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Happy new year, people of the future! Ground Zero (talk) 00:12, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Ground Zero: Happy new year to you too :-). Let's hope that this year (or next year for you /s) is better than 2022 (and do I get bragging rights for making the first edit of the year? ;-)). SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 02:13, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It looks that way to me. Ground Zero (talk) 02:38, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Exchange rates

Thanks for your help in updating the exchange rates. When I started doing this a few years ago, I was finding rates that had not been updated since as far back as 2007. I think it looked really bad for Wikivoyage to have such outdated information in the high-profile country articles.

I have been rounding the exchange rates though to make it easier for readers to do "mental math" in converting currencies. I don't think there is any value for readers in having precise rates, which will be out of date by the time the financial markets close at the end of the day on Tuesday. Ground Zero (talk) 01:45, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sure thing, Ground Zero. I'll keep this in mind when updating exchange rates in the next few days (I think there's still about 80 or so more left).
In saying that, I am thinking of replacing all exchange rate boxes along the lines of {{Exchange rate AUD}}. If I'm not mistaken, it automatically fetches the information from Wikidata, a project with more active editors who keep things like exchange rates more up-to-date than us. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 03:53, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
That would be great if it works. The discussions that have taken place have never indicated that it would work -- they always seem to end up without anyone saying that they have the technical capability to do it. But this is beyond my ken, so I will watch your progress and assist if I can. Ground Zero (talk) 12:44, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The downside to this is that someone needs to update the rates on Wikidata. Even for {{Exchange rate AUD}}, the last time it was updated was on December 18. If the world's fifth most traded currency hasn't been updated in a while, then how often can we expect for smaller currencies like the Mongolian tögrög to be updated, per se. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 12:48, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
December 18 is actually really good. The tögrög, on the other hand, has a USD exchange rate from 2018, and a euro rate from Feb 2019. That's not so good. If the Wikidata wizards manage to automate their site to update from somewhere else without manual intervention, then I'd be in favour of using their numbers. Getting more frequent update without doing it manually would be a win, even if it meant having to accept precise numbers. Ground Zero (talk) 20:00, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
In that case, we may only be able to use such a format for the most important currencies, such as EUR, USD, GBP, CAD, AUD (which we already do), NZD, ECD, CFA, or JPY, which I'd also favour using their numbers. I might try such a format on Canada#Money as a simple experiment (as CAD is not used anywhere outside Canada, and unofficially, St Pierre and Miquelon). If this works, then we could implement a similar format elsewhere. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 22:49, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

User:INeverCry

Please remove all rights from globally banned user. Thanks. Tryvix1509 (talk) 11:14, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes Done. Thanks for letting me know about it. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 11:15, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-02

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 use tags to filter edits in the recent changes feed or on your watchlist. You can now use tags to filter out edits you don't want to see. Previously you could only use tags to focus on the edits with those tags. [1]
  • Special:WhatLinksHere shows all pages that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype for how to sort those pages alphabetically. You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket.
  • You can now use the thanks function on your watchlist and the user contribution page. [2]
  • A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you don't have to write the explanation every time. [3]
  • Matrix is a chat tool. You can now use matrix: to create Matrix links on wiki pages. [4]
  • You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also hide subpages which are translation pages. [5]

Changes later this week

  • Realtime preview for wikitext is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it in the editor toolbar.
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 10 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 12 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 January. It will be on all wikis from 12 January (calendar).

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Tech News: 2023-03

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

Problems

  • The URLs in "prev" links on page history now contain diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID] in place of diff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]. This is to fix a problem with links pointing to incorrect diffs when history was filtered by a tag. Some user scripts may break as a result of this change. [6]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).
  • Some changes to the appearance of talk pages have only been available on Talk: and User talk: namespaces. These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such as Wikivoyage talk:. They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including Wikivoyage: pages (e.g., at the Village Pump). You can change your preferences (beta feature). [7]
  • On Wikisources, when an image is zoomed or panned in the Page: namespace, the same zoom and pan settings will be remembered for all Page: namespace pages that are linked to a particular Index: namespace page. [8]
  • The Vector 2022 skin will become the default for the English Wikipedia desktop users. The change will take place on January 18 at 15:00 UTC. Learn more.

Future changes

  • The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey, which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts next week on 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. You can start drafting your proposals in the CWS sandbox.

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Tech News: 2023-04

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Problems

  • Last week, for ~15 minutes, all wikis were unreachable for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a timing issue. [9]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).
  • If you have the Beta Feature for DiscussionTools enabled, the appearance of talk pages will add more information about discussion activity. [10][11]
  • The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS), which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts on Monday 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC.

