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Hello, I semi-protected Battle F0r Dream Island because its creation has been repeated with an obvious typo (please note the difference between 0 and o). Does this make sense to you? MathXplore (talk) 00:30, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
- Hi MathXplore, I completely understand why you did it. The reason why I removed the protection was because there was an existing entry on MediaWiki:Titleblacklist that I extended and this should be more effective than protecting individual pages. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 05:39, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Quick deletion requests
Category:Quick deletion requests may need to be protected again (because it was accidentally deleted again). Not that it has been vandalized, but I think you intended it to stay protected. Batrachoseps (talk) 02:53, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
- I think that was my fault. I'll take care of it, not that it will help against admin foolery. fr33kman 03:01, 5 October 2024 (UTC)
- No worries, it seems to happen a lot. I was thinking of trying to create an abuse filter to nudge admins who were about to do it but I doubt abuse filters would be able to apply to admin actions. --Ferien2 (talk) 13:49, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-41
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [1]
Updates for editors
- Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now customize their articles suggestion list from 41 filtering options when using the tool. This topic-based article suggestion feature makes it easy for translators to self-discover relevant articles based on their area of interest and translate them. You can try it with your mobile device. [2]
- View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- It is now possible for
<syntaxhighlight>code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if thecopy=1attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [3] - Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [4]
Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available.- Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
- Five new wikis have been created:
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Bot for clearing interlanguage links
Could a bot be created to handle Category:Interlanguage link template existing link? Batrachoseps (talk) 23:31, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) @Batrachoseps: Cewbot is supposed to do that. Here is an example of a recent change it did for that task. But sometimes it can't fix them for some reason, and it notes the ones it can't do at User:Cewbot/Interlanguage link templates need to fix. -- Auntof6 (talk) 06:36, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Auntof6 Thank you! Batrachoseps (talk) 14:12, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-42
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The little Danes experiment was a 1951 Danish operation where 22 Greenlandic Inuit children were sent to Danish foster families in an attempt to re-educate them as "little Danes". While the children were all supposed to be orphans, most were not. Six children were adopted while in Denmark, and sixteen returned to Greenland, only to be placed in Danish-speaking orphanages and never live with their families again. Half of the children experienced mental health disturbances, and half of them died in young adulthood. The government of Denmark officially apologised in 2020, after several years of demands from Greenlandic officials.
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Tech News: 2024-42
Latest 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
- The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. [10][11]
- WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [12]
- View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.
Updates for technical contributors
- Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. [13]
- Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [14]
- Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a
<bdi>element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time. [15]
In depth
- The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more.
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more.
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The bot seems to be having a problem, constantly placing, and then removing the protection template (despite the protection placed expiring yesterday).- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 10:04, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
- Letting you know I have shut down the bot. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 12:18, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
- Apologies I haven't looked at it sooner, and thanks Fehufanga for blocking. I'm still not going to be home for another 6 hours yet so it might be a little while before this gets resolved. I'll obviously try to get to it as soon as I can so this doesnt end up happening again on another page. --Ferien (talk) 12:49, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
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As an update, I've found the source of the problem. The edit protection on ST expired, therefore the template should be removed (as it is present in WP:IPT), however under the current rules the bot follows, the move protection remains therefore the page remains protected and it was recently protected (albeit not to its current state) therefore the template should be readded. The current code does not specify which type of protection a page requires for the template to be added, it simply needs to be an existent page and be protected. Move protection is rare so I honestly forgot about it initially. I should be able to fix this quickly though once I have the time. Sorry about the inconvenience! --Ferien (talk) 22:17, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
- At least you found the problem :).- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 06:02, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, this weekend is a fairly busy one for me so probably was the worst time this could have happened this month! But the issue is now resolved and the bot is running normally again, despite the lengthy explanation above it's literally just 10 extra characters that fixed it :P --Ferien (talk) 19:43, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-43
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Kharayeb (Arabic: الخرايب) is a historic town in the Sidon District in the South Governorate, Lebanon. The town is 77 km (48 mi) south of Beirut, and stands at an average altitude of 190 m (620 ft) above sea level. The town boasts a rich historical legacy, with archaeological excavations revealing a complex settlement history spanning from Prehistory to the Ottoman period. Notably, Kharayeb's origins can be traced back to the Persian period (539–330 BC), when it played a pivotal role in the region's agricultural and economic landscape, culminating in the construction of its Phoenician temple around the 6th century BC.
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Tech News: 2024-43
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- The Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.
Updates for editors
- Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.
- Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
- View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week. [16][17][18][19][20]
- It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.
Updates for technical contributors
- Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new
{{#timef:…}}parser function. For example,{{#timef:now|date|en}}will show as "20 December 2024". Previously,{{#time:…}}could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation.#timef(or#timeflfor local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [21][22] - Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using
{{USERLANGUAGE}}instead of using{{int:lang}}. [23] - The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform. [24]
In depth
- The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
- The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
- The Community Wishlist is now testing machine translations for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.
Meetings and events
- 24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar - Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel.
- 20–22 December 2024 - Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.
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Thanks
Hi 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)
Barnstar
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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
Hello. 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
Helloǃ 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
Latest 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
- 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. [25]
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. [26] - 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. [27]
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