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Tech News: 2021-42

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

• Toolhub is a catalogue to make it easier to find software tools that can be used for working on the Wikimedia projects. You can read more.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 October. It will be on all wikis from 21 October (calendar).

Future changes

• The developers of the Wikipedia Android app are working on communication in the app. You can now answer questions in survey to help the development.
• 3–5% of editors may be blocked in the next few months. This is because of a new service in Safari, which is similar to a proxy or a VPN. It is called iCloud Private Relay. There is a discussion about this on Meta. The goal is to learn what iCloud Private Relay could mean for the communities.
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20:52, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Dashboard

Hi Northamerica1000, I really like your dashboard! Any objections if I used some of it (or most of it with minor styling modifications) as part of a user subpage I plan on creating for myself? Thanks! — WILDSTAR^talk 14:52, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

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@WildStar: Go for it! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:28, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

lol Northamerica1000. That was EASY! Great ambigrams and funny too! 😂 Thank you! — WILDSTAR^talk 18:18, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2021)

The Portland Building (1982) in Portland, Oregon by architect Michael Graves is an example of Postmodern architecture. Hello, Northamerica1000. The article for improvement of the week is: Postmodernism Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Personality • Fish sauce Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 25 October 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2021-43

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 Coolest Tool Award 2021 is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 27 October.

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• Diff pages will have an improved copy and pasting experience. The changes will allow the text in the diff for before and after to be treated as separate columns and will remove any unwanted syntax. [1]
• The version of the Liberation fonts used in SVG files will be upgraded. Only new thumbnails will be affected. Liberation Sans Narrow will not change. [2]

Meetings

• You can join a meeting about the Community Wishlist Survey. News about the disambiguation and the real-time preview wishes will be shown. The event will take place on Wednesday, 27 October at 14:30 UTC. See how to join.

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20:07, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

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Moved from User:Northamerica1000

uh peace thx for your help with GD pics in past "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Jerry-Mickey_at_Red_Rocks_taken_08-11-87.jpg" Grateful Deadhead (talk) 23:04, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-44

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

Recent changes

• There is a limit on the amount of emails a user can send each day. This limit is now global instead of per-wiki. This change is to prevent abuse. [3]

Changes later this week

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

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20:27, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2021)

Isabel Adrian is a Swedish television personality, producer, author and model. Pictured is Adrian in 2013. Hello, Northamerica1000. The article for improvement of the week is: Isabel Adrian Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Postmodernism • Personality Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 1 November 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

DYK nomination of Cheese sauce

Hello! Your submission of Cheese sauce at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Pamzeis (talk) 08:24, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Key topic

Template:Key topic has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 23:09, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

Technical news

• Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.

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Tech News: 2021-45

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

• Mobile IP editors are now able to receive warning notices indicating they have a talk page message on the mobile website (similar to the orange banners available on desktop). These notices will be displayed on every page outside of the main namespace and every time the user attempts to edit. The notice on desktop now has a slightly different colour. [4][5]

Changes later this week

• Wikidata will be read-only for a few minutes on 11 November. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [6]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• In the future, unregistered editors will be given an identity that is not their IP address. This is for legal reasons. A new user right will let editors who need to know the IPs of unregistered accounts to fight vandalism, spam, and harassment, see the IP. You can read the suggestions for how that identity could work and discuss on the talk page.

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20:35, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Boo!

Happy Halloween!

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Hello Northamerica1000:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!
    —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 18:55, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran: Thanks, and hope you had a nice Halloween too. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:53, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Draft:RattanIndia

Hello North America. I have been working on this article. It was moved to drafts by an editor because it had lot of unwanted content. I read the policies and guidelines properly and I have removed all of that content and added proper information about the company. This was proposed to be deleted deep in past and the nominator had withdrawn their nomination after you had proven that the subject was notable Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rattanindia. Can you please check the draft now and promote it to mainspace? Thank you so very much. Bhambhuvikram (talk) 14:18, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

@Bhambhuvikram: I will need more time to look into this. For starters, though, the notability guidelines at WP:CORP were made more stringent sometime later, after the AfD discussion that I participated in back in 2015 for this article. It is possible at this time that the company may very well not meet the present notability guidelines. Pinging MrsSnoozyTurtle here, who draftified the article in August to Draft:RattanIndia (diff). North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:43, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Hello Northamerica1000, thanks for the ping. Personally I would prefer for this article to go through the normal review process at AfC. Especially since the author has not responded to AllyD's COI request and most of their edits are related to the company. Regards, MrsSnoozyTurtle 21:35, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Hello North America, okay. please take your time. There is lot of news about Indiabulls power (Now RattanIndia). [7], [8]. Lot of books also talk about the company. [9]. I am sorry I didn't respond to request. Will do it now. Bhambhuvikram (talk) 13:23, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

