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Robert Baker

GRP keeps vandalizing this page, it gets vandalized nearly every day. Please protect it. I asked on AN, but never got a response. QuicoleJR (talk) 20:49, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

 Done It hasn't been as bad recently, but still worth protection in my opinion. --Ferien (talk) 20:51, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-09

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Doorway effect Please be bold and help translate this article! The doorway effect is a known psychological event where a person's short-term memory declines when passing through a doorway moving from one location to another when it would not if they had remained in the same place. People experience this effect by forgetting what they were going to do, thinking about, or planning upon entering a different room. This is thought to be due to the change in one's physical environment, which is used to distinguish boundaries between remembered events: memories of events encountered in the present environment are more accessible than those beyond it. (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.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:30, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-09

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 mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well. [1]
• The mw.config value wgGlobalGroups now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is: if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))). [2]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (calendar). [3][4]

Future changes

• The right to change edit tags (changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-10

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Sissieretta Jones Please be bold and help translate this article! Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones (January 5, 1868, or 1869 – June 24, 1933) was an American soprano. She sometimes was called "The Black Patti" in reference to Italian opera singer Adelina Patti. Jones' repertoire included grand opera, light opera, and popular music (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.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:33, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-10

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 Special:Book page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the Wikisource extension. [5]
• Wikitech now uses the next-generation Parsoid wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the Known Issues discussion page. You can use the ParserMigration extension to control the use of Parsoid; see the ParserMigration help documentation for more details.
• Maintenance on etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket.
• Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The Gadget and Gadget_definition namespaces and gadgets-definition-edit user right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made. [6]
• A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [7]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar). [8][9]

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [10]
• The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See Heading HTML changes for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add ?useparsoid=1 to your URL (more info) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (more info).

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:47, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-11

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Preventative Coup of November 11 (es:Golpe de Estado en Brasil de 1955) Please be bold and help translate this article! The Preventative Coup of November 11 sometimes called the 1955 Brazilian coup d'état or referred to as an "anti-coup" or a "counter-coup" (Portuguese: Novembrada, Movimento de 11 de Novembro, Contragolpe, Golpe Preventivo do Marechal Lott) was a series of military and political events led by Henrique Teixeira Lott that resulted in Nereu Ramos assuming the presidency of Brazil until being peacefully succeeded by Juscelino Kubitschek a few months later. The bloodless coup removed Carlos Luz from the presidency because he was suspected of plotting to prevent Kubitschek from taking office. As a result of the tensions, Brazil had three presidents in the span of a single week. (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.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:04, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-11

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar). [11][12]
• After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed. [13]
• The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [14]
• Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost. [15]

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [16][17]

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-12

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Hojang Taret Please be bold and help translate this article! Hojang Taret is a classical Meitei language play based on Euripides's ancient Greek tragedy The Phoenician Women. It is directed by Oasis Sougaijam and produced by The Umbilical Theatre in Imphal, Kangleipak. It depicts the moral ambiguities of conflict between brothers resulting to the ruination of the ancient city of Thebes. (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.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:52, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-12

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 notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher. [18]
• IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers. [19]
• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [20][21][22]
• Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [23]

Problems

• RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now. [24]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar). [25][26]
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [27][28]

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MediaWiki message delivery 17:40, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Questions to create articles/page

I can create a page called: 'Rusrdanbis Alliance'?. Rusrdanbis Alliance (talk) 17:15, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Rusrdanbis Alliance, creating articles on topics you have conflicts of interest with is strongly discouraged, and therefore I am unable to help you with creating this article. --Ferien (talk) 22:18, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Peanut stew

Could you have a look at User:Rathfelder/Sandbox/Peanut stew when you have a moment and tell me whether you think it is simple enough to be published? Or if not advice would be welcome. Rathfelder (talk) 17:37, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Rathfelder, yup, that's great, I have no issues with that being published. There are a few little things I'd change like It has been described as one of the national dishes of The Gambia. to It is one of the national dishes of The Gambia. (or even the national dish of the Gambia), per w:National dish#G and maybe trying to use a different word other than commercially at the start but those are just minor issues. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 17:39, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Rathfelder (talk) 17:44, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

@Rathfelder If I may, it actually sounds really good. Have you had it before? One thing I did notice is you bolded the second using of Peanut Stew. It should only be bolded when it’s first used per Wikipedia:Manual of Style#First sentence. Thanks - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 23:20, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

That was an accident! Rathfelder (talk) 13:14, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

No worries. Thanks - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 13:51, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

All done

Hey Ferien - on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Protection request for multiple pages I was able to get them all back in order and corrected. They obviously are stubs but the bones are back to the way they should be and all of the CAPS have been removed from fire engine. Thanks for your help even though there is still some subtle vandalism (exact same thing from before) but on a different range (of which I emailed you). Thanks - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 23:15, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-13

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Magna Lykseth-Skogman Please be bold and help translate this article! Magna Elvine Lykseth-Skogman (6 February 1874 – 13 November 1949), also known as Magna Lykseth-Schjerven, was a Norwegian-born Swedish operatic soprano. After making her début at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1901 as Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana, she was engaged there until 1918 becoming the company's prima donna. She performed leading roles in a wide range of operas but is remembered in particular for her Wagnerian interpretations, creating Brünnhilde in the Swedish premières of Siegfried and Götterdämmerung, and Isolde in 1909. Considered to be one of the most outstanding Swedish opera singers of her generation, she was awarded the Litteris et Artibus medal in 1907 and became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1912 (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.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:00, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-13

