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Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [1][2]
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Quechua Wikipedia, Romansh Wikipedia, Romani Wikipedia, Rundi Wikipedia, Aromanian Wikipedia, Tarandíne Wikipedia, Rusyn Wikipedia, Kinyarwanda Wikipedia, Sanskrit Wikipedia, Sakha Wikipedia, Santali Wikipedia, Sardinian Wikipedia, Sicilian Wikipedia, Scots Wikipedia, Sindhi Wikipedia, Northern Sami Wikipedia, Sango Wikipedia, Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia, Sinhala Wikipedia, Slovak Wikipedia, Slovenian Wikipedia, Samoan Wikipedia, Somali Wikipedia, Albanian Wikipedia, Serbian Wikipedia, Sranan Tongo Wikipedia, Swati Wikipedia, Southern Sotho Wikipedia, Saterland Frisian Wikipedia, Sundanese Wikipedia, Silesian Wikipedia, Tamil Wikipedia, Tulu Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tetum Wikipedia, Tajik Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkmen Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia, Tswana Wikipedia, Tongan Wikipedia, Tok Pisin Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Tsonga Wikipedia, Tatar Wikipedia, Twi Wikipedia, Tahitian Wikipedia, Tuvinian Wikipedia, Udmurt Wikipedia, Uyghur Wikipedia, Uzbek Wikipedia, Venda Wikipedia, Venetian Wikipedia, Veps Wikipedia, West Flemish Wikipedia, Volapük Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [3][4][5]
The Vector 2022 skin will have some minor visual changes to drop-down menus, column widths, and more. These changes were added to four Wikipedias last week. If no issues are found, these changes will proceed to all wikis this week. These changes will make it possible to add new menus for readability and dark mode. Learn more. [6]
I agree that they seem to be about the same person. Would you want to try a merge yourself? Read WP:MERGETEXT and see if you face any issues. I'll help if you get stuck on any point. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:37, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
Hey, since you were the only major contributor to that page, and it is fairly obvious that they are the same person, there is no particular need for a merge discussion. You can just straightaway proceed to Wikipedia:Merging#How to merge. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:56, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
Now Check, this is the correct way - IJohnKennady (talk) 16:22, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
Y The edit summary should have been "Merged content to Vasantham Karthikeyan", but the rest is ok. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:18, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-48
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [7][8]
MediaWiki's JavaScript system will now allow async/await syntax in gadgets and user scripts. Gadget authors should remember that users' browsers may not support it, so it should be used appropriately. [9]
The deployment of "Add a link" announced last week was postponed. It will resume this week.
Hello! Voting in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 11 December 2023. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Diplomatic missions in Cameroon
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. ✗plicit 12:05, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
@Explicit: I guess the articles in it were deleted since then. I won't be contesting this, assuming the last article in it is deleted per the AfD. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 03:22, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. LizRead!Talk! 05:20, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
The results for 2023 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election are being counted today. I've added one winner to the category, and I'm sure more will be added by today and tomorrow. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 05:26, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
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 spacing between paragraphs on Vector 2022 has been changed from 7px to 14px to match the size of the text. This will make it easier to distinguish paragraphs from sentences. [10]
The "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is working again. You no longer need to switch to source editing to edit ((DEFAULTSORT:...)) keywords. [11]
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [12][13]
Registration & Scholarship applications are now open for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 that will take place from 3–5 May in Tallinn, Estonia. Scholarship applications are open until 5 January 2024.
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
On Wikimedia Commons, there are some minor user-interface improvements for the "choosing own vs not own work" step in the UploadWizard. This is part of the Structured Content team's project of improving UploadWizard on Commons. [15][16]
Problems
There was a problem showing the Newcomer homepage feature with the "impact module" and their page-view graphs, for a few days in early December. This has now been fixed. [17][18]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar). [19][20]
Future changes
The 2023 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 5 January 2024, and has an associated privacy statement.
Hello MPGuy2824. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Maillardville-Coquitlam, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: @Loew Galitz, JalenFolf, WikiOriginal-9, GoingBatty, Egeymi, and MPGuy2824: It would appear to me that this artcicle is about a historical electorate of a similar name to the current BC electorate Coquitlam-Maillardville. Are they one and the same? Evidence, thought scant, would appear to indicate the are not. No prejuduce to expanding Coquitlam-Maillardville#History to include a WP:REDIRECT to Maillardville-Coquitlam Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 10:22, 13 December 2023 (UTC) . Thank you. Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 10:22, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
@Shirt58: I don't know the answer to your question. I was stub sorting and stumbled across this article, and just fixed the layout. GoingBatty (talk) 18:50, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Diplomatic missions in Cameroon
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. LizRead!Talk! 22:50, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
There is a mop reserved in your name
You are a remarkable editor in many ways. You would be a good administrator, in my opinion, and appear to be well qualified. You personify an administrator without tools and have gained my support already!
