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Tech News: 2020-37

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

Changes later this week

  • Normally pages can be moved to a title that has no existing page yet or to a page that has only one revision, which is a redirect to the page to be moved. A new user right allows editors to move pages over one-revision pages that redirect to anywhere. [1]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 September. It will be on all wikis from 10 September (calendar).
  • Advanced item All MediaWiki API modules will now use watchlist instead of watch. This was inconsistent before. [2]

Future changes

  • The Wikipedia Android app team might work on patrolling tools in the future. You can let them know what tools would be useful for you or for less experienced patrollers. See the page on mediawiki.org.
  • OTRS will be updated to a new version. This will probably take around two days. OTRS agents will not have access to the system during these days. Emails that come in during the update will be delivered when the update is done. The plan is to start around 08:00 UTC on 14 September. This could change. [3]
  • The Wikipedia Android app will send push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will need Google Play Services to work. It will also be possible to get the app without Google Play Services but push notifications will not work. Google Play Services is also used to make the app work for Android 4.4 users. [4][5]
  • Advanced item Wikimedia code review could move to GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers. You can take part in the consultation.
  • Advanced item Dropdown menus in the Vector skin use a .menu class. This will not work in the future. Scripts can use nav ul instead. .vectorTabs and .vectorMenu will also not work. Some scripts need to be updated. You can read more in Phabricator.

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15:59, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
U are awesome 
 Lemme learn cuse im not smart (talk) 14:12, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-38

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

Problems

  • The Wikipedia apps briefly showed pages without CSS last week. This meant they looked wrong. It was quickly fixed but cached pages without CSS were shown for a few hours. [6][7]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 September. It will be on all wikis from 17 September (calendar).

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16:18, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

new user

How to add biography of our own. can i get details from you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abhilashmanagave (talk • contribs) 07:24, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
Hey Abhilashmanagave, I'm sorry but I'm not exactly sure what you are asking. Could you try wording it differently? Thanks. – Majavah talk · edits 10:26, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-39

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

Recent changes

  • There is a new tag for reverted edits. For example you can see it in the recent changes feed or in the article history. It is added to edits when they have been undone, rollbacked or manually reverted to an older version of the page. [8][9]

Changes later this week

  • The number of times you can do something in a period of time on wiki is limited. This could be the number of edits per minute or the number of users you email in a day. Some users are not affected by all limits because of their user rights. They could soon see the limit even if it does not affect them. [10]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 September. It will be on all wikis from 24 September (calendar).

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21:25, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 September 2020

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The Signpost: 27 September 2020

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MajavahBot

Hi Majavah, hope you are doing well. Your MajavahBot has been stopped it's task 1 at WP:EFFPR, could you please check and do the needful. Thanks! Warm Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 18:42, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

@ZI Jony: The bot broke on a malformed report. Now that you removed that report the bot should be working again. Thanks for letting me know. – Majavah talk · edits 17:02, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
I also hope it will work find. Thanks for your reply. Warm Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 19:04, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-40

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Recent changes

  • Admins can now see links to diffs of deleted revisions on Special:AbuseLog. This uses the interface of Special:Undelete. [11]
  • Editors are automatically added to some user groups. For example editors are added to autoconfirmed users when they have edited enough times and long enough. Abuse filters can hinder users from automatically getting user rights for a period of time. They can also remove rights user have. Wikis can now ask to change how long this period of time is for their wiki in Phabricator. It is currently five days. [12]

Problems

  • Last year some abuse filters stopped working because of a new change. If they tried to use variables that were unavailable for that action they would fail. This has now been fixed. [13]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 September. It will be on all wikis from 1 October (calendar).

