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Tech News: 2023-43
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Source map support has been enabled on all wikis. When you open the debugger in your browser's developer tools, you should be able to see the unminified JavaScript source code. [1]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (calendar).
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Apologies I should have checked for copyright violation before accepting. Theroadislong (talk) 16:29, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
- No worries :) - RichT|C|E-Mail 19:49, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-44
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The Structured Content team, as part of its project of improving UploadWizard on Commons, made some UX improvements to the upload step of choosing own vs not own work (T347590), as well as to the licensing step for own work (T347756).
- The Design Systems team has released version 1.0.0 of Codex, the new design system for Wikimedia. See the full announcement about the release of Codex 1.0.0.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar).
- Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 2 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for many languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [2][3]
- Starting November 1, the impact module (Special:Impact) will be upgraded by the Growth team. The new impact module shows newcomers more data regarding their impact on the wiki. It was tested by a few wikis during the last few months. [4]
Future changes
- There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. You can help by reviewing this proposal and sharing what you think about it.
- The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
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November Articles for creation backlog drive
Hello Rich Smith:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.
You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.
Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
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Okay. You tagged the blocking redirect. It's yours. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:50, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
Re:Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
I took a look, and it turns out that the accepted article is almost an exact copy and paste of the version that was repeatedly deleted. The only new info added is the "Appearances and goals by club, season and competition" section, which i'm honestly uncertain about since I do not see anything in there per se that justifies an article, but I'm not familiar enough with sports notability guidelines to make a fair ruling on that matter. All the same, I'd be hesitant to drop the protection unless it was demonstrated via consensus that the new version is superior to the previously deleted versions. For you convenience, a rough copy of the previous deleted version appears below. TomStar81 (Talk) 07:38, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
Charlize Jayde Rule (born 16 February 2003) is an Australian soccer player who plays for Sydney FC in the W-League.[2]
Rule grew up in New South Wales and played for FNSW Institute. Club
On the 13th of August 2020, Rule signed for Sydney FC for the 2020–21 W-League season. On the 8th of January 2021, Rule made her W-League debut against the Newcastle Jets in a 2–1 victory for the Sky Blues. Rule was substituted into the match in the 88th minute. [3] International career
Rule was apart of the Junior Matildas team during the 2019 AFC U-16 Women's Championship qualification and final tournament. She featured during five matches of qualification as well as featuring in all five games in the final tournament, playing 381 minutes, starting four out of five games and coming off the bench against Bangladesh. [4][5]
On the 21st of November 2020, Rule was called up for the first ever Women's Talent Identification Camp which was held in Canberra from 22 - 26 of November 2020.[6][7] References
"Charlize Rule – Soccerway". Soccerway. 22 November 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2020. "Charlie Rule signs for Sydney FC". Sydney FC. Retrieved 2020-11-22. "Rule signs for Sydney FC". W-League. 2020-08-13. Retrieved 2020-08-13. "Rae Dower selects Junior Matildas squad for qualifiers". Beyond 90. 2019-09-11. Retrieved 2020-11-22. "AFC U-16 Women's Championship - Junior Matildas Squad". Matildas.com.au. 2019-09-04. Retrieved 2020-11-22. "23 Players called up to first ever Women's Talent Identification Camp". Matildas.com.au. 2020-11-21. Retrieved 2020-11-21. "7 Sydney FC players called up to first ever Women's Talent Identification Camp". Matildas.com.au. 2020-11-21. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
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Tech News: 2023-45
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- In the Vector 2022 skin, the default font-size of a number of navigational elements (tagline, tools menu, navigational links, and more) has been increased slightly to match the font size used in page content. [5]
Problems
- Last week, there was a problem displaying some recent edits on a few wikis, for 1-6 hours. The edits were saved but not immediately shown. This was due to a database problem. [6]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar).
- The Growth team will reassign newcomers from former mentors to the currently active mentors. They have also changed the notification language to be more user-friendly. [7][8]
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Hello and thank you for looking at my article. The Little Green men is a reference to Little green men. But I can change the description to russian troops if you insist. F.Alexsandr (talk) 17:59, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
- @F.Alexsandr: Ah, that makes much more sense... I would Wikilink the text to that article :) - RichT|C|E-Mail 19:47, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
AFC for Tactical Assault Group
Hello, I request your attention at Draft:Tactical Assault Group (game) which you declined stating it was not improved since the last decline. I discussed this first at the AfC talk page, and was instructed to resubmit this way. After the last decline, I asked the reviewer the reason since the draft appears to now clearly meet WP:GNG. They responded here that they reconsidered after re-looking at it and I should resubmit the draft as-is. Thank you. Airborne84 (talk) 16:07, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
- @Airborne84: Thanks for letting me know. It would be helpful in future for a comment to be left on the draft mentioning this, as I'm not going to go looking on the AfC Help Desk nor previous reviewers talk pages looking for comments, I'm going to look at the draft as given. In this instance, I will revert the review - RichT|C|E-Mail 16:51, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
- Will do. Thanks! Airborne84 (talk) 00:46, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-46
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Four new wikis have been created:
Problems
- Last week, users who previously visited Meta-Wiki or Wikimedia Commons and then became logged out on those wikis could not log in again. The problem is now resolved. [13]
- Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong font size. The problem is now resolved. [14]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar).
Future changes
- Reference Previews are coming to many wikis as a default feature. They are popups for references, similar to the PagePreviews feature. You can opt out of seeing them. If you are using the gadgets Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews. Deployment is planned for November 22, 2023.
- Canary (also known as heartbeat) events will be produced into Wikimedia event streams from December 11. Streams users are advised to filter out these events, by discarding all events where
meta.domain == "canary". Updates to Pywikibot or wikimedia-streams will discard these events by default. [15]
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I added the form on Wikipedia:Files for upload can you kindly upload it for me now? NihonKofee (talk) 16:25, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
- @NihonKofee: Single word answers are not acceptable as it forms a legal bases to use the file under fair-use. Please have a look at Wikipedia:Use rationale examples and modify accordingly. Do not copy and paste from the examples, use your own words - RichT|C|E-Mail 01:28, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
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