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The Signpost: 1 January 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation ousts, bans quarter of Arabic Wikipedia admins

• In the media: Odd bedfellows, Elon and Jimbo, reliable sources for divorces, and more

• Interview: ComplexRational's RfA debrief

• Technology report: Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"

• Essay: Mobile editing

• Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee Election 2022

• Recent research: Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes

• Serendipity: Wikipedia about FIFA World Cup 2022: quick, factual and critical

• Featured content: Would you like to swing on a star?

• Traffic report: Football, football, football! Wikipedia Football Club!

• CommonsComix: #4: The Course of WikiEmpire

• From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago

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Tech News: 2023-02

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 use tags to filter edits in the recent changes feed or on your watchlist. You can now use tags to filter out edits you don't want to see. Previously you could only use tags to focus on the edits with those tags. [1]
• Special:WhatLinksHere shows all pages that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype for how to sort those pages alphabetically. You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket.
• You can now use the thanks function on your watchlist and the user contribution page. [2]
• A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you don't have to write the explanation every time. [3]
• Matrix is a chat tool. You can now use matrix: to create Matrix links on wiki pages. [4]
• You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also hide subpages which are translation pages. [5]

Changes later this week

• Realtime preview for wikitext is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it in the editor toolbar.
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 10 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 12 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 January. It will be on all wikis from 12 January (calendar).

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This Month in GLAM: December 2022

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue XII, December 2022 Headlines Argentina report: Ongoing projects with open culture Croatia report: A YEAR in REarVIEW! Denmark report: Edit-a-thon on contemporary Danish artists from the former Yugoslavia India report: CIS-A2K launches GLAM projects in Aurangabad, Maharashtra Indonesia report: Digitalization in Deli Serdang and Yogyakarta; #1Lib1Ref Workshop; Structured Data Marathon Italy report: Museo Egizio - collection import New Zealand report: The Great Macron War, Critter of the Week, and West Couast Wikisource Nigeria report: WikiLovesLibraries Nigeria:An initiative beyond 1Lib1Ref for Librarians in Nigeria Poland report: The first European GLAM Coordinators online meet-up; New articles on the collection of Wawel Royal Castle; Results of Wiki Loves Monuments 2022 Portugal report: Wikibase in social sciences and Public Domain Day celebrations Spain report: Wikidata Birthday and ongoing projects Sweden report: Musikverket; Media literacy graphics; Reports for project and to project partners Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programme: look back to 2022 Uganda report: GLAM in Uganda 2022 UK report: Khalili project year in review USA report: Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: International Volunteer Day; ICP x Art + Feminism AvoinGLAM report: Introducing Wiki Loves Living Heritage Content Partnerships Hub report: Helpdesk; IGO/INGO Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: View it!: New FULL version is ready to launch WMF GLAM report: GLAM-Wiki Con 2023, DPLA's new Sloan Foundation funding, and more Calendar: January's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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The Signpost: 16 January 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• From the team: We heard zoomers liked fortnights: the biweekly Signpost rides again

• Special report: Coverage of 2022 bans reveals editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020

• News and notes: Revised Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines up for vote, WMF counsel departs, generative models under discussion

• In the media: Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again

• Technology report: View it! A new tool for image discovery

• In focus: Busting into Grand Central

• Serendipity: How I bought part of Wikipedia – for less than $100

• Gallery: What is our responsibility when it comes to images?

• Humour: New geologically speedy deletion criteria introduced

• Opinion: Good old days, in which fifth-symbol-lacking lipograms roam'd our librarious litany

• Featured content: Flip your lid

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2022

• From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago

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Tech News: 2023-03

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

Problems

• The URLs in "prev" links on page history now contain diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID] in place of diff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]. This is to fix a problem with links pointing to incorrect diffs when history was filtered by a tag. Some user scripts may break as a result of this change. [6]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).
• Some changes to the appearance of talk pages have only been available on Talk: and User talk: namespaces. These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such as Meta talk:. They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including Meta: pages (e.g., at the Village Pump). You can change your preferences (beta feature). [7]
• On Wikisources, when an image is zoomed or panned in the Page: namespace, the same zoom and pan settings will be remembered for all Page: namespace pages that are linked to a particular Index: namespace page. [8]
• The Vector 2022 skin will become the default for the English Wikipedia desktop users. The change will take place on January 18 at 15:00 UTC. Learn more.

Future changes

• The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey, which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts next week on 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. You can start drafting your proposals in the CWS sandbox.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:10, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 54

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 54, November – December 2022

• New collections:
  • British Newspaper Archive
  • Findmypast
  • University of Michigan Press
  • ACLS
  • Duke University Press
• 1Lib1Ref 2023
• Spotlight: EDS Refine Results

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Tech News: 2023-04

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

• Last week, for ~15 minutes, all wikis were unreachable for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a timing issue. [9]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).
• If you have the Beta Feature for DiscussionTools enabled, the appearance of talk pages will add more information about discussion activity. [10][11]
• The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS), which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts on Monday 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:46, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Nieuwsbrief 118 Wikimedia Nederland

Nieuwsbrief van januari 2023 Terugblik nieuwjaarsbijeenkomst | Wikicoach gezocht | Bestuurslid zijn bij WMNL... Terugblik nieuwjaarsbijeenkomst Wikikring Twente zoekt een wikicoach Nationale bibliotheek van Nederland bereikt groter publiek met Wikipedia Wist je dat… Gezocht: Wikipediaan in Alphen e.o. Hoe ziet het werk van een bestuurslid van Wikimedia Nederland eruit? Wiki** toepassingen bij VOGIN-IP Oproep: jonge Wikipedianen Steun Wikimedia Nederland Zien we jou binnenkort? Oude versies vindt u hier

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Tech News: 2023-05

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

• Last week, for ~15 minutes, some users were unable to log in or edit pages. This was caused by a problem with session storage. [12]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 February. It will be on all wikis from 2 February (calendar).

Future changes

• Wikis that use localized numbering schemes for references need to add new CSS. This will help to show citation numbers the same way in all reading and editing modes. If your wiki would prefer to do it yourselves, please see the details and example CSS to copy from, and also add your wiki to the list. Otherwise, the developers will directly help out starting the week of February 5.

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The Signpost: 4 February 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• From the editor: New for the Signpost: Author pages, tag pages, and a decent article search function

• News and notes: Foundation update on fundraising, new page patrol, Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan

• Section 230: Twenty-six words that created the internet, and the future of an encyclopedia

• Disinformation report: Wikipedia on Santos

• Special report: Legal status of Wikimedia projects "unclear" under potential European legislation

• In the media: Furor over new Wikipedia skin, followup on Saudi bans, and legislative debate

• Op-Ed: Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter

• Opinion: Study examines cultural leanings of Wikimedia projects' visual art coverage

• Recent research: Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Organized Labour

• Tips and tricks: XTools: Data analytics for your list of created articles

• Featured content: 20,000 Featureds under the Sea

• Traffic report: Films, deaths and ChatGPT

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Tech News: 2023-06

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

• In the Vector 2022 skin, logged-out users using the full-width toggle will be able to see the setting of their choice even after refreshing pages or opening new ones. This only applies to wikis where Vector 2022 is the default. [13]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 February. It will be on all wikis from 9 February (calendar).
• Previously, we announced when some wikis would be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. These switches will not be announced any more, as the read-only time has become non-significant. Switches will continue to happen at 7AM UTC on Tuesdays and Thursdays. [14]
• Across all the wikis, in the Vector 2022 skin, logged-in users will see the page-related links such as "What links here" in a new side menu. It will be displayed on the other side of the screen. This change had previously been made on Czech, English, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. [15]
• Community Wishlist Survey 2023 will stop receiving new proposals on Monday, 6 February 2023, at 18:00 UTC. Proposers should complete any edits by then, to give time for translations and review. Voting will begin on Friday, 10 February.