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Tech News: 2023-05

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

  • Last week, for ~15 minutes, some users were unable to log in or edit pages. This was caused by a problem with session storage. [12]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 February. It will be on all wikis from 2 February (calendar).

Future changes

  • Wikis that use localized numbering schemes for references need to add new CSS. This will help to show citation numbers the same way in all reading and editing modes. If your wiki would prefer to do it yourselves, please see the details and example CSS to copy from, and also add your wiki to the list. Otherwise, the developers will directly help out starting the week of February 5.

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Growth team newsletter #24

Welcome to the twenty-fourth newsletter from the Growth team!

Newcomer experience projects

The Growth team partnered with other WMF teams to conduct several experiments around increasing account creation and new editor retention. Results from four of these experiments are now available:

Newcomer tasks

  • Several communities suggested improving "add a link", by suggesting underlinked articles first. We released this change to Growth pilot wikis. We will review the data and collect feedback before considering releasing it to more wikis. [13]
  • The deployment of the "add a link" to all Wikipedias is still in progress. Suggested links use a prediction model, which has to be trained. The deployments will resume after we finish training all models. [14]

Mentorship

  • When someone wants to signup as a mentor, they are now informed if they don't meet the defined criteria. [15]
  • Workshop hosts asked us to have workshop attendees assigned to them. They can soon use a custom URL parameter. This way, workshop hosts will continue mentoring the event's attendees after the workshop. It will be available in February. [16]
  • Have you considered to help new editors on your wiki, by signing up to be a Mentor?

Other news

  • In Special:SpecialPages, Growth experiments now have their own section. [17]
  • This newsletter will have a new publication period, 6 times a year: January, March, May, July, September, November.

Translations

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14:44, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Mapshape with malfunction

Today I opened a task on phabricator (phab:T328739). Maybe you observed the same failure. --RolandUnger (talk) 12:55, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@RolandUnger: thanks for filing the task, RolandUnger! SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 19:42, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Tech News: 2023-06

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

  • In the Vector 2022 skin, logged-out users using the full-width toggle will be able to see the setting of their choice even after refreshing pages or opening new ones. This only applies to wikis where Vector 2022 is the default. [18]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (calendar).
  • Previously, we announced when some wikis would be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. These switches will not be announced any more, as the read-only time has become non-significant. Switches will continue to happen at 7AM UTC on Tuesdays and Thursdays. [19]
  • Across all the wikis, in the Vector 2022 skin, logged-in users will see the page-related links such as "What links here" in a new side menu. It will be displayed on the other side of the screen. This change had previously been made on Czech, English, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. [20]
  • Community Wishlist Survey 2023 will stop receiving new proposals on Monday, 6 February 2023, at 18:00 UTC. Proposers should complete any edits by then, to give time for translations and review. Voting will begin on Friday, 10 February.

Future changes

  • Gadgets and user scripts will be changing to load on desktop and mobile sites. Previously they would only load on the desktop site. It is recommended that wiki administrators audit the gadget definitions prior to this change, and add skins=… for any gadgets which should not load on mobile. More details are available.

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This Month in Education: January 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • January 2023

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Tech News: 2023-07

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

  • On wikis where patrolled edits are enabled, changes made to the mentor list by autopatrolled mentors are not correctly marked as patrolled. It will be fixed later this week. [21]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar).
  • The Reply tool and other parts of DiscussionTools will be deployed for all editors using the mobile site. You can read more about this decision. [22]

Future changes

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [23][24][25]

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The Signpost: 20 February 2023

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Hey, I was just wondering if you got my ping. STW932 has uploaded some photos which might be suitable for making banners for the article, so I was wondering if you could have a look. But don't worry if you're busy. After all, we are all volunteers here. The dog2 (talk) 19:16, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@The dog2: Hi, apologies for somehow overlooking your ping. I've been a bit busy lately but I can make them once I arrive home at 20:00 UTC+11. Cheers, SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 20:18, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@The dog2: Yes Done – see c:File:Minority cultures of China banner.jpg. Let me know if that doesn't work or if you have a better suggestion, and hopefully, I don't overlook it. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 09:25, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-08

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Problems

  • Last week, during planned maintenance of Cloud Services, unforeseen complications forced the team to turn off all tools for 2–3 hours to prevent data corruption. Work is ongoing to prevent similar problems in the future. [26]

Changes later this week

Future changes

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [27][28][29]

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Possible sockpuppet of Luchy04

