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Question from Kiera Roche on User:Kiera Roche/sandbox (06:19, 19 December 2021)

Hi, i have created a page for the charity I run. How do I publish it to Wikipedia for other people to see?

LimbPower --Kiera Roche (talk) 06:19, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

@Kiera Roche: You place {{subst:submit}} at the top of your page, and then it will be reviewed (which may take up to 3 months). ― Qwerfjkltalk 09:29, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

Empty categories

Hello, Qwerfjkl,

Thank you so much for tagging the empty categories! For years, I did this task every morning (U.S. time) but lately I've been getting to it later and later in the day and I didn't do it at all yesterday so today's list was twice as long. It's good that there is more than one person who checks this list. Typically, there are between 10-20 categories each day but it can get into the hundreds depending on what pages have been deleted so extra help is always welcome. It doesn't take a lot of time to do, but it's good to stay on top of so things don't pile up.

There are a few editors who create most of our categories who have asked not to be notified when a category they created has become empty and I can relay this information to you if you pick this up as a regular task and add it to your already crowded list of things you tend to on Wikipedia. Thanks again! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:09, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

No problem! I intend to keep patrolling Special:UnusedCategories, so a list of editors not to notify would be great. Thanks! ― Qwerfjkltalk 12:37, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Pinging @Liz. (Or Wikipedia:Database reports/Empty categories.) ― Qwerfjkltalk 07:19, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Okay, I'll start thinking about that list. By the way, User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/unusedCategories.js is classified as an empty category so you might want to add in a colon somewhere on the page so that it isn't tagged for deletion. Thanks! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:41, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Oh, and yes, Wikipedia:Database reports/Empty categories is the page I use as it is compiled nightly (at least it's night for me) while Special:UnusedCategories is only compiled every 3 days. But, Special:UnusedCategories does have empty maintenance categories which for some reason are omitted on the Database report so that is a useful feature. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:44, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

I have a comment about this that I'd prefer to email you but you don't have email enabled. So..... Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:35, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

@Liz: Just enabled it (I thought I already had). ― Qwerfjkltalk 17:37, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

You got mail! Thanks. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:16, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Sadly I can't access my email on my.mobile device, so I'll read it tomorrow. ― Qwerfjkltalk 20:21, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-51

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

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 10 January 2022.

Recent changes

• Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (<DynamicPageList>) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis. [1]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

• The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
• The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February. [2]

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Why NO BOTS

Hi, why did you add "NO BOTS"[3] after listing Category:Hexadecimal color redirects for renaming? It does not appear to be populated by a template. May I remove this code on WP:CFDW so that a bot will process the task? – Fayenatic London 12:18, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

@Fayenatic london: Okay. ― Qwerfjkltalk 12:40, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

@Fayenatic london: Shouldn't the category be at Category:Redirects from hexadecimal colors, not Category:Redirects from hexadecimal color ? ― Qwerfjkltalk 13:17, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Agreed, other categories of "Redirects from..." take a plural at the end of the name. I'll process that as remedial work. (WP:G6) – Fayenatic London 16:03, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22

Hello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Featured script

LuckyRename, by Alexis Jazz, is this month's featured script. LuckyRename makes requesting file moves easier, and automates the many steps in file moving (including automatic replacement of existing usage). Give it a shot!

Updated scripts

• SD0001: hide-reverted-edits has been updated to take into account changes in reversion tools like Twinkle and RedWarn.
• Writ Keeper: massRollback.js has added a rollback-some option (missed in last issue).
• ClaudineChionh: SkinSwitcher (a fork and update of Eizen's script) provides an options menu/toolbox/toolbar allowing users to view a given page in MediaWiki's default skins.

Scripts++ Newsletter

Pending requests

• Mass-patrolling at Special:NewPages
• Taking up the mantle of an almost completed peer review javascript bot
• Restore the Wikipedia Citation Tool for Google Books
• Autohighlighting specific characters (Greek)
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Miscellaneous

• Wikipedia:User scripts/Ranking is a sortable table of Wikipedia's thousand-or-so most commonly used scripts; it includes their author, last modification date, installation count, and sometimes a short description.
• Toolhub is a community managed catalog of software tools used in the Wikimedia movement. Technical volunteers can use Toolhub to document the tools that they create or maintain. All Wikimedians can use Toolhub to search for tools to help with their workflows and to create lists of useful tools to share with others.

