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Tech News: 2024-43
[edit]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
- The Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.
Updates for editors
- Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.
- Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
- View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week. [1][2][3][4][5]
- It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.
Updates for technical contributors
- Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new
{{#timef:…}}
parser function. For example,{{#timef:now|date|en}}
will show as "20 November 2024". Previously,{{#time:…}}
could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation.#timef
(or#timefl
for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [6][7] - Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using
{{USERLANGUAGE}}
instead of using{{int:lang}}
. [8] - The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform. [9]
In depth
- The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
- The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
- The Community Wishlist is now testing machine translations for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.
Meetings and events
- 24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar - Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel.
- 20–22 December 2024 - Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.
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Growth News, October 2024
[edit]Current work
[edit]Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module
We will add a new module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We have released a simple version on beta wikis and we will soon start an A/B test on our pilot wikis. This module will only display on the Newcomer Homepage if communities decide to utilize it, so learn how to configure the Community Updates module, or share your thoughts on the project's talk page.
Constructive activation experimentation
After showcasing early design ideas at Wikimania, we conducted user testing of design prototypes. We now aim to engage communities in further discussions and plan to run a targeted experiment, presenting a structured task within the reading view to logged-in new account holders with zero edits.
This Community Configuration extension was developed to help communities customize wiki features to meet their unique needs. The Growth team is now helping other Wikimedia Foundation teams make their products configurable:
- The Moderation Tools team now provides Community Configuration for Automoderator. (T365046)
- Certain Babel extension settings will be configurable soon. (T328171)
Future work
[edit]As part of the Growth team annual plan, we will continue to investigate ways to increase constructive activation on mobile, while also working with Data Products to move forward A/B testing functionality via the Metrics Platform.
Community events
[edit]- Growth team members presented Community Configuration: Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together at Wikimania (slides). The session recording is available to watch on YouTube. This session provided an update on the Community Configuration project and introduced details about the upcoming features that communities will soon be able to configure. Representatives from the Moderator Tools, Editing, Web, and Campaigns teams shared their plans for utilizing Community Configuration in the future. Following these presentations, the WMF Growth team's Benoît Evellin and Martin Urbanec answered audience questions.
- Habib Mhenni gave a presentation of how mentorship works at WikiIndaba 2024. The recording is available.
Stay informed
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Your draft article, Draft:EMulate Therapeutics
[edit]Hello, Rusty Cat. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "EMulate Therapeutics".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 23:00, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
Question from Davidenkosrg (14:31, 26 October 2024)
[edit]Hello! how could I change from English to Romanian to make it easier for me to edit ? --Davidenkosrg (talk) 14:31, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Davidenkosrg: If you want to change the language of the Wikipedia interface (like buttons and menus) to Romanian you can do so in your preferences. The articles will still be in English, and you will still have to learn how to edit Wikipedia in English. If you want to edit in Romanian, I would recommend checking out the Romanian version of Wikipedia, which has both the interface and articles in Romanian. Rusty 🐈 15:14, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
Question from Davidenkosrg (17:51, 27 October 2024)
[edit]Hello! I can't do it on the Romanian version. can you help me ? --Davidenkosrg (talk) 17:51, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Davidenkosrg: What problem are you having? What can you not do? Rusty 🐈 19:51, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
Question from Librari minish (10:53, 28 October 2024)
[edit]Hi Rusty, I created this account so I could update the European XFEL's company logo of their wiki page since it is quite old. I have uploaded a svg version of the logo in commons, with the proper name. Not sure if I have to take more steps so the changes take effect.
Apologies for such a beginners' question, thanks in advance for your help. --Librari minish (talk) 10:53, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Librari minish: No worries; we all start somewhere. The previous version of the logo in Commons was a png, so you will need to go into the XFEL article on Wikipedia and change the filename from ending in ".png" to ".svg". Rusty 🐈 13:48, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
Question from Prof. Stefan Leucht (14:17, 28 October 2024)
[edit]Dear Rusty, I would like to publish a Wikipedia page on my university professor. So, i would like to know the process. --Prof. Stefan Leucht (talk) 14:17, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Prof. Stefan Leucht: Please see Help:Your first article for information. Thank you. Rusty 🐈 23:54, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free image File:ChatthiMaiyyaKiBitiya 194016 ec95625e-19e5-4064-9bd9-231d9a4a186e.jpg
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Tech News: 2024-44
[edit]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
- Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read the October project update and see the latest documentation and examples on Beta Wikipedia.
