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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - April 2023 Newsletter[edit]

This is our twenty-sixth newsletter, covering April 2023. This issue has news related to SDGs 2, 4, 5, 6, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 16.

Meetings

Upcoming: User group meeting 2023-05-07 (SDG all)
Past: User group meeting 2023-04-02 (SDG all)

Activities

Ongoing: 365 climate edits (SDG 13)
Ongoing: WikiForHumanRights 2023 International Writing Contest (SDG 13, 14, 6)
Ongoing: WikiForHumanRights 2023 local community events (SDG 13, 15, 14, 6)
Ongoing: WikiCampusTourNigeria Project (SDG 6, 13, 14, 15)
Upcoming (and past): Women, architecture and design (SDG 5)
Past: WikiGap Tirana 2023, Albania (SDG 5)
Past: BBC 100 women editathon (SDG 5)
Past: WikiGAP in Prishtina (SDG 5)
Past: 15 Days of French women writers (SDG 5)
Past: TSU USF Women's History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (SDG 5)
Past: Crafting a Better Wikipedia: Women of Color in the Renwick Gallery (SDG 5)

News

TUSWUG S2E2: Women in Wiki (SDG 5)
Inaugural edition of the organizer lab awards – 6 community grants (SDG 5 & SDG 13)
Bolstering women’s voices and histories on Wikipedia (SDG 5)
A huge upload for biologists (SDG 15)
WikiForHumanRights 2023 Launch Webinar (SDG 13, 14, 6)
WikiForHumanRights 2023 and WMF Human Rights Team Online Safety Capacity Building for Organizers (SDG 13)
WikiForHummanRights 2023 and Let's Connect Capacity building on good practices for retention (SDG 13)
Living through a Triple Planetary Emergency: Capturing the Most Impactful Knowledge to Weather the Storm (SDG 10 & SDG 13)
Wikimedia Foundation Environmental Sustainability Report for 2022 (SDG 13)
Wikimedia Sverige sustainability report 2022 (in Swedish) (SDG 13)

Research

Hypotheses in urban ecology: building a common knowledge base (SDG 15)

New Wikidata properties

Featured content

English Wikipedia: List of afrosoricids (SDG 15)

Featured images
Ara macao cyanopterus (SDG 15)
Leptura quadrifasciata (SDG 15)
Bursa lamarckii (SDG 15)
Ara macao cyanopterus (SDG 15)
Chlamydera guttata (SDG 15)
Sitta carolinensis (SDG 15)
Pumpkin field (SDG 2)
Diglossa baritula & Canna indica (SDG 15)
Acer platanoides (SDG 15)
Amazilia rutila (SDG 15)
Passiflora edulis (SDG 15)
Melanerpes aurifrons (SDG 15)
Argiope versicolor (SDG 15)
Allium ursinum (SDG 15)
Platanus x hispanica (SDG 15)
Thymelicus lineola (SDG 15)
Acer palmatum (SDG 15) [38]
Falco tinnunculus (SDG 15) [39]
Zalophus californianus (SDG 15) [40]
Acer pseudoplatanus (SDG 15)
Tamarindus indica (SDG 15)
Sciurus carolinensis (SDG 15) [43]
Tyrannus savana monachus (SDG 15)
Rapa incurva (SDG 15)
Trigona sp. (SDG 15)

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MusikBot offline[edit]

Hello, looks like MusikBot has been offline for the last two days. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 14:00, 18 May 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@1234qwer1234qwer4 Which tasks are you referring to? User:MusikBot II/TemplateProtector or one of the tasks for other wikis? — MusikAnimal ^talk 06:17, 19 May 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I meant the IRC bot. Sorry! ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 07:44, 19 May 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Ah okay, restarted :) Of course, nothing in the logs explaining what happened. The main issue here is phab:T306391 and phab:T315729. There isn't a workable solution at the moment to auto-restart whenever the bot dies, which wasn't a problem in the past when we were using the Toolforge grid. That's deprecated now, so until Kubernetes has feature parity, occasionally the bot is doomed to die requiring a manual restart. Anyway, thanks for letting me know! — MusikAnimal ^talk 08:11, 19 May 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks! ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 19:33, 19 May 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

global-search and case sensitivity[edit]

Hi MA.

Freenode • global-search and freenode • global-search give different, case-sensitive results, and converting that to a regular expression seems weird approach. Is there a different syntax that can be used to get case-insensitivity? Seems that with case sensitivity it will be a means to miss things from within {{LinkSummary}} if a spammer plays silly buggers with us. — billinghurst sDrewth 06:54, 29 May 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Billinghurst As far as I know this is only possible using a regular expression. However, since you're doing an exact match with double quotes, it's actually doing a regex search anyway behind the scenes. I should maybe document this or something. Anyway, despite the warning, a regex search as specific as this one should perform just fine. On my end it took only ~30 seconds. Best, — MusikAnimal ^talk 04:10, 1 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Recent MoreMenu adjustment[edit]

I know you're having fun with skinning stuff, but your recent edit to MM caused phab:T338668. Can you adjust the selector? Izno (talk) 19:44, 12 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Eh, I wouldn't call it "fun", hehe :) I've deployed another hotfix. It should take effect in ~10 minutes (after ResourceLoader does its thing). Thanks for reporting, — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:51, 12 June 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

New quirk in globalsearch, title parameter now required[edit]

It seems that searches are requiring the use of the title= parameter whether it is needed or not. I don't use the parameter in {{LinkSummary}} and it throws an error Typed property App\Model\Query::$titlePattern must be string, null used

Yet if I do the same "search" with appending &namespaces=&title= as a default search does, then it works fine. Happy to change it over if required, thought that I would flag the quirk first. — billinghurst sDrewth 22:34, 6 July 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Should be fixed now. Thanks for letting me know :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:07, 7 July 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Global search: title pattern[edit]

Looking at the global search form, it says Title pattern: (without namespace) and I have only just now realised that it needs to be a regex in the line, not just a pattern, or a keyword. [Yes, I didn't read the fine print.] Can I suggest that for many others may not see the parameter field name aligning with the need for a regex expression (as in my grammar a pattern can just be a string).

If it does need to a regular expression, can we be more overt? Maybe even through in a wikilink to something to help on regex, or a warning that that line is not a simple alternative. Even something like having some drop downs at both ends of the title field with .*(default), ^, $ and (nothingness) that could at least make things obvious and simpler for the neophytes who just drop in a keyword. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 01:27, 24 July 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Well, it's only sort of a regular expression. For the end user, treating it like a keyword is generally fine and should give the expected results. The flavour of regex used by Elastic Search isn't actually a full implementation. I.e. anchor operators like ^ and $ will not work. So if you searched for "foobar" expecting to get titles that are exactly or contain the word "foobar", simply putting in "foobar" works (though it is case-sensitive; I'm not certain if we have control over that).

Anyway I definitely agree we should link to the docs or something, especially since this is not the same regex engine many of us are used to -- PCRE/PRCE2 as is used by PHP (i.e. AbuseFilter), or the similar JavaScript regex syntax.

I will add a link and maybe change the field from "pattern" to "regular expression", for further clarity. Thanks for the suggestion! — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:51, 24 July 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Error with Mediaviews Analysis (on Wikimedia Commons)?[edit]

Hi there! I hope you are doing well. I noticed that you are one of the three programmers that developed the Pageview Analysis tool. So recently Mediaviews Analysis on Wikimedia Commons keeps showing the error message: "Error querying Media requests API - Not Found" for several old files (files uploaded > 1 day). Is there any ongoing improvement to this tool? Thanks. Đại Việt quốc (talk) 13:20, 3 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]