Future changes

• Gadgets and user scripts will be changing to load on desktop and mobile sites. Previously they would only load on the desktop site. It is recommended that wiki administrators audit the gadget definitions prior to this change, and add skins=… for any gadgets which should not load on mobile. More details are available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 10:21, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

This Month in Education: January 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • January 2023

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In This Issue

• Educational Projects 2023-1 in Mexico
• Integration of Wikipedia in Ukrainian universities – teacher-led and student-led
• Transitional Justice in Kosovo edit-a-thon and Partnership with Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Prishtina
• Wikidata Citation Hunt Program for secondary school students, Dubai
• Wikipedia edit-a-thon with students from Art Faculty - University of Prishtina
• Тeacher from Belgrade got a reward for using Wikibooks in teaching

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This Month in GLAM: January 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue I, January 2023 Headlines Albania report: Wikipedia Birthday in Tirana, Albania Belgium report: DESINGEL arts centre and Wikimedia platforms Brazil report: Open Midiateca: Licensing and analysis of collections of Midiateca Capixaba Colombia report: Let's celebrate public domain day 2023 Finland report: Photo walks for Wiki Loves Monuments and rephotography Indonesia report: Public Domain Day in Indonesia; #1Lib1Ref Campaign and Workshop Italy report: Wikimedia Italy's calls for free knowledge Netherlands report: Opening old books at Maastricht University Poland report: GLAM stepping into 2023; New “did you know” articles on the collection of Wawel Royal Castle Spain report: #1Lib1Ref Sweden report: Tekniska museet makes 3000 polar images available on Commons Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programme UK report: National Trust and cultural diversity USA report: Effie Kapsalis remembered; Mathematicians + Wikipedia; Wikipedia Day 2023; San Diego meetup Content Partnerships Hub report: Report of survey about Wikimedia content partnerships tools Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: View it! Editing Functionality: Final Update! Calendar: February's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wiki Loves Africa 2023

Hi there Romaine ! Long time no talk ! I hope life is good for you at the moment. I was coming back to you for the annual Wiki Loves Africa fun. I would need you help to set up the upload funnel/categories etc. We still have a bit of time because this year the contest is launching on March 1st. But I will be of from this Wednesday for a week, so I wanted to give you a head-up and check if you were available and active !
Also, this year, I would like User:OtuNwachinemere to follow-up as much as possible the process, so that he gets familiar with it. Is that ok ? Cheers Flo Anthere (talk) 23:49, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-07

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

• On wikis where patrolled edits are enabled, changes made to the mentor list by autopatrolled mentors are not correctly marked as patrolled. It will be fixed later this week. [16]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar).
• The Reply tool and other parts of DiscussionTools will be deployed for all editors using the mobile site. You can read more about this decision. [17]

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [18][19][20]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:49, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 February 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Terms of Use update, Steward elections, and Wikipedia back in Pakistan

• In the media: Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage

• Disinformation report: The "largest con in corporate history"?

• Essay: Machine-written articles: a new challenge for Wikipedia

• Tips and tricks: All about writing at DYK

• Featured content: Eden, lost.

• Gallery: Love is in the air

• Traffic report: Superbowl? Pfft. Give me some Bollywood! Yours sincerely, the world

• From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago: Let's (not) delete the Main Page!

• Cobwebs: Editorial: The loss of the moral high ground

• Humour: The RfA Candidate's Song

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Tech News: 2023-08

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Problems

• Last week, during planned maintenance of Cloud Services, unforeseen complications forced the team to turn off all tools for 2–3 hours to prevent data corruption. Work is ongoing to prevent similar problems in the future. [21]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar).
• The voting phase for the Community Wishlist Survey 2023 ends on 24 February at 18:00 UTC. The results of the survey will be announced on 28 February.

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [22][23][24]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:57, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Nieuwsbrief 119 Wikimedia Nederland

Nieuwsbrief van februari 2023 WikiZaterdag | Mediakunst op Wikipedia | Wiki Loves Heritage... WikiZaterdag 11 maart: Verzetsvrouwen deel I Mediakunst op Wikipedia Beleid Vriendelijke Ruimtes goedgekeurd Wiki Loves Heritage Financiële ondersteuning kleine activiteiten: limiet verhoogd Wist je dat … Fotowedstrijd: Herdenking April-meistakingen Steun Wikimedia Nederland #365climateedits Zien we jou binnenkort? Oude versies vindt u hier

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Editing news 2023 #1

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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:

1. The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
2. They are beginning a new project, Edit check.

Talk pages project

Some of the upcoming changes

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for Discussion tools.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "Add topic" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.

Daily edit completion rate by test group: DiscussionTools (test group) and MobileFrontend overlay (control group)

An A/B test for Discussion tools on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with Discussion tools. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "Publish changes". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:18, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-09

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Problems

• Last week, in some areas of the world, there were problems with loading pages for 20 minutes and saving edits for 55 minutes. These issues were caused by a problem with our caching servers due to unforseen events during a routine maintenance task. [25][26]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (calendar).
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [27]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:47, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-10

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 Community Wishlist Survey 2023 edition has been concluded. Community Tech has published the results of the survey and will provide an update on what is next in April 2023.
• On wikis which use LanguageConverter to handle multiple writing systems, articles which used custom conversion rules in the wikitext (primarily on Chinese Wikipedia) would have these rules applied inconsistently in the table of contents, especially in the Vector 2022 skin. This has now been fixed. [28]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (calendar).
• A search system has been added to the Preferences screen. This will let you find different options more easily. Making it work on mobile devices will happen soon. [29]

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The Signpost: 9 March 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: What's going on with the Wikimedia Endowment?

• Technology report: Second flight of the Soviet space bears: Testing ChatGPT's accuracy

• In the media: What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propoganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently?

• Featured content: In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter

• Recent research: "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events

• From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago

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This Month in GLAM: February 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue II, February 2023 Headlines Albania report: I Edit Wikipedia Online Campaign 2023 Belgium report: Public Domain Day Belgium 2023 Brazil report: GLAM-Wiki initiatives in Brazil spark academic investigation Croatia report: Activities during first two months of 2023 Indonesia report: Launching of Wikisource Loves Manuscripts; Bincang GLAM continues Italy report: New project and collaboration in February Kosovo report: I Edit Wikipedia Online Campaign 2023 New Zealand report: Wikidata and the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Wellington WikiCon 2023 and Auckland Museum local suburb project funding Poland report: The European GLAM Coordinators online meet-up; GLAM-Wiki workshop at the Wawel Royal Castle State Art Collection; Wikimedians-in-residence online meet up Sweden report: 100 000 Bildminnen; Report from The Association of Swedish Museums; Wikipedia for all of Sweden; ArkDes edit-a-thons UK report: In Memoriam Jo Pugh / Cultural Diversity USA report: Black History Month and More Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: Wiki Loves Living Heritage launches 17 March 1pm UTC WMF GLAM report: Gender, language, and living heritage events in collaboration with affiliates Calendar: March's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: February 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 2 • February 2023

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In This Issue

• A Strategic Direction for a Massive Online Course for Educators in Brazil
• Alliance Funding for Wikipedia as a school resource in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, New Zealand
• Call for Submissions to Wiki Workshop 2023
• Collaboration with Charles University on the creation of Czech Wikipedia started in January
• Open Education Week 2023 in the Wikimedia Mexico Education Program
• Wikiclubs with different schools in Albania

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Tech News: 2023-11

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Chavacano de Zamboanga Wikipedia, Min Dong Chinese Wikipedia, Chechen Wikipedia, Cebuano Wikipedia, Chamorro Wikipedia, Cherokee Wikipedia, Cheyenne Wikipedia, Central Kurdish Wikipedia, Corsican Wikipedia, Kashubian Wikipedia, Church Slavic Wikipedia, Chuvash Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [30][31]

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The Signpost: 20 March 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate

• Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians

• In the media: Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences

• Featured content: Way too many featured articles

• Interview: 228/2/1: the inside scoop on Aoidh's RfA

• Traffic report: Who died? Who won? Who lost?

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The Signpost: 20 March 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate

• Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians

• In the media: Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences

• Featured content: Way too many featured articles

• Interview: 228/2/1: the inside scoop on Aoidh's RfA

• Traffic report: Who died? Who won? Who lost?

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Tech News: 2023-12

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

Problems

• Last week, some users experienced issues loading image thumbnails. This was due to incorrectly cached images. [32]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).
• A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will appear on Special:Contributions — some user scripts which previously added this link may cause conflicts. This feature request was voted #17 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
• The Special:AbuseFilter edit window will be resizable and larger by default. This feature request was voted #80 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
• There will be a new option for Administrators when they are unblocking a user, to add the unblocked user’s user page to their watchlist. This will work both via Special:Unblock and via the API. [33]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on 24 March at 17:00 (UTC). See details and how to join.

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Tech News: 2023-13

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

• The AbuseFilter condition limit was increased from 1000 to 2000. [34]
• Some Global AbuseFilter actions will no longer apply to local projects. [35]
• Desktop users are now able to subscribe to talk pages by clicking on the Subscribe link in the Tools menu. If you subscribe to a talk page, you receive notifications when new topics are started on that talk page. This is separate from putting the page on your watchlist or subscribing to a single discussion. [36]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 March. It will be on all wikis from 30 March (calendar).

Future changes

• You will be able to choose visual diffs on all history pages at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [37]
• The legacy Mobile Content Service is going away in July 2023. Developers are encouraged to switch to Parsoid or another API before then to ensure service continuity. [38]

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Nieuwsbrief 120 Wikimedia Nederland

Nieuwsbrief van maart 2023 Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month | Wikimania | Wiki Loves Africa... Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month Verzetsvrouwen op Wikipedia Wikimania 2023 Wiki Loves Africa Met ons samenwerken? Wist je dat … #100wikiwomenchallenge Steun Wikimedia Nederland Zien we jou binnenkort? Oude versies vindt u hier

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Tech News: 2023-14

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

• The system for automatically creating categories for the Babel extension has had several important changes and fixes. One of them allows you to insert templates for automatic category descriptions on creation, allowing you to categorize the new categories. [39][40][41][42][43]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).
• Some older Web browsers will stop being able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can try to upgrade to a newer version. [44]
• The deprecated jquery.hoverIntent module has been removed. This module could be used by gadgets and user scripts, to create an artificial delay in how JavaScript responds to a hover event. Gadgets and user scripts should now use jQuery hover() or on() instead. Examples can be found in the migration guide. [45]
• Some of the links in Special:SpecialPages will be re-arranged. There will be a clearer separation between links that relate to all users, and links related to your own user account. [46]
• You will be able to hide the Reply button in archived discussion pages with a new __ARCHIVEDTALK__ magic word. There will also be a new .mw-archivedtalk CSS class for hiding the Reply button in individual sections on a page. [47][48][49]

Future changes

• The Vega software that creates data visualizations in pages, such as graphs, will be upgraded to the newest version in the future. Graphs that still use the very old version 1.5 syntax may stop working properly. Most existing uses have been found and updated, but you can help to check, and to update any local documentation. Examples of how to find and fix these graphs are available.

