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Deleting my historical edits ΣΥΡΙΖΑ81.248.177.61

https://el.vikidia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%A5%CE%A1%CE%99%CE%96%CE%91 2A01:CB20:40D1:4600:D51B:4C75:3DE5:DD4E (talk) 20:47, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ask someone to delete historical edits there are smileys everywhere

Nobody does good anything on Greek Vikidia thanks 2A01:CB20:40D1:4600:D51B:4C75:3DE5:DD4E (talk) 20:48, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2024/Luke Hessler

Hello, you closed the RFD as delete, but the page is not deleted. MathXplore (talk) 23:08, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

MathXplore, apologies, I have no idea how that happened - or I guess, didn't happen! Thanks for letting me know. --Ferien (talk) 23:18, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-39

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en:Independence Day (Albania)

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Independence Day (Albanian: Dita e Pavarësisë) is a public holiday in Albania observed on 28 November. It commemorates the Albanian Declaration of Independence (from the Ottoman Empire), which was ratified by the All-Albanian Congress on 28 November 1912, establishing the state of Albania.

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Interface admin action request based on Wikipedia_talk:Deletion_policy#Proposed_change_to_option_T2 (Special:Diff/9765613)

Hello, due to the recent consensus to change QD T2, I'm requesting interface admin action to reflect the consensus to the Twinkle interface. Currently, Twinkle explains QD T2 as They are deprecated or replaced by a newer template and are completely unused and not linked to., but due to the recent consensus, this has to be changed to They are deprecated or replaced by a newer template or module and are completely unused and not linked to.. Please note that "or module" is added. I have reflected the consensus in WP:TQD, and all we need is the update to the Twinkle interface. I look forward to hearing from you. MathXplore (talk) 06:32, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done --Ferien (talk) 06:36, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 UTC. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.

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Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page.
The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within <syntaxhighlight> tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax {{…}} are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [1]
Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [2][3]
View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

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From Wikimedia Enterprise:
- The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained on the project's blog post. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.
- The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.

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The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of the WDQS Graph Split project, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly" and "main" subgraphs of Wikidata. The query.wikidata.org endpoint will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see the announcement on Wikidata.

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-40

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en:Wildlife of Bahrain

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The wildlife of the archipelago of Bahrain, is more varied than might be expected of this small group of islands in the Persian Gulf. Apart from a strip of the north and west of the main island, where crops are grown with irrigation, the land is arid. With a very hot dry summer, a mild winter, and brackish groundwater, the plants need adaptations in order to survive. Nevertheless, 196 species of higher plant have been recorded here, as well as about seventeen species of terrestrial mammals, many birds and reptiles, and many migratory birds visit the islands in autumn and spring.

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Tech News: 2024-40

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Readers of 42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding ?veaction=editsource to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences. [4]
For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin. Learn more about the changes related to donor experiences. [5]
The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been enabled on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Wikipedia has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Wikipedia and on Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
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Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.

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The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes. [6]

Meetings and events

October 4–6: WikiIndaba Conference's Hackathon in Johannesburg, South Africa
November 4–6: MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 in Vienna, Austria

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:20, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Battle F0r Dream Island and Battle For Dream Island

Hello, I semi-protected Battle F0r Dream Island because its creation has been repeated with an obvious typo (please note the difference between 0 and o). Does this make sense to you? MathXplore (talk) 00:30, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi MathXplore, I completely understand why you did it. The reason why I removed the protection was because there was an existing entry on MediaWiki:Titleblacklist that I extended and this should be more effective than protecting individual pages. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 05:39, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Quick deletion requests

Category:Quick deletion requests may need to be protected again (because it was accidentally deleted again). Not that it has been vandalized, but I think you intended it to stay protected. Batrachoseps (talk) 02:53, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think that was my fault. I'll take care of it, not that it will help against admin foolery. fr33k man 03:01, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, it seems to happen a lot. I was thinking of trying to create an abuse filter to nudge admins who were about to do it but I doubt abuse filters would be able to apply to admin actions. --Ferien2 (talk) 13:49, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [7]

