User talk:Jarekt/2024

QuickStatements in Template:Information

Hi Jarekt. I was wondering if you could explain a little bit how, where and why the QuickStatement metadata as generated by/in Template:Information is being used. QuickStatements use display:none'd information but as external systems do not that display:none into account, it ends up in Google and other systems. It also pollutes the scraped data that is used for things like MediaViewer. So if I have a better understanding of it, then I hope that I can suggest some improvements. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 11:09, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

@TheDJ: The system of QuickStatements tags is managed by Module:TagQS, and the Module:Information is not creating or reading them (at the moment). Those tags are used mostly to pass information from I18n templates used by {{Artwork}} or {{Book}}. Lets pick an example: File:'Courtesan Playing the Samisen' by Isoda Koryusai, c. 1785.jpg. It has {{Artwork}} template with bunch of smaller templates:

• {{Creator}}
• {{Other date}}
• {{Technique}}
• {{Size}}
• {{Institution}}

Each one of those templates provide internationalized wikitext displayed in a given field, each one of them also generates QS tags that provide the same data in language independent way. The encoding is very close of what a QuickStatement would be to add the same data to Wikidata. So for example, this file's Creator templates adds <div style="display: none;">artist QS:P170,Q3155497</div> to wikitext, which is picked up by Module:Artwork. In case given object does not have Wikidata item or existing item does not have creator (P170) property than Module:Artwork can provide one click way to create new Wikidata item or add properties to the existing one. You can test it by clicking icon. So if {{Information}} template calls {{Other date}} or {{Creator}} than there might be some QS tags floating in the Wikicode, but {{Information}} template does not look for them. The same templates in infoboxes supported by Module:Artwork and Module:Creator modules, might be used to add metadata to Wikidata. Hope that explains things a bit. Let me know is some parts are not clear. --Jarekt (talk) 01:40, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Commons talk:Photo challenge/2023 - December - Fossil fuel

Hello Jarekt, please make soon some decision on the matter - or cancel this challenge : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Photo_challenge/2023_-_December_-_Fossil_fuel ...best regards & a very happy new Year ! Gordito1869 (talk) 12:05, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-02

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Recent changes

• mediawiki2latex is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can install on your local machine.
• The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing. [1]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar). [2][3]

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Tech News: 2024-03

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

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. [4]
• Gadgets and personal user scripts may now use JavaScript syntax introduced in ES6 (also known as "ES2015") and ES7 ("ES2016"). MediaWiki validates the source code to protect other site functionality from syntax errors, and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers. Previously, Gadgets could use the requiresES6 option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future. [5]
• Bot passwords and owner-only OAuth consumers can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages. [6]
• You can now thank edits made by bots. [7]
• An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024 has been published. Please read and give your feedback.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar). [8][9]
• Starting on January 17, it will not be possible to login to Wikimedia wikis from some specific old versions of the Chrome browser (versions 51–66, released between 2016 and 2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, or Safari on Mac OS 10.14, may need to login to each wiki separately. [10]
• The jquery.cookie module was deprecated and replaced with the mediawiki.cookie module last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed. [11]

Future changes

• Wikimedia Deutschland is working to make reusing references easier. They are looking for people who are interested in participating in individual video calls for user research in January and February.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:10, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-04

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Problems

• A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed. [12]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 January. It will be on all wikis from 25 January (calendar). [13][14]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:01, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Request

Hi Jarek, I have a great request: could you please delete this pic? Profesor Maćkiewicz thinks is not too good and will provide us with a a better one. Thank you! Boston9 (talk) 06:51, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done --Jarekt (talk) 12:51, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks Jarek! Boston9 (talk) 15:29, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Module Tincture

Hi,
I restored previous version on Module:Tincture, as there were errors displayed (instead of tinctures) on all CoA pictures using the template…
Thank you,--Kontributor 2K (talk) 11:06, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Kontributor 2K, Thank you for fixing that. I corrected my correction and redeployed. It looks like this time I got it right. --Jarekt (talk) 01:07, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing this,

On the other hand, do you know if someone intends to go on working on the heraldry modules that Sarang has developped ?

