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This Month in Education: January 2021

This Month in Education

Volume 10 • Issue 1 • January 2021

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Who?

Who is the new foot-covering for this old hand? Did you mean this guy? davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 22:16, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Indeed. Thanks! My computer has been having trouble cut'n'pasting between windows:( DMacks (talk) 22:19, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
Sigh, and the non-empty suspected sock cat is still red too. I told you that installing double-pain windows would hurt! davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 22:25, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
And that's an annoying step I usuaally forget regardless of glazing. Would be nice if Easyblock would prompt for it, but that tool's unmaintained and now has n+1 bugs. DMacks (talk) 22:29, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: January 2021

This Month in Education

Volume 10 • Issue 1 • January 2021

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Tech News: 2021-04

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

Changes later this week

  • Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [3]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

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18:30, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).

Arbitration

  • The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:09, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-05

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

Changes later this week

  • You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [5]
  • Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [6][7]
  • Advanced item Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55 as well as the 1.2.3.4/27 syntax for IP ranges. [8]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).

Future changes

  • Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more. [9][10]
  • Advanced item Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be 185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can read more.

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22:38, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

WP:RFU#File:Captain Tom Moore fundraising walk.jpg

Hi DM, I was just wondering if you'd mind chiming in on my request to restore a contemporary fair-use image of a now-recently-deceased individual? Cheers, ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 20:57, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-06

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

Changes later this week

  • You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [12]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).

Future changes

  • When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [13][14]
  • 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. [15]
  • Advanced item Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [16]

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17:40, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

"Starf*ck (party)" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Starf*ck (party). The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 February 15#Starf*ck (party) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Hog Farm Talk 03:54, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

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. [17][18]
  • 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. [19]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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)

Ilikerabbits!

This user, whom you blocked indef 31⁄2 years ago, has requested unblock. Any thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daniel Case (talk • contribs) 04:29, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Seems like a reasonable WP:Standard offer. I really don't care about his topic-area as long as his edit behavior is improved. DMacks (talk) 04:40, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Some falafel for you!

Thanks for contribution Science&potato (talk) 20:09, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Trying to take down useful contributions

I don't understand why you are trying to remove my contributions.

I have already had my house burglarized on several ocassions as well as my salary digits stolen from me.

I don't understand what it is about other people trying to Rob & Burgle from me.

It's foul behaviour. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.12.182.103 (talk) 17:56, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia is only about wikipedia, and there's no hurry--it's okay to take some time to get your "real life" back together before editing. Reliable sources, and especially medical-topics reliable-sources are a non-negotiable basis for any content. Not what you personally think or can figure out. Not what you have heard or your opinions on any of it. Your edits match in several ways those of an editor who is forbidden from editing Wikipedia altogether (regardless of what account they use, or what information and sources they would add). DMacks (talk) 18:11, 21 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. [20]
  • Advanced item The syntax highlighter now works with more languages: Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU. [21]

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. [22]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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

  • Advanced item 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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00:16, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: February 2021

This Month in Education

Volume 10 • Issue 2 • February 2021

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An automated process has detected that when you recently edited 1,6-Dichloro-1,6-dideoxyfructose, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Chlorination.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:19, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

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. [23]
  • Some editors may not be logged in to their accounts automatically in the latest versions of Firefox and Safari. [24]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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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19:06, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).

Administrator changes

added TJMSmith
removed Boing! said Zebedee • Hiberniantears • Lear's Fool • Only • WGFinley

Interface administrator changes

added AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
  • When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
  • There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:13, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

MidreBahri, lanterner, and wowsers on Tigrayans are most likely Same person

I am new to Wiki and seems those editors are the same person! Please check on Tigrayan history and talk Clownshking (talk) 01:30, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Numerous Engvar changes

Hi Dmacks, I have a non-chemistry question for you for once. I've noticed that User:Ivan Humphrey has been engaging is numerous changes in WP:ENGVAR settings. The edits follow a pattern, when tags are added (which is frequently) then they are for American English and when they are removed (less often) they are for British English. By itself this is merely irksome - but he's also changing culturally sensitive pages and I feel this might genuinely be a problem. He Americanised all the spellings in Indonesian language and claimed Tenggerese people and Javanese people articles as American English pages. These changes may well be legitimate but I thought I should bring it to someone's attention. --Project Osprey (talk) 10:44, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, and a question

Thanks for your recent edit on Fluazifop. I should have thought about just using R and RS rather than 2R and 2RS! As to the removal of the Q number (which links the ester to the corresponding Wikidata item), it was added by Graeme Bartlett in this edit [[25]], As he is normally pretty hot on these things, maybe he would like to comment here on why he added it and whether it should be reinstated? Mike Turnbull (talk) 13:00, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

