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Draft?

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I need help getting a draft to the main page. Thnx BorisKhlivski (talk) 16:17, 1 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have moved the page for you. By the way, unlike the larger English Wikipedia, we do not have a formal draft system here, so in future you can create the article directly. Chenzw  Talk  16:20, 1 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2020-23

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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

  • There is a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos. [1]

Problems

  • There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May. [2][3][4]
  • The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed. [5]

Changes later this week

  • You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can turn these notifications off for individual pages. You can soon turn them off also in the notifications you get. [6]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 June. It will be on all wikis from 4 June (calendar).

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22:31, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Issue regarding misunderstanding the fact.

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I had uploaded few photographs which was deleted by u. Why is that so? Who infridged the copyright issue? It is the work by our. Kindly know the fact before action. Nepali9333 (talk) 14:36, 2 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Shahzadpur Maps Correction

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Dear Chenzw Pls Review My Edits On Simple Wiki https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahzadpur . I have corrected wiki infobox but your bot reverts this Edit. Pls Check english Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahzadpur,_Haryana for More information. Can You help to Provide Correct information. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2401:4900:1743:d99f:0:69:d94:7001 (talk • contribs) 06:40, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Spamusernameblocked

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I sometimes see this term appearing in the block log. What does it mean?--Trade (talk) 20:55, 2 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It is a template: {{spamusernameblocked}}. Chenzw  Talk  02:43, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

archive box

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I am not sure what exactly you are talking about. Please be specific - where is the search box, and how does it not work? Chenzw  Talk  15:38, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
User:Thegooduser/templates/talkarchivelistbox, the search box does not look up/work when I look up things in my archives, I think the title is set different in the search box, not sure how to change it. I am sorry for always being not-specific. --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 15:46, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
It works fine for me - I searched for "biography", and the results led me to archive 2. Chenzw  Talk  15:54, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Huh, it didn't work last time, maybe a system glitch? Thanks for your help anyways :) --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 15:58, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2020-24

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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

  • Some articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead. A third click will now take you back to the original sorting. [7]
  • Self-closed tags now work as in the HTML5 specifications. This means you should stop using some of them. <b/> is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work. area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect <references /> or <ref />. [8]
  • There is a banner called WikidataPageBanner. It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on MediaWiki:Sitenotice so that editors know to test and style for mobile too. [9][10]

Changes later this week

  • Advanced item You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets. [11]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11 June (calendar).

Future changes

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21:11, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Hello

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how can I get my page published on this page

Wikipedia is not a business directory. Unless you can ensure that you write in a neutral manner, and the person/organisation you are writing about can satisfy the notability requirements, I am afraid that you cannot create an article about them. Chenzw  Talk  18:24, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2020-25

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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

  • Advanced item Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.

Problems

  • There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed. [13]
  • Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed. [14]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June (calendar).

Future changes

  • Advanced item Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help. [15]
  • The selectors .menu and .vectorMenu will no longer work in the Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts. .menu should be replaced by ul. .vectorMenu should be replaced by .vector-menu. [16]

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21:37, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Help

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Hi. I seemed to be having many problems on irc right now, can you help me? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 00:14, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Again, you have to be specific about what problem you are having. Chenzw  Talk  00:16, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I was not being specific at first because I thought you might say no, and didn't want to waste your time reading the whole message. Anyways I get 2 problems.
  1. I get: Cannot send to nick/channel on every Wikipedia channel, but when I PM (Private message) Oshwah "test" it works fine.
  2. It says 'You are already logged in as realthegooduser', how do I log out?

Hope you can help --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 00:19, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

#wikipedia-simple is being set to moderated currently, which requires that all users be "voiced" in order to be able to speak in that channel. I have asked someone to grant auto-voice to you. Please request for a Wikimedia cloak if you have not done so. To logout, you can PM logout to NickServ, but there is usually no good reason to do so. Chenzw  Talk  00:25, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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 I need to logout because my IP is shared by many people, also I have already asked for a cloak, in which my request has not been processed yet --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 00:28, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Also what will happen if I don't have a cloak or if my cloak request gets denied? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 00:32, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
(1) Sharing an IP with others still does not require you to logout. Login states for nicks on IRC are not tracked by IP address; they are tracked on a per-session basis - if you use freenode webchat with X browser on Y computer and identify to your nick, then only that particular browser on that particular computer is "logged in" to that nick, and no one else (not even anyone else with the same IP) can hijack it. The same applies to your wiki account. (2) If your cloak request gets denied, you don't get a cloak. Your particular IRC account has been given auto-voice for the wikipedia-simple channel. Chenzw  Talk  00:35, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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 How do I know if they deny my cloak? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 00:37, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know, presumably someone will tell you. It has been years since I applied a cloak, so please consult the cloaks page on meta, or ask the person who originally gave you directions to apply for a cloak. Chenzw  Talk  00:41, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
PM 'logout' to nickserv does not work, I get "invalid" command --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 00:46, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Then I am afraid you have to check NickServ's help by yourself (PM help to NickServ). Again, there is usually no good reason for manually logging out on IRC, and what you said earlier is not a good reason, because shared IPs have no impact on nick accounts. What you are thinking is not how IRC works. Chenzw  Talk  00:49, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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 Nickserv's help menu does not have a logout button, so I will just let it be then. --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 00:51, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

also to note: I logged in in a normal window for irc, but i use private window for irc, and I am logged in there, that's fine (normal) right? (I am sorry for bothering you, I will try not to ask anymore questions after this) --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 00:53, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I am not sure what you are asking. Each window is a separate IRC session, but you cannot use the same nick on both sessions at the same time. Chenzw  Talk  01:28, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry. I have hard times describing things, I do try my very best, it's not easy for me. This is what I am saying.: I log in as 'realthegooduser' on a normal window, I close the Irc session. I open Private window, login as "realthegooduser" IRC says 'you are already logged in as realthegooduser' --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 01:35, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
That is because it doesn't disconnect the main window immediately, but only after a couple minutes of not receiving anything. What situation are you in where you would want to close and then immediately reopen from a new window? Naleksuh (talk) 01:37, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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 I know this might sound stupid and is not an excuse for disruptive editings, I have a problem where I go crazy when I don't log out of things. --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 01:41, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

An excuse is not necessary, staying connected would be nice, but is not required. You could consider using an IRC bouncer such as http://irccloud.com. That way, you could sign out of the website while remaining connected for others to message you. Naleksuh (talk) 01:43, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Is that an app? I use Linux so it might not work --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 01:45, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
As far as I know, it is a website, which can be used by anything with a web browser. I have not actually tried it for myself though, but many other people use it Naleksuh (talk) 01:46, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

barnstar!

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The da Vinci Barnstar
This is for you! For all the edits you have done here to the technical part of the site, to the javascript, to the sidebar which powers this site to twinkle, and more. Thanks for all the technical work you've done to fix up the site and patch up issues! This barnstar is for you!Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 02:29, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2020-26

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

  • There are some new tools to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed. [17]
  • Advanced item Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to CSS selectors. .vectorTabs should be replaced with .vector-menu-tabs to fix this. [18]

Changes later this week

  • The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can give feedback. [19]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (calendar).

Future changes

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18:48, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Make Wiki Safer place

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Hi there,

would please check this page for notability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romy_Johnson thanks --Bingo2020 (talk) 23:59, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 28 June 2020

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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

Tech News: 2020-27

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

  • Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [21]
  • Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been fixed. [22]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).

Future changes

  • The Modern and Monobook skins use the ID searchGoButton for the go button. This is searchButton for Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change to searchButton in Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to use searchButton. You can read more and see a list of affected scripts.

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16:30, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

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