New scripts

• Ahecht:
  • draft-sorter sorts AfC drafts by adding WikiProject banners to their talk pages. It supersedes User:Enterprisey/draft-sorter, adding a few features and fixing some bugs.
  • massmove, a modified User:Plastikspork/massmove.js that adds a link to the left column, allows adding and removing both prefixes and suffixes.
  • watchlistcleaner removes missing pages (redlinks), redirects, pages you haven't edited recently, and/or pages you've never edited from your watchlist.
• Awesome Aasim:
  • Infiniscroll adds infinite scrolling to user contributions, page histories, and log pages.
  • Quick create allows for the fast creation of red-linked pages with two clicks.
• Caburum:
  • UTCclock adds a clock displaying the current UTC time.
• Chlod:
  • CopiedTemplateEditor, mainly for CCI case handlers, allows graphically editing a talk page's {{copied}} templates.
• DaxServer:
  • BooksToSfn adds a portlet link in Visual Editor's source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one {{cite book}} inside a <ref>...</ref> tag block into an {{Sfn}}.
• FlightTime:
  • OneClickArchiver is a custom version of User:Technical_13/Scripts/OneClickArchiver which doesn't prepend {{Clear}} to the top of each section on the archive page.
• Jon Harald Søby:
  • diffedit enables editing directly from viewing a diff "when, for instance, you notice a tiny mistake deep into an article, and don't want to edit the entire article and re-find that one line to fix that tiny mistake".
  • warnOnLargeFile warns you if you're about to open a very large file (width/height >10,000px or file size >100 MB) from a file page.
• JPxG:
  • PressPass adds a collection of tools for Newspapers.com including configurable automatic citation generation in five different formats.
  • CurrentSwitcher gives you links on the contribs page to hide duplicate entries, current revisions, rollbacks, huggles, twinkles, and redwarns.
  • TrackSum lets you automatically sum the lengths of tracks in templates like {{track listing}} and get total runtimes.
• Nardog:
  • CopySectLink adds a button to copy the unencoded page title or section path next to each heading.
  • IPAInput allows you to type in IPA symbols by directly looking at an IPA key like Help:IPA/English and clicking on the symbols.
  • TemplatePreviewGuard warns when you try to use "Preview page with this template" with a page that doesn't transclude the template.
• NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh:
  • ContribsTabVector adds "Contributions" and "Statistics" tabs to user and user talk pages on the Vector skin.
  • CopyvioChecker adds a "CopyvioCheck" tab to all pages, except Special (Vector skin only).
  • LiveDiffLink is a version of Equazcion's LiveDiffLink which shows a wikilink instead of a URL.
  • QuickDiff (by OneTwoThreeFall at Fandom) lets you quickly view any diff link on a wiki, whether on Recent Changes, contribs pages, history pages, the diff view itself, or elsewhere. For more information, view its page on Fandom.
• Novem Linguae:
  • DetectSNG scans a list of 1,600 SNG keywords and displays them at the top of the article.
  • NotSoFast highlights recently created articles in the new pages feed, to discourage patrolling them too quickly.
  • UserRightsDiff concisely displays what perm was added or removed when viewing Special:UserRights.
  • VoteCounter displays a rough count of keeps and deletes at XFDs, RFCs, etc.
  • WatchlistAFD automatically watchlists the AFDs of any pages you AFC accept or NPP patrol, to help you calibrate your reviewing.
• P.T.Đ:
  • TwinkleMobile enables Twinkle on mobile view (Minerva skin).
• Qwerfjkl:
  • editRedirect adds a → link after redirects to edit them.
  • RegExTypoFix, a script for fixing typos, is a wrapper for User:Joeytje50/RETF.js.
  • talkback creates links after user talk page links like this: |C|TB (with the first linking to the user's contributions, and the latter giving the option of sending a {{talkback}} notice). It also adds a [copy] link next to section headers.
• Rublov:
  • diff-link shows "copy" links on history and contributions pages that copy an internal link to the diff (e.g., Special:Diff/1026402230) to your clipboard when clicked.
• Rummskartoffel:
  • auto-watchlist-expiry automatically watchlists every page you edit for a user-definable duration (you can still pick a different time using the dropdown, though).
  • generate pings generates the wikitext needed to ping all members of a category, up to 50 editors (the limit defined by MediaWiki).
  • share ExpandTemplates url allows for easy sharing of your inputs to Special:ExpandTemplates. It adds a button that, when clicked, copies a shareable URL to your exact invocation of the page, like this. Other editors do not need to have this script installed in order to access the URL generated.
  • show tag names shows the real names of tags next to their display names in places such as page revision histories or the watchlist.
• Tol:
  • VisualEditor Citation Needed adds a button (under "Insert") in VisualEditor to add a {{citation needed}} tag.
• Venkat TL:
  • ColourContrib color-codes the user contributions page so that pages you've edited last are sharply distinguished from pages where another editor was the last to edit the page.
• Vukky:
  • StatusChanger is a fork of Enterprisey's Status Changer, which adds a UI to the script. (using Morebits, so you'll need to have Twinkle enabled to use it).

