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Information Babel user information en-N This user has a native understanding of English. simple-5 This user has professional knowledge of Simple English. de-2 Dieser Benutzer beherrscht Deutsch auf fortgeschrittenem Niveau. es-1 Este usuario tiene un conocimiento básico del español. no-1 Denne brukeren har grunnleggende kjennskap til norsk (bokmål). nl-0 Deze gebruiker heeft geen kennis van het Nederlands (of begrijpt het met grote moeite). fr-0 Cet utilisateur n’a aucune connaissance en français (ou le comprend avec de grandes difficultés). Users by language It is about 6:24 AM where this user lives.[Purge] vn-250 This user's talk page has been vandalized 250 times.

Tech News: 2022-14

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• For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were not tagged in the Special:RecentChanges feed. This bug has been fixed. [1]

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 April. It will be on all wikis from 7 April (calendar).
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• Starting next week, Tech News' title will be translatable. When the newsletter is distributed, its title may not be Tech News: 2022-14 anymore. It may affect some filters that have been set up by some communities. [2]
• Over the next few months, the "Add a link" Growth feature will become available to more Wikipedias. Each week, a few wikis will get the feature. You can test this tool at a few wikis where "Link recommendation" is already available.

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21:01, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Db-g5

I strongly disagree with this, brunodam usually gets DB-G5ed given his career encompassing any violation of content-related rules (I won't count user-related ones): fake self-made sources, copyvios on a massive scale and, overall, POV pushing. However, if you carefully checked those contents for copyvios and falsehoods I'll be fine with it, but now the burden of proof is up to you. --Vituzzu (talk) 18:46, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Vituzzu, we cannot delete with G5 as a reason (because the community decided that G5 was a bad idea long ago, for better or for worse), unless the user is WMF-banned where m:WMFBAN applies if admins feel deletion is appropriate. If it's a copyvio or a complete hoax, I will happily delete it, as I just deleted one page as a copyvio. But unless it's proven a copyvio or hoax by the person tagging or a passing admin, we can't delete. I'll also point out that Brunodam is not currently globally locked and so can edit here with WP:ONESTRIKE applying, unless I am incorrect? --Ferien (talk) 20:55, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Meh, I think in similar circumstances bad faith should be assumed.

Anyway, he's globally locked, along with some hundred sockpuppets.

--Vituzzu (talk) 21:06, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Some time this week, probably this weekend, I will look through the pages for factual errors, copyvios etc. I already found one copyvio so the other two may be copyvios as well. I just don't have enough time to analyse properly right now. --Ferien (talk) 21:09, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) - Just jumping in on this because I just declined another QD you nominated at Pompeo D'Ambrosio. I didn't see any obvious hoax information or copyright violations, and since as Ferien pointed out, we don't have G5, I didn't see anything that met our deletion policy. I am all for DENY and aggressive reverting for locked users, but our wiki has taken the policy that contributions by blocked users are not deleted or reverted unless they violate content policy. If you have more information to help us in deciding to delete the article or in detecting future sockpuppetry, I'm more than happy to reconsider. Thanks for your help! Griff (talk) 03:34, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Simple English and Hausa

What is the meaning of fabulous 197.214.17.21 (talk) 07:51, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

I'm unsure what you are trying to ask. Fabulous can mean really good in English, but I'm not able to translate that into another language for you if that's what you're asking. --Ferien (talk) 08:55, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for you constant work!

It seems every time I look at a pages history you are always there cleaning up the page, you are probably the most active user on simplewiki! I'd give you a barnstar if I knew how! Lallint (talk) 14:59, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

@Lallint: Thank you for the message, I'm happy to help :) You can find how to give a barnstar at Wikipedia:Barnstars --Ferien (talk) 15:27, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

Disruptive IP(s)

Hello Ferien, please see the revision history of Wikipedia:Requests_for_deletion/Requests/2022/Tim_Byrne. The IP have abused QD and RfD tags in the past. Deppty (talk) 18:10, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

@Deppty: While these changes are bad, I cannot delete an RfD as complete vandalism when this IP finds good reasons to delete the article – even if these reasons may not be correct, that is their opinion and they have cited policies as well. You are welcome to request quick deletion of that RfD again if you believe it is appropriate, but I definitely won't be the one deleting it as I created the article that is at RfD myself. --Ferien (talk) 18:15, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-15

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Ankarana Reserve Please be bold and help translate this article! Ankarana Special Reserve in northern Madagascar was created in 1956. It is a small, partially vegetated plateau composed of 150-million-year-old middle Jurassic limestone (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:24, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-15

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Recent changes

• There is a new public status page at www.wikimediastatus.net. This site shows five automated high-level metrics where you can see the overall health and performance of our wikis' technical environment. It also contains manually-written updates for widespread incidents, which are written as quickly as the engineers are able to do so while also fixing the actual problem. The site is separated from our production infrastructure and hosted by an external service, so that it can be accessed even if the wikis are briefly unavailable. You can read more about this project.
• On Wiktionary wikis, the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [3][4]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).

