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Wikidata weekly summary #644

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-09-02. Please help Translate. Missed the previous one?
See issue #643

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: أمين - RfP scheduled to end 9 September 2024 11:18 (UTC).

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • User:Teester/CheckShex.js - a Userscript that adds an input box to a Wikidata page wherein you can enter an EntitySchema (such as E10). When you click "Check", it uses pyshexy to validate the entity against the schema and displays whether the entity passes or fails.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • 🔥 Big changes are coming to the #WikidataQueryService. If you query for scholarly articles, please take a look at this announcement!
  • Is Shakespeare in German something for you? A digital version of the Schlegel/Tieck edition (Aufbau-Verlag 1975) was released with Wikidata connections. (source)

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

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.

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2024-37

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

Feature news

  • Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page. [1][2]
  • Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions entity:getSitelink() and mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [3]

Project updates

  • Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [4]
  • Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new MOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with MOS: (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language code mos). [5]

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Administrator Elections: Updates & Schedule

Administrator Elections | Updates & Schedule
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Question from Binroc (23:02, 9 September 2024)

Hi!

I am new to editing and I have a question: I have edited an article today on the page of the HP 15C calculator (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-15C) where under the legacy section I added a short description of the most well-known modern replica/clone of this model. It was immediately removed for "coatracking", however the very similarly constructed wiki page of the HP 42S calculator (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-42S) has an even longer paragraph of a clone under the same legacy section. How is it possible that on one calculator's page this is coatracking and on the other one's it is not? Am I doing something wrong here?

Thanks for your help in advance! --Binroc (talk) 23:02, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Binroc, I would suggest discussing this with @MrOllie, who reverted you, on their talk page. In general, just because one article does something doesn't mean it's okay to do in another article (see WP:OTHERSTUFF, which is about deletion discussi9on but also applies here). — Qwerfjkltalk 16:53, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from Quab12 on Sydney Eisteddfod (13:50, 10 September 2024)

Hello, Quab12 here. On the article Sydney eisteddfod the third paragraph in the about section has no citations. Should I remove the paragraph entirely or try to find a citation for it? --Quab12 (talk) 13:50, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

Quab12, ideally you should find some citations, especially for that paragraph which should be relatively easy to find a source for. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:59, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

Bot required

Hi Qwerfjkl, we are gradually migrating all the |listas= parameters from WikiProject banners into the banner shell. Is this something your bot might be able to help with? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:44, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Martin, sure, that doesn't sound too hard to do. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:01, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
That would be awesome. Category:WikiProject banners with redundant listas value is now starting to fill. Will you apply for BRFA for this task? It is a cosmetic task, but I think I can make the case for doing it on two counts:
  1. Avoids conflicting values, which cause DEFAULTSORT conflicts on a page. (If redundant values are left on a page, there is a good chance one will be changed without the other one.)
  2. Gets editors used to the idea that listas should be in the banner shell and not on banner templates. Eventually we will stop using listas on banners altogether.
— Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:00, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
Martin, how many pages are there going to be? Currently there are 19, which probably doesn't warrant a bot task. If it's going to take a while to fill, it's probably easier to wait until the category is filled before proceeding. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:38, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
I suspect there will be a large number, but actually I have no idea. It's fine to wait, of course — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:11, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
Martin, looks like Cewbot is taking care of this. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:27, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September Newsletter

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

Election news: Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators, we welcomed Mox Eden to the coordinator team. Dhtwiki remains as Lead Coordinator, and Miniapolis and Wracking returned as assistant coordinators. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here.

Blitz: 13 of the 24 editors who signed up for the June 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 169,404 words comprising 41 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: 38 of the 59 editors who signed up for the July 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 482,133 words comprising 293 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Blitz: 10 of the 15 editors who signed up for the August 2024 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited at least one article. Between them, they copy edited 71,294 words comprising 31 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: Sign up here to earn barnstars in our month-long, in-progress September Backlog Elimination Drive.

Progress report: As of 05:14, 11 September 2024 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 233 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,824 articles.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we do without you! Cheers from Baffle gab1978 and your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Mox Eden and Wracking.

