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Tech News: 2024-30
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
- Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
- Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [1]
- Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. [2]
- Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
- Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons. [3]
Project Updates
- Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.
Learn more
- Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff.
- How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin and Add a Fact, to help take Wikimedia into the future.
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Tech News: 2024-31
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 using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.
Bugs status
- Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
- Editors can use the IP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
- There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
- There is an update on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Czech (
voy:cs:) [4]
Learn more
- There is a new Wikimedia Foundation data center in São Paulo, Brazil which helps to reduce load times.
- There is new user research on problems with the process of uploading images.
- Commons Impact Metrics are now available via data dumps and API.
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available.
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Hello, 0xDeadbeef,
HaleBot used to issue this report daily at 01:00 UTC but now it is issued at all hours of the day and what, for me, is early, early morning. Is there any way to get it back on its old schedule? I typically use the link to the new Empty Categories listing but with this time lag that is currently going on, I thought I'd check the old report and noticed that is is coming out at random times of the day and night.
Hope all is well with you this summer. Liz Read! Talk! 02:59, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
- I also posted this message at Legoktm's User talk page.
Hi!
Just to let you know when in dark mode your signature is read difficult to read, and specifically comments highlighted as part of notifications become illegible. If you'd be willing to consider a lighter colour scheme for accessibility that'd be great. CNC (talk) 13:03, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
- Hello! Thanks for the nudge. This should be fixed now :D 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 13:11, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
- Looks great, thanks. Also gives you the inverted appearance you were looking for :) CNC (talk) 13:37, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
Guptalab SPI
Hi, Following the recent Guptalab SPI, I've nominated the effected article for speedy deletion (on the basis that it was created by a user who was evading a block). This has now been contested by an account which opened a couple of hours ago and which I'd suggest is obviously another sockpuppet. Is there anything that can be done to prevent the subject from continually creating new accounts and preventing the deletion? Last time (2017) he created several to try to influence the AfD, albeit unsuccessfully. Would, for example, page protection be the way to go? I'm not sure that I see how that would prevent it, do you have any other ideas? Best wishes, Axad12 (talk) 17:26, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
- Article now deleted, so problem gone (until the sockmaster re-emerges, as he no doubt will one day).
- Many thanks for your help with the SPI. Axad12 (talk) 19:21, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
AfD stats
https://afdstats.toolforge.org/ lists Enterprisey and Σ.
Neither have edited recently. Enterprisey's talkpage lists you as a maintainer of apersonbot on Toolforge.
Since afdstats is also on toolforge I am hoping you can keep that alive as well.
Am I making any sense whatsoever? Am I in the right place? Polygnotus (talk) 09:36, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, you are in the right place. I an just busy at the moment. I can't give an ETA for this, so feel free to nudge me however frequent you see appropriate. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 03:12, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks! No worries, Ahecht restarted it and that fixed it. Polygnotus (talk) 04:38, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
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Help me? About a educational Institute.
hi, I want to add a schools information in Wikipedia. How can I create a page for this Educational Institute. The institute is known as Khagrabondo Adorsho Bidda Niketon,Badargang.Please help me to create the article. মোঃ আহসান হাবিব রিফাত (talk) 06:57, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
- @মোঃ আহসান হাবিব রিফাত: Feel free to take a look at the Article wizard and make sure you have reliable sources that can help establish its notability. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 09:38, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
I want to report a problem
Greetings. I am Risantana, a self-confirmed user of the Spanish Wikipedia with 15 years on the platform. I collaborate mainly by making vector images for the articles on the Dominican Republic on Wikipedia.
I would like to report a user who is making drawings of flags and bodies of the Dominican armed forces in SVG format that are not faithful to the originals that these institutions show, and are even poorly drawn.
The "user" in question is 0Username1233451
Is there a way to block this user and delete their contributions?
i think is a good measure to stop this graphic vandalism.
Take care. Risantana (talk) 16:58, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Risantana: I am not a commons admin so I can't help with that. Try going to commons:Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems if there is a problem with the uploads by said user. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 08:00, 27 August 2024 (UTC)