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Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions
Dear all,
Wikimania 2021 will be hosted virtually for the first time in the event's 15-year history. Since there is no in-person host, the event is being organized by a diverse group of Wikimedia volunteers that form the Core Organizing Team (COT) for Wikimania 2021.
Event Program - Individuals or a group of individuals can submit their session proposals to be a part of the program. There will be translation support for sessions provided in a number of languages. See more information here.
Below are some links to guide you through;
Please note that the deadline for submission is 18th June 2021.
Announcements- To keep up to date with the developments around Wikimania, the COT sends out weekly updates. You can view them in the Announcement section here.
Office Hour - If you are left with questions, the COT will be hosting some office hours (in multiple languages), in multiple time-zones, to answer any programming questions that you might have. Details can be found here.
Best regards,
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:18, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team
- This section was archived on a request by: — billinghurst sDrewth 00:42, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
Are global locks logged?
Can I request one for myself? Thank you from en:User:NotReallySoroka, NotReallySoroka (talk) 00:49, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
- Yes, they are logged here at meta, look in special:log to find the dropdowns, and they are against accounts per special:centralauth. No you cannot request one, they are not for good faith contributors. If you don't want to edit, walk away; a lock will not stop you. — billinghurst sDrewth 01:29, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you. --NotReallySoroka (talk) 02:52, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: — billinghurst sDrewth 00:42, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
Server switch
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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.
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 Tuesday, 29 June 2021. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday 30 June).
- 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.
- There will be code freezes for the week of June 28. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.
SGrabarczuk (WMF) 01:19, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
- The links I just deleted are for last years server switch message, so much for a prove of your disdain of the non-anglophone communities. And a 2-days notice shows clear disdain for the whole unwashed masses by the WMF. Grüße vom Sänger ♫(Reden) 08:46, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
- For the record: The page title was outdated, but the content was all correct - they were re-using the same older page, but updating the content, in order to reduce the amount of translation work. The page title has been fixed (it required developer assistance, because there are over 500 subpages). I have replaced the links, above.
- There was only 1 minute and 57 seconds of read-only time (a further improvement from the 2m49s in the last test-switch, and 4m41s the time before that). It is always described as "for up to an hour" just in case anything goes wrong.
- It was announced in Tech/News/2021/24 and in Tech/News/2021/26 as well as this MassMessage. --Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 21:10, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
- This section was archived on a request by: — billinghurst sDrewth 00:42, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
Editing news 2021 #2
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Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.
The key results were:
- Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
- The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.
These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.
Looking ahead
The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.
You can turn on "Discussion tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
14:14, 24 June 2021 (UTC)