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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.
Recent changes
There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use action=changecontentmodel to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org. [1]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).
Future changes
If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface. [2][3]
You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. This month, as part of Wikimedia NYC's commitment to the well-being of members, we will hold WikiWednesday online via Zoom videoconferencing! To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page.
We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person!
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We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 04:36, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
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Article ratings
Hi. I noticed you're using the old Rater gadget by Kephir, for which development has been discontinued. Have you checked the newer User:Evad37/rater? I believe it can handle multiple projects in one edit. This would help avoid clogging up page histories when you're on an assessment drive. --Paul_012 (talk) 21:55, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
Sorry for bringing this up again, but taking seven edits to assess a single article can really clog up watchlists. Is there someway you could modify your workflow to avoid this? --Paul_012 (talk) 01:08, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for your important notice.I don't use old script Because,I have already installed a new script.My laptop software has some technical problem.Hopefully it will be okay.next time I will not be mistaken using Ratar.take care.Thanks again.CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 02:01, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
Dab talk pages
Please do not create talk pages for dab pages (eg Talk:Annie Murdoch) unless there is something to say: see the template documentation at {{WikiProject Disambiguation}}. Thanks. PamD 09:05, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
Hello and welcome to the March newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2019. All being well, we're planning to issue these quarterly in 2020, balancing the need to communicate widely with the avoidance of filling up talk pages. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.
Election results: There was little changeover in the roster of Guild Coordinators, with Miniapolis stepping down with distinction as a coordinator emeritus while Jonesey95 returned as lead coordinator. The next election is scheduled for June 2020 and all Wikipedians in good standing may participate.
January Drive: Thanks to everyone for the splendid work, completing 215 copy edits including 56 articles from the Requests page and 116 backlog articles from the target months of June to August 2019. At the conclusion of the drive there was a record low of 323 articles in the copy editing backlog. Of the 27 editors who signed up for the drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.
February Blitz: Of the 15 editors who signed up for this one-week blitz, 13 completed at least one copy edit. A total of 32 articles were copy edited, evenly split between the twin goals of requests and the oldest articles from the copy-editing backlog. Full results are here.
March Drive: Currently underway, this event is targeting requests and backlog articles from September to November 2019. As of 18 March, the backlog stands at a record low of 253 articles and is expected to drop further as the drive progresses. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Help set a new record and sign up now!
Progress report: As of 18 March, GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests in 2020 and there was a net reduction of 385 articles from the copy-editing backlog – a 60% decrease from the beginning of the year. Well done and thank you everyone!
Election reminder: It may only be March but don't forget our mid-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 June. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.
Hi Dear Raju They Banned my account with no reason they sayed you are that person created a lot of accounts and they sayed you are a scammer please help me ❤ my user : alexpavel2 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.187.75.227 (talk) 03:05, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
Hello User:CAPTAIN RAJU,
Thanks for the continuous edits to my articles, I am really learning a lot from you as a contributor.
Meanwhile, most of the articles you worked on has been recently considered for deleted. I have made a contest for the deletion because I believe my sources are very credible and the articles are notable considering this side of Africa where notability sources are hard to find in prints and on the internet.
Below is the list and I believe you can help me with this, I am still doing more research to add up as soon as possible.
Hi @CAPTAIN RAJU, an article Damed Imanov make by me, I think the article should be keep, because the criteria WP:ANYBIO in particular meets and your position is very important, please participate in the discussion and express your opinion.--Elshad Iman (Elşad İman) (talk) 11:55, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know you did something silly.
For thinking to move an admin's talk page rather than a userpage.--Jasper Deng(talk) 08:04, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
It was a mistake.Caused by a finger slipping on a mouse button.I have already requested the administrator to restore the user page.Thanks.CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 08:27, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata Lexeme Forms allows quickly generating a new lexeme with all its forms in selected languages; you can also use the tool to add forms to an existing lexeme, or bulk upload many lexemes and forms at once.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed. [4][5]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 March. It will be on all wikis from 26 March (calendar).
Future changes
There is a project to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata.
Hi CAPTAIN RAJU: First, many thanks for cleaning up my typos. I make many and when creating articles I develop such tunnel vision that I no longer see them. Second, Curacoa is/was not a typo. It is the 18th-19th century English name for Curaçao. I have restored it to the Emperor Alexandria article, but blue-linked it to the modern name. I will try to remember to do so routinely in the future. (As a general matter, I try to preserve the spellings I find in the sources so that others may more easily find the source, plus to document past practices and the changing English language.) Cheers, Acad Ronin (talk) 17:15, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
Sir i need help
Hello sir... How are you bro?