Have a look at the contributions by 82.52.91.224. They are in the same style as those by Luchy04. One edit on Colico even left Dutch text in the intro section. --FredTC (talk) 01:42, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked, but maybe not a sockpuppet, considering the Dutch text. Perhaps we'll hear from them on their user talk page. Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:51, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Looks very much like Luchy04 – the Dutch text is probably an indication that they haven't or forgot to machine translate the text (typical behaviour of their's), but thank you for handling this, Ikan Kekek. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 06:53, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Sure thing. I thought they were Italian, though. Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:21, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
AFAIK, Luchy04 contributes to various language projects and probably machine translates anything they find. The IP does geolocate to Milan, Lombardy, though. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 07:33, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Port Moresby International Airport

you're right sorry, I removed merge tag wrongly--Air fans (talk) 21:56, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not a problem. It happens sometimes  :-). SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 21:57, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-09

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

  • Last week, in some areas of the world, there were problems with loading pages for 20 minutes and saving edits for 55 minutes. These issues were caused by a problem with our caching servers due to unforseen events during a routine maintenance task. [30][31]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (calendar).
  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [32]

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Tech News: 2023-10

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

  • The Community Wishlist Survey 2023 edition has been concluded. Community Tech has published the results of the survey and will provide an update on what is next in April 2023.
  • On wikis which use LanguageConverter to handle multiple writing systems, articles which used custom conversion rules in the wikitext (primarily on Chinese Wikipedia) would have these rules applied inconsistently in the table of contents, especially in the Vector 2022 skin. This has now been fixed. [33]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (calendar).
  • A search system has been added to the Preferences screen. This will let you find different options more easily. Making it work on mobile devices will happen soon. [34]

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The Signpost: 9 March 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

This Month in GLAM: February 2023



Headlines
  • Albania report: I Edit Wikipedia Online Campaign 2023
  • Belgium report: Public Domain Day Belgium 2023
  • Brazil report: GLAM-Wiki initiatives in Brazil spark academic investigation
  • Croatia report: Activities during first two months of 2023
  • Indonesia report: Launching of Wikisource Loves Manuscripts; Bincang GLAM continues
  • Italy report: New project and collaboration in February
  • Kosovo report: I Edit Wikipedia Online Campaign 2023
  • New Zealand report: Wikidata and the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Wellington WikiCon 2023 and Auckland Museum local suburb project funding
  • Poland report: The European GLAM Coordinators online meet-up; GLAM-Wiki workshop at the Wawel Royal Castle State Art Collection; Wikimedians-in-residence online meet up
  • Sweden report: 100 000 Bildminnen; Report from The Association of Swedish Museums; Wikipedia for all of Sweden; ArkDes edit-a-thons
  • UK report: In Memoriam Jo Pugh / Cultural Diversity
  • USA report: Black History Month and More
  • Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: Wiki Loves Living Heritage launches 17 March 1pm UTC
  • WMF GLAM report: Gender, language, and living heritage events in collaboration with affiliates
  • Calendar: March's GLAM events
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This Month in Education: February 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 2 • February 2023

In This Issue

Tech News: 2023-11

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

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (calendar).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Chavacano de Zamboanga Wikipedia, Min Dong Chinese Wikipedia, Chechen Wikipedia, Cebuano Wikipedia, Chamorro Wikipedia, Cherokee Wikipedia, Cheyenne Wikipedia, Central Kurdish Wikipedia, Corsican Wikipedia, Kashubian Wikipedia, Church Slavic Wikipedia, Chuvash Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [35][36]

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The Signpost: 20 March 2023

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Tech News: 2023-12

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

  • Last week, some users experienced issues loading image thumbnails. This was due to incorrectly cached images. [37]

Changes later this week

Meetings

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Tech News: 2023-13

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

  • The AbuseFilter condition limit was increased from 1000 to 2000. [39]
  • Some Global AbuseFilter actions will no longer apply to local projects. [40]
  • Desktop users are now able to subscribe to talk pages by clicking on the Subscribe link in the Tools menu. If you subscribe to a talk page, you receive notifications when new topics are started on that talk page. This is separate from putting the page on your watchlist or subscribing to a single discussion. [41]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 March. It will be on all wikis from 30 March (calendar).

Future changes

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Growth team newsletter #25

Welcome to the twenty-fifth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations

Celebrations

Leveling up release

5,000+ images added via the newcomer task in February

  • In February 2023, 5,035 images were added via the newcomer “add an image” feature (on all wikis where available); 155 were reverted.
  • Since the feature “add an image” was launched: 36,803 images have been added; 2,957 images were reverted.

