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This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2024)
[edit] Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Social experiment • Happiness Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 19 August 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2024-34
[edit]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 who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
- Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. [1]
Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the
categories
property ofmw.title objects
. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [2][3]
Bugs status
Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with
Talk:WP:
so that their titles start withWikipedia talk:
), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388.- Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
- The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.
Learn more
- The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
- The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.
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Disruptive?
[edit]Hello. Thank you for removing another editor's slightly-disguised email address from my Talk page, which I guess was more or less at their request. All good. I am just slightly confused by the "purely disruptive" edit summary – I certainly have not done anything disruptive and I don't think the other guy did? I was a little surprised to see it characterized thus. Cheers DBaK (talk) 11:46, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
- @DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered: Well, I had to pick a summary to use (and we're not supposed to say "OSable material, pretty please don't look :)" in the revdel summary). I usually just select RD2 or RD3. (See also User_talk:K6ka/Archives/2018/August#Just_a_reminder) —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 15:15, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
- Aha! Interesting, thanks! As long as no-one thought I was being disruptive, all cool. I'm very grateful for the explanation. Cheers DBaK (talk) 22:37, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
FinanceGuy
[edit]Hi K6ka, sorry for the delayed response; I was on wikibreak. I carefully reviewed the FinanceGuy request before declining it. My decision wasn't based solely on Google results; I declined it because I've encountered similar requests in the past, where users in good standing with similar usernames were asked to change their usernames. After considering your opinion, I am now ready to reconsider my decision. Please let me know if you would still like me to proceed. Thanks! – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:30, 25 August 2024 (UTC)