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Hello. Please leave messages for me here. Remember to sign with ~~~~ and indent your replies using a : for each reply, if you are not using the "Reply" or "New topic" function. Thanks! (Sections that have had no chat for 30 days get archived.)
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changeHi Ferien, Just wanted to say thanks for saving the Black tetra article, As the IP is a vandal/LTA I was 50/50 on whether to QD or not but I guess this IPs made something worthwhile for once :), Anyway thanks again your help is always appreciated, Thanks, Warm Regards,–Davey2010Talk 15:43, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Davey2010: Yes, constructive edits from problematic IPs can happen sometimes, even then I try to lean on the side of saving the article before deleting it if I can and if it's reasonable. Cheers :) --Ferien (talk) 20:15, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
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| For your helpful edits as an adminǃ Aster🪻 talk edits 16:23, 23 October 2024 (UTC) |
- Thanks Asteralee, much appreciated :) --Ferien (talk) 17:16, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
Request
changeHello. Could you please respond on my request for permissions and Asteralee's request? I know from experience that these requests can take a very long time to receive a response (my previous one took 2 weeks), so I am asking you as the most recently active administrator. Thank you. Best regards, BZPN (talk) 08:20, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
- Hi BZPN, thank you for the message, but requests for permissions are often left for some time to allow time for other admins to comment on requests, or better evaluate editing activity. I will review the requests when I have more time, likely in a few days time. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 21:40, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
Move to Wikipedia mainspace
changeHelloǃ Am I able to move a humor article in my user main space to Wikipediaː main space? Thanksǃ Aster🪻 talk edits 12:30, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Asteralee, I'd probably say it's safer to keep the page in userspace. There's no policy on it or anything like that, but we have very few Wikipedia: pages that are humour (transclusions), so it's probably easier to keep it in User:space. Thanks! --Ferien (talk) 21:45, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-44
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Christmas horror is a fiction genre and film genre that incorporates horror elements into a seasonal setting. It is popular in multiple countries.
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Tech News: 2024-44
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Updates for editors
- Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read the October project update and see the latest documentation and examples on Beta Wikipedia.
- View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pediapress.com, an external service that creates books from Wikipedia, can now use Wikimedia Maps to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Wikipedia. [1]
Updates for technical contributors
- Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set
emitTransitionOnSteptotrueto fix an old bug. They can use the new flagallowAutomaticBackto avoid back-buttons they don't want. [2] - Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. [3]
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Request
changeHello. I would like to ask you to check my latest articles (Dalmatic, Zucchetto and Stole) for style - is it simple enough? I try to simplify the articles as much as possible according to the guidelines. Thank you and best regards, BZPN (talk) 18:34, 29 October 2024 (UTC)
- BZPN, hi! Sorry about the slight delay in response, I have been really busy with work over the past few days. They are generally quite simple, but just a couple of pieces of advice:
- For words, it's good to compare them against BE 1500, the extended Basic English wordlist, to check whether the word is simple enough. Try to simplify it to these words where you can, but if you can't, make sure to link it, either here on simplewiki, or you can use a Wiktionary link if there is a page for it on that project. You should check the links here first, then only use Wiktionary if it's unlikely to get an article here, especially if it's a verb or something.
- Otherwise, with sentences, you should use active over passive form, for example "Ferien is making a comment" instead of "A comment is being made by Ferien", as it's a lot easier to understand.
- In a similar fashion, with Dalmatic, it's probably better for you to say "In the 20th century, the simple, long white dalmatic was/became used again." rather than "returned to use."
