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Tech News: 2024-44
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read the October project update and see the latest documentation and examples on Beta Wikipedia.
- View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pediapress.com, an external service that creates books from Wikipedia, can now use Wikimedia Maps to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Wikipedia. [1]
Updates for technical contributors
- Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set
emitTransitionOnSteptotrueto fix an old bug. They can use the new flagallowAutomaticBackto avoid back-buttons they don't want. [2] - Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. [3]
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:53, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
Question from Kamogelo Mankosi (05:25, 2 November 2024)
Hello how can l edit --Kamogelo Mankosi (talk) 05:25, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Kamogelo Mankosi welcome to Wikipedia. You can peruse the links in the welcome message dropped on your Talk page to learn how to edit at your own time. Alternatively, you can jumpstart with Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Adventure as a tutorial. – robertsky (talk) 06:02, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
- okay thanks for your help Kamogelo Mankosi (talk) 06:09, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
Question from Kamogelo Mankosi on User:Kamogelo Mankosi (09:19, 2 November 2024)
How do the user page describe one's personal information --Kamogelo Mankosi (talk) 09:19, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
- Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.
Technical news
- Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068
Arbitration
- RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
- The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.
Miscellaneous
- An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
Thank You!
@Robertsky: Thank you for sorting out the discussion and setting up the centralized Talk:Jews in Madagascar#Requested move 1 November 2024 and for the placing the notifications on the 3 articles' pages. I greatly appreciate your efforts. Sincerely, IZAK (talk) 18:49, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-45
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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. [4]
- 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. [5]
- 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. [6]
In depth
- Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.
Meetings and events
- MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:47, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
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)