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19:44, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		My eyes are burning but thanks for reverting most of that! Derpdart56 (talk) 16:34, 13 April 2022‎ (UTC)

Sorry for taking a while but happy to help. I am feeling ill anyway so no difference over here :) --Ferien (talk) 16:35, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

You're welcome, now i need to go bleach my eyes jesus Derpdart56 (talk) 16:37, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Need help with my talk page

Hello Ferien, the vandal added explicit images on my talk page, can you please hide the revision? Thanks. Deppty (talk) 12:05, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) all done:) Griff (talk) 12:50, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Griffinofwales while you're here, just RD3 everything the user has made. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 12:54, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Already done:) *high fives* Griff (talk) 12:56, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Unlisted RfD

Apparently, this RfD was never transcluded to the main deletion page, and I see no consensus there. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 13:34, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Oh, I did notice the RfD earlier on but didn't notice that it wasn't transcluded. I can't really do anything about it because I created the article, sorry. --Ferien (talk) 13:42, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Ah, oops. I did not check that, sorry. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 13:59, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-16

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Gwoździec Synagogue (pl:Synagoga w Gwoźdźcu) Please be bold and help translate this article! The synagogue was erected around 1650 in Gwoździec (Ukrainian: Гвіздець - Hvizdets), then in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, today in the Kolomyia Raion, Ukraine. The building was seriously damaged in a fire during World War I. It was rebuilt in the interwar period, but destroyed completely by the Germans in 1941 (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:24, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-16

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Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 April. It will be on all wikis from 21 April (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 19 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 21 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• Administrators will now have the option to delete/undelete the associated "Talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is also available. This concludes the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
• On selected wikis, 50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents. When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements project. [5]
• Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS classes: successbox, errorbox, warningbox. The styles for those classes and messagebox will be removed from MediaWiki core. This only affects wikis that use these classes in wikitext, or change their appearance within site-wide CSS. Please review any local usage and definitions for these classes you may have. This was previously announced in the 28 February issue of Tech News.

Future changes

• Kartographer will become compatible with FlaggedRevisions page stabilization. Kartographer maps will also work on pages with pending changes. [6] The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated. [7] [8] [9]

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23:12, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Question regarding Washington state cat

Are there reasons behind which the ‘’U.S.’’ was removed from the categories for Washington State; will you please clarify Angela Kate Maureen Pears 17:29, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi Tropical Storm Angela. The U.S. is unnecessary as there is only one state in the world called Washington, and that was already reflected on the article and a few of the categories with Washington in it already, and it's better for readers if all of them are the same "Washington (state)" instead of some having U.S. and others not having U.S. I hope that explains it for you. :) --Ferien (talk) 19:22, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Question about short descriptions/vandalism

Hi @Ferien, thank you or your help earlier today (my time, at least). I wonder if you might know about short descriptions in SEW. I was doing some cleanup on a page that referred to "women's rights," and I tried to link to the page with that title. In doing so, I noticed that the short description for that page is "Men are cool," which is definitely vandalism. However, unlike in English Wikipedia, I cannot find the short description in the code of the page. Where would I access the vandalism to clean it up, please? Do you know? Thank you,Castilibrary2 (talk) 23:24, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Castilibrary2 Hello! talkpage stalker here. We don't use short descriptions ({{Short description}}) here. The vandalism appears to be from Wikidata and I have reverted it. Best, — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 23:26, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Yay! Thank you @Fehufanga! Don't think it qualifies as stalking if you fix a thing. That explains why I could not find the code. Someday I will tackle understanding Wikidata, but I am not there yet. Castilibrary2 (talk) 00:57, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi there

I tried closing WP:Requests for Deletion/2022/The Big Crack or whatever it was since the article was already deleted and having an RFD run for a deleted article sounds silly, but I think I closed it wrong. Can you fix it please? Derpdart56 (talk) 16:23, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

