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responsiveContent

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Hi. Not sure if this is still maintained as is shown in the Gadgets section, but for some reason, the text looks very squeezed in. 1989 (talk) 03:04, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I haven’t looked at it for a while. I’ll see if I can make some time to investigate. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 10:26, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I ran into the same issue. Width of the main content is capped so it shows about 35 characters per line. It may be related to the newish vector-2022 skin. I'm not sure if that was enabled automatically or if I did it at some point. Matthias Winkelmann (talk) 05:28, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
1991 2601:243:C400:9F00:2466:F5FD:71AB:4701 (talk) 07:28, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Template:Documentation/link box has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. User:GKFXtalk 20:01, 14 January 2022 (UTC) User:GKFXtalk 20:07, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe for you?

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Sticky table headers not working on iPhone is looking for someone who knows things about iPhones and web development. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:43, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Apple styling help

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I see your notifications are disabled. Template talk:COVID-19 pandemic data/styles2.css#Missing borders on sticky row headers could use your help again, especially with the browser issues on Apple products. Jroberson108 (talk) 14:12, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help. Any ideas on the part about some borders missing between random sticky row headers? Jroberson108 (talk) 16:46, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Problem with Template:Unicode blocks

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Hi, TheDJ. I've been having a problem I don't understand getting Template:Unicode blocks to initially appear in collapsed state, and I noticed you recently made some changes to the template.

I've been trying to make Unicode character property a little more readable by having a couple of very large tables come up in collapsed state by adding a |state=mw-collapsed parameter to the templates that generate them. This works fine for the Template:ISO 15924 script codes and related Unicode data invocation [1]. However doing the same to the Unicode blocks template [2] has no apparent effect; the table still appears in expanded form.

I have no idea if my edit would have been equally ineffective with the template version before your edits or not. It could be that the state parameter never worked on this template. Unfortunately I'm not too knowledgeable about template coding, so maybe you could take a look at the issue and tell me if there is a way to get the table to initially appear collapsed. Thanks, -- R. S. Shaw (talk) 00:06, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That was my bad, I broke something. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 10:16, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your years of work on OSMdb and the tiles.wmflabs.org service

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I just happened across the deprecation notice for the tiles.wmflabs.org service that you added back in Jan 2022, and wanted to drop a note of thanks for your long and hard work on that service (and OSMdb), as well as give people looking at this talk page a pointer to some of the other discussions about it. Thanks again. JesseW, the juggling janitor 03:03, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding dataset for image provided in Wikimedia (File:PerrinPlot2.svg from Brownian motion on en.wikipedia.org)

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Hi Derk-Jan, I am a PhD candidate at Columbia looking to use the dataset from Jean Perrin's 1909 paper which is depicted in the .svg file you had originally uploaded to the Brownian motion Wikipedia page.

Would you be able to point me to where this data was originally sourced from as I am looking to analyze it for my work but cannot seem to find it anywhere online. Also, I apologize if this is not the right place to message you, I am new to interacting with users on Wikipedia.

Thank you very much, Kiran KDGauthier (talk) 17:22, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It was an svg that someone had uploaded on top of the original gif file. On that day, this broke the image because an svg file was no longer allowed to have the fileextension gif, so i split it off into a new upload and deleted the offending file revision in the .gif entry. See also the log here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=&user=&page=File%3APerrinPlot2.gif
So there was originally a gif uploaded in 2007 by a user Kraus, who retrieved it from a page on the paper (http://www.matpack.de/Info/images/Thermodynamics/PerrinPlot2.gif ) then in 2009 MiraiWarren created an svg based on that gif, in 2010 i split it off into a separate entry and in 2015 the file was moved to Wikimedia Commons. That is as much as i know of it. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 18:23, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Sort nowrap

