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Please allow me to explain the background of this. Someone originally found the figures you did, and claimed that Hebden had a population of 309. Unfortunately, those figures include those living in Hartlington which is a separate village and has its own Wiki page, and so the figures apropos Hebden are obviously wrong, and its population has not increased by 50% in 10 years. What I did was to download the population data for the postcodes, and summed the population figures for the Hebden postcodes, and came up with the figure 230. If that is considered to be not a Wikipedia thing to do, then by all means delete the number. But I beg you, please do not put replace it with what is blatantly false information.
Langcliffe (
talk)
19:06, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
Not in so many words, but the boundary drawn on the accompanying map distinctly shows that Hartlington is included, and the size given for the census area is that of the areas of Hebden + Hartlington. Surely we can interpret sources with some commonsense?
Langcliffe (
talk)
06:41, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
I'm not sure of your point, Keith. Does Wikipedia policy say that we should put in #fakefacts because one part of a source when taken in isolation could be interpreted by a Wikipedia editor in that way? The source includes a map that distinctly shows that Hartlington parish has been included in the figures, as can be readily verified by reference to an Ordnance Survey map. The map is presumably there for a reason, and is as much part of the source material as the population figure you quoted. Taking the information the map provides does not require knowledge of the area; it is simply taking into consideration all the information provided by a reputable source. Or am I totally out on a limb here?
Langcliffe (
talk)
18:19, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity
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Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Problems
MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week.
[1][2][3]
The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed.
[4]
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (
calendar).
User subpages ending in .json will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js and .css pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns.
[5]
Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time.
[6][7][8]
AbuseFilter will transition to use
OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks.
[9][10]
In Special:Preferences, the preference "Reload the watchlist automatically whenever a filter is changed (JavaScript required)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist.
[11]
You can see names of individual abuse filters in
Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed.
[12]
You can now search through filter patterns at
Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a
regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted.
[13]
Meetings
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T175706 to monitor progress of
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[14][15]
Welcome to the one hundredth and twentieth
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Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 13,993 last month to 14,013 on 7 April 2018). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 146 is ahead of
WP:GM who have 86.
WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 66 out of a total number of 4,049 articles.
Currently we have forty six Yorkshire featured articles:
As of 28 March 2018, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.
(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)
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Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
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Recent changes
Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it.
[16]
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read more details.
[18]
Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left).
[19]
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[20]
For a week in March rollbacks got both the rollback and the undo tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed.
[21]
Changes later this week
The
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[22]
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All references for the above entry cite the date of publication as 15 April 1755, but with no sources given. According to adverts in The Public Advertiser, 1st April 1755, it was due to be published on that date. However, the earliest reference to it being for sale was in Derby Mercury 4 April 1755. Is it possible to amend this date and add the source?
AllthingsGeorgian (
talk)
05:23, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
You are free to make the change to the article and give the references, though I would add the page number to both references.
Keith D (
talk)
08:33, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
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Profiling statistics for an
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file a phabricator task to do so.
[23]
Abuse filters will now treat integers and
floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (=== and !==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged.
[24][25]
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (
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PediaPress will take over development of the books-to-PDF function.
[26]
Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3.
[27]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
The iOS and Android apps now have
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The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press Publish. This button now also shows an
ellipsis. This is to show that pressing Publish is not the last step.
[29]
Changes later this week
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<mapframe> will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of
flagged revisions will not get this feature in May.
[30]
The rollback function could change. This was a
German community request. All editors with rollback rights can
leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).
Sorry Keith - can u please fix ref number 59. The editor is David Poole and the actual writer of the article is Michael Reed. This needs to be made clear. Thanks as always. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
175.33.22.145 (
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contribs)
12:58, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Keith D. With a recent edit you made to
Common Sense (J Hus album), you inserted hyphens into the UK (and Scottish) album chart templates on the page as a date "fix". This is not fixing the date in these templates, as they need to be without hyphens (so 20180430) to work correctly. With hyphens, they redirect to the current chart and this helps nobody. Please be mindful of this if you're using a script that changes these automatically (and if possible, please change said script so it ignores all UK and Scottish single chart and album chart templates). If it wasn't automatic, please avoid changing these in future. Thanks. Ss11215:36, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi, sorry for causing problems. It was not automatic, purely manual changes as I was fixing dates to be in accordance with the MOS in attempting to clear out the 29,000 cite date errors we have at the moment. This is an exception to the normal case, will have to keep an eye out for it in future.
Keith D (
talk)
15:49, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
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 parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links.
[31]
Problems
We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can
help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process
on Phabricator.
[32]
When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date.
[34]
You can soon turn on the
Performance Inspector in the Editing section in your preferences. It shows information about the
performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly.
[35]
There is a new
abuse filter function called equals_to_any. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (===) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can
read more on mediawiki.org.
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (
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The
Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called
Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on
the talk page or email jharewikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the
Remex parsing library. This is
to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018.
[36][37][38]
Many thanks for your corrections. I am forced to use certain district level information in the community development block pages, because the information available at the CD Block level is not always enough to explain the position. This leads to duplication of information from page to page. Cheers. -
Chandan Guha (
talk)
17:25, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
Welcome to the one hundredth and twenty first
WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 14,013 last month to 14,047 on 29 April 2018). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 146 is ahead of
WP:GM who have 85.
WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 67 out of a total number of 4,053 articles.
Currently we have forty six Yorkshire featured articles:
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The May 2018 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a
clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitoring is essential Use the
watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
Thanks
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Please allow me to explain the background of this. Someone originally found the figures you did, and claimed that Hebden had a population of 309. Unfortunately, those figures include those living in Hartlington which is a separate village and has its own Wiki page, and so the figures apropos Hebden are obviously wrong, and its population has not increased by 50% in 10 years. What I did was to download the population data for the postcodes, and summed the population figures for the Hebden postcodes, and came up with the figure 230. If that is considered to be not a Wikipedia thing to do, then by all means delete the number. But I beg you, please do not put replace it with what is blatantly false information.
