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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. [1]
Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the categories property of mw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [2][3]
Bugs status
Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with Talk:WP: so that their titles start with Wikipedia talk:), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388.
Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.
Learn more
The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
Administrators can now test the temporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
Later this week, editors at wikis that use FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface. [4]
Bugs status
Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, will no longer experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
Please review and vote on Focus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
Do you have a project and are willing to provide a three (3) month mentorship for an intern? Outreachy is a twice a year program for people to participate in a paid internship that will start in December 2024 and end in early March 2025, and they need mentors and projects to work on. Projects can be focused on coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, research). See the Outreachy page for more details, and a list of past projects since 2013.
Learn more
If you're curious about the product and technology improvements made by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, read this recent highlights summary on Diff.
To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
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
Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help to test the charts.
Feature news
Editors who use the Special:UnusedTemplates page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements. [5]
Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now. [6]
Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu.
Project updates
A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.
Learn more
To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
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Hi can you rever the move? There is an ongoing discussion on the Talk:Stanisław Potocki (1659-1683) and it seems there is consensus that using "Polish noble" as disambiguator doesn't really make much sense. Marcelus (talk) 06:48, 7 September 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240907064800","author":"Marcelus","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Marcelus-20240907064800-Jan_Dzia\u0142y\u0144ski_(Polish_noble,_born_1590)","replies":["c-Robertsky-20240907101900-Marcelus-20240907064800"]}}-->
@Marcelus ok. I will be reverting this, and probably make sense to merge the RM together since they are about the same thing. – robertsky (talk) 10:19, 7 September 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240907101900","author":"Robertsky","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Robertsky-20240907101900-Marcelus-20240907064800","replies":[],"displayName":"\u2013 robertsky"}}-->
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Hello,
Please tell me how I can add information and cite an article as verification?
The bio of Dr.A. Good omits the fact that he was also married to Joanne Finstad. Below is the article I wish to reference as evidence for this.
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/04/01/archives/minnesota-professor-is-named-president-by-sloankettering.html
She too, was instumental in the budding field of immunology. She and Dr. Good worked together, authored published papers together, etc.
Thank you. --RainyLakeGirl (talk) 05:12, 8 September 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240908051200","author":"RainyLakeGirl","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-RainyLakeGirl-20240908051200-Question_from_RainyLakeGirl_on_Robert_A._Good_(05:12,_8_September_2024)","replies":["c-Robertsky-20240908060100-RainyLakeGirl-20240908051200"]}}-->
@RainyLakeGirl please see WP:REFBEGIN for instructions. Apologies for not being more verbose here right now as I am on the move. – robertsky (talk) 06:01, 8 September 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240908060100","author":"Robertsky","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Robertsky-20240908060100-RainyLakeGirl-20240908051200","replies":[],"displayName":"\u2013 robertsky"}}-->
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Hi I have a photo that I took myself and attempt to upload it to include in a paragraph I'm editing. But each time the upload is refused. Any advice. --StephenCharlesLow (talk) 14:04, 8 September 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240908140400","author":"StephenCharlesLow","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-StephenCharlesLow-20240908140400-Question_from_StephenCharlesLow_(14:04,_8_September_2024)","replies":["c-Robertsky-20240908161900-StephenCharlesLow-20240908140400"]}}-->
@StephenCharlesLow You will have to upload those photos at Commons and then include the images from there. See Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons. Note that not all of the images should be uploaded, certainly not the booklet as it has copyright implications. – robertsky (talk) 16:19, 8 September 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240908161900","author":"Robertsky","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Robertsky-20240908161900-StephenCharlesLow-20240908140400","replies":[],"displayName":"\u2013 robertsky"}}-->
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page. [8][9]
Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions entity:getSitelink() and mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [10]
Project updates
Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [11]
Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new MOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with MOS: (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language code mos). [12]
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Improvements and Maintenance
Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.
The new automated Special:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. [13]
References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed. [14]
It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order. [15]
Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes mw-message-box need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer cdx-message group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. [16]
Technical project updates
Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible. [17]
Tech in depth
The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are more details and links available in the Phabricator task.
Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.
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Question from Subashoza (15:34, 19 September 2024)
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I suggest we post "Today's Date" at the top of the page --Subashoza (talk) 15:34, 19 September 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240919153400","author":"Subashoza","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Subashoza-20240919153400-Question_from_Subashoza_(15:34,_19_September_2024)","replies":[]}}-->
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
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 UTC. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.
Updates for editors
A screenshot of the interface for the Alt Text suggested-edit feature
Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page.
The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within <syntaxhighlight> tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax {{…}} are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [18]
Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [19][20]
The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained on the project's blog post. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.
The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.
In depth
The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of the WDQS Graph Split project, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly" and "main" subgraphs of Wikidata. The query.wikidata.org endpoint will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see the announcement on Wikidata.
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Hello, how are you, I'm not sure about my question, but I'm looking for a marriage date --Najzarantar (talk) 00:28, 24 September 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240924002800","author":"Najzarantar","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Najzarantar-20240924002800-Question_from_Najzarantar_on_Civil_registration_(00:28,_24_September_2024)","replies":[]}}-->
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RFA2024 update: Discussion-only period now open for review
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Hi there! The trial of the RfA discussion-only period passed at WP:RFA2024 has concluded, and after open discussion, the RfC is now considering whether to retain, modify, or discontinue it. You are invited to participate at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase II/Discussion-only period. Cheers, and happy editing! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:38, 27 September 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240927093800","author":"MediaWiki message delivery","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-MediaWiki_message_delivery-20240927093800-RFA2024_update:_Discussion-only_period_now_open_for_review","replies":[]}}-->
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Move Draft: William Heffernan by Spactues to be placed into article space 29 september 2024
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Looking for help of my first artical Draft: William Heffernan by Spactues to be moved to the artical space and accepted review. Spactues (talk) 04:23, 29 September 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240929042300","author":"Spactues","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Spactues-20240929042300-Move_Draft:_William_Heffernan_by_Spactues_to_be_placed_into_article_space_29_sep","replies":[]}}-->
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
Readers of 42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding ?veaction=editsource to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences. [21]
For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin. Learn more about the changes related to donor experiences. [22]
The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been enabled on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Wikipedia has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Wikipedia and on Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.
In depth
The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes. [23]
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Hello: Thanks for your help. There is a new book on the mystery about the Man in the Iron Mask written by me, Sarah Madry, M.Ed. On the Wikipedia page on this topic there is a list of books about this topic. I would like to have my book listed on the list. Since the editors investigate, quite normally and appropriately, the level of accuracy and seriousness of authors and material that appear on Wikipedia (I depend upon you to do that as a regular user of Wikipedia - thank you), I wrote to another editor who responded to me about adding my book to the list about the depth of my research and the new paths covered on the subject. I think that was interpreted as a promotion of my book that I intended to put on the Wikipedia page. I don't want to promote my book, unless putting the book on the list of other books, is promotion. I wanted to show the editor that my book is a serious work that offers dependable new material. I am sorry if that was the wrong thing to do. I have never done this before and I didn't know I was not supposed to do this. I apologize. I hope Wikipedia will be able to list my book as a book on this topic.
Sarah Madry --Avemalakoff (talk) 13:15, 5 October 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241005131500","author":"Avemalakoff","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Avemalakoff-20241005131500-Question_from_Avemalakoff_(13:15,_5_October_2024)","replies":[]}}-->
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. [24]
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. [25]
It is now possible for <syntaxhighlight> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the copy=1 attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [26]
Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [27]
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.