All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp×g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp×g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas!

CAPTAIN RAJU(T) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year! Spread the Christmas cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas3}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Cheers! ― Qwerfjkltalk 08:31, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Winter Greetings

Hello Qwerfjkl: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, ― Itcouldbepossible^Talk 05:32, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

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Copying Signatures

Hi, I wanted to tell you something. Here you moved my question from the Teahouse, along with the signatures, which I think you are not supposed to do according to @Nick Moyes what he said here. I am quoting the part- If you find complex advice helpful, you could always think about making another sandbox page just for table advice, and either link to the diff that it was given, or copy/paste the reply into your sandbox page, and split it up into different headings. If you do the latter, strip out the persons signature - or at the very least the date/time stamp, but make an edit summary crediting them when you copy it into your sandbox. This is called 'attribution' and helps credit other peoples work. So, why did you then copy the stuff along with the signatures? Is it allowed in some cases? ― Itcouldbepossible^Talk 07:10, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi! It's fine to keep the signatures if you're just moving a discussion (otherwise it would be hard to understand). When you are testing something in a sandbox, you may alter something somebody said, which would give a false impression (at least I think that's the issue). ― Qwerfjkltalk 09:26, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying my doubt. Itcouldbepossible^Talk 11:25, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Ten Months

Hi, how come you made 50000 edits in only 10 months time? What is the secret? How much time do you spend at Wikipedia? ― Itcouldbepossible^Talk 05:29, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

@Itcouldbepossible: I am very active in Wikipedia, and I do a lot of semi-automatic editing - see AWB. ― Qwerfjkltalk 09:21, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Yes, I knew about WP:AWB, but did not know, that if could help make so many edits, in so less time. Itcouldbepossible^Talk 11:28, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 December 2021

• From the editor: Here is the news

• News and notes: Jimbo's NFT, new arbs, fixing RfA, and financial statements

• Serendipity: Born three months before her brother?

• In the media: The past is not even past

• Recent research: STEM articles judged unsuitable for undergraduates below the first paragraph

• Arbitration report: A new crew for '22

• By the numbers: Four billion words and a few numbers

• Deletion report: We laughed, we cried, we closed as "no consensus"

• Gallery: Wikicommons presents: 2021

• Traffic report: Spider-Man, football and the departed

• Crossword: Another Wiki crossword for one and all

• Humour: Buying Wikipedia

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Question from Roblue (03:33, 29 December 2021)

Is there a dark mode on wikipedia? --Roblue (talk) 03:33, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

@Roblue: Yes, Preferences → Gadgets → Appearance → Dark mode toggle: Enable a toggle for using a light text on dark background color scheme ― Qwerfjkltalk 10:28, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

RFA 2021 Completed

The 2021 re-examination of RFA has been completed. 23 (plus 2 variants) ideas were proposed. Over 200 editors participated in this final phase. Three changes gained consensus and two proposals were identified by the closers as having the potential to gain consensus with some further discussion and iteration. Thanks to all who helped to close the discussion, and in particular Primefac, Lee Vilenski, and Ymblanter for closing the most difficult conversations and for TonyBallioni for closing the review of one of the closes.