Can you please give me information? Mehr Shahrose Munir (talk) 00:56, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
Revive the article
Dear;
The List of ATK players has duplicated the actual content published at List of ATK (football club) players and has not done anythin' before that of. As the article is supposed to merge with it in order to avoid duplication. The authors simply pasted the materials and devoid the initial article List of ATK (football club) players usin' redirection and devastin' the actual published content.The appeal is urge deletion of this article and profound sustain of List of ATK (football club) players as it also include the article List of ATK (football club) Overseas players by the same author whereas List of ATK players is just a mere stub that doesn't enlist even more tham 3 players of the first season before the appeal of merger that one can access using the contributions and editin' history. List of ATK players is profound (upto 99.9%) duplication of the content of List of ATK (football club) players. Anyhow the author of List of ATK (football club) players managed to revive the article. The user is usin' his might immorally.
Upcoming: The Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference will take place fully remotely in July 2020. Call for submissions with remote formats is open until April 30th.
Upcoming: the Wikidata Wochenende (previously in Ulm) will take place fully remote on June 12-14
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The beta version of the Wikipedia app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts. [6]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all wikis from 2 April (calendar).
Future changes
The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed. [7]
There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback. [8]
Hello, CAPTAIN RAJU. You have new messages at Inter's talk page. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 14
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (March 2020).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 14th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Automatically detecting Good Article, Featured Article, and Featured List status, and limiting ORES predictions to B-class
An updated version of Twinkle was released. Features relating to the recently-enabled partial blocks include automatic lookup of pages and expanded options for block templates. See a full list of changes here
For users of Enterprisey's easy-brfa script, the bug with transcluding new BRFAs has been resolved
For any scripts that previously made use of the edit API to change a page's content model, a new API module is available: use action=changecontentmodel to specify the new content model of an existing page. Documentation is available: mw:API:ChangeContentModel.
The dispute resolution noticeboard wizard is no longer a gadget, but rather is loaded using withJS and withCSS. See the discussion at MediaWiki talk:Gadget-DRN-wizard.js
Pending requests
A script to help file movers process requests, including
renaming the file
updating file links
removing the {{Rename media}} template (when relevant)
Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.
Miscellaneous
The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.
Please stop creating empty talk pages like Talk:Peligrosa (disambiguation). The documentation for {{Talk page header}} clearly says "this template should not be added to otherwise empty talk pages." Thanks. PamD 05:27, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks. There's also Talk:List of Oz characters (disambiguation). There's a useful gizmo you can get which colours all links to dab pages in orange, alerting you to the fact that you've linked to one, or that this is a dab page and needs special treatment - but I can't find it in a quick look at Preferences/Gadgets, so can't quickly point you to it. I guess it's something I've put into my .js at some point. There's also something, I think different, which hightlights pages which are redirects or are proposed for deletion: makes editing a glorious technicolour affair, but they are all very useful. Happy Editing, and stay well. PamD 08:48, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
Found the orange thing: Preferences - Gadgets - Appearance, and 5th from bottom of the list. PamD 08:55, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for your important notice.I have already removed talk page header template from Talk:Peligrosa (disambiguation) and this page.maybe it was my mistake.Thanks again for the advice.takre care.CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 08:56, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #410
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
Ongoing: covid-19 virtual biohackathon until April 11th. Information on how to participate. Instructions to participate are on the github wiki and join #wikidata room. Several Wikidata-related topics are currently presented, such as: COVID-19 Global Dashboard, sync the ICTV Virus classification and Nomenclature with Wikidata, federate between Wikidata and NextProt, use wikibase to align between (bio)schema.org and Wikidata.
Scholia highlights the scholarly data in Wikidata, including scholarly works, projects, topics, and individual researchers, including their relationships and statistics. It encourages further enrichment of Wikidata through links on the "missing" pages.
Job opportunity: Science Museum, London. Research Developer, "using computational techniques to create links between the SMG collection and Wikidata at scale" (deadline: 19 April).
New tool: Wikidata Complete uses machine learning algorithms to read Wikipedia, identify facts and import them into Wikidata after manual check (blog post)
schema.org announced an extension to allow for special announcements with regards to COVID-19. The way to identify the topic as per the example? By using the Wikidata Q-Identifier, Q81068910: Structured data for special announcements
Interactive map showing the spread of COVID-19, updated daily with data from Wikidata.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [9]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April (calendar).
Future changes
MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user Maintenance script. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to. [10]
Hey Raju, I'm picking up that you're diving into some articles being worked on by long-time editors while they are actively under construction and causing edit conflicts. Maybe just look to see if they are more than an hour or two old before you dive in. Not a big deal, just a heads up that you may want to remember WP:DEMOLISH and yeah, I know that {{under construction}} is useful, but it's easy to forget. Montanabw(talk) 20:19, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