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The Signpost: 3 April 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• From the editor: Some long-overdue retractions
• News and notes: Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI
• In the media: Twiddling Wikipedia during an online contest, and other news
• Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing
• Featured content: Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid
• Recent research: Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT
• From the archives: April Fools' through the ages
• Disinformation report: Sus socks support suits, seems systemic

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This Month in Education: March 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 3 • March 2023

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In This Issue

• Audio-seminar project of the Wikimedia Mexico Education Program
• Empowering Nigerian Female Artists: Through Art & Feminism Edith-A-Thon at KWASU Fan Club
• Exploring How Wikipedia Works
• Florida graduate students complete Library History edit-a-thon for credit
• Improving hearing health content in Brazil
• Media Literacy Portal to become a key resource for media education in Czech Libraries
• Wikeys in the Albanian language
• Wikimarathon is an opportunity to involve students and teachers in creating and editing articles in Wikipedia
• Wikimedia Polska short report
• Wikimedia Serbia participated in the State Seminar of the The Mathematical Society of Serbia

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Tech News: 2023-15

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

• In the visual editor, it is now possible to edit captions of images in galleries without opening the gallery dialog. This feature request was voted #61 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [50]
• You can now receive notifications when another user edits your user page. See the "Edits to my user page" option in your Preferences. This feature request was voted #3 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [51]

Problems

• There was a problem with all types of CentralNotice banners still being shown to logged-in users even if they had turned off specific banner types. This has now been fixed. [52]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia, Danish Wikipedia, Dinka Wikipedia, Lower Sorbian Wikipedia, Ewe Wikipedia, Greek Wikipedia, Emiliano-Romagnolo Wikipedia, Esperanto Wikipedia, Estonian Wikipedia, Basque Wikipedia, Extremaduran Wikipedia, Tumbuka Wikipedia, Fulah Wikipedia, Finnish Wikipedia, Võro Wikipedia, Fijian Wikipedia, Faroese Wikipedia, Arpitan Wikipedia, Northern Frisian Wikipedia, Friulian Wikipedia, Irish Wikipedia, Guianan Creole Wikipedia, Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia, Galician Wikipedia, Gilaki Wikipedia, Guarani Wikipedia, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Gothic Wikipedia, Gujarati Wikipedia, Manx Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [53][54]

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This Month in GLAM: March 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue III, March 2023 Headlines Albania report: WikiGap Tirana 2023, Albania Argentina report: Starting the year at WMAR Australia report: Know My Name edit-a-thon at the National Gallery of Australia Brazil report: Wiki Loves Pará, Women's month and a huge upload for biologists Estonia report: From Ruhnu to Vääna a.k.a. Winterspring in WMEE France report: Residency at the Brittany Museum Indonesia report: Javanese Wikisource Competition; 5 More Bincang GLAMs; GLAM Socialization to University of Sriwijaya Italy report: GLAM Spring Kosovo report: Wikivoyage Edit-a-thon in Istog New Zealand report: Auckland War Memorial Museum Local Suburb Project updates Poland report: GLAM meet-ups, Wikiresidencies and GLAM partners contributiong to editing contest Serbia report: GLAM in March Sweden report: Photo memories from three industrial towns; Update from the archives; ArkDes edit-a-thons Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programme UK report: Khalili Foundation USA report: Projects and activities in March Wikidata report: Mismatch Finder: Resolving Mismatches in Wikidata’s 100 Million Items Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: The Ethics of Open Sharing Calendar: April's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Tech News: 2023-16

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 now see nearby articles on a Kartographer map with the button for the new feature "Show nearby articles". Six wikis have been testing this feature since October. [55][56]
• The Special:GlobalWatchlist page now has links for "mark page as read" for each entry. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [57]

Problems

• At Wikimedia Commons, some thumbnails have not been getting replaced correctly after a new version of the image is uploaded. This should be fixed later this week. [58][59]
• For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed. [60]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 April. It will be on all wikis from 20 April (calendar).

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Nieuwsbrief 121 Wikimedia Nederland

Nieuwsbrief van april 2023 Nieuw Beleid Vriendelijke Ruimtes | Project Festivalzomer... Nieuw Beleid Vriendelijke Ruimtes van kracht Project Festivalzomer in Nederland? Leerlingen schrijven Wikipedia-artikelen over Friese vrouwen Creatief hergebruik van muziek- en audiocollecties Op de hoogte blijven van wat er gebeurt binnen de Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland? Steun Wikimedia Nederland De Zuid-Hollandse Limes zichtbaar op Wikipedia Zien we jou binnenkort? Oude versies vindt u hier

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Tech News: 2023-17

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 date-selection menu on pages such as Special:Contributions will now show year-ranges that are in the current and past decade, instead of the current and future decade. This feature request was voted #145 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [61]

Problems

• Due to security issues with the Graph extension, graphs have been disabled in all Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Foundation teams are working to respond to these vulnerabilities. [62]
• For a few days, it was not possible to save some kinds of edits on the mobile version of a wiki. This has been fixed. [63][64][65]

Changes later this week

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [66]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

Future changes

• The Editing team plans an A/B test for a usability analysis of the Talk page project. The planned measurements are available. Your wiki may be invited to participate. Please suggest improvements to the measurement plan at the discussion page.
• The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input until May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023 on Meta-wiki.

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The Signpost: 26 April 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns

• In the media: Contested truth claims in Wikipedia

• Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman

• Arbitration report: Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping

• Opinion: What Jimbo's question revealed about scamming

• Op-Ed: Wikipedia as an anchor of truth

• Special report: Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022

• News from the WMF: Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation

• Featured content: In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again

• From the archives: April Fools' through the ages, part two

• Humour: The law of hats

• Traffic report: Long live machine, the future supreme

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Tech News: 2023-18

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

• The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the French and Italian Wikipedias. More languages will be added in the near future. This is part of the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [67][68][69]
• The Video2commons tool has been updated. This fixed several bugs related to YouTube uploads. [70]
• The Special:Preferences page has been redesigned on mobile web. The new design makes it easier to browse the different categories and settings at low screen widths. You can also now access the page via a link in the Settings menu in the mobile web sidebar. [71]

Changes later this week

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

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Survey of wikipedia users, translation in Dutch.

Hello Romaine,

I contact you for your translating skills in Dutch. As you may have seen, I am animating a research project on surveying the wikipedia users (and sometimes contributors).

We would like to survey the Dutch language community, and I talked with Wikimedia Netherland, but I would be happy to have your feedback on the translation I've made of the questionnaire (see here). It's a google translate thing, so full of errors I know.

I you were interested and had the time, I would give you access to a google doc file where you can make your corrections (it's a long survey, it takes time to verify).

thanks, Jullienn (talk) 13:30, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi Jullienn, I corrected the Dutch text on the page you linked. I can also look at the text of the survey. Romaine (talk) 13:26, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Hello @Romaine

Thank you, that would be very helpful! Correcting the Dutch survey would take you some time -- however so much needed: translation/feedback.

If you want to have a look, it's here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MJ3DbY6cGHhfu3DcNKDNTWDBZB1n8fKO9RWnbdHvXpE/edit

(I will point also the English questionnaire if need; or the French if you want to practice it ;-) )

Thank you again Jullienn (talk) 15:15, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi Jullienn, Google says I have no access, so I requested access but hasn't been granted yet. Romaine (talk) 20:21, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Hello @Romaine

My bad, I did not check before leaving office yesterday. Should be ok this morning Jullienn (talk) 07:41, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 8 May 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: New legal "deVLOPments" in the EU

• In the media: Vivek's smelly socks, online safety, and politics

• Recent research: Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions

• Featured content: I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists;
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• Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion

• News from the WMF: Planning together with the Wikimedia Foundation

• Special report: There Shall Be Seasons Refreshing – Stories from WikiConference India 2023

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Tech News: 2023-19

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

• Last week, Community Tech released the first update for providing better diffs, the #1 request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. This update adds legends and tooltips to inline diffs so that users unfamiliar with the blue and yellow highlights can better understand the type of edits made.
• When you close an image that is displayed via MediaViewer, it will now return to the wiki page instead of going back in your browser history. This feature request was voted #65 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [72]
• The SyntaxHighlight extension now supports wikitext as a selected language. Old alternatives that were used to highlight wikitext, such as html5, moin, and html+handlebars, can now be replaced. [73]
• Preloading text to new pages/sections now supports preloading from localized MediaWiki interface messages. Here is an example at the Czech Wikipedia that uses preload=MediaWiki:July. [74]