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I really like the heading "The court reads", thanks for the chuckle. As another court in India noted at one point,[33] WP is not a reliable source and legal stuff should not be based on it. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 13:46, 14 October 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241014134600","author":"Gr\u00e5bergs Gr\u00e5a S\u00e5ng","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Gr\u00e5bergs_Gr\u00e5a_S\u00e5ng-20241014134600-ANI_vs_WP","replies":[]}}-->
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. [34][35]
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. [36]
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. [37]
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. [39]
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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Your Signpost article made me wonder why we didn't have Asian News International vs. Wikimedia Foundation. Now we do. I love it when that happens, so thanks! Valereee (talk) 18:19, 10 October 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241010181900","author":"Valereee","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Valereee-20241010181900-ANI_vs_WMF","replies":["c-Robertsky-20241014100900-Valereee-20241010181900","c-Robertsky-20241014104800-Valereee-20241010181900"]}}-->
@Valereee, personally I prefer to have WMF-related legal cases (even though it is uncommon compared to the other legal cases that are written here) only to be written in the mainspace after the case is over for various reasons. One of the many reasons is its potential to influence ongoing cases, likeso; potentially shutting off/opening up possible legal strategies that trial lawyers (on both sides, and now the judiciary as a whole apparently?) can apply and whatever extra scrutiny it may place on our fellow editors living the country. But hey... what's done is done. – robertsky (talk) 10:09, 14 October 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241014100900","author":"Robertsky","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Robertsky-20241014100900-Valereee-20241010181900","replies":[],"displayName":"\u2013 robertsky"}}-->
Nonetheless, thanks for the article since it now presents a timeline. – robertsky (talk) 10:48, 14 October 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241014104800","author":"Robertsky","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Robertsky-20241014104800-Valereee-20241010181900","replies":["c-Valereee-20241014155100-Robertsky-20241014104800"],"displayName":"\u2013 robertsky"}}-->
I guess I feel like not writing it until the case is settled is self-censoring. There's a huge amount of coverage, and I tried to follow it very carefully. And it's a not-unimportant case. And being not in India, I'm safe from being directly threatened personally even if my personal details were released.
Would be kind of a bummer if I got invited to an Indian wedding, although I'd have an incredibly interesting decline reason: "Sorry, I've got an open warrant there". Which almost would make it worth missing even a fabulous Indian wedding. Valereee (talk) 15:51, 14 October 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241014155100","author":"Valereee","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Valereee-20241014155100-Robertsky-20241014104800","replies":["c-Robertsky-20241015084400-Valereee-20241014155100"]}}-->
@Valereee I get where you are coming from. Let's hope that this does not blow up further. – robertsky (talk) 08:44, 15 October 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241015084400","author":"Robertsky","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-Robertsky-20241015084400-Valereee-20241014155100","replies":[],"displayName":"\u2013 robertsky"}}-->
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Regarding this comment of yours at WT:RFA: Is there a place I can read more about this? For instance, a WMF thing outlining its perspective? If not, would you mind giving me a brief explanation? You have piqued my curiosity :) HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 06:10, 16 October 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241016061000","author":"HouseBlaster","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-HouseBlaster-20241016061000-zhwiki_mandated_to_use_SecurePoll?","replies":["c-Robertsky-20241016080600-HouseBlaster-20241016061000","c-Robertsky-20241016091000-HouseBlaster-20241016061000"],"displayName":"House"}}-->
there is a link somewhere. Will pull it out later. Tldr: back when WMF got wind of CUs on zhwiki misusing the right to breach the privacy of editors and coupled with undesired behaviours from the pro-China faction, they yanked the perm there and set conditions to fulfill before returning the perms. One of them was to use SecurePoll for CU elections. One thing led to another, RFA there also uses SecurePoll. – robertsky (talk) 08:06, 16 October 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241016080600","author":"Robertsky","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Robertsky-20241016080600-HouseBlaster-20241016061000","replies":[],"displayName":"\u2013 robertsky"}}-->
@HouseBlaster: you will have to use Google Translate for most of the following two links, however, most of the admin terms do not translate well. zhwiki RfC to use SecurePoll for admin elections (which vote was conducted on SecurePoll as well), zhwiki RfA talk archive 8. The talk archive contains a series of activities which solidified the current voting practices on zhwiki, starting from the mandate for the usage of SecurePoll for CU appointments, and further discussions on the earlier linked RfC and modifications to the rules on the RfA page. – robertsky (talk) 09:10, 16 October 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241016091000","author":"Robertsky","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Robertsky-20241016091000-HouseBlaster-20241016061000","replies":[],"displayName":"\u2013 robertsky"}}-->
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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.
iOS Wikipedia App's profile menu and contents
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.
