Jump to content

User talk:Cassiopeia/Archive 115

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Archive 110←Archive 113Archive 114Archive 115

Tech News: 2024-40

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

Updates for editors

  • Readers of 42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
  • Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding ?veaction=editsource to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences. [1]
  • For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin. Learn more about the changes related to donor experiences. [2]
  • The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been enabled on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Wikipedia has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Wikipedia and on Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
  • View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.

In depth

  • The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes. [3]

Meetings and events

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 22:16, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from Cyanidercider (22:02, 1 October 2024)

why "unfortunately"? --Cyanidercider (talk) 22:02, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #648

<languages/>

<translate> Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-10-07. Please help Translate. Missed the previous one?
See issue #647</translate>

<translate>Events</translate> <translate>* Upcoming:

    • Wikidata Day 2024 at the Pratt Institute Manhattan Campus, New York - To celebrate Wikidata's 12th Birthday, a mini-conference with beginner workshops, lightning talks and keynote speeches will be held. October 26, 11am - 5pm EDT (UTC-4). More info, registration and full address on this Wikipedia event page.
    • The Wikidata Days 2024 in Bologna, Italy will take place on November 8th and 9th. Its program revolves around Wikidata for libraries and academia, and features a wide range of Wikidata-enthusiastic librarians and researchers from Italy. Registration is open until October 31st.
    • The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 16th October 2024 at 18:00 CEST in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
    • Scholia hackathon on Oct 18-20, aimed at addressing changes related to the Wikidata graph split
    • Intangible Cultural Heritage on Wikidata - Hosted by Wikimedia Community Malta (WCM), November 8, 2024 18:00 - 19:00 CEST, Malta Fairs and Conference Centre (MFCC) in Ta’ Qali, Malta
    • Edit-A-Thon: 50 States of Comics - Ohio, take part in this virtual event held October 10, 10:00 - 16:00 EST (UTC-5).</translate>

<translate>Press, articles, blog posts, videos</translate> <translate>* Blogs

<translate>Tool of the week</translate>

  • (fr) wikidata MultiSearch - search for a list of elements in Wikidata. A GPLv3 licenced tool built by Philippe Gambette allows you to search for a list of words in Wikidata and retrieve some associated Wikidata properties.

<translate>Other Noteworthy Stuff</translate>

  • Are you building applications or services with Wikidata's data? We'd love to hear from you to help us figure out the future of accessing Wikidata's data.
  • Wikidata: Event Organizers - If you are organizing or thinking about planning a Wikidata event, this new page listing the additional User rights the user-role 'event organizer' has will be a valuable resource. Including the process for applying for permission rights.

<translate>Newest properties and property proposals to review</translate>

<translate>* Newest properties:

    • General datatypes:</translate>
      • handwriting example (sample image of the person's handwriting)
      • objects of occurrence have role (role that objects of this occurrence take on in the context of this occurrence. (For selectional restrictions, use "object class of occurrence" (P12913) instead.))
      • agents of action have role (role that agents of this action take on in the context of this action. (For selectional restrictions, use "agent class of action" (P12994) instead. ))
      • agent class of action (class of items that may initiate this action or class of actions (For roles filled by agents of an action, use "agents of action have role" (P12993) instead))
      • agent of action (particular item that initiates this action or class of actions)
      • characteristic of ((qualifier only) statement value is a characteristic, quality, property, or state of this qualifier value)
      • has kanji reading (phonetic reading or pronunciation of the kanji)
      • publication type of scholarly work (Publication type of scholarly work)
      • leased to (person or organisation that holds or was granted a lease on the subject)
      • magazine capacity (number of projectiles or objects in the magazine feeding a weapon or tool)

<translate>** External identifiers:</translate> ‎Finnish Business ID, Prosocour person ID, Stadtwiki Karlsruhe ID, Athletics New Zealand athlete ID, Encyclopedia of Tunisian Women person ID, ‎LMFDB knowl ID, ACUM performer ID, ACUM creator/publisher ID, ACUM Work ID, ACUM album ID, culture.ru organization ID, ‎Hindustan Times topic ID, Newgrounds submission ID, Storia della civiltà europea ID, Encyclopedia of Brno History literature ID, Linked Open Vocabularies ID, ‎Ontobee ID, ‎typeset.io journal ID, NooSFere editorial collection ID, pomniky.npmk.cz ID, ‎Dictionary of guerrillas and anti-Franco resistance fighters ID, e-LIS publication ID, GameReactor company ID, Latgales dati person ID, ‎FantLab artist ID, RedBA Granada authority ID, ‎NWIS site ID, MetalTabs.com band ID, Koha Kütüphane ID, HA! artwork ID, France television program ID, Radio France program ID, Grand Est inventory ID, Norwegian Media Authority's film rating ID, Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia ID, ‎Münzkabinett ID, MyWaifuList character ID, ‎Kramerius of Czech Digital Library UUID, ‎European Parliament document ID, ‎Western Australian Biographical Index, beniabbandonati (detailed sheet) ID, beniabbandonati (summary sheet) ID, Biblioteka Nauki article ID, Biblioteka Nauki journal ID, Biblioteka Nauki book ID, Biblioteka Nauki publisher ID, PNM Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom person ID, DDB person ID <translate>* New property proposals to review:

    • General datatypes:</translate>
      • Larval host plant (Larval host plant - used only for insects - subclass of P1034)
      • chemical formula (Description of chemical compound giving element symbols and counts)
      • mode of reproduction (ways for living organisms to propagate or produce their offsprings)
      • health points (health or armor points of this video game, board game or role-playing game character)
      • damage (damage value of this video game weapon, ability or character)
      • male mean age (male mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
      • female mean age (female mean age in a given place; qualifier of {{P|4442}})
      • Mummy of a person (mummy of a person)
      • WPBSA com player ID (Identifier for an athlete on the main website of WPBSA)
      • JLPT level (difficulty of word by the level of JLPT)
      • beer style (Classification of a beer based on its style)
      • has forks (Notable software forks of this software)
      • Monument Counter ID (Digital memorial for women killed by violence)

