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Tech News: 2020-50

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

• You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function. [1][2]

Changes later this week

• Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki. [3][4]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all wikis from 10 December (calendar).

Future changes

• You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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16:14, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

ChenzwBot

false positive --Tsugaru Let's Talk! :) 🍁 00:53, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, I have added the diff to the bot's training list. Chenzw  Talk  01:48, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-51

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Recent changes

• There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too. [5]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all wikis from 17 December (calendar).

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21:34, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-52

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 11 January 2021.

Recent changes

• The {{citation needed}} template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added. [6]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
• Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a <langconvert> tag that can convert a piece of text on a page. [7]
• Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January. [8]

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20:53, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

	Merry Christmas Chenzw/Archives
	Hi Chenzw/Archives, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas (if you celebrate it)/holiday season and a very happy and healthy New Year, Thank you for all your contributions to the Simple English Wikipedia :),    --IWI (talk) 22:11, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Recent RfDs

Hello Chenzw, for both the businessman behind Digicodes (India), and Digicodes (India), Macdonald-ross quick-deleted the entries; I simply archived and moved them. I have now undone this for the businessman (who's again up for RfD). Feel free to also do it for Digicodes, if you feel it needs more discussion.--Eptalon (talk) 12:20, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas, Chenzw!

Hi, Chenzw! Merry Christmas! I have a present for you.

Congratulations: You have been given a Super Ultimate Editor Barnstar! You have been a super Wikipedian this year, fighting vandalism and helping everybody. Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and a happy new year. ScrapheapNinjaShuriken77 (talk) 22:46, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

WARNING!

ChenzwBot is malfunctioning. Deactivation must start now. Thank you. ScrapheapNinjaShuriken77 (talk) 20:33, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) How is it doing so? Keep in mind it doesn't revert all vandalism, it seems to be working ok. Belwine • 💬 • 📜 20:36, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

Ok, then. Didn’t know. ScrapheapNinjaShuriken77 (talk) 06:46, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 December 2020

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I will tell you

I am linking these pages to the pages in other languages. That's why I am doing it. But you should notice that, after linking these pages, I revert my edits to the way it should be. Please, don't make a too big deal out of it.Temuera (talk) 17:42, 28 December 2020 (UTC)Temuera

How does linking pages to other language versions involve removing the content of the page? Chenzw  Talk  17:46, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Because, when pages are redirect pages, I am unable to link them to the other pages. The message pops up that it can't be linked. I weren't removing the content because I wanted to. These changes were extremely short and I quickly reverted them. Sorry if I bothered you in any way. I never intended to make you angry.Temuera (talk) 17:48, 28 December 2020 (UTC)Temuera

Ah I see, not really an ideal situation since our pages here end up redirecting to the book's article; I will try to find some time to start off an article about the movies. Chenzw  Talk  17:54, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/ScrapheapNinjaShuriken77

• Can I fix the numbering on this? --Tsugaru Let's Talk! :) 🍁 22:52, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

I don't think that's particularly important since I counted the votes manually (and it was an obvious unsuccessful RFA), but feel free to fix it. Chenzw  Talk  02:56, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

Move

• This move log here seems confusing as this user who move their talk to that talk page, does not edit under that name --Tsugaru Let's Talk! :) 🍁 03:05, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
  • Thanks for pointing that out, I have reverted the move; let's see what happens from here. Chenzw  Talk  03:11, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
    • Thank you for your help, I really appreciate it. --Tsugaru Let's Talk! :) 🍁 03:12, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

Undelete My Template

Stop Deleting My Pages Kat885 (talk) 15:21, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

ChenzwBot

Hi Chenzw, I hope you're well. Just wanted to drop you a note to let you know that I've undone 2 reverts by ChenzwBot, and another was fixed by the reverted user. here, here, and here. The edits seemed to be mostly correct and definitely good faith edits. The bot usually does good work so I was just a little bit surprised to see a few false positives in a short time span. Not sure if there is anything that can be done to tweak it or help, but I did just want to give you a courtesy note. Thanks. --Gordonrox24 | ^Talk 03:34, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the diffs, I will add them to the training dataset, and also raise the vandalism threshold slightly to mitigate future false positives. Chenzw  Talk  04:54, 30 December 2020 (UTC)