Recent changes

  • Add a link
    • Community Ambassadors completed an initial evaluation that confirmed that prioritizing underlinked articles resulted in better article suggestions. We then evaluated the change on Growth pilot wikis, and results suggest that more newcomers are successfully completing the task and experiencing fewer reverts. We have now deployed the new prioritization model to all wikis with "add a link" enabled. [44][45]
    • We continue the deployment of "add a link" to more wikis. These changes are regularly announced in Tech News. To know if newcomers at your wiki have access to this feature, please visit your Homepage.
  • The Impact module was deployed on our pilot wikis, where we conducted an A/B test. We published initial findings, and a data scientist is now completing experiment analysis. [46]
  • Donor Thank you page experiment – Donors land on a “thank you” page after donation, and that landing page now includes a call to action to try editing: Example Thank you page in French. This promising feature is tested at several Wikipedias (French Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia).
  • Growth features are now the default experience on both test.wikipedia.org and test2.wikipedia.org. You can test our features there.

Upcoming work

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13:10, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

April fools 2023

Hi! As there were no voting or discussion concerning this year's April Fool's article I decided to take your suggestion (that makes two voyagers supporting it, when other suggestions just seem to have one). Had to create an article as one couldn't link to external articles from the banner. Ypsilon (talk) 16:57, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Ypsilon: (apols for the late response) Nice one! A pity that I couldn't be there to see the page myself, but thank you for handling this year's April fools article :-). I wonder how many people actually fell for it, though. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 06:05, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Around 288, probably a few less as some views are me reloading/editing the page. --Ypsilon (talk) 08:44, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-14

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

  • The system for automatically creating categories for the Babel extension has had several important changes and fixes. One of them allows you to insert templates for automatic category descriptions on creation, allowing you to categorize the new categories. [51][52][53][54][55]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).
  • Some older Web browsers will stop being able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can try to upgrade to a newer version. [56]
  • The deprecated jquery.hoverIntent module has been removed. This module could be used by gadgets and user scripts, to create an artificial delay in how JavaScript responds to a hover event. Gadgets and user scripts should now use jQuery hover() or on() instead. Examples can be found in the migration guide. [57]
  • Some of the links in Special:SpecialPages will be re-arranged. There will be a clearer separation between links that relate to all users, and links related to your own user account. [58]
  • You will be able to hide the Reply button in archived discussion pages with a new __ARCHIVEDTALK__ magic word. There will also be a new .mw-archivedtalk CSS class for hiding the Reply button in individual sections on a page. [59][60][61]

Future changes

  • The Vega software that creates data visualizations in pages, such as graphs, will be upgraded to the newest version in the future. Graphs that still use the very old version 1.5 syntax may stop working properly. Most existing uses have been found and updated, but you can help to check, and to update any local documentation. Examples of how to find and fix these graphs are available.

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I think I owe you an apology

I just saw that you finished grading the editathon. I had said I would do some of that work, but from a combination of not getting what I considered a definitive reply on how to grade and being pretty swamped with offline work, I never did actually grade anything. I'm not really sure this apology is worth much, but I realize that not pulling my weight on this had to suck. Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:21, 6 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Ikan Kekek: Hey, there's no need for an apology, mate. Real life always comes first, and I for one, was also very busy during February and March and couldn't get to grading until today. I was only able to finish grading because I was at home after a week away without my computer, listening to Lavender Haze on repeat while also trying to finish off another personal project of mine ;-). --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 10:51, 6 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 3 • March 2023

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Tech News: 2023-15

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Recent changes

Problems

  • There was a problem with all types of CentralNotice banners still being shown to logged-in users even if they had turned off specific banner types. This has now been fixed. [64]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia, Danish Wikipedia, Dinka Wikipedia, Lower Sorbian Wikipedia, Ewe Wikipedia, Greek Wikipedia, Emiliano-Romagnolo Wikipedia, Esperanto Wikipedia, Estonian Wikipedia, Basque Wikipedia, Extremaduran Wikipedia, Tumbuka Wikipedia, Fulah Wikipedia, Finnish Wikipedia, Võro Wikipedia, Fijian Wikipedia, Faroese Wikipedia, Arpitan Wikipedia, Northern Frisian Wikipedia, Friulian Wikipedia, Irish Wikipedia, Guianan Creole Wikipedia, Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia, Galician Wikipedia, Gilaki Wikipedia, Guarani Wikipedia, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Gothic Wikipedia, Gujarati Wikipedia, Manx Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [65][66]

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This Month in GLAM: March 2023