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 "4 January 2025". 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 #timefl for 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. [45][46]
Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using {{USERLANGUAGE}} instead of using {{int:lang}}. [47]
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. [48]
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.
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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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. [49]
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 emitTransitionOnStep to true to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag allowAutomaticBack to avoid back-buttons they don't want. [50]
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. [51]
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Hello how can l edit --Kamogelo Mankosi (talk) 05:25, 2 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241102052500","author":"Kamogelo Mankosi","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Kamogelo_Mankosi-20241102052500-Question_from_Kamogelo_Mankosi_(05:25,_2_November_2024)","replies":["c-Robertsky-20241102060200-Kamogelo_Mankosi-20241102052500"]}}-->
@Kamogelo Mankosi welcome to Wikipedia. You can peruse the links in the welcome message dropped on your Talk page to learn how to edit at your own time. Alternatively, you can jumpstart with Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Adventure as a tutorial. – robertsky (talk) 06:02, 2 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241102060200","author":"Robertsky","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Robertsky-20241102060200-Kamogelo_Mankosi-20241102052500","replies":["c-Kamogelo_Mankosi-20241102060900-Robertsky-20241102060200"],"displayName":"\u2013 robertsky"}}-->
okay thanks for your help Kamogelo Mankosi (talk) 06:09, 2 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241102060900","author":"Kamogelo Mankosi","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Kamogelo_Mankosi-20241102060900-Robertsky-20241102060200","replies":[]}}-->
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How do the user page describe one's personal information --Kamogelo Mankosi (talk) 09:19, 2 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241102091900","author":"Kamogelo Mankosi","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Kamogelo_Mankosi-20241102091900-Question_from_Kamogelo_Mankosi_on_User:Kamogelo_Mankosi_(09:19,_2_November_2024)","replies":[]}}-->
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Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068
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@Robertsky: Thank you for sorting out the discussion and setting up the centralized Talk:Jews in Madagascar#Requested move 1 November 2024 and for the placing the notifications on the 3 articles' pages. I greatly appreciate your efforts. Sincerely, IZAK (talk) 18:49, 3 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241103184900","author":"IZAK","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-IZAK-20241103184900-Thank_You!","replies":[]}}-->
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Updates for editors
Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts. [52]
Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled can now use the Collaboration List feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode. [53]
View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.
Updates for technical contributors
XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. [54]
In depth
Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.
Meetings and events
MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.
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How many pages do I have to edit before I can publish a new article? --Klangustaccount (talk) 06:49, 5 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241105064900","author":"Klangustaccount","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Klangustaccount-20241105064900-Question_from_Klangustaccount_(06:49,_5_November_2024)","replies":["c-Robertsky-20241105065900-Klangustaccount-20241105064900"]}}-->
@Klangustaccount: To create a new article on the main space, your account will need to be 4 days old (48 hours from when you have registered your account) and have already accrued 10 edits. You can however create a draft article either in the draftspace or userspace, i.e. Draft:Example (change the bolded portion to the actual title of the topic you want to write on) or User:Klangustaccount/sandbox.
