User talk:Ferien/Archives/2021/June

RfA

Did you want to be nominated for adminship? C4Bomb2024 Talk 10:19, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

@C4Bomb2024: Hi. Thanks for the nomination but I was thinking about running for adminship in a few months at the very earliest so I don't think I'm going to accept. Regards, --Ferien (talk) 11:40, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Ok, I’m good with that then. C4Bomb2024 Talk 11:57, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

@C4Bomb2024: I have declined the nomination. Thank you for nominating me but I don't think I'm ready just yet. Regards, --Ferien (talk) 14:50, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Ok. C4Bomb2024 Talk 15:33, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

And your account is globally locked now... --Ferien (talk) 07:06, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

@Ferien Dang man! Lol PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} 07:08, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

it would have been very awkward if I had accepted an RfA nomination from a now globally locked user... --Ferien (talk) 16:39, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

I hear ya man! PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} 16:39, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

LOL HAPPY JUNE 2! PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} 07:11, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Oof. I also saw a help request like this in my talk page. Would it also be awkward to see a comment in WP:RFP/R from him? Darubrub (Let me know) 15:40, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Darubrub I would say yes. Unfortunately it does not carry any weight. But then again, it is not a consensus vote, it is an admin decision. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} 16:00, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

It's annoying but, as PotsdamLamb says, it's admins that make the final decision and so it shouldn't have an impact. --Ferien (talk) 16:58, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Question related to a wikipedia article

Hello sir, I want to ask if this page is allowed to be kept when its already deleted and salted form main wikipedia after it was proved that articles about subject are paid. Check this and and this. I see the same page active under different languages as well without any notability. JAHANZAIBARIF (talk) 21:56, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @JAHANZAIBARIF I am in agreement with it being deleted on the other wikis. It is not notable. All of the links are dead that would show any notoriety. I have nominated it for deletion. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} 22:17, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

@PDL Ok sir. Please fix the User talk link in your comment for quick deletion. Thanks JAHANZAIBARIF (talk) 22:37, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

@JAHANZAIBARIF There is no talk link in the QD notice, so I am not sure what you are referring to. If you click on my name in the notice, it will take you to my page, which is what it is supposed to do. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} 22:45, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

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The article seems to have been deleted. Regards, --Ferien (talk) 07:40, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-23

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Breakthrough infection Please be bold and help translate this article! A breakthrough infection is a case of illness in which a vaccinated individual becomes sick from the same illness that the vaccine is meant to prevent. Simply, they occur when vaccines fail to provide immunity against the pathogen they are designed to target. In April 2021, the CDC reported that in the United States there were 5,814 COVID-19 breakthrough infections, and 74 deaths, among the more than 75 million people fully vaccinated for the COVID-19 virus. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:28, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Headquarters

Turns out, it's even stranger than I thought! The infoboxes were copied from the English Wikipedia, so the "misinformation" came from there. In fact, if you look at the Serbian Wikipedia article and check the English one, you'll see that it also has the same fake headquarters writing (I'll bring that up to ENWiki editors, so you might have to check the page's history if it gets removed). Cheers! Etoza (?) 18:59, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

@Etoza: Hmm, that's interesting. If you go to w:Wikimedia Foundation and Ctrl+F "miami" you won't find anything so as you said it must have been some sort of factual error vandalism that we copied across... Thanks! --Ferien (talk) 19:54, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-23

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 June. It will be on all wikis from 10 June (calendar).

Future changes

• The Wikimedia movement uses Phabricator for technical tasks. This is where we collect technical suggestions, bugs and what developers are working on. The company behind Phabricator will stop working on it. This will not change anything for the Wikimedia movement now. It could lead to changes in the future. [1][2][3]
• Searching on Wikipedia will find more results in some languages. This is mainly true for when those who search do not use the correct diacritics because they are not seen as necessary in that language. For example searching for Bedusz doesn't find Będusz on German Wikipedia. The character ę isn't used in German so many would write e instead. This will work better in the future in some languages. [4]
• The CSRF token parameters in the action API were changed in 2014. The old parameters from before 2014 will stop working soon. This can affect bots, gadgets and user scripts that still use the old parameters. [5][6]

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20:03, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Apology

Hi Ferien, Just wanted to apologise for earlier - I didn't realise the article had an infobox otherwise I wouldn't of reverted you so sorry for that, Thank you for adding the updated version and thank you for your contributions to the project too :), Take care and stay safe, Warm Regards, –Davey2010^Talk 22:43, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