--Kontributor 2K (talk) 16:01, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Kontributor 2K, I dont know of any plans. I am quite unfamiliar with heraldry and needs of supporting software. In this case I was just chipping away at files with Lua errors on Category:Pages with script errors. If you know of anything that needs to be fixed I can look at it. --Jarekt (talk) 01:11, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Well, everything works fine, although there would be details to fix; also, adding new users to the IgenCoa users table (table of CoA drawers) is currently not needed (new users don't come there so often).
The distab function was fixed, which is great.

--Kontributor 2K (talk) 10:51, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

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Hi Jarekt,
I found an issue, for a specifc user's files… (that could occur with some other's, although I didn't notice others yet).
For an example, this file uses the template that shows SVG information with details about software and user.
If french is used, as well as a few other languagues (català, at least), it shows correct information : 'Ce blason a été créé avec Inkscape par xxx', but if english is choosen, as well as many other languages, it shows : 'This coat of arms was created with Inkscape…important by xxx' - '…important' shouldn't be there.
I couldn't find where to solve this, do you think you'd have time to check this…?
--Kontributor 2K (talk) 20:31, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Kontributor 2K, I am so confused by {{COAInformation}} template. I finally figured out that the "image" parameter is responsible somehow for the field in question, but how does {{#invoke:IgenCoa|main|Yr}} encodes for the information in this row? It seems like "Yr" encodes info that SVG correct, that it shows COA, that it was created by user:Yricordel, that it was created in Inkscape, and that it was created as part of fr:Projet:Blasons. That is 5 separate facts encoded in 2 letters. How would the code differ if Yricordel used a different tool that day, or did this one on behalf of a different project? Or if it was User:Steifer for pl:Wikiprojekt:Herby project, as is the case for File:POL COA Awstacz.svg. I can not find in the template documentation how that is done. Also "important by Yricordel" seems like a bad translation maybe "imported by Yricordel"? As "important" is not a verb. So how would information with and without "important" be encoded? I was trying to experiment with {{#invoke:IgenCoa|main|Yr}}, but so far did not find how to display the content in a different language. Most templates on Commons use "|lang=xx" parameter, but it does not seem to work. Sorry about the avalanche of questions, but I am bouncing between documentation of several templates and not finding much. Source code is also not very readable full of 1 or 2 letter variable names that do not mean much to me. --Jarekt (talk) 01:06, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for looking,

Changing the tool for Yricordel from Inkscape to TextEditor is done by adding tool~T = | image=Yr/tool~T.

I found a possible lead in here where the first example stands for stands for : "SVG file created with Inkscape-Important"…

Actually, "Important" links to Help:Inskape#Inkscape SVG vs. Plain SVG, where this section (at Handling Inkscape SVG) gives more info…

Going further is currently beyond my knowledge, maybe i'm already far beyond

--Kontributor 2K (talk) 12:09, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-05

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Recent changes

• Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [15]
• There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will be on all wikis from 1 February (calendar). [16][17]
• On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new Special:QrCode page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [18]
• Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the targets option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the skins option instead. [19]

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:28, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

pl.wiki P8189

Hello Jarekt,

Can you help with this. Thanks in advance. -- Geagea (talk) 11:37, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Bug on Template:Self

Hi, Jarekt, the CC0 and FAL templates inside it cannot be rendered since your update. Here is an example. Can you fix this issue? Thanks. 0x0a (talk) 07:21, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Template Self

Hi Jarekt,

Hope you are doing well.

There is something bad (exemple [20]) with that template since the change you did [21]. I don't know what exactly.