@Bhambhuvikram: Since I particpated in the deletion discussion for the article (here), it would be a bit inappropriate for me to personally move this back to article space. I recommend taking the submission through the Articles for creation process as MrsSnoozyTurtle has suggested above, when you feel the article is ready. This can be initiated by clicking on/selecting the "Submit the draft for review" link atop the Draft:RattanIndia page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:57, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Okay, thank you. I will. Also, I declared my conflict with this. Is it okay now? Bhambhuvikram (talk) 15:15, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

@Bhambhuvikram: For starters, note that I am not reviewing this draft, and I don't plan on doing so. It was declined at Articles for creation (AfC) by Nomadicghumakkad (diff), who reviewed the draft. You need to please confer with Nomadicghumakkad at this time about the draft. I am not interested in working on this draft at this time, and since I contributed to its earlier deletion discussion, I recuse myself from accepting the AfC submission. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 19:26, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

I definitely want to clarify that I have rejected because I feel it is still simply promoting the company. The company seems to be notable otherwise and is qualifying WP:CORPDEPTH. If the creator can also add more negative content about the company (for example, the IE article about land conflict), I can accept it. But, in it's current shape where the purpose of the page is just promotion, it doesn't work. Nomadicghumakkad (talk) 16:05, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

Pinging @Bhambhuvikram:, to inform them of the new message posted directly above. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:51, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2021)

Hang gliding is an example of an air sport. Hello, Northamerica1000. The article for improvement of the week is: Air sports Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Isabel Adrian • Postmodernism Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 8 November 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Nomination for deletion of Template:Portal G6 example

Template:Portal G6 example has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Did Q28 make a mess today? 00:39, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-46

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

• Most large file uploads errors that had messages like "stashfailed" or "DBQueryError" have now been fixed. An incident report is available.

Problems

• Sometimes, edits made on iOS using the visual editor save groups of numbers as telephone number links, because of a feature in the operating system. This problem is under investigation. [10]
• There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error. [11]

Changes later this week

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

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22:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

AfD v Merge

Re that AfD you speedy closed. Bureaucratic procedural hoops. I thought I was being thorough by proposing the meager content be moved/merged, and had no idea that would sabotage my AfD nomination. I won't make that mistaken again. Earlier today I had read that 'merge' was an appropriate reason for AfDing in some cases, but I cannot now locate that writeup in the grand cosmos of Wikipedia's vast library of policies. You probably know well that merger discussions routinely go nowhere — get almost no community participation, are open ended (no deadline), and no one 'closes' them. I'll give it one month. Yes, I'll put this on my calendar. If nothing happens (and I won't be holding my breath), I will AfD it with no merge recommendation (rather than rewording it right now and resubmitting the AfD). Or maybe I'll amuse myself by adding an RfC in there somewhere. I prefer deadline-driven procedures with some semblance of finality, but I'll play along and file a merge request. Platonk (talk) 02:56, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

@Platonk: Sorry you're disappointed with the close, but it is in congruence with Wikipedia:Speedy keep, a Wikipedia deletion guideline. I don't view it as particularly bureucratic, because my close was based upon a guideline that was decided upon via consensus. An idea is to consider starting a discussion on the Speedy keep talk page to try and get the guideline changed, since you don't approve of it. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:08, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Speedy keep policy wasn't my problem... it was understanding the complicated intricacies of the merge processes. Determined to figure it out, I re-read everything about merge. I think I have a handle on it now. Platonk (talk) 00:07, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

I trust you have found WP:MAD. If any of it is for merging, do not delete.

Bold merges are to be encouraged. If it is too much, consider Wikipedia:Proposed article mergers.

Also somewhere was established a firm consensus that Wikipedia:Proposed article mergers cases should not be sent to AfD. SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:24, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

• Pinging @Platonk: in case you didn't see the above message. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 18:29, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:TAFI Main page queue/2

Template:TAFI Main page queue/2 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:33, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:TAFI Main page queue/1

Template:TAFI Main page queue/1 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:33, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2021-47

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Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• The template dialog in VisualEditor and in the new wikitext mode Beta feature will be heavily improved on a few wikis. Your feedback is welcome.