@Davey2010: No worries. :) Regards, --Ferien (talk) 05:37, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Empty maintenance categories

You do not have to put QD requests on the empty maintenance categories. QD requests will appear on those automatically. I know someone (you?) recently said they weren't seeing them, but when I went to process them I saw both your requests and the automatically generated ones. --Auntof6 (talk) 07:57, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Oh, that's strange. I went into a completely different browser and loaded the CAT:QD page and it didn't appear. I will just stop tagging those now. --Ferien (talk) 10:16, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

{{Subst:Ferien}} Bravo my chap but it was probably deleted... 2600:387:6:80F:0:0:0:75 (talk) 00:05, 10 June 2021 (UTC)...

The category? That was not deleted when I checked. It is some sort of issue on my side I think. --Ferien (talk) 17:58, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

New barnstar

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Thank you for adding categories to my pages that i made. You're a very good and nice person here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:444:201:9e70:7da3:653d:403c:791c (talk • contribs) 17:56, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the barnstar :) No problem for adding the categories. --Ferien (talk) 17:58, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-24

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

• Logged-in users on the mobile web can choose to use the advanced mobile mode. They now see categories in a similar way as users on desktop do. This means that some gadgets that have just been for desktop users could work for users of the mobile site too. If your wiki has such gadgets you could decide to turn them on for the mobile site too. Some gadgets probably need to be fixed to look good on mobile. [7]
• Language links on Wikidata now works for multilingual Wikisource. [8]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• In the future we can't show the IP of unregistered editors to everyone. This is because privacy regulations and norms have changed. There is now a rough draft of how showing the IP to those who need to see it could work.
• German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [9]
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 28 June. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [10][11]

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20:26, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Comments on RfD pages

It is not necessary to comment "remember that this is not a vote" on RfD discussions. The closing admin can see that the person didn't give any particular reason, and they will take that into account. --Auntof6 (talk) 23:17, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Ok, I just wanted to let them know that RfDs are not a vote for future discussions. --Ferien (talk) 05:39, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

Protection

I saw my sandbox has been vandalized 3 times. Can I protect the sandbox from being edited by anonymous and users who arnt extended confirmed? Haoreima (talk) 20:03, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

@Haoreima: We don't have extended confirmed protection/users on this wiki. However, as User:Haoreima/sandbox is in your user subpage, you can request for it to be semi-protected, so IPs and users with under 10 edits can't edit it. You can request semi-protection on User:Haoreima/sandbox on the administrators' noticeboard or on an admin's talk page. Semi-protection should be enough protection for your sandbox. Regards, --Ferien (talk) 20:08, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

What happened to your talk page? All the talks are gone under a hidden way! Seems unusual like before. Haoreima (talk) 20:13, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

@Haoreima: I archived it in late April. I also changed the font to Calibri. Can you explain what you mean by "All the talks are gone under a hidden way!"? --Ferien (talk) 20:38, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Your talk page looks exactly similar to that of MacDonald Ross. It's explicitly different from mine, or others'. If you change your desktop view edition to mobile view edition, it's clearly visible that all the talks (not so archived till now) we're all hidden under the column "Add new discussion". It's only after pressing the long blue color button "Read as Wikipedia page", I can see all the hidden talks, even this current one. For better knowledge, compare yours with mine. Haoreima (talk) 20:53, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

@Haoreima: I see what you mean. How odd. I haven't changed anything to make it like that. Was it readable without having to press "Read as wiki page" before? --Ferien (talk) 20:56, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

No, everything remains hidden until I press the button. Haoreima (talk) 21:12, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Ok, @Haoreima: have you ever been able to read talk page messages of mine without pressing "Read as wiki page"? I recall being able to on my phone recently. --Ferien (talk) 21:13, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Till yesterday, everything was fine. I regularly look at your talk page even when I don't talk with you. It's only today, everything got mess up. As of now, without pressing the button, I can't see or read. Haoreima (talk) 21:21, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Your case is slightly different from MacDonald Ross'. In his, two talks are already seen. But within the second one, a lot of talks are still hidden. But in your case, seems like there's no talk active in the page. Because all are hidden. Haoreima (talk) 21:24, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