Future changes

  • You can't see the language links to other language versions from the talk page or history page. They are also not shown when you edit an article. This could change. It is not decided if for example the history page should link to another history page or to the article. You can take part in the discussion in Phabricator.
  • The link colours could change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. You can read more in Phabricator.
  • In your preferences you can choose to get different notifications on the web or by email. You will see Apps as one of the alternatives later this week. This is because the Android and iOS Wikipedia apps will use push notifications for those who want them. You can see the preferences on the test wiki. The goal is to have push notifications on Android in October and on iOS in early 2021. [14]
  • You can soon put pages on your watchlist for a limited time. This could be useful if you want to watch something for a shorter time but don't want it on your watchlist forever. It now works on mediawiki.org and will come to more wikis later. You can read more and see when it will come to other wikis.
  • You can see what Wikimedians think are the best new technical tools this year. You can also nominate them.

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21:23, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

User scripts

Hello Majavah,
I plan on deleting one of my user scripts, User:Interstellarity/Semi-protected edit requests.js that you are using. If you still want to use and maintain it, please make a copy in your own userspace. I'm not very good with user scripts and I don't feel comfortable having control over them. Thank you for your understanding. Interstellarity (talk) 14:51, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-41

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

Recent changes

  • There is a new tool where you can see which home wiki users have in discussions on Meta. This can help show which communities are not part of the discussion on wikis where we make decisions that affect many other wikis.
  • You can now thank users for file uploads or for changing the language of a page. [15]

Problems

  • There were many errors with the new MediaWiki version last week. The new version was rolled back. Updates that should have happened last week are late. [16]
  • Everyone was logged out. This was because a user reported being logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [17]
  • Advanced item Many pages have JavaScript errors. You can read more and now see a list of user scripts with errors.

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 October. It will be on all wikis from 8 October (calendar).
  • Letters immediately after a link are shown as part of the link. For example the entire word in [[Child]]ren is linked. On Arabic wikis this works at both the start and end of a word. Previously on Arabic wikis numbers and other non-letter Unicode characters were shown as part of the link at the start of a word but not at the end. Now only Latin and Arabic letters will extend links on Arabic wikis. [18]

Future changes

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16:24, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

new bio profile

Hello Majavah ,

I would like to add the Bio data of a scientist Known to me who is working nano Technology and Cancer Research.

Please let me know the process of Successfully Adding such profiles.

Thanks In Advance

Abhilash Managave — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abhilashmanagave (talk • contribs) 07:24, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Apologies for the late reply, but if you are still interested in this please see WP:YFA. – Majavah talk · edits 11:55, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-42

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

Problems

  • Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago last week's updates are also late. [20][21][22]

Changes later this week

  • Live previews didn't show the templates used in the preview if you just edited a section. This has now been fixed. You can also test CSS and JavaScript pages even if you have the live preview enabled. Previously this didn't work well. [23][24]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 October. It will be on all wikis from 15 October (calendar).

Future changes

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15:23, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-43

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

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 October. It will be on all wikis from 22 October (calendar).

Future changes

  • You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [26]
  • Advanced item In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function will be updated soon so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [27]
  • Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID #jump-to-nav. This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either #siteSub or #mw-content-text. A list of affected scripts is at the top of phab:T265373.

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16:29, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-44

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

Problems

  • You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on October 27 around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [28]
  • Last week, links to "diffs" from mobile watchlists and recentchanges were linking to page-revisions instead of diffs. This has now been fixed. [29]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

  • Since the introduction of the interface administrators user group in 2018, administrators couldn’t view the deleted history of CSS/JS pages. Now they can. [30]
  • There was a problem with the Change Tags. The software would apply the "Reverted" tag to any page actions such as page-protection changes if they came directly after a reverted edit. This has now been fixed for new edits. [31]
  • The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias in November. Another announcement will be made once the date is finalized. [32]

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17:37, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 November 2020

