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Editing news 2023 #1[edit]
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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:
- The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
- They are beginning a new project, Edit check.
Talk pages project
The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for Discussion tools.
It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "Add topic" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.
An A/B test for Discussion tools on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with Discussion tools. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.
New Project: Edit Check
The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "Publish changes". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.
–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:24, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
Your wiki will be in read only soon[edit]
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The Wikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.
All traffic will switch on 1 March. The test will start at 14:00 UTC.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
- You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday 1 March 2023.
- If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
- Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
- We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
- GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.
Trizek (WMF) (Discussion) 21:20, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
Request for transwiki rights[edit]
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
- Sir Amugi (talk • contribs • deleted user contributions • logs • block log • abuse log • CentralAuth • stalktoy) Bureaucrats: user rights management.
I'm requesting for importer rights on meta to enable me import articles from Wikipedia for WRN letter. I would be glad if given the rights Sir Amugi (talk) 15:11, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
- For reference: this comes from Steward requests/Permissions § transwiki for Sir Amugi@Meta for transwiki import (not xml import) rights. —MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:17, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
Support --Ameisenigel (talk) 22:15, 1 March 2023 (UTC)- What is "WRN letter" and what articles need to be imported for it from where and why? --MF-W 22:46, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
- The Wikimedia Research Newsletter (WRN) covers research of relevance to the Wikimedia community. It has been appearing generally monthly since 2011, and features both academic research publications and internal research done at the Wikimedia Foundation.The Wikimedia Research Newsletter provides monthly updates on recent academic research about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.I am happy to be a volunteer for that if given the transwiki right. @Masssly @Dnshitobu @Musahfm Sir Amugi (talk) 05:01, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
- Support @MF-W: The WRN is drafted on Wikipedia as a section in The Signpost, then moved to Meta and cleaned up for the Newsletter. -—M@sssly✉ 05:29, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
Support --
Strong support @Sir Amugi is an experienced social media manager and will be a best fit for this. Dnshitobu (talk) 09:15, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
Strong support @- Strong support I can vouch for his hard work and commitment to assigned tasks. Granting @Sir Amugi transwiki import rights would therefore be a beneficial addition to the work of WRN in particular, and WMF in general. Musahfm (talk) 08:51, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.
Please correct MediaWiki:Centralnotice-template-wmftou2023[edit]
Hi! You've published a message that reads "The Wikimedia Foundation is updating our Terms of Use". Please change 'our' to 'its' so that the pronoun agrees in number and person with the antecedent compound noun 'Wikimedia Foundation', which is third-person singular. If you're determined to use 'our', please find a way of making the subject of the sentence first-person plural – something like "We, the Wikimedia Foundation, are changing ...' might work, but it is not better. This is stuff that a six-year-old should have no difficulty with. Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:16, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
- @Justlettersandnumbers suggest you bring this up at CentralNotice/Request/Wikimedia Terms of Use update 2023 - ping in User:RStallman (WMF). — xaosflux Talk 21:24, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
Wiki Africa Hour Special Edition[edit]
Join us on Friday, March 3rd for our Wiki Africa Hour Special Edition as we launch the Africa Environment WikiFocus Drive. This exciting event will be hosted by Anthony Ibe from Africa Tech Radio.
Guests include: Natasha Kimani: Head of Partnerships and Research, Africa No Filter Tracy Anyango: Programmes Officer, Center for Justice Governance and Environmental Action, Kenya Tatjana Baleta: Wikimedia Visiting Fellow for Climate, Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter, UK
Here’s what you can learn : Media coverage of climate change in Africa Wiki projects on Climate Change Climate change policies and environmental policies How YOU can contribute … and so much MORE!
Logistics: Date: Friday, 3rd March When: 16:00 UTC (please find link to your local time) Where: Link to be shared upon registration! Webinar Language: English (some language translations will be provided live)
Your commitment to Africa knowledge is greatly appreciated. It will be a pleasure to see you there! Wiki in Africa meta.wikimedia.org Durand ndri (talk) 12:47, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
Migrating to the new version of AddMe[edit]
If you participated in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023, you were a tester of the new version of AddMe! There were some notable hiccups during the survey, but with all of that fixed, I'm ready to take this to the next level and replace the old version of AddMe with the new one. I am formally proposing this here. It looks like several wikis have copied this gadget, as part of the replacement I was going to encourage those communities to source the new version directly from here. This will be similar to what I did for MoreMenu/Migration. Locally, the only thing really effected is the Wishlist Survey and uses of {{Probox}}, namely the grants program and pages under Learning patterns. No functionality will be changed, just a fresh new gadget to serve the same purpose (that is, simply clicking a button to add your signature to something).
The gadget is available for testing now if you'd like. Look for "AddMe-v2" in your gadget preferences, and refer to Meta:AddMe/v2 for documentation.
Are there any objections or concerns? If not, I plan to tackle this migration over the course of the coming weeks. Thanks and warm regards, — MusikAnimal talk 21:07, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
Ready for translation: Education Newsletter February 2023[edit]
February 2023 education newsletter released for translation. Please help our readers to read education newsletter in their native language. The latest education newsletter is ready for translation: here Newsletter headlines link for translation: here (please translate by March 12, 2023) Individual articles for translation: Category:Education/Newsletter/February 2023. Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 21:29, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
FYI: RfC filled about making global abuse filters more global[edit]
Hello!
There is a set of global AbuseFilters maintained by Meta-Wiki's administrators and the Stewards. Global abuse filters are a powerful tool designed to fight against long-term abusers that operate cross-wiki. It is especially useful (and often irreplaceable by other means) when a cross-wiki LTA starts to rapidly change IP addresses (when that happens, regular blocks are significantly limited due to the IP hopping).
As of today, all small/medium Wikimedia projects (as-determined by number of articles) are automatically subscribed to global abuse filters. They are not, however, enabled on several Wikimedia projects classified as large (except several large Wikimedia projects who opted-in, such as Wikidata). This makes it possible for global long-term abusers to vandalize a project with no global filters enabled, which makes it significantly more difficult for the Stewards to fight against the abuse.
By this message, I'd like to let you know I submitted a global RfC, where propose enabling global abuse filters on large Wikimedia projects as an opt-out feature. This change will make global abuse filters an even more effective tool for combating long-term abuse at the global level. Please feel free to participate in the RfC.
Thank you for your time,
Martin Urbanec (talk) 17:15, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
Wikimania 2023 Welcoming Program Submissions[edit]
Do you want to host an in-person or virtual session at Wikimania 2023? Maybe a hands-on workshop, a lively discussion, a fun performance, a catchy poster, or a memorable lightning talk? Submissions are open until March 28. The event will have dedicated hybrid blocks, so virtual submissions and pre-recorded content are also welcome. If you have any questions, please join us at an upcoming conversation on March 12 or 19, or reach out by email at wikimania@wikimedia.org or on Telegram. More information on-wiki.