Langcliffe (
talk)
19:06, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
Not in so many words, but the boundary drawn on the accompanying map distinctly shows that Hartlington is included, and the size given for the census area is that of the areas of Hebden + Hartlington. Surely we can interpret sources with some commonsense?
Langcliffe (
talk)
06:41, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
I'm not sure of your point, Keith. Does Wikipedia policy say that we should put in #fakefacts because one part of a source when taken in isolation could be interpreted by a Wikipedia editor in that way? The source includes a map that distinctly shows that Hartlington parish has been included in the figures, as can be readily verified by reference to an Ordnance Survey map. The map is presumably there for a reason, and is as much part of the source material as the population figure you quoted. Taking the information the map provides does not require knowledge of the area; it is simply taking into consideration all the information provided by a reputable source. Or am I totally out on a limb here?
Langcliffe (
talk)
18:19, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity
are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are
now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
There will soon be a
calendar widget at
Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.
Arbitration
The Arbitration Committee
is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at
WP:AE or
WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at
WP:ARCA.
Miscellaneous
A
discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to
enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the
Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.
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
Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools,
please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.
Problems
MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week.
[1][2][3]
The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed.
[4]
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (
calendar).
User subpages ending in .json will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js and .css pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns.
[5]
Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time.
[6][7][8]
AbuseFilter will transition to use
OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks.
[9][10]
In Special:Preferences, the preference "Reload the watchlist automatically whenever a filter is changed (JavaScript required)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist.
[11]
You can see names of individual abuse filters in
Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed.
[12]
You can now search through filter patterns at
Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a
regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted.
[13]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
3 April at 18:30 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can
give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow
T175706 to monitor progress of
Tidy replacement.
[14][15]
Welcome to the one hundredth and twentieth
WikiProject Yorkshire monthly newsletter.
Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, WP:YORKS has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 13,993 last month to 14,013 on 7 April 2018). In the area of GAs WP:YORKS at 146 is ahead of
WP:GM who have 86.
WP:GM has the lead in FAs at 66 out of a total number of 4,049 articles.
Currently we have forty six Yorkshire featured articles:
As of 28 March 2018, we have assessed 100% of all articles with a project banner.
(Some new and additional article talk pages may still require a banner however)
Thanks
Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project
The April 2018 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no further suggestions from the project talk page.
The project is subscribed to a
clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitoring is essential Use the
watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
Delivered April 2018 by
MediaWiki message delivery.
If you do not wish to receive the newsletter, please add an N to the column against your username on the Project Mainpage.
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
Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it.
[16]
The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can
read more details.
[18]
Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left).
[19]
Problems
The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed.
[20]
For a week in March rollbacks got both the rollback and the undo tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed.
[21]
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (
calendar).
Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits.
[22]
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
10 April at 18:30 (UTC). See
how to join.
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on
11 April at 15:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
All references for the above entry cite the date of publication as 15 April 1755, but with no sources given. According to adverts in The Public Advertiser, 1st April 1755, it was due to be published on that date. However, the earliest reference to it being for sale was in Derby Mercury 4 April 1755. Is it possible to amend this date and add the source?
AllthingsGeorgian (
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05:23, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
You are free to make the change to the article and give the references, though I would add the page number to both references.
Keith D (
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08:33, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
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Changes later this week
Profiling statistics for an
abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can
file a phabricator task to do so.
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Abuse filters will now treat integers and
floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (=== and !==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (
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Future changes
The
new PDF renderer could not create PDFs from
books. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki.
PediaPress will take over development of the books-to-PDF function.
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Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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The iOS and Android apps now have
synced reading lists. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press Publish. This button now also shows an
ellipsis. This is to show that pressing Publish is not the last step.
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Changes later this week
The
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Future changes
<mapframe> will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of
flagged revisions will not get this feature in May.
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The rollback function could change. This was a
German community request. All editors with rollback rights can
leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).
Sorry Keith - can u please fix ref number 59. The editor is David Poole and the actual writer of the article is Michael Reed. This needs to be made clear. Thanks as always. — Preceding
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Hi Keith D. With a recent edit you made to
Common Sense (J Hus album), you inserted hyphens into the UK (and Scottish) album chart templates on the page as a date "fix". This is not fixing the date in these templates, as they need to be without hyphens (so 20180430) to work correctly. With hyphens, they redirect to the current chart and this helps nobody. Please be mindful of this if you're using a script that changes these automatically (and if possible, please change said script so it ignores all UK and Scottish single chart and album chart templates). If it wasn't automatic, please avoid changing these in future. Thanks. Ss11215:36, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi, sorry for causing problems. It was not automatic, purely manual changes as I was fixing dates to be in accordance with the MOS in attempting to clear out the 29,000 cite date errors we have at the moment. This is an exception to the normal case, will have to keep an eye out for it in future.
Keith D (
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15:49, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Recent changes
The parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links.
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Problems
We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can
help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process
on Phabricator.
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When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date.
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You can soon turn on the
Performance Inspector in the Editing section in your preferences. It shows information about the
performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly.
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There is a new
abuse filter function called equals_to_any. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (===) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can
read more on mediawiki.org.
The
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Future changes
The
Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called
Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on
the talk page or email jharewikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the
Remex parsing library. This is
to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018.
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Many thanks for your corrections. I am forced to use certain district level information in the community development block pages, because the information available at the CD Block level is not always enough to explain the position. This leads to duplication of information from page to page. Cheers. -
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17:25, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
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