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The Signpost

Volume 20

Issue 5

29 March 2024

JPxG – PD

Technology report

Millions of readers still seeing broken pages as "temporary" disabling of graph extension nears its second year

Much effort was spent drafting a movement charter about becoming "essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge". How much is spent maintaining it?

Lane Rasberry – CC 4.0 BY-SA

Interview

Interview on Wikimedia Foundation fundraising and finance strategy

Signpost interviews Wikimedia Foundation leadership on fundraising banners

David Berkowitz – CC 2.0 BY

Special report

19-page PDF accuses Wikipedia of bias against Israel, suggests editors be forced to reveal their real names, and demands a new feature allowing people to view the history of Wikipedia articles

And does it have anything to do with the unusual decision to let a zero-edit user open an arbitration request?

WMF – CC 3.0 BY-SA

Op-Ed

Wikipedia in the age of personality-driven knowledge

Can we compete with social media? Will aoomers forget Wikipedia?

Benjakob et al – CC 4.0 BY-SA

Recent research

"Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors

And several papers look at climate change on Wikipedia.

Mona Hassan Abo-Abda – CC 4.0 BY-SA

News and notes

Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter ratified

WLM winners announced, Wikimania 2024, a new Wikimedia movement affiliate, and active enwp admins reach a record low.

Jonathan Billinger – CC 2.0 BY-SA

In the media

"For me it’s the autism": AARoad editors on the fork more traveled

Worldwide women turned blue and controversies on Serbian & French Wikipedia.

Astronimation – CC-BY

Traffic report

He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune

Let me take you to the movies.

Albert Anker – PD

Humour

Letters from the editors

The only worthwhile grievance is the one that prompts satire.

Punch – PD

Comix

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Single-page edition

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Administrators' newsletter

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

Administrator changes

Guideline and policy news

An
contentious topics procedure
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Technical news

The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

Tech News weekly

m:Tech/News/Latest

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

Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [1][2]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [3][4]
Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked). [5]
A new variable page_last_edit_age will be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [6]

Future changes

Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the abuse_filter and abuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to be updated. [7]

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Periodic table (dividing line between metals and nonmetals)

Template:Periodic table (dividing line between metals and nonmetals) has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:28, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:List of metallic elements

Template:List of metallic elements has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:30, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Periodic table (metalloid border)

Template:Periodic table (metalloid border) has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:31, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Script/Hebrew/testcases/doc

Template:Script/Hebrew/testcases/doc has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 10:29, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I can't believe you got banned

It's sad to see you get banned despite your extensive behind-the-scenes work with templates. The ANI thread didn't take into account your good contributions and whether you were a net positive. ANI is like a

witch hunt. 123957a (talk) 05:17, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply

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