I may add a qid to a draft if I found out the wikidata item when looking at ids. We don't add drafts to Wikidata. Also qid1 qid2 may apply if there are multiple wikidata items for one chemical, eg if the chemical has indexed entries - such as for isomers. For this one qid2 was the butyl ester, that was previously linked from Wikidata, but I changed the linkage from the base chemical Wikidata item. I don't mind it being removed, but I think that chembox should support it, especially when grabbing wikidata values for indexed boxes. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 20:32, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

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. [26]
  • When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article. [27]

Problems

  • Many graphs have JavaScript errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing. [28]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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. [29]

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. [30][31]
  • 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)

Trick to overcome the problem encountered with the sign = in Short desc

Hello DMacks,

Thank you very much for indicating me the trick to overcome the problem encountered with the sign "=" in the Short description template by replacing it by {{=}}. I have to confess that my trick with the sign ≐ (with a point above =) was not very orthodox. ;-)

{{Short description|Organic compounds containing a diazoamino group −N(R)−N{{=}}N−}}.

I am happy that you rapidly find a solution and share it with me. There is still two or three edits in "Short desc" to correct. I will have a look immediately. :-) Shinkolobwe (talk) 16:05, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

You're welcome! Turns out I'm seeing a bug...somewhere...in the shortdesc handlers that our work on that page has uncovered. So this will be a win all around. Why does
{{short description|Organic compounds containing a diazoamino group −N(R)−N=N−}}
actually display properly in {{annotated link}} even though it throws a warning, and why does the 1= resolve the warning but not display properly? I think there is some deep magic in the internal annotated-link handlers. DMacks (talk) 17:36, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
Bug in {{Template parameter value}} when calling a positional parameter from a template that is called using named (or explicitly numbered) parameters. That's apparently been known for a year, according to Template talk:Annotated link and Template talk:Template parameter value. Grr. DMacks (talk) 17:48, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Removing Info

That citation you removed is 100% proof of the origin of the term 'GameLit'. Not only do the posts throughout reference it several times, but it also predates any public usage of the term by months. GuyOnACouch (talk) 22:34, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Our verifiability policy and reliable source guideline are not satisfied by our own data analysis and digging. If this is a serious enough genre to merit an article at all, surely it has been analyzed in actual scholarly publications, including some history of it. Simply "this is the oldest I could find" or a facebook post do not suffice. DMacks (talk) 03:46, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Yes, because LitRPG (the genre of the source article) has sooo many scholarly publications and it's history isn't at all just links to other Wiki pages and non-scholarly Russian websites. The 'well, Facebook doesn't count' flew in 2012 because it was essentially exclusively a public diary with memes, but acting as if because something was come up with and talked about on Facebook it's no longer relevant or worth the hyperlink in a post-2015 is about as ridiculous as the crowd who disregarded information back in the day because it was found on the internet. GuyOnACouch (talk) 22:29, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

It's a shame that some things that are "known" still can't be written on Wikipedia because there is no valid reliable source available. DMacks (talk) 16:09, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

Removal of content

I'd like to clarify that the edit I made at 22:35, 12 March 2021, stating no article, which you deleted entirely was in no way malicious. My first thought was to delete the text but I concluded relocating the extract was the best course of action. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 51.7.242.215 (talk)

Hi 51.7.242.215,
I see no evidence of malice in your edit. The content was written by someone else before you. If that content were to remain in the article, your moving it is a fine action (and specifically one I would actually probably support in this case). If it were to have citations to reliable sources, there would be no problem at all. Unfortunately, Wikipedia software doesn't always know "who did what" (create a sentence vs change a word in it vs relocate it in the article), just that "these were the set of edits and editors who were affected by the action". DMacks (talk) 16:14, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

Trap and otokonoko

Need your input and any help settling whether trap should be added or not in Otokonoko, see Talk:Otokonoko#Trap section They keep edit warring over adding or removing a statement about trap, and per MOS:DABMENTION this will affect whether the entry will be listed or not in Trap (disambiguation) AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 00:27, 15 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

Problems

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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. [33][34]
  • 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.
  • Advanced item 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. [35]

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23:20, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

I only added a fact about Mirza Nasir Ahmad. which you keep deleting and threaten to stop me from editing.

Shortly after the death of his wife Mansoora Begum, Nasir Ahmad started making plans for a second marriage. He made predictions and prophecies that this marriage will bring blessings for Ahmadi Jamaat. On 11 April 1982,[9] he married Tahira Siddiqua Nasir, daughter of Abdul Majeed Khan of Verowal. She was in early twenties and more than 50 years younger. Approximately within a week of marriage Nasir Ahmad had a heart attack in Islamabad and died.

