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Recent changes
Twinkle is a gadget on English Wikipedia. It can help with maintenance and patrolling. It can
now be used on other wikis. You can get Twinkle on your wiki using the
twinkle-starter GitHub repository.
Problems
The
content translation tool did not work for many articles for a little while. This was because of a bug.
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Some things will not work for about a minute on 5 May. This will happen
around 06:00 UTC. This will affect the content translation tool and notifications among other things. This is because of an upgrade to avoid crashes.
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Changes later this week
Reference Previews will become a default feature on a number of wikis on 5 May. This is later than planned because of some changes. You can use it without using
Page Previews if you want to. The earlier plan was to have the preference to use both or none.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (
calendar).
Future changes
The
CSS classes .error, .warning and .success do not work for mobile readers if they have not been specifically defined on your wiki. From June they will not work for desktop readers. This can affect gadgets and templates. The classes can be defined in
MediaWiki:Common.css or template styles instead.
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Good night GeneralNotability, I saw that I was mentioned here, however, as you probably noticed, I have no relationship with this MarquinhosWikipediano. In my contributions, this is the first edition since December 2020. Perhaps I was mentioned because my account had a different name until March 27 of that year (my full name). In February I asked to globally rename my account so that it had a shorter username, but as there was a Commons account with that name, it was necessary to wait a month for my account to be effectively renamed. My English is bad and, since I don't speak Portuguese, I had to use the translator to write this message, but I believe I understood what I meant. Finally, pleasure to speak, I am sysop in Wikipedia in Portuguese.
Marcos (
talk) 06:51, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
Marquinhos, I understand what you meant. I think this was just a mistake by the user who filed the sockpuppet investigation, I am not concerned that you are MarquinhosWikipediano. I have removed the page that was associated with your name. Pleasure to speak with you as well~
GeneralNotability (
talk) 22:22, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
Found a Zenmate proxy
Hi here. I found a Zenmate proxy 146.70.13.0/16, but because disruption from it is still nonexistent yet, I feel that anon-blocking would be better at the moment.
146.70.13.8 (
talk) 09:50, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
Confirmed at WPOP (though the actual range is smaller), someone just needs to hit the block button.
Blablubbs|
talk 12:38, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
The /24 has been globally blocked and I'll deal with the WPOP report in a bit.
GeneralNotability (
talk) 22:54, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
Username
I decided to block that username, I was pronouncing it with a shorter o and didn't think of what you pointed out, which makes sense to me.
331dot (
talk) 08:08, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
331dot, somewhere out there there's a Richard Gobbler, born 4/20/1969, and his life is a living hell. SubjectiveNotabilitya
GN franchise (
talk to the boss) 13:06, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
Is that because his name's pronunciation is a bit of a mouthful?
Cabayi (
talk) 18:44, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
The user group oversight will be renamed to suppress. This is for
technical reasons. You can comment at
T112147 if you have objections.
Arbitration
The
community consultation on the Arbitration Committee
discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.
User:Nikki/Ranker.js adds a link to the Ranker tool next to every property on an entity page.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
The Wikibase spring release is now available! This new release is compatible with MediaWiki 1.35 and it contains new features: Federated Properties, WikibaseManifest & Wikibase Pingback.
May 2021 Query Builder updates: We finished usability testing of new features and incorporated feedback from users including people with visual impairments and RTL languages. It is now possible to query for dates and we're also looking into making the Query Builder discoverable from the
Wikidata Query Service.
Wikimedia Foundation
2021 Board Elections has been announced. Please sign-up as an
Election Volunteer if you'd like to support the elections. Election Volunteers serve as a bridge between the Elections Committee, the facilitation team and the movement.
Omaha-Ponca language is now available for monolingual text properties. (
phab:T265296)
Added a meaningful error message when trying to use Special:EntityData with a Lexeme subentity like L123-F1 in cases where the Lexeme L123 was redirected to another Lexeme (
phab:T257494)
Changed the “type” and “value type” constraints to ignore deprecated values (
phab:T170401)
Working on rendering empty claims in JSON as `claims: {}` instead of `claims: []` (
phab:T241422)
Investigating some issues with page_props missing on Commons wiki after adding sitelinks to Commons categories (
phab:T280627)
Removed Google Knowledge Graph Id (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) from the Property Suggestions as they are usually not useful suggestions (
phab:T280779)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 May. It will be on all wikis from 13 May (
calendar).
Future changes
You can see what participants plan to work on at the online
Wikimedia hackathon 22–23 May.
Hey, you're near the top of the "recently active admins" list. If you see this in next few minutes, can you locally disable the global block on
45.32.248.0/21, leaving the local block in place? I want to see how block messages display in the (possibly now fixed) Android app.
Suffusion of Yellow (
talk) 23:41, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
Suffusion of Yellow, global block is locally disabled, local block is in place (well, okay, I first misunderstood what you wanted and locally unblocked the /21, but the /20 is still locally blocked)
GeneralNotability (
talk) 23:44, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
Urghh, IP changed already! Thanks, but I'll try to come up with a better way of doing this... You can reblock.
Suffusion of Yellow (
talk) 23:54, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
All righty, exemption removed - let me know if you have any other ideas.
