User talk:Robertsky

RFA2024 update: Discussion-only period now open for review

Hi there! The trial of the RfA discussion-only period passed at WP:RFA2024 has concluded, and after open discussion, the RfC is now considering whether to retain, modify, or discontinue it. You are invited to participate at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase II/Discussion-only period. Cheers, and happy editing! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:38, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Move Draft: William Heffernan by Spactues to be placed into article space 29 september 2024

Looking for help of my first artical Draft: William Heffernan by Spactues to be moved to the artical space and accepted review. Spactues (talk) 04:23, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

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• Readers of 42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
• Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding ?veaction=editsource to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences. [1]
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• Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.

In depth

• The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes. [3]

Meetings and events

• October 4–6: WikiIndaba Conference's Hackathon in Johannesburg, South Africa
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MediaWiki message delivery 22:16, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

Question from Avemalakoff (13:15, 5 October 2024)

Hello: Thanks for your help. There is a new book on the mystery about the Man in the Iron Mask written by me, Sarah Madry, M.Ed. On the Wikipedia page on this topic there is a list of books about this topic. I would like to have my book listed on the list. Since the editors investigate, quite normally and appropriately, the level of accuracy and seriousness of authors and material that appear on Wikipedia (I depend upon you to do that as a regular user of Wikipedia - thank you), I wrote to another editor who responded to me about adding my book to the list about the depth of my research and the new paths covered on the subject. I think that was interpreted as a promotion of my book that I intended to put on the Wikipedia page. I don't want to promote my book, unless putting the book on the list of other books, is promotion. I wanted to show the editor that my book is a serious work that offers dependable new material. I am sorry if that was the wrong thing to do. I have never done this before and I didn't know I was not supposed to do this. I apologize. I hope Wikipedia will be able to list my book as a book on this topic. Sarah Madry --Avemalakoff (talk) 13:15, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-41

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• Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [4]

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• Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now customize their articles suggestion list from 41 filtering options when using the tool. This topic-based article suggestion feature makes it easy for translators to self-discover relevant articles based on their area of interest and translate them. You can try it with your mobile device. [5]
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• It is now possible for <syntaxhighlight> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the copy=1 attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [6]
• Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [7]
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• Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
• Five new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Komering (w:kge:) [8]
  • a Wikipedia in Mooré (m:mos:) [9]
  • a Wiktionary in Madurese (wikt:mad:) [10]
  • a Wikiquote in Gorontalo (q:gor:) [11]
  • a Wikinews in Shan (n:shn:) [12]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:39, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

ANI vs WMF

Your Signpost article made me wonder why we didn't have Asian News International vs. Wikimedia Foundation. Now we do. I love it when that happens, so thanks! Valereee (talk) 18:19, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

@Valereee, personally I prefer to have WMF-related legal cases (even though it is uncommon compared to the other legal cases that are written here) only to be written in the mainspace after the case is over for various reasons. One of the many reasons is its potential to influence ongoing cases, like so; potentially shutting off/opening up possible legal strategies that trial lawyers (on both sides, and now the judiciary as a whole apparently?) can apply and whatever extra scrutiny it may place on our fellow editors living the country. But hey... what's done is done. – robertsky (talk) 10:09, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Nonetheless, thanks for the article since it now presents a timeline. – robertsky (talk) 10:48, 14 October 2024 (UTC)