Problems

• Graph Extension update: Foundation developers have completed upgrading the visualization software to Vega5. Existing community graphs based on Vega2 are no longer compatible. Communities need to update local graphs and templates, and shared lua modules like de:Modul:Graph. The Vega Porting guide provides the most comprehensive detail on migration from Vega2 and here is an example migration. Vega5 has currently just been enabled on mediawiki.org to provide a test environment for communities. [75]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).
• Until now, all new OAuth apps went through manual review. Starting this week, apps using identification-only or basic authorizations will not require review. [76]

Future changes

• During the next year, MediaWiki will stop using IP addresses to identify logged-out users, and will start automatically assigning unique temporary usernames. Read more at IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation/Updates. You can join the discussion about the format of the temporary usernames. [77]
• There will be an A/B test on 10 Wikipedias where the Vector 2022 skin is the default skin. Half of logged-in desktop users will see an interface where the different parts of the page are more clearly separated. You can read more. [78][79]
• jquery.tipsy will be removed from the MediaWiki core. This will affect some user scripts. Many lines with .tipsy( can be commented out. OO.ui.PopupWidget can be used to keep things working like they are now. You can read more and read about how to find broken scripts. [80]

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This Month in GLAM: April 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue IV, April 2023 Headlines Albania report: International Roma Day Edit-a-thon in Albania, 2023 Brazil report: "Every Book its Public" Campaign and Strategic Committee on Libraries Czech Republic report: What's new at GLAM in the Czech Republic Indonesia report: GLAM Mini Grants; Structured Data Marathon VIII; Wikisource Online Workshop Italy report: Bridges between Wikimedia and culture New Zealand report: BHL Whitepaper and outreach for Citizen Science Month and WeDigBio, Auckland Museum suburbs project update, New Zealand Women in Architecture Wikidata Project Poland report: Another meeting of EU GLAM Coordinators; Guided tours for Wikipedians in museums in Krakow; Presentation on Art in Wikipedia; Online training on the basics of copyright law; Polish monuments among the top winners of WLM Sweden report: ISOF workshop; More articles from students; SAAB veterans shared their knowledge during metadata edit-a-thon; ArkDes edit-a-thons UK report: Democratising knowledge and cultural diversity USA report: Into the Wikiverse; Earth Day 2023 Bushwick Content Partnerships Hub report: Wikipedia day pitches by FAO and IEA Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: Activities are starting! WMF GLAM report: Biodiversity Heritage Library whitepaper and the #1Lib1Ref campaign Calendar: May's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Tech News: 2023-20

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

Problems

• Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN are currently broken. This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing to restore this feature. [81]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 May. It will be on all wikis from 18 May (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Gorontalo Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Hakka Chinese Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Fiji Hindi Wikipedia, Croatian Wikipedia, Upper Sorbian Wikipedia, Haitian Creole Wikipedia, Interlingua Wikipedia, Interlingue Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Iloko Wikipedia, Ingush Wikipedia, Ido Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Inuktitut Wikipedia, Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, Javanese Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [82]

Future changes

• There is a recently formed team at the Wikimedia Foundation which will be focusing on experimenting with new tools. Currently they are building a prototype ChatGPT plugin that allows information generated by ChatGPT to be properly attributed to the Wikimedia projects.
• Gadget and userscript developers should replace jquery.cookie with mediawiki.cookie. The jquery.cookie library will be removed in ~1 month, and staff developers will run a script to replace any remaining uses at that time. [83]

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The Signpost: 22 May 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Golden parachutes: Record severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation

• In the media: History, propaganda and censorship

• Arbitration report: Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland"

• Recent research: Create or curate, cooperate or compete? Game theory for Wikipedia editors

• Featured content: A very musical week for featured articles

• Traffic report: Coronation, chatbot, celebs

• WikiProject report: Wikipedians Convene for Queering Wikipedia 2023: The First International LGBT+ Wikipedia Conference

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• The "recent edits" time period for page watchers is now 30 days. It used to be 180 days. This was a Community Wishlist Survey proposal. [84]

Changes later this week

• An improved impact module will be available at Wikipedias. The impact module is a feature available to newcomers at their personal homepage. It will show their number of edits, how many readers their edited pages have, how many thanks they have received and similar things. It is also accessible by accessing Special:Impact. [85]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).

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• Online meeting of Ukrainian educators working with Wikipedia – four perspectives
• Wikiclubs Editathon in Elbasan, Albania
• Wikipedia at the Brazilian Linguistics Olympiad
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Books & Bytes – Issue 56

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Tech News: 2023-22

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Recent changes

• Citations can once again be added automatically from ISBNs, thanks to Zotero's ISBN searches. The current data sources are the Library of Congress (United States), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (French National Library), and K10plus ISBN (German repository). Additional data source searches can be proposed to Zotero. The ISBN labels in the VisualEditor Automatic tab will reappear later this week. [86]
• The page Special:EditWatchlist now has "Check all" options to select all the pages within a namespace. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [87]

Problems

• For a few days earlier this month, the "Add interlanguage link" item in the Tools menu did not work properly. This has now been fixed. [88]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 May. It will be on all wikis from 1 June (calendar).
• VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on small and medium wikis this week. Large wikis will follow in the coming weeks. This is part of the effort to move Parsoid into MediaWiki core. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [89]

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Nieuwsbrief 122 Wikimedia Nederland

Nieuwsbrief van mei 2023 Open Kerken Nederland Fotochallenge | Het archief binnenstebuiten... Open Kerken Nederland Fotochallenge 2023 Schrijfbijeenkomsten Verzetsvrouwen Het archief binnenstebuiten! Wist je dat… Deel je data Oorlogsmusea Wikimedia Nederland Kennisplatform Steun Wikimedia Nederland Zien we jou binnenkort? Oude versies vindt u hier

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• In the media: Section 230 stands tall, WP vs. UK bill, Miss Information dissed again

• Featured content: Poetry under pressure

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Tech News: 2023-23

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Recent changes

• The RealMe extension allows you to mark URLs on your user page as verified for Mastodon and similar software.
• Citation and footnote editing can now be started from the reference list when using the visual editor. This feature request was voted #2 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [90]
• Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference for "Group results by page". This has now been fixed. [91]

Problems

• For a few days last week, some tools and bots returned outdated information due to database replication problems, and may have been down entirely while it was being fixed. These issues have now been fixed. [92]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
• Bots will no longer be prevented from making edits because of URLs that match the spam blacklist. [93]

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This Month in GLAM: May 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue V, May 2023 Headlines From the team: E-mail account issue Albania report: Summer of Wikivoyage Edit-a-thon in Shëngjin, Albania, 2023 Australia report: Improving Wikipedia pages about Australian women filmmakers at ACMI Brazil report: First GLAM-Wiki partnership from Pará Finland report: Adding authority control templates with Pywikibot India report: Digitization of Behar Herald starts in Patna Indonesia report: Wikisource Workshop in Madura; Outreach to Bandung; Indonesian Wikisource Competition Italy report: Open access from North to South Kosovo report: Summer of Wikivoyage Edit-a-thon 2023 New Zealand report: Women in Architecture Edit-a-thon and Auckland suburb updates Philippines report: Wikisource promotion at UNC Museum Sweden report: Air travel and city streets Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programme Uganda report: These last few months in Uganda UK report: Promoting cultural diversity on Wikipedia USA report: A Spotlight on Black Women Birders; DC Nobel Solution Sessions; Women of Color in the Renwick Gallery; Anthropology and Community Connections; SAGE edit-a-thon; WikiWednesday Salon; Into the Wikiverse: AANHPIs in Science Fiction and Pop Culture; Queering Wikipedia 2023 Special story: Help Wikimedia Map Your Efforts to Improve Copyright! GLAM Wiki conference report: GLAM Wiki Conference 2023: Announcing the venue & scholarship application process open Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: Photo contests WMF GLAM report: WILMA, DPLA + SDAW, and BHL whitepaper updates Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Tech News: 2023-24

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Recent changes

• The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the Dutch, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias. This was the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [94]
• The Search Preview panel has been deployed on four Wikipedias (Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian and Norwegian). The panel will show an image related to the article (if existing), the top sections of the article, related images (coming from MediaSearch on Commons), and eventually the sister projects associated with the article. [95]
• The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software. [96]
• The default project license has been officially upgraded to CC BY-SA 4.0. The software interface messages have been updated. Communities should feel free to start updating any mentions of the old CC BY-SA 3.0 licensing within policies and related documentation pages. [97]

Problems

• For three days last month, some Wikipedia pages edited with VisualEditor or DiscussionTools had an unintended __TOC__ (or its localized form) added during an edit. There is a listing of affected pages sorted by wiki, that may still need to be fixed. [98]
• Currently, the "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is broken. Existing {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords incorrectly appear as missing templates in VisualEditor. Developers are exploring how to fix this. In the meantime, those wishing to edit the default sortkey of a page are advised to switch to source editing. [99]
• Last week, an update to the delete form may have broken some gadgets or user scripts. If you need to manipulate (empty) the reason field, replace #wpReason with #wpReason > input. See an example fix. [100]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).
• VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on English Wikipedia on Monday, and all other large wikis on Thursday. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [101]

Future changes

• From 5 June to 17 July, the Foundation's Security team is holding a consultation with contributors regarding a draft policy to govern the use of third-party resources in volunteer-developed gadgets and scripts. Feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome at Third-party resources policy on meta-wiki.