Can you give a reason for doing so? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (talk • contribs) 17:36, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

You are welcome to propose changes on the article's talkpage. However, the majority of your edits have included changes that remove mentions of the Ahmadiyya as being Muslims. It is not your place to make that determination, and it is not Wikipedia's place to allow any sect to dictate how other sects should be viewed. DMacks (talk) 07:25, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Joe Hockey

You placed the Pending Changes protection on the Joe Hockey article on September 21, 2015 (it would seem without a specific expiration date), and it appears that the article has remained under the PC protection since then. Please consider unprotecting the article now. Per the WP:PCPP policy, "Indefinite PC protection should be used only in cases of severe long-term disruption." It does not appear to me that the article currently meets any of the criteria for the PC protection (persistent vandalism, BLP violations, copyright violations). The article is not heavily edited, and I don't see any vandalism edit attempts in the last three months, probably longer. Thanks, Nsk92 (talk) 17:07, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

Done. Prior to that protection, there had been a multiple-year problem with no evidence of slowing down. Definitely looks alright now. Especially likely no further major problems given he's no longer in office. Let me know if a problem arises. DMacks (talk) 20:57, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
OK, great, thanks! Nsk92 (talk) 12:43, 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

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

  • Recurrent item 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. [36]

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. [37][38]
  • Advanced item 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. [39]

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16:51, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Rosalind Franklin

Hi DMacks.

A newly-created account has altered the Rosalind Franklin page in its lede section in what MAY hsve been five good-faith edits but has left it in a bit of a mess, with the first "minor" edit in particular repeating what is already in a later part of the lede (and less accurate). I'm not confident I know how to revert back to your last good version, so could you do that, please? Mike Turnbull (talk) 13:51, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

 Done. DMacks (talk) 15:02, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

A cupcake topped with nontoxic long-chain alcohol compounds for you!

Noticed you had fixed some things on 1-Pentadecanol, specifically some weird infobox parameters I didn't even know existed. It looks great now -- thanks! jp×g 04:58, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
Delicious (thank goodness it's non-toxic). Thanks for writing a nice chemistry article. I think the scientific term for the infoboxes is "deep magic":) DMacks (talk) 05:08, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: March 2021

This Month in Education

Volume 10 • Issue 3 • March 2021

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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. [40]
  • Advanced item 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. [41]

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. [42]
  • 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. [43][44]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item 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)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).

Administrator changes

removed Alexandria • Happyme22 • RexxS

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
  • Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

Technical news

  • When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
  • Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)

Arbitration

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:20, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Moving request

Hello. Probably easier to ask here: Please move 2-aminoacetanilide to the correct name 2-Aminoacetanilide. (You have already moved the para isomer). Thanks. Christian75 (talk) 11:35, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

 Done. Probably not hard to pull a list of all chem/drug articles whose first letter isn't a capital. I can try to work on that in the next day or three. DMacks (talk) 13:52, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
There are no mainspace articles containing drugbox or chembox whose title does not contain any capital letters. DMacks (talk) 05:47, 2 April 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. [45]

Changes later this week

  • Advanced item 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. [46]
  • Recurrent item 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).

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  • Advanced item 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)

chemistry

wishing you a very good afternoon sir! my topic of discussion is regarding the wikipedia page "atomic radius data page". would like to know if I want to study the trends of radius in periodic table, should i refer to the data given under "empirical" section or under "calculated" section? Vanshita poddar (talk) 07:50, 25 March 2021 (UTC) vanshita poddar

please respond sir. Vanshita poddar (talk) 18:30, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, I did not notice this first message:( The choice of empirical vs calculated depends on the context or purpose of your studies. Generally empirical is better because it is experimentally validated (actually measured data). Calculated is a theoretical analysis (prediction), so it can be used even for elements that have not been measured experimentally. DMacks (talk) 15:39, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Courtesy notice

Hello DMacks. I'm just letting you know that an Arbitration Case has been filed and you have been listed as a party. — Ched (talk) 08:33, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

China-Taiwan articles case request declined

The arbitrators have voted to decline the case request you were a party to, China-Taiwan articles, for reasons including the dispute being a content dispute and because previous conduct dispute resolution had not been attempted. You can view the declined case request in this permalink. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 08:25, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

Chemical structure images

Thanks for adding chemical structure images to all the articles I've been working on! May I ask what you use to create them? proton donor H+ 20:48, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

@Proton donor: You're welcome! These simple organic structures only take a few minutes at most. I periodically check for "chembox with no image", but if there's something in particular you'd like (or a different style or perspective of something) feel free to ask. I use ChemDraw for skeletal diagrams and Avogadro (software) for 3D (ball&stick, etc.) covalent molecules. DMacks (talk) 04:15, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

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16:47, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Molecular orbital

Thanks for reviewing my edits to Molecular orbital. Since then, I have tried to make the article exactly agree with the source, as well as eliminate the circular definition. Please take another look at what I did. Thanks again. Comfr (talk) 22:04, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

@Comfr: looks good! I like the clearer distinction between the plain-language adjective (the idea of "orbits" being old) vs the novelty of the noun. DMacks (talk) 10:34, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

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