The following proposals gained consensus and have all been implemented:

1. Revision of standard question 1 to Why are you interested in becoming an administrator? Special thanks to xaosflux for help with implementation.
2. A new process, Administrative Action Review (XRV) designed to review if an editor's specific use of an advanced permission, including the admin tools, is consistent with policy in a process similar to that of deletion review and move review. Thanks to all the editors who contributed (and are continuing to contribute) to the discussion of how to implement this proposal.
3. Removal of autopatrol from the administrator's toolkit. Special thanks to Wugapodes and Seddon for their help with implementation.

The following proposals were identified by the closers as having the potential to gain consensus with some further discussion and iteration:

1. An option for people to run for temporary adminship (proposal, discussion, & close)
2. An optional election process (proposal & discussion and close review & re-close)

Editors who wish to discuss these ideas or other ideas on how to try to address any of the six issues identified during phase 1 for which no proposal gained are encouraged to do so at RFA's talk page or an appropriate village pump.

A final and huge thanks all those who participated in this effort to improve our RFA process over the last 4 months.

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01:47, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) 4 approved

Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Qwerfjkl (bot) 4 has been approved. Happy editing! --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 17:32, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Lupae

It does not make any sense to mix singular and plural entries on the disambiguation page Lupae when the Lupa page already exists. It's fine to mix singular and plural on the same page, but there should only be one page with all the other disambiguation titles pointing to it. SpinningSpark 15:19, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Human Body Mass Index

Hey any luck or chances to create animated development of human body using your own faces with tanner scale feature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanner_scale ? Unmaaned (talk) 15:21, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Happy New Year Qwerfjkl!

Happy New Year!

Qwerfjkl,
Have a prosperous, productive and wonderful New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Idoghor Melody (talk • contribs) 20:11, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).

Administrator changes

Amalthea • Ihcoyc (deceased) • Kateshortforbob • Kirill Lokshin • Rifleman 82 • Ryan Norton • Wrp103

Interface administrator changes

Mr. Stradivarius

CheckUser changes

Cabayi • Donald Albury • Enterprisey • Izno • Wugapodes

Opabinia regalis

Casliber • David Fuchs • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy

Oversighter changes

Cabayi • Donald Albury • Enterprisey • Izno • Wugapodes

Opabinia regalis

Casliber • David Fuchs • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy

Guideline and policy news

• Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.

• Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of an administrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions.

Arbitration

• Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Cabayi, Donald Albury, Enterprisey, Izno, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, Wugapodes.

Miscellaneous

• The functionaries email list (functionaries-enlists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.

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Category:International airports has been nominated for deletion

Category:International airports has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 17:56, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:International airports

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on Category:International airports requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion discussion, at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2011_November_15#Category:International_airports. When a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after a discussion, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 18:09, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Talkback: you've got messages!

Hello, Qwerfjkl. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects and categories.
Message added 00:59, 4 January 2022 (UTC)~. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

58.107.87.231 (talk) 00:59, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Database reports/Empty categories

Hello, Qwerfjkl,

Since you are tagging empty categories lately, I thought I'd let you know that there are a couple dozen categories that appear on the empty categories list that were emptied "out of process" and so I have reverted that editor's edits. So, these "People from" categories are no longer empty. I know that you would see that as soon as you opened the categories to tag them but I thought I'd let you know ahead of time that not all categories on this long list are actually empty and need to be tagged.

Thank you for your work! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:25, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

about my draft rejection

i got to know why it was rejected and now its written perfectly please review once and let me know thanks Koundinyajayanth (talk) 09:33, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Question from Robert Smith Wiki (10:36, 6 January 2022)

I wish to write a new article in wikipedia. Could you help me write a new article? --Robert Smith Wiki (talk) 10:36, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

@Robert Smith Wiki: Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing six million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing!  ― Qwerfjkltalk 16:21, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Category:Azerbaijani sports venue stubs

Hello.

