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Hi--please click on the history of User talk:LCOSEPA to see what all I had to oversight. When you run into a clear case of logged-out editing, please notify them and maybe alert an administrator. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 16:34, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Drmies, I was at Special:EmailUser/Oversight writing, when I saw that you were supressing the edits, so I didn't send the Mail. I wasn't sure if the logged-out editing itself was enough, due to WP:LOGGEDOUT. I've sent mails to oversight for logged-out editing in the past and was told that unless they said themself that they didn't want to show the IP, it isn't an oversight issue. What's your take on this? Nobody (talk) 06:15, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hey--interesting. Well, I think when I click on the "oversight" menu it's the second option, which I think means "pretty clearly to be oversighted" and WP:OSPOL is clear too, so I don't know why they told you that. Maybe I got my policy all wrong, but I doubt that. In this case the thing is also that using the "reply" function says "reply to IP", meaning there is also another edit summary to oversight. So in this case I had to suppress edit summaries, their auto-signature, and the actual IP. It's kind of like using rollback on someone with an offensive username: it adds another thing to clean up, which is why in such cases I go fully manual. You try to do the right thing but there are unintended consequences. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know about that, and yes, I have not heard that we should somehow leave it to the editor to decide--imagine having a conversation with them about it and explaining it, making even more edits that need to be cleaned up... Drmies (talk) 13:35, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know you did something silly.
Well, here you have done the hard way like I did various times elsewhere at EFFPR and I regretted that, and you should have too. Anyway, I would appreciate it if you do not leak private filters' details again, thank you. Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk07:08, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Meh, I don't consider it a regret, more like a learning experience and a reminder on staying vigilant when talking about filters. Nobody (talk) 07:12, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Self-note for me: never talk about private filters in public again but run for EFM again next year. Unfortunately, I'm not going to run for Meta adminship due to being busy with college and elsewhere, and I must regain the trust of some edit filter regulars first. That's priority. Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk07:17, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There's no need to rush currently either, while the number of EFMs active on enwiki could be higher, it's not to the point that stuff gets missed, so you can take your time. People like consistency and experience, so it's time to work on that for now. Nobody (talk) 07:21, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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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.
Updates for editors
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. [1]
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. [2]
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. [3]
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. [5]
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. [6][7]
Updates for technical contributors
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. [8]
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.
Hello I’m Anais and is there something I can watch to tell me how to edit because I only did it once or twice before and I don’t remember how to do it --AnaisMcduffie (talk) 02:59, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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This award is given in recognition to 1AmNobody24 for collecting more than 27.0 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's NOV24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing over 8,000 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – DreamRimmer Alt (talk) 17:52, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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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.
Updates for technical contributors
There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January. [10]
Hello dear,
I'm Emmanuel a web designer from Nigeria, how can i integrate data with elsevier.com and scopus.com to be able to create my own social media app --Emmynation (talk) 16:43, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I noticed that the entry for tongue does not mention that cats use their tongues for grooming. I found peer-reviewed citations, but you remove the information. Rather than censoring the information, why do not you take this up on the talk-page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.174.239.209 (talk) 20:47, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Good afternoon Sir Nobody, I hope that this message discovers you in a state that is in no way negative. I have no plans to edit. I don’t you’re here. lmao --Fl1Ntl00cKOoD$ (talk) 00:35, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello 1AmNobody24, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2025. Happy editing, Abishe (talk) 22:12, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 26th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 August 2024. At press time, over 94% of the world has legally fallen prey to the merry celebrations of "Christmas", and so shall you soon. It's been a quiet 4 months, and we hope to see you with way more new scripts next year. Happy holidays! Aaron Liu (talk) 05:06, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Very useful for changelist patrollers, DiffUndo, by Nardog, is this edition's featured script. Taking inspiration from WP:AutoWikiBrowser's double-click-to-undo feature, it adds an undo button to every line of every diff from "show changes", optimizing partial reverts with your favorite magic spell and nearly fulfilling m:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Partial revert undo.
Doğu/Adiutor, a recent WP:Twinkle/WP:RedWarn-like userscript that follows modern WMF UI design, is now an extension. However, its sole maintainer has left the project, which still awaits WMF mw:code stewardship (among some audits) to be installed on your favorite WMF wikis.
DannyS712, our former chief editor, has ascended to MediaWiki and the greener purpley pastures of PHP with commits creating Special:NamespaceInfo and the __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ magic word to exclude a template from Special:UnusedTemplates! I wonder if Wikipedia has a templaters' newsletter...
BilledMammal/Move+ needs updating to order list of pages handle lists of pages to move correctly regardless of the discussion's page, so that we may avoid repeating fiasco history.
Andrybak/Unsigned helper forks Anomie/unsignedhelper to add support for binary search, automatic edit summaries after generating the {{unsigned}} template, support for {{undated}}, and support for generating while syntax highlighting is on.
Polygnotus/Move+ updates BilledMammal's classic Move+ to add automattic watchlisting of all pages—except the target page(s)—changed while processing a move.
Hello, 1AmNobody24. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:If You Could See the Sun, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.
If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.
Hello, thank you for notifying me. I was struggling to find some sources to back up my writing on the article. I meant to come back to it but I have been putting it off. Do you still want to work on it? Yuunarichu (talk) 20:17, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It's your choice, if you think there don't exist enough reliable sources currently you can just let it get G13'd und refund it if you find more sources, or you can move it into your userspace until you find the sources. Nobody (talk) 06:12, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Question from Stick2Bricks (14:27, 31 December 2024)
A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.
Technical news
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.
The edit history says you opened a copyvio revdel request. But why? The text in question (which had already been reverted anyway) was 100% written by me, with sources provided. (Surely using the “quote” function in the graphical editor’s citation form does not constitute a copyvio?) And the comparison tool shows 0.0% similarity to the two sources. So I’m confused as to why the revdel was opened. Cheers, — tooki (talk) 20:35, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I'm Vgbyp. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Market maker have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Vgbyp (talk) 14:56, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
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. [6][7]
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