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Hello, I'm 0xDeadbeef!
Feel free to ping me in reply to any comment made by me.
Administrators: if you disagree with any of my actions, feel free to revert it and leave a talk message so we can discuss it.
Hi, oxDeadbeef. I made an addition to List of scholarly publishing stings that was reverted, and I'm trying to understand why. You noted "self published, not referenced by third parties," but at least one of the citations (a reported story by a BBC journalist) is not self-published in any sense that I'm familiar with. There is also an editorial published by a mainstream media outlet ( Undark Magazine); perhaps that is also considered self-published but it seems rather different than a tweet or blog etc. Thanks for any help you can provide, I'm still new to Wikipedia editing. Whatsabar ( talk) 17:32, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, sorry about that confusing edit summary. I meant that they are all primary sources. The BBC radio directly interviews the person who made the publication, the editorial is also written by the person who did it. They are not self-published, but rather primary sources. And if this only has primary sources then it is hard for us to consider including them within the articles. 0x
Deadbeef→∞ (
talk to me) 04:19, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
- Hmm, ok. I guess I was conceptualizing the BBC Radio story more as a secondary source; it's an editor doing a story on predatory publishing who uses the author as a source. That kind of reference seems in line with the other cited references in this list, but maybe I'm missing something? There are a number of other sources I found that seem straightforwardly secondary as well though, if I'm still not understanding this. (e.g.
https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-find-the-right-journal-for-your-research-avoid-predators/,
https://medwinpublishers.com/PhIJ/why-i-publish-in-predatory-journals-and-why-you-should-too.pdf). thanks for your help.
Whatsabar (
talk) 05:31, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- You see, the first is a guest blog, while the second is an article published to a predatory journal. They shouldn't really be used within articles. Let me ask you this. Do you have a COI with Bradley Allif, or are you Bradley Allf? 0x Deadbeef→∞ ( talk to me) 11:20, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Hmm, ok. I guess I was conceptualizing the BBC Radio story more as a secondary source; it's an editor doing a story on predatory publishing who uses the author as a source. That kind of reference seems in line with the other cited references in this list, but maybe I'm missing something? There are a number of other sources I found that seem straightforwardly secondary as well though, if I'm still not understanding this. (e.g.
https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-find-the-right-journal-for-your-research-avoid-predators/,
https://medwinpublishers.com/PhIJ/why-i-publish-in-predatory-journals-and-why-you-should-too.pdf). thanks for your help.
Whatsabar (
talk) 05:31, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
More disruption at Talk:SpaceX_Starship
Hi, if you have the time, could you take a look at Talk:SpaceX Starship? As with last time, a new test flight occurred and a new dispute has emerged. ToBeFree has already taken administrative action against some involved users at AN3, but I would like a third opinion to be offerred if possible. Regards, Yasslaywikia ( talk) 16:25, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
- I don't see any disruption and I would rather not weigh in this time because I am unfamiliar with the subject. 0x Deadbeef→∞ ( talk to me) 10:47, 25 March 2024 (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
An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in
Vector 2022 skin. A
checklist is provided for site admins to follow.
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (
calendar).