As new user, you are however encouraged to edit on existing articles first to get yourself comfortable with editing on Wikipedia. I have dropped a standard Welcome template on your talk page. Do look through the links to familiarise yourself with editing on Wikipedia and the various policies and guidelines. – robertsky (talk) 06:59, 5 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241105065900","author":"Robertsky","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Robertsky-20241105065900-Klangustaccount-20241105064900","replies":["c-Klangustaccount-20241105073900-Robertsky-20241105065900"],"displayName":"\u2013 robertsky"}}-->
If the article I want to write is in a different language (Tagalog), will I have to edit 10 articles that are in Tagalog or are English articles okay? Klangustaccount (talk) 07:39, 5 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241105073900","author":"Klangustaccount","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Klangustaccount-20241105073900-Robertsky-20241105065900","replies":["c-Robertsky-20241105075700-Klangustaccount-20241105073900"]}}-->
@Klangustaccount:If it is in Tagalog, you have to check out the Tagalog Wikipedia. Do not submit anything in Tagalog on English Wikipedia as it will be removed without question. Each language project has their own policies. tl:Wikipedia:Kapihan would be the appropriate place for your query. – robertsky (talk) 07:57, 5 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241105075700","author":"Robertsky","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-Robertsky-20241105075700-Klangustaccount-20241105073900","replies":[],"displayName":"\u2013 robertsky"}}-->
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hello --RedPekingDucks8 (talk) 13:15, 5 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241105131500","author":"RedPekingDucks8","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-RedPekingDucks8-20241105131500-Question_from_RedPekingDucks8_(13:15,_5_November_2024)","replies":["c-Robertsky-20241105131800-RedPekingDucks8-20241105131500"]}}-->
@RedPekingDucks8 hi. I have also dropped a welcome message on your talk page. Do go through the links in there to get started on editing on Wikipedia. – robertsky (talk) 13:18, 5 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241105131800","author":"Robertsky","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Robertsky-20241105131800-RedPekingDucks8-20241105131500","replies":[],"displayName":"\u2013 robertsky"}}-->
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@Robertsky:, Please solve the issue in the Women in the Bangladesh Army article, seven days have been passed since the request of page moving, see the talk page of the article. 119.30.47.8 (talk) 03:15, 6 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241106031500","author":"119.30.47.8","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-119.30.47.8-20241106031500-Please_solve_an_issue","replies":[]}}-->
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Updates for editors
On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, users will notice that the FuzzyBot will now automatically create translated versions of categories used on translated pages. [55]
In 1.44.0-wmf-2, the logic of Wikibase function getAllStatements changed to behave like getBestStatements. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable. [57]
Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The impacted endpoints include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket.
In depth
Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page for more information about this work. [58]
Meetings and events
21 November 2024 (8:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC) - Community call with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.
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CheckUser and conflict of interest VRT appointments, November 2024
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Thanks for the update. – robertsky (talk) 01:28, 13 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241113012800","author":"Robertsky","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Robertsky-20241113012800-Sdrqaz-20241113012400","replies":[],"displayName":"\u2013 robertsky"}}-->
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@Robertsky:, Solve the issue in the page Women in the Bangladesh Army, seven days have been passed today after relisting requesting move discussion. 119.30.39.27 (talk) 03:03, 13 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241113030300","author":"119.30.39.27","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-119.30.39.27-20241113030300-Women_in_the_Bangladesh_Army","replies":[]}}-->
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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
Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a redirect to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects. [59]
View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pywikibot, which automates work on MediaWiki sites, was upgraded to 9.5.0 on Toolforge. [60]
Updates for technical contributors
On wikis that use the FlaggedRevs extension, pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this. [61][62]
In depth
There is a new Diff post about Temporary Accounts, available in more than 15 languages. Read it to learn about what Temporary Accounts are, their impact on different groups of users, and the plan to introduce the change on all wikis.
Meetings and events
Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10 2024. The registration for the event will close in mid-April 2025. The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual gathering that unites the global technical community to collaborate on existing projects and explore new ideas.
Join the Wikimedia Commons community calls this week to help prioritize support for Commons which will be planned for 2025–2026. The theme will be how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. This is an opportunity for volunteers who work on different things to come together and talk about what matters for the future of the project. The calls will take place November 21, 2024, 8:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC.
A Language community meeting will take place November 29, 16:00 UTC to discuss updates and technical problem-solving.
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
A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode syntax highlighter will be available as a beta feature later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support, template folding, autocompletion, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the help page.
The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such Ctrl+B for bold and Ctrl+I for italics. A full list of all six shortcuts is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. [63]
Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: bswiki, elwiki, euwiki, fawiki, fiwiki, frwikiquote, frwikisource, frwikiversity, frwikivoyage, idwiki, lvwiki, plwiki, ptwiki, urwiki, viwikisource, zhwikisource. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF).
