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[2]
[3]
On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a
QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new
Special:QrCode page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the
#19 most-voted wish from the
2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
[4]
Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the targetsoption to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use theskinsoption instead. [5]
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- The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to the phabricator task.
- On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity. Learn more about "action blocks". [6] [7]
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[8]
[9]
- Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed. [10]
Future changes
- 24 Wikipedias with Reference Tooltips as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make Reference Previews the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For 46 Wikipedias with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February, unless there are concerns. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings. [11] [12]
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- The WDQS Graph Split experiment is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels. [13] [14] [15] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service. [16] [17]
Problems
- There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black; this issue is fixed.
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calendar).
[18]
[19]
- As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,
[20] tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped.
[21]
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- If you have the "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails. [22]
- There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
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- The maximum file size when using Upload Wizard is now 5 GiB. [23]
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[24]
[25]
- Selected tools on the grid engine have been
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team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
- The CSS
filterproperty can now be used in HTMLstyleattributes in wikitext. [26]
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- The mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well. [27]
- The
mw.config value
wgGlobalGroupsnow only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is:if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))). [28]
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[29]
[30]
Future changes
- The right to change
edit tags (
changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.
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Recent changes
- The
Special:Bookpage (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the Wikisource extension. [31] - Wikitech now uses the next-generation Parsoid wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the Known Issues discussion page. You can use the ParserMigration extension to control the use of Parsoid; see the ParserMigration help documentation for more details.
- Maintenance on etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket.
-
Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The
GadgetandGadget_definitionnamespaces andgadgets-definition-edituser right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made. [32] - A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [33]
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[34]
[35]
Future changes
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [36]
- The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See
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[37]
[38]
- After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed. [39]
- The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [40]
- Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost. [41]
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- The notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher. [44]
-
IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers.
[45]
- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes.
[46]
[47]
[48]
- Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [49]
Problems
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[51]
[52]
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [53] [54]
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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).
[55]
[56]
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Merge results do not require that 100 percent of the article be included. You appear to be aware of how to edit Wikipedia, so if you identify anything missing, it is your responsibility to add it. The article does not have to remain open until you deem it is adequately merged. If you keep edit warring instead of adding the missing content, I will treat it as disruptive editing and involve an administrator. - Cukie Gherkin ( talk) 01:48, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- To add to this - the fact that you feel not enough content was merged is not sufficient reason to restore the article wholesale. We're talking about merging, not deletion, so the page history is still there. You can pull content from the page history if you wish to add further content. Article restoration is not necessary to expand content at the merge target. Please stop.
Sergecross73
msg me 01:54, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- Not to pile on, but the most recent AfD was closed as merge, so that means if you think the merge was not done correctly, then the solution is to discuss at the merge target about what content is there, not to un-merge/redirect the source. Especially not to do so twice in a row without further discussion. You've been an editor for a decade, you know better. --
Pres
N 02:03, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- It does feel rather like a pile on to have three people come to my talk page to say the same thing. @
Cukie Gherkin@
PresN@
Sergecross73 The result was "merge" which yes doesn't require 100% of content to be kept but it ought to require more than zero - yet last time I checked nobody has added anything to the target since the merge was reached. You can flip the argument on its head and point out that the "merge" is much more likely to be achieved if the article remains published with the merge notice on top. Unfortunately you have found a back door to deletion which seems to be very common on Wikipedia.
Garuda3 (
talk) 14:00, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- If there was something that needed to be merged, one of your messages would include an example of content that should be merged - or your edit history would include edits addressing content that needed to be merged. You speak of a "back door to deletion," which is an interesting comment to write as someone who, in my eyes, appears to be trying to use technicalities to overturn a deletion discussion. You can either identify what content needs to be merged, or add the content. Anything short of that, to me, tells me that you're just disrupting editing with wikilawyering. - Cukie Gherkin ( talk) 14:08, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- If you're unhappy with how the merge was done then go ahead and fix it yourself. No ones stopping you from doing that, so you have no grounds to complain about "deletion". Undoing the merge altogether is a step in the wrong direction though. That's actively editing against consensus and not okay. Sergecross73 msg me 14:15, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- It does feel rather like a pile on to have three people come to my talk page to say the same thing. @
Cukie Gherkin@
PresN@
Sergecross73 The result was "merge" which yes doesn't require 100% of content to be kept but it ought to require more than zero - yet last time I checked nobody has added anything to the target since the merge was reached. You can flip the argument on its head and point out that the "merge" is much more likely to be achieved if the article remains published with the merge notice on top. Unfortunately you have found a back door to deletion which seems to be very common on Wikipedia.
Garuda3 (
talk) 14:00, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- Not to pile on, but the most recent AfD was closed as merge, so that means if you think the merge was not done correctly, then the solution is to discuss at the merge target about what content is there, not to un-merge/redirect the source. Especially not to do so twice in a row without further discussion. You've been an editor for a decade, you know better. --
Pres
N 02:03, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
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- Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [57]
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- 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).
[58]
[59]
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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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. [60] [61]
- Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [62]
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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).
[63]
[64]
- 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. [65]
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Your draft article, Draft:Chippenham relief road
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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. [66] [67]
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[68]
[69]
- 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). [70]
- 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. [71]
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. [72]
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- Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [73]
- You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.
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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).
[74]
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- 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. [76]
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- Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [1]
- There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.
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calendar).
[2]
[3]
- On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a
QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new
Special:QrCode page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the
#19 most-voted wish from the
2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
[4]
-
Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the
targetsoption to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use theskinsoption instead. [5]
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Recent changes
- The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to the phabricator task.