[1]
[2]
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MediaWiki message delivery 18:53, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello! I just wanted to ask for a bit of advice about edit filter manager. I'm currently an EFH since about 4 months ago, but I'm not entirely sure if I've got anywhere near enough under my belt to make an EFM request. My main motivation for this would be being able to implement changes to filters on my own, such as this, or perhaps things like this, as well as this. (All links are to the mailing list), as well as things like this. Mostly though, I'd like a bit of advice on what I should have if I was to request (the policy page is just a bit vague on any actual requirements other than consensus) EFM, and/or whether I'd be anywhere near ready. Of course, thank you in advance, I'd appreciate it. EggRoll97 ( talk) 22:46, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
- I think these link showcase good technical understanding to be considered as EFM. Given your experience helping out with edit filters, I would probably lean towards support. On the other hand, people consider EFM to be a high-trust position, and sometimes are harsher when they evaluate EFM candidates compared to RfA candidates. It all comes down to trust, and that can be hard to gauge. I would probably just encourage you to be BOLD and see it it turns out fine. (And there were indeed times where people felt I was being too fast with requesting certain permissions back then, it didn't really hurt my wikicareer as I took their advice and found out how to contribute in a way that works for me) 0x Deadbeef→∞ ( talk to me) 11:31, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi! We're conducting a series of participatory workshops with Wikipedia editors, administrators, researchers, and Wikimedia employees to discuss, and hopefully improve, Wikipedia's structures for online research (see meta research page). In an effort to get the right people in the room to discuss these topics, I'm reaching out here to see if you are interested in participating as an active administrator. We'd work with you to ensure this workshop can fit into your schedule, but are targeting end of April/early May. I'm happy to discuss any of these topics further here or on our talk page. Zentavious ( talk) 17:01, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{ You've got mail}} or {{ ygm}} template. Harvici ( talk) 16:26, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- I will not respond to this unless you post it on wiki, in the form of a message on my talk page. 0x Deadbeef→∞ ( talk to me) 01:10, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey there, a SPI is open on Srabanta Deb and a user pointed me as a potential sockpuppet and I know I am all clear. But I would like to get this out my head so would you like to review the request and then a checkuser could be performed. This request has been open for many days. Thanks in advance Harvici ( talk) 07:34, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
- I had wanted to close it without further action before because I don't believe you are a sockpuppet, but looks like Spicy beat me to it. 0x
Deadbeef→∞ (
talk to me) 16:16, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for your effort. I have a question about why an editor's IP address will not be checked upon their request to prove innocence against a sockpuppet allegation, as some other WikiMedia projects do not have such policies.
Harvici (
talk) 05:05, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
- @ Harvici, sorry for the slightly late reply. This is indeed a policy specific to English Wikipedia. See WP:CHECKME. The reason is that even if a CheckUser went a take a look, it is not 100% proof that someone is truly innocent. And there are privacy reasons for why we'd want to avoid unnecessary checks. So we only check people that we believe there is reasonable suspicion about two accounts being the same user. 0x Deadbeef→∞ ( talk to me) 13:29, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for your effort. I have a question about why an editor's IP address will not be checked upon their request to prove innocence against a sockpuppet allegation, as some other WikiMedia projects do not have such policies.
Harvici (
talk) 05:05, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.
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.
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
- Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [3]
Changes later this week
- The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (
calendar).
[4]
[5]
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.
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MediaWiki message delivery 03:33, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Herr. Wikipedia talk:Administrators#Help distinguish admin actions from general editor conversation Doug Weller talk 19:10, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the notification. 0x Deadbeef→∞ ( talk to me) 01:07, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
I really think Ewan McGregor should have his page protected because he is way too famous, so people could make false edits or vandalize the page! Jaxbarina ( talk) 04:26, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
User:EnterpriseyBot is supposed to update the User:EnterpriseyBot/defcon template but hasn't made an edit for quite some time now. I see you along with @ Legoktm are listed as maintainers for this tool, could one of you investigate since Enterprisey seems to have taken a leave of absence? Thanks! Philipnelson99 ( talk) 20:28, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
-
This appears to be the relevant tool account but there is also a
rust version that may be the relevant tool.
Philipnelson99 (
talk) 20:32, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- I deleted the job and created the job again. It should be running now. 0x
Deadbeef→∞ (
talk to me) 04:02, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- Sweet, thank you so much! Philipnelson99 ( talk) 05:23, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- I deleted the job and created the job again. It should be running now. 0x
Deadbeef→∞ (
talk to me) 04:02, 11 April 2024 (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
- Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
A new
Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a
user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the
project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.- Initial results of Edit check experiments have been published. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at the wikis that tested it. Let us know if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check. [6] [7]
- Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [8]
Changes later this week
- The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (
calendar).
[9]
[10]
- New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. [11]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:34, 8 April 2024 (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.
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. [12] [13]
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).
[14]
[15]
- 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). [16]
- A new variable
page_last_edit_agewill be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [17]
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_filterandabuse_filter_historytables. Some queries might need to be updated. [18]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:26, 15 April 2024 (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
- Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [19]
- You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.
Changes later this week
- The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (
calendar).
[20]
[21]
Future changes
- This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of Special:MyPage/vector.js to Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [22]
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:25, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 62, March – April 2024
- IEEE and Haaretz now available
- Let's Connect Clinics about The Wikipedia Library
- Spotlight and Wikipedia Library tips
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --11:02, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
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Hello, I'm 0xDeadbeef!