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The Signpost: 19 June 2023

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• News and notes: WMF Terms of Use now in force, new Creative Commons licensing

• In the media: English WP editor glocked after BLP row on Italian 'pedia

• Featured content: Content, featured

• Recent research: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics

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Tech News: 2023-25

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Recent changes

• Flame graphs are now available in WikimediaDebug. [102][103]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• There is now a toolbar search popup in the visual editor. You can trigger it by typing \ or pressing ctrl + shift + p. It can help you quickly access most tools in the editor. [104][105]

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Nieuwsbrief 123 Wikimedia Nederland

Nieuwsbrief van juni 2023 Open Kerken Nederland Fotochallenge | Keti Koti bijeenkomst... Open Kerken Nederland Fotochallenge 2023 Keti Koti bijeenkomst Wiki goes Caribbean - CODA Apeldoorn Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Terugblik Wiki goes Caribbean bijeenkomst Toegang tot ons nationaal geheugen Oproep: Wikipedianen gezocht voor Wiki goes Caribbean bijeenkomsten Festivalzomer: help jij mee Nederlandse festivals en concerten in beeld te brengen? Overlegcoördinator gezocht voor Wikipedia Schrijfwedstrijd Steun Wikimedia Nederland Zien we jou binnenkort? Oude versies vindt u hier

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Tech News: 2023-26

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Recent changes

• The Action API modules and Special:LinkSearch will now add a trailing / to all prop=extlinks responses for bare domains. This is part of the work to remove duplication in the externallinks database table. [106]

Problems

• Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours. [107][108]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
• The Minerva skin now applies more predefined styles to the .mbox-text CSS class. This enables support for mbox templates that use divs instead of tables. Please make sure that the new styles won't affect other templates in your wiki. [109][110]
• Gadgets will now load on both desktop and mobile by default. Previously, gadgets loaded only on desktop by default. Changing this default using the |targets= parameter is also deprecated and should not be used. You should make gadgets work on mobile or disable them based on the skin (with the |skins= parameter in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition) rather than whether the user uses the mobile or the desktop website. Popular gadgets that create errors on mobile will be disabled by developers on the Minerva skin as a temporary solution. [111]
• All namespace tabs now have the same browser access key by default. Previously, custom and extension-defined namespaces would have to have their access keys set manually on-wiki, but that is no longer necessary. [112]
• The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized user interface components. [113]

Future changes

• How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change in the coming weeks at group2 wikis. This change improves the accessibility of content. You may need to update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to check, how to update the code, and where to report any related problems. [114]

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Tech News: 2023-27

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Recent changes

• As part of the rolling out of the audio links that play on click wishlist proposal, small wikis will now be able to use the inline audio player that is implemented by the Phonos extension. [115]
• From this week all gadgets automatically load on mobile and desktop sites. If you see any problems with gadgets on your wikis, please adjust the gadget options in your gadget definitions file. [116]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 July. It will be on all wikis from 6 July (calendar).

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This Month in Education: June 2023

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• Africa Day 2023: Abuja Teachers celebrates
• From editing articles to civic power – Wikimedia UK's research on democracy and Wikipedia
• Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Program in Yemen Brings Positive Impact to Yemeni Teachers
• Using Wikipedia in education: students' and teachers' view
• The Journey of Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Lagos State
• WMB goes to Serbia
• But we don't want it to end!

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This Month in GLAM: June 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue VI, June 2023 Headlines Albania report: CEE Spring Campaign 2023, Albania and Kosovo Asia report: Donation of images from the National Centre for Biological Sciences Brazil report: Native Brazilian photographer wins Wiki Loves Folklore Brazil 2023 Croatia report: Half done in 2023 Germany report: Museum tour, WLM, handouts and image donation India report: Wiki Exploration Programme GLAM activities Indonesia report: Conclusion of Mini Grants; Second #1Lib1Ref Campaign; Wikisource Workshop in Bali Italy report: TCI and Turin Academy of Science Kosovo report: CEE Spring Campaign 2023, Albania and Kosovo Netherlands report: A new book, new Wikipedia articles, videos and further images on Africa New Zealand report: Report on the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections Conference 2023 and Auckland suburb updates Philippines report: GLAM outreach activity at University of Nueva Caceres: Digitization, workshops and proofread-a-thons as future collaboration Poland report: GLAM-Wiki workshops for the Czartoryski Library; Work on the GLAM-Wiki Project Page Continues; End of Internship within the "Praktykuj w Kulturze" Program Sweden report: Knowledge overview; Almedalen week Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programm UK report: Cultural diversity USA report: WikiWednesday returns to Manhattan; Wikimedia NYC and Art+Feminism; WikiConference North America 2023; GLAM Wiki 2023 Special story: Flickr Foundation and Wikimedia Foundation partner to build Flickypedia GLAM Wiki conference report: The call for proposals is now open for the GLAM Wiki Conference Calendar: July's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Tech News: 2023-28

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Recent changes

• The Section-level Image Suggestions feature has been deployed on seven Wikipedias (Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Catalan, Hungarian, Finnish and Norwegian Bokmål). The feature recommends images for articles on contributors' watchlists that are a good match for individual sections of those articles.
• Global abuse filters have been enabled on all Wikimedia projects, except English and Japanese Wikipedias (who opted out). This change was made following a global request for comments. [117]
• Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool for administrators to help fight spam. It provides a clearer interface for blocking plain domains (and their subdomains), is more easily searchable, and is faster for the software to process for each edit on the wiki. It does not support regex (for complex cases), nor URL path-matching, nor the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist, but otherwise it replaces most of the functionalities of the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. There is a Python script to help migrate all simple domains into this tool, and more feature details, within the tool's documentation. It is available at all wikis except for Meta-wiki, Commons, and Wikidata. [118]
• The WikiEditor extension was updated. It includes some of the most frequently used features of wikitext editing. In the past, many of its messages could only be translated by administrators, but now all regular translators on translatewiki can translate them. Please check the state of WikiEditor localization into your language, and if the "Completion" for your language shows anything less than 100%, please complete the translation. See a more detailed explanation.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 July. It will be on all wikis from 13 July (calendar).
• The default protocol of Special:LinkSearch and API counterparts has changed from http to both http and https. [119]
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Future changes

• There is an experiment with a ChatGPT plugin. This is to show users where the information is coming from when they read information from Wikipedia. It has been tested by Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians. Soon all ChatGPT plugin users can use the Wikipedia plugin. This is the same plugin which was mentioned in Tech News 2023/20. [121]
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The Signpost: 17 July 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Big bux hidden beneath wine-dark sea as we wait for the Tides to go out?

• In the media: Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia

• Obituary: David Thomsen (Dthomsen8) and Ingo Koll (Kipala)

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• In focus: Are the children of celebrities over-represented in French cinema?

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• Recent research: Wikipedia-grounded chatbot "outperforms all baselines" on factual accuracy

• Humour: New fringe theories to be introduced

• Cobwebs: If you're reading this, you're probably on a desktop

• Featured content: Scrollin', scrollin', scrollin', keep those readers scrollin', got to keep on scrollin', Rawhide!

• Traffic report: The Idol becomes the Master

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Tech News: 2023-29

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• We are now serving 1% of all global user traffic from Kubernetes (you can read more technical details). We are planning to increment this percentage regularly. You can follow the progress of this work.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 July. It will be on all wikis from 20 July (calendar).
• MediaWiki system messages will now look for available local fallbacks, instead of always using the default fallback defined by software. This means wikis no longer need to override each language on the fallback chain separately. For example, English Wikipedia doesn't have to create en-ca and en-gb subpages with a transclusion of the base pages anymore. This makes it easier to maintain local overrides. [122]
• The action=growthsetmentorstatus API will be deprecated with the new MediaWiki version. Bots or scripts calling that API should use the action=growthmanagementorlist API now. [123]

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Books & Bytes – Issue 57

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 57, May – June 2023

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• Spotlight: Promoting Nigerian Books and Authors

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Tech News: 2023-31

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Recent changes

• The Synchronizer tool is now available to keep Lua modules synced across Wikimedia wikis, along with updated documentation to develop global Lua modules and templates.
• The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. For example, you can hide edits that were made using an automated tool. [124][125]
• The Wikipedia ChatGPT plugin experiment can now be used by ChatGPT users who can use plugins. You can participate in a video call if you want to talk about this experiment or similar work. [126]

Problems

• It was not possible to generate a PDF for pages with non-Latin characters in the title, for the last two weeks. This has now been fixed. [127]

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• Starting on Tuesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Georgian Wikipedia, Kara-Kalpak Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Kabardian Wikipedia, Kabiyè Wikipedia, Kikuyu Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Khmer Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia, Kashmiri Wikipedia, Colognian Wikipedia, Kurdish Wikipedia, Cornish Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [128]

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This Month in GLAM: July 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue VII, July 2023 Headlines Albania report: Wiki Photowalk Albania and Kosovo, 2023 Argentina report: First batch of a big upload Australia report: Where's The Source? Adding Citations to Wikipedia Brazil report: Two new GLAM-wiki partnerships and Three large uploads France report: New milestone reached: already 500 portraits of geographers uploaded on Commons India report: Open Knowledge Fellowship by Heritage Lab and Wikibase set foot in India Netherlands report: Videos and filmmakers of Africa, Open Churches Photochallenge and Wiki goes Caribbean meet-up in Dutch National Archive Poland report: EU GLAM Coordinators; WikiMatejko; Polona; internship program Serbia report: Wikipedian in residence raises the standards UK report: Roads, Kingdoms and Assassins USA report: WikiWednesday Salon; New York Botanical Garden; Meetup San Diego Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: Join Wiki Loves Living Heritage at Wikimania! WMF GLAM report: WiLMa updates Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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• Wikimedia Kaduna Connect Campaign
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• The Content translation system is no longer using Youdao's machine translation service. The service was in place for several years, but due to no usage, and availability of alternatives, it was deprecated to reduce maintenance overheads. Other services which cover the same languages are still available. [130]

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Future changes

• A few gadgets/user scripts which add icons to the Minerva skin need to have their CSS updated. There are more details available including a search for all existing instances and how to update them.