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Tech News: 2023-16

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Recent changes

Problems

  • At Wikimedia Commons, some thumbnails have not been getting replaced correctly after a new version of the image is uploaded. This should be fixed later this week. [70][71]
  • For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed. [72]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 April. It will be on all wikis from 20 April (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:55, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

South Western Sydney

Message copied from Special:AbuseFilter/65098 and Special:AbuseLog/65121

Not sure if this is helpful, but I have been steadily photographing and updating Wikidata POI around the City of Liverpool. I think I've got at least three quarters of the LGA - see Wikishootme. Hopefully this might help... - if you want me to capture specific places please let me know and I can concentrate on them. Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 01:41, April 19, 2023 (UTC)

@Christ.sherlock2: Nice! At the moment, I don't have any specific places in southwestern Sydney, but I will let you know if any location needs a photo. Keep up the great work, though! --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 02:00, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks :-) You've done great work on that South Western Sydney article. Are you from around that area? Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 13:41, April 19, 2023 (UTC)
I'm not from that area (I live between Parramatta and Meadowbank), but I did contribute to most NSW articles back in 2021 (except Sydney/Bondi, but let's be real, I think people from Bondi would like to be left alone ;-)). --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 06:10, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-17

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Recent changes

Problems

  • Due to security issues with the Graph extension, graphs have been disabled in all Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Foundation teams are working to respond to these vulnerabilities. [74]
  • For a few days, it was not possible to save some kinds of edits on the mobile version of a wiki. This has been fixed. [75][76][77]

Changes later this week

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [78]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

Future changes

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Congratulations and thank you

This is a remarkable achievement! Ground Zero (talk) 12:35, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Ground Zero: Thank you! Honestly, I didn't know what to feel after checking my X-tools stats after a month and finding this out, but I will say that it's been a pleasure in creating every one of them listed on User:SHB2000#Articles and pages from Tombstone Territorial Park in Yukon, Sør-Spitsbergen National Park in Svalbard, Klaksvík in the Faroe Islands, the Crozet Islands in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, or even Mount Kosciuszko summit trails, just 500 kilometres from home (and it's crazy to think that I've started an article nearly from every region of the world, including Antarctica and the DPRK) in just a little over two years. But with all this, I cannot thank you enough for being a great mentor to me, inspiring me to continue to where I am now on Wikivoyage today :-). --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 12:51, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I am so glad that I helped you on your journey to becoming such a valuable contributor to Wikivoyage! You are one of the people who make Wikivoyage a fun and enjoyable place in which to work. Ground Zero (talk) 18:56, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
yeah, let me join this celebration, you're surely a valuable, hard-working member in this community, very nice to be around, and what I thank you the most for is on your daily help about dealing with LTAs and crosswiki vandals. Let's keep it up. Wikivoyage is the best. Ibaman (talk) 22:30, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
And you too, Ibaman – I've always admired your spank-the-fly attitude (in a good way) regarding vandals, spammers and LTAs, which is one that I maintain on the other wiki where I'm an admin. Wikivoyage is indeed the best – there may be times where it may not feel as such (e.g. the VFD nom for Lermoos), it is at least 90 per cent of the time. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 22:45, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Summer of WikiVoyage 2023

Hi @SHB2000!

I am @Vyolltsa from the Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group. Summer of Wikivoyage is around the corner and our User Group is hosting the Summer of Wikivoyage Edit-a-thon in the North-West of Albania to write about different travel destinations of Albania and Kosovo in English, May 19-21. Also, we are inviting everyone to join us online here Saturday from 10:00-17:00 (GMT+2) Time Zone.

Could you please update the Albania and Kosovo Expedition pages for 2023?

Thank you in advance! Vyolltsa (talk) 13:17, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

But SHB is from Australia, so the summer is over and the winter coming up. (sorry, it was too funny not to mention :))
Anyway, thanks to you guys for improving articles from Albania and Kosovo. English Wikivoyage covers Europe quite well, but for the southeastern corner of the continent the coverage is a bit weaker than for example the UK or Central Europe. --Ypsilon (talk) 13:46, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Ypsilon Hi there! You cracked me up :)))))! Next time, I will ask you to help update the pages. I appreciate you commented on here. Thank you! Vyolltsa (talk) 07:30, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, at least it still feels like a Victorian summer here rn (see the link below). SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 07:41, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, Vyolltsa, I'll update the pages when I get home (approx. 06:30 UTC/16:30 AEST). Thanks for letting me know about this, and am looking forward to your improvements!
(and to Ypsilon, lol – I've kinda gotten used to Northern Hemisphere-defaultism, though :-))
--SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 21:34, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you @SHB2000! Vyolltsa (talk) 07:32, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Not a problem! I'm not sure if PetScan is having some issues with the bottom table (i.e. the "Articles needing a little work to get to usable") – I couldn't find anything wrong with the link on our side, so I wouldn't take the stats on last table at face value. I'll try and investigate into this further, but I'm not too sure if I'll get very far given that this is coming from an external source.
(to Ypsilon, here's what an autumn day, just 33 days from winter, looked like today). SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 07:40, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
And I thought it was sort of funny to see leaves falling in May a few years ago...
Vyolltsa I'm not an admin, but there are several including SHB who are happy to update pages and help out with technical stuff. --Ypsilon (talk) 09:40, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sure snow in a mainland Australian summer must also be a peculiar sight... (that article dates to Feb 3, so it was still mid-summer in New South Wales). SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 09:50, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-18