Feel free to ping me in reply to any comment made by me.
Administrators: if you disagree with any of my actions, feel free to revert it and leave a talk message so we can discuss it.
Hi, oxDeadbeef. I made an addition to List of scholarly publishing stings that was reverted, and I'm trying to understand why. You noted "self published, not referenced by third parties," but at least one of the citations (a reported story by a BBC journalist) is not self-published in any sense that I'm familiar with. There is also an editorial published by a mainstream media outlet ( Undark Magazine); perhaps that is also considered self-published but it seems rather different than a tweet or blog etc. Thanks for any help you can provide, I'm still new to Wikipedia editing. Whatsabar ( talk) 17:32, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, sorry about that confusing edit summary. I meant that they are all primary sources. The BBC radio directly interviews the person who made the publication, the editorial is also written by the person who did it. They are not self-published, but rather primary sources. And if this only has primary sources then it is hard for us to consider including them within the articles. 0x
Deadbeef→∞ (
talk to me) 04:19, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
- Hmm, ok. I guess I was conceptualizing the BBC Radio story more as a secondary source; it's an editor doing a story on predatory publishing who uses the author as a source. That kind of reference seems in line with the other cited references in this list, but maybe I'm missing something? There are a number of other sources I found that seem straightforwardly secondary as well though, if I'm still not understanding this. (e.g.
https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-find-the-right-journal-for-your-research-avoid-predators/,
https://medwinpublishers.com/PhIJ/why-i-publish-in-predatory-journals-and-why-you-should-too.pdf). thanks for your help.
Whatsabar (
talk) 05:31, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- You see, the first is a guest blog, while the second is an article published to a predatory journal. They shouldn't really be used within articles. Let me ask you this. Do you have a COI with Bradley Allif, or are you Bradley Allf? 0x Deadbeef→∞ ( talk to me) 11:20, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Hmm, ok. I guess I was conceptualizing the BBC Radio story more as a secondary source; it's an editor doing a story on predatory publishing who uses the author as a source. That kind of reference seems in line with the other cited references in this list, but maybe I'm missing something? There are a number of other sources I found that seem straightforwardly secondary as well though, if I'm still not understanding this. (e.g.
https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-find-the-right-journal-for-your-research-avoid-predators/,
https://medwinpublishers.com/PhIJ/why-i-publish-in-predatory-journals-and-why-you-should-too.pdf). thanks for your help.
Whatsabar (
talk) 05:31, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
More disruption at Talk:SpaceX_Starship
Hi, if you have the time, could you take a look at Talk:SpaceX Starship? As with last time, a new test flight occurred and a new dispute has emerged. ToBeFree has already taken administrative action against some involved users at AN3, but I would like a third opinion to be offerred if possible. Regards, Yasslaywikia ( talk) 16:25, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
- I don't see any disruption and I would rather not weigh in this time because I am unfamiliar with the subject. 0x Deadbeef→∞ ( talk to me) 10:47, 25 March 2024 (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
- An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in
Vector 2022 skin. A
checklist is provided for site admins to follow.
Changes later this week
- The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (
calendar).