- I hope this helps, feel free to ask if you have any more questions :) Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 11:49, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
Question
changeHello. I have one more question, unrelated to the content itself. My question is about interface admin permissions - where can I request them? There is a situation where I would like to block (MediaWiki:BlockedExternalDomains.json) pages that are blogs and used as sources in (I have recently deleted several of them), which is obviously against the rules and misleads readers. There are currently no interface administrators, regular administrators are often unavailable and do not have the appropriate permissions, and I have the appropriate knowledge to edit .json files (which are not difficult to edit) and sufficient knowledge of the Wiki mechanism to do it myself and not break anything :). The Wikipedia:Interface administrators page does not provide specific requirements when it comes to temporarily granting permissions, so I am asking you whether it is possible for me to obtain these permissions to do my tasks. And I'm sorry to bother you with questions, but I don't really have anyone else to turn to :). Have a nice day! BZPN (talk) 09:49, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
- P.S. I'm mainly thinking about sources such as miraheze.org, instagram.com, blogspot.com, quora.com (!) - they would be included on the list only after being removed from the articles and replaced with the {{citation needed}} (if necessary). BZPN (talk) 10:38, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
- I have created a list of domains that should be blocked here: User:BZPN/BlockedDomains.json. I didn't realize that the problem with sources is so tragic - I found, for example, Fandom and quizlet as a historical sources, description from Instagram post in the content or even Reddit post as a source [sic!]. BZPN (talk) 17:26, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
- BZPN, regarding interface administrator rights, they are usually granted when needed, and then removed once the task is done, hence why there are no interface admins on our wiki currently. I have granted them a few times to myself in the past, and could fulfil this task if you'd like. You can request interface admin rights on WP:AN, however despite the lack of mention of admin rights in policy, I don't think non-admins should be granted the IA right. It was detached from administrator a while back due to the potential risks of all administrators having it and the damage that the role can cause, and the enwiki policy on it says only existing admins can request it. I will start a discussion soon to determine whether we should have this written in policy, as it can cause confusion otherwise. Thanks :) --Ferien (talk) 12:02, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Ferien, thank you very much for your help, you helped me a lot. In our case, in plwiki and on several other wikis, non-administrators can also obtain IA permissions to perform their tasks independently of administrators - I thought it was the same on simplewiki. I will report domains for blocking on AN after they are removed from articles. For now, I will focus on removing pseudo-sources and improving my articles. Thank you again for your detailed tips and help. I wish you all the best :). BZPN (talk) 12:11, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-45
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Placenta cake is a dish from ancient Greece and Rome consisting of many dough layers interspersed with a mixture of cheese and honey and flavored with bay leaves, baked and then covered in honey. The dessert is mentioned in classical texts such as the Greek poems of Archestratos and Antiphanes, as well as the De agri cultura of Cato the Elder. It is often seen as the predecessor of baklava and börek.
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Updates for editors
- Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts. [4]
- Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled can now use the Collaboration List feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
- The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode. [5]
- View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.
Updates for technical contributors
- XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. [6]
In depth
- Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.
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- MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.
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Hello! What's wrong with this article? Can you save it? 46.146.16.28 (talk) 14:53, 5 November 2024 (UTC)
- I'm afraid it cannot be saved. --Ferien (talk) 23:01, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-46
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Trisomy 16 is a chromosomal abnormality in which there are 3 copies of chromosome 16 rather than two. It is the most common trisomy leading to miscarriage and the second most common chromosomal cause of it, closely following X-chromosome monosomy. About 6% of miscarriages have trisomy 16.
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- On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, users will notice that the FuzzyBot will now automatically create translated versions of categories used on translated pages. [7]
- View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the submitted task to use the SecurePoll extension for English Wikipedia's special administrator election was resolved on time. [8]
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In 1.44.0-wmf-2, the logic of Wikibase functiongetAllStatementschanged to behave likegetBestStatements. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable. [9]- Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The impacted endpoints include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket.
In depth
- Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page for more information about this work. [10]
Meetings and events
- 21 November 2024 (8:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC) - Community call with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.
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changeHi, would you mind having a look at this article? Two unidentified IP addresses have been making a series of weird, ahistorical and poorly sourced edits in turn. One of the IP addresses has been warned several times not to do so but continuing. I am not sure if two IP addresses are associated with the same person or troll farm. Steven1991 (talk) 16:50, 17 November 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Steven1991, apologies for the late response. Fehufanga has blocked one of the IPs, and the other one appears to have stopped for now. If you have any more administrative requests, please add them to WP:AN as it'll likely get responded to sooner. Thanks! --Ferien (talk) 23:00, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-47
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Boana platanera, commonly known as the banana tree dwelling frog, is a species of tree frog in the family Hylidae. It is distributed within Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Trinidad and Tobago. Boana platanera was described in 2021, and individuals of the species were previously classified as Boana crepitans or Boana xerophylla.
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Updates for editors
- Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a redirect to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects. [11]
- View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pywikibot, which automates work on MediaWiki sites, was upgraded to 9.5.0 on Toolforge. [12]
Updates for technical contributors
- On wikis that use the FlaggedRevs extension, pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this. [13][14]
In depth
- There is a new Diff post about Temporary Accounts, available in more than 15 languages. Read it to learn about what Temporary Accounts are, their impact on different groups of users, and the plan to introduce the change on all wikis.
Meetings and events
- Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10 2024. The registration for the event will close in mid-April 2025. The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual gathering that unites the global technical community to collaborate on existing projects and explore new ideas.
- Join the Wikimedia Commons community calls this week to help prioritize support for Commons which will be planned for 2025–2026. The theme will be how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. This is an opportunity for volunteers who work on different things to come together and talk about what matters for the future of the project. The calls will take place November 21, 2024, 8:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC.
- A Language community meeting will take place November 29, 16:00 UTC to discuss updates and technical problem-solving.