Hello MPGuy2824, I'd appreciate it if you considered running for RFA. Your contributions are truly valued, and I'm certain many respected administrators would support you with a strong nomination. You have all the qualities needed to excel as an admin. – DreamRimmer (talk) 07:45, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
I'd support! 87k edits, 27k edits this year, and a GA. I think the rest of the community would support too. Let me know if you'd like a nomination :) –Novem Linguae (talk) 21:10, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
I legitimately swore to God you were an admin. QueenofHearts ❤️ (she/they 🎄 🏳️⚧️) 21:17, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
I'd support the hell out of this. Hey man im josh (talk) 21:35, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for the kind words and support, folks. I have not (seriously) considered a bid for admin rights yet. My off-wiki life is in a lot of flux right now, so an RFA in the near-term is out of the question, even if I felt ready for it. But, I think that I could be ready for one of those optional RFA polls in 6 months time. I might ping some of you for advice on what to read up on in the meantime. Thanks again. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 09:45, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
Late to the party, but a +1 from me. - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆(𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 21:08, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-51
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2024 because of the holidays.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 December. It will be on all wikis from 21 December (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [21][22]
Starting December 18, it won't be possible to activate Structured Discussions on a user's own talk page using the Beta feature. The Beta feature option remains available for users who want to deactivate Structured Discussions. This is part of Structured Discussions' deprecation work. [23]
There will be full support for redirects in the Module namespace. The "Move Page" feature will leave an appropriate redirect behind, and such redirects will be appropriately recognized by the software (e.g. hidden from Special:UnconnectedPages). There will also be support for manual redirects. [24]
Future changes
The MediaWiki JavaScript documentation is moving to a new format. During the move, you can read the old docs using version 1.41. Feedback about the new site is welcome on the project talk page.
The Wishathon is a new initiative that encourages collaboration across the Wikimedia community to develop solutions for wishes collected through the Community Wishlist Survey. The first community Wishathon will take place from 15–17 March. If you are interested in a project proposal as a user, developer, designer, or product lead, you can register for the event and read more.
If there is a page for Sheik, why should there not be a page for Shaik? --Jax 0677 (talk) 13:07, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
They are the same name but with different spellings in English. I think just one article should do, with the rest redirecting to it. Maybe you can incorporate the other spelling into the article more, since right now it is only mentioned in a single footnote. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 01:27, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
hello Pediabestw (talk) 03:59, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
@Pediabestw: Thanks‽ Welcome to Wikipedia. I've left you a message with a short list of links to read. I also recommend that you start with WP:TWA. Happy editing! Reply here if you have any questions. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 04:11, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
Request for review
Dear MPGuy2824, Hello, Can you mark these article as reviewed!😊~~ αvírαm|(tαlk)
Merry Christmas, MPGuy2824! Or Season's Greetings or Happy Winter Solstice! As the year winds to a close, I would like to take a moment to recognize your hard work and offer heartfelt gratitude for all you do for Wikipedia. May this Holiday Season bring you nothing but joy, health and prosperity. Onel5969TT me 14:50, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
OneL, Thank you and happy holidays to you too! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 05:03, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
NPPTech graphs licensing
Hello MPGuy2824, I hope you are doing well. I'm facing an issue updating the NPP talk header graph since Commons has introduced more licensing options. Could you please assist me in selecting the appropriate license option when uploading graphs on Commons? As one of the maintainers of the NPP Tech tool, you might have licensing information about graphs generated via NPPTech tool. Thanks! – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:49, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Hey Dream, all good here. Hope you are doing fine as well. Regarding your problem: It isn't obvious to me what change has been done to commons, but you don't need to upload there. You can upload directly on the English Wikipedia via this form. I think if you choose "free work > from a free published source", then add the npptech url as the source in the file page, it should be enough. If you think it might be helpful, i could add a CC image somewhere on the graph page in npptech. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 04:49, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
I'm doing great. It's enough for me, but including a CC image would be helpful for others in the future, allowing them to upload graphs without hesitation. Thanks. – DreamRimmer (talk) 05:00, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
Done -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:11, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
Happy holidays!
Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2024!
Hello MPGuy2824, 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 2024. Happy editing, Thilsebatti (talk) 07:55, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
Hey! Sir --Bytexin (talk) 05:49, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
@Bytexin: Welcome to Wikipedia. I've left you a message on your talk page with some links in it. When you get the time, please go through them. I suggest that you start with WP:TWA. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 05:52, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
Question from FishyGuy77 (19:49, 27 December 2023)
Hello there! I just wanted to ask you how hard it is to expand on a short article. --FishyGuy77 (talk) 19:49, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
@FishyGuy77: Welcome to Wikipedia. Ease of expanding a stub article: It depends on the subject and what sort of sources you are able to find about that subject. e.g. for a random small village somewhere in the world, you might never be able to expand it more than a few sentences. What article were you hoping to expand? I'd be happy to do a basic search and tell you if it is worth spending your time on. Alternatively, if you indicate a couple of your interests (geographic or subject), then I could tell you where you might find articles that desperately need expansion. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:42, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
Question from Keshavonly (07:57, 28 December 2023)
Can i earn money for editing or publish own blog --Keshavonly (talk) 07:57, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
@Keshavonly: Hi Keshav. Most editors of Wikipedia are unpaid volunteers. Anyone who is paid to edit is required to follow the guidelines at WP:DISCLOSEPAY. Hope you'll still stick around! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:06, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Toronto South (federal electoral dist
Hello MPGuy2824,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Toronto South (federal electoral dist for deletion, because it's a redirect that seems implausible or is an unlikely search term.