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20:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2021)

Dettifoss, located in northeast Iceland, is the largest waterfall in Europe in terms of volume discharge, with an average water flow of 200 m3/s. Hello, Northamerica1000. The article for improvement of the week is: Geography of Iceland Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Air sports • Isabel Adrian Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2021)

Wholesaling or distributing is the sale of goods or merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional or other professional business users; or to other wholesalers (wholesale businesses) and related subordinated services. Pictured is the Birmingham Wholesale Markets at 4:00 AM. Hello, Northamerica1000. The article for improvement of the week is: Wholesaling Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Geography of Iceland • Air sports Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 22 November 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tidying up some unused templates

Hi there! A small group of editors is working on tidying up Template space, focusing on templates that have no transclusions and appear to be abandoned or otherwise not useful. I came across these ten pages (excluding {{TAFI Main page/Main page queue/1}}) on a report, as well as {{TAFI Main page queue/1}} and {{TAFI Main page queue/2}}, and I wonder if you have any use for them. If not, you can place {{Db-author}} on each page to have them speedily deleted, or I can run them through the normal Templates for Discussion process. Thanks! – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:06, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: Go ahead and do whatever you want. Just please don't break the WP:AFI pages in the process, which has occurred before. After the project's name was changed from "Today's articles for improvement" to "Articles for improvement", due to folks wanting to change things around, many of the project pages were broken into an absurd mess. Then, since nobody who was so eager to get then name changed bothered to fix the significant problems created in the aftermath, I had to spend a great deal of my personal time performing around 90% of the fixes myself, as well as MusikAnimal in reconfiguring Musikbot, which nobody bothered to consider before changing the project's name. Frankly, I had and have other things I'd rather be doing. Cheers, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:25, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. I will nominate these unused templates for deletion after double-checking that they do not appear to be used in any part of the TAFI process. If somehow one of them is actually being used, and it is subsequently deleted, I will take full responsibility for restoring it. Possibly annoyingly, you will get a bunch of TFD notifications on your talk page as part of the standard TFD nomination workflow; you are welcome to delete those or archive them as soon as you receive them. [edited to add: I have nominated the two outliers, since they seem to be pages created at the wrong location. After a bit of research, I marked the rest with documentation pages explaining their potential use so that I wouldn't break old talk page discussions.] – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:32, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: Thanks for the reply, and I am not bothered by any notices that are posted here; it's all good. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 04:14, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Double portal links

Could you fix the double portal links at the bottom of Template:Postal history of Africa, Template:Postal history of Europe ...? the best thing to do would probably remove the link you added and keep the more concise bar at the bottom. Frietjes (talk) 22:37, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

@Frietjes: Oops, I missed that tiny portal link, as most readers unfortunately likely do as well, leading to lesser usage and page views of the portal. Yes, I will get to this soon, but will format it in a different manner to make the template links more prominent to match the more prominent portal link. It's my opinion that many readers skim right past very tiny links to content, thus never visiting the content. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 23:19, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Nb.  Done. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 04:10, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	You have always been a great contributor, acting in collaboration to build a better encyclopedia. Thank you. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:58, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

• Hello 7&6=thirteen: Thanks for the kind words. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:34, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing Northamerica1000 a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Birthday Committee! Best wishes! CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 01:00, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

• Thanks CAPTAIN RAJU for spreading good cheer on Wikipedia. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:52, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

Hey!

Hey NorthA, I really want to get back into my routine of Wikipedia. Its been extremely busy for me, but I will be back soon. I miss this and I look forward to working on articles.

Here is the patch that keeps me going and reminds me of you:

— Preceding unsigned comment added by AmericanAir88 (talk • contribs) 06:20, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

• Hey AA: There's always stuff awaiting at WP:BACKLOG. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:57, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2021-48

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 December. It will be on all wikis from 2 December (calendar).

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21:13, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).