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Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 May. It will be on all wikis from 4 May (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:45, 2 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Template Editor privileges

Hi, thanks for the offer. I'll take them, I suppose for the only reason that it may help me investigate issues a bit deeper. I don't think I'd ever actually edit a template without serious consultation. Brycehughes (talk) 10:48, 2 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes Done. Even if you aren't going to regularly edit templates, you'll never know when it comes in handy :-). SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 11:00, 2 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Cheers! Brycehughes (talk) 12:03, 2 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Tech News: 2023-19

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Recent changes

  • Last week, Community Tech released the first update for providing better diffs, the #1 request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. This update adds legends and tooltips to inline diffs so that users unfamiliar with the blue and yellow highlights can better understand the type of edits made.
  • When you close an image that is displayed via MediaViewer, it will now return to the wiki page instead of going back in your browser history. This feature request was voted #65 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [84]
  • The SyntaxHighlight extension now supports wikitext as a selected language. Old alternatives that were used to highlight wikitext, such as html5, moin, and html+handlebars, can now be replaced. [85]
  • Preloading text to new pages/sections now supports preloading from localized MediaWiki interface messages. Here is an example at the Czech Wikipedia that uses preload=MediaWiki:July. [86]

Problems

  • Graph Extension update: Foundation developers have completed upgrading the visualization software to Vega5. Existing community graphs based on Vega2 are no longer compatible. Communities need to update local graphs and templates, and shared lua modules like de:Modul:Graph. The Vega Porting guide provides the most comprehensive detail on migration from Vega2 and here is an example migration. Vega5 has currently just been enabled on mediawiki.org to provide a test environment for communities. [87]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).
  • Until now, all new OAuth apps went through manual review. Starting this week, apps using identification-only or basic authorizations will not require review. [88]

Future changes

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This Month in GLAM: April 2023



Headlines
  • Albania report: International Roma Day Edit-a-thon in Albania, 2023
  • Brazil report: "Every Book its Public" Campaign and Strategic Committee on Libraries
  • Czech Republic report: What's new at GLAM in the Czech Republic
  • Indonesia report: GLAM Mini Grants; Structured Data Marathon VIII; Wikisource Online Workshop
  • Italy report: Bridges between Wikimedia and culture
  • New Zealand report: BHL Whitepaper and outreach for Citizen Science Month and WeDigBio, Auckland Museum suburbs project update, New Zealand Women in Architecture Wikidata Project
  • Poland report: Another meeting of EU GLAM Coordinators; Guided tours for Wikipedians in museums in Krakow; Presentation on Art in Wikipedia; Online training on the basics of copyright law; Polish monuments among the top winners of WLM
  • Sweden report: ISOF workshop; More articles from students; SAAB veterans shared their knowledge during metadata edit-a-thon; ArkDes edit-a-thons
  • UK report: Democratising knowledge and cultural diversity
  • USA report: Into the Wikiverse; Earth Day 2023 Bushwick
  • Content Partnerships Hub report: Wikipedia day pitches by FAO and IEA
  • Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: Activities are starting!
  • WMF GLAM report: Biodiversity Heritage Library whitepaper and the #1Lib1Ref campaign
  • Calendar: May's GLAM events
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Tech News: 2023-20

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Problems

  • Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN are currently broken. This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing to restore this feature. [93]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 May. It will be on all wikis from 18 May (calendar).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Gorontalo Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Hakka Chinese Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Fiji Hindi Wikipedia, Croatian Wikipedia, Upper Sorbian Wikipedia, Haitian Creole Wikipedia, Interlingua Wikipedia, Interlingue Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Iloko Wikipedia, Ingush Wikipedia, Ido Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Inuktitut Wikipedia, Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, Javanese Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [94]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:45, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Weeze Airport

