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

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  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 September. It will be on all wikis from 29 September (calendar).
  • Visual diffs will become available to all users, except at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [1]
  • Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. [2] [3]
  • In the Module namespace, pages ending with .json will be treated as JSON, just like they already are in the User and MediaWiki namespaces. [4]

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Copies of old versions

Hi, I was checking links to deleted categories, and stumbled across your sub-page User:Donald Trung/Great Seal of the Kinh lược sứ (经略使) in the French Tonkinese Infobox.

It states 'This page serves as "the editing history" of the English Wikipedia page "Tonkin (French protectorate)" and is preserved for attribution.' However, the full editing history of the page is preserved for everyone at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tonkin_(French_protectorate)&action=history

Why do you keep these additional copies of old versions? WP:COPYARTICLE says they should not be kept indefinitely.

Apart from that guideline, my reason for writing to you is that such pages do cause additional workload to editors checking "what links here" after page moves. – Fayenatic London 12:45, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

@Fayenatic london:, It's an active sandbox, as for the policy you should actually be referring to "WP:STALEDRAFT" below it. But regarding this particular draft, I use multiple versions in case "something went" wrong after trying different versions and usually I tend to compare them later on a desktop computer to see which versions looks better for non-mobile uses. But as I'm still drafting the Kinh lược sứ article during which I'll attempt to re-write the Infobox again with more information. As for "causing additional workload to editors checking "what links here" after page moves", unless an old name is incorrect that is literally what redirects are for as not every link would necessarily have to be renamed, in fact you can specifically filter for only "(mainspace)" pages using the "What links here" tool as old names also tend to be used in talk pages and some maintenance pages so it's not always wise to alter all links after moving a page. --Donald Trung (talk) 13:53, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
OK, thanks for replying. I'm glad you are aware of the guidelines. As you say, this is an active page not a stale one, but I was puzzled by the explanation at the top. The links that I check are mainly from categories, in this case Category:Former countries of the Cold War, and we do not always redirect old category names. Moreover, links in other namespaces frequently need updating (especially Category, Template and Wikipedia), so restricting the check to mainspace is not applicable; and many users thank me for selectively updating links in their user pages where these still look useful, e.g. drafts and toolboxes. Best wishes – Fayenatic London 14:06, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
@Fayenatic london:, I fixed it (nowiki'd it). I will do that in the future, I thought that simply making categories like this "[[:Category:CATEGORYNAME]]" was enough to keep it out of the way of people doing maintenance, I'll use nowiki tags in the future so this won't be an issue. Cheers. --Donald Trung (talk) 20:10, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

This Month in Education: September 2022

This Month in Education

Volume 11 • Issue 9 • September 2022

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Tech News: 2022-40

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

Recent changes

  • Kartographer maps can now show geopoints from Wikidata, via QID or SPARQL query. Previously, this was only possible for geoshapes and geolines. [5] [6]
  • The Coolest Tool Award 2022 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 12 October.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 October. It will be on all wikis from 6 October (calendar).
  • Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. (Last week's release was delayed) [7] [8]
  • The scribunto-console API module will require a CSRF token. This module is documented as internal and use of it is not supported. [5]
  • The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikimedia projects. Learn more.

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Wikidata weekly summary #540

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • 🎊 Events
    • Upcoming
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call
        • October 4, 2022: Lana Soglasnova and Roman Tashlitskyy will talk about their preliminary work in creating and editing items for Slavic people and some of the complications involved in this work, especially around transliterating names in various languages. Agenda
        • Wikibase Working Hour! 25 October 2022, 2pm Eastern (Time zone converter) Amy Ruskin of Northeastern University Library, will speak on the topic of Wikidata vs. custom Wikibases: Community history case studies, Boston’s Chinatown. The Boston Research Center (BRC) is a digital community history and archives lab based in the Northeastern University Library. One of our current projects involves taking an inventory of historical materials related to Boston’s Chinatown, and we have been using Wikibase to store multilingual data about the linked collections, organizations, and people. In this presentation, we will discuss our experience of getting started with a custom Wikibase and give an overview of our progress so far on the Chinatown Collections project. Amy Ruskin is the Data Engineer in the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library. She has a Master's degree in Information Studies from McGill University and a background in computer science and statistics. Registration link
      • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, October 4 at 18:00 CEST (UTC+2)
      • [Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming "How to interact with Wikidata via Pywikibot" workshop on Friday, October 7th, 16:00 UTC
      • The State of Wikidata and Cultural Heritage: 10 Years In. Oct 4, 2022 08:00 AM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)
      • Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—October 5th, 2022
      • Wikidata Office Hour GLAM-Hack − online meet-up about the "library world" with Wikidata. October 5th, 12.00 UTC (online via Zoom)
    • Ongoing
      • Wikimedia Österreich, in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland, started the DACH Culture Contest as a Börthday present for Wikidata 10th anniversary! It features two categories: "libraries in Austria, Germany and Switzerland" and "Culture in Austria, Germany and Switzerland". So if you would like to improve data about libraries, books, music, art, video games, cinema etc as a börthday treat, join us and get the chance to win some nice prizes! The contest will last until October 16, 2022.
      • Weekly Lexemes Challenge #61, Time
  • 🧑🏿‍💻 Development


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You should try this, I think. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 01:45, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Alexis Jazz, I'll take a look at it, but with how often Factotum has bugs I'm not sure if I would want to install more beta-software on the only account I'm allowed to use here. -- — Donald Trung (talk) 10:45, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
A more than fair point. Considering that, I'd actually have to recommend staying away from it. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 17:03, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-41

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The social movement of Meitei language (officially known as "Manipuri language") to achieve the officially recognised status of the "Classical language of India" is advocated by various literary, political, social associations and organisations as well as notable individual personalities of Bangladesh, Myanmar, Northeast India (prominently Assam, Manipur and Tripura).

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Tech News: 2022-41

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

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar).
  • On some wikis, Kartographer maps in full size view will be able to display nearby articles. After a feedback period, more wikis will follow. [9][10]

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14:06, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #541

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • ✨ Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award is looking for nominations. Please submit your favorite tools by October 12, 2022. The awarded projects will be announced and showcased in a virtual ceremony in December.
    • The September 2022 summary for the Wikidata Query Service backend update is out.
  • 🧑🏿‍💻 Development
    • MUL language code: fixed the order of languages shown in the termbox on desktop, especially when mul is used (phab:T311617)
    • Lexicographical data:
      • Made Special:NewLexemeAlpha use the same font as the rest of the wiki (phab:T313166) – this should be the last blocker for replacing the old special page
      • Disallowed *-x-qid with lowercase Q as Lexeme language codes in favor of *-x-Qid (phab:T317863)
    • REST API: worked on handling conditional HTTP request headers
    • Changed the unexpectedUnconnectedPage page prop so that Special:UnconnectedPages can show the latest pages first, which should finally resolve this old security task in production (phab:T300770)
    • Cleaned up the Wikibase and WikibaseLexeme ontology files (phab:T314360)
    • Added a few more globes for geocoordinates (phab:T314611) - Thanks, Mike!

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