<translate>** External identifiers:</translate> case id (mainland China), BioMed Central journal ID, FightTime fighters ID, Korean Basketball League ID, Identifiant L'Humanité d’un sujet, Chinese Basketball Association ID2, KISTI institute ID, Hlídač státu subject ID, Acervo de Literatura Digital Mato-Grossense Person ID, Cihai encyclopedia entry ID, Cihai dictionary entry ID, Duocet Wiki of Plants ID, Dwelly entry ID, Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource ID, A digital concordance of the R̥gveda ID, vardnica.aizpute.lv ID, Identifiant CIRDOC d'un auteur ou d'une autrice, Identifiant CIRDOC d'un document, Department of Defense Identification Code, Identifiant d'un document audiovisuel dans le catalogue de l'Inathèque, LWW journal ID, BAHRA ID, World Historical Gazetteer place ID, Diccionario biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha ID, AniSearch person ID, identifiant Babelio d'un sujet, Identifiant d'une personne sur Madelen, ITTF PTT ID, Push Square series ID, VG247 series ID, dtf.ru person ID

<translate>You can comment on all open property proposals!</translate>

<translate>Did you know?

<translate>* Newest WikiProjects:

<translate>Development

  • Data access:
  • Design system: We continued migrating the Query Builder and Special:NewLexeme from Wikit to Codex</translate>

<translate>You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.</translate>

<translate>Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2024-41

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

Weekly highlight

  • Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [4]

Updates for editors

Updates for technical contributors

  • It is now possible for <syntaxhighlight> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the copy=1 attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [6]
  • Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [7]
  • Advanced item Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available.
  • Advanced item Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
  • Five new wikis have been created:

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 23:38, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Question from EmmyR!ch (01:30, 8 October 2024)

Please how do I add a picture and also put out anything about my music on here, it’s great being on Wikipedia and I’ve not get a page as said. --EmmyR!ch (talk) 01:30, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

EmmyR!ch Good day. First of all Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia and not a planform for promotion or a social media site. Pls read WP:User page for guidelines. You need to be the copyright holder (who took the photo) to upload a photo/image to Wikipedia Common first before you can copy and past the file to Wikipedia. When you upload the image you need to you agree to the Terms of Use, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the CC BY-SA 4.0 License and the GFDL (release your copyright holder which means anyone can use the image/photo you uploaded). Pls read WP:Copyright and WP:Images. Cassiopeia talk 02:03, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
It’s all good, since you’re my mentor on this platform, please let me know how to upload my biography and other information here. Thank you 🙏🏽 EmmyR!ch (talk) 19:57, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
EmmyR!ch Good day. Kindly read WP:User page to understand what info can be put on the user page. Stay safe. Cassiopeia talk 23:10, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Yuri Arzumanyan

Hi there! I’ve written an article, but it’s not being indexed by search engines like Google, Bing, or any others. Indexing is enabled in the article settings. Could you please take a look at this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Arzumanyan? I’d like to see if the indexing status changes. Thank you! Sphaeral (talk) 12:18, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Sphaera Good day. Your article Yuri Arzumanyan article hasn't yet been reviewed by a Wikipedia new page reviewer, and as a result, it hasn't been indexed by search engines yet. This delay in indexing is because Wikipedia operates with volunteer reviewers, and the process isn't based on a first-come, first-served system. Instead, reviewers choose which articles they want to review at their discretion.
The waiting time for a review can vary widely, from a few days to several months, depending on the availability and interest of the reviewers.

There are a few paragraphs on the article have yet to be cited. Kindly do the needful by providing the sources. Let me know if you have any further questions as I am here to help. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 12:56, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

MEEEOWWW

Moshelillien (talk) 11:33, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

Question from AquamarineRubyxxx (11:21, 13 October 2024)

I would like to delete a page which is used as a redirect to a different page but the original page is never linked to by any other pages, so it is just wasted. --AquamarineRubyxxx (talk) 11:21, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

AquamarineRubyxxx Good day. Pls let me know the (1) article name and (2) the redirect page name. Thank you. Cassiopeia talk 22:03, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
The page Najeeb Muhammed redirects to Aadujeevitham but nothing links to Najeeb Muhammed AquamarineRubyxxx (talk) 16:13, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
AquamarineRubyxxx Good day. Wikipedia uses redirects to ensure that readers are directed to the most relevant or correct article. As such the redirect does not have an article/page of their own in Wikipedia. See below:
(A) Redirecting a related term:
When a term or name does not have its own article on Wikipedia, but is closely related to an existing topic, a redirect can be created.
For example, if a novel is about a real person (like Najeeb Muhammed), the redirect for the novel's title can point to the Wikipedia article about the person or main subject (in this case, Aadujeevitham, where Najeeb Muhammed is the main character or subject).
If a character (e.g., Najeeb Muhammed) becomes very well-known, a redirect might lead to the article about the novel that features that character (again, Aadujeevitham). There are 5 redirects to Aadujeevitham page. see HERE.


(B)Redirecting alternative names:
A redirect can also be created when the subject has multiple names or goes by another name.
For example, Earvin Johnson (the real name of Magic Johnson) redirects to the article about Magic Johnson, as that is the more commonly known or primary name of the individual.
Redirects are useful tools in Wikipedia to enhance user experience, making it easier for readers to find information even if they search for a slightly different or less common term..
Hope the above help. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 20:24, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Cassiopeia/Archive_115&oldid=1252181187"