The CodeEditor, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages, now offers live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing Ctrl+, and un-selecting "Live Autocompletion".
Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can check this dashboard and the list in the Description of the task T350592 to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April. [64]
The New PreProcessor parser performance report has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities. [65]
Meetings and events
A Language community meeting will take place November 29 at 16:00 UTC. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Wikipedia, the language support track at Wiki Indaba, and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.
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Hello, I am wondering on how do add an alias/ aka section to a persons infobox that can redirect to an external webpage. Thanks for your help! --Gt3lmp2 (talk) 10:47, 27 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241127104700","author":"Gt3lmp2","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Gt3lmp2-20241127104700-Question_from_Gt3lmp2_(10:47,_27_November_2024)","replies":["c-Robertsky-20241127105900-Gt3lmp2-20241127104700"]}}-->
@Gt3lmp2 For aliases, you can use the parameter 'other_names' or 'alias' in the {{Infobox person}} (see this for documentation). For link out to external webpage, we don't encourage links to external websites per WP:External links in most cases. If you have a list of aliases, you can list them out in the 'other_names' field, and then add the external link as a reference by wrapping the link in <ref></ref> tag. An example would be
:{{Collapsible list: | title = List of aliases<ref>http external link</ref>: | 1 = <!--(First item in list; the "1 =" is usually not required)-->: | 2 = <!--(Second item in list; ditto)-->: | 3 = <!--(Third item in list; etc.)-->: | <!-- etc. -->:}}
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Thanks for this! Gt3lmp2 (talk) 11:02, 27 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241127110200","author":"Gt3lmp2","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Gt3lmp2-20241127110200-Robertsky-20241127105900","replies":[]}}-->
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@Momosixer I am using the information provided through mw:Extension:IPInfo. Currently it shows some proxy activity. Due to legal policy, I am unable to share further information. – robertsky (talk) 12:02, 29 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241129120200","author":"Robertsky","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Robertsky-20241129120200-Momosixer-20241129113400","replies":["c-Robertsky-20241129120400-Robertsky-20241129120200"],"displayName":"\u2013 robertsky"}}-->
From my own tests, it is highly unlikely that 152.58.93.148 is a webhost or a proxy. Your 1 year block seems unwarranted. Momosixer (talk) 12:21, 29 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241129122100","author":"Momosixer","type":"comment","level":4,"id":"c-Momosixer-20241129122100-Robertsky-20241129120400","replies":["c-Robertsky-20241129131000-Momosixer-20241129122100"]}}-->
@Momosixer Feel free to take it up at ANI. I don't know what tests or checks you have conducted but I stand by the information that was given to me through the toll. – robertsky (talk) 13:10, 29 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241129131000","author":"Robertsky","type":"comment","level":5,"id":"c-Robertsky-20241129131000-Momosixer-20241129122100","replies":[],"displayName":"\u2013 robertsky"}}-->
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the HTTPS Browser Recommendations page for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [66]
Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: arwiki, cawiki, frwiki, mediawikiwiki, orwiki, wawiki, wawiktionary, wikidatawiki, zhwiki. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF). [67]
This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed. [68]
Updates for technical contributors
In late February, temporary accounts will be rolled out on at least 10 large wikis. This deployment will have a significant effect on the community-maintained code. This is about Toolforge tools, bots, gadgets, and user scripts that use IP address data or that are available for logged-out users. The Trust and Safety Product team wants to identify this code, monitor it, and assist in updating it ahead of the deployment to minimize disruption to workflows. The team asks technical editors and volunteer developers to help identify such tools by adding them to this list. In addition, review the updated documentation to learn how to adjust the tools. Join the discussions on the project talk page or in the dedicated thread on the Wikimedia Community Discord server (in English) for support and to share feedback.