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• The removal of the DoubleWiki extension is being discussed. This extension currently allows Wikisource users to view articles from multiple language versions side by side when the <=> symbol next to a specific language edition is selected. Comments on this are welcomed at the phabricator task.
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Nieuwsbrief 54 Wikimedia Nederland

Nieuwsbrief van augustus 2023 Wiki loves Fashion 2023 | Terugblik Wikimania... Wiki loves Fashion 2023 Terugblik Wikimania 2023: Diversity. Collaboration. Future. Wiki loves Monuments 2023 in Suriname Weet jij waarom … Wiki goes Caribbean-bijeenkomst Nationaal Archief Wikipedia Tula-challenge voor Dia di Tula Jaarplan 2024 FOKA Meedenken over de Wikimedia Global Council Deel je Data Erfgoedhuis Zuid-Holland Give away - Romeinse helmen in Nederland Flickypedia Steun Wikimedia Nederland Zien we jou binnenkort? Oude versies vindt u hier

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• EditInSequence, a feature that allows users to edit pages faster on Wikisource has been moved to a Beta Feature based on community feedback. To enable it, you can navigate to the beta features tab in Preferences. [148]
• As part of the changes for the Generate Audio for IPA and Audio links that play on click wishlist proposals, the inline audio player mode of Phonos has been deployed to all projects. [149]
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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Eastern Mari Wikipedia, Maori Wikipedia, Minangkabau Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Mongolian Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Western Mari Wikipedia, Malay Wikipedia, Maltese Wikipedia, Mirandese Wikipedia, Erzya Wikipedia, Mazanderani Wikipedia, Nāhuatl Wikipedia, Neapolitan Wikipedia, Low German Wikipedia, Low Saxon Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Newari Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Novial Wikipedia, N'Ko Wikipedia, Nouormand Wikipedia, Northern Sotho Wikipedia, Navajo Wikipedia, Nyanja Wikipedia, Occitan Wikipedia, Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia, Oromo Wikipedia, Oriya Wikipedia, Ossetic Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Pangasinan Wikipedia, Pampanga Wikipedia, Papiamento Wikipedia, Picard Wikipedia, Pennsylvania German Wikipedia, Palatine German Wikipedia, Norfuk / Pitkern Wikipedia, Piedmontese Wikipedia, Western Punjabi Wikipedia, Pontic Wikipedia, Pashto Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [153][154]

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• As part of the changes for the Better diff handling of paragraph splits wishlist proposal, the inline switch widget in diff pages is being rolled out this week to all wikis. The inline switch will allow viewers to toggle between a unified inline or two-column diff wikitext format. [157]

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This Month in GLAM: August 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue VIII, August 2023 Headlines Albania report: Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos in Albania and Kosovo Argentina report: Highlights on Wikimania 2023 Armenia report: Wikimedia Armenia GLAM projects in August Belgium report: Activities in Belgium September-December 2023 Brazil report: 4 new GLAM-Wiki partnerships and uploads from several institutions Canada report: Wiki-Wednesdays: Digital Literacy for GLAM workers Italy report: Summer does not stop the wiki collaborations Kosovo report: The Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos in Albania and Kosovo; Wiki Loves Earth in Albania and Kosovo New Zealand report: Public sculpture photo trail: documenting Auckland sculptures in Wikidata; Aotearoa's Wikimedia Laureate Poland report: Presentation for school librarians at Wikiteka, Ongoing projects Serbia report: A month in the shine of Wikidata and new cooperation Sweden report: Showcasing collaboration with the Nordic Museum at Wikimania 2023; Working with Swedish folk high schools Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programm UK report: Islamic art exhibitions and heritage innovation USA report: Great North American Wiknic AvoinGLAM report: Wikidocumentaries to import images from the web to Structured Data on Commons – a Google Summer of Code project Content Partnerships Hub report: Hub updates at Wikimania 2023; Supporting Wiki Loves Monuments teams Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Open call: OpenRefine-Wikimedia train-the-trainer course, November 2023-April 2024 Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: Looking back, looking ahead WREN at Wikimania report: Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network at Wikimania Singapore Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 58

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
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Nieuwsbrief van september 2023 Wiki loves Fashion 2023 | Eureka! Maand van de Geschiedenis... Wiki loves Fashion 2023 gaat van start Eureka! Maand van de Geschiedenis Tweede Herfst Hackathon Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 in Suriname Kantoor krijgt opknapbeurt WikiVrijdag 27 oktober: Duik in de wereld van vrouwencafés Vector 2022 opmaakstijl Woordgebruik troonrede begrijpelijk? Wist je dat… Save the date! 3 november Wiki-edit-a-thon EWM-NL Steun Wikimedia Nederland Zien we jou binnenkort? Oude versies vindt u hier

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Tech News: 2023-39

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Recent changes

• The Vector 2022 skin will now remember the pinned/unpinned status for the Table of Contents for all logged-out users. [163]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September (calendar).
• The ResourceLoader mediawiki.ui modules are now deprecated as part of the move to Vue.js and Codex. There is a guide for migrating from MediaWiki UI to Codex for any tools that use it. More details are available in the task and your questions are welcome there.
• Gadget definitions will have a new "namespaces" option. The option takes a list of namespace IDs. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages in the given namespaces.

Future changes

• New variables will be added to AbuseFilter: global_account_groups and global_account_editcount. They are available only when an account is being created. You can use them to prevent blocking automatic creation of accounts when users with many edits elsewhere visit your wiki for the first time. [164][165]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on 27 October at 17:00 (UTC). See details and how to join.

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Tech News: 2023-40

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Recent changes

• There is a new user preference for "Always enable safe mode". This setting will make pages load without including any on-wiki JavaScript or on-wiki stylesheet pages. It can be useful for debugging broken JavaScript gadgets. [166]
• Gadget definitions now have a new "contentModels" option. The option takes a list of page content models, like wikitext or css. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages with the given content models.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar).

Future changes

• The Vector 2022 skin will no longer use the custom styles and scripts of Vector legacy (2010). The change will be made later this year or in early 2024. See how to adjust the CSS and JS pages on your wiki. [167]

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The Signpost: 3 October 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published

• In the media: History is written by whoever can harness the most editors

• Recent research: Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"

• Featured content: By your logic,

• Concept: Wikipedia policies from other worlds: WP:NOANTLERS

• Poetry: "The Sight"

• Traffic report: There shall be no slaves in the land of lands, it's a Bollywood jam

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Recent changes

• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Fon (w:fon:) [168]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Swahili Wikipedia, Walloon Wikipedia, Waray Wikipedia, Wolof Wikipedia, Kalmyk Wikipedia, Xhosa Wikipedia, Mingrelian Wikipedia, Yiddish Wikipedia, Yoruba Wikipedia, Zhuang Wikipedia, Zeelandic Wikipedia, Min Nan Wikipedia, Zulu Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [169]
• At some wikis, newcomers are suggested images from Commons to add to articles without any images. Starting on Tuesday, newcomers at these wikis will be able to add images to unillustrated article sections. The specific wikis are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team deployment table. You can learn more about this feature. [170]
• In the mobile web skin (Minerva) the CSS ID #page-actions will be replaced with #p-views. This change is to make it consistent with other skins and to improve support for gadgets and extensions in the mobile skin. A few gadgets may need to be updated; there are details and search-links in the task.