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"Black cougar" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Black cougar has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 September 11 § Black cougar until a consensus is reached. 1234qwer1234qwer4 18:13, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

"Black puma" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Black puma has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 September 11 § Black puma until a consensus is reached. 1234qwer1234qwer4 18:17, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from Akoce Shano on Help:Introduction to Wikipedia (00:24, 14 September 2024)

Hello! how to make money easy in poor family --Akoce Shano (talk) 00:24, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

Electrician

do electricity work Akoce Shano (talk) 00:32, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

Money

everybody need Akoce Shano (talk) 00:34, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

My style of adding a topic and sub-topics to artcle (for shows).

So my way to improve an article in some way (In case of adding informations about a topic and excluding a basic inforamtion like: Plot, characters etc.) is do alot of rescearch for more info about the show and give a good place for it in article which in my way works like this:

Production: Here it's a topic about the show and (mostly in some cases) write and cite everything about it line how does animation were done, audio design, music, cast it's cancelation etc.

Broadcast: For that one, if show cames out on Television first then you can give it a sub-topic Release which is similar to theatrialical first release of the film and you can write when the show had aired, in which country and when was discontinued. Streaming service is similar to release sub-topic and it shows when show had appeared on a platform and were it was removed. Additionally you can give a reference where the show is available on what Streaming service or digital purchase and where was removed. International broadcast similar to release it should show (sometimes) when the show was aired on the different channel etc.

Reception: for Critical reception theres nothing special, outside giving a column end if there's not much of critics reviews. In Awards and nominations and accolades there's more way that you can improve that sub-topic. mostly is an added a column for things like Nominee(s) like who got awarded for. Episode is a column where there's every episode that is Nomined for (they can be removed if there's no topic for any of those releated found).

Yeah I think that's about it!

Thanks! 77.65.108.190 (talk) 17:21, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

77.65.108.190, great! Do you have any questions? — Qwerfjkltalk 17:23, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

Sakura simulator

Ok thx bro yeah so can u like help me making the page pls Thandazile mynagaza (talk) 14:38, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

Thandazile mynagaza, 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 seven 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 14:58, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
Thx bro ll read it yeah ill read it and watch tutorials so i can come back at it Thandazile mynagaza (talk) 15:00, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from RodRodney20 (15:24, 16 September 2024)

Hello, I am trying to update the table in this article "List of mobile virtual network operators in the United States", specifically the 5G column, I'm pretty sure most/if not all companies now use 5G. I think there is a formula that is being used in the table and I'm unsure of how you would make edits here. Thanks --RodRodney20 (talk) 15:24, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

RodRodney20, try switching to source mode when editing, and then look for something like 
|<!--           5G Access--> {{dunno}}

Then you can scroll up a bit to find 
|<!--             Company--> Airvoice Wireless

Which tells you which company you're editing.
You can then change the 5G Access to {{yes}} if it does support 5G, preferably followed up with a reference. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:21, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #645

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2024-09-16. Please help Translate. Missed the previous one?
See issue #644

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Framabot 5 - Task: update a typography error in the French description of homonym pages, seen on 1.
  • New request for comments: Additional rights for bureaucrats - The proposal suggests allowing Wikidata bureaucrats to remove admin rights, which they currently cannot do, to streamline processes, reduce reliance on stewards, and align with practices of other wikis.
  • Proposal: Mul labels - proposal of massive addition - The proposal suggests massively adding "mul" labels to Wikidata items for given and family names, using a bot to streamline the process and reduce redundant labels.

Events

  • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 17 September, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, 17 September, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA database using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Event page: Session 2 (September 17) - Working session using Mix‘n’Match to add Wikidata items
  • Wikidata Day 2024 (Seattle) - Agenda: Wikidata Twelfth Birthday, Training and Edit-a-thon. When: Saturday, October 26, from 12:30–4:30pm PDT

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • User:Lagewi/references.js - "Sometimes, the data on Wikidata does not answer all your questions. Some types of information are difficult to encode in statements, or simply has not been encoded on Wikidata yet. In such cases, it might be useful to go through the references attached to claims of the entity, for additional information. To simplify this process, this user script lists all unique references based on stated in (P248) and reference URL (P854). The references are listed in a collapsible list below the table of labels and descriptions, collapsed by default to not be obtrusive." To enable it, include the following line in your common.js: mw.loader.load('//www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lagewi/references.js&oldid=2039248554&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • The development team attended the annual WMDE Software Department retreat, so there wasn't much development activity this week.

