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Tech News: 2022-16[edit]
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 19 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 April. It will be on all wikis from 21 April (calendar).- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 19 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 21 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
- Administrators will now have the option to delete/undelete the associated "Talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is also available. This concludes the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
- On selected wikis, 50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents. When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements project. [1]
Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS classes: successbox,errorbox,warningbox. The styles for those classes andmessageboxwill be removed from MediaWiki core. This only affects wikis that use these classes in wikitext, or change their appearance within site-wide CSS. Please review any local usage and definitions for these classes you may have. This was previously announced in the 28 February issue of Tech News.
Future changes
- Kartographer will become compatible with FlaggedRevisions page stabilization. Kartographer maps will also work on pages with pending changes. [2] The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated. [3] [4] [5]
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23:10, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
wp:burden[edit]
Kindly respect wp:burden. And do not restore material that has been challenged and deleted due to lacking proper refs, without providing them. --2603:7000:2143:8500:606B:77EB:AE0D:1436 (talk) 06:15, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
- I realize that the passages you're removing don't individually have inline citations in them, but I find your edits concerning, for a couple reasons.
- First of all, inline citations for all sentences/paragraphs are not strictly required for all content; if there are general references on a page, it's often the case that "uncited" information on the page is coming from one of those references. To simply remove paragraphs and sections because they lack inlines seems almost as though you're applying GA criteria to all article text on the project, which is generally not done.
- Secondly, the rate at which you're making these edits is troubling. After this edit, for example, you took merely 51 seconds to review this edit, in which 419 bytes are removed. You're moving between entire articles in less than a minute; it seems to me like it would be physically impossible to review the existing sources in that amount of time.
- Thirdly, your extremely fast rate of editing seems to be causing egregious errors such as this one, where your edit summary is "d uncited", but the edit itself removes a reference. This had to be reverted by a recent-changes patroller.
- The combination of these issues is a situation in which someone is mass-removing large amounts of text without checking to see if it can be verified, or indeed if it already is verified, from existing sources. The fact that you're doing it so fast means it is prohibitively difficult to check your work. I'd greatly appreciate if you would slow down. jp×g 06:22, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
- You know quite well that there was only one mistake that I made. But you refer to it as multiple. You know quite well that it was a mistaken deletion of part of a ref, followed by cleanup of the rest of the ref, and that the text it was supporting was not deleted, nor was it of any great moment .. and yet you incorrectly call that egregious. You also seem to understand wp:burden, but you left an improper "warning" on my talk page. All of that is troubling to me. But as I have said elsewhere, I do apologize for that one (single, not multiple) accidental (you can see how that happened) removal of a lone ref, while leaving the text - text not of any great moment - untouched, which you nevertheless term "egregious" for some reason, and will endeavor not to make a second such error. By the way, since you raise what you find concerning, one might also be concerned about all of the uncited material, especially that tagged - for as much as fifteen years - that has been lying about in these articles without being addressed. Some corners of the Project are a mess. 2603:7000:2143:8500:606B:77EB:AE0D:1436 (talk) 06:39, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
Rest[edit]
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Well deserved rest |
| Hope you're enjoying the vacation :) — Ixtal ⁂ (talk) 13:08, 22 April 2022 (UTC) |
The Signpost: 24 April 2022[edit]
- News and notes: Double trouble
- In the media: The battlegrounds outside and inside Wikipedia
- Special report: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
- Eyewitness Wikimedian – Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (Part 2)
- Technology report: 8-year-old attribution issues in Media Viewer
- Featured content: Wikipedia's best content from March
- Interview: On a war and a map
- Serendipity: Wikipedia loves photographs, but hates photographers
- Traffic report: Justice Jackson, the Smiths, and an invasion
- News from the WMF: How Smart is the SMART Copyright Act?
- Humour: Really huge message boxes
- From the archives: Wales resigned WMF board chair in 2006 reorganization
Signpost issue watchlist[edit]
Re [6], don't worry about the redlinks. That's normal until someone comes and starts the first comment on the column. ☆ Bri (talk) 21:58, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Bri: Yeah, I figured. I remembered the way that namespace aliases work about ten seconds after I expanded all the links... jp×g 21:59, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-17[edit]
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
- On many wikis (group 1), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [7][8]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 April. It will be on all wikis from 28 April (calendar).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 26 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
- Some very old browsers and operating systems are no longer supported. Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in very old browsers like Internet Explorer 9 or 10, Android 4, or Firefox 38 or older. [9]
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22:54, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
Feedback request: Wikipedia policies and guidelines request for comment[edit]
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Hello![edit]
When you created Nina Jankowicz, why did you characterize her as a political commentator?[10]] That's not really accurate, is it? Not even close, right?
Then, what did you mean by "who's ready for FUN" five minutes later?[11]
Then you included a whole bunch of OR based on primaries with selected scarequotes.
Just thought I'd let you know I noticed. Cheers. soibangla (talk) 11:49, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Soibangla: You have left me kind of a confusing talk page message, and I am not sure how to respond to it. It seems that you think my writing wasn't very good, an opinion you are certainly within your rights to hold (good Wikipedia articles are often written by many people working together). I certainly did not deliberately write a shitty article, although I did write it under some time constraints (I had some errands to run, and an engagement tonight). If you have an issue with the content of an article, the talk page is generally an appropriate place to bring them up. With regard to the "fun": writing articles about current events generally causes my watchlist to be blown up with inane shit for weeks afterwards, which is not in fact fun for me. However, some people seem to find great joy in such editing, so I was (and am) wishing them the best. Cheers, jp×g 13:04, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-18[edit]
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
- On all remaining wikis (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [12][13]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 May. It will be on all wikis from 5 May (calendar).
Future changes
- The developers are working on talk pages in the Wikipedia app for iOS. You can give feedback. You can take the survey in English, German, Hebrew or Chinese.
- Most wikis will receive an improved template dialog in VisualEditor and New Wikitext mode. [14] [15]
- If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme. [16]
- Several CSS IDs related to MediaWiki interface messages will be removed. Technical editors should please review the list of IDs and links to their existing uses. These include
#mw-anon-edit-warning,#mw-undelete-revisionand 3 others.
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19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
Time to publish Bots newsletter?[edit]
Hi JPxG. I see that Wikipedia:Bots/News/202202 is nearly completed, can you publish it please? I know you have received some pushback for publishing bot news about things from years ago, but I support your work and think it is important to document history. It has helped bot operators like me to know how things were done and avoid comitting the same mistakes of previous botops. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 05:21, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
Script included twice on common.js[edit]
Hello, I had a look at your common.js file to se how to include TrackSum.js on in my common.js. I noticed that you've included the customWatchlists.js twice on your common.js page. havarhen | Talk 12:20, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
Feedback request: Wikipedia proposals request for comment[edit]
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Tech News: 2022-19[edit]
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 now see categories in the Wikipedia app for Android. [17]
Problems
- Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed. [18]
- Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change. [19]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [20]
- Incompatibility issues with Kartographer and the FlaggedRevs extension will be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the extension on May 24.
- The Vector (2022) skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update about Vector (2022).
Future meetings
- The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.
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15:21, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
Long time listener, first time caller[edit]
Sometimes when editing Wikipedia stops being fun, I look at your recent contribs and remember why I like this place. I think your software and writing kick ass and I hope to be half the editor you are some day. Forgive me if flattery isn't a good use of your talk page! Crunchydillpickle (talk) 21:35, 15 May 2022 (UTC)