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Question from Eliane Aparecida Casagrande Fragoso (17:19, 16 August 2024)

Boa tarde! Sou de origem italiana e gosto muito da cultura desse país. Ouvindo as músicas italianas no Yutube, acabei ouvindo as músicas e a história que terminou em uma fatalidade…O casal Albano e Romina Carrisi- Power que tiveram a vida de sua filha mais velha interrompida por nada que está concreto. E o motivo pelo qual envio essa mensagem, é lembrar a nação italiana que hoje o mundo está unanimemente transformado. Sinto que se nós uníssemos contando com autoridades dos outros países, poderão encontrar Ylenia Carrisi que pode ter sofrido traumas neurológicos… hoje a medicina avançou e o mundo se uniu para o bem ao próximo. Vamos lutar e vamos procurar.( Não vamos desistir) senti em meu coração em deixar essas entrelinhas. Att: - Eliane Aparecida Casagrande Fragoso. --Eliane Aparecida Casagrande Fragoso (talk) 17:19, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-34

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

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  • Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
  • Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements.
  • Advanced item Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the categories property of mw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements.

Bugs status

  • Advanced item Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Misplaced Pages start with Talk:WP: so that their titles start with Misplaced Pages talk:), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388.
  • Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

  • The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.

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  • The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
  • The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.

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Question from George.barnes1945 (07:54, 24 August 2024)

Hello. are you a real person or a BOT? I am here NOW because I was trying to login to my existing account. Been here for many many years but not logging in. Donated etc. Just reading. 

    Found out - dont know where - that I could save pages access from different devices. I usually use my cell phone, but have dozens of computers in multiple locations.  Not relevant.

.. BUT did not know my user name or password. Bumbled around using my usual suspects, my Google passwords did have record. Tried your password reset which just never knew who I was. Refused to let me use my usual default username: George.barnes45 saying user already exists. ... too much irrelevant detail... 

   Slightly modified to George...1945 allowed me to create new setup account. 
   So what do I want.  MERGE any existing accounts. Save topics and pages I have save on my Cell phone to this account. Clean up mess. Dont want multiple accounts. Will confuse me by tomorrow. As obvious from 1945, I am 79 years old and dont want complication in what is left of my life. 
     Not relevant, but I may be 79 but not a dummy. I have a Ph.D in math, published, 35 years teaching University Math and was married to a University Provost. Your Wiki information notes seem to be purposely obscure like they were written by somebody in New Zealand. No offense intended. My wife was born in Minsk and got her doctorate in Christchurch. Will print this out, and toss it at her. --George.barnes1945 (talk) 07:54, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
Hi George.barnes1945! I'm a real person :)
So, there are a few things here:
  • Assuming you're referring to the "saved pages" list in the iOS mobile app, those are tied to your account and only available in the mobile app. On desktop, most browsers have easy ways to make bookmarks, which you can use instead.
  • If you've forgotten the password to your previous account (presumably George.barnes45, which was made ~5 years ago?), you can reset the password if you have an email attached. Without an email attached, you won't be able to reset the password.
While you're still logged in to your original account on your phone, it might be worth writing down the articles on your saved pages list. Then you can log into your current account and re-save those pages. I'm not sure if there's a better way to migrate saved lists from one account to another on mobile, but there is no way to merge Wikimedia accounts. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 23:42, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
@George.barnes1945, for questions about the iOS app, you can email ios-support@wikimedia.org. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 18:57, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from GenEli1L1 (15:57, 26 August 2024)

Hey! So I've done quite a bit of editing without an account, and now that I have one I'm going to continue, but I wanted to know when to add/remove red links. And I also was under the impression that places get linked the first time they show up in the page, but I'm 100% sure that is the case. Thank you. --GenEli1L1 (talk) 15:57, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi GenEli1L1! Welcome :)
This guide page on red links has the most specific information, but the short version is: you can link topics that should have articles but currently do not. For example, red links would not be useful for topics that don't meet the notability guideline, because an article shouldn't be created about that topic.
You're correct that topics get linked the first time they show up in the page/major section. There are some exceptions, like in citations or infoboxes. (or were you referring to geographic places?) Best, Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 16:27, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
By info boxes you mean the thing in the top right, not the part at the top that summarizes the entire article...right? GenEli1L1 (talk) 16:43, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
@GenEli1L1: Yep! The top-right box, on the articles that have one, is an infobox. The summary bit at the top is usually called a lead. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 21:22, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2024-35

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  • Advanced item Administrators can now test the temporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
  • Later this week, editors at wikis that use FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface.

Bugs status

  • Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, will no longer experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

  • Wishlist item Please review and vote on Focus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
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Question from GenEli1L1 (23:48, 26 August 2024)

I feel like i'm asking a lot of questions, but when I do the citations, what does it mean by ref. group, ref. name, or the ref with the little question mark in the top. --GenEli1L1 (talk) 23:48, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

@GenEli1L1: No worries re: asking a lot of questions! That's what I signed up for :P
  • ref group: as you've noticed, articles have in-line citations that show up in a big list ("References") at the bottom. Sometimes we'll want to add in-line notes that are clarifications rather than references, and these can be differentiated (and shown in separate lists) with ref groups.
  • ref name: reference names allow us to define a source once and cite it in that article as many times as we need.
  • Not sure what you mean by question mark, can you link to an example?
  • As a note: when it comes to citing sources, we try to cite them in-line, generally at the end of the sentence they support. This helps both readers and other editors quickly find which source is being used to support which claims in the article.
Also, I see you're editing American Civil War articles, which is awesome! As a fun fact, my only good article is Charles Mattocks, who was a Colonel in the Union Army. And for future questions, while I'm more than happy to continue talking on my talk page, if it'd be easier I'm also on Discord and a few other platforms. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 01:03, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from GenEli1L1 (19:56, 27 August 2024)

what do the + green thingys and the -red thingys next to my edits mean (https://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Contributions/GenEli1L1). --GenEli1L1 (talk) 19:56, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

@GenEli1L1: they're the change in the number of bytes of the page, which is basically the number of characters added or removed. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 01:59, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2024-36

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Weekly highlight

  • Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Misplaced Pages. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help to test the charts.

Feature news

  • Editors who use the Special:UnusedTemplates page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements.
  • Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
  • Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now.
  • Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu.

Project updates

  • A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.

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Question from Tiel xx (23:45, 3 September 2024)

I want to publish my article --Tiel xx (talk) 23:45, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-37

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  • Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page.
  • Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions entity:getSitelink() and mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking.

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  • Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
  • Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new MOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with MOS: (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Misplaced Pages (language code mos).

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Question from Lotetree99 (04:49, 12 September 2024)

Hi there, I wanted to do a page for AbudQudoos Azhari, but seen a page that has been made but has yet to be uploaded to Wiki. I did some changes to it, can it go live?

https://en.wikipedia.org/Draft:Abdul_Quddoos_Al-Azhari --Lotetree99 (talk) 04:49, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2024-38

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Improvements and Maintenance

  • Wishlist item Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.
  • The new automated Special:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements.
  • References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Misplaced Pages article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed.
  • It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order.
  • Advanced item Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
  • Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes mw-message-box need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer cdx-message group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best.

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  • Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible.

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Question from Shaji Civiyadhen (14:24, 22 September 2024)

how can I upload my profile photo >? --Shaji Civiyadhen (talk) 14:24, 22 September 2024 (UTC)