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Tech News: 2020-45

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

  • You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser uses very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It could lead to downgrade attacks. Since October 29, 2020, users who use old TLS versions will not be able to connect to Wikimedia projects. A list of browser recommendations is available. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [33]
  • Advanced item There is a new automatic tracking category available: Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments. It collects pages which use the {{formatnum}} parser function with invalid (non-numeric) input, e.g. {{formatnum:TECHNEWS}}. Note that {{formatnum:123,456}} is also invalid input: as described in the documentation, the argument should be unformatted so that it can be reliably and correctly localised. The tracking category will help identify problematic usage and double-formatting. The new tracking category's name can be translated at translatewiki. [34]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 4. It will be on all wikis from November 5 (calendar).
  • Administrators and stewards will be able to use a special page (Special:CreateLocalAccount) to force local account creation for a global account. This is useful when account creation is blocked for that user (by a block or a filter). [35]
  • The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias on November 4. This change excludes the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias, plus a few smaller Wikipedias with special circumstances. You can read the help page and the troubleshooting guide for more information. [36]

Future changes

  • A discussion has been restarted about using a Unicode minus sign (− U+2212) in the output of {{formatnum}} when it is given a negative argument. [37]
  • In the future IP addresses of unregistered users will not be shown for everyone. They will get an alias instead. There will be a new user right or an opt-in function for more vandal fighters to see the IPs of unregistered users. There would be some criteria for who gets the user right or opt-in. There will also be other new tools to help handle vandalism. This is early in the process and the developers are still collecting information from the communities before they suggest solutions.

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16:08, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

MajavahBot 4 approved

Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MajavahBot 4 has been approved. Please see that page and ping me if you have any questions. Happy editing! --TheSandDoctor Talk 02:46, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-46

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

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

  • You can see reference previews. This shows a preview of the footnote when you hover over it. This has been a beta feature. It will move out of beta and be enabled by default. There will be an option not to use it. The developers are looking for small or medium-sized wikis to be the first ones. You can let them know if your wiki is interested. [38]
  • From November 16 the categories will not be sorted in order for a short time. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the internationalisation library. They will use a script to fix the existing categories. This can take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [39][40]

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15:49, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-47

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

  • Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [41][42]

Changes later this week

  • If you merged two pages in a namespace where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed. [43]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 November. It will be on all wikis from 19 November (calendar).

Future changes

  • The Community Wishlist Survey is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December.

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15:35, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-48

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

  • Timestamps in Special:Log are now links. They go to Special:Log for only that entry. This is how timestamps work on for example the history page. [44]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

  • Advanced item The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from 1 December. Unclaimed projects can be deleted from 1 January. [45]

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17:17, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

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November 2020

Warning icon Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives/Reports, you may be blocked from editing. Your bot is disruptive. Drmies (talk) 01:27, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

@Drmies: Lolwut? Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 02:05, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
No, not LOL. Those useless automated instantaneous reports prevent admins from reverting IPs that file empty reports that require no action but a revert. It's really irritating and discourages editing. Drmies (talk) 02:20, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
@Drmies: So use a personalized message, instead of templating an established user for running an approved bot task. I'm fine with the bot, and I suspect most other users are too. It takes only a few clicks to blank a section, if you wish. But since we did away with creating a permanent archive, there's less of a need to remove reports nowadays.
And why did you warn the IP? The most common reason for these no-filters-triggered reports is that they tripped an account-creation filter. Based on the timestamp, that means they were trying to create the account "You Cant Stop Rock" which doesn't seem obviously disruptive, unless there's some LTA I'm not aware of. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 02:46, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
@Drmies: Just deployed a patch that should stop it from edit warring after being rollbacked, otherwise you'll need to be more specific on how it is disruptive. As Suffusion of Yellow said, it's an approved bot task, and at least I consider it really useful when patrolling EFFPR. Majavah (talk!) 06:21, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
Majavah, I'm sorry for losing my temper, and I am glad you saw why. I patrol that page fairly recently and in many cases the reports are worth nothing and need no further comment; rolling back a BS report is a valid option. I understand you want this bot to work fast, but for admins who work that page like I do it's too fast. I don't know about the process the bot went through; I hope, I assume that experienced admins were in on it. But personally, I have grumbled more than once at the bot. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 14:42, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
@Drmies: Looks like MajavahBot is on Twinkle's "trusted bot" list. So if you use Twinkle's "vandalism" button instead of plain MediaWiki rollback, you can revert both MajavahBot's and the preceding user's edits with one click. Same trick works with SineBot. But I'm still not clear why you removed that report and warned the IP, unless it was a CU/OS thing. We do need a better way to handle FPs with account creation filters, but that's not the user's fault. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 16:41, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

DYK run?

