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Tech News: 2022-22

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

Recent changes

  • Advanced item In the AbuseFilter extension, an ip_in_ranges() function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple ip_in_range() expressions joined by | into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [1]
  • The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 31 May at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
  • The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [2][3]
  • Advanced item The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the uciprange parameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit. [4]
  • A new parser function will be introduced: {{=}}. It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates. [5]

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20:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Editing newsletter 2022 – #1

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New editors were more successful with this new tool.

The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at most WMF-hosted wikis. You can join the discussion about this tool for the English Wikipedia is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Enabling the New Topic Tool by default. You will be able to turn it off in the tool or at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

The Editing team plans to change the appearance of talk pages. These are separate from the changes made by the mw:Desktop improvements project and will appear in both Vector 2010 and Vector 2022. The goal is to add some information and make discussions look visibly different from encyclopedia articles. You can see some ideas at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project#Prototype Ready for Feedback.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

23:15, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Question from Sj (18:43, 1 June 2022)

Hi Qwerfjkl :) I'm not new exactly but I'm new to using Special:Homepage... how are you using it, how are you finding the mentorship process? --– SJ + 18:43, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

@Sj, Mostly I just anwer mentees' questions, which tend to be fairly easy. ― Qwerfjkltalk 12:08, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

"Ring system of (136108)) Haumea" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Ring system of (136108)) Haumea and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 June 2#Ring system of (136108)) Haumea until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 192.76.8.78 (talk) 16:14, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
  • The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

Arbitration

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Feedback request: Wikipedia style and naming request for comment

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Question from ModernCurtains on Crowdfunding (17:23, 6 June 2022)

Hello My name is Jules Lee. I need help funding my beautiful curtains that I have designed. People are going to love the curtains that I have designed. Thank you in Advance for your help. --ModernCurtains (talk) 17:23, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

This is not the correct site to fundraise (WP:NOT). You could try social media instead. ― Qwerfjkltalk 17:32, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-23

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 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).
  • A new str_replace_regexp() function can be used in abuse filters to replace parts of text using a regular expression. [6]

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02:45, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #523

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data: We finished work on input validation and displaying errors for faulty input (phab:T305854) and are continuing work on accessibility improvements such as screen reader support and keyboard navigation (phab:T290733, phab:T30535).
    • REST API: We finished implementation of conditional statement requests (phab:T307031, phab:T307032) and published the OpenAPI specification document (still subject to change as the API develops). We started working on the write part of the API with adding statements to an Item (phab:T306667).

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.

Category:Anglican church buildings in British Columbia

Hello, Qwerfjkl,

I'm uncertain about "moving" a category as the contents of the original category haven't been moved over yet. It's been sitting in a CSD category for a few hours now and I recommend contacting an admin who patrols CFD, like Fayenatic london, to handle this category. They do tricky category moves and sometimes it is faster to contact an experienced admin directly and request their help.

Also, Category:Cable game shows isn't empty yet so deleting this page would leave the pages it contains with red links which, according to WP:REDNO, has to be avoided. Once a category is emptied, I feel free to carry on with a CSD request. I've noticed that many admins who regularly patrol CSD categories avoid dealing with categories that have been tagged for deletion, even ones that are the result of a valid CFD close to "Delete". Just an observation. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 23:16, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

@Liz, I'm not sure what you mean by @the contents of the original category haven't been moved over yet; I moved the entire contents of Category:Anglican churches in British Columbia to Category:Anglican church buildings in British Columbia. All that needs to be done is delete Category:Anglican church buildings in British Columbia (as a recently-created category) and move Category:Anglican churches in British Columbia (from 2009) in its place. ― Qwerfjkltalk 06:10, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Question from Harrison bread (02:11, 9 June 2022)

how do i delete everything??????????? --Harrison bread (talk) 02:11, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

@Harrison bread, What do you mean by 'delete everything'? ― Qwerfjkltalk 06:11, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Bare URLs

Hi. Instead of tagging, why not fix. It is not that hard. Cheers, Boghog (talk) 17:27, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

@Boghog, I was running a tagging script on a large number of pages to improve Category:Articles with bare URLs for citations' accuracy; filling in bare URLs cannot be done so easily. ― Qwerfjkltalk 20:29, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Query about completed bot task

Hey! Your bot's Task 10 (converting source to syntaxhighlight), understandably, missed a lot of .js and .css pages due to protection. However, I've noticed that quite a lot of the remaining pages have no visible reason for not being edited. They also all seem to be related to documentation of js pages or of source code (E.g. 1 2 3 4 5). Is there any reason these pages seem to have been heavily excluded from Task 10? Aidan9382 (talk) 14:53, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