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Question from Shollyk Smart (08:18, 3 December 2024)
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How can I start my legacy introduction as a musician --Shollyk Smart (talk) 08:18, 3 December 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241203081800","author":"Shollyk Smart","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Shollyk_Smart-20241203081800-Question_from_Shollyk_Smart_(08:18,_3_December_2024)","replies":[]}}-->
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Hi, you said "Reverted 3 edits by Justice Chawla (talk): The sitting judge shouldn't be commenting here at risk of fouling up the legal process". This is not a good reason to revert these, if this was the judge it is their business if they want to foul up the process or not, but none of our business. However, a good reason to remove these is because we have no idea if they are the judge or (more likely) someone impersonating them. If something like this happens again, please use the right description of why the comments get removed. WP:NLT would have been a good reason as well. Fram (talk) 08:38, 3 December 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241203083800","author":"Fram","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Fram-20241203083800-Reverted_3_edits_by_Justice_Chawla","replies":["c-Robertsky-20241203084500-Fram-20241203083800"]}}-->
@Fram Indeed, I could have been more accurate with the edit summary. The reversion was primarily due to impersonation concerns, of which I had blocked the account for at the same time, and I should have added that in the edit summary as well. Thanks for the message and I will keep this in mind for future similar actions. – robertsky (talk) 08:45, 3 December 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241203084500","author":"Robertsky","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Robertsky-20241203084500-Fram-20241203083800","replies":[],"displayName":"\u2013 robertsky"}}-->
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Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.
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I was looking at an AFD tagged by a new editor, Dmitry Bobriakov, and their User page states they are a member of English Wikipedia conflict of interest volunteer response team. I was unfamiliar with this group so I went to Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Conflict of interest reports and saw your name listed so I'm coming to you. I was wondering if you could tell me more about this "team", who is on it and what it does. Thanks for any insight. LizRead!Talk!01:41, 4 December 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241204014100","author":"Liz","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Liz-20241204014100-Query","replies":["c-Liz-20241204014400-Liz-20241204014100"]}}-->
Ooops! It looks like I already asked the editor about this on their User talk page back in October. But I'd still like to get your feedback on this. LizRead!Talk!01:44, 4 December 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241204014400","author":"Liz","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Liz-20241204014400-Liz-20241204014100","replies":["c-Robertsky-20241204041100-Liz-20241204014400"]}}-->
@Liz, the COIVRT team arose from Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Cases/2024#April case, in which there were private information being used to investigate into a COI issue involving an admin. After the case, the COIVRT mailing list was established. Admins can apply to the ArbCom to access it and also work on the reports there. Other than applying for access, other admins holding CU rights and on the Arbcom as well may access it. As such, other than the 4 admins listed on the page, CUs and ArbCom members have access as well. If the ArbCom elections is in your favour, you will also have access.
If the COIVRT report warrants it, we may block accounts while tagging the block with [[ticket:2024xxx]] COIVRT or similar in the block log message. We don't do this often as this meant that whatever unblock decisions needed to be made, it will be restricted to only a few admins as the block decision is based on the correspondence.
To my knowledge, the editor in question is not a member of the team. The editor might have submitted reports via the email which may have been handled and closed before I came onboard recently. Their userpage stated that they are "a volunteer who together with the team..." (shortened for brevity) sounds about right as it can be read that they are interested in hunting down COI editors and then sending the reports over for the team to review, akin to an editor reporting suspected socks at SPI then the SPI clerks/admins/CUs work on the report or one working on persistent copyright infringements by others. It just sounds... fluffy (WP:PROMO much?). – robertsky (talk) 04:11, 4 December 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241204041100","author":"Robertsky","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Robertsky-20241204041100-Liz-20241204014400","replies":[],"displayName":"\u2013 robertsky"}}-->
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For your tireless contributions to this project. Happy editing! Maliner (talk) 17:02, 3 December 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241203170200","author":"Maliner","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Maliner-20241203170200-A_barnstar_for_you!","replies":["c-Robertsky-20241204041900-Maliner-20241203170200"]}}-->
HI I see you did not implement my requested move for Yunnanilus nigromaculatus to Eonemachilus nigromaculatus. The relevant project WP:Fishes agreed in October this year that the taxonomy used in fish articles, for taxa below the level of order, should follow Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes. That is what I was doing in this case. I have re-requested the move.