Do you mind not redirecting it as it exists on DE and IT, also it is rapidly growing low-fair airport, exactly the type that is not well covered by commercial websites. I know if you live in Sydney, that sounds too little, but in Europe these airports are essential for low cost travel. -- Zblace (talk) 10:56, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Fair point, but it's only a merge tag (meaning I probably won't be the one merging it). I'll see what others think about it, because I'm still not sure if it meets the criteria for an airport article – but then again, I don't use low-cost airlines when I'm in Europe. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 11:14, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Well it seems there are 23 wikipedia articles about it https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q632410, so it should not be border case IMHO. --Zblace (talk) 11:29, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think the number of Wikipedia articles about it are relevant. We all know that Wikipedia has articles about even the smallest airstrips. It's quite exceptional for a single-terminal airport to be complex enough to need an article. What's complex about the airport that can't be covered in the "Get in" section(s) of relevant city articles? Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:00, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Tech News: 2023-21

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Recent changes

Changes later this week

  • An improved impact module will be available at Wikipedias. The impact module is a feature available to newcomers at their personal homepage. It will show their number of edits, how many readers their edited pages have, how many thanks they have received and similar things. It is also accessible by accessing Special:Impact. [97]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).

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16:55, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

A ping

Chris.sherlock2 asks for photographers in Commons:Commons:Village pump#Australians in South Western Sydney. You might want to check. Was it them who talked about something like that with you recently? –LPfi (talk) 22:33, 22 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@LPfi: Yes, it was them. I don't live in or even near southwest Sydney, though. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 10:03, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
OK, thanks. –LPfi (talk) 17:33, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in Education: April 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 4 • April 2023

In This Issue

Note about an IP user having few or no votes outside a topic

I've never seen that on this wiki, and I really don't see the relevance. Either their arguments are good or not, and if they're a sock, they should be blocked and their contributions should be deleted, but consensus is never an exact number of votes, anyway. My 2 cents. Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:24, 26 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's commonly used on Meta as an indicator to other users who have not yet taken a position (see m:Requests for comment for some examples). It comes in handy when coming to a final conclusion without clear conflict of interest violations (in this case, I left the note because I am clearly opposed to the new regions, but it remains clear if anyone wants to revert the IPs, had they implemented the proposal as of now). Also, we can never be 100% sure if the IPs are socks, meats or IPs who've been canvassed, due to Wikimedia's CheckUser policy; even then, me blocking all those IPs would be overstepping my boundaries as an admin for CoI reasons stated. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 09:05, 26 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Growth team newsletter #26

Welcome to the twenty-sixth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations

One million Suggested Edits

We passed the 1 million Suggested edits milestone in late April!

  • The Suggested edits feature (AKA Newcomer tasks) increase newcomer activation by ~12%, which flows on through to increased retention. (source)
  • Suggested edits increase the number of edits newcomers complete in their first two weeks and have a relatively low revert rate. (source)
  • Suggested edits are available on all Wikipedia language editions.
  • Newer Suggested edits, like Add a link and Add an image, aren’t yet deployed to all wikis, but these structured tasks further increase the probability that newcomers will make their first edit. (source)

Positive reinforcement

Positive reinforcement aims to encourage newcomers who have visited our homepage and tried Growth features to keep editing.

  • The new Impact module was released to Growth pilot wikis in December 2022, and we are now scaling the feature to another ten wikis. [98]
  • The Leveling up features are deployed at our pilot wikis.
  • The Personalized praise features were deployed at our pilot wikis on May 24. Mentors at pilot wikis will start to receive notifications weekly when they have “praise-worthy” mentees. Mentors can configure their notification preferences or disable these notifications.

Add an image

Other updates

What's next for Growth?

  • We shared an overview of Growth annual planning ideas, and have started community discussion about these potential projects. We would love to hear your feedback on these ideas!

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If only suggested edits was a feature here... --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 09:14, 30 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-22

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Recent changes

Problems

  • For a few days earlier this month, the "Add interlanguage link" item in the Tools menu did not work properly. This has now been fixed. [104]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 May. It will be on all wikis from 1 June (calendar).
  • VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on small and medium wikis this week. Large wikis will follow in the coming weeks. This is part of the effort to move Parsoid into MediaWiki core. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [105]

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Tech News: 2023-23

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

  • The RealMe extension allows you to mark URLs on your user page as verified for Mastodon and similar software.
  • Citation and footnote editing can now be started from the reference list when using the visual editor. This feature request was voted #2 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [106]
  • Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference for "Group results by page". This has now been fixed. [107]