Updates for editors

Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now customize their articles suggestion list from 41 filtering options when using the tool. This topic-based article suggestion feature makes it easy for translators to self-discover relevant articles based on their area of interest and translate them. You can try it with your mobile device. [8]
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It is now possible for <syntaxhighlight> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the copy=1 attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [9]
Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [10]
Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available.
Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
Five new wikis have been created:
- a Wikipedia in Komering (w:kge:) [11]
- a Wikipedia in Mooré (m:mos:) [12]
- a Wiktionary in Madurese (wikt:mad:) [13]
- a Wikiquote in Gorontalo (q:gor:) [14]
- a Wikinews in Shan (n:shn:) [15]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:43, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bot for clearing interlanguage links

Could a bot be created to handle Category:Interlanguage link template existing link? Batrachoseps (talk) 23:31, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) @Batrachoseps: Cewbot is supposed to do that. Here is an example of a recent change it did for that task. But sometimes it can't fix them for some reason, and it notes the ones it can't do at User:Cewbot/Interlanguage link templates need to fix. -- Auntof6 (talk) 06:36, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Auntof6 Thank you! Batrachoseps (talk) 14:12, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-42

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en:Little Danes experiment
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The little Danes experiment was a 1951 Danish operation where 22 Greenlandic Inuit children were sent to Danish foster families in an attempt to re-educate them as "little Danes". While the children were all supposed to be orphans, most were not. Six children were adopted while in Denmark, and sixteen returned to Greenland, only to be placed in Danish-speaking orphanages and never live with their families again. Half of the children experienced mental health disturbances, and half of them died in young adulthood. The government of Denmark officially apologised in 2020, after several years of demands from Greenlandic officials.

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Tech News: 2024-42

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The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. [16][17]
WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [18]
View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.

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Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. [19]
Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [20]
Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <bdi> element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time. [21]

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The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more.
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MediaWiki message delivery 21:21, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:FerienBot2 at Wikipedia:Simple talk

The bot seems to be having a problem, constantly placing, and then removing the protection template (despite the protection placed expiring yesterday).- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 10:04, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Letting you know I have shut down the bot. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 12:18, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies I haven't looked at it sooner, and thanks Fehufanga for blocking. I'm still not going to be home for another 6 hours yet so it might be a little while before this gets resolved. I'll obviously try to get to it as soon as I can so this doesnt end up happening again on another page. --Ferien (talk) 12:49, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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As an update, I've found the source of the problem. The edit protection on ST expired, therefore the template should be removed (as it is present in WP:IPT), however under the current rules the bot follows, the move protection remains therefore the page remains protected and it was recently protected (albeit not to its current state) therefore the template should be readded. The current code does not specify which type of protection a page requires for the template to be added, it simply needs to be an existent page and be protected. Move protection is rare so I honestly forgot about it initially. I should be able to fix this quickly though once I have the time. Sorry about the inconvenience! --Ferien (talk) 22:17, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

At least you found the problem :).- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 06:02, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this weekend is a fairly busy one for me so probably was the worst time this could have happened this month! But the issue is now resolved and the bot is running normally again, despite the lengthy explanation above it's literally just 10 extra characters that fixed it :P --Ferien (talk) 19:43, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-43

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en:Kharayeb

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Kharayeb (Arabic: الخرايب) is a historic town in the Sidon District in the South Governorate, Lebanon. The town is 77 km (48 mi) south of Beirut, and stands at an average altitude of 190 m (620 ft) above sea level. The town boasts a rich historical legacy, with archaeological excavations revealing a complex settlement history spanning from Prehistory to the Ottoman period. Notably, Kharayeb's origins can be traced back to the Persian period (539–330 BC), when it played a pivotal role in the region's agricultural and economic landscape, culminating in the construction of its Phoenician temple around the 6th century BC.

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The Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.

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Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week. [22][23][24][25][26]
It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.

