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Backlog update:
The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to
Schminnte
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Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to
JTtheOG
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Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the
May backlog drive planning discussion
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It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!
2023 Awards
Onel5969
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Hey man im josh
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WMF work on PageTriage:
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WMF Moderator Tools team
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Special:NewPagesFeed
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- Web browsers can use tools called
extensions
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Citation Needed
which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
- A new
Edit Recovery
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user preference
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project talk page
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- Initial results of
Edit check
experiments
have been published
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the wikis that tested it
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Let us know
if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check.
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Minerva skin
on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings.
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new version
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calendar
).
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visual editor
as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia.
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Problems
- Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using
Flagged Revisions
, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed.
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- The
new version
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calendar
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[15]
- Default category sort keys
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footnotes
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page_last_edit_age
will be added to
abuse filters
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temporary accounts
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- Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including
Quarry
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abuse_filter
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abuse_filter_history
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- The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test
gave positive results
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in user preferences
("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks.
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- Seven new wikis have been created:
- You can now
watch message groups/projects
on
Translatewiki.net
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- Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the
advanced mode
. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to
check for accessibility issues on wikis
. See
more detailed guidelines
.
Problems
- Kartographer
maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using
mapstyle="osm"
. This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed.
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new version
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calendar
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Recent changes
- The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (
a few
have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes
on
Diff
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in user preferences
("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks.
[35]
[36]
- Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the
SiteAdminHelper
. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found
at the extension's page
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new version
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calendar
).
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- When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs".
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Recent changes
- On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word
__EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__
to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list.
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- If you use the
user-preference
"Show preview without reloading the page", then the template-page feature "Preview page with this template (
what's this?
)" will now also work without reloading the page.
[44]
- Kartographer
maps can now specify an alternative text via the
alt=
attribute. This is identical in usage to the
alt=
attribute in the
image and gallery syntax
. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive.
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- The old
Guided Tour
for the "
New Filters for Edit Review
" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people.
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- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (
calendar
).
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- The
Special:Search
results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure.
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Future changes
- In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022.
Learn more
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- Two columns of the
pagelinks
database table (
pl_namespace
and
pl_title
) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new
linktarget
table instead (
lt_namespace
and
lt_title
). In your existing SQL queries:
- Replace
JOIN pagelinks
with
JOIN linktarget
and
pl_
with
lt_
in the
ON
statement
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JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
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Recent changes
- The
Nuke
feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title.
[53]
- New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description.
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new version
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calendar
).
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- The HTML used to render all headings
is being changed to improve accessibility
. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and
report any related problems
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Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles
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Recent changes
- Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, see
T365107
and
T365119
.
- In March 2024 a new
addPortlet
API was added to allow gadgets to create new portlets (menus) in the skin. In certain skins this can be used to create dropdowns. Gadget developers are invited to try it and
give feedback
.
- Some CSS in the Minerva skin has been removed to enable easier community configuration. Interface editors should check the rendering on mobile devices for aspects related to the classes:
.collapsible
,
.multicol
,
.reflist
,
.coordinates
,
.topicon
.
Further details are available on replacement CSS
if it is needed.
Changes later this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (
calendar
).
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- When you visit a wiki where you don't yet have a local account, local rules such as edit filters can sometimes prevent your account from being created. Starting this week, MediaWiki takes your global rights into account when evaluating whether you can override such local rules.
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Recent changes
- It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript.
Documentation is available
.
[61]
- The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "
MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category
" to "
MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category
".
[62]
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in
Kadazandusun
(
w:dtp:
)
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- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (
calendar
).
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Future changes
- Next week, on wikis with the Vector 2022 skin as the default, logged-out desktop users will be able to choose between different font sizes. The default font size will also be increased for them. This is to make Wikimedia projects easier to read.
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Recent changes
- The software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering.
[66]
- The HTML used to render all headings
is being changed to improve accessibility
. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and
report any related problems
so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a
Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles
if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
- The HTML markup used for citations by
Parsoid
changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the
mw-reference-text
class, Parsoid now also adds the
reference-text
class for better compatibility with the legacy parser.
More details are available
.
[67]
Problems
- There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed.
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Changes later this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (
calendar
).
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- The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations:
Parsoid
will now generate a
<span class="mw-cite-backlink">
wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup.
More details are available
.
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- On multilingual wikis that use the
<translate>
system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community
requests it
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