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Paid User Alert
changeHello @Ferien From past 1 month i am observing there are many People making paid pages on simple wikipedia. People who are not having any news article and having 2-3 paid article also getting live here. And Scammers are using fake references as well with fake references. And a user @Symonds Gerother is involved in it because today i inserted qd in 5-10 non notable pages and he revereted all the changes and removed qd. So he is also involved in the group of people who are making paid pages of non notable people so deleted all the pages on which i have inserted qd and which has been remove by @Symonds Gerother and Block this user. Kindlt (talk) 15:28, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
- Hello. Please don't go to multiple admins to try and alert them. Just head to WP:AN and you will get a response from active administrators. This situation has already been resolved. --Ferien (talk) 23:02, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
Title blacklisting needed?
changeHello, do you think Special:Diff/9898754 should be title blacklisted? I look forward to hearing from you. MathXplore (talk) 06:33, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
- MathXplore, yes, looks good to me. For future requests relating to title blacklist or any other admin actions, please go to AN at the first instance as I don't anticipate being active here for the time being, to get back to you within a reasonable timeframe. --Ferien (talk) 21:01, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-48
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Wang Su-bok was a singer from North Korea, who was the most popular singer in Japanese-occupied Korea in 1935. She was credited as a ground-breaking female artist, whose work led the way for the modern K-pop phenomenon.
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changeLatest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode syntax highlighter will be available as a beta feature later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support, template folding, autocompletion, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the help page.- The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such
Ctrl+Bfor bold andCtrl+Ifor italics. A full list of all six shortcuts is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. [15] - Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: bswiki, elwiki, euwiki, fawiki, fiwiki, frwikiquote, frwikisource, frwikiversity, frwikivoyage, idwiki, lvwiki, plwiki, ptwiki, urwiki, viwikisource, zhwikisource. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF).
- View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected" if it includes a protected variable.
Updates for technical contributors
- The CodeEditor, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages, now offers live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing
Ctrl+,and un-selecting "Live Autocompletion". - Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can check this dashboard and the list in the Description of the task T350592 to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April. [16]
- The New PreProcessor parser performance report has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities. [17]
Meetings and events
- A Language community meeting will take place November 29 at 16:00 UTC. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Wikipedia, the language support track at Wiki Indaba, and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.
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Hello. It looks like you may have made a slight formatting error on MediaWiki:Titleblacklist - there should be a space before the added new point. This means that this page will not work properly. It's not a big problem, but I would appreciate it if you correct it :). Thank you and best wishes, BZPN (talk) 21:10, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
Done, thanks! --Ferien (talk) 21:14, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- It's still not correct - you need to move
#from the first line one space forward :). Thank you! BZPN (talk) 21:16, 28 November 2024 (UTC)- Ah, I see now. --Ferien (talk) 21:18, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you! BZPN (talk) 21:22, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- Ah, I see now. --Ferien (talk) 21:18, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- It's still not correct - you need to move
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-49
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Storm Filomena was an extratropical cyclone in early January 2021 that was most notable for bringing unusually heavy snowfall to parts of Spain, with Madrid recording its heaviest snowfall in over a century, and with Portugal being hit less severely. The eighth named storm of the 2020–21 European windstorm season, Filomena formed over the Atlantic Ocean close to the Canary Islands on 7 January, subsequently taking a slow track north-eastwards towards the Iberian Peninsula and then eastwards across the Mediterranean Sea.
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- Two new parser functions were added this week. The
{{#interwikilink}}function adds an interwiki link and the{{#interlanguagelink}}function adds an interlanguage link. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning withMOS:on English Wikipedia conflict with themoslanguage code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia. - Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the HTTPS Browser Recommendations page for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [18]
- Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: arwiki, cawiki, frwiki, mediawikiwiki, orwiki, wawiki, wawiktionary, wikidatawiki, zhwiki. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF). [19]
- This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
- View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed. [20]
Updates for technical contributors
- In late February, temporary accounts will be rolled out on at least 10 large wikis. This deployment will have a significant effect on the community-maintained code. This is about Toolforge tools, bots, gadgets, and user scripts that use IP address data or that are available for logged-out users. The Trust and Safety Product team wants to identify this code, monitor it, and assist in updating it ahead of the deployment to minimize disruption to workflows. The team asks technical editors and volunteer developers to help identify such tools by adding them to this list. In addition, review the updated documentation to learn how to adjust the tools. Join the discussions on the project talk page or in the dedicated thread on the Wikimedia Community Discord server (in English) for support and to share feedback.
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Hello Ferien: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it is occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, ⯎ Asteralee ⯎ 22:59, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
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