Spider bourgeoisEdit
now that the "free" images used to knock out the fair use image are deleted, you can find the fair use one here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload?wpDestFile=Spider_bourgeois.JPG - cheers. Slowking4 (talk) 15:39, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
- @Slowking4: I don't see anything at that link, so not sure what action is needed here. -Another Believer (talk) 21:27, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
- sorry, i thought you were an admin, who could retrieve the deleted image. a flickr search yields https://www.flickr.com/photos/mbell1975/19234194418 which would work for a fair use upload at english, or i could go photo again. Slowking4 (talk) 02:10, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
- @Slowking4: Ah, makes sense. Yes, would be great if the article could be illustrated. Thanks for your help. -Another Believer (talk) 02:26, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
- sorry, i thought you were an admin, who could retrieve the deleted image. a flickr search yields https://www.flickr.com/photos/mbell1975/19234194418 which would work for a fair use upload at english, or i could go photo again. Slowking4 (talk) 02:10, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-02Edit
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [1]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 January. It will be on all wikis from 9 January (calendar).
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21:19, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-03Edit
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
- You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade attacks. Since 9 December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can read the browser recommendations. [2]
- Special:LinkSearch has been moved from the "Redirecting special pages" section on Special:SpecialPages to the "Lists of pages" section. [3]
Changes later this week
Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are Allow only autoconfirmed users and Allow only administrators. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see. [4]- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be on all wikis from 16 January (calendar).
Future changes
- Deepcat and Catgraph will stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can now use the normal search function instead. [5]
- You can use
<ref follow="…">to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead. [6]
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