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Scroll Babel Userbox

Hey Chenzw! For the Babel userbox, how can I make it so it can scroll? If I add another language, it will screw my userpage's design (on the vector skin). Tsugaru Let's Talk! :) 🍁 01:44, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-14

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

• Editors can collapse part of an article so you have to click on it to see it. When you click a link to a section inside collapsed content it will now expand to show the section. The browser will scroll down to the section. Previously such links didn't work unless you manually expanded the content first. [1]

Changes later this week

• The citoid API will use for example 2010-12-XX instead of 2010-12 for dates with a month but no days. This is because 2010-12 could be confused with 2010-2012 instead of December 2010. This is called level 1 instead of level 0 in the Extended Date/Time Format. [2]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 April. It will be on all wikis from 8 April (calendar).

Future changes

• PAWS can now connect to the new Wiki Replicas. Cross-database JOINS will no longer work from 28 April. There is a new way to connect to the databases. Until 28 April both ways to connect to the databases will work. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech.

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19:41, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

More false positives, accusing user of vandalism

User_talk:2600:6C5E:47F:FDE6:90A8:9222:8F65:241E has been warned 4 times (and told they would be blocked if they vandalized one more time). None of these edits are actually vandalism. Lights and freedom (talk) 04:03, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Of the edits I looked at by that user they were all vandalism. -Djsasso (talk) 17:43, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

On first glance they don't look like vandalism, but it's actually unsourced information that is not necessarily true and is based on the user's opinion. Changing genres is a problem on Wikipedia, so doesn't seem to be a false positive. It's also worth noting that the same IP range is blocked on enwiki for genre warring. --IWI (talk) 20:01, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

It's actually adding additional genres, not changing them. Lights and freedom (talk) 03:16, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Yes, adding incorrect additional genres. --IWI (talk) 00:21, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

ChenzwBot false positive

Special:Diff/7465412, thanks, --Belwine (talk) 09:40, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Another false positive here. The user was removing a duplicate template. --Ixfd64 (talk) 05:38, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

Here is another one. The bot actually reverted the article back to a vandalized version! --Ixfd64 (talk) 23:48, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-16

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

• Email to the Wikimedia wikis are handled by groups of Wikimedia editors. These volunteer response teams now use Znuny instead of OTRS. The functions and interface remain the same. The volunteer administrators will give more details about the next steps soon. [3][4]
• If you use syntax highlighting, you can see line numbers in the 2010 and 2017 wikitext editors when editing templates. This is to make it easier to see line breaks or talk about specific lines. Line numbers will soon come to all namespaces. [5][6][7]
• Because of a technical change there could be problems with gadgets and scripts that have an edit summary area that looks similar to this one. If they look strange they should use mw.loader.using('mediawiki.action.edit.styles') to go back to how they looked before. [8]
• The latest version of MediaWiki came to the Wikimedia wikis last week. There was no Tech News issue last week.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for 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 two weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.

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16:49, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Hey, Chenzw!

Hi, Chenzw! I haven't seen you around here for a while now, hope you are doing well and is all good with you IRL. Talk soon! :-) Tsugaru Let's Talk! :) 🍁 01:53, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 April 2021

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Tech News: 2021-17

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

• Templates have parameters that can have specific values. It is possible to suggest values for editors with TemplateData. You can soon see them as a drop-down list in the visual editor. This is to help template users find the right values faster. [9][10][11]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 April. It will be on all wikis from 29 April (calendar).

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21:25, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

t— Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.147.204.75 (talk • contribs) 15:32, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

ChenzwBot

Hello! I reported an ip after a final warning, but the bot keeps reporting on WP:VIP/B even though I reported the user. Is there anything that can be done about it? Thank you! Darubrub (Let me know) 13:27, 29 April 2021 (UTC)