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Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new {{#timef:…}} parser function. For example, {{#timef:now|date|en}} will show as "20 November 2024". Previously, {{#time:…}} could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation. #timef (or #timefl for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [27][28]
Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using {{USERLANGUAGE}} instead of using {{int:lang}}. [29]
The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform. [30]

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The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
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Meetings and events

24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar - Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel.
20–22 December 2024 - Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:52, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Hi Ferien, Just wanted to say thanks for saving the Black tetra article, As the IP is a vandal/LTA I was 50/50 on whether to QD or not but I guess this IPs made something worthwhile for once :), Anyway thanks again your help is always appreciated, Thanks, Warm Regards,–Davey2010^Talk 15:43, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Davey2010: Yes, constructive edits from problematic IPs can happen sometimes, even then I try to lean on the side of saving the article before deleting it if I can and if it's reasonable. Cheers :) --Ferien (talk) 20:15, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

		The Admin's Barnstar
		For your helpful edits as an adminǃ Aster🪻 ^talk ^edits 16:23, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Asteralee, much appreciated :) --Ferien (talk) 17:16, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request

Hello. Could you please respond on my request for permissions and Asteralee's request? I know from experience that these requests can take a very long time to receive a response (my previous one took 2 weeks), so I am asking you as the most recently active administrator. Thank you. Best regards, BZPN (talk) 08:20, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi BZPN, thank you for the message, but requests for permissions are often left for some time to allow time for other admins to comment on requests, or better evaluate editing activity. I will review the requests when I have more time, likely in a few days time. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 21:40, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Move to Wikipedia mainspace

Helloǃ Am I able to move a humor article in my user main space to Wikipediaː main space? Thanksǃ Aster🪻 ^talk ^edits 12:30, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Asteralee, I'd probably say it's safer to keep the page in userspace. There's no policy on it or anything like that, but we have very few Wikipedia: pages that are humour (transclusions), so it's probably easier to keep it in User:space. Thanks! --Ferien (talk) 21:45, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) agreed fr33k man 21:49, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-44

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en:Christmas horror
(es:Terror navideño)

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Christmas horror is a fiction genre and film genre that incorporates horror elements into a seasonal setting. It is popular in multiple countries.

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Tech News: 2024-44

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Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read the October project update and see the latest documentation and examples on Beta Wikipedia.
View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pediapress.com, an external service that creates books from Wikipedia, can now use Wikimedia Maps to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Wikipedia. [31]

Updates for technical contributors

Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set emitTransitionOnStep to true to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag allowAutomaticBack to avoid back-buttons they don't want. [32]
Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. [33]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:56, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request

Hello. I would like to ask you to check my latest articles (Dalmatic, Zucchetto and Stole) for style - is it simple enough? I try to simplify the articles as much as possible according to the guidelines. Thank you and best regards, BZPN (talk) 18:34, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

BZPN, hi! Sorry about the slight delay in response, I have been really busy with work over the past few days. They are generally quite simple, but just a couple of pieces of advice:

For words, it's good to compare them against BE 1500, the extended Basic English wordlist, to check whether the word is simple enough. Try to simplify it to these words where you can, but if you can't, make sure to link it, either here on simplewiki, or you can use a Wiktionary link if there is a page for it on that project. You should check the links here first, then only use Wiktionary if it's unlikely to get an article here, especially if it's a verb or something.
Otherwise, with sentences, you should use active over passive form, for example "Ferien is making a comment" instead of "A comment is being made by Ferien", as it's a lot easier to understand.
- In a similar fashion, with Dalmatic, it's probably better for you to say "In the 20th century, the simple, long white dalmatic was/became used again." rather than "returned to use."

I hope this helps, feel free to ask if you have any more questions :) Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 11:49, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Hello. I have one more question, unrelated to the content itself. My question is about interface admin permissions - where can I request them? There is a situation where I would like to block (MediaWiki:BlockedExternalDomains.json) pages that are blogs and used as sources in (I have recently deleted several of them), which is obviously against the rules and misleads readers. There are currently no interface administrators, regular administrators are often unavailable and do not have the appropriate permissions, and I have the appropriate knowledge to edit .json files (which are not difficult to edit) and sufficient knowledge of the Wiki mechanism to do it myself and not break anything :). The Wikipedia:Interface administrators page does not provide specific requirements when it comes to temporarily granting permissions, so I am asking you whether it is possible for me to obtain these permissions to do my tasks. And I'm sorry to bother you with questions, but I don't really have anyone else to turn to :). Have a nice day! BZPN (talk) 09:49, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. I'm mainly thinking about sources such as miraheze.org, instagram.com, blogspot.com, quora.com (!) - they would be included on the list only after being removed from the articles and replaced with the {{citation needed}} (if necessary). BZPN (talk) 10:38, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have created a list of domains that should be blocked here: User:BZPN/BlockedDomains.json. I didn't realize that the problem with sources is so tragic - I found, for example, Fandom and quizlet as a historical sources, description from Instagram post in the content or even Reddit post as a source [sic!]. BZPN (talk) 17:26, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

