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Tech News: 2024-25

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

• People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check for more details. [1]
• The new Community Configuration extension is available on Test Wikipedia. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases in the future. [2][3]
• The dark mode beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page. [4]

Problems

• Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [5]
• Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here. [6]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar). [7][8]
• Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable. [9]
• Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software. [10]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:47, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Gravity Blanket

On 19 June 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gravity Blanket, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Pizza Hut’s most expensive pizza was a weighted blanket? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gravity Blanket. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Gravity Blanket), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

♠PMC♠ (talk) 00:03, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 19,145 views (797.7 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of June 2024 – nice work!

GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:28, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

DYK for I Am Human (film)

On 22 June 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article I Am Human (film), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the documentary film I Am Human has been the conversation starter for neuroscience panel discussions at universities such as Harvard? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/I Am Human (film). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, I Am Human (film)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:36, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Chahal concerns

Dear User:Crystallizedcarbon and User:TheSandDoctor, I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to bring to your attention several disruptive edits made to the Wikipedia page of Gurbaksh Chahal. These edits have altered the content significantly, adding undue negative emphasis and removing positive information that balanced the article. I kindly request your intervention to revert the page to the version as of July 31, 2022, which represented a balanced view reached through consensus.

• cur prev 19:21, 31 July 2022‎ Crystallizedcarbon (talk | contribs)‎ 57,904 bytes −1,185‎ Restored an old revision of this page, as edited by Vanisaac (talk | contribs) at 21:28, 27 July 2022. The status quo version was a hard to reach consensus that required very long discussions. Any change to this highly controversial point must also be reached by consensus first on the talk page. Tag: Manual revert.

Summary of Negative Edits Added:

Infobox:

• 2022 Version: Did not include "Criminal charges: Domestic violence battery."

Lead Section:

• Legal issues involving violence against women were introduced prominently in the opening lines, giving undue weight to these aspects.

Domestic Violence Section:

• Detailed and graphic descriptions of the alleged incidents of domestic violence were added after already being reversed by User:TheSandDoctor and others.

BNN Breaking Section:

• A dedicated section to BNN Breaking was added, giving undue prominence to this event while creating its own Wikipedia page.

Detailed Chronological Changes:

November 20, 2022 - Edits by User: Chisme

Removed Positive Content:

• Gravity4: Simplified details about the company's achievements and innovations.
  • Removed Content: "Gravity4's main area of business was gathering useful customer data regarding their user experience to allow marketers to improve their ad targets. This company also started working in the AI sector and launched a marketing cloud for blockchain."

Added Negative Content - Edits by User: Chisme

• Domestic Violence Section:
  • Added specific details about the number of times Chahal allegedly hit his girlfriend and the inadmissible video footage.
    • Added Content: "Video footage of the assault, taken by a camera in Chahal's bedroom ceiling, showed Chahal smothering the woman with a pillow and hitting and kicking her 117 times over a half-hour period."

March 2, 2024 - Edits by Users: Hemiauchenia, Belbury, Amigao, Gråbergs Gråa Sång

Added Negative Content:

• BNN Breaking Section:
  • Dedicated a section to BNN Breaking, separate already from its negative Wikipedia page created.
    • Added Content: "In 2022, Chahal founded the now-defunct news website and aggregator BNN Breaking in Hong Kong. The website was subject to several controversies regarding the accuracy of its reporting, and all of its accounts were suspended from Twitter in June 2022 for violations of the site's policy on spam and platform manipulation. As of March 2024, Google appeared to no longer show search results for the website. The BNN website was deleted and moved to the website TrimFeed. Trimfeed was closed after The New York Times informed Chahal they were doing a report on BNN."

March 2, 2024 - Edits by Users: Amigao

Added Negative Content:

• Infobox
  • Added Criminal charges: Domestic violence battery to Infobox
    • Added Content: "In 2022, Chahal founded the now-defunct news website"

June 6, 2024 - Edits by User: Gråbergs Gråa Sång

Added Negative Content:

• Lead Section:
  • Introduced legal issues involving violence against women prominently in the opening sentences.
    • Added Content: "However, legal issues involving violence against women have resulted in his removal from two of his businesses.."