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This Month in Education: September 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 7 • September 2023

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• Inauguration of the Kent Wiki Club at the Wikimania 2023 Conference
• Letter Magic: Supercharging Your WikiEducation Programs
• Réseau @pprendre (Learning Network) : The Initiative for Educational Change in Francophone West Africa
• WikiChallenge Ecoles d’Afrique closes its 5th edition with 13 winning schools
• WikiConecta: connecting Brazilian university professors and Wikimedia
• Wikimedia Germany launches interactive event series Open Source AI in Education

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This Month in GLAM: September 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue IX, September 2023 Headlines Argentina report: Disseminating open culture Brazil report: Amazonia on Wiki Colombia report: Wikidata and the editing of Ibero-American scientific journals France report: Celebrating Rugby Herstory and History in Toulouse; Les Lorraines sans pages India report: Wikimedia Commons Contest connects Pune citizens with the rivers Mula & Mutha Italy report: 10,000 institutions on the Wikimedia projects New Zealand report: West Coast Wikipedian at Large Poland report: GLAM-Wiki educational activities Portugal report: With multiple events, September was a busy month for Wikimedia Portugal Sweden report: Wikipedia in education; Continuation at Swedish folk high schools; Wikipedians at the Bookfair UK report: A new WIR and a very old book USA report: Wikimedia New York City Election 2023; San Diego/September 2023; Climate Change and Food Safety Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: OpenRefine and Wikimedia Commons: train the trainer course participants and two surveys Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: European photo contest finalists, Local Contexts Wikiproject at GLAMhack WMF GLAM report: Wikisource Loves Manuscripts, ICOM outreach, Flickr Foundation partnership, OpenRefine adoption, new sources in The Wikipedia Library, Image Description Month events, and the GLAM Wiki Conference Calendar: October's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Tech News: 2023-42

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Recent changes

• The Unified login system's edge login should now be fixed for some browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera). This means that if you visit a new sister project wiki, you should be logged in automatically without the need to click "Log in" or reload the page. Feedback on whether it's working for you is welcome. [171]
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Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 October. It will be on all wikis from 19 October (calendar).

Future changes

• In 3 weeks, in the Vector 2022 skin, code related to addPortletLink and #p-namespaces that was deprecated one year ago will be removed. If you notice tools that should appear next to the "Discussion" tab are then missing, please tell the gadget's maintainers to see instructions in the Phabricator task.

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The Signpost: 23 October 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Where have all the administrators gone?

• In the media: Thirst traps, the fastest loading sites on the web, and the original collaborative writing

• Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to know how to restore images to make massive improvements

• Featured content: Yo, ho! Blow the man down!

• Traffic report: The calm and the storm

• News from Diff: Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes

• Humour: New citation template introduced for divine revelations, drug use, and really thinking about it

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Tech News: 2023-43

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Recent changes

• There is a new Language and internationalization newsletter, written quarterly. It contains updates on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects, and related support work.
• Source map support has been enabled on all wikis. When you open the debugger in your browser's developer tools, you should be able to see the unminified JavaScript source code. [172]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 October. It will be on all wikis from 26 October (calendar).

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Nieuwsbrief 126 Wikimedia Nederland

Nieuwsbrief van oktober 2023 Wiki loves Fashion 2023 | REBOOT.Edit-a-thon... Wiki loves Fashion 2023 Eureka! Maand van de Geschiedenis Herfst Hackathon REBOOT. Edit-a-thon Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 in Suriname Wiki Loves Monuments Sint Eustatius Terugblik cursus Deel je Data Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen Opknapbeurt kantoor Edit-a-thon EWM-NL Steun Wikimedia Nederland Zien we jou binnenkort? Oude versies vindt u hier

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Tech News: 2023-44

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Recent changes

• The Structured Content team, as part of its project of improving UploadWizard on Commons, made some UX improvements to the upload step of choosing own vs not own work (T347590), as well as to the licensing step for own work (T347756).
• The Design Systems team has released version 1.0.0 of Codex, the new design system for Wikimedia. See the full announcement about the release of Codex 1.0.0.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 November. It will be on all wikis from 2 November (calendar).
• Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 2 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for many languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [173][174]
• Starting November 1, the impact module (Special:Impact) will be upgraded by the Growth team. The new impact module shows newcomers more data regarding their impact on the wiki. It was tested by a few wikis during the last few months. [175]

Future changes

• There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. You can help by reviewing this proposal and sharing what you think about it.
• The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.

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The Signpost: 6 November 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• Arbitration report: Admin bewilderingly unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was extremely banned in 2015

• In the media: UK gov bigwig accused of ripping off WP articles for book, Wikipedians accused of being dicks by a rich man

• News and notes: Board candidacy process posted, editors protest WMF privacy measure, sweet meetups

• Opinion: An open letter to Elon Musk

• WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2023

• News from Wiki Ed: Equity lists on Wikipedia

• Recent research: How English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades

• Featured content: Like putting a golf course in a historic site.

• Wikidata: Evaluating qualitative systemic bias in large article sets on Wikipedia

• Traffic report: Cricket jumpscare

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Tech News: 2023-45

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Recent changes

• In the Vector 2022 skin, the default font-size of a number of navigational elements (tagline, tools menu, navigational links, and more) has been increased slightly to match the font size used in page content. [176]

Problems

• Last week, there was a problem displaying some recent edits on a few wikis, for 1-6 hours. The edits were saved but not immediately shown. This was due to a database problem. [177]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 November. It will be on all wikis from 9 November (calendar).
• The Growth team will reassign newcomers from former mentors to the currently active mentors. They have also changed the notification language to be more user-friendly. [178][179]

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This Month in Education: October 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 8 • October 2023

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In This Issue

• 3 Generations at Wikipedia Education Program in Türkiye
• CBSUA Launches Wiki Education in Partnership with PhilWiki Community and Bikol Wikipedia Community
• Celebrating Wikidata’s Birthday in Elbasan
• Edu Wiki Camp 2023 - together in Sremski Karlovci
• PhilWiki Community promotes language preservation and cultural heritage advocacies at ADNU
• PunjabWiki Education Program: A Wikipedia Adventure in Punjab
• WikiConference on Education ignites formation of Wikimedia communities
• Wikimedia Estonia talked about education at CEE meeting in Tbilisi
• Wikimedia in Brazil is going to be a book
• Wikipedian Editor Project: Arabic Sounds Workshop 2023

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This Month in GLAM: October 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue X, October 2023 Headlines Albania report: Celebrating Wikipedia's 20th Birthday in Albanian Language Argentina report: Content, resources and platforms for open access! Australia report: October Report Brazil report: Wiki Loves Monuments Brasil 2023 and Open Midiateca Colombia report: Open Access Week and Wikidata; Opening Culture and Heritage training Côte d'Ivoire report: Wikimedia Côte d'Ivoire and Apsid-ci collaboration for Glam Croatia report: Looong summer is over Czech Republic report: Great first results in State Regional Archives and Wikiresident Group coworking Ireland report: Wikimedia Community Ireland Host WikiWomen Partner Meeting at Dublin's historical Port Italy report: Results of funded projects within Call GLAM 2023 Netherlands report: Wiki Loves Fashion in the Netherlands New Zealand report: Biodiversity Information Standards Conference 2023 (TDWG2023) and the Entomological Collection Network Meeting (ECN2023) Poland report: WikiMatejko, Internships, Open Heritage, folk costumes Portugal report: Open Access Week celebrations and an edit-a-thon to increase the visibility of black lusophone communities Serbia report: Dynamic October in Serbia South Africa report: Edit-a-thon for Librarians at the annual Library and Information Association of South Africa 2023 Conference Sweden report: Wikipedia for all of Sweden; Museums and Wikidata – why and how?; Photo memories from Stockholm and Rome; Negotiating Knowledge on Wikipedia Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programm UK report: Good omens for a rosy future USA report: Women in Environmental Justice; October WikiSalon AvoinGLAM report: AvoinGLAM joins the long-awaited GLAM Wiki 2023 Content Partnerships Hub report: Let's Connect Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: Learning and sharing Wikimedia and Libraries User Group report: The Wikimedia and Libraries AI Salons Calendar: November's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Tech News: 2023-46

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Recent changes

• Four new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Moroccan Amazigh (w:zgh:) [180]
  • a Wikipedia in Dagaare (w:dga:) [181]
  • a Wikipedia in Toba Batak (w:bbc:) [182]
  • a Wikiquote in Banjar (q:bjn:) [183]

Problems

• Last week, users who previously visited Meta-Wiki or Wikimedia Commons and then became logged out on those wikis could not log in again. The problem is now resolved. [184]
• Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong font size. The problem is now resolved. [185]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• Reference Previews are coming to many wikis as a default feature. They are popups for references, similar to the PagePreviews feature. You can opt out of seeing them. If you are using the gadgets Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews. Deployment is planned for November 22, 2023.
• Canary (also known as heartbeat) events will be produced into Wikimedia event streams from December 11. Streams users are advised to filter out these events, by discarding all events where meta.domain == "canary". Updates to Pywikibot or wikimedia-streams will discard these events by default. [186]

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The Signpost: 20 November 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• In the media: Propaganda and photos, lunatics and a lunar backup