- On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity. Learn more about "action blocks". [6] [7]
Changes later this week
- The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (
calendar).
[8]
[9]
- Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed. [10]
Future changes
- 24 Wikipedias with Reference Tooltips as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make Reference Previews the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For 46 Wikipedias with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February, unless there are concerns. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings. [11] [12]
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Recent changes
- The WDQS Graph Split experiment is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels. [13] [14] [15] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service. [16] [17]
Problems
- There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black; this issue is fixed.
Changes later this week
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new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (
calendar).
[18]
[19]
- As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,
[20] tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped.
[21]
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Your draft article, Draft:232 Daffodil Line
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Recent changes
- If you have the "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails. [22]
- There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
- Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the task's description.
- The maximum file size when using Upload Wizard is now 5 GiB. [23]
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calendar).
[24]
[25]
- Selected tools on the grid engine have been
stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the
team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
- The CSS
filterproperty can now be used in HTMLstyleattributes in wikitext. [26]
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- The mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well. [27]
- The
mw.config value
wgGlobalGroupsnow only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is:if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))). [28]
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[29]
[30]
Future changes
- The right to change
edit tags (
changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.
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Recent changes
- The
Special:Bookpage (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the Wikisource extension. [31] - Wikitech now uses the next-generation Parsoid wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the Known Issues discussion page. You can use the ParserMigration extension to control the use of Parsoid; see the ParserMigration help documentation for more details.
- Maintenance on etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket.
-
Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The
GadgetandGadget_definitionnamespaces andgadgets-definition-edituser right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made. [32] - A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [33]
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calendar).
[34]
[35]
Future changes
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [36]
- The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See
Heading HTML changes for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add
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[37]
[38]
- After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed. [39]
- The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [40]
- Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost. [41]
Future changes
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [42] [43]
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Concern regarding Draft:88 Penarth–Barry
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Recent changes
- The notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher. [44]
-
IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers.
[45]
- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes.
[46]
[47]
[48]
- Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [49]
Problems
- RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now. [50]
Changes later this week
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calendar).
[51]
[52]
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [53] [54]
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Your draft article, Draft:90 Nottingham–Newark
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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.
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- 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).
[55]
[56]
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Merge results do not require that 100 percent of the article be included. You appear to be aware of how to edit Wikipedia, so if you identify anything missing, it is your responsibility to add it. The article does not have to remain open until you deem it is adequately merged. If you keep edit warring instead of adding the missing content, I will treat it as disruptive editing and involve an administrator. - Cukie Gherkin ( talk) 01:48, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- To add to this - the fact that you feel not enough content was merged is not sufficient reason to restore the article wholesale. We're talking about merging, not deletion, so the page history is still there. You can pull content from the page history if you wish to add further content. Article restoration is not necessary to expand content at the merge target. Please stop.
Sergecross73
msg me 01:54, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- Not to pile on, but the most recent AfD was closed as merge, so that means if you think the merge was not done correctly, then the solution is to discuss at the merge target about what content is there, not to un-merge/redirect the source. Especially not to do so twice in a row without further discussion. You've been an editor for a decade, you know better. --
Pres
N 02:03, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- It does feel rather like a pile on to have three people come to my talk page to say the same thing. @
Cukie Gherkin@
PresN@
Sergecross73 The result was "merge" which yes doesn't require 100% of content to be kept but it ought to require more than zero - yet last time I checked nobody has added anything to the target since the merge was reached. You can flip the argument on its head and point out that the "merge" is much more likely to be achieved if the article remains published with the merge notice on top. Unfortunately you have found a back door to deletion which seems to be very common on Wikipedia.
Garuda3 (
talk) 14:00, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- If there was something that needed to be merged, one of your messages would include an example of content that should be merged - or your edit history would include edits addressing content that needed to be merged. You speak of a "back door to deletion," which is an interesting comment to write as someone who, in my eyes, appears to be trying to use technicalities to overturn a deletion discussion. You can either identify what content needs to be merged, or add the content. Anything short of that, to me, tells me that you're just disrupting editing with wikilawyering. - Cukie Gherkin ( talk) 14:08, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- If you're unhappy with how the merge was done then go ahead and fix it yourself. No ones stopping you from doing that, so you have no grounds to complain about "deletion". Undoing the merge altogether is a step in the wrong direction though. That's actively editing against consensus and not okay. Sergecross73 msg me 14:15, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- It does feel rather like a pile on to have three people come to my talk page to say the same thing. @
Cukie Gherkin@
PresN@
Sergecross73 The result was "merge" which yes doesn't require 100% of content to be kept but it ought to require more than zero - yet last time I checked nobody has added anything to the target since the merge was reached. You can flip the argument on its head and point out that the "merge" is much more likely to be achieved if the article remains published with the merge notice on top. Unfortunately you have found a back door to deletion which seems to be very common on Wikipedia.
Garuda3 (
talk) 14:00, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- Not to pile on, but the most recent AfD was closed as merge, so that means if you think the merge was not done correctly, then the solution is to discuss at the merge target about what content is there, not to un-merge/redirect the source. Especially not to do so twice in a row without further discussion. You've been an editor for a decade, you know better. --
Pres
N 02:03, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
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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. [57]
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).
[58]
[59]
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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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. [60] [61]
- Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [62]
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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).
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- 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. [65]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:35, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Chippenham relief road
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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. [66] [67]
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). [70]
- 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. [71]
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. [72]
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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. [73]
- 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. [76]
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