If you don't want Toronto South (federal electoral dist to be deleted, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.
You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks!
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New year, new scripts. Welcome to the 23rd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering around 39% of our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. That’s right, we haven’t published in two years! Can you believe it? Did you miss us?
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
User:Alexander Davronov/HistoryHelper has now become stable with some bugfixes and features such as automatically highlighting potentially uncivil edit summaries and automatically pinging all the users selected.
To a lesser extent, the same goes for User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin is a rewrite of Ais's Watchlist Notifier with modern APIs and several new features such as not displaying watchlist items marked as seen (hence the name), not bolding diffs of unseen watchlist elements which doesn’t work properly anyways, displaying the rendered edit summary, proper display of log and creation actions and more links.
Alexis Jazz: Factotum is a spiritual successor to reply-link with a host of extra features like section adding, link rewriting, regular expressions and more.
User:Aveaoz/AutoMobileRedirect: This script will automatically redirect MobileFrontend (en.m.wikipedia) to normal Wikipedia. Unlike existing scripts, this one will actually check if your browser is mobile or not through its secret agent string, so you can stay logged in on mobile! Hooray screen estate!
Deputy is a first-of-its-kind copyright cleanup toolkit. It overrides the interface for Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations for easy case processing. It also includes the functionality of the following (also new) scripts:
User:Elominius/gadget/diff arrow keys allows navigation between diffs with the arrow keys. It also has a version that requires holding Ctrl with the arrow key.
Frequently link to Wikipedia on your websites yet find generating CC-BY credits to be such a hassle? Say no more! User:Luke10.27/attribute will automatically do it for ya and copy the credit to yer clipboard.
User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft, a spiritual successor (i.e. fork) to Evad37's script, with a few bugs solved, and a host of extra features like check-boxes for choosing draftification reasons, multi-contributor notification, and appropriate warnings based on last edit time.
/CopyCodeBlock: one of the most important operations for any scripter and script-user is to copy and paste. This script adds a copy button in the top right of every code block (not to be confused with <code>) that will, well, copy it to your clipboard!
m:User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AceForLuaDebugConsole.js adds the Ace editor (a.k.a. the editor you see when editing JS, CSS and Lua on Wikimedia wikis) to the Lua debug console. "In my opinion, whoever designed it to be a plain <textarea> needs to seriously reconsider their decision."
GANReviewTool quickly and easily closes good article nominations.
ReviewStatus displays whether or not a mainspace page is marked as reviewed.
SpeciesHelper tries to add the correct speciesbox, category, taxonbar, and stub template to species articles.
User:Opencooper/svgReplace and Tol's fork replaces all rasterized SVGs with their original SVG codes for your loading pleasures. Tell us which one is better!
ArticleInfo displays page information at the top of the page, directly below the title.
/HeaderIcons takes away the Vector 2022 user dropdown and replaces it with all of the icons within, top level, right next to the Watchlist. One less click away! There's also an alternate version that uses text links instead of icons.
Hello Sir --Btsbangla (talk) 10:39, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
@Btsbangla: Welcome to Wikipedia. Please read the sections on your talk page related to conflict of interest and follow the instructions there. I'm happy to help if you have any questions. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:50, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
Happy New Year 2024
Wishing you a joyful and successful New Year! Your guidance and support have been invaluable. May this year bring you happiness, fulfillment, and countless achievements. Happy New Year, dear tutor! – DreamRimmer (talk) 06:47, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
And a happy new year to you too! Lots of first for you in 2023. Hopefully many good ones for you in 2024 too. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:53, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
How do I edit --Couthino (talk) 05:59, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
@Couthino: Welcome to Wikipedia. I've left you a message on your page with a list of relevant links. I suggest that you start with WP:TWA first, to get the hang of things. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:03, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
Question from LUKELI1234 (09:50, 3 January 2024)
Hello! I recently created a draft with the title Angela Liu, how will I find that? --LUKELI1234 (talk) 09:50, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
@LUKELI1234: Welcome to Wikipedia. I don't think that you used this account to create that draft. Can you remember what account you used at that time? Maybe looking at your email inbox would help, as there would be a message from wikipedia for that account. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 10:01, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
I think I only created one LUKELI1234 (talk) 11:03, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
All your user contributions can be seen at Special:Contributions/LUKELI1234. As of now, they only consist of 2 edits, both to my talk page. I don't think your draft was saved properly. Sorry about that. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:21, 4 January 2024 (UTC)