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

• An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin. A checklist is provided for site admins to follow.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar). [29][30]

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:56, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Deleted article

Hi Ferien, I think there were one or two articles that may have been wrongly tagged for QD around 03:00-07:00 UTC, 26 March. They may have been tagged as test pages with an explanation which didn't seem to qualify. They may have been among the articles deleted by Macdonald-ross from 07:08-07:34. Could you please review these deleted pages? Sorry, I have forgot the specifics. Kk.urban (talk) 15:41, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi Kk.urban, thanks for the message. I've just restored US Airways Group, as it's definitely not a test page and has the potential to become an acceptable article. Invasion of the Waikato also technically isn't eligible, but I'm not sure what I'll be able to get from that. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 15:46, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Also, was X-Men '97 a test page? Kk.urban (talk) 15:48, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

@Kk.urban: No, it was not. Restored, thanks. --Ferien (talk) 15:50, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! Kk.urban (talk) 15:50, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

GA closures

Hi! I just wanted to check that I hadn't misunderstood how the PGA closures work. I couldn't find any info pages on what the rules are. Did I do something wrong for this? Happy to do it differently in future if it's wrong. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:28, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Lee Vilenski, hey, usually admins do the PGA closures, so I did revert that edit, but then noticed this hasn't happened as much lately, and we don't have any rules that say it needs to be an admin who closes it. There's nothing wrong with your closure beyond that. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 20:28, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

ah, that makes sense. I did have a check to see if it was a requirement and couldn't find much, and the two before that one was non-admin so didn't realise it was a sysop item. Have a great day. Lee Vilenski ^{(talk • contribs)} 20:32, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Lee Vilenski, you too, sorry for the confusion! --Ferien (talk) 20:32, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

For clarification, are non-admins allowed to close these, or is it admin-only? I ask as a non-admin who has closed a few before. QuicoleJR (talk) 14:26, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

@Ferien: It looks like you missed my question. QuicoleJR (talk) 21:11, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, I hadn't looked at my talk page at all from when you sent that first message until now, and that's my bad. There's no rule against non-admins closing PGAs. They are usually done by admins though. I don't know whether it'd be worth a discussion. --Ferien (talk) 21:12, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

redirect

Hi, about this, apart from the hoax insertion, the content was mostly a copy paste from this page: [31] so that page history is filled with copyright violations, both copyvio and BLP issues would be good reasons to "first delete and then redirect" imo. And it was eligible for a G5 QD in the first place anyway. Tehonk (talk) 12:45, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Tehonk, ok, I've deleted those revisions from the history. G5 is still relatively new here, so we occasionally don't use it, especially when an article is already at RfD. If the copyright violations had been pointed out prior to/during the RfD, the article would already have been deleted per G12, but no-one pointed it out until now. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 21:17, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-14

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Lidder Valley Please be bold and help translate this article! The Lidder Valley or Liddar Valley is a Himalayan sub-valley that forms the southeastern corner of Anantnag district in Indian-administered Kashmir. The Lidder River flows down the valley. The entrance to the valley lies 7 km northeast from Anantnag town and 62 km southeast from Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir. It is a 40-km-long gorge valley with an average width of 3 km. (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.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:15, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-14

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

• Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [32]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar). [33][34]

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:36, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Just have to say

You were always a good editor and you became an admin and crat while I was away and we need more like you that are active and are appreciated by everyone for being level headed, make sense of things and do a lot of good work. Barnstars are not always as good as saying it out loud, so I wanted to personally say it to you that you are very much appreciated. Thanks and edit well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 00:14, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you :) --Ferien (talk) 11:21, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Very welcome now get to studying or you will come out here and live with Trump in Florida! lmao Thanks and edit well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 12:16, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

DYK

What are the requirements to make something a DYK? Thanks and edit well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 06:11, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

PotsdamLamb, the rules are on Wikipedia:Did you know#Rules --Ferien (talk) 11:21, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-15

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Operation Kraai Please be bold and help translate this article! Operation Kraai (Operation Crow) was a Dutch military offensive against the de facto Republic of Indonesia in December 1948 after negotiations failed. With the advantage of surprise the Dutch managed to capture the Indonesian Republic's temporary capital, Yogyakarta, and seized Indonesian leaders such as de facto Republican President Sukarno. This apparent military success was however followed by guerrilla warfare, while the violation of the Renville Agreement ceasefire diplomatically isolated the Dutch, leading to the Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference and recognition of the United States of Indonesia. (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.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:47, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-15

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

• Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
• A new Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
• Initial results of Edit check experiments have been published. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at the wikis that tested it. Let us know if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check. [35][36]
• Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [37]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar). [38][39]
• New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. [40]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:37, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Talkback

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-16

The winner this Translation of the week is ru:Павильон Росси (en:Rossi Pavilion) (fr:Pavillon Rossi) Please be bold and help translate this article! The Rossi Pavilion (Russian: Павильон Росси) is a pavilion on the bank of the Moyka River in the Mikhailovsky Garden in Saint Petersburg. It was designed by architect Carlo Rossi in the early 1820s and built in 1825 during his redevelopment of the 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.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:53, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-16

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

• Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [41][42]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [43][44]
• Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked). [45]
• A new variable page_last_edit_age will be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [46]

Future changes

• Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
• Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the abuse_filter and abuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to be updated. [47]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:29, 15 April 2024 (UTC)