BZPN, regarding interface administrator rights, they are usually granted when needed, and then removed once the task is done, hence why there are no interface admins on our wiki currently. I have granted them a few times to myself in the past, and could fulfil this task if you'd like. You can request interface admin rights on WP:AN, however despite the lack of mention of admin rights in policy, I don't think non-admins should be granted the IA right. It was detached from administrator a while back due to the potential risks of all administrators having it and the damage that the role can cause, and the enwiki policy on it says only existing admins can request it. I will start a discussion soon to determine whether we should have this written in policy, as it can cause confusion otherwise. Thanks :) --Ferien (talk) 12:02, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ferien, thank you very much for your help, you helped me a lot. In our case, in plwiki and on several other wikis, non-administrators can also obtain IA permissions to perform their tasks independently of administrators - I thought it was the same on simplewiki. I will report domains for blocking on AN after they are removed from articles. For now, I will focus on removing pseudo-sources and improving my articles. Thank you again for your detailed tips and help. I wish you all the best :). BZPN (talk) 12:11, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Placenta cake is a dish from ancient Greece and Rome consisting of many dough layers interspersed with a mixture of cheese and honey and flavored with bay leaves, baked and then covered in honey. The dessert is mentioned in classical texts such as the Greek poems of Archestratos and Antiphanes, as well as the De agri cultura of Cato the Elder. It is often seen as the predecessor of baklava and börek.

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Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts. [34]
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XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. [36]

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Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
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Trisomy 16 is a chromosomal abnormality in which there are 3 copies of chromosome 16 rather than two. It is the most common trisomy leading to miscarriage and the second most common chromosomal cause of it, closely following X-chromosome monosomy. About 6% of miscarriages have trisomy 16.

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On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, users will notice that the FuzzyBot will now automatically create translated versions of categories used on translated pages. [37]
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Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page for more information about this work. [40]

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21 November 2024 (8:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC) - Community call with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.

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Hi, would you mind having a look at this article? Two unidentified IP addresses have been making a series of weird, ahistorical and poorly sourced edits in turn. One of the IP addresses has been warned several times not to do so but continuing. I am not sure if two IP addresses are associated with the same person or troll farm. Steven1991 (talk) 16:50, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Boana platanera, commonly known as the banana tree dwelling frog, is a species of tree frog in the family Hylidae. It is distributed within Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Trinidad and Tobago. Boana platanera was described in 2021, and individuals of the species were previously classified as Boana crepitans or Boana xerophylla.

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Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a redirect to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects. [41]
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On wikis that use the FlaggedRevs extension, pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this. [43][44]

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There is a new Diff post about Temporary Accounts, available in more than 15 languages. Read it to learn about what Temporary Accounts are, their impact on different groups of users, and the plan to introduce the change on all wikis.

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Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10 2024. The registration for the event will close in mid-April 2025. The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual gathering that unites the global technical community to collaborate on existing projects and explore new ideas.
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Paid User Alert

Hello @Ferien From past 1 month i am observing there are many People making paid pages on simple wikipedia. People who are not having any news article and having 2-3 paid article also getting live here. And Scammers are using fake references as well with fake references. And a user @Symonds Gerother is involved in it because today i inserted qd in 5-10 non notable pages and he revereted all the changes and removed qd. So he is also involved in the group of people who are making paid pages of non notable people so deleted all the pages on which i have inserted qd and which has been remove by @Symonds Gerother and Block this user. Kindlt (talk) 15:28, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]