The bot was running for a while, but there's still many remaining in Category:Pages with a missing DYK entry. I don't really understand the purpose of User:MajavahBot/DYK blurb not found. I don't see why running against the category wouldn't prevent 'duplicate processing', but it would be nice to have the category cleared by the weekend since that's the next time JL-bot will do a DYK report run. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:00, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

@Headbomb: The recent ToolsDB maintenance and some non-standard date formats have been causing issues with my bot. User:MajavahBot/DYK blurb not found is used to filter out pages where my bot couldn't find a DYK entry when processing it, for example when finding out old page names was broken that page allowed my bot to continue processing other pages. Majavah (talk!) 10:17, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
@Headbomb: It has finished processing all pages where bold link pointed to one of that talk page's current or previous names. Based on my spot checks the remaining ~550 pages are either ones which appeared on the main page before the talk page was created (just finished processing those), use a redirect or a template to create the bolded link or just don't have any traces of them in the linked DYK archive. Majavah (talk!) 15:59, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Well... taking a look at Talk:68-pounder gun (16 May 2010), there is Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2010/May#17_May_2010 with

Since 68-pounder redirects to 68-pounder gun, this should be a match. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 16:07, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

For boats articles, the links from

(and redirects of those templates, like {{Warship}} / {{Ship}}). I'll add more patterns as I find them. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:49, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

That would take care of ~124 DYKs, btw. Most of the others seem to be missing from the archives, or erroneously tagged as DYKs. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 01:55, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

A few more (e.g. Talk:Zarqa River) could be done by checking Special:WhatLinksHere, finding Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/January or Wikipedia:Recent additions 238, and then searching for bolded Zarqa River (or a redirect) in those entries. This would take care of several entries from one day that got archived the day after because it happens to be on a different page (e.g. 31 December vs 1 January). Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 19:42, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 November 2020

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Tech News: 2020-49

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

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 December. It will be on all wikis from 3 December (calendar).

Future changes

  • The iOS Wikipedia app will show readers more of the article history. They can see new updates and easier see how the article has changed over time. This is an experiment. It will first be shown only to some iOS app users as a test. [46][47]
  • Advanced item The Wiki Replicas can be used for SQL queries. You can use Quarry, PAWS or other ways to do this. To make the Wiki Replicas stable there will be two changes. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work. You can also only query a database if you connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. [48]

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17:44, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 18

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past three months (September, October, and November 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 18th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Updated scripts Twinkle has made a number of improvements, including using a change tag to identify actions made with it and automatically filing edit requests for protected XfD nominations.
SD0001's shortdescs-in-category is now compatible with scripts modifying category listings, such as Equazcion's CatListMainTalkLinks
GhostInTheMachine's TalkHelper2 is a newer version of their prior script, TalkHelper
GeneralNotability's spihelper updated to 2.2.10, fixing a number of small bugs, automatically tagging globally locked socks as such in the sockpuppet template, and restoring open cases following an SPI history merge.
Enterprisey's script-installer gadget has been updated with more internationalization of messages, as well as addition of a user preference, window.scriptInstallerInstallTarget to allow controlling where new scripts are to be installed.

Open tasks

Miscellaneous

My apologies for the delayed issue. As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, --DannyS712 (talk) 18:20, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Vastaamo

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Tech News: 2020-50

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Recent changes

  • You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function. [49][50]

Changes later this week

  • Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki. [51][52]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all wikis from 10 December (calendar).