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Respect

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(if you've ever seen Last Week Tonight, feel free to imagine John Oliver's voice as you read this.. I think it helps)
I generally respect you. You are a good contributor and knowledgeable. Like any human, I get things wrong sometimes. Misjudge. Phrase an opinion more harshly than necessary. Usually it's deserved, but sometimes in hindsight I could've held back a bit more. It's a thin line to walk, but I don't always err on the side of caution. Those who do are often walked over. Simply dampening criticism across the board always makes things worse. So, and this applies to any situation, humanity has to try and reason with one another, as long as the other party is willing to listen, accept constructive criticism and -when appropriate- apologize.
If you know me at all, you'd know I readily admit my mistakes and poor word choices if I'm made aware of those. Misinterpretation of my words happens every once in a while. If something turns out to be open to interpretation I'll often clarify or adjust them.
I'm not easily offended. Some random anon calling me a cunt (it has happened) doesn't bother me, it makes me laugh. Even if a respected user would say something like "I hate your style, I think you're a cunt." I wouldn't be overly concerned. It's unfortunate, but only an opinion, and you can't always please everyone.
And because I respect you, I'm actually offended by your triple-word order without punctuation. Phrasing it as an order -who are you, my boss?- is already severely disrespectful. Using only three words, not even attempting to engage in any meaningful constructive criticism is, whether you intended that or not, a recipe for escalation. Trolls often do it as a tactic to evoke a response. I'd have thought you knew better than that.
But the icing on the cake is to do it with no punctuation whatsoever. Do you think that little of me? You can't be bothered to press shift or enter a period? If you want to criticize my actions or even my personality, put in the bloody effort. Be creative. Explain in detail how much you hate my guts. So please, if you must, just vent that anger and we'll both feel better. And now, this. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 16:05, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I ain't got time to be creative right now (burying a familymember today). I'm often critical of the foundation and there are many ways to do so. Yet these personal attacks are just you pushing people's buttons out of frustration in hopes of triggering a response. It's unnecessary and only further sours the relationship between employees and community without actually fixing problems. If I see this kind of behavior towards ppl who I consider to be friends, I damn sure will call it out and I don't care about you wikilawyering your way around it. My respect goes to people who build others up, and my respect is extremely quickly lost when ppl punch down at ppl who aren't free to respond to their attacks. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 07:45, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
(if you feel this is TLDR, at least read the last paragraph)
I'm sorry for your loss.
And, well, not a John Oliver fan I presume. I'm disappointed with your use of "ur", "u" and "r" in that reverted edit summary, but then again, you are saying clearly that you simply don't respect me and since I told you I don't like that sort of thing (outside memes) I guess I gave you free ammunition there so understandably you used it.
I don't need people to respect me to respect them. I still respect your knowledge and contributions to the project. On a more personal level, I respect people who engage in conversation, who try to understand each another, who try to keep an open mind. There's no requirement to agree there, I can completely disagree with someone's opinion while respecting their point of view. Or the opposite: to agree with someone while thinking the way they arrived at their opinion is completely backwards.
You are simply trying to protect friends from what you perceive as attacks. That's completely understandable. Whether they actually need or want your protection is an open question, but regardless, understandable. But even if you'd be right and I am simply the villain who has to be stopped (you wouldn't be unique in that), throwing in triple-word orders without punctuation isn't going to help. Or more accurately: that trick only works once. Because with it, you've largely burned my respect on the personal level.
WMF employees would have to be more careful when responding, but they most assuredly can respond to attacks. Dealing with criticism and even attacks is par for the course if you work for the WMF. And certain responses to such "attacks" can definitely earn my respect. I'll hardly ever say something that should be taken personally anyway.
I suppose that's what disappoints me the most: you took all this personally. Your decisions here may or may not be affected by your loss of a family member. If you even suspect your grief may be affecting your decisions here, I'd recommend staying offline for a few days, or at least away from forums/social media/wikis/etc. Not for me, for you. Talk with family/friends, maybe read a book, take a walk, listen to music that matches how you feel, or just sit in a room quietly. Or if you just feel like punching a pillow.. do it. If the latter is what you feel like, don't hold back. I don't know how you feel right now. But whatever works to process your emotions, you should do. I'm only suggesting, just giving advice. One thing I do know: wiki is rarely a good place to be when you're dealing with emotions. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 16:05, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Message boxes

