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Sat Jan 25: Misplaced Pages Day NYC 2025

January 25: Misplaced Pages Day
You are invited to Misplaced Pages Day 2025, hosted by Wikimedia NYC at the Brooklyn Public Library's central branch. The special focus this year will be the launch of our "400 Neighborhoods" campaign for the city's 400th anniversary and WikiProject New York City/400 Task Force. We'll also have a lightning talks session and you're invited to sign up for one, though space is somewhat limited. Saturday, January 25, 2025 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Brooklyn Central Library, Grand Army Plaza Afterparty: 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm (off-site venue, TBA)
All attendees at Wikimedia NYC events are subject to the Wikimedia NYC Code of Conduct.

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--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:12, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

@ 2A02:8109:ABB6:BA00:FCCF:7FF:1097:2204 (talk) 21:35, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2025)

SAARC Region Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Entomology • Architect Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot 00:05, 6 January 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

Your bot, MusikBot II, has been removing protection templates for no reason.

Your bot has been removing the protection template (ecp template) at the page Tanti. It claims that it is not protected but it is indeed, protected indef by an administrator. Thank you. 🗽Freedoxm🗽(talk • contribs) 22:42, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure what happened here. The bot goes off of Category:Misplaced Pages pages with incorrect protection templates, so the article was first off incorrectly put into that category. I think this is because the template was added before protection was added. This would immediately put it in the maintenance category, and I guess after the page was protected, the job queue didn't catch up and remove the page from the category as it should have.

What's weirder though is the bot makes a live query to ensure the page is in fact protected. That by itself should have prevented this issue. So there's still a bug here. I am investigating. — MusikAnimal 21:04, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so much! 🗽Freedoxm🗽(talk • contribs) 21:05, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

also they have removed another protection template at Yoon Suk Yeol. 🗽Freedoxm🗽(talk • contribs) 05:02, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

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

Wool weaving shuttle, with pirn in middle Hello, MusikAnimal. 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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MediaWiki message delivery 01:39, 14 January 2025 (UTC)