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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2023-23
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Please be bold and help translate this article! Alessandra Korap is an indigenous leader and Brazilian environmental activist from the Munduruku ethnic group. Her main work is defending the demarcation of indigenous territory and denouncing the illegal exploitation and activities of the mining and logging industries. Alessandra is internationally recognized for her work. (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: 2023-23
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 RealMe extension allows you to mark URLs on your user page as verified for Mastodon and similar software.
Citation and footnote editing can now be started from the reference list when using the visual editor. This feature request was voted #2 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [1]- Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference for "Group results by page". This has now been fixed. [2]
Problems
- For a few days last week, some tools and bots returned outdated information due to database replication problems, and may have been down entirely while it was being fixed. These issues have now been fixed. [3]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).- Bots will no longer be prevented from making edits because of URLs that match the spam blacklist. [4]
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Fred Rogers VGA
Hi, the process has stalled again. Promote or demote, either way, may I ask you to take a moment and vote on it. Since you helped by editing it recently, you may be able to give an opinon and help keep the process moving. More than this individual article, I think it would help the wiki if we could make this process work more smoothly. Thank you very much for your time and attention. --Gotanda (talk) 04:54, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
- Hello Gotanda, I'm sorry that I don't have the time to make a VGA review at the moment. I'm currently going through exam season and so have barely been editing at all over the past couple of months. The final one of these exams is on 16 June however I do expect to be busy for a couple of weeks after that but I will take a good look at it when I can. Apologies. --Ferien (talk) 18:12, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
- Sorry I bothered you. Good luck on all those exams! Gotanda (talk) 02:44, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
- Gotanda, I've managed to set aside some time to look at it but there was already a consensus to promote, so I've gone and promoted it. Thank you for your work on it! --Ferien (talk) 12:38, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
- Sorry I bothered you. Good luck on all those exams! Gotanda (talk) 02:44, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
RFD on Shining with the Sharmas
Thanks for your closing comment on this RFD. I agree that multiple comments, but not multiple !votes, are OK on RFDs, and will keep that in mind in the future. -- Auntof6 (talk) 16:11, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
Page deletion
Can you please delete the article Wesley Young, I no longer wan't it on this site.
Thank You :) 40.138.174.66 (talk) 11:01, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
- The page was deleted by Eptalon. --Ferien (talk) 11:11, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2023-24
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Please be bold and help translate this article! Cassinga Day is a national public holiday in Namibia remembering the Cassinga Massacre. Commemorated annually on 4 May, the date "remembers those (approximately 600) killed in 1978 when the South African Defence Force attacked a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola". (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: 2023-24
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 content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the Dutch, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias. This was the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [5]
- The Search Preview panel has been deployed on four Wikipedias (Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian and Norwegian). The panel will show an image related to the article (if existing), the top sections of the article, related images (coming from MediaSearch on Commons), and eventually the sister projects associated with the article. [6]
- The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software. [7]
- The default project license has been officially upgraded to CC BY-SA 4.0. The software interface messages have been updated. Communities should feel free to start updating any mentions of the old CC BY-SA 3.0 licensing within policies and related documentation pages. [8]
Problems
- For three days last month, some Wikipedia pages edited with VisualEditor or DiscussionTools had an unintended
__TOC__(or its localized form) added during an edit. There is a listing of affected pages sorted by wiki, that may still need to be fixed. [9] - Currently, the "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is broken. Existing
{{DEFAULTSORT:...}}keywords incorrectly appear as missing templates in VisualEditor. Developers are exploring how to fix this. In the meantime, those wishing to edit the default sortkey of a page are advised to switch to source editing. [10] 
Last week, an update to the delete form may have broken some gadgets or user scripts. If you need to manipulate (empty) the reason field, replace #wpReasonwith#wpReason > input. See an example fix. [11]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).
- VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on English Wikipedia on Monday, and all other large wikis on Thursday. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [12]
Future changes
- From 5 June to 17 July, the Foundation's Security team is holding a consultation with contributors regarding a draft policy to govern the use of third-party resources in volunteer-developed gadgets and scripts. Feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome at Third-party resources policy on meta-wiki.
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Hello
@Ferien i recently created an article about a novelist you deleted the page for the reason of notability without checking that subject is notable or not that subject is featured in Hindustan Times , outlook india and in international portals as well what else you need for notability? May i know how Mutahir Showkat is notable? Only 2/4 news are notable in this article i created that article with 8/11 news articles with all articles are notable and well notable Di45Q (talk) 07:43, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
- Hello there Di45Q, I deleted Asif Tariq Bhat because there was no claim to notability within the article. As of the references, it appear they mostly surround one event and a lot of them are interviews – but the reason I deleted was due to a lack of claim to notability, not necessarily a lack of notability. --Ferien (talk) 10:10, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
- Ok got it but may i know where is the claim of notability in Mutahir Showkat article? Di45Q (talk) 16:15, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
- I have deleted that article, as it also fails A4 and likely isn't notable. --Ferien (talk) 17:23, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
- Ok got it but may i know where is the claim of notability in Mutahir Showkat article? Di45Q (talk) 16:15, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
Do you think Fred Rogers should be removed from that page, or moved to the bottom section? I know there are a number of other articles that used to be GAs but are now VGAs. Lights and freedom (talk) 18:14, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
- Lights and freedom, thanks, I forgot about reviewing that page as well. Fred Rogers should be moved to the bottom section with the new status "Very good article" and I think that should be the case for other GA -> VGA articles as well. --Ferien (talk) 18:16, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
Delete revision, including nudity
Please and thank you (diff). LDM2003 (talk) 18:51, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
Done --Ferien (talk) 18:52, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-25
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
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
- There is now a toolbar search popup in the visual editor. You can trigger it by typing
\or pressingctrl + shift + p. It can help you quickly access most tools in the editor. [15][16]
![[15]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Visual_editor_toolbar_search_feature.png){kind=link}
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Reuesting 2 permissions... Flood and suppress notification...