Future changes

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16:14, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

New Page Patrol December Newsletter

Hello Taavi,

A chart of the 2020 New Page Patrol Queue

Year in review

It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.

Rank Username Num reviews Log
1 DannyS712 bot III (talk) 67,552 Patrol Page Curation
2 Rosguill (talk) 63,821 Patrol Page Curation
3 John B123 (talk) 21,697 Patrol Page Curation
4 Onel5969 (talk) 19,879 Patrol Page Curation
5 JTtheOG (talk) 12,901 Patrol Page Curation
6 Mcampany (talk) 9,103 Patrol Page Curation
7 DragonflySixtyseven (talk) 6,401 Patrol Page Curation
8 Mccapra (talk) 4,918 Patrol Page Curation
9 Hughesdarren (talk) 4,520 Patrol Page Curation
10 Utopes (talk) 3,958 Patrol Page Curation
Reviewer of the Year

John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.

NPP Technical Achievement Award

As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271

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18:16, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-51

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Recent changes

  • There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too. [53]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all wikis from 17 December (calendar).

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21:33, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Please don't threaten

It's against the Wikipedia standards that you are referring to please threaten, all I have done is put dubious to the statement not correct as per mainstream Islam. Regards Azmarai76 (talk) 11:32, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Which policy am I violating? Majavah (talk!) 11:34, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

I have explained which one you are please see the noticeboard Azmarai76 (talk) 11:50, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Notice board

I have asked a simple question over Notice board about Ahmadiyaa belief on Messiah. Chiao Azmarai76 (talk) 11:54, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 19

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (December 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 19th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Open tasks

Pending requests Pending requests

Miscellaneous

As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy holidays! --DannyS712 (talk) 00:19, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-52

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

  • Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2021.

Recent changes

  • The {{citation needed}} template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added. [54]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

  • You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
  • Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a <langconvert> tag that can convert a piece of text on a page. [55]
  • Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January. [56]

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20:53, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 December 2020

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MajavahBot on EFFP

Hi Majavah! The bot that archives on WP:EFFP doesn't seem to performing the ArchiveNow function. It started with the current item at the top of the page, which has some wikicode and Chinese characters in it, which may be messing up the bot? ArchiveNow would not work there, so I tried adding it to the next item down and it still does not. As far as I can tell, the bot is archiving threads based on age properly, except for the top one which is what brought this to mind. Thanks! CrowCaw 16:04, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Crow Fixed, thanks! The raw signature in the first one made the bot think it just added a comment there which prevented it from being archived and for some reason "archive now" was configured as "archive in two hours". Majavah (talk!) 16:16, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Script

Hello Majavah, is there a way I can make this script work on Wikibooks. The creator is inactive so I thought of asking an experienced script creator. Thanks --Megan B.... It’s all coming to me till the end of time 18:20, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Synoman Barris Yes, see b:User:Majavah/script-redlinks. Majavah (talk!) 18:47, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
Majavah, Thank you so much Megan B.... It’s all coming to me till the end of time 18:53, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:2021 Pakistani television series debuts

A tag has been placed on Category:2021 Pakistani television series debuts requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 14:50, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of February 2020

A tag has been placed on Category:CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of February 2020 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 15:05, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-02

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

  • You can choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed. [57]
  • You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry. [58]
  • Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
    • The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later. [59]
    • Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [60]
    • When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
  • Advanced item There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback. [61]
  • Advanced item Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the watchlist to watch will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [62]
  • Advanced item Scribunto's file metadata now includes length. [63]
  • Advanced item CSS and JavaScript code pages now have link anchors to line numbers. You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50. [64]
  • Recurrent item There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all wikis from 14 January (calendar).