- View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pediapress.com, an external service that creates books from Wikipedia, can now use Wikimedia Maps to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Wikipedia. [10]
Updates for technical contributors
- Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set
emitTransitionOnStep
totrue
to fix an old bug. They can use the new flagallowAutomaticBack
to avoid back-buttons they don't want. [11] - Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. [12]
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Question from Triplets in God music (12:42, 29 October 2024)
[edit]How to upload my information,Music and photos --Triplets in God music (talk) 12:42, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Triplets in God music: If you are looking to promote or publish about yourself on Wikipedia, Wikipedia is not the right place for you. Rusty 🐈 14:32, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
New page reviewer granted
[edit]Hi Rusty Cat, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the new page reviewer user right to your account. This means you now have access to the page curation tools and can start patrolling pages from the new pages feed. If you asked for this at requests for permissions, please check back there to see if your access is time-limited or if there are other comments.
This is a good time to re-acquaint yourself with the guidance at Wikipedia:New pages patrol. Before you get started, please take the time to:
- Add Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers to your watchlist to follow NPP-related discussions
- If you use Twinkle, configure it to log your CSDs and PRODs
- If you can read any languages other than English, add yourself to the list of reviewers with language proficiencies
You can find a list of other useful links and tools for patrollers at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Resources. If you are ever unsure what to do, ask your fellow patrollers or just leave the page for someone else to review – you're not alone! signed, Rosguill talk 17:40, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
Women in Red November 2024
[edit]Women in Red | November 2024, Vol 10, Issue 11, Nos 293, 294, 321, 322, 323
Online events:
Announcements from other communities
Tip of the month:
Other ways to participate:
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Concern regarding Draft:Warriors: A Vision of Shadows
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Concern regarding Draft:Warriors: The Broken Code
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2024
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).
- Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
- Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.
- Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068
- RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
- The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.
- An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
Question from Bharat negi spain (20:19, 3 November 2024)
[edit]Up load photos --Bharat negi spain (talk) 20:19, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Bharat negi spain: What do you need help with? Rusty 🐈 20:19, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-45
[edit]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
- Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts. [13]
- Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled can now use the Collaboration List feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
- The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode. [14]
- View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.
Updates for technical contributors
- XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. [15]
In depth
- Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.
Meetings and events
- MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.
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The Signpost: 6 November 2024
[edit]- From the editors: Editing Wikipedia should not be a crime
- In the media: An old scrimmage, politics and purported libel
- Special report: Wikipedia editors face litigation, censorship
- Traffic report: Twisted tricks or tempting treats?
Welcome to the drive!
[edit]Welcome, welcome, welcome Rusty Cat! I'm glad that you are joining the November 2024 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.
Cielquiparle (talk) 03:39, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
Question from Imdaanyel29 (15:29, 7 November 2024)
[edit]how do I even editt --Imdaanyel29 (talk) 15:29, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Imdaanyel29: Just press the "Edit" button in the top right! Rusty 🐈 15:48, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
Question from Taramayatamang (11:09, 8 November 2024)
[edit]Hello my recent draft was declined due to "Lots of unsourced claims and statements of fact". Could you please take a look and help me what are those instead of just sending me link about Notability. I want specific points and issues with the drafts so I can correct those. --Taramayatamang (talk) 11:09, 8 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Taramayatamang: You seem to have improved the article's sourcing since the article was last declined 2-3 days ago. Wait until the reviewer gets back to you and you can ask me again then if it gets declined. Rusty 🐈 14:11, 8 November 2024 (UTC)
- Hello there could you review my draftl Taramayatamang (talk) 05:07, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Taramayatamang No, I am not an draft reviewer. A reviewer will probably get to your draft soon. Rusty 🐈 17:30, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
Question from SanchezGranddaughter (20:48, 9 November 2024)
[edit]I want to attach a photo of my grandfather to a Wikipedia page.
