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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-31
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Please be bold and help translate this article!  Lau Pa Sat, also known as Telok Ayer Market, is a historic building located within the Downtown Core in the Central Area of Singapore. It was first built in 1824 as a fish market on the waterfront serving the people of early colonial Singapore and rebuilt in 1838. It was then relocated and rebuilt at the present location in 1894. It is currently a food court with stalls selling a variety of local cuisine. (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.)
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Tech News: 2022-31
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
- Improved LaTeX capabilities for math rendering are now available in the wikis thanks to supporting
Phantomtags. This completes part of the #59 wish of the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).- The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 0. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.
Future changes
- The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
Future meetings
- This week, three meetings about Vector (2022) with live interpretation will take place. On Tuesday, interpretation in Russian will be provided. On Thursday, meetings for Arabic and Spanish speakers will take place. See how to join.
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21:22, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
Request for rollback feature
Hello @Ferien, nice to meet you after a long time. I want to apply for getting permission on rollback feature.
There are some reasons I want to get that right:
1. Been for more than a year, I had made many contributions on reverting the vandalism edits.
2. Also I'm aware about basics of counter-vandalism procedures and rules for using the right.
I previously requested 2 times, and last time I either withdrawn or my request been rejected because you (may be) advised to use Twinkle.
But I will only use rollback if the edits are clear vandal.
Also you know me before, first welcoming me here, anyways it's upto your decision. Hope to get your consent very soon. Have a good day. DRC (User:TTP1233) (talk . e-mail . contrib) 16:41, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
- Hello TTP1233, nice to see you around again. Sorry for the late response. I had read this and was intending to respond to it later but I forgot. Please make a request at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Rollback so all admins can have a look at it. Thanks
--Ferien (talk) 10:41, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
- OK, I will do, but the response gets delayed due to other works of admins. DRC (User:TTP1233) (talk . e-mail . contrib) 12:09, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-32
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Please be bold and help translate this article! "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy" (Roud 1, Child 200), is a traditional folk song that originated as a Scottish border ballad, and has been popular throughout Britain, Ireland and North America. It concerns a rich lady who runs off to join the gypsies (or one gypsy). (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.)
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Tech News: 2022-32
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
- GUS2Wiki copies the information from Special:GadgetUsage to an on-wiki page so you can review its history. If your project isn't already listed on the Wikidata entry for Project:GUS2Wiki you can either run GUS2Wiki yourself or make a request to receive updates. [1]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 9 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 11 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Future meetings
- The Wikimania Hackathon will take place online from August 12–14. Don't miss the pre-hacking showcase to learn about projects and find collaborators. Anyone can propose a project or host a session. Newcomers are welcome!
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19:50, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
Semi-protection
Hi Ferien, hope you're well. Could you please semi-protect my talk page again as it is being constantly vandalised by IPs and new users? Could it be for longer than a week this time, but not indef. Cheers, Hockeycatcat (talk) (changes) 08:52, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
Done for 2 weeks. --Ferien (talk) 08:58, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
You've earned The Admin's Barnstar!
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| Thank you for the anti-vandalism work you've been doing by deleting pages, warning/blocking users! Hockeycatcat (talk) (changes) 09:53, 14 August 2022 (UTC) |
- Thank you Hockeycatcat! :D --Ferien (talk) 09:55, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-33
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Please be bold and help translate this article!  Peroz I Kushanshah was ruler of the Kushano-Sasanian Kingdom from 245 to 275. He was the successor of Ardashir I Kushanshah. He was an energetic ruler, who minted coins in Balkh, Herat, and Gandhara. Under him, the Kushano-Sasanians further expanded their domains into the west, pushing the weakened Kushan Empire to Mathura in North India. (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.)
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Tech News: 2022-33
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
- The Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia community decided to block IP editing from October 2021 to April 2022. The Wikimedia Foundation's Product Analytics team tracked the impact of this change. An impact report is now available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 August. It will be on all wikis from 18 August (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 16 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 18 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
- The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 1. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.
