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Tech News: 2022-44

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

Recent changes

When using keyboard navigation on a Kartographer map, the focus will become more visible. [1]
In Special:RecentChanges, you can now hide the log entries for new user creations with the filter for "⧼rcfilters-filter-newuserlogactions-label⧽". [2]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 November. It will be on all wikis from 3 November (calendar).
The maps dialog in VisualEditor now has some help texts. [3]
It is now possible to select the language of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor via a dropdown menu. [4]
It is now possible to add a caption to a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [5]
It is now possible to hide the frame of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor. [6]

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).

Administrator changes

- Isabelle Belato
- Whpq

Interface administrator changes

CheckUser changes

Oversight changes

DGG

Guideline and policy news

The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November.
An
bureaucrat
.

Arbitration

Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections.
The
arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion
.

The
arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block
has entered the proposed decision stage.

AmandaNP, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections. Xaosflux and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.

Miscellaneous

The
2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process
has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers.
You can add yourself to the centralised page listing time zones of administrators.
Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like {{rangeblock|create=yes}} or {{uw-ublock|contains profanity}}.

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Question from Mr. Rasel Hasan (12:17, 8 October 2022)

How to write an article? --Mr. Rasel Hasan (talk) 12:17, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

@

this guide on creating your first article. Please let me know if you have any questions. TheSandDoctor ^Talk

17:13, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

TweetCiteBot

Can you please make bot exclude not only links (as it noticed i.e. here) but also emails (and, in fact phone numbers too if possible) from a tweet as such content violates

WP:NOT? Probably it have to look some way similar to it. Thank you in advance. 85.238.103.38 (talk

) 20:26, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

That is a very good suggestion and I appreciate you bringing that forward. I shall work on implementing that. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 17:14, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

Whack!

Whack!

You've been whacked with a wet trout.

Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

Maybe you should have read the content before spinning out this article Electric vehicle ownership in Australia. ;) Cheers! Reaper Eternal (talk) 00:30, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

@Reaper Eternal: I consider myself trouted.

TheSandDoctor ^Talk 17:10, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-45

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

Recent changes

An updated version of the Event Registration tool is now available for testing at testwiki and test2wiki. The tool provides features for event organizers and participants. Your feedback is welcome at our project talkpage. More information about the project is available. [7]

Problems

Twice last week, for about 45 minutes, some files and thumbnails failed to load and uploads failed, mostly for logged-in users. The cause is being investigated and an incident report will be available soon.

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:30, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-46

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

At Wikidata, an interwiki link can now point to a redirect page if certain conditions are met. This new feature is called sitelinks to redirects. It is needed when one wiki uses one page to cover multiple concepts but another wiki uses more pages to cover the same concepts. Your feedback on the talkpage of the new proposed guideline is welcome. [8]
The www.wikinews.org, www.wikiversity.org, and www.wikivoyage.org portal pages now use an automated update system. [9]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 November. It will be on all wikis from 17 November (calendar).
There will be a new link to directly "Edit template data" on Template pages. [10]

Future changes

Wikis where mobile DiscussionTools are enabled (these ones) will soon use full CSS styling to display any templates that are placed at the top of talk pages. To adapt these “talk page boxes” for narrow mobile devices you can use media queries, such as in this example. [11]
Starting in January 2023, Community Tech will be running the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) every two years. This means that in 2024, there will be no new proposals or voting.

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Question from Smartypants327 (21:13, 13 November 2022)

Hi! I was just wondering how I can create a new article. Thanks! --Smartypants327 (talk) 21:13, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

@

The Wikipedia Adventure. The former answers your question, but the latter should help you grasp this site a bit better. TheSandDoctor ^Talk

03:53, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

Ok, thank you! Smartypants327 (talk) 04:18, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

@Smartypants327: You're welcome! I hope that that helps. If you have any questions, please do let me know. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 15:19, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-47

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 display of non-free media in the search bar and for article thumbnails in Special:Search has been deactivated. Further details are in T320661.

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 22 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 24 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

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Question from One Maximum31 on Template:Fake heading/doc (07:36, 22 November 2022)

How to add an image --One Maximum31 (talk) 07:36, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

@

this guide to creating your first article. TheSandDoctor ^Talk

22:48, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Hello

Dropped here to say hello. Hope you are doing well and safe. Dr.Pinsky (talk) 17:44, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Dr.Pinsky:! I am doing well, yourself? TheSandDoctor ^Talk 18:03, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

I'm good, thanks. Dr.Pinsky (talk) 17:12, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

Request for Autopatrolled

Hello. I noticed you skipped my request. I don't want to bother you, but at the same time I would like an answer about my request, whether positive or negative, or even to know if something needs to be improved. Best regards. ✍A.WagnerC (talk) 12:07, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

@A.WagnerC: Yours was not as clear cut and I was still considering it and intended to get back to it, as I have done now. Your request has been approved for a six month trial. I mentioned it in my closing statement, but I would ideally like to see more article creations of at least start class before I would be comfortable granting this without an expiry. That said, if this trial goes well and doesn't have any reasonable/valid complaints (in the assessment of the reviewing administrator), I don't see an issue at this time with granting it indefinitely come May. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 18:21, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

Thank you so much. ✍A.WagnerC (talk) 18:33, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

please

saw the shark pic, can you give me more "your arguement is invalid" pics? i wanna find my own "shark pic" Allaoii ^talk 23:04, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Allaoii:! I didn't create the file and just happened across it on Wikimedia Commons several years ago now. You are certainly welcome to use the picture (and don't need my permission), it is located at File:Your argument is invalid.jpg. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 18:05, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

ok, but if you see any other funny images you want to recommend, go ahead Allaoii ^talk 18:09, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

@Allaoii: I unfortunately don't know of any others offhand.

TheSandDoctor ^Talk 18:12, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

i meant in the future Allaoii ^talk 18:14, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-48

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

A new preference, “Enable limited width mode”, has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also available as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. It allows for increasing the width of the page for logged-out and logged-in users. [12]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (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 29 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 December at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Mathematical formulas shown in SVG image format will no longer have PNG fall-backs for browsers that don't support them. This is part of work to modernise the generation system. Showing only PNG versions was the default option until in February 2018. [13][14][15]
On some wikis that use flagged revisions, a new checkbox will be added to Special:Contributions that enables you to see only the pending changes by a user. [16]

Future changes

How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change early next week at group1 wikis (but not Wikimedia Commons or Meta-Wiki). This change improves the accessibility of content, and makes it easier to write related CSS. You may need to update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to check, how to update the code, and where to report any related problems. [17]

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