User talk:Legoktm/December 2023

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The Signpost: 4 December 2023

News and notes: Beeblebrox ejected from Arbitration Committee following posts on Wikipediocracy

In the media: Turmoil on Hebrew Wikipedia, grave dancing, Olga's impact and inspiring Bhutanese nuns

Disinformation report: "Wikipedia and the assault on history"

In focus: Tens of thousands of freely available sources flagged

Comix: Bold comics for a new age

Essay: I am going to die

Featured content: Real gangsters move in silence

Traffic report: And it's hard to watch some cricket, in the cold November Rain

Humour: Mandy Rice-Davies Applies

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Tech News: 2023-49

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 spacing between paragraphs on Vector 2022 has been changed from 7px to 14px to match the size of the text. This will make it easier to distinguish paragraphs from sentences. [1]
The "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is working again. You no longer need to switch to source editing to edit {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords. [2]

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [3][4]
On 6 December, people who have the enabled the preference for "Show discussion activity" will notice the talk page usability improvements appear on pages that include the __NEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word. If you notice any issues, please share them with the team on Phabricator.

Future changes

The Toolforge Grid Engine shutdown process will start on December 14. Maintainers of tools that still use this old system should plan to migrate to Kubernetes, or tell the team your plans on Phabricator in the task about your tool, before that date. [5]
Communities using Structured Discussions are being contacted regarding the upcoming deprecation of Structured Discussions. You can read more about this project, and share your comments, on the project's page.

Events

Registration & Scholarship applications are now open for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 that will take place from 3–5 May in Tallinn, Estonia. Scholarship applications are open until 5 January 2024.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:48, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Podcast Episode About MassMessage and Great to Meet You in Toronto

Hi, Kunal!

It was great to meet you over the weekend at WikiConference North America! As I mentioned in the bookshop I'm involved with the Peeragogy in Action podcast and I would like for you to be a guest on our next episode to talk about MassMessage and the Wikimedia movement. Are you interested? You can feel free to respond here or email contact@mr.danoff.org

--Charles Jeffrey Danoff (talk) 14:50, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay, I've replied to your email! Legoktm (talk) 06:36, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Editor experience invitation

Hi Lego :) I'm looking to interview people here, feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 21:16, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Great and fun idea. Done! Legoktm (talk) 06:48, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Christine Lemmer-Webber

Hello, Legoktm. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Christine Lemmer-Webber, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 19:05, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

Administrator changes

Beeblebrox → Just Step Sideways

CheckUser changes

Oversight changes

Guideline and policy news

Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.

Arbitration

Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:54, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Legobot Malfunction (single page issue)

Notifying you that Legobot keeps breaking small tags on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikipedia policies and guidelines, and did not comply and fully removed the {{bots|deny=Legobot}} placed by Anomalocaris to kick the bot off the page for a while to allow this issue to be sorted out. Zinnober9 (talk) 09:02, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Zinnober9: Please see my reply at User talk:Legobot#Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikipedia policies and guidelines. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 10:55, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Possible fix for Legobot "rfc top" issue

Hey.

Last year you applied a pull request from Enterprisey to Legobot, so that it would stop matching on {{rfc top}} and {{rfc bottom}}. Earlier I noticed an edit on my watchlist, where Redrose64 had to fix an RfC closure because Legobot had matched on {{rfctop}}.

I think I've found the problem with the regex in step 2 that's causing this. Unfortunately I don't have git installed on any of my devices right now to make a pull request, so I hope you'll forgive me for putting a possible solution here. On rfcbot.php line 163, if you change the regex pattern:

/\{{2}\s?Rfc(tag)?(?!\s+(top|bottom))\s?[^}]*\}{2}/i

to instead be

\{{2}\s?Rfc(tag)?[\s]?+(?!(top|bottom))\s?[^}]*\}{2}

I think it resolves the issue. The change here is that it takes the whitespace character match \s+ out of the negative lookahead, and then makes it an optional positive match. The negative lookahead then works the same as before, matching on the presence of either top or bottom. In my testing, this means it only matches on {{rfc}} and {{rfctag}}, while ignoring {{rfc top}}, {{rfc bottom}}, {{rfctop}}, {{rfc bottom}}, {{closed rfc top}}, and {{closed rfc bottom}}. This seems to be the desired behaviour. The problem with the current pattern is that it's only doing the negative lookahead capture on text with a whitespace like rfc top resulting in it still capturing text without one like rfctop.

I'm not sure if you need to also replicate these changes in the other regexs that use the same negative lookahead capture, like on lines 180, 185, 200, etc. If you do, then replacing ?(?!\s+(top|bottom)) with ?[\s]?+(?!(top|bottom)) should have the desired effect. But I've not tested this fix for all of the matches, so you'll probably want to test this first. I've only tested it with the match used at the start of step 2 (line 163).

Hope this helps. Sideswipe9th (talk) 01:35, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

User:HaleBot

Hello, Legoktm,

It looks like HaleBot is taking an extended nap. Just alerting you. Thanks for the alternative way to find empty categories, that's been very helpful during this time. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:29, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Any ideas? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:46, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

@Liz: see Wikipedia_talk:Database_reports#Wikipedia:Database_reports/Uncategorized_templates_missed_its_weekly_update Legoktm (talk) 07:31, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

I'll go look at that discussion. It looks like HaleBot is having trouble again today. I was having problems with WikiMedia's servers and edits and admin actions not going through. Maybe HaleBot needs a restart? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:10, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-50

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

On Wikimedia Commons, there are some minor user-interface improvements for the "choosing own vs not own work" step in the UploadWizard. This is part of the Structured Content team's project of improving UploadWizard on Commons. [6][7]

Problems

There was a problem showing the Newcomer homepage feature with the "impact module" and their page-view graphs, for a few days in early December. This has now been fixed. [8][9]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar). [10][11]

Future changes

The 2023 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 5 January 2024, and has an associated privacy statement.

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:10, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-51

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 8 January 2024 because of the holidays.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 December. It will be on all wikis from 21 December (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [12][13]
Starting December 18, it won't be possible to activate Structured Discussions on a user's own talk page using the Beta feature. The Beta feature option remains available for users who want to deactivate Structured Discussions. This is part of Structured Discussions' deprecation work. [14]
There will be full support for redirects in the Module namespace. The "Move Page" feature will leave an appropriate redirect behind, and such redirects will be appropriately recognized by the software (e.g. hidden from Special:UnconnectedPages). There will also be support for manual redirects. [15]

Future changes

The MediaWiki JavaScript documentation is moving to a new format. During the move, you can read the old docs using version 1.41. Feedback about the new site is welcome on the project talk page.
The Wishathon is a new initiative that encourages collaboration across the Wikimedia community to develop solutions for wishes collected through the Community Wishlist Survey. The first community Wishathon will take place from 15–17 March. If you are interested in a project proposal as a user, developer, designer, or product lead, you can register for the event and read more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:16, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Frank Fiscalini

Hello! Your submission of Frank Fiscalini at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:14, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

A solstice greeting

❄️ Happy holidays! ❄️

Hi Legoktm! I'd like to wish you a splendid solstice season as we wrap up the year. Here is an artwork, made individually for you, to celebrate. It was great to meet you in Toronto! Take care, and thanks for all you do to make Wikipedia better!

Cheers,
{{u|Sdkb}} ^talk