Future changes
- The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes. [2][3][4]
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21:08, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
DYK
Hi Ferien! I was wondering if you can fill up DYK's Queue 1 with some of the hooks from the holding area. I would do it myself but most of them are my hooks and that's frowned upon. TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 06:04, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
- Hi TDKR Chicago 101, I'll take a look at it :) --Ferien (talk) 09:38, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
- Done --Ferien (talk) 18:32, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
WP:RfP
Hello @Ferien, nice to meet you again my old friend. I made a request on patroller rights but it is pending for a long time. Can you please look into this matter?--DRC (User:TTP1233) (talk . e-mail . contrib) 17:08, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
- @TTP1233: Hello, sorry I didn't notice that. I responded and marked the request as not done for now as I had to patrol a few of your recent articles, and patroller is usually given after many more articles are created. But please don't let that discourage you and keep up the good work :D --Ferien (talk) 18:41, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Ferien Thank you for the response. I will see to it. However, I have a small question. How would I understand that articles are been patrolled? DRC (User:TTP1233) (talk . e-mail . contrib) 02:41, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
- @TTP1233: you could go to Special:Log/patrol and enter in a page you created as "Target" to see if it has been patrolled or not, and if it was recent, it may just be on Special:Log/patrol. --Ferien (talk) 09:01, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks DRC (User:TTP1233) (talk . e-mail . contrib) 13:06, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
- @TTP1233: you could go to Special:Log/patrol and enter in a page you created as "Target" to see if it has been patrolled or not, and if it was recent, it may just be on Special:Log/patrol. --Ferien (talk) 09:01, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Ferien Thank you for the response. I will see to it. However, I have a small question. How would I understand that articles are been patrolled? DRC (User:TTP1233) (talk . e-mail . contrib) 02:41, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
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Hockeycatcat (talk) (changes) 10:11, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
- Responded. --Ferien (talk) 10:30, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
Thank you
@Ferien and @Fehufanga: thank you for your contributions on reverting that user's edits. They were vandalizing my user talkpage. DRC (User:TTP1233) (talk . e-mail . contrib) 14:00, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
- Happy to help. Just revdelled too. --Ferien (talk) 14:00, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
HAVE A BARNSTAR!
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| I feel bad for what your eyes had to endure. Derpdart56 (talk) 14:12, 17 August 2022 (UTC) |
- Another one? Wow, thanks! --Ferien (talk) 14:14, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
User:Reretard
Hi, sorry to disturb you again. But I want to take your consent. This user has attacked @Fehufanga's talk page specifically. Do you think this work could be User:PhotoboothZERO. If so, it could be sockpuppetry. Even they were blocked, I was thinking I should post it to WP:RCU. What do you say? DRC (User:TTP1233) (talk . e-mail . contrib) 15:08, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
- It might be that user, but I don't think the behaviour was very similar. --Ferien (talk) 15:11, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks. I thought I could see Reretard's contributions but you changed the visibility of it's edits. Therefore I can't analyse the behavioral pattern. DRC (User:TTP1233) (talk . e-mail . contrib) 15:14, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
- I don't think there's a need, that user is blocked. Derpdart56 (talk) 15:17, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Derpdart56, you are correct. Anyhow they were blocked by vandalism infinitely so no need of CU or sort of something.. DRC (User:TTP1233) (talk . e-mail . contrib) 15:20, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
- @TTP1233: There is not much in those RevDelled diffs to analyse. It is leaving an offensive one-word message and then removing content off the talk page. --Ferien (talk) 15:20, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
- Hmm; Anyways keep doing you job. DRC (User:TTP1233) (talk . e-mail . contrib) 15:22, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
- I don't think there's a need, that user is blocked. Derpdart56 (talk) 15:17, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks. I thought I could see Reretard's contributions but you changed the visibility of it's edits. Therefore I can't analyse the behavioral pattern. DRC (User:TTP1233) (talk . e-mail . contrib) 15:14, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
Hey Ferien, User:PhotoXCMOX has threathen you as I saw at recent changes. It is definitely the sock of User:PhotoboothZERO. And now since it is blocked, everything is just fine..--DRC (User:TTP1233) (talk . e-mail . contrib) 10:26, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
- Yep was aware of that. Reported it to SRG as a sock and has now been globally locked. Thanks --Ferien (talk) 11:19, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
Thank you
I want to thank you for the welcome message you sent me.
I'm happy to be here.
Looking forward to your inputs in the future.
My best, Sweeto dweeto (talk) 02:11, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Sweeto dweeto: no problem, thank you for helping us here. --Ferien (talk) 19:32, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-34
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Please be bold and help translate this article!  In the Arbour (Polish: W altanie) is an oil painting created by Polish Realist painter Aleksander Gierymski in 1882. It is displayed at the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland. In the painting is shown a social gathering of a group of aristocrats portrayed in 18th-century clothes, which takes place on a summer day in a garden. (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.)
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Tech News: 2022-34
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
- Two problems with Kartographer maps have been fixed. Maps are no longer shown as empty when a geoline was created via VisualEditor. Geolines consisting of points with QIDs (e.g., subway lines) are no longer shown with pushpins. [5][6]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (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 25 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
- The colours of links and visited links will change. This is to make the difference between links and other text more clear. [7]
Future changes
- The new [subscribe] button helps newcomers get answers. The Editing team is enabling this tool everywhere. You can turn it off in your preferences. [8]
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00:13, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
Gagauz
Hello, I created the page about the Gagauz people from Moldova with sources, because about the Gagauz language is already a page in simple English: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gagauz_language. So i thougt it should also be an own page for the Gaguaz People who speak this language. Yet, the User Macdonald-ross deleted the page. This is realy not funny. Here you can see in the english wikipedia a page about the gagauz people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gagauz_people. So why it is forbidden to create a page in simple english about the Gagauz people? I created it again see: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gagauz_people Nalanidil (talk) 22:16, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
- Nalanidil, I agree that this page shouldn't have been deleted. It looks like you have recreated the page so there isn't anything to do here on my end. As Auntof6 says, in future, feel free to take deletions you disagree with to Wikipedia:Deletion review. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 13:56, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
SMACK
Whack!