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15:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-02

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

  • You can choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed. [65]
  • You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry. [66]
  • Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
    • The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later. [67]
    • Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [68]
    • When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
  • Advanced item There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback. [69]
  • Advanced item Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the watchlist to watch will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [70]
  • Advanced item Scribunto's file metadata now includes length. [71]
  • Advanced item CSS and JavaScript code pages now have link anchors to line numbers. You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50. [72]
  • Recurrent item There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all wikis from 14 January (calendar).

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15:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:2021 in Uzbekistani football

A tag has been placed on Category:2021 in Uzbekistani football requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 15:45, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Category:Roads in Bicol has been nominated for renaming

Category:Roads in Bicol has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. —hueman1 (talk • contributions) 14:40, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:December 2021 sports events in South America

A tag has been placed on Category:December 2021 sports events in South America requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 15:59, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-03

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

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all wikis from 21 January (calendar).

Future changes

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16:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

MajavahBot and public/private filter mix

Hello, Majavah. Any chance anything can be done about users like [74] and EFFP reports? They have an edit which is disallowed by public filter and logged by private filter, but MajavahBot still leaves the {{effp|p|bot}}. I think it would make more sense to add the template only if the most recent warn or disallow was from a private filter. Thanks!. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 02:11, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

@Suffusion of Yellow: Hi, yes, this should be possible, I'll try to find some time to implement this. Majavah (talk!) 16:47, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-04

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

Problems

Changes later this week

  • Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [77]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

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18:29, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:December 2021 events in South America

A tag has been placed on Category:December 2021 events in South America requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 15:50, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:2021 Portuguese television series debuts

A tag has been placed on Category:2021 Portuguese television series debuts requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 15:21, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 January 2021

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 20

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (January 2021).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 20th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Open tasks

  • As a reminder, the legacy javascript globals (like accessing wgPageName without first assigning it a value or using mw.config.get('wgPageName') instead) are deprecated. If your user scripts make use of the globals, please update them to use mw.config instead. Some global interface editors or local interface administrators may edit your user script to make these changes if you don't. See phab:T72470 for more.

Miscellaneous

  • For people interested in creating user scripts or gadgets using TypeScript, a types-mediawiki package (GitHub, NPM) is now available that provides type definitions for the MediaWiki JS interface and the API.
  • A GitHub organization has been created for hosting codebases of gadgets. Users who maintain gadgets using GitHub may choose to move their repos to this organization, to ensure continued maintenance by others even if the original maintainer becomes inactive.

Pending requests Pending requests

As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, including nominating a featured script, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy new year! --DannyS712 (talk) 01:17, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:2021 establishments in Portugal

A tag has been placed on Category:2021 establishments in Portugal requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 14:22, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:2014 Asian Games football templates

A tag has been placed on Category:2014 Asian Games football templates requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 15:29, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

About Zeyan shafiq

Dear i want to told something. First the boy post ad in this news media by paying money second the e sport team is not famous enough. The best thing is that the boy breaks the law of government. If this will be in Wikipedia many boys break the rule of govt for verifying their social handle. Think deeply. By the way in youtube there are many video on building app. It is not courage able. Please delete this. This would be concern for indian authority. Think deeply. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.127.95.163 (talk) 13:46, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

While you're free to nominate that page to AfD if you believe there is a good reason for it to be deleted, just the fact that an article subject has done something that is illegal somewhere doesn't mean that we shouldn't include it. Majavah (talk!) 14:29, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:2014 Asian Games templates

A tag has been placed on Category:2014 Asian Games templates requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 15:27, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Hey, Majavah. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day! CommanderWaterford (talk) 07:30, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 23:34, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 February 2021

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Help with bots

Hey there, Majavah! :))

I was wondering if you can help me with some pywikibot tricks given the operation of your Majavahbot. Can you tell me how exactly do you make the bot get commands from the wikipages like you've done here? I also operate a pywikibot and it would be good if I could somehow devise an emergency shutdown procedure for it by using something similar as to what you've done there. Or even if that's not possible, the knowledge of knowing how to get commands from wikipages could be pretty useful in other different scenarios where you want other people to help with its operation on minor details. - Klein Muçi (talk) 23:48, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