Problems

  • For a few days last week, some tools and bots returned outdated information due to database replication problems, and may have been down entirely while it was being fixed. These issues have now been fixed. [108]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
  • Bots will no longer be prevented from making edits because of URLs that match the spam blacklist. [109]

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This Month in GLAM: May 2023



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Tech News: 2023-24

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Recent changes

  • The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the Dutch, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias. This was the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [110]
  • The Search Preview panel has been deployed on four Wikipedias (Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian and Norwegian). The panel will show an image related to the article (if existing), the top sections of the article, related images (coming from MediaSearch on Commons), and eventually the sister projects associated with the article. [111]
  • The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software. [112]
  • The default project license has been officially upgraded to CC BY-SA 4.0. The software interface messages have been updated. Communities should feel free to start updating any mentions of the old CC BY-SA 3.0 licensing within policies and related documentation pages. [113]

Problems

  • For three days last month, some Wikipedia pages edited with VisualEditor or DiscussionTools had an unintended __TOC__ (or its localized form) added during an edit. There is a listing of affected pages sorted by wiki, that may still need to be fixed. [114]
  • Currently, the "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is broken. Existing {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords incorrectly appear as missing templates in VisualEditor. Developers are exploring how to fix this. In the meantime, those wishing to edit the default sortkey of a page are advised to switch to source editing. [115]
  • Last week, an update to the delete form may have broken some gadgets or user scripts. If you need to manipulate (empty) the reason field, replace #wpReason with #wpReason > input. See an example fix. [116]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).
  • VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on English Wikipedia on Monday, and all other large wikis on Thursday. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [117]

Future changes

  • From 5 June to 17 July, the Foundation's Security team is holding a consultation with contributors regarding a draft policy to govern the use of third-party resources in volunteer-developed gadgets and scripts. Feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome at Third-party resources policy on meta-wiki.

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Tech News: 2023-25

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Recent changes

  • Flame graphs are now available in WikimediaDebug. [118][119]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
  • There is now a toolbar search popup in the visual editor. You can trigger it by typing \ or pressing ctrl + shift + p. It can help you quickly access most tools in the editor. [120][121]

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Tech News: 2023-26

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Recent changes

  • The Action API modules and Special:LinkSearch will now add a trailing / to all prop=extlinks responses for bare domains. This is part of the work to remove duplication in the externallinks database table. [122]

Problems

  • Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours. [123][124]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
  • The Minerva skin now applies more predefined styles to the .mbox-text CSS class. This enables support for mbox templates that use divs instead of tables. Please make sure that the new styles won't affect other templates in your wiki. [125][126]
  • Gadgets will now load on both desktop and mobile by default. Previously, gadgets loaded only on desktop by default. Changing this default using the |targets= parameter is also deprecated and should not be used. You should make gadgets work on mobile or disable them based on the skin (with the |skins= parameter in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition) rather than whether the user uses the mobile or the desktop website. Popular gadgets that create errors on mobile will be disabled by developers on the Minerva skin as a temporary solution. [127]
  • All namespace tabs now have the same browser access key by default. Previously, custom and extension-defined namespaces would have to have their access keys set manually on-wiki, but that is no longer necessary. [128]
  • The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized user interface components. [129]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:19, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting stats

I just though you might be interested in this news: [131]. It looks like Australia is the only country in the world that has a net positive migration rate from the U.S. In other words, there are more Americans who move to Australia than Australians who move to the U.S. Congratulations, Australia. The dog2 (talk) 14:50, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ooh, that's an interesting stat. I'm not surprised by it, though – there are about 110k migrants here who are from the United States and both Australia and the US have become increasingly closer together culturally since the Americanization-era post-WWII. Thanks for the article :-). SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 23:17, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Quick question

Hey, just figured I'd ask you this because you helped me out before re T335770, and I think I've been able to reproduce the problem. Can you tell me if you see the word "folks" in the extract field at https://en.wikivoyage.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/%C4%8Ci%C4%8Dmany? I removed it, but it seems to spuriously and bizarrely show up depending on whether I'm on my VPN or not. Thanks a lot. Brycehughes (talk) 14:54, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Brycehughes: Hi, I can confirm that there are no instances of the word "folks" spuriously appearing on the page in question. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 22:58, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Cheers, many thanks. Brycehughes (talk) 05:58, 3 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Ground Zero (talk) 12:25, 3 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, mate – lovely Victorian delicacy :-) (but irony of the beer also gave me a chuckle as I don't drink lol). --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 12:41, 3 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]