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Special:MentorDashboard
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activating the mentor list on your wiki and about
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[40]jquery.jStorage
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[45]|actions=edit,history
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[47]withgadget
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[73]deletelogentry
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T301928)Template:Comic sans has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 15:03, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
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[30]wgCookiePrefix
, wgCookieDomain
, wgCookiePath
, and wgCookieExpiration
will soon be removed from mw.config. Scripts should instead use mw.cookie
from the "
mediawiki.cookie" module.
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If you had bothered to look at the edit itself, you would have seen the reason. Don't worry, I reverted your ignorant edit. Thanks, 21:09, 11 October 2021 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:8080:B203:79BD:2DFF:2C73:79BB:5771 ( talk)
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Special:MentorDashboard
. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the
Growth features. You can learn more about
activating the mentor list on your wiki and about
the mentor dashboard project.action=ajax
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[40]jquery.jStorage
, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to mediawiki.storage
instead.
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[[WB:]]
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<DynamicPageList>
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oauth_consumer
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AbuseFilter to enable identifying changes made by specific tools.
[45]|actions=edit,history
will load a gadget only while editing and on history pages.
[47]withgadget
URL parameter. This can be used to replace
an earlier snippet that typically looks like withJS
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?withgadget
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announced 3 weeks ago, then it must now also specify supportsUrlLoad
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oversight
will be renamed suppress
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technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in three weeks. You can comment
in Phabricator if you have objections. As usual, these labels can be translated on translatewiki (
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vector
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rmspecials()
function has been updated so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials()
with rmwhitespace()
wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on
Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage.
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class=notpageimage
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successbox, messagebox, errorbox, warningbox
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uselang=qqx
to find localisation messages, it will now show all possible message keys for navigation tabs such as "View history".
[73]deletelogentry
and deletedhistory
rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the deleterevision
right could access this special page.
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Tech News: 2022-14
anymore. It may affect some filters that have been set up by some communities.
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rights. This means that those in the
Researcher user group and
Checkusers who are not administrators can now access
Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (
T301928)Template:Comic sans has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 15:03, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
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successbox
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rangeblock|create=yes}}
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uw-ublock|contains profanity}}
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[p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.
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[s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.
local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to
note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.
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