Not too incorrect, just the {{deleted}} was in noinclude. I've fixed it for you :) --Ferien (talk) 18:03, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

Thank you. Derpdart56 (talk) 18:04, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

Answering a small part of your question

I believe that you asked a question some minutes ago.--A small part of my answer is that the one template is much smaller (and has a lot less names).--Another thing which arguably has little or nothing to do with simplicity: When a new election is held, then the small template is likely to be corrected within hours or few days. On the other hand, creating a new template as a result of a new MPs, can take weeks, months or years (on a small wiki).--I don't really feel that these answers are helpful for the main discussion (and that's why the answers have landed on your page). Regards! 89.8.187.80 (talk) 20:20, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

Ok, that makes sense. --Ferien (talk) 19:20, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-17

The winner this Translation of the week is en:School of the Air Please be bold and help translate this article! School of the Air is a generic term for correspondence schools catering for the primary and early secondary education of children in remote and outback Australia where some or all classes were historically conducted by radio, although this is now replaced by telephone and internet technology. In these areas, the school-age population is too small for a conventional school to be viable. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:37, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-17

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Recent changes

• On many wikis (group 1), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [10][11]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 April. It will be on all wikis from 28 April (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 26 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• Some very old browsers and operating systems are no longer supported. Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in very old browsers like Internet Explorer 9 or 10, Android 4, or Firefox 38 or older. [12]

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22:56, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Untitled

hello contact me on this instagram

@tonis_m5 i need to ask you something178.197.221.179 (talk) 14:06, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

I am not going to use Instagram for things on Wikipedia. You could just ask me something here, but if it needs to be offwiki, you could use email if you have an account. --Ferien (talk) 05:58, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

User talk:Goo1103

Your logic was fairly sound there, tho I still think its easier to press delete than find a clean version to revert press 2-3 buttons.. to but I digress. I didn't see it had original content, just saw that single post from the page owner and didn't think there was anything to revert back to. As creator. I closed the RfD as unneeded (Ill admit to the fact that I created it in error (error of judgement) and no need to have someone else clean up my mess), tagged it up all pretty top and bottom then went and reverted the talk page back to the last good version. --Creol(talk) 02:06, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Ah, thanks. --Ferien (talk) 14:46, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-18

The winner this Translation of the week is en:K-ration Please be bold and help translate this article! The K-ration was an individual daily combat food ration which was introduced by the United States Army during World War II. It was originally intended as an individually packaged daily ration for issue to airborne troops, tank crews, motorcycle couriers, and other mobile forces for short durations. The K-ration provided three separately boxed meal units: Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:24, 04:04, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Hanger Lane gyratory

— *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page —Preceding undated comment added 10:10, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Must've signed it with the three-tilde signature, my bad. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 10:16, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

It's alright, not a massive problem and can be easily solved --Ferien (talk) 10:16, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

page deleting

hi why are you deleting the page please elaborate it Mr singla112211 (talk) 14:56, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-18

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

• On all remaining wikis (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [13][14]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 May. It will be on all wikis from 5 May (calendar).

Future changes

• The developers are working on talk pages in the Wikipedia app for iOS. You can give feedback. You can take the survey in English, German, Hebrew or Chinese.
• Most wikis will receive an improved template dialog in VisualEditor and New Wikitext mode. [15] [16]
• If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme. [17]
• Several CSS IDs related to MediaWiki interface messages will be removed. Technical editors should please review the list of IDs and links to their existing uses. These include #mw-anon-edit-warning, #mw-undelete-revision and 3 others.

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19:34, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-19

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Cyrus the Great Day Please be bold and help translate this article! Cyrus the Great Day (Persian: روز کوروش بزرگ, romanized: ruz-e kuroš-e bozorg) is an unofficial Iranian holiday that takes place on the seventh day of Aban, the eighth month of the Solar Hijri calendar (October 29th on the Gregorian calendar), to commemorate Cyrus the Great, the founder of the ancient Achaemenid Persian Empire. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 02:01, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-19

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

• You can now see categories in the Wikipedia app for Android. [18]

Problems

• Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed. [19]
• Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change. [20]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [21]
• Incompatibility issues with Kartographer and the FlaggedRevs extension will be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the extension on May 24.
• The Vector (2022) skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update about Vector (2022).

Future meetings

• The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.

