten about it :) School's so busy!
• If you want to help out TWW, let me know!

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TheWikiWizard - September 2023

Hello, CanadianOtaku! Here is the September 2023 for the TheWikiWizard!

Wiki(p/m)edia News

• On the EN Wikipedia, there were 4 successful RFAs between the period of July and September! Congrats to the candidates! Also on Simple English Wikipedia, they had 1 successful RFA in August!
• For those wondering why you were unable to edit for a period of time on 20th September, there was a server testing going on. You can follow the link to read more. We will always inform you here if one of these kinds of tests is going to take place, or has taken place. You can also head on over to the Meta Wiki main page, information on these kinds of tests will always be displayed there.
• Did you know you that Wikimedia Commons has monthly photo challenges? You can check out more here!
• The USA has viewed Wikipedia 4 Billion times in August!
• The Talysh Wikipedia was recently created!

Humor

• It's almost fall again! (or is it already?) Don't fall on fallen leaves!
• One moment it's raining, the next its too hot. Welcome to fall!

Editor's Notes

• Quite a bit has happened since our last issue! Thanks for your patience during our gap of inactivity between issues!
• Thank you for reading TWW!

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See you again in the next issue! --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 15:54, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

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