User talk:Jarekt/2023

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Prośba o pomoc

Czy mógłbyś pokierować rozwiązaniem tego problemu? Zdjęcie jako legitymacyjne nie jest przedmiotem PA, więc chyba może zostać, ale poprawnie opisane, a nie jak jest teraz. File:Zygmunt Wilczkowski, aktor polski, syn Wacława Michała, 1877-1964.jpg. Pozdrawiam. Ciacho5 (talk) 18:00, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

Ciacho5, Poprawiłem troche opis ale co do licencji to nie jestem pewien. W prawie polskim ani EU nie ma chyba nic na temat legitymacyjnych zdjęć. Jeśli zdjecie było opublikowane przed 1953 rokiem to można użyć {{PD-anon-70-EU}} a jesli byly opublikowane w Polsce to może {{PD-Polish}}. Ale jeśli nic wiecej nie wiadomo na temat zdjecia to nie ma dowodu na domenę publiczna. Pozdrawiam. --Jarekt (talk) 02:35, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
Jest jakiś pogląd, że zdjęcie legitymacyjne/paszportowe, jako zrobione według ścisłego przepisu, bez miejsca na inwencję własną fotografa, nie jest dziełem artystycznym czy coś takiego i nie jest chroniony prawem. Nie korzystam z tego, ale kiedyś się z taką opinią (na jakimś zlocie Wikipedystów chyba) spotkałem i widzę to jako szansę dla takich zdjęć. Ciacho5 (talk) 16:58, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
Ciacho5, Tez się kiedys z tym spotkałem ale chodziło o niemieckie zdjęcia podlegające niemieckiemu prawu. Nie widzę w Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Poland nic na ten temat. Czy wiesz jaki to byl szablon? --Jarekt (talk) 02:55, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
  • Nie wiem. Nie zajmuję się, ładuję tylko własnoręcznie zrobione zdjęcia. Niemniej słyszałem taką opinię, jak też i opinię, że ta opinia jest do podważenia przez prawników). Ciacho5 (talk) 14:09, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-02

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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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Tech News: 2023-03

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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 Commons talk:. They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including Commons: 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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Delete Revision Request

These revisions are really offensive, please delete it:

--121.202.148.136 22:59, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Rembertów COA

Hi Jarek, we have received the following request on pl-Wiki. Mr Piotr Stanisławski has sent us a proper COA. I've uploaded it and exchanged everywhere for a proper one. Do you think you can delete it to avoid future confussion? It seems it is a terrible OR. Thank you. Boston9 (talk) 20:32, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Boston9, Copyright issues related to COAs are a mess. Per Commons:Coats_of_arms specific images of COAs created by others are copyrighted, however what is in the law is a loose description of the COA, which is in PD. So we do not use images found on the internet but draw something similar that meets the description found in law (tak zwane w:pl:Blazonowanie). That is what User:WarX did when he draw File:POL gmina Rembertów COA.svg. If there were changes in the description or if our rendition does not match the description than our version should be altered. {{PD-PolishGov}} does no apply to COAs (images) only to descriptions. Some countries have templates like {{PD-Coa-Germany}}, when their law allows them, but Poland does not. File:HERB Rembertowa 2023.jpg could stay if it is known who draw it, and if that person sends permission to OTRS. A better way would be to find who on polish wiki works with COAs, like User:WarX did a decade ago. Sorry to be a bearer of bad news.--Jarekt (talk) 03:16, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-04

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  • 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]

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  • 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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Tech News: 2023-05

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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).

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  • 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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Photo Challenge January 2023

Hallo Jarekt - for your info : January 2023 is missing completely (for voting). Best regards from Cologne : Michael Gordito1869 (talk) 12:00, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-06

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  • 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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Tech News: 2023-07

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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 01:46, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Commons:Photo challenge/2023 - February - Handles

Commons:Photo challenge/2023 - February - Handles has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.

If you created this project page, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it.

Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!
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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

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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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 23:45, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

YGM

Hello, Jarekt. Check your email—you've got mail!
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{YGM}} template.

Zhuyifei1999 (talk) 13:38, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

I am not very familiar with proceedings here, but I also sent you an e-mail, Jarekt.Thanks for coming back to me. Spreekucker (talk) 01:58, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-10

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  • 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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MediaWiki message delivery 23:47, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Voting February-23

Good morning Jarekt, please check Voting February/23 ... both challenges don't work (like this one). - Best regards : Gordito1869 (talk) 07:54, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Category:Artworks with Wikidata item missing image

Hi Jarek, do you still empty that one out every once in a while? Plenty of edits possible now. Multichill (talk) 20:44, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Beware of some of the false positives by the way. Multichill (talk) 21:18, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
Probably best to disable all the artwork logic if you encounter DPLA subject term (P4272). Multichill (talk) 21:26, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
Multichill, I was trying to figure out how the File:Martha and Franklin Nickerson and friends of Whitman County, Washington, circa 1885 - DPLA - 5121d19c20d1e1c58b334d1ef38b85a9.jpg got connected to Portrait Photographs (MoMA exhibition) (Q110891521), as the file does not seem to depict that exhibit. I think the file has wrong main subject (P921) and than the LUA code incorrectly connects the file to that item using P921. I though the code was supposed to only connect artworks to items using P921. Do you know how to prevent such connection? --Jarekt (talk) 00:54, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

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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MediaWiki message delivery 23:17, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Opinion...