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15:22, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Translation

Hello Ferien! Goggle Translate has approved Meitei language (Manipuri language) yesterday! In your desktop/laptop screen, are the scripts still in boxes? And please visit any Meitei language website and please see if the translation is ok at your region! A few hours back, USA & Canada people told me they are ok, but in India, it was not ok. But it's almost ok right now! I want to know about UK! :-) --Haoreima (talk) 10:59, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello Haoreima, I've checked Google Translate and Manipuri/Meitei isn't an option for me yet, and the scripts are still boxes on mni.wikipedia.org. --Ferien (talk) 17:52, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Is there any way to download the unicode for this? I am unfortunately just seeing numerous boxes on mni.wikipedia.org because apparently my computer does not support it. MrMeAndMrMe_{Let's talk} 01:33, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

@Ferien and MrMeAndMrMe: I have asked a question to Google Translate team for the irregularities among the countries across the world regarding the accessibility to the tool for translating Meitei language, despite the language was announced to be added on 11th May, 2022 (2 days ago). The GT team replied that it will take around 1 week for global rollout (to make all the countries accessible to the translation tool for the newly added 24 languages). Yesterday,User:SHB2000 (from Australia) had some problems with the translation tool for his country. But he said he could access by using other countries' ip. For myself (I am in India), late yesterday night, the tool was ok. I have also updated the information on the article Google Translate. --Haoreima (talk) 03:43, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Idk if you guys use Google Translate app or web. For me, I use https://translate.google.co.in/ . At this, it's ok for me. Now, this tool will help me a lot in creating Wikipedia articles. 😃 --Haoreima (talk) 03:45, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Haoreima Apparently it's already available here in Indonesia, that's nice to know. @MrMeAndMrMe I recommend Unifont, it's a great fallback font for... almost every script! Though it is monospace and pixels, it does the job at displaying characters that are not compatible with most fonts. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 03:47, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

*Fehufangą Thank you for your information! --Haoreima (talk) 03:55, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, Fehufanga. MrMeAndMrMe_{Let's talk} 03:56, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

MrMeAndMrMe I think this English wiki page en:Wikipedia:Meitei script display help will help you! --Haoreima (talk) 03:57, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

@Haoreima Manipuri has finally appeared on my Australian IP, along with the many other languages like Assamese :-). SHB2000 (talk) 11:52, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

SHB2000 Thanks SHB2000! for the update! :-) --Haoreima (talk) 11:57, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

@Ferien and SHB2000: Hey guys! I found this short video, thanks to Sister Sakura emad. She found out the problem behind not seeing Meitei script in some people's computers! :-) --Haoreima (talk) 14:08, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-20

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Lift Every Voice and Sing Please be bold and help translate this article! "Lift Every Voice and Sing" – often referred to as the Black national anthem in the United States – is a hymn with lyrics by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) and set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954), for the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's birthday in 1900 (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:57, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-20

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• Some wikis can soon use the add a link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are Catalan Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [22]
• The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 May. It will be on all wikis from 19 May (calendar).

Future changes

• You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons. [23]

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18:58, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

page move on Amber name articles

Was there a reason by which "Amber (given name)" was retitled "Amber (name)"? Can you please clarify the reason for this move? Angela Kate Maureen Pears 23:12, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

Tropical Storm Angela, yes, Amber isn't used as a surname so there is no need to have "given" as part of the disambiguation because there is only one name, the given name. --Ferien (talk) 05:43, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Question

At the risk of showing my ignorance, how do you identify an open proxy? --Auntof6 (talk) 19:20, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Auntof6, the way I usually check is to use the proxy API checker. The link to check a specific IP is at the bottom of an IP's contributions page under "Proxy Checker". Open proxies are also blocked a lot on enwiki, so it is worth checking enwiki contributions to see whether that IP was blocked as an open proxy IP. If a range is blocked on enwiki, I check the IP on Proxy Checker, just to make sure it is an open proxy and then block the range here as well, but roughly until the end of the block on enwiki so I know I'm definitely not blocking for longer than necessary. Most of the time, though, these open proxies are blocked by stewards so most of the time, when you check an IP, it usually won't be a proxy. --Ferien (talk) 19:33, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 19:35, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-21

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

• Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. [24]
• The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [25]

Problems

• The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [26]
• Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation. [27]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).

Future changes

• Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers. [28]

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00:21, 24 May 2022 (UTC)