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This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2025)

Wool weaving shuttle, with pirn in middle Hello, CFA. The article for improvement of the week is: Pirn Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation • Entomology Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot 00:05, 13 January 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

Tech News: 2025-03

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

Weekly highlight

• The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.

Updates for editors

• On wikis with PageAssessments installed, you can now filter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using the inproject: keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Misplaced Pages, English Misplaced Pages, English Wikivoyage, French Misplaced Pages, Hungarian Misplaced Pages, Nepali Misplaced Pages, Turkish Misplaced Pages, Chinese Misplaced Pages)
• One new wiki has been created: a Misplaced Pages in Tigre (w:tig:)
• View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.
• Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.
• For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in its sub field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13.
• Many wikis currently use Cite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to not clean up your MediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output.

Meetings and events

• The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation Community Conversations with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on January 15 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is defining the priorities in tool investment for Commons. Contributors from all wikis, especially users who are maintaining tools for Commons, are welcome to attend.

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Question from Theemausoliam (06:50, 16 January 2025)

Hello! I was reading the article on the "Salmon problem" (https://en.wikipedia.org/Salmon_problem) and noticed that it had lots of issues. Some of these were simple typos but some seemed to be issues with translation from sources in German. I fixed a few of the minor typos, but I suspect the typos and larger translation issues happened at the same time. I wanted to reword some sentences to what I *think* is trying to be said, but since I don't speak German, I can't really confirm my suspicions. This is a very interesting article with lots of potential, but I don't know if I can fix all of its issues on my own.

-Liam --Theemausoliam (talk) 06:50, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Bidenisms

Hello, CFA. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Bidenisms".

In accordance with our policy that Misplaced Pages is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thank you for your submission to Misplaced Pages! Vanderwaalforces (talk) 21:04, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

DYK for Burt (crocodile)

On 17 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Burt (crocodile), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that an Australian crocodile named Burt starred in Crocodile Dundee? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Burt (crocodile). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Burt (crocodile)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

1=Launchballer 00:03, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Question from NLA-Collections (08:49, 17 January 2025)

Hello CFA, I am concerned my article John Guest (researcher and author) may be deleted..This is my first article. I have given the article a hard edit. To be honest I have fumbled my way through the process. And I am.learning on the run so to speak. Are you able to take a look at it and offer practical suggestions? --NLA-Collections (talk) 08:49, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Misplaced Pages Newsletter #185 is out: Happy Misplaced Pages day! Quarterly planning

The first update of 2025 for Abstract Misplaced Pages and Wikifunctions is out. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we present our plan for the upcoming quarter (January-March 2025), we suggest changes to our "Function of the week" section, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 18:34, 17 January 2025 (UTC)