[1]
[2]
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MediaWiki message delivery 18:53, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello! I just wanted to ask for a bit of advice about edit filter manager. I'm currently an EFH since about 4 months ago, but I'm not entirely sure if I've got anywhere near enough under my belt to make an EFM request. My main motivation for this would be being able to implement changes to filters on my own, such as this, or perhaps things like this, as well as this. (All links are to the mailing list), as well as things like this. Mostly though, I'd like a bit of advice on what I should have if I was to request (the policy page is just a bit vague on any actual requirements other than consensus) EFM, and/or whether I'd be anywhere near ready. Of course, thank you in advance, I'd appreciate it. EggRoll97 ( talk) 22:46, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
- I think these link showcase good technical understanding to be considered as EFM. Given your experience helping out with edit filters, I would probably lean towards support. On the other hand, people consider EFM to be a high-trust position, and sometimes are harsher when they evaluate EFM candidates compared to RfA candidates. It all comes down to trust, and that can be hard to gauge. I would probably just encourage you to be BOLD and see it it turns out fine. (And there were indeed times where people felt I was being too fast with requesting certain permissions back then, it didn't really hurt my wikicareer as I took their advice and found out how to contribute in a way that works for me) 0x Deadbeef→∞ ( talk to me) 11:31, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi! We're conducting a series of participatory workshops with Wikipedia editors, administrators, researchers, and Wikimedia employees to discuss, and hopefully improve, Wikipedia's structures for online research (see meta research page). In an effort to get the right people in the room to discuss these topics, I'm reaching out here to see if you are interested in participating as an active administrator. We'd work with you to ensure this workshop can fit into your schedule, but are targeting end of April/early May. I'm happy to discuss any of these topics further here or on our talk page. Zentavious ( talk) 17:01, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{ You've got mail}} or {{ ygm}} template. Harvici ( talk) 16:26, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- I will not respond to this unless you post it on wiki, in the form of a message on my talk page. 0x Deadbeef→∞ ( talk to me) 01:10, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey there, a SPI is open on Srabanta Deb and a user pointed me as a potential sockpuppet and I know I am all clear. But I would like to get this out my head so would you like to review the request and then a checkuser could be performed. This request has been open for many days. Thanks in advance Harvici ( talk) 07:34, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
- I had wanted to close it without further action before because I don't believe you are a sockpuppet, but looks like Spicy beat me to it. 0x
Deadbeef→∞ (
talk to me) 16:16, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for your effort. I have a question about why an editor's IP address will not be checked upon their request to prove innocence against a sockpuppet allegation, as some other WikiMedia projects do not have such policies.
Harvici (
talk) 05:05, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
- @ Harvici, sorry for the slightly late reply. This is indeed a policy specific to English Wikipedia. See WP:CHECKME. The reason is that even if a CheckUser went a take a look, it is not 100% proof that someone is truly innocent. And there are privacy reasons for why we'd want to avoid unnecessary checks. So we only check people that we believe there is reasonable suspicion about two accounts being the same user. 0x Deadbeef→∞ ( talk to me) 13:29, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for your effort. I have a question about why an editor's IP address will not be checked upon their request to prove innocence against a sockpuppet allegation, as some other WikiMedia projects do not have such policies.
Harvici (
talk) 05:05, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.
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.
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
- Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [3]
Changes later this week
- The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (
calendar).
[4]
[5]
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.
Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
MediaWiki message delivery 03:33, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Herr. Wikipedia talk:Administrators#Help distinguish admin actions from general editor conversation Doug Weller talk 19:10, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the notification. 0x Deadbeef→∞ ( talk to me) 01:07, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
I really think Ewan McGregor should have his page protected because he is way too famous, so people could make false edits or vandalize the page! Jaxbarina ( talk) 04:26, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
User:EnterpriseyBot is supposed to update the User:EnterpriseyBot/defcon template but hasn't made an edit for quite some time now. I see you along with @ Legoktm are listed as maintainers for this tool, could one of you investigate since Enterprisey seems to have taken a leave of absence? Thanks! Philipnelson99 ( talk) 20:28, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
-
This appears to be the relevant tool account but there is also a
rust version that may be the relevant tool.
Philipnelson99 (
talk) 20:32, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- I deleted the job and created the job again. It should be running now. 0x
Deadbeef→∞ (
talk to me) 04:02, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- Sweet, thank you so much! Philipnelson99 ( talk) 05:23, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- I deleted the job and created the job again. It should be running now. 0x
Deadbeef→∞ (
talk to me) 04:02, 11 April 2024 (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
- Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
- A new
Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a
user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the
project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
- Initial results of Edit check experiments have been published. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at the wikis that tested it. Let us know if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check. [6] [7]
- Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [8]
Changes later this week
- The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (
calendar).
[9]
[10]
- New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. [11]
Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
MediaWiki message delivery 23:34, 8 April 2024 (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.
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. [12] [13]
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).
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- 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). [16]
- A new variable
page_last_edit_agewill be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [17]
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_filterandabuse_filter_historytables. Some queries might need to be updated. [18]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:26, 15 April 2024 (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
- Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [19]
- You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.
Changes later this week
- The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (
calendar).
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Future changes
- This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of Special:MyPage/vector.js to Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [22]
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