The Category:Azerbaijani sports venue stubs should not be deleted as being unpopulated, which is not the case, because the Template:Azerbaijan-sports-venue-stub exists since 2009, where many of them were added in the short Azerbaijani sports venue articles, but the complementary Category:Azerbaijani sports venue stubs for this stub was missing, until I created it this year. That is why it should stay. I put this paragraph in the Category talk:Azerbaijani sports venue stubs page, in case you wish to comment as well.

Yours sincerely, Multituberculata (talk) 19:26, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

A |34ЯИ Ƨ74Я for you!

The Hacker's Barnstar

Thanks for your fantastic work on User:Qwerfjkl/VEref.py, based on my VisualEditor ref namer.py script. You called your work bad, but I know my original work was really bad, nowhere near my typical programming level for programs I plan to distribute it, I just whipped it up real quick to fix a problem in a single article. Any badness in the script is my fault—your work on improving some free software I wrote in a rush to make it actually useful is worthy of a hacker culture barnstar Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) please always ping! 00:28, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

RfD

Hello! Due to your intervention at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 December 24#Validity of Catholic Church Authority, I inform you there is a smiliar RfD (article AfDed for a delete turned into an inappropriate redirect) at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 January 2#Independent Catholic Church USA. Veverve (talk) 12:12, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Question from Rajravi2203 (13:22, 9 January 2022)

i want to create wikipedia page for my company , please help me --Rajravi2203 (talk) 13:22, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

@Rajravi2203: Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing six million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! Please also read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. ― Qwerfjkltalk 15:08, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-02

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

• A oauth_consumer variable has been added to the AbuseFilter to enable identifying changes made by specific tools. [4]
• Gadgets are now able to directly include JSON pages. This means some gadgets can now be configured by administrators without needing the interface administrator permission, such as with the Geonotice gadget. [5]
• Gadgets can now specify page actions on which they are available. For example, |actions=edit,history will load a gadget only while editing and on history pages. [6]
• Gadgets can now be loaded on demand with the withgadget URL parameter. This can be used to replace an earlier snippet that typically looks like withJS or withCSS. [7]
• At wikis where the Mentorship system is configured, you can now use the Action API to get a list of a mentor's mentees. [8]
• The heading on the main page can now be configured using MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin for logged-in users and MediaWiki:Mainpage-title for logged-out users. Any CSS that was previously used to hide the heading should be removed. [9] [10]
• Four special pages (and their API counterparts) now have a maximum database query execution time of 30 seconds. These special pages are: RecentChanges, Watchlist, Contributions, and Log. This change will help with site performance and stability. You can read more details about this change including some possible solutions if this affects your workflows. [11]
• The sticky header has been deployed for 50% of logged-in users on more than 10 wikis. This is part of the Desktop Improvements. See how to take part in the project.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 January. It will be on all wikis from 13 January (calendar).

Events

• Community Wishlist Survey 2022 begins. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.

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01:22, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Trouted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

You have been trouted for: YOUR REASON HERE Ebonyafleming (talk) 10:31, 11 January 2022 (UTC) Cause why not?

Redirect to Bishop of Vienne

You've made quite a lot of redirects lately to Bishop of Vienne, but this is itself a redirect to Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienne, so what you've actually done is to create a lot of double redirects. Could you go back and fix them? Not every request for redirects at AFC is particularly well-focussed, so you need to take care to double-check what is being requested. Thanks, Ingratis (talk) 21:30, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

I see a bot has made the changes but I have doubts about some of these AFC redirects - not all of them are usable and this also a good way for an editor to bypass NPP scrutiny if they want to, so a bit of thought is a good thing. Ingratis (talk) 22:27, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