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Thanks for that! I've included a brief summary and linked the article, which I think is probably better than quoting it to the point that people don't go and read it. Is it bad that of the "well-known names" I only really recognise half of them? And I was active back then, so you'd think I would. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.1% of all FPs 04:36, 30 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Signpost fixes

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I've been trying to put together a basic overview of how the Signpost works on a technical level, and have noticed you in the edit histories of many of the templates, fixing stuff that's broken and removing stuff that doesn't need to be there. Good work! jp×g 06:54, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thx. I’ve made three distinct changes changes in the past. First, I implemented the new design a couple of years ago (2015?). This is the bigger changes I made to the templates. The interesting part here is that they had to be made in a way which would keep those templates working in older versions of articles. This is why sometimes you’ll see v2 templates in use (because changing the original version would break the old articles. I also made most pages mobile responsive. Things like the headers footers etc were all fixed width for a long long time. And then I’ve converted large parts to templatestyles, which simplifies the templates a lot compared to the earlier inline styles. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 07:10, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Reference desk/header/nav/aux/sandbox is nominated for speedy deletion

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As a follow up to Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Obsolete Reference desk subpages, I've nominated sandbox page that you've created – Wikipedia:Reference desk/header/nav/aux/sandbox – for speedy deletion. —⁠andrybak (talk) 11:12, 10 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Problems with responsiveContent

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Hello, I just wanted to let you know that I had to turn off the responsiveContent gadget. It caused me problems when working on desktop. I had to disable it since when it was enabled, I was unable to correctly select wikisyntax (I'm usually directly editing the code). Blank space was selected and when I tried to delete it, the wikitext was deleted instead. --TadejM my talk 21:01, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I'm not using it myself these days, so it's been a while since I checked it over. I'll take a look this weekend. Thx for the report ! —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 08:40, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

New message from Neveselbert

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Hello, TheDJ. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical).
Message added 21:59, 23 January 2023 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Hi DJ, could you please possibly have a look at this? Thanks, ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 21:59, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Day/Mar-Dec

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Wikigoat

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Thank you for going the extra miles in your response to my request for review of the relevance of Wikipedia:Article size. You get this goat in reward. I'm sure your time and effort seems more than worth it now 😉

Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 20:05, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Non-free use rationale templates

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Hi there, I know you've been busy lately but I wanted to know if you knew of a way to correct the display of {{Non-free use rationale}} and {{Non-free use rationale 2}} in Vector 2022 in the short term, just until you're able to get round to updating the code? ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 19:12, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Was the problem mostly that the caption didn't look like it did before ? —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 13:47, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, though there's also the issue of {{Non-free use rationale 2}}. I don't think they should both use the same TemplateStyles as the designs are different. This is how that template appears in Vector legacy; as you can see, the line height is reduced as well as the caption at the top. I would prefer that to be retained in Vector 2022. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 15:04, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Why are the designs different ? Its generally a bad idea to have multiple styles for something which should essentially be the same. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 15:07, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
That may be, but for whatever reason, they're different and I'd rather we be as conservative as possible in preserving the design, in the absence of a talkpage consensus to change it. I personally prefer the design of {{Non-free use rationale 2}} for being more compact. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 15:09, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Id rather we not be conservative. We've been conservative for a long time and thats part of why it's difficult to fix problems like this. We should challange past decisions and decide if they make sense. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 15:11, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
OK, well I would prefer if we could incorporate {{Non-free use rationale 2}}'s line height and caption style into {{Non-free use rationale/styles.css}}, if that's OK? ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 15:13, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Would that be alright, TheDJ? ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 17:05, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

responsiveContent gadget on v22

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Hi. Could you disable User:TheDJ/responsiveContent on V22? It looks rather weird as my wife just shown me 😉 (e.g. on Kathe Koja). You should probably change: MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. Cheers, Nux (talk) 00:52, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Followup

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Hello again, I'm just following up to check whether you're amenable to incorporating {{Non-free use rationale 2}}'s line height and caption style into {{Non-free use rationale/styles.css}}? Please confirm, thanks, ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 20:57, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think its good like this, someone else can do the rest. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 07:15, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Folded References