One thing I can suggest you is to check the entire content of this very talk page, from A to Z (including even a single template or a tag). That will really help you to understand what is wrong with the page! Edit history check up will also be helpful. Haoreima (talk) 05:54, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

I revert all vandalism on the page and the top, apart from the font code addition, is the same. Let me see what happens when I remove the font. --Ferien (talk) 05:55, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

@Haoreima: Seems like the font must have confused the mobile site! You can see all topics without pressing "Read as wiki page" now. --Ferien (talk) 05:56, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Belwine! See everyone got fine now within a few seconds (after your last reply). Check yourself through mobile view edition. Have you done something? Haoreima (talk) 05:57, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

@Haoreima: Yep, I removed the font. That seemed to confuse the mobile site. --Ferien (talk) 05:58, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Oh yes! Everything's fine now. My last reply was published within a fraction of seconds just after yours. LOL! Haoreima (talk) 05:59, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Once again! See yours:-05:56, mine:-05:57 again yours:-05:58, mine:-05:59 very interesting. Haoreima (talk) 06:01, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

I have a little confusion. Is England currently in day or night? My place is currently a mid day! Haoreima (talk) 06:20, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

@Haoreima: Day, it's the morning and it's currently 7:22am. --Ferien (talk) 06:22, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

7:22 am! Mine is 11:52 am. Very interesting! Haoreima (talk) 06:23, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

It's almost one whole day passed after I request for protection of my sandbox in the administrators' noticeboard. But no response is seen. What best can I do? Haoreima (talk) 20:55, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

@Haoreima: The only advice I have is just wait for an admin to respond. Eventually, an admin will protect your page. --Ferien (talk) 20:57, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

One thing I noticed frequently is that when a vandal commit vandalism on multiple pages including my sandbox and other articles, bots or admins revert their actions in the article pages but left my sandbox unreverted (when I ain't active in Wikipedia). What do you think? Is this based on the personal thinking of the very users? Haoreima (talk) 21:02, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

@Haoreima: Maybe they just don't notice the vandalism in your sandbox, they won't just leave it on purpose. --Ferien (talk) 21:06, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Till now, it's only you who noticed vandalism on my related pages. Thanks for reply. Haoreima (talk) 21:09, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

@Haoreima: Auntof6 has now protected your user page. --Ferien (talk) 21:28, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

About Neptune

Good day! Can you check the article about Neptune and leave a comment? Appreciate it.Thank you in advance. Frontfrog (talk) 19:54, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

@Frontfrog: Ok. I'll have a look at it. I'm not the best at reviewing potential GAs but I'll try! --Ferien (talk) 20:14, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

@Frontfrog:  Done! Thanks for your work on the article, it's looking great. :D --Ferien (talk) 20:59, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Thank you so much too for your comment! Frontfrog (talk) 05:44, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

Kimono

Do you think it is ready to be nominated for GA? --Tsugaru Let's Talk! :) 🍁 21:07, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

I just took a quick look at it; I think it's good but not ready for GA yet. The language is simple which is great but as the tag says, I think it needs a few more sources. The potential is definitely there though :) --Ferien (talk) 21:11, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-24

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Tutankhamun's trumpets Please be bold and help translate this article! Tutankhamun's trumpets are a pair of trumpets found in the burial chamber of the Eighteenth Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun. The trumpets, one of sterling silver and one of bronze or copper, are considered to be the oldest operational trumpets in the world, and the only known surviving examples from ancient Egypt. The trumpets were found in 1922 by Howard Carter during the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb. The bronze trumpet was discovered in the tomb's antechamber in a large chest containing various military objects and walking sticks. The silver trumpet was subsequently found in the burial chamber. Both are finely engraved, with decorative images of the gods Ra-Horakhty, Ptah and Amun. The silver trumpet's bell is engraved with a whorl of sepals and calices representing a lotus flower, and the praenomen and nomen of the king. The bronze trumpet may in fact be made of copper; the metal has not yet been analysed. Similar looking trumpets feature in Egyptian wall-paintings that are usually, though not always, associated with military scenes. Silent for over 3,000 years, the trumpets were sounded before a live audience of an estimated 150 million listeners through an international BBC broadcast aired on 16 April 1939. The trumpets were played by a bandsman, James Tappern of Prince Albert's Own 11th Royal Hussars regiment. The recording was recently featured, and can be heard on the BBC Radio 4 program Ghost Music. Rex Keating, who presented the 1939 broadcast, later claimed that during a rehearsal, the silver trumpet shattered, and Alfred Lucas, a member of Carter's team who had restored the finds, was so distressed he needed to go to hospital. Due to their fragility, it is unlikely the trumpets will be played again in any official musical reconstructions. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:24, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