@Ingratis: I do check these redirects, I just leave fixing double redirects to EmausBot. As for the doubts you have, can you be more specific? I will G7 them if you give a reason why they should be deleted (or you can try RfD) ― Qwerfjkltalk 07:10, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks and sorry - I realised after I left the message that the bot will sort out the double redirects. As to the doubts, I've since left a message with the IP creator of the "bishop of Vienne" stubs, most of which are still at AFC: they're all translations from the fr-Wiki but unattributed, and they're being copied in such a way that the references, which are very fiddly anyway, are distorting the diacritics and losing the internet links - a lot of work to fix, which the creator should be doing. I don't think they need deleting but neither do I think they're ready to be moved into mainspace with that many issues still outstanding. Ingratis (talk) 07:21, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

(Bear with me - I've been up all night). As to the redirects, I don't think there are great issues, except that one or two are forms of name that won't be used in English, but I can pick those out later as I work through all the bishops of Vienne cleaning up. I've come across this editor before and know pretty much exactly what to expect! Ingratis (talk) 07:45, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Actually, can you G7 Vera of Vienne, which is nonsense - the man's name was Verus. Thanks, Ingratis (talk) 07:57, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

I've updated the template the handles redirect requests, so it will follow redirects. ― Qwerfjkltalk 21:36, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! Ingratis (talk) 22:39, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

category speedy delete issue

Hey, I reacted to your message at Category talk:Croatian military personnel in Ottoman armies. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 14:28, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

"Help:REFERENCES" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Help:REFERENCES and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 January 14#Help:REFERENCES until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she/they) 23:09, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-03

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Recent changes

• When using WikiEditor (also known as the 2010 wikitext editor), people will now see a warning if they link to disambiguation pages. If you click "Review link" in the warning, it will ask you to correct the link to a more specific term. You can read more information about this completed 2021 Community Wishlist item.
• You can automatically subscribe to all of the talk page discussions that you start or comment in using DiscussionTools. You will receive notifications when another editor replies. This is available at most wikis. Go to your Preferences and turn on "Automatically subscribe to topics". [12]
• When asked to create a new page or talk page section, input fields can be "preloaded" with some text. This feature is now limited to wikitext pages. This is so users can't be tricked into making malicious edits. There is a discussion about if this feature should be re-enabled for some content types.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 January. It will be on all wikis from 20 January (calendar).

Events

• Community Wishlist Survey 2022 continues. All contributors to the Wikimedia projects can propose for tools and platform improvements. The proposal phase takes place from 10 January 18:00 UTC to 23 January 18:00 UTC. Learn more.

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Empty category notifications

Could I request that you not send me any empty category notifications? Thank you. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 19:02, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

I use a script, User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/unusedCategories. I'll try to prevent it notifying you. Ping me if you get any more talk notices. ― Qwerfjkltalk 20:25, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

@Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars: Fairly sure this won't notify you any more. Happy editing! ― Qwerfjkltalk 20:31, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Question from Myles Seddit (10:48, 18 January 2022)

Can you help me add a reference? --Myles Seddit (talk) 10:48, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

@Myles Seddit: For general help, see Help:Referencing for beginners. If you give more detail, I'll try and give more specific help (e.g. URL, page etc.). ― Qwerfjkltalk 17:32, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Barangay categories

Hello, Qwerfjkl,

It looks like you were not tagging these categories for deletion. I have mentioned the sudden emptying of categories on this subject at Wikipedia talk:Tambayan Philippines and they are having a discussion about both articles and categories on Barangays. But they are aware of what has been happening over the past few days and it's fine to tag them for CSD C1 deletion. Thank you for your work! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:27, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Is it okay if I just call you "Q"? Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:27, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

I don't mind. ― Qwerfjkltalk 07:07, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Lower-case short description category

I made you a new toy to play with: Category:Pages with lower-case short description. Have fun! It will probably take days or weeks to populate fully, but you can feed the articles to your new script at whatever pace you want. – Jonesey95 (talk) 07:10, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for reviewing ! !