GeneralNotability (
talk) 23:56, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
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An
earlier issue of Tech News said that the
citoidAPI would handle dates with a month but no days in a new way. This has been reverted for now. There needs to be more discussion of how it affects different wikis first.
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Changes later this week
MediaWiki:Pageimages-blacklist will be renamed MediaWiki:Pageimages-denylist. The list can be copied to the new name. It will happen on 19 May for some wikis and 20 May for some wikis. Most wikis don't use it. It lists images that should never be used as thumbnails for articles.
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The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 May. It will be on all wikis from 20 May (
calendar).
A request from a blocked editor for talk page access to be restored
Hi, General. On 9 November 2020 you removed talk page access from indefinitely-blocked editor Core2012. (In my opinion you were totally right to do so.) After waiting 6 months, the editor has now posted an appeal at UTRS. What the editor says in that appeal is not, in my opinion, in itself enough to unblock, but it goes a good deal towards being more like a reasonable appeal than any of what they said in their talk page before you removed talk page access. The UTRS appeal also says "Please reinstate my talk page access so that I can appeal my block". How do you feel about reinstating talk page access?
JBW (
talk) 21:32, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
JBW, I see you went ahead and restored TPA (sorry, I've been pretty busy and haven't had much Wikipedia time the past few days) - for the record, no objections here. I have my doubts that they'll actually end up being a productive editor, but I'm willing to extend some rope.
GeneralNotability (
talk) 01:15, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
Thanks 😊 for your reply. I too have doubts that we will get a productive editor out of this, but I feel there's just about enough of a possibility that it's worth giving them a chance to prove us both wrong, in view of the change in approach shown in the UTRS appeal. (Though that may be no more than saying what they think we want to hear.)
JBW (
talk) 13:13, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
SPI question
Hey! Not challenging your close, I am trying however to learn more on SPI and relevant policy. Why did you
state that this is not sockpuppetry? Doesn't
Wikipedia:BADSOCK point-6:
"Contributing to the same page or discussion with multiple accounts: Editors may not use more than one account to contribute to the same page or discussion in a way that suggests they are multiple people. Contributing to the same page with clearly linked, legitimate, alternative accounts (e.g. editing the same page with your main and public computer account or editing a page using your main account that your bot account edited) is not forbidden."
apply in relation to
Draft:Ethide Laboratories edits? This also potentially avoid scrutiny as non-admins can't easily see who previously created speedy deleted articles, and multiple recreations of promotional articles is grounds for reporting and blocking.--Eostrix (
🦉 hoothoot🦉) 06:02, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
Eostrix, as a rule we don't consider the use of multiple accounts to be sockpuppetry if they aren't used at the same time and aren't actively pretending to be different people. The general assumption is that they lost access to their account, forgot their password, something like that. In this case, the last edit of the older account was 3-4 days before the first edit of the newer account. There are limits to this, of course - if someone switches accounts right after getting several warnings and then resumes their problematic behavior, that's evasion of scrutiny and will probably earn them a block.
GeneralNotability (
talk) 16:16, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
Thanks! So
WP:AGF for returning accounts with no significant warnings.--Eostrix (
🦉 hoothoot🦉) 16:37, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
Eostrix, exactly. Now, sometimes they're obviously the same person but trying to pretend that they're not (my personal favorite is when someone makes an obvious autobiography, it gets deleted, they get warned for making autobios and they subsequently create a new account that totally isn't the same person), and that isn't something we look at favorably...but as long as they're not evading something and aren't pretending they're multiple people we'll let it slide.
GeneralNotability (
talk) 16:44, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
DS 2021 Review Update
Dear GeneralNotability,
Thank you for participating in the recent
discretionary sanctions community consultation. We are truly appreciative of the range of feedback we received and the high quality discussion which occurred during the process. We have now posted a
summary of the feedback we've received and also a preview of some of what we expect to happen next. We hope that the second phase, a presentation of draft recommendations, will proceed on time in June or early July. You will be notified when this phase begins, unless you choose to to opt-out of future mailings by removing your name
here.
--
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KevinL (aka L235) 21:05, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
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Your IP block
Hi there. I see you blocked
this IP. I'm wondering if this is also
this registered account. I tried to run it through the Editor Interaction Analyzer, but it wouldn't work with the IP. Lots of similar edits from some of the IPs. Thanks!
Magnolia677 (
talk) 22:09, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
My mistake, I was only able to find one match. Cheers.
Magnolia677 (
talk) 09:52, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #469
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
#1Lib1Ref Campaign in Italy, as part of the IFLA Wikidata Working Group campaign (May 15 - June 5); more than 10k references have already been added (see the
dashboard for more details)
Wikidata-related projects that have been developed/improved during the
Wikimedia Hackathon 2021:
User:Lucas_Werkmeister/Ranker - Finished and announced the batch modes for the Ranker tool, allowing users to edit the ranks of statements in Wikidata or Structured Data on Commons in bulk
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Recent changes
The Wikimedia movement has been using
IRC on a network called
Freenode. There have been changes around who is in control of the network. The
Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts have
decided to move to the new
Libera Chat network instead. This is not a formal decision for the movement to move all channels but most Wikimedia IRC channels will probably leave Freenode. There is a
migration guide and ongoing Wikimedia
discussions about this.
Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 May. It will be on all wikis from 27 May (
calendar).