Regards, --Benoît (d) 09:38, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Template:Self

Many pages needs to be fixed, such as this one. GZWDer (talk) 11:34, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

@0x0a, Benoît Prieur, and GZWDer: , Thanks for reporting this. I still have no idea what is causing this issue, but I deployed a change that seems to fix the issue. All the reported files seem to be fine after purging. --Jarekt (talk) 13:24, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Broken again in File:Cardamom buns.jpg.--GZWDer (talk) 13:07, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

@RP88: : Please check whether there are files broken here. GZWDer (talk) 13:35, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

@0x0a, Benoît Prieur, GZWDer, and RP88: , I looked at File:Cardamom buns.jpg and here, and all files seem be be fine after a purge or null edit. --Jarekt (talk) 14:45, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-06

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Recent changes

• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to the phabricator task.
• On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity. Learn more about "action blocks". [22][23]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar). [24][25]
• Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed. [26]

Future changes

• 24 Wikipedias with Reference Tooltips as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make Reference Previews the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For 46 Wikipedias with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February, unless there are concerns. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings. [27][28]

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:20, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Attributed to logic

Hi Jarek, I noticed on File:Crucifixión, atribuida a Ambrosius Benson (Museo Arqueológico Provincial de Ourense).jpg when trying to use the QuickStatements link, it still uses the old way with the (now deleted) P1773 (P1773) qualifier. Maybe you can change it to the new system? See d:Wikidata:WikiProject_Visual_arts/Item_structure#Use_of_creator_(P170)_in_uncertain_cases. Thank you, Multichill (talk) 16:03, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

@Multichill: Fixed I missed retiring of P1773. I did noticed 2 competing standards and could read both. Now I am only using the new standard. --Jarekt (talk) 22:42, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Edycje mapek, szkiców walk itp

Pytanie amatora:) Czy mapki (szkice) walk, bitew, potyczek publikowane w polskich publikacjach w latach 1946 - do np 1990 podlegają ochronie autorskiej? Oczywiscie pisze o takich publikacjach, w których nikt nawet nie zająknał się o autorze tychże szkiców. Należałoby uznac że robione były w godzinach pracy przez zespoły historyków pracujących w państwowych instytutach (np im. wandy wasilewskiej), a wydane przez wydawnictwo MON. Pytanie zmierza do tego czy mogę je wstawiać i ewentualnie pod jaką licencją keriM (talk) 22:34, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

@Kerim44: Nie znam żadnej licencji która pozwoliła by panu użyć map i szkiców bitew wydawanych w polskich publikacjach w latach 1946 - 1990. Dla szkiców opublikowanych więcej niż 70 lat temu można użyć {{PD-70-anon-EU}}. Prace historyków pracujących w państwowych instytutach USA można użyć na podstawie licencji {{PD-USgov}}, ale w Polsce brak podobnego prawa. Fotografie bitw wydane w polskich publikacjach w latach 1946 - 1990 można użyć na podstawie {{PD-Poland}}, ale ta licencja jedynie dotyczy fotografii a nie map i szkiców. Dlatego większość dobrej jakości map i szkiców jest tworzona przez wikipedystów na podstawie opublikowanych map. --Jarekt (talk) 03:29, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Dziękuję za wyjaśnienia. Rozumiem, że dozwolony byłby rok 1954 i wcześniej (są szkice Kirchmayera z 1946 ale dość hm słabe). Całkiem przyzwoite zaczynają się od 1958 (mówię o kampanii wrześniowej). Ostatnie Twoje zdanie - hm... ale ciągle za mało, a ja tego nie potrafię (pisze o polskim podwórku). Jeszcze raz dziękuję--keriM (talk) 09:45, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-07

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Recent changes

• The WDQS Graph Split experiment is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels. [29][30][31] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service. [32][33]

Problems

• There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black; this issue is fixed.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar). [34][35]
• As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,[36] tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped. [37]

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MediaWiki message delivery 05:46, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Technical question

Hi Jarekt, could I ask you a technical question? I wanted to make a small layout change to {{Global maintenance category}}, but it doesn't work. But strangely this edit some times before was working. Have you an idea why? Is this a cache problem and I need just to wait or has it to to with /i18n? Thx a lot already and best Regards --W like wiki ^{good to know} 20:41, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