June 6, 2024 - Edits by User: Gråbergs Gråa Sång

Added Negative Content:

• BNN Breaking Section:
  • Updated the section with details about controversies and the suspension of Twitter accounts.
    • Added Content: "The website was subject to several controversies regarding the accuracy of its reporting, and all of its accounts were suspended from Twitter in June 2022 for violations of the site's policy on spam and platform manipulation."

Positive Content Removed: Edits by User: Chisme

Gravity4:

• 2022 Version: "Gravity4's main area of business was gathering useful customer data regarding their user experience to allow marketers to improve their ad targets. This company also started working in the AI sector and launched a marketing cloud for blockchain."
• 2022 Version: "The company further launched two main applications named MonaChain and MonaBrowse that aimed to target fraud and ad blockers."

Philanthropy and Honors: Edits by User: Chisme

• 2022 Version: "In 2012, after the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting, he committed US$1 million to found BeProud (since renamed to Chahal Foundation), a charitable foundation that supports the families of hate crime victims and combats child trafficking in India."

Specific Other Negative Edits Added To Date:

Domestic Violence Section Edits by User: Chisme

• Added detailed and graphic descriptions of the incidents.
  • Added Content: "Video footage of the assault, taken by a camera in Chahal's bedroom ceiling, showed Chahal smothering the woman with a pillow and hitting and kicking her 117 times over a half-hour period."

Given these changes, it is clear that there has been a pattern of disruptive editing aimed at highlighting negative aspects of Gurbaksh Chahal's life while removing or minimizing his career achievements and contributions. I kindly request that the page be reverted to the version as of July 31, 2022, which can be found here: July 31, 2022 version. Thank you for your attention to this matter and for your efforts in maintaining the integrity and neutrality of this Wikipedia page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.139.133.12 (talk • contribs) 11:15, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

DYK for SkyBridge Alternatives Conference

On 23 June 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article SkyBridge Alternatives Conference, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the SkyBridge Alternatives Conference has been called the "Super Bowl of hedge funds"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/SkyBridge Alternatives Conference. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, SkyBridge Alternatives Conference), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-26

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

• Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions on the project talkpage. [11]
• The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode. [12]

Problems

• You can copy permanent links to talk page comments by clicking on a comment's timestamp. This feature did not always work when the topic title was very long and the link was used as a wikitext link. This has been fixed. Thanks to Lofhi for submitting the bug. [13]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar). [14][15]
• Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [16]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:30, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from Gulnarhaciyeva on Ad blocking (01:09, 26 June 2024)

Spam --Gulnarhaciyeva (talk) 01:09, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Gulnarhaciyeva: I am not sure that I understand your question? TheSandDoctor ^Talk 04:00, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Question from B M Devereaux (12:04, 29 June 2024)

Hello. I'm hoping to be able to add a fishing classic held in Rainbow Beach. I started working for Rainbow Beach Sports Club about 2/3 months ago and was surprised the fishing classic they've been hosting annually for 37 years wasn't even included in the Wikipedia page for Rainbow Beach: a town with a population of only 1200 people +/- When I looked at how I'm supposed to declare a conflict of interest (due to working there) I didn't understand where I had to insert the code. For my mind, which is new to this, there could have been two spots, and I didn't want to get it wrong so I closed the window. Bruce --B M Devereaux (talk) 12:04, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi @B M Devereaux:! My apologies for the delayed response. It looks like you did correctly declare your conflict of interest on your user page, thank you! I would recommend reading this guide to writing your first article and this guide to references. The notability guideline that you are trying to meet for this would be WP:GNG. That might sound scary -- and it does take some time to build consistent good judgement -- but it essentially just means that article subjects on Wikipedia must show that they are notable, which is established by receiving significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the article subject.