Can you tell me why the original request was not implemented? Quetzal1964 (talk) 09:22, 8 December 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241208092200","author":"Quetzal1964","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Quetzal1964-20241208092200-Fishes","replies":["c-Robertsky-20241208105000-Quetzal1964-20241208092200"]}}-->
@Quetzal1964 those are contested as seen at Special:Permalink/1261835653. I routinely clear out requests with no activity in the last three days as stale. However, I missed out on your latest comment it seems. If you don't mind, I will restore the previous requests since there's some activity discussion. – robertsky (talk) 10:50, 8 December 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241208105000","author":"Robertsky","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Robertsky-20241208105000-Quetzal1964-20241208092200","replies":["c-Quetzal1964-20241208121300-Robertsky-20241208105000"],"displayName":"\u2013 robertsky"}}-->
Okay Quetzal1964 (talk) 12:13, 8 December 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241208121300","author":"Quetzal1964","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Quetzal1964-20241208121300-Robertsky-20241208105000","replies":[]}}-->
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Question from Typo slayer (14:16, 9 December 2024)
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Hi, i wanted to ask you how to upload profile image to someone's biography article. Like what are restrictions. Can i get the image from anywhere (news article or social media site) to upload? --Typo slayer (talk) 14:16, 9 December 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241209141600","author":"Typo slayer","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Typo_slayer-20241209141600-Question_from_Typo_slayer_(14:16,_9_December_2024)","replies":["c-Robertsky-20241209143700-Typo_slayer-20241209141600"]}}-->
@Typo slayer If the subject is still alive, you will need to find a copyright-free or creative commons (by-sa) version and upload to c:Commons first, as we have a strict interpretation of what non-free content can be used at WP:NFCC. Therefore, you cannot just get from anywhere, but instead find specifically on Flickr or even YouTube. For example, Ix Shen, I cannot use his image from todayonline or his instagram, but it was possible to get an updated image via a podcast on YouTube as it is labelled with "Creative Commons Attribution licence (reuse allowed)". If the subject is dead, and there is a already a copyright-free/cc-licensed image, the only way to replace it would be finding another copyright-free/cc-licensed image. – robertsky (talk) 14:37, 9 December 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241209143700","author":"Robertsky","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Robertsky-20241209143700-Typo_slayer-20241209141600","replies":[],"displayName":"\u2013 robertsky"}}-->
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Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new #wikimedia-techdocs IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team.
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Layout change for the Edit Check feature
Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear while they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide. [69]
The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements. [70]
The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, archiveUrl and archiveDate, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates. [71]
Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing. [73]
View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases. [74][75]
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Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library. [76]
Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase system.
The 2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.
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Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page.
Updates for editors
Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history.
Users of the Android Wikipedia App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.
The global reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page for more information.
The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the Android Wikipedia App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.
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There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January. [78]
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I have a question about this edit - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=162886860. For what reason did you delete this draft? I'm asking because I want to create this page. Rxsxuis (talk) 21:54, 17 December 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241217215400","author":"Rxsxuis","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Rxsxuis-20241217215400-Question_about_Battle_of_Melitene_(576)","replies":["c-Robertsky-20241218010400-Rxsxuis-20241217215400"]}}-->
@Rxsxuis as seen here, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=162886858, the article was deleted for copyright infringement of the stated URL – robertsky (talk) 01:04, 18 December 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241218010400","author":"Robertsky","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Robertsky-20241218010400-Rxsxuis-20241217215400","replies":["c-Rxsxuis-20241218035400-Robertsky-20241218010400"],"displayName":"\u2013 robertsky"}}-->
Thanks for response. Rxsxuis (talk) 03:54, 18 December 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241218035400","author":"Rxsxuis","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Rxsxuis-20241218035400-Robertsky-20241218010400","replies":[]}}-->
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