W like wiki, your small layout change is just to make administration or maintenance of Wikimedia Commons bold, and as far as I can tell it is working. The text looks bold to me. --Jarekt (talk) 22:50, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Oh thx Jarek for your fast answer! Yes, it is just to make the link bold, but I see it only on the /i18n subpage bold, not in the parent page, do you   I tried also on an mobile device just to be sure that it has nothing to do with my cache, but still "unbold", hmm.. --W like wiki ^{good to know} 23:03, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

W like wiki, the main page does not see Template:Global maintenance category/i18n subpage but Template:Global maintenance category/i18n/en instead, so your change need to propagate there somehow. That might be a question for com:TAs. Translation extension works in a bit misterious way and I often do not understand it. --Jarekt (talk) 23:17, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Oookay, I see! Thank you for the link to com:TA, i will ask there! A flower for you! --W like wiki ^{good to know} 23:23, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-08

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Recent changes

• If you have the "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails. [38]
• There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
• Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the task's description.
• The maximum file size when using Upload Wizard is now 5 GiB. [39]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar). [40][41]

• Selected tools on the grid engine have been stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
• The CSS filter property can now be used in HTML style attributes in wikitext. [42]

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MediaWiki message delivery 15:34, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-09

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Recent changes

• The mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well. [43]
• The mw.config value wgGlobalGroups now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is: if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))). [44]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (calendar). [45][46]

Future changes

• The right to change edit tags (changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:20, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-10

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 Special:Book page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the Wikisource extension. [47]
• Wikitech now uses the next-generation Parsoid wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the Known Issues discussion page. You can use the ParserMigration extension to control the use of Parsoid; see the ParserMigration help documentation for more details.
• Maintenance on etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket.
• Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The Gadget and Gadget_definition namespaces and gadgets-definition-edit user right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made. [48]
• A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [49]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar). [50][51]

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [52]
• The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See Heading HTML changes for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add ?useparsoid=1 to your URL (more info) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (more info).

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:44, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion on File:Gaziantep Zeytin Tarlası IMG 9902.jpeg

Just wondering what the story is with File:Gaziantep Zeytin Tarlası IMG 9902.jpeg and why you've tagged it for speedy deletion as {{No license since}}?

Clearly there's an attempt to add a licence, and some automated piece of Lua has broken. It was moved from tr:WP, maybe that did it. Now there's a template call {{Self|GÖBL|cc-a-bp-4.0,3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0}} which is throwing up a Lua error 'Lua error: expandTemplate: template "cc-a-bp-4.0,3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0" does not exist.' That's clearly something broken at our end, not a real licensing issue. And never something that should be deleted without discussion, using the speedy process! Andy Dingley (talk) 02:17, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Andy Dingley, someone moved a file from some wikipedia, but did not change licenses. I was hoping the uploader would fix it. I guess I could have also tracked down which wikipedia it was and figure names of matching templates here, but it is really uploder's job. Lua error is not a software issue but deliberate attempt to stop Lua code and display error if a license template does not exist. I am currently working on fixing licenses in all the files that have this issue. --Jarekt (talk) 03:00, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

So the answer is to burn the file, without even raising it in our forum for such things, without making any effort to fix a mechanical problem? Andy Dingley (talk) 03:06, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

It is not mechanical problem, since someone uploaded a file with invalid license. The user should be aware that it is a bad upload. I can fix this file but do not want to be doing it for other uploads by the same user, who might be unaware of the issue. --Jarekt (talk) 03:15, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Fair enough, but it should have gone through a DR. As it is, speedy deletion seems to be getting used more and more as "simpler deletion", which is something it's never been intended for. Andy Dingley (talk) 03:45, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-11

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Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar). [53][54]
• After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed. [55]
• The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [56]
• Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost. [57]

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [58][59]

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Tech News: 2024-12

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 notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher. [60]
• IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers. [61]
• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [62][63][64]
• Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [65]

Problems

• RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now. [66]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar). [67][68]
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [69][70]

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Tech News: 2024-13

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

• An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin. A checklist is provided for site admins to follow.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar). [71][72]

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Tech News: 2024-14

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

• Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [73]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar). [74][75]

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.