Do not take this seriously. Someone wants to let you know you did something silly!
--Derpdart56 (talk) 14:09, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
- what for? --Ferien (talk) 14:11, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
- Oh nvm, that thing that happened earlier. --Ferien (talk) 14:11, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
Chatting with Ferien
Hey Ferien how are you? MesmoZekoroni (talk) 16:08, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
- You wouldn't happen to be the same guy who chatted with me a couple days ago, would you? Derpdart56 (talk) 16:31, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
No why? MesmoZekoroni (talk) 16:39, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
- Your messages quack otherwise... Derpdart56 (talk) 16:42, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
What are your hobbies? MesmoZekoroni (talk) 16:46, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
830s
Yes I've seen your edit on 830s and it's still quite empty isn't it. I think we should try expanding the article about the century first before we start writing about the years. I mean if the column of "births" only has 2 items and the events column has 3 where the point when we can merge that decade into the century and have a longer more complete list. I think having an article about every year and decade is pretty pointless if they're all essentiallly empty, what do you think? N1TH Music (talk) 08:29, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) @N1TH Music: Our usual practice with articles about years, decades, and centuries is to keep them if there is anything in them other than the standard heading stuff. -- Auntof6 (talk) 11:15, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
- N1TH Music, I'm going to come back and add more to it. There is definitely more that can be added, there just needs to be more time spent on these articles. At some stage, I want to help make sure that at least each decade has an article, and yes, with more information than 830s currently has, but that will take a lot of time... --Ferien (talk) 16:18, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
- I figured you'd expand it, I just though (prior to speaking with Auntof6) that we should expand the articles for the centuries first, before we think about splitting it into decades. N1TH Music (talk) 17:24, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
- Really, we need to expand the articles for centuries, decades and years... --Ferien (talk) 18:18, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
- I figured you'd expand it, I just though (prior to speaking with Auntof6) that we should expand the articles for the centuries first, before we think about splitting it into decades. N1TH Music (talk) 17:24, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
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--DRC (User:TTP1233) (talk . e-mail . contrib) 16:44, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
- Done --Ferien (talk) 19:38, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
Apology
I am sorry for my past mistakes last month. DerekSquared (talk) 08:35, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
Simplify
I could simplify my Bleu Clair article --AndreasJacksonville (talk) 16:19, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2022-35
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Please be bold and help translate this article!  The Imphal Peace Museum (IPM) (Meitei: Imphal Aying-Achik Pukei Lankei Shanglen, Japanese: インパール平和資料館, romanized: Inpāru heiwa shiryōkan) is a WWII museum at the foothills of the Red Hills (Maibam Lokpa Ching) in Manipur. It is a living memory of the Battle of Imphal and other WWII battles (March-July 1944) fought in Manipur. It is supported by the Nippon Foundation (TNF), a non profit grant making organization, collaborating with the Manipur Tourism Forum and the Government of Manipur. (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.)
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- Hello @Ferien, SHB2000, and Auntof6: I have been waiting for this day. Finally, for a second time (as far as I know after this — 2022-08), an article from our SEWP is nominated for the global weekly translation. Articles from this wiki are seldom selected. I am happy today for this! :) --Haoreima (talk) 02:07, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Haoreima: OK, but is there a particular reason you pinged me? -- Auntof6 (talk) 04:08, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
- Auntof6 I just wanted to inform you as you are a well wisher of SEWP. :-) --Haoreima (talk) 08:55, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
- Great to hear Haoreima! To be quite frank, I'm not surprised on why there are so few articles from simplewiki as the translation of the week though – my userpage somewhat explains that (and I do thank those (inc. you and Ferien) that are genuinely trying to avoid content duplication between the two projects). SHB2000 (talk) 07:59, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
- SHB2000 You are right! --Haoreima (talk) 08:55, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks Haoreima for creating the article and helping to get it on TOTW. :) --Ferien (talk) 09:42, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-35
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
- The Realtime Preview is available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 2. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals. Please note that when this Beta feature is enabled, it may cause conflicts with some wiki-specific Gadgets.
Problems
- In recent months, there have been inaccurate numbers shown for various Special:Statistics at Commons, Wikidata, and English Wikipedia. This has now been fixed. [9]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (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 30 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation wants to improve how Wikimedia communities report harmful incidents by building the Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) to make it easy and safe for users to make reports. You can leave comments on the talk page, by answering the questions provided. If you have ever faced a harmful situation that you wanted to report/reported, join a PIRS interview to share your experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.
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23:05, 29 August 2022 (UTC)