• News and notes: Update on Wikimedia's financial health

• Traffic report: If it bleeds, it leads

• Recent research: Canceling disputes as the real function of ArbCom

• Wikimania: Wikimania 2024 scholarships

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Tech News: 2023-47

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Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [187][188]
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Quechua Wikipedia, Romansh Wikipedia, Romani Wikipedia, Rundi Wikipedia, Aromanian Wikipedia, Tarandíne Wikipedia, Rusyn Wikipedia, Kinyarwanda Wikipedia, Sanskrit Wikipedia, Sakha Wikipedia, Santali Wikipedia, Sardinian Wikipedia, Sicilian Wikipedia, Scots Wikipedia, Sindhi Wikipedia, Northern Sami Wikipedia, Sango Wikipedia, Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia, Sinhala Wikipedia, Slovak Wikipedia, Slovenian Wikipedia, Samoan Wikipedia, Somali Wikipedia, Albanian Wikipedia, Serbian Wikipedia, Sranan Tongo Wikipedia, Swati Wikipedia, Southern Sotho Wikipedia, Saterland Frisian Wikipedia, Sundanese Wikipedia, Silesian Wikipedia, Tamil Wikipedia, Tulu Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tetum Wikipedia, Tajik Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkmen Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia, Tswana Wikipedia, Tongan Wikipedia, Tok Pisin Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Tsonga Wikipedia, Tatar Wikipedia, Twi Wikipedia, Tahitian Wikipedia, Tuvinian Wikipedia, Udmurt Wikipedia, Uyghur Wikipedia, Uzbek Wikipedia, Venda Wikipedia, Venetian Wikipedia, Veps Wikipedia, West Flemish Wikipedia, Volapük Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [189][190][191]
• The Vector 2022 skin will have some minor visual changes to drop-down menus, column widths, and more. These changes were added to four Wikipedias last week. If no issues are found, these changes will proceed to all wikis this week. These changes will make it possible to add new menus for readability and dark mode. Learn more. [192]

Future changes

• There is an update on re-enabling the Graph Extension. To speed up the process, Vega 2 will not be supported and only some protocols will be available at launch. You can help by sharing what you think about the plan.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:55, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 59

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 59, September – October 2023

• Spotlight: Introducing a repository of anti-disinformation projects
• Tech tip: Library access methods

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Tech News: 2023-48

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [193][194]
• MediaWiki's JavaScript system will now allow async/await syntax in gadgets and user scripts. Gadget authors should remember that users' browsers may not support it, so it should be used appropriately. [195]
• The deployment of "Add a link" announced last week was postponed. It will resume this week.

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Nieuwsbrief 127 Wikimedia Nederland

Nieuwsbrief van november 2023 Wikimania 2024 beursaanvraag geopend | Wiki Loves Monuments... Eureka! Maand van de Geschiedenis REBOOT. Edit-a-thon Wikimania 2024 beursaanvraag geopend Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 in Suriname Wiki Loves Monuments Sint Eustatius Deel je Data Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen: een terugblik #100wikiwomenchallenge Wiki Loves Fashion 2023 Opknapbeurt kantoor Publiek Domeindag 2024 Save the date: Zaterdag 13 januari Nieuwjaarsbijeenkomst Met ons samenwerken? Steun Wikimedia Nederland Jaarverslag 2022 In de spotlight Zien we jou binnenkort? Oude versies vindt u hier

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The Signpost: 4 December 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Beeblebrox ejected from Arbitration Committee following posts on Wikipediocracy

• In the media: Turmoil on Hebrew Wikipedia, grave dancing, Olga's impact and inspiring Bhutanese nuns

• Disinformation report: "Wikipedia and the assault on history"

• In focus: Tens of thousands of freely available sources flagged

• Comix: Bold comics for a new age

• Essay: I am going to die

• Featured content: Real gangsters move in silence

• Traffic report: And it's hard to watch some cricket, in the cold November Rain

• Humour: Mandy Rice-Davis Applies

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Tech News: 2023-49

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

Recent changes

• The spacing between paragraphs on Vector 2022 has been changed from 7px to 14px to match the size of the text. This will make it easier to distinguish paragraphs from sentences. [196]
• The "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is working again. You no longer need to switch to source editing to edit {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords. [197]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [198][199]
• On 6 December, people who have the enabled the preference for "Show discussion activity" will notice the talk page usability improvements appear on pages that include the __NEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word. If you notice any issues, please share them with the team on Phabricator.

Future changes

• The Toolforge Grid Engine shutdown process will start on December 14. Maintainers of tools that still use this old system should plan to migrate to Kubernetes, or tell the team your plans on Phabricator in the task about your tool, before that date. [200]
• Communities using Structured Discussions are being contacted regarding the upcoming deprecation of Structured Discussions. You can read more about this project, and share your comments, on the project's page.

Events

• Registration & Scholarship applications are now open for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 that will take place from 3–5 May in Tallinn, Estonia. Scholarship applications are open until 5 January 2024.

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This Month in GLAM: November 2023

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue XI, November 2023 Headlines Albania report: Three-months of Wikimedian in Residence at the Qemal Baholli Public Library in Albania Brazil report: New partners in Rio and GLAM WikiCon Canada report: WCNA 2023: an key event for North American users Colombia report: Wiki GLAM Conf and Bogotá Libraries Meeting France report: Edit-a-thon Le retour de la momie Italy report: Record edition of Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy Netherlands report: Share your Data course, history month, REBOOT! and Dutch Public Domain Day event New Zealand report: Summer students at Auckland Museum Poland report: GLAM-Wiki Conference, WikiMatejko Portugal report: Catalan culture and showcasing Wikimedia on both side of the Atlantic Serbia report: Wikipedians in Residence, GLAM Wiki Conference Sweden report: National Historical Museums of Sweden contributions; Photo memories from all over the world engage the community; Museum of medieval photo safari UK report: Fifty article milestone AvoinGLAM report: AvoinGLAM at GLAM Wiki 2023 Content Partnerships Hub report: 3,000 medical images on Wikimedia Commons through the Helpdesk Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: 2023 Living Heritage elements are added to Wiki Loves Living Heritage Calendar: December's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Tech News: 2023-50

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

• On Wikimedia Commons, there are some minor user-interface improvements for the "choosing own vs not own work" step in the UploadWizard. This is part of the Structured Content team's project of improving UploadWizard on Commons. [201][202]

Problems

• There was a problem showing the Newcomer homepage feature with the "impact module" and their page-view graphs, for a few days in early December. This has now been fixed. [203][204]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar). [205][206]

Future changes

• The 2023 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 5 January 2024, and has an associated privacy statement.

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:12, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

This Month in Education: November 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 9 • November 2023

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In This Issue

• 4th WikiUNAM Editathon: Community knowledge strengthens education
• Edit-a-thon at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Santa Casa de São Paulo
• EduWiki Nigeria Community: Embracing Digital Learning Through Wikipedia
• Evening Wikischool offers Czech seniors further education on Wikipedia
• Expansion of Wikipedia Education Program through Student Associations at Iranian Universities
• Exploring Wikipedia through Wikiclubs and the Wikeys board game in Albania
• First anniversary of the game Wikeys
• Involve visiting students in education programs
• Iranian Students as Wikipedians: Using Wikipedia to Teach Research Methodology and Encyclopedic Writing
• Kiwix4Schools Nigeria: Bridging Knowledge Gap through Digital Literacy
• Lire wikipedia en classe à Djougou au Bénin
• Tyap Wikimedians Zaria Outreach
• Art Outreach at Aje Comprehensive Senior High School 1st November 2023, Lagos Mainland
• PhilWiki Community holds a meet-up to advocate women empowerment

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Tech News: 2023-51

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

• The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2024 because of the holidays.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 December. It will be on all wikis from 21 December (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [207][208]
• Starting December 18, it won't be possible to activate Structured Discussions on a user's own talk page using the Beta feature. The Beta feature option remains available for users who want to deactivate Structured Discussions. This is part of Structured Discussions' deprecation work. [209]
• There will be full support for redirects in the Module namespace. The "Move Page" feature will leave an appropriate redirect behind, and such redirects will be appropriately recognized by the software (e.g. hidden from Special:UnconnectedPages). There will also be support for manual redirects. [210]

Future changes

• The MediaWiki JavaScript documentation is moving to a new format. During the move, you can read the old docs using version 1.41. Feedback about the new site is welcome on the project talk page.
• The Wishathon is a new initiative that encourages collaboration across the Wikimedia community to develop solutions for wishes collected through the Community Wishlist Survey. The first community Wishathon will take place from 15–17 March. If you are interested in a project proposal as a user, developer, designer, or product lead, you can register for the event and read more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:18, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 December 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• Special report: Did the Chinese Communist Party send astroturfers to sabotage a hacktivist's Wikipedia article?

• News and notes: The Italian Public Domain wars continue, Wikimedia RU set to dissolve, and a recap of WLM 2023

• In the media: Consider the humble fork

• Discussion report: Arabic Wikipedia blackout; Wikimedians discuss SpongeBob, copyrights, and AI

• In focus: Liquidation of Wikimedia RU

• Technology report: Dark mode is coming

• Recent research: "LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less" with Wikidata

• Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols

• Comix: Lollus lmaois 200C tincture

• Crossword: when the crossword is sus

• Traffic report: What's the big deal? I'm an animal!

• From the editor: A piccy iz worth OVAR 9000!!!11oneone! wordz ^_^

• Apocrypha: Local editor discovered 1,380 lost subheadings in ancient Signpost scrolls. And what he found was shocking.

• Humour: Guess the joke contest

• BJAODN: Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense

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