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Hi, I was going to install User:TheDJ/Folded_references, but there doesn't seem to that many users. Is it worth a try? Wakelamp d[@-@]b (talk) Wakelamp d[@-@]b (talk) 10:38, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't used it myself in over 6 years, no clue. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:47, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding {{sronly}}

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Hello, I'm reaching out to you both because you're the last editor to update Template:Screen reader-only and because I've seen a lot of knowledgeable posts from you on the bowels on Wikipedia's software side. I noticed a bug in that template trying to use it to improve the accessibility for {{tooltip}}. There are several different types of rendering errors when the template is used within a link.[3] I don't know if there is an easy fix for using the template within links, or if maybe it was never to meant to go inside a link and should generate some kind of warning message or category error. Regards, Rjjiii (talk) 18:20, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Quick note on Wikipedia:Education program/sandbox

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About Wikipedia:Education program/sandbox, I tried nominating it for deletion for G6, but a reviewing admin actually looked and said they are waiting for you to look at it. But thinking about it again, I wonder if moving it to user space would be a better bet. That way you can work and people won't accidentally stumble on this page. Aasim - Herrscher of Wikis ❄️ 02:49, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:OpenDNS IP addresses

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tunnel and OSM

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Hello, do you think maplink support type=tunnel from OSM ? I don't feel it :(

Map
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Bouzinac (talk) 12:30, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

See mediawikiwiki:Help:Extension:Kartographer/OSM#How_to_get_a_single_object_from_multiple_lines —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 13:25, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Response at the Teahouse

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Hi - I was just writing a response to the Teahouse question about a page not showing up in search results when I saw your reply, but I was about to say something totally different and wanted to make sure I was correct first. I am under the impression that pages will only index once they have been patrolled through WP:NPP or once 90 days has passed since the creation of the article - the issue for that page is that it hasn't been patrolled, not that Google hasn't gotten around to it yet, no? Tollens (talk) 07:38, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(I suppose it doesn't really matter either way - the editor with the question can't make a review happen any sooner.) Tollens (talk) 08:12, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RfC on the "Airlines and destinations" tables in airport articles

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 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) § RfC on the "Airlines and destinations" tables in airport articles. I saw that you participated in a discussion on a similar topic. Sunnya343 (talk) 18:20, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

New message from Jo-Jo Eumerus

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WLN ids

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Hi TheDJ, if you have a moment do you have any insight in to MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-messages section about the storage handling/purging of the wln ID numbers. — xaosflux Talk 15:16, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

responsive Village Pump header layout

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Regarding this comment: perhaps there should be a pool on how long until someone wonders why the image isn't visible on small screens ;-) I appreciate the effort spent to improve the layout (even if I'm unopinionated about having an image that my banner blindness will subsequently ignore). isaacl (talk) 22:17, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

escapeRe

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Hi, thank you for your notice: https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer_Diskussion:Doc_Taxon&diff=prev&oldid=239243041

You say, I should replace escapeRe with a call to mw.util.escapeRegExp(), but I'm not so familiar with JavaScript. That's why I don't know how to do this. Can you help me please? Kind regards, – Doc Taxon • Talk • 18:18, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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MfD nomination of MediaWiki:Sandbox.js

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MediaWiki:Sandbox.js, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/MediaWiki:Sandbox.js and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of MediaWiki:Sandbox.js during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. jp×g🗯️ 08:36, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, to be clear, I don't actually want to delete it, I just think it should probably be userfied or something (should we have random blank pages in the MediaWiki space?) but I couldn't think of anywhere else to raise the issue otehr than MfD. jp×g🗯️ 08:49, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Village pump thread on sticky header template update

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Please have a look at this:

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"Template:Wide image-2" listed at Redirects for discussion

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The redirect Template:Wide image-2 has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 May 11 § Template:Wide image-2 until a consensus is reached. Magioladitis (talk) 08:48, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion at MediaWiki talk:Scribunto-doc-page-header#Category:Module documentation pages

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 You are invited to join the discussion at MediaWiki talk:Scribunto-doc-page-header § Category:Module documentation pages. —⁠andrybak (talk) 09:26, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin June Issue 2

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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the second half of June 2024. Please help translate.