Administrator changes

A Train • Berean Hunter • Epbr123 • GermanJoe • Sanchom • Mysid

Technical news

• Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
• The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
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DYK for Cheese sauce

On 18 November 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cheese sauce, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in the late 2000s the Campbell Soup Company began producing a hotter canned cheese sauce in their California and Texas plants than they did elsewhere to cater for different consumer tastes? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cheese sauce. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Cheese sauce), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:03, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-49

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

Problems

• MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 December. It will be on all wikis from 9 December (calendar).
• At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at Special:MentorDashboard. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project.
• The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API (which was created in 2008), action=ajax, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module. [12]
• An old ResourceLoader module, jquery.jStorage, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to mediawiki.storage instead. [13]

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21:58, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

December 2021 GOCE Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2021 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the December GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since September 2021.                  Current and upcoming events Election time: Our end-of-year election of coordinators opened for nominations on 1 December and will close on 15 December at 23:59 (UTC). Voting opens at 00:01 the following day and will continue until 31 December at 23:59, just before "Auld Lang Syne". Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. December Blitz: We have scheduled a week-long copy-editing blitz for 12 to 18 December. Sign up now! Drive and Blitz reports September Drive: Almost 400,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 27 people who signed up, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. October Blitz: From 17 to 23 October, we copy edited articles tagged in May and June 2021 and requests. 8 participating editors completed 26 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. November Drive: Over 350,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 21 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. Other news It is with great sadness that we report the death on 19 November of Twofingered Typist, who was active with the Guild almost daily for the past several years. His contributions long exceeded the thresholds for the Guild's highest awards, and he had a hand in innumerable good and featured article promotions as a willing collaborator. Twofingered Typist also served as a Guild coordinator from July 2019 to June 2021. He is sorely missed by the Wikipedia community. Progress report: As of 30 November, GOCE copyeditors have completed 619 requests in 2021 and there were 51 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog stood at 946 articles tagged for copy-editing (see monthly progress graph above). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2021)

Proposed Lazarev Sea name (at top-middle of image) as part of the Southern Ocean Hello, Northamerica1000. The article for improvement of the week is: Lazarev Sea Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Wholesaling • Geography of Iceland Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 29 November 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2021-50

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

Recent changes

• There are now default short aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis, [[WB:]] will go to the local language default for the [[Project:]] namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via the usual process. [14]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 December. It will be on all wikis from 16 December (calendar).

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22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Proposal at Talk:TikTok

Hi there. I found your name at WP:APPS and was hoping you could take a look at my proposal at Talk:TikTok#Re-arranging content to comply with MOS:LEAD and MOS:LAYOUT. I work for ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, so I'm not making these edits directly, just searching for an experienced, uninvolved editor to evaluate the proposal and hopefully implement it. (I began a discussion there with User:SMcCandlish, who said he largely concurs with the proposal, but doesn't currently have the capacity to review it adequately.) Thanks! Bkenny44 (talk) 13:46, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

• @Bkenny44: I'm rather busy with other matters, and likely won't become involved in this matter. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:42, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled

A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Mobile portals

Regarding edits such as this one, this seems a rather annoying bit of busywork to have to do. Is there a reason not to edit the default portal template to be viewable on mobile? Best, CMD (talk) 08:09, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

@Chipmunkdavis: We're discussing this matter at WT:WikiProject Portals#Important update. Tl;dr: we could redirect {{Portal}} to {{Portal-mobile}}, but some portals display poorly on mobile. Certes (talk) 12:31, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

@Chipmunkdavis: Ditto what Certes stated above. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:47, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-51

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 10 January 2022.

Recent changes

• Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (<DynamicPageList>) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis. [15]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

• The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
• The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February. [16]

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22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2021)

Bushtits eating suet, which is usable as a bird food, from a bird feeder Hello, Northamerica1000. The article for improvement of the week is: Bird food Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Lazarev Sea • Wholesaling Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 6 December 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2021)

Goat meat being roasted as part of an asado Hello, Northamerica1000. The article for improvement of the week is: Goat meat Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Adventure • Bird food Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 20 December 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Thank you for fixing mobile portals!

I just wanted to say thank you for fixing the mobile interface of the portal template! Tyrone Madera (talk) 05:44, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

@Tyrone Madera: Thanks. A few hiccups have occurred here and there, as is typical when a significant change occurs, but fortunately, we have some really great volunteers that are working to square everything away. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:56, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Portal cats

Your edited {{portal}} recently, and after that, hundreds of pages were added to Category:Portal templates with all redlinked portals and Category:Portal-inline template with redlinked portals. Something appears to have been fixed, because the missing portals it is finding were not recently deleted - these should not be new errors. But at the same time, they are going into wrong categories. Those two categories have the same number of pages; most are not using portal-inline. Category:Portal templates with redlinked portals is empty, many of these pages should be in this category. Can you look into this? MB 21:38, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

@MB: Check out the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals § Portal link template categories, where the matter is being addressed by users that are tech savvy in Module matters. I have also posted a comment there regarding this matter. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:48, 13 December 2021 (UTC)