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Tech News: 2024-15

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

• Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
• A new Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
• Initial results of Edit check experiments have been published. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at the wikis that tested it. Let us know if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check. [76][77]
• Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [78]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar). [79][80]
• New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. [81]

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Tech News: 2024-16

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Problems

• Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [82][83]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [84][85]
• Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked). [86]
• A new variable page_last_edit_age will be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [87]

Future changes

• Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
• Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the abuse_filter and abuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to be updated. [88]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:26, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Module:No globals/doc

Module:No globals/doc has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this module, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Enhancing999 (talk) 22:08, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Please unprotect Module:No globals. The argument "heavily used" does not apply anymore. Taylor 49 (talk) 11:46, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Help!

Please see this notice and my talk page to see that I am suddenly the subject of threat of mass deletion of my photographs of scarecrows, on the spurious grounds that they are sculptures. They are effigies, and do not count as copyrightable artworks. (I have called them artworks on my images files, because it is my camera work which makes them so - otherwise they are just temporary effigies, made any old how, for fun).

This trend is extremely worrying, because there is no Commons policy to clarify this situation. If all scarecrow photographs can now suddenly be deleted due to one person's point of view that they are sculptures, then why are they picking only on my photography, and not on the photography of many thousands of effigies, e.g. Guy Fawkes Night effigies, which have been uploaded here since Commons started?

My photographs were taken in good faith that I was breaking no laws. I had the full knowledge and approval of the festival director, when photographing the Minskip scarecrows for Commons, and would be able to provide written evidence of that, by him, if required. I have not done that yet, as I had not thought that it was necessary.

But I would like to know why they are just picking on my photographs? If this is not a general policy, and all the other thousands of photographs of scarecrows and other effigies are to remain untouched by this person's opinion - then this looks like persecution of only my work, which would be rather strange, to say the least.

It is mostly my photography which is the art in this case. Most of the effigies are not artwork at all. Going to these festivals takes a huge amount of time, money and effort for me, since I have no car, and public transport in the UK is inadequate. It takes me a couple of weeks to edit my photographs to make them into artworks. And now my rights to photograph in a legal manner in the street in the UK are being violated, in my opinion. So please would you kindly have a look at the situation? I understand that it is permitted for me to ask an administrator to have a look. I have also asked administrator Mike Peel, but according to his contributions he is not around at present, so I am asking you as well. Thanks. Storye book (talk) 22:30, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-17

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Recent changes

• Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [89]
• You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar). [90][91]

Future changes

• This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of Special:MyPage/vector.js to Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [92]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:25, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

File:Julien Bryan - Life - 47205.jpg

File:Julien Bryan - Life - 47205.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Yann (talk) 17:27, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry. If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with them, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Affected:

• File:Julien Bryan - Life - 47212.jpg

And also:

• File:Julien Bryan - Life - 47219 (color).jpg
• File:Julien Bryan - Life - 47219.jpg
• File:Julien Bryan - Life - 47221.jpg
• File:Julien Bryan - Life - 47222.jpg
• File:Julien Bryan - Life - 47248.jpg
• File:Julien Bryan - Life - 47298.jpg
• File:Julien Bryan - Life - 47341.jpg
• File:Julien Bryan - Life - 50893.jpg
• File:Julien Bryan - Life - 64465 (color).jpg
• File:Julien Bryan - Life - 64465.jpg
• File:Julien Bryan - Life - 64527.jpg
• File:Julien Bryan - Look - 33266.jpg

Yours sincerely, Yann (talk) 17:30, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Module:No globals