Upcoming and current events and conversations

Wikimania Katowice
Wikimania Katowice

Talking: 2024 continues


Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org


Annual Goals Progress on Equity See also a list of all movement events: on Meta


Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Inclusion See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

  • Evaluation of the U4C election results (ongoing)
  • Building a public policy network from both sides of the Pacific: Lessons from the 1st Global Wiki Advocacy Meet-up.


Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness See also: quarterly Metrics Reports


Board and Board committee updates See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter


Foundation statements

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin July Issue 1

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Upcoming and current events and conversations

Wikimania Katowice
Wikimania Katowice

Talking: 2024 continues

  • Registration for Wikimania Katowice (7–10 August 2024) is still open. Register to attend in-person or virtually until 26 July.
  • The call for presentation submissions for the WikiArabia 2024 is open (until July 28).


Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org


Annual Goals Progress on Equity See also a list of all movement events: on Meta

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Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog


Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness See also: quarterly Metrics Reports


Board and Board committee updates See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

  • Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees published its decision not to ratify the draft Movement Charter along with proposed next steps (minutes, resolution, appendix).
  • Movement Charter voting is closed. At the time of drafting, the scrutineers are working to ensure that all votes on the ballot are valid.


Foundation statements


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responsive flagicons

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From what I can see, this patch should obviate the need for MediaWiki:Minerva.css#L-35, since the selectors no longer apply. Is that a valid statement? Izno (talk) 21:57, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Module documentation pages has been nominated for discussion

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Category:Module documentation pages has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it 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. * Pppery * it has begun... 17:16, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin July Issue 2

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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the second half of July 2024. Please help translate.

Upcoming and current events and conversations

Wikimania Katowice
Wikimania Katowice

Talking: 2024 continues


Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

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Annual Goals Progress on Equity See also a list of all movement events: on Meta


Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog


Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness See also: quarterly Metrics Reports


Board and Board committee updates See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter


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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin August Issue 1

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Special Wikimania issue This is a special Wikimania issue of the Bulletin. We'll be back to our regular format in the next issue

Hannah Clover (User:Clovermoss), Wikimedian of the Year 2024.
Hannah Clover (User:Clovermoss), Wikimedian of the Year 2024.


Upcoming and current events and conversations Talking: 2024 continues

Wikimania Katowice
Wikimania Katowice


Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org


Annual Goals Progress on Equity See also a list of all movement events: on Meta


Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog


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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin August Issue 2

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Upcoming and current events and conversations Talking: 2024 continues

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

  • Highlights of the Product & Technology department's recent work in improving the user experience.
  • Editor tools related to references & categories and more tech updates on the latest Tech News.
  • Outreachy (a paid, remote three-month internship to support underrepresented groups in tech) is open. Mentors should submit projects before September 11 at 16:00 UTC (more info).
  • The Campaign Events extension is now available on Meta-Wiki, Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested in other language wikis.
  • The Campaigns teams would like to learn more about how your communities do online collaboration such as WikiProjects, please take this Google Form survey or share examples of successful collaborations on Meta Wiki.
  • Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.
  • Applications for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) are still open until September 16.

Annual Goals Progress on Equity See also a list of all movement events: on Meta

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

Board and Board committee updates See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

  • Some next steps on a movement charter: A message from Wikimedia Foundation CEO, Maryana Iskander, Chair of Board of Trustees, Nataliia Tymkiv, and Chair of Governance Committee, Dariusz Jemielniak.
  • Elections for four community-and-affiliate elected seats on the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation will be held from September 3 to September 17. To learn more about the candidates, watch this short "Meet the Candidates" presentations.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:06, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

class="tpl-para"

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At this edit, you changed class="nowrap" to class="tpl-para" at {{para}}. What does that class do? and where is it defined?

—Trappist the monk (talk) 21:39, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

tpl- prefix generally means TemplateStyles, so i probably moved the styling into trmplatestyles. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 14:23, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ah no, in this case, i just wanted to have it have A class, so that ppl could still target it if they wanted to. Prefixed, to avoid clashes with Classnames from other places, like headings. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 14:26, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, I wondered about that. I didn't find any use of it in user namespace, likely because no one knows that it exists (it isn't documented anywhere that I could find). Because it isn't used, I'm inclined to remove it.
I wonder if 'user' classes wouldn't be better named as such: user-class-<template name> for example?
—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:36, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin September Issue 1

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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the first half of September 2024. Please help Translate.