​Hi! MajavahBot is massively overengineered but the code for task configuration looks like this. It just loads the contents of that page using pywikibot, uses a very hacky regex to remove comments and then uses the python json module to parse it to a python dictionary. Is that clear enough or do you need more details? Majavah (talk!) 06:24, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for the fast response! :)) Unfortunately, no, it isn't but I believe that's coming from my own shortcoming in technical knowledge. I've just started dealing with pywikibot these past months and maybe that's a far advanced thing for me to do right now. Thank you anyway! :) - Klein Muçi (talk) 11:07, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
Trying my luck here... Maybe you can help with this request? As far as I understand, I imagine it to be rather easy, just 1 missing argument or so in the bash script. But I can't figure it out. - Klein Muçi (talk) 13:10, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
@Klein Muçi Can't you just make your custom summary include the general summary you want? Majavah (talk!) 07:01, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
Well... That's exactly what I'm asking... :P Reading the instructions at that page I know how I can make a custom summary, a message that appears after every edit that my bot makes. It's easy: -summary:Blablabla. Now I want that beside that message the specific edit that was made to be also included. But I don't know how to do that. :P - Klein Muçi (talk) 10:34, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
@Klein Muçi (sorry for the late reply) I'm not familiar with how Pywikibot internally works with the -summary parameter, I'm afraid I'm not the best person to help with this, I can try anyway. Did I understand correctly that you have both the command line parameter summary and the per-edit summary approached working individually? Majavah (talk!) 18:22, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

Don't worry. Yes, as far as I know, yes. According to the instructions here, -summary:XYZ Set the summary message text, bypassing the default edit summaries. if you write -summary:something, you get the same message predefined message all the time as a summary. Which is what my bot has right now. And, if I remember correctly, if you omit that parameter, you get a per-edit specific summary added automatically by the Wikipedia/Wikiquote/whatever wikisite you're using the bot on itself. It has been a while without using this approach so that's why I talk with uncertainty but yes, the idea is that basically I should know how to use use both approaches. I wanted to have them combined and I thought I would only have to add 1 more word/command to that -summary:XYZ part, but I can't find that answered anywhere on the documentation pages. - Klein Muçi (talk) 09:27, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

@Klein Muçi I've been looking around how pwb works but haven't really found any solutions for you. Sorry. Majavah (talk!) 08:35, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
Don't worry. Thank you a lot for trying! :)) - Klein Muçi (talk) 09:15, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 March 2021

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Help

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter/False_positives/Reports Would you please take care of this for me. I am User:Stretchrunner with no choice but to edit as "II". Thanks. Stretchrunner II (talk) 13:04, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

Hi Stretchrunner II, I can't see private filters like the one you've hit. You've already posted about it on the right place (WP:Edit filter/False positives), that's frequently patrolled by people with access to see those. Best, Majavah (talk!) 16:09, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 April 2021

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A barnstar for you!

The Technical Barnstar
Thank you very much for your patient, step-by-step help with my Toolforge Kubernetes cronjob questions. You walked me through my multiple noob Linux mistakes like a champ. I appreciate your time. –Novem Linguae (talk) 12:55, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
Novem Linguae Glad that you got it working. The Kubernetes part should get significantly easier once we (Toolforge admins) get some work-in-progress tooling out. Majavah (talk!) 17:06, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Twinkle - GitHub

Hey there, Majavah! Long time no see. :)

Lately, a user posted this message on my talk page on SqWiki:

https://github.com/wikimedia-gadgets/twinkle-starter

Are there any developers here that can help with this? Thanks!