Could I get you to spell "deprecated" correctly? You put "depreciated" (meaning to have lost value; is that a joke of sorts?). There are no "i"s in "deprecated". Thank you, —Uzume (talk) 02:25, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Uzume, sorry I had no clue what are you talking about until I read "Why is there confusion between depreciated and deprecated?" on stack exchange. I stand corrected. --Jarekt (talk) 02:59, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

@Jarekt: I was not aware there was widespread confusion there. Upon reading that thread, I suppose you could change it to "obsolete", since you "broke" it by turning it into an error. Thank you, —Uzume (talk) 10:48, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Please unprotect Module:No globals. The argument "heavily used" does not apply anymore. Taylor 49 (talk) 21:49, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Request

Hi Jarek, I have a great request (as always!:)) Could you please delete this low quality pic?. Ms Krystyna Kowalik-Bańczyk provided us with a high quality photo This cropped pic presents her in a most unfavorable way. The original uploader, Niegodzisie, consented to such a move. Thannks! Boston9 (talk) 19:42, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

 Done Taylor 49 (talk) 21:49, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-18

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

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks. [93]
• Seven new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Betawi (w:bew:) [94]
  • a Wikipedia in Kusaal (w:kus:) [95]
  • a Wikipedia in Igala (w:igl:) [96]
  • a Wiktionary in Karakalpak (wikt:kaa:) [97]
  • a Wikisource in Burmese (s:my:) [98]
  • a Wikisource in Malay (s:ms:) [99]
  • a Wikisource in Georgian (s:ka:) [100]
• You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. [101]
• Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis. See more detailed guidelines.

Problems

• Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [102]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar). [103][104]

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Thank you

Thank you for your very speedy set up of the voting page for this month's photo contest. I love these contests! Magnolia677 (talk) 18:19, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-19

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

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. [105][106]
• Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the SiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page. [107]
• Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services. [108]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar). [109][110]
• When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". [111]

Future changes

• A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update regarding this extension.
• Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally. [112]

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:41, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

File:Pepita - black custom doll - 43.jpg

File:Pepita - black custom doll - 43.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Adamant1 (talk) 04:53, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

File:Pavillon de Flore, Louvre Museum, Paris 5 November 2019.jpg

Can you check the history of this file? A ton of very weird statement were added by you. Multichill (talk) 20:05, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Multichill, that is very bizarre. The file is being used by Institution:Louvre, but I have no clue how it got connected to those statements. In 2022 I was adding digital representation of (P6243) based on SQL queries and Artwork template's "wikidata" parameters, but I do not see how this happen. Also it seems several other users were adding similar bad statements related to items in Louvre. I checked bunch of other photos on popular institution templates but did not see similar edits. --Jarekt (talk) 16:35, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

File:Лілія Логойда - 5438.jpg

Hi! This not my picture! Please, do not reverted my edit. Микола Василечко (talk) 19:03, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Микола Василечко Sorry about it. I and reverting bunch of license removals. If it is not yours than I nominated it for deletion. --Jarekt (talk) 19:05, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

This is the same camera I took pictures at university, but this not my photo. --Микола Василечко (talk) 19:08, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-20

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

• On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word __EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__ to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list. [113]
• If you use the user-preference "Show preview without reloading the page", then the template-page feature "Preview page with this template" will now also work without reloading the page. [114]
• Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the alt= attribute. This is identical in usage to the alt= attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive. [115]
• The old Guided Tour for the "New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people. [116]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar). [117][118]
• The Special:Search results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure. [119]

Future changes

• In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022. Learn more. [120]
• Two columns of the pagelinks database table (pl_namespace and pl_title) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new linktarget table instead (lt_namespace and lt_title). In your existing SQL queries:
  1. Replace JOIN pagelinks with JOIN linktarget and pl_ with lt_ in the ON statement
  2. Below that add JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
  • See phab:T222224 for technical reasoning. [121][122]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:55, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-21

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 Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. [123]
• New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description. [124][125]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar). [126][127]
• The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:01, 20 May 2024 (UTC)