Right. I forgot that's a thing now. Thank you. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 16:10, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Dams in India

Thank you. JohnHarris (talk) 17:59, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Question from Askmisspatience (18:20, 21 January 2022)

Thank you, Qwerfjkl. I need to gather info for a particular entry, but otherwise, there is nothing I need at the moment. Kind regards :) --Askmisspatience (talk) 18:20, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi! Can you be more specific? What kind of info do you need, and for what entry? (Do you mean 'article'?) ― Qwerfjkltalk 21:45, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Very strange search behavior or something funny happening

I put a complaint on ANI in Stonewalling on Talk:Julian_Assange and nothing seemed to be happening so I just did a search of "Stonewalling on Talk:Julian_Assange" to see if anyone referred to it and just your talk page came up with

User talk:Qwerfjkl

Third-party edit interpolates pejorative content to my post Stonewalling on Talk:Julian_Assange COI / SPA Vandalism account, likely of an already blocked

60 KB (0 words) - 21:45, 21 January 2022

But looking on this talk page I found nothing nor in the history since yesterday! Any idea what could be happening or is search just doing something very strange? Thanks. NadVolum (talk) 10:32, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

@NadVolum: My guess would be it is from #Administrative noticeboards (expand the 'discusssions' box at the top of the page), where I transcluded the sections from ANI. ― Qwerfjkltalk 10:49, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Oh I see. Yes that would explain it okay. Thanks very much. NadVolum (talk) 12:48, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Agnibaan(Rocket)

Thanks for tagging Agnibaan Rocket for speedy deletion nomination. I created this page by mistake. Please remove this page as soon as possible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harshdeep2021 (talk • contribs) 13:59, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion for Category:Slovakia Summer Olympics football squad navigational boxes

Can you please remove the CSD for Category:Slovakia Summer Olympics football squad navigational boxes. A blocked user tried to delete it. Thank you. KingSkyLord (talk | contribs) 15:31, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Rename categories

Please see my proposal to speedily rename subcategories of Category:Enforced disappearances by country e.g. Category:Forced disappearances in Argentina to Category:Enforced disappearances in Argentina to align with the parent category per C2C. Hugo999 (talk) 04:21, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the question

There isn't anything I need at the moment. Thank you for asking. I'm gathering basic data for a non-profit client to add their wiki info and to be able to do so for an author page, etc. I'm looking at how other cities and organizations add their basic data. Will gather similar info to load per wiki guidelines. This process is all new, so not going to happen immediately. If there's a question will research the answer first. If I get stumped will ask for certain. Thank you for being a mentor. Askmisspatience (talk) 19:10, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-04

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 January. It will be on all wikis from 27 January (calendar).
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• You can now access your watchlist from outside of the user menu in the new Vector skin. The watchlist link appears next to the notification icons if you are at the top of the page. [13]

Events

• You can see the results of the Coolest Tool Award 2021 and learn more about 14 tools which were selected this year.
• You can translate, promote, or comment on the proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. Voting will begin on 28 January.

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Village Pump question

Hi -- I just posted on Village Pump (technical), but I put it at the top of the page instead of the bottom. Is that why you moved it, or did I post on the wrong page? — DannyH (WMF) (talk) 21:38, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Okay, you re-added. Thanks for moving it, sorry for needlessly pinging you. — DannyH (WMF) (talk) 21:39, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

No problem. ― Qwerfjkltalk 21:42, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Question from Cinemanolita1 (14:45, 29 January 2022)

How do I publish a page --Cinemanolita1 (talk) 14:45, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Question from Cinemanolita1 (14:46, 29 January 2022)

I have created the page but it only shows up as my user page and not on the name of the project --Cinemanolita1 (talk) 14:46, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi! You've created a page at User:Cinemanolita1/Sample page. Are you trying to create a draft?What title are you trying to create the page at? ― Qwerfjkltalk 14:51, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-05

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Recent changes

• If a gadget should support the new ?withgadget URL parameter that was announced 3 weeks ago, then it must now also specify supportsUrlLoad in the gadget definition (documentation). [14]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 February. It will be on all wikis from 3 February (calendar).

Future changes

• A change that was announced last year was delayed. It is now ready to move ahead:
  • The user group oversight will be renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. This is the technical name. It doesn't affect what you call the editors with this user right on your wiki. This is planned to happen in three weeks. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. As usual, these labels can be translated on translatewiki (direct links are available) or by administrators on your wiki.

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