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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-02
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Please be bold and help translate this article! .jpg) Pax airship disaster was the explosion of the Pax airship on May 12, 1902, in Paris, which killed the Brazilian inventor Augusto Severo and the French mechanic Georges Saché. (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: 2024-02
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
- mediawiki2latex is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can install on your local machine.
The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing. [1]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar). [2][3]
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Why do the Fame Police always lie that Joseph Carrillo isn't "notable"?
Why do the Fame Police always lie that Joseph Carrillo isn't "notable"? 67.180.157.137 (talk) 20:44, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
- Joseph Carrillo isn't notable, that has been established by numerous deletion requests on many wikis. Who are the fame police? --Ferien (talk) 20:54, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi, we've got a situation in recent edits to clean up
LTA raid. Derpdart56 (talk) 18:28, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi
Hi Ferien! Hope you are doing good! Recently, I noticed a template that creates a difference between the appearance of Meitei script in desktop screen of people living outside Indian subcontinent. Could you please tell me which of the following are visible properly in your computer screen?
(1) ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ - plainly written without the template
(2) ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ - written without the template but with double brackets
(3) ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ - written with the template, without double brackets, as {{Script|Mtei|ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ}}
(4) ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ - written with the template as well as double brackets, as {{Script|Mtei|[[ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ]]}}
(5) ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ - written with the template, with double brackets, but by lowering the letter "S" as "s", but with correct Meitei script code "Mtei", as {{script|Mtei|ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ}}
(6) ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ - written with the template as well as double brackets, but by lowering the letter "S" as "s", but with correct Meitei script code "Mtei", as {{script|Mtei|[[ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ]]}}
(7) ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ - written with the template without double brackets, but by lowering the letter "S" as "s", as well as wrong Meitei script code "mtei", as {{script|mtei|ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ}}
(8) ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ - written with the template as well as double brackets, but by lowering the letter "S" as "s", as well as wrong Meitei script code "mtei", as {{script|mtei|[[ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ]]}} --Haoreima (talk) 17:35, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) I, personally, can't read any of them. They all show as boxes to me. fr33kman 17:41, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Fr33kman I recently created some additional related templates in simple English wikipedia related to this issue. Please refresh this page and could you please tell me your review once more, for (3) to (6) specifically? Haoreima (talk) 17:46, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- That's much better. I can 'read' 3, 4, 5 and 6. Hope this helps :) fr33kman 17:51, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Fr33kman I recently created some additional related templates in simple English wikipedia related to this issue. Please refresh this page and could you please tell me your review once more, for (3) to (6) specifically? Haoreima (talk) 17:46, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) I can read all of them on MacBook and Android phone. Kk.urban (talk) 17:51, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Haoreima: I can read all of them on a Surface computer. --Ferien (talk) 20:24, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-03
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Please be bold and help translate this article!  Conversion to Islam is accepting Islam as a religion or faith and rejecting any other religion or irreligion. (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: 2024-03
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
- Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. [4]
- Gadgets and personal user scripts may now use JavaScript syntax introduced in ES6 (also known as "ES2015") and ES7 ("ES2016"). MediaWiki validates the source code to protect other site functionality from syntax errors, and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers. Previously, Gadgets could use the
requiresES6option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future. [5] - Bot passwords and owner-only OAuth consumers can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages. [6]
- You can now thank edits made by bots. [7]
- An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024 has been published. Please read and give your feedback.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar). [8][9]
- Starting on January 17, it will not be possible to login to Wikimedia wikis from some specific old versions of the Chrome browser (versions 51–66, released between 2016 and 2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, or Safari on Mac OS 10.14, may need to login to each wiki separately. [10]
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jquery.cookiemodule was deprecated and replaced with themediawiki.cookiemodule last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed. [11]
Future changes
- Wikimedia Deutschland is working to make reusing references easier. They are looking for people who are interested in participating in individual video calls for user research in January and February.
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-04
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Please be bold and help translate this article!  Kinder der Landstrasse (literally: Children of the Country Road) was a project implemented by the Swiss foundation Pro Juventute from 1926 to 1973. The project aimed to assimilate the itinerant Yenish people in Switzerland by forcibly removing their children from their parents and placing them in orphanages or foster homes. Approximately 590 children were affected by this program. (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: 2024-04
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed. [12]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 January. It will be on all wikis from 25 January (calendar). [13][14]
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Talkback
Message added 14:33, 28 January 2024 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
MathXplore (talk) 14:33, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
Done --Ferien (talk) 18:10, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
Rollback
Thanks for giving me the rollback right. How is this different from the rollback link on Twinkle? Kk.urban (talk) 18:04, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Answered on your own talk page :) --Ferien (talk) 18:10, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-05
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Please be bold and help translate this article!  Qurm Nature Reserve is a national nature reserve in Muscat Governorate, Oman. Located on the Gulf of Oman coast, the reserve protects a mangrove forest and the surrounding wetland in a small estuary within the urban area of Qurm. Established in 1975, the reserve has been designated as an Important Bird Area since 1994, and as a protected Ramsar site since 2013. (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: 2024-05
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
- Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [15]
- There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will be on all wikis from 1 February (calendar). [16][17]
On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new Special:QrCode page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [18]- Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the
targetsoption to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use theskinsoption instead. [19]
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