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.

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2024-38

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

Improvements and Maintenance

  • Wishlist item Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.
  • The new automated Special:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. [6]
  • References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed. [7]
  • It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order. [8]
  • Advanced item Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
  • Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes mw-message-box need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer cdx-message group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. [9]

Technical project updates

  • Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible. [10]

Tech in depth

  • Advanced item The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
  • Advanced item To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
    • Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are more details and links available in the Phabricator task.
    • Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.

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Question from Waterhelix (12:43, 19 September 2024)

hi

do you know how to make a wiki page? --Waterhelix (talk) 12:43, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Waterhelix, 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 seven 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 16:11, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from Mubaraak (13:32, 21 September 2024)

What's your name --Mubaraak (talk) 13:32, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

On Wikipedia, it's Qwerfjkl. — Qwerfjkltalk 13:47, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from Cindyx2 on Florence, South Carolina (15:05, 21 September 2024)

Need to add a notable person Jolette Law to Florence, SC https://wpde.com/amp/news/local/florence-honors-jolette-law-for-outstanding-basketball-achievements --Cindyx2 (talk) 15:05, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Cindyx2, feel free to add her to Florence, South Carolina § Notable people. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:27, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-39

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

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 UTC. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.

Updates for editors

A screenshot of the interface for the Alt Text suggested-edit feature
  • Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page.
  • The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
  • Advanced item It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within <syntaxhighlight> tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax {{…}} are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [11]
  • Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [12][13]
  • View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Advanced item From Wikimedia Enterprise:
    • The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained on the project's blog post. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.
    • The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.

In depth

  • Advanced item The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of the WDQS Graph Split project, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly" and "main" subgraphs of Wikidata. The query.wikidata.org endpoint will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see the announcement on Wikidata.

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Question from Jhendy97 (21:37, 25 September 2024)

Is my Wikipedia page up for review right now? I’m not to sure if I submitted properly. I am a professional hockey player and I would like to have mine available for the public to see --Jhendy97 (talk) 21:37, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Jhendy97, I suggest reading Wikipedia:Autobiography. It is strongly discouraged here to write about yourself. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:56, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

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Mass RM CfD

How do users mass rename CfD properly? Because when nominating, it lacks the title I want to change them into. --MikutoH talk! 01:21, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

MikutoH, when you're listing the titles, use | followed by the title you want to rename them to, e.g. Category:Example|Category:Target — Qwerfjkltalk 17:14, 28 September 2024 (UTC)

signature lints

Hello. I hope you are doing well. After Qwerfjkl (bot) 31, I am wondering, how do you create page list for pywikibot script? —usernamekiran (talk) 16:23, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

Usernamekiran, for that I used:
parsed_data = parse_text_file(file_path)
titles=[]

for entry in parsed_data:
    gen = pagegenerators.SearchPageGenerator(entry['search_url'], site=site)
    print(f"Searching for {entry['search_url']}")
    for title in gen:
        titles.append(title)
titles = list(set(titles))
print(len(titles))
Using a text file that I created manually — Qwerfjkltalk 17:25, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
thanks, this is appreciated a lot. One more silly question: how many cases are you going to handle? The list at Wikipedia:Linter/Signature submissions looks pretty big. I am happy to help. —usernamekiran (talk) 18:32, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
Usernamekiran, I just copy & pasted all the ones that hand replacements into a text file (about 40, I think). — Qwerfjkltalk 06:17, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
dang. Let me know if some task comes up. I would be happy to help. —usernamekiran (talk) 14:13, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
Usernamekiran, I was thinking of making a website to make submissions easier. A lot of linter errors are repeated, and we can use parsoid to verify the output text has no lint errors.
Currently I'm working on something like toolforge:yabbr but for bare URLs. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:02, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
that sounds interesting. let me know if I can contribute in some way. —usernamekiran (talk) 19:55, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
Usernamekiran, For the latter, I have a not-so-working demo at https://abba.toolforge.org/. I'm probably going to be busy in real life for the next few weeks, so I'm more than happy to share the code if you want to play around with it (I should probably publish the code anyway, but oh well). — Qwerfjkltalk 20:23, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

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. [14]
  • 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. [15]
  • 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. [16]

Meetings and events

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