Upcoming and current events and conversations Talking: 2024 continues


Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

  • Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes.
  • The Alternative Text suggested edits feature has now been fully deployed to production on the iOS App for Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and French Wikipedias! This feature, part of WE1.2, is designed to enhance how newcomers add alt text to images, aiming to improve accessibility and engagement. For more details, visit the project page and explore the new feature in the app!
  • Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualization can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help test the charts.
  • A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia’s APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.
  • More recent tech updates from Tech News.
  • The latest status updates from Wikifunctions.
  • Help us find WikiProjects or other online collaboration spaces!


Annual Goals Progress on Equity See also a list of all movement events: on Meta


Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog


Board and Board committee updates See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter


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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin September Issue 2

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Upcoming and current events and conversations

Wikimedia at the United Nations General Assembly HQ
Wikimedia event at the United Nations

Talking: 2024 continues

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org


Annual Goals Progress on Equity See also a list of all movement events: on Meta


Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog


Foundation statements


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MediaWiki message delivery 17:10, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin October Issue 1

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Upcoming and current events and conversations

WikiArabia 2024
WikiArabia 2024

Talking: 2024 continues


Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure

See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org


Annual Goals Progress on Equity

See also a list of all movement events: on Meta


Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity

See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog


Board and Board committee updates

See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter


Other Movement curated newsletters & news

See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Wikimedia World · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · other newsletters:

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:30, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin October Issue 2

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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the second half of October 2024. Please help translate.

Upcoming and current events and conversations
Talking: 2024 continues

WikiForHumanRights
WikiForHumanRights


Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

  • Tech News: In issue 2024/42, read about the removal of the Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow), work on making text searches easier, and more. In issue 2024/43, read about improvements to mobile app navigation, temporary accounts pilot details, the Content Discovery Experiments, and more updates.
  • MediaWiki: The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available and include updates on Wikimedia’s authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, and more.
  • CampaignEvents extension: The CampaignEvents extension provides tools to create, manage, and promote collaborative activities on the wikis, such as edit-a-thons, meetups, and more. You can visit the Deployment page to learn how to get the extension on your wiki.
  • Research: The Research team and collaborators are launching new research on editors with extended rights.
  • New Content Translation feature: Translators using Content Translation on wikis with mobile support can now customize their article suggestions with 41 filtering options. This feature helps translators find relevant articles based on their interests for translation.
  • Wikifunctions: We are collecting feedback on the "About" widget that shows more info about the functions. Also, status updates from October 11 and October 17.
  • Temporary Accounts: Temporary accounts will begin rolling out on October 29 to production wikis with an aim to do a complete deployment by May 2025. You can see the deployment plan and timeline on the project page. As we rollout this change, it is likely that some tools (gadgets, user scripts, templates and bots) will be impacted by it. We have a developer FAQ to help developers with making necessary changes to their maintained tool(s). Please let us know on our talk page if you have any tool in mind that may need updating or if you need help with updating your maintained tools.
  • Knowledge is Human campaign: The Communications department has just launched a public awareness campaign (landing page) to showcase how real articles are edited and highlight Wikipedia as a source of information ahead of the 2024 “Big English” fundraising drive.


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Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity
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Board and Board committee updates
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Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · other newsletters:

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin November Issue 1

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WikiCelebrate Mārtiņš Bruņenieks
WikiCelebrate Mārtiņš Bruņenieks

Upcoming and current events and conversations
Talking: 2024 continues


Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org


Annual Goals Progress on Equity
See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki


Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

  • Global Advocacy: Reflecting on the anniversary of the EU’s Digital Service Act (DSA), Wikimedians share successes and public policy priorities at digital rights Global Gathering event, and more global advocacy updates.


Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: quarterly Metrics Reports


Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · other newsletters:

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ArbCom 2024 Elections voter message

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