@Aidan9382, Might be a flaw in the regex (I know it missed {{#tag:source}}); I ran it on the category. I could always re-run it. ―  Qwerfjkltalk 17:15, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
Rerun might be worth it. I didn't even think of {{#tag:source}}. If its fine according to the bot rules, then I think a rerun with #tag could help clear out the last of the fixable (I'm not gonna try clear the category further than that, I don't think an interface admin would be happy to wake up to 400 edit requests ). Aidan9382 (talk) 17:25, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
@Aidan9382, I'll probably ask the BAG member who closed it if it's okay. I'm sure an interface admin can run the regex on their own account. ― Qwerfjkltalk 17:33, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
Yeah thats alright. If you are gonna use it on an interface admin's account, I'd make sure to be safe you dont overwrite anything thats simply picked up on accident (E.g. a script designed to remove source tags), cause the MW software detection for use of the source tag is fucking ass (At least it was with the enclose attributes on syntaxhighlight which I also cleared recently). The only way to fix that is to add //<nowiki> on the first line and //</nowiki> on the last line (Like here).
I'll also note that most of the errors seem to be by the user scripts, for whatever reason, have // <source lang="javascript"> in them, probably copied wrong. At that point, removing may be a better take. Idk. Other than that though, should be all ok. Aidan9382 (talk) 17:51, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
@Aidan9382, I've removed most of the remaining ones I can fix (but missed a few #tag:'s). I'll leave a note at WP:Interface administrators' noticeboard ― Qwerfjkltalk 22:31, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
Thanks, I appreciate it. I did notice some 100 pages got removed from the category yesterday, and theres another 100 gone today. (Don't worry: I'll manually clear whatever's left). Thanks! Aidan9382 (talk) 05:12, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of Ashley Gjøvik for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ashley Gjøvik is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ashley Gjøvik until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

Sebastien1118 (talk) 09:43, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

An UserBox question.

Why do you need so many UserBoxes? (-_-) is it for work? 186.137.76.153 (talk) 18:31, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

186.137.76.153, users use them to tell other users about them. See WP:USERBOXES. I personally.don't have a strong attachment to them, and I'll probably remove the ones on my userpage sometime. ― Qwerfjkltalk 19:56, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #524

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 June 14, 2022: Will Kent (Wikidata Program Manager at Wiki Education) and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (Wikimedia Foundation Trustee; Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University; co-founder of Wiki Women in Red) will present on Leveraging Wikidata for Wikipedia – running a multi-language wiki project and the role of Wikidata in improving Wikipedia's content gender gap. Agenda
      • Live editing session on Twitch, in French, by Vigneron, June 14 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
    • Ongoing
    • Past
  • Tool of the week
    • ExtraInterwiki. Some language links will never show up in your favorite Wikipedia, those who don’t have a corresponding article in this Wikipedia. This new tool aims to give them more visibility by searching topics closed to the one on an article with no article on your wiki.
  • Development
    • Fixed a bug where Item IDs where shown instead of the label after selecting an Item in an Item selector (phab:T306214)
    • Lexicographical data: finished accessibility improvement for the new Special:New Lexeme page (phab:T290733), improving error messages for the new page (phab:T310134) and worked on a new search profile to make selecting languages easier (phab:T307869)
    • REST API: continued work on creating statements (phab:T306667)

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.

Tech News: 2022-24

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

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 14 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [9]
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Abkhazian Wikipedia, Achinese Wikipedia, Adyghe Wikipedia, Afrikaans Wikipedia, Akan Wikipedia, Alemannisch Wikipedia, Amharic Wikipedia, Aragonese Wikipedia, Old English Wikipedia, Syriac Wikipedia, Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, Asturian Wikipedia, Atikamekw Wikipedia, Avaric Wikipedia, Aymara Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, South Azerbaijani Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [10]
  • The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [11][12]

Future meetings

  • The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place today (13 June). The following meetings will take place on: 28 June, 12 July, 26 July.

Future changes

  • By the end of July, the Vector 2022 skin should be ready to become the default across all wikis. Discussions on how to adjust it to the communities' needs will begin in the next weeks. It will always be possible to revert to the previous version on an individual basis. Learn more.

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16:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

June GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2022 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the June 2022 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since April 2022. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

Blitz: of the 16 editors who signed up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, 12 completed at least one copy-edit, and between them removed 21 articles from the copy-editing backlog. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: 27 editors signed up for our May Backlog Elimination Drive; of these, 20 copy-edited at least one article. 144 articles were copy-edited, and 88 articles from our target months August and September 2021 were removed from the backlog. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: our June Copy Editing Blitz, starting at 00:01, 19 June and closing at 00:59, 25 June (UTC), will focus on articles tagged for copy edit in September and October 2021, and requests from March, April and May 2022. Barnstars awarded will be posted here.