New article

Hello pal! I want en:List of Manipuri kings to be written in simple wiki too. Since the article is about the list of names, do we still need it to be simplified? Or, can we just copy and paste it? Haoreima (talk) 12:58, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

And what about en:Template:Kingdom of Manipur? Haoreima (talk) 13:11, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

No. You should not copy and paste it for a couple of reasons:

1. Copyright - although you can attribute it in the edit summary
2. The fact that simple wiki is meant to be written in Simple English and normal wikipedia isn't written in simple english
3. Avoid just listing names, as this wiki isn't solely a wiki for lists

Hope this helps. SHB2000 (talk) 14:15, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

@Haoreima: I had a look at w:List of Manipuri kings. It shouldn't be copy and pasted completely. I feel like all sections apart from the lead and Burmese rule could be copy and pasted without simplification. For the other sections, I think simplification is necessary. You'll need to remember attribution, though.

@SHB2000: Sometimes, stubs on enwiki can actually be simple enough and A3 requests can be denied if this is the case. A3 is for copy and pastes from enwiki that are complex.

There have been occasions where I have only needed to make a couple of adjustments to a copy of an enwiki article before publishing it here. For example, List of postcode districts in the United Kingdom.

Hope this helps,

--Ferien (talk) 14:53, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-25

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

• The otrs-member group name is now vrt-permissions. This could affect abuse filters. [12]

Problems

• You will be able to read but not edit German Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage and 29 smaller wikis for a few minutes on 22 June. This is planned between 5:00 and 5:30 UTC. [13]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 June. It will be on all wikis from 24 June (calendar).

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15:49, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

British English

I don't find any difference between English and British English in the wikipedia user language settings. Now, I have set mine in British English. Do you find any difference? Haoreima (talk) 07:11, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

Hi Haoreima, this is probably because only the interface is changed into British English, not the article. Also in the interface I can't imagine there being many differences between American and British English, which is probably why you can't notice it. Best regards,--Ferien (talk) 09:09, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

Hello pal! I have started editing in wiki data. Now, I am connecting some pages at inter wiki. Please check if I am doing right or wrong! Thank you. Haoreima (talk) 18:02, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

@Haoreima: Yep, they seem fine. Just some advice though: you don't need to spend time adding the Simple English descriptions, labels and aliases. I believe people reading in Simple English get the English descriptions, labels and aliases automatically. Regards, --Ferien (talk) 18:05, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

Why so? I mean if simple English description isn't added, and if general English description is added only, then will the description appear in the simple English wikipedia article? Haoreima (talk) 18:09, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

@Haoreima: I've tried viewing Wikidata pages in Simple English before. If there isn't a Simple English description, alias or label then the English one will appear. I can only assume that if you viewed short descriptions here it would take the English one on Wikidata. You can add the Simple English descriptions if you want, you just don't need to. Regards, --Ferien (talk) 18:13, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

Thank you. Haoreima (talk) 18:17, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

And, I am happy that I will no longer disturb you for the connection, except for some suggestions. Cheers! Haoreima (talk) 18:21, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

@Haoreima: Still, if you need any help with Wikidata, please let me know. I'll be happy to help. :) --Ferien (talk) 19:02, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

Pal! This https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107316443 I created but another already existed in the name "Eputhou Thangjing". What shall we do? Haoreima (talk) 04:24, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

@Haoreima: I have merged the two items. --Ferien (talk) 05:44, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks but I want to create an item for Thangjing (disambiguation)=mni:ꯊꯥꯡꯆꯤꯡ. What about this? Haoreima (talk) 06:06, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

@Haoreima: Ok, you can create a new item to link them together, as a disambiguation page on Wikipedia. You can put the description in English as Wikimedia disambiguation page. --Ferien (talk) 06:09, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

But one thing, wiki data item for templates on wikipedia are asked to link at least 3 connections. What about minimum no. for disambiguation? Haoreima (talk) 06:11, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