I've edited the draft to clean up some formatting on it for you. (We don't need to put "#REDIRECT" in front of wikilinks.) If you have any questions about editing, I would strongly recommend following this interactive guide to get a hang of it and don't be afraid to ask questions at the Teahouse where more editors monitor for questions than here on my talk page (but you can ask questions here by all means). . TheSandDoctor ^Talk 03:59, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-27

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

• Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update. [17]
• Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis. [18]
• If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers. [19][20]
• Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. [21]
• Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Mandailing (w:btm:) [22]

Problems

• Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [23]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:57, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

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Technical news

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Tech News: 2024-28

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

• At the Wikimedia Foundation a new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graph with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Chart. You can subscribe to the newsletter to get notified about new project updates and other news about Chart.
• The CampaignEvents extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on your wiki. This extension helps in managing and making events more visible, giving Event organizers the ability to use tools like the Event registration tool. To learn more about the deployment status and how to request this extension for your wiki, visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-wiki.
• Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.
• Thank you to all of the authors who have contributed to MediaWiki Core. As a result of these contributions, the percentage of authors contributing more than 5 patches has increased by 25% since last year, which helps ensure the sustainability of the platform for the Wikimedia projects.

Problems

• A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed.

Future changes

• The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation explaining how to do the update. Learn more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:30, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Question from Casperbruce on Wikipedia talk:Why create an account? (02:56, 10 July 2024)

Say hi how long is this active --Casperbruce (talk) 02:56, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Casperbruce: I am afraid that I do not understand what you are asking. If you are asking how long your account will exist, it will exist forever as Wikipedia accounts cannot be deleted. However, should you choose, you can request courtesy vanishing or simply just stop using the account. If you don't like your username and want to have your account renamed, please read Wikipedia:Changing username; I can rename your account directly (if you reply specifying a new username that is available) or you can request it as described on the "changing username" page I linked last sentence. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 03:48, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-29

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

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• Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 3 more days. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.

Recent changes

• Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status page.
• The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10.
• Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team. You can read more about this project on Diff blog.
• Editors who have access to The Wikipedia Library can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation contacted them to restore access. You can read more about this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week.

Changes later this week

• This week, dark mode will be available on a number of Wikipedias, both desktop and mobile, for logged-in and logged-out users. Interface admins and user script maintainers are encouraged to check gadgets and user scripts in the dark mode, to find any hard-coded colors and fix them. There are some recommendations for dark mode compatibility to help.

Future changes

• Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page. [24]
• Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload and discussion at Commons:Village Pump.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:29, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Question from Jatinder kapoor on User:Jatinder kapoor (17:19, 16 July 2024)

Hello how many days it will take to publish publically --Jatinder kapoor (talk) 17:19, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

@Jatinder kapoor: That isn't how Wikipedia works and Wikipedia also isn't a place for PR bios. I've deleted that user page because it is non-encyclopedic in its tone and read like a blatant advertisement. I would recommend reviewing this guide on article writing before trying again as well as this policy on conflicts of interest, this policy on paid editing, WP:AUTOBIO, and this notability guideline. Article subjects on Wikipedia must be notable, which is established by receiving significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the article subject. As written, that draft read more like a PR puff piece and lacked any sources whatsoever. If you have any further questions about what I've written here or how to proceed, please let me know. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 01:39, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Please help for my deleted sandbox page

I am new to wikipedia, and my sandbox page, User:Dm815/sandbox, was speedily deleted and I am trying to gain access to the content that was deleted as I do not have any saved versions of my essay which is for a school assignment.

I go to the deleted support page and I found this account, could you please help? Dm815 (talk) 21:03, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

@Dm815: Please check the email address associated with your Wikipedia account as I have emailed the text of the page there. Please note that personal essays like you put there is not appropriate for posting on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a webhost for your schoolwork, sorry. If you want to learn about how to contribute to Wikipedia, you can do so by following this tutorial. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 01:24, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much, you have been the only respectful and helpful person I have encountered in this situation. Dm815 (talk) 01:57, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

@Dm815: You're welcome! Another good resource -- this time an interactive tutorial -- is The Wikipedia Adventure. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 03:44, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

DYK for South by South Lawn

On 18 July 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article South by South Lawn, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 2016 festival South by South Lawn included a panel discussion on climate change led by President Obama? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/South by South Lawn. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, South by South Lawn), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 00:15, 18 July 2024 (UTC)