Progress report: As of 07:12, 14 June 2022 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 209 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 1,404 articles.

Election news: Nominations for our half-yearly Election of Coordinators continues until 23:50 on 15 June (UTC), after which, voting will commence until 23:59, 30 June (UTC). All Wikipedians in good standing (active and not blocked, banned, or under ArbCom or community sanctions) are eligible and self-nominations are welcomed.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu

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Question from SiERRa662 (16:03, 14 June 2022)

If I need help about someone that is being dishonest in a conversation about keeping a misleading article and they are being extremely bad faith --SiERRa662 (talk) 16:03, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

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I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Qwerfjkl

Thank you for creating Sep 1926.

User:Iseult, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Please slow down on the redirects

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Iseult}}. Please remember to sign your reply with ~~~~ .

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Iseult Δx parlez moi 15:43, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

@Iseult, I'm doing it a really slow pace (~3/minute) and has consensus per the WP:AWBREQ thread. What exactly is your objection? ― Qwerfjkltalk 16:03, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

Note about recent AWB task

Hey! Do you think you could double check what you have it set to make the redirects have? They have a large amount of spacing before the templates for no seemingly good reason (E.g. here). Thanks. Aidan9382 (talk) 16:06, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

@Aidan9382, Fixed (don't bother to correct old ones). Also, please don't review my redirects - the bot will do it anyway, and it fills up my watchlist. ― Qwerfjkltalk 16:13, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
Alright, thanks. And I can't review stuff anyways as far as im concerned, so don't worry about that. Aidan9382 (talk) 16:14, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
@Aidan9382, I left out the #. Now fixed. ― Qwerfjkltalk 16:15, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
Heh, landed yourself an automated AIV report in the process. :D -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she/they) 00:36, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Bare URL PDF on a talk page?

(I washed my hands before typing this, so you should be safe.) I saw this edit where you added a {{Bare URL PDF}} to a talk page. I don't think that's right because 1) why mess with talk pages and 2) it adds the page to a category that says it's an article. Does that make sense to you? SchreiberBike | ⌨  15:56, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

I agree that it's inappropriate to do this on talk pages, and doubly so on archives of talk pages – please stop. Kanguole 16:14, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
@Kanguole, @SchreiberBike, stopped and I'm reverting. ― Qwerfjkltalk 16:18, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Amnd (disambiguation)

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A tag has been placed on Amnd (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a disambiguation page which either

  • disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic);
  • disambiguates zero extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title; or
  • is an orphaned redirect with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" that does not target a disambiguation page or page that has a disambiguation-like function.

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Qwerfjkl (bot) 12

Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Qwerfjkl (bot) 12 has been approved. Happy editing! --TheSandDoctor Talk 15:21, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

Question from TCWlab (16:51, 19 June 2022)

Hi, I would like to make a wikipedia page for a person. How can I do that? --TCWlab (talk) 16:51, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

@TCWlab, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing six million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing!  ― Qwerfjkltalk 17:01, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

Question from THTB lol'nt (11:16, 20 June 2022)

How do you add links? --THTB lol'nt (talk) 11:16, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

@THTB lol'nt, If you're using the source editor, use 
[[link|displayed text]]
or just 
[[link]]
. If you're using the VisualEditor, click on the link icon. See Help:Linking for more details. ― Qwerfjkltalk 13:11, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #425

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Lexicographical data:
      • Enabled Lua access to Lexemes for all Wikimedia projects
      • Continued work on improving the language search for Lexeme languages on the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T307869)
      • Improving the accessibility of a design system component and the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T290733)
      • Making it easier to understand what to do when the spelling variant isn't available on the new Special:NewLexeme page (phab:T298146)
    • REST API: Continuing work on making it possible to add a statement to an Item

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.

Tech News: 2022-25

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 Wikipedia App for Android now has an option for editing the whole page at once, located in the overflow menu (three-dots menu ). [13]
  • Some recent database changes may affect queries using the Quarry tool. Queries for site_stats at English Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata will need to be updated. Read more.
  • A new user_global_editcount variable can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. [14]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).
  • Users of non-responsive skins (e.g. MonoBook or Vector) on mobile devices may notice a slight change in the default zoom level. This is intended to optimize zooming and ensure all interface elements are present on the page (for example the table of contents on Vector 2022). In the unlikely event this causes any problems with how you use the site, we'd love to understand better, please ping Jon (WMF) to any on-wiki conversations. [15]

Future changes

  • The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
  • Parsoid's HTML output will soon stop annotating file links with different typeof attribute values, and instead use mw:File for all types. Tool authors should adjust any code that expects: mw:Image, mw:Audio, or mw:Video. [16]

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20:17, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

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