https://share.icloud.com/photos/03fO69SIvAJ7ZaeBfIHhIciKw. I’m having trouble submitting --SanchezGranddaughter (talk) 20:48, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- I don’t want to use that link actually SanchezGranddaughter (talk) 20:50, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- @SanchezGranddaughter What is the specific issue you are facing? Rusty 🐈 17:29, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
BRFA
[edit]I think you forgot about this BRFA, so I just wanted to bring it to your attention. – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:46, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- @DreamRimmer Thank you! Rusty 🐈 00:32, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-46
[edit]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
- On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, users will notice that the FuzzyBot will now automatically create translated versions of categories used on translated pages. [16]
- View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the submitted task to use the SecurePoll extension for English Wikipedia's special administrator election was resolved on time. [17]
Updates for technical contributors
- In
1.44.0-wmf-2
, the logic of Wikibase functiongetAllStatements
changed to behave likegetBestStatements
. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable. [18] - Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The impacted endpoints include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket.
In depth
- Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page for more information about this work. [19]
Meetings and events
- 21 November 2024 (8:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC) - Community call with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.
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Question from Byrangerry (01:45, 14 November 2024)
[edit]Hi Rusty Cat. Do you review my edits as a newcomer? On one I edited a sentence said to be 'peacock prose' in an edit note. What happens to the edit note...is my edit reviewed and then the edit note is removed or should I be removing the edit note? Thanks --Byrangerry (talk) 01:45, 14 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Byrangerry: Welcome to Wikipedia! I am your mentor, but that doesn't give me many special powers over anyone else; anyone can see and check there edits if they wish. If you're referring to the maintenance template by "edit note", you can safely remove it once you believe the issue has been rectified. Rusty 🐈 05:05, 14 November 2024 (UTC)
Question from SaliaMalle (01:29, 15 November 2024)
[edit]How do i create an article about a church --SaliaMalle (talk) 01:29, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
- @SaliaMalle: Hello! See Help:Your first article and WP:NBUILDING for information. Rusty 🐈 01:51, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
Profile Photo
[edit]Hello rutty, how can i upload my profile photo — Preceding unsigned comment added by FresH NaijA dls (talk • contribs) 23:33, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- @FresH NaijA dls: First of all, my name is Rusty, not Rutty.
R-U-S-T-Y
. Second, Wikipedia is not like Facebook or other social media. We are creating an encyclopedia here. Rusty 🐈 00:12, 17 November 2024 (UTC)
Question from Kelleycatholic on Charles Mullins (pediatric cardiologist) (17:18, 18 November 2024)
[edit]How do I add an image? --Kelleycatholic (talk) 17:18, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Kelleycatholic: You seem to have successfully added one. Rusty 🐈 00:04, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
- But it was my own personal photo. Don’t I need to add one from a published source? 174.170.77.221 (talk) 01:53, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-47
[edit]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
- Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a redirect to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects. [20]
- View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pywikibot, which automates work on MediaWiki sites, was upgraded to 9.5.0 on Toolforge. [21]
Updates for technical contributors
- On wikis that use the FlaggedRevs extension, pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this. [22][23]
In depth
- There is a new Diff post about Temporary Accounts, available in more than 15 languages. Read it to learn about what Temporary Accounts are, their impact on different groups of users, and the plan to introduce the change on all wikis.
Meetings and events
- Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10 2024. The registration for the event will close in mid-April 2025. The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual gathering that unites the global technical community to collaborate on existing projects and explore new ideas.
- Join the Wikimedia Commons community calls this week to help prioritize support for Commons which will be planned for 2025–2026. The theme will be how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. This is an opportunity for volunteers who work on different things to come together and talk about what matters for the future of the project. The calls will take place November 21, 2024, 8:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC.
- A Language community meeting will take place November 29, 16:00 UTC to discuss updates and technical problem-solving.
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Question from The2gingerman (16:13, 19 November 2024)
[edit]Do all edits require discussion? --The2gingerman (talk) 16:13, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
- @The2gingerman: not necessarily, there are many types of edits that have been agreed upon by the community to be non-controversial. However, if you think an edit may be controversial it may be best to discuss the edit first, or state your intents when making the edits on the talk page. Rusty 🐈 19:08, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you! The2gingerman (talk) 19:12, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
- @The2gingerman: It's a pleasure to help! Rusty 🐈 01:01, 20 November 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you! The2gingerman (talk) 19:12, 19 November 2024 (UTC)