I am continuing with the lint cleanup - currently in User talk:.
I am needing 2 permissions, first is 'Flood' as I am editing a lot of pages, and whilst I mark the edits as minor, they are noticeable in the Recent Changes feed. The 2nd is notification suppress, because unless I have this, de-lints will generate unnecessary new message notifications for relatively minor repairs. If you need to discuss this was other other admins, I strongly advise you do so. I've also hit some 'blocks' on repairs, an examination of what remains in Special:LintErrors may give some hints. If I'm not sure about a repair, I generally don't implement it, and would appreciate an admin or inteface admin taking a look to resolve those (with AWB if needed). ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 16:47, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
- Hi ShakespeareFan00. Flood I am happy to give you, although I can only do it on a temporary basis (1-3h). Notification suppress is a bit more challenging, as it is only a part of bot currently. We could do one of two things: make you a bot, or adjust the flood flag to add in notification suppress – although this could come with issues as an editor might want to say on a user talk page when they are done with the flag. When I have a little more time, I could help with AWB for the other repairs you mention. --Ferien (talk) 17:17, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
- Notification suppression should be an additional part of flood. But it should ONLY be granted for trusted users, for a limited period etc...
- ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:19, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
- I think this would be a good idea to discuss with other admins and get thoughts on it. There have been user talk page-related tasks I've chosen not to do for now due to the notifications (User talk:Ferien/Archives/2021/August#Substing on user talk pages) – adding it into flood would help with that. As of the issues with trust and letting people know when they are done, admins should be watching users with flood, to see if they abuse it, so I don't think adding it in would be too much of an issue, but I'm going to ask on AN. --Ferien (talk) 17:25, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
- Absolutely, this should be at AN before any policy/techncial changes are implemented more widely :)
- BTW one of the aims of my de-linting efforts was so that something like 'obselete' tags which should be fairly standard could be done by a bot automatically based on regexp. (Of course to do that, stuff has to be reasonably standard first :( ) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:28, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
- ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:28, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
- I think this would be a good idea to discuss with other admins and get thoughts on it. There have been user talk page-related tasks I've chosen not to do for now due to the notifications (User talk:Ferien/Archives/2021/August#Substing on user talk pages) – adding it into flood would help with that. As of the issues with trust and letting people know when they are done, admins should be watching users with flood, to see if they abuse it, so I don't think adding it in would be too much of an issue, but I'm going to ask on AN. --Ferien (talk) 17:25, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
Appove this page
I m invester in minati
minati is very best token 103.170.147.91 (talk) 03:12, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
- Please could you reword your message? I don't understand what you're trying to say. --Ferien (talk) 21:03, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
Save your bf ale nehme
Su, leviamo alta la face
che c'illumini il cammino,
nel lavoro e nella pace
lo zingaro libanese vedrà
sia la verà libertà.
Vittoriosa al nuovo sole
è che lo ale nehme vuole,
per l'Butan vincerem!
Faccetto zingaro, sarai Timpu
La tua bandiera sarà sol quella Butan!
Noi marceremo insieme a te
E sfileremo avanti al Chencho Ronaldo Gyeltshen e avanti al Re 93.140.148.242 (talk) 01:01, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2023-26
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Please be bold and help translate this article!  Rawon (Javanese: ꦫꦮꦺꦴꦤ꧀) is an Indonesian beef soup. Originating from East Java, rawon utilizes the black keluak nut as the main seasoning, which gives a dark color and nutty flavor to the soup. (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: 2023-26
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 Action API modules and Special:LinkSearch will now add a trailing
/to allprop=extlinksresponses for bare domains. This is part of the work to remove duplication in theexternallinksdatabase table. [17]
Problems
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
- The Minerva skin now applies more predefined styles to the
.mbox-textCSS class. This enables support for mbox templates that use divs instead of tables. Please make sure that the new styles won't affect other templates in your wiki. [20][21] - Gadgets will now load on both desktop and mobile by default. Previously, gadgets loaded only on desktop by default. Changing this default using the
|targets=parameter is also deprecated and should not be used. You should make gadgets work on mobile or disable them based on the skin (with the|skins=parameter in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition) rather than whether the user uses the mobile or the desktop website. Popular gadgets that create errors on mobile will be disabled by developers on the Minerva skin as a temporary solution. [22] - All namespace tabs now have the same browser access key by default. Previously, custom and extension-defined namespaces would have to have their access keys set manually on-wiki, but that is no longer necessary. [23]
- The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized user interface components. [24]
Future changes
- How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change in the coming weeks at group2 wikis. This change improves the accessibility of content. You may need to update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to check, how to update the code, and where to report any related problems. [25]
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