Basically Twinkle i18n if I'm not wrong. Given that I've also thought about that in the past, I wanted to help personally and started to deal with it. I (re)opened my GitHub account and wanted to follow the instructions mentioned in the readme part on the aforementioned link but I get stuck on the first step. After I press "use this template", I can't name my repo. It reads "not found" and from what I saw on the web, most likely I'm missing some kind of permission. Can you help by guiding me around the process? I've never got to work with GitHub before (that's the reason why I closed my account the first time :P ). I saw your name on the contributors there and thought maybe you'd be the right person to ask.

I'm also a bit surprised about the whole thing. I've helped i18n many gadgets and extensions in the past (WikiLove, SandboxLink, etc.) but I've never had to deal with GitHub (or anything outside of the "WikiWorld" for that matter) before. Everything could be fixed by changing some pages on the Mediawiki namespace or translating some lines on TranslateWiki (of course, after asking for permission on Phabricator). Why is it different this time? Is Twinkle somehow an "unfinished product" that after having been developed/refined enough, will join the ranks of what I mentioned above? Or is this kind of workflow intended?

Anyway, based on my past experiences, I hope Twinkle's i18n will require mostly language translating with minor code work. - Klein Muçi (talk) 00:08, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Turns out the permission missing was me verifying the email address. Things ran smoothly after that. I still would appreciate any kind of help you can provide though as I'm still on the first steps. :) - Klein Muçi (talk) 01:08, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
Some Twinkle code is indeed translated at translatewiki.net: translatewiki:Translating:Twinkle. Some extensions may be missing for various reasons. Nemo 06:05, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
@Klein Muçi Hi! For most of your questions I don't have any answers other than "because the Twinkle developers chose to", you should ask them, not me. I'm not familiar with it so I don't have any specific answers unfortunately. Majavah (talk!) 13:36, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

I see. Any guidance of who I would have to contact? :P Or you have no idea at all? - Klein Muçi (talk) 18:40, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

IDK, perhaps check out Wikipedia:Twinkle#History. Firestar464 (talk) 09:25, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
@Klein Muçi: I believe that would be User:SD0001. Majavah (talk!) 09:39, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Thank you! :) @SD0001: Can you help me by guiding me around on this? I tried it myself during this period but I couldn't really finish the process mentioned there. Klein Muçi (talk) 10:00, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

@Klein Muçi Yes, you can reach me on my talk page or discord. Also feel free to give me commit access on your github repo so that I could help with some setup. The workflow is like this because the activities that Twinkle automates are quite different across wikis. For instance, for nominating pages for deletion on enwiki we use CSD, PROD, AfD, RfD, CfD, FfD, TfD, or MfD. Pretty sure you don't have all that on sqwiki! Because of this, i18n of twinkle needs more than just translation of strings. The core library provides some wiki-agnostic components which contain strings translated on translatewiki.net. These components have to be put together in twinkle-sqwiki. Some modules like revert/rollback will work out of box. But others like XFD, Tag, Warn need quite a bit of configuration. This is still a work-in-progress and there's still a lot that can be done to make the process easier for people like you. – SD0001 (talk) 12:41, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
@SD0001: I see. Thank you for your offer! I did join that server you mentioned (even though I'm not the most efficient user you can find of Discord) but I'm thinking to continue the subject on the talk page so it could be more public this time if other users are interested on it now or in the future. I'll give you permission on my GH repo and write you soon after. :) - Klein Muçi (talk) 22:13, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 21

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past four months (February through May 2021).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 21st issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

My apologies for this long-overdue issue, and if I missed any scripts.
Hopefully going forward we can go back to monthly releases - any help would be appreciated. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 13:04, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Premature archival of EFFP report

MajavahBot prematurely archived a pending EFFP report that was yet to be checked by Edit filter managers Special:MobileDiff/1029391407. I restored and the bot archived again. Please fix it. A small delay in EFMs analysing a valid report hardly warrants archiving it. It is better to make sure it doesn't archive unless requests are resolved. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 18:18, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Never mind. I have pinned the report to prevent further archiving. Still it might be worth considering whether there should be any change in bot archiving duration. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 18:33, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

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