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Tech News: 2024-45

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Updates for editors

• Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts. [1]
• Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled can now use the Collaboration List feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
• The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode. [2]
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.

Updates for technical contributors

• XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. [3]

In depth

• Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
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• MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.

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Question from Klangustaccount (06:49, 5 November 2024)

How many pages do I have to edit before I can publish a new article? --Klangustaccount (talk) 06:49, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

@Klangustaccount: To create a new article on the main space, your account will need to be 4 days old (48 hours from when you have registered your account) and have already accrued 10 edits. You can however create a draft article either in the draftspace or userspace, i.e. Draft:Example (change the bolded portion to the actual title of the topic you want to write on) or User:Klangustaccount/sandbox.

As new user, you are however encouraged to edit on existing articles first to get yourself comfortable with editing on Wikipedia. I have dropped a standard Welcome template on your talk page. Do look through the links to familiarise yourself with editing on Wikipedia and the various policies and guidelines. – robertsky (talk) 06:59, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

If the article I want to write is in a different language (Tagalog), will I have to edit 10 articles that are in Tagalog or are English articles okay? Klangustaccount (talk) 07:39, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

@Klangustaccount:If it is in Tagalog, you have to check out the Tagalog Wikipedia. Do not submit anything in Tagalog on English Wikipedia as it will be removed without question. Each language project has their own policies. tl:Wikipedia:Kapihan would be the appropriate place for your query. – robertsky (talk) 07:57, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from RedPekingDucks8 (13:15, 5 November 2024)

hello --RedPekingDucks8 (talk) 13:15, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

@RedPekingDucks8 hi. I have also dropped a welcome message on your talk page. Do go through the links in there to get started on editing on Wikipedia. – robertsky (talk) 13:18, 5 November 2024 (UTC)

Please solve an issue

@Robertsky:, Please solve the issue in the Women in the Bangladesh Army article, seven days have been passed since the request of page moving, see the talk page of the article. 119.30.47.8 (talk) 03:15, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

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