@Haoreima: I'm not aware of a minimum number of connections for disambiguation pages. I think the minimum amount of pages that need to be connected on any Wikidata item is one zero as many Wikidata items don't have any connections to pages on Wikipedia. --Ferien (talk) 06:14, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I believe you are correct. I believe Wikidata is meant to be a general database of knowledge, not just for Wikimedia projects. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Auntof6 (talk • contribs) 06:15, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

Yeah, if you go to wikidata:Special:Random and open up several pages, you'll find a majority of them don't have links to any Wikimedia project. --Ferien (talk) 16:10, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Setting the MediaWiki Interface to British English just changes the links on your end. It does not affect the page content or article content being displayed. --Tsugaru Let's Talk! :) 🍁 03:06, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for all the housekeeping you've been doing! I recognise your work. Cheers Hockeycatcat (talk) 09:17, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for the message Hockeycatcat! Happy to help :) --Ferien (talk) 10:20, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

humility

 63.79% This user has created 160,035 of the 250,880 articles on the Simple English Wikipedia

or

 63.38% This user has created 159,000 of the 250,880 articles on the Simple English Wikipedia

I saw no bug in this wiki. Then, I am confused why there's malfunctioning in the mni wiki template. Haoreima (talk) 07:05, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Well, as you don't see neither dot nor question mark, what do you see? Haoreima (talk) 07:07, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Haoreima Sorry I meant to say I saw the box with the ? in it. See mni, it seems to be fixed now. --Ferien (talk) 15:28, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-26

The winner this Translation of the week is en:Sumidouro State Park (pt:Parque Estadual do Sumidouro) Please be bold and help translate this article! The Sumidouro State Park (Portuguese: Parque Estadual do Sumidouro) is a state park in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The remains of the first human inhabitants of Brazil were found in the park area in the early 19th century, along with bones of now-extinct megafauna. The main attraction is the Gruta da Lapinha, a large limestone cave. (Please update the interwiki links on Wikidata of your language version of the article after each week's translation is finished so that all languages are linked to each other.) About · Nominate/Review · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 01:27, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-26

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

• Wikis with the Growth features now can configure Growth features directly on their wiki. This uses the new special page Special:EditGrowthConfig. [14]
• Wikisources have a new OCR tool. If you don't want to see the "extract text" button on Wikisource you can add .ext-wikisource-ExtractTextWidget { display: none; } to your common.css page. [15]

Problems

• You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [16][17]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 June. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).

Future changes

• Threshold for stub link formatting, thumbnail size and auto-number headings can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can read more and give feedback.
• A toolbar will be added to the Reply tool's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users. [18][19]

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16:32, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Barnstar of kindness

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For the obvious. :) ~StyyxTalk? ^-^ 16:59, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

@Styyx: Thank you very much :) --Ferien (talk) 17:42, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

UK Weather

• How is the weather in UK? In Vancouver, it's a bit hotter than normal (~50 degrees Celsius), but at least not as bad as Tokyo! --Tsugaru Let's Talk! :) 🍁 20:41, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

  @つがる: The weather has actually been worse than recently today (but still not that bad), it was quite rainy this morning but the rest of the day has been ok. However, for most of this June, the UK's had great weather (for once!..), it has been really nice and sunny. According to the BBC, we should get back over 20°C by Wednesday and Thursday. Hopefully, I can go out for a long bike ride next weekend now mine's repaired and the weather's good too :) --Ferien (talk) 20:51, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

  Tokyo has a lot of rain but it still seems warmer than the weather we have most of the time over here. You're very lucky with all that sun! --Ferien (talk) 21:00, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

For me, I cannot ride bikes, I used to go to wally world and ride the little kids bikes with training wheels, and get kicked out of the bike section. In Tokyo, it's hot but it feels very stuffy, not like Vancouver, where it's just hot --Tsugaru Let's Talk! :) 🍁 21:03, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Oh, and I prefer rainy, stormy, gloomy days, over the sun. Sorry if I seem weird! --Tsugaru Let's Talk! :) 🍁 21:08, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

@つがる: Oh, the reason I enjoy riding bikes is because I'm not really good at any other form of exercise or sport :P About enjoying rainy days: Meh, it depends how I feel. Sometimes rainy days can be fun; although even if you don't find them fun, you kind of have to get used to them over here because there are so many of them! --Ferien (talk) 21:28, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Yea I am not good at sports either! At school, we have PE class in the rain all year long! --Tsugaru Let's Talk! :) 🍁 21:58, 28 June 2021 (UTC)