OmegaFallon thinks that Template:I18n/manufacturer should not be in translation because it is just a single word. I agree with them and I have discouraged the translation while undoing their edit. Asking you here because you have had created this page several years ago. ─ The Aafī (talk) 17:17, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

@OmegaFallon and TheAafi: , I think this page is no longer needed and it does not seem the be used. Currently single words translations come from Wikidata, for example manufacturer (P176). --Jarekt (talk) 18:01, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
so why not just delete it? ─ The Aafī (talk) 18:17, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
On that note, there's actually a bunch of such templates that don't which I recently switched over. Seems like something we should be doing a lot more often. OmegaFallon (talk) 18:57, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
templates which don't use Wikidata items for labels when they could, I mean. OmegaFallon (talk) 18:58, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
OmegaFallon, I switched the template to wikidata based translation. I did a mass conversion of many templates like that 7 years ago, changing templates like {{Paris}}, etc. but I guess there are still some templates using {{LangSwitch}} or translation extension. --Jarekt (talk) 23:26, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
Yup, mostly prefix i18n ones. I think I got most of them, though. OmegaFallon (talk) 23:35, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-12

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Problems

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

Changes later this week

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Question about saving lexeme IDs for translations

Now that Lua access to lexemes is finally possible since some while I've started some preliminary considerations to actually use it for translations. Since finding a lexemes connected to Wikidata items with the item for this sense (P5137) isn't available (cf. phab:T294637#7688057) I'm thinking about the best way to save these links here. For {{Technique}} I've created this tabular data for testing purposes. But I think it would make sense to establish a workflow not only for this template, as other templates have a similar situation and could use the same code to create and read such item–lexeme mapping data. That's why I'm asking. Is it a good idea to use tabular data for that? And do you think to data structure used by the tabular data test table is a good choice? Do you have any thoughts for improvement? Thanks in advance, --Marsupium (talk) 19:03, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Marsupium The big advantage of tabular data is that all the projects reach back to a single copy of it on Commons. That way if you move your lua code to 50 projects than they all rely on a single translation instead of having to maintain individual translations. That might be useful for {{Technique}}, but I am not sure it it will be ported to other projects. Disadvantages of tabular data is hard to find, read and alter, so few people will touch it. Your Data:Test.tab seems hard to read as it lacks comments, so I would add a comment column, which will not be used otherwise except to help humans. As for using lexmes, I have not tried them yet, so I do not have much knowlege about them. --Jarekt (talk) 12:44, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

File:Mazovia.svg

Cześć. Ta grafika najpewniej łamie prawo autorskie. Nie jest to herb, a promocyjne logo. Kształty bynajmniej nie są proste, to twórcza praca liternicza. Tobie chyba łatwiej byłoby napisać odpowiednie uzasadnienie przy zgłoszeniu. Z góry dziękuję. Sławek Borewicz (talk) 05:46, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Nadpisywanie plików

Generalnie nadpisywanie plików wersją z innego źródła, tym bardziej bez zmiany źródła w opisie plików, jest sprzeczne z Commons:CROP. W szczególności łamie to zasadę nienadpisywania "✘ Different files relating to the exact same object (building, statue, etc)". Co prawda dzieło malarskie jest dwuwymiarowe, w przeciwieństwie do np. rzeźby, ale fotografia może zostać wykonana innym sprzętem, innymi ustawieniami tegoż, etc. Zastanawiam się nad tym czy to jest prawidłowe działanie. Matlin (talk) 14:37, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Nie jestem pewien o którym pliku mowa. Przypuszczalnie, jeden z plików w artykule pl:Lista dzieł malarskich Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewicza, gdzie ala każdej z okolo 2k prac Witkacego próbuje znaleźć najlepszej jakości grafikę, czasami nadpisując ten sam plik 4-5 razy. Jednak chyba zawsze podaje źródło nowej wersji. --Jarekt (talk) 00:06, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-13

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  • 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]

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  • 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).

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Templates and alternative names

<me> [[Creator:François Boucher]] - is there a reason that the "alternative names" field on this one is full of Cyrillic?
<AntiComposite> I don't have a confident answer, but if I had to guess I'd probably blame the number of other names on Wikidata
<AntiComposite> I'd suggest asking Jarekt DS (talk) 18:29, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

@DragonflySixtyseven and AntiComposite: That is quite odd. The intention of the code was to not show any aliases since English has more than 8, but something goes wrong and Russian aliases are show. I will test it some more tomorrow. --Jarekt (talk) 04:16, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
Fixed I found a bug in the Module:Creator code that was causing that issue. Thanks for reporting. --Jarekt (talk) 12:25, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-14

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  • 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]

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  • 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]

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Template:Heritage information from SDC

In the spirit of "do it wrong and someone will correct you" I created {{Heritage information from SDC}} and included it in some heritage templates. See for example File:Oudezijds Achterburgwal 69 and 71 top.JPG and File:Burlingame caltrain station.JPG. Want to help improve it? Multichill (talk) 17:43, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

Licensing intermezzo

Not to weigh in on the template itself, but now the image has a CC BY-SA 2.0 and CC BY-SA 3.0, which I assume is wrong. I was going to fix it by removing the CC BY-SA 2.0 license, since I assume that was what it was uploaded as, but aren't they irrevocable? If so, I'm at a lose to if that includes changing the license to another one that's also CC BY-SA. So, I thought I'd just leave it up to you to deal with. I don't think it should have two different license though. --Adamant1 (talk) 18:06, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
Adamant1, multiple CC license might not look pretty, but they are actually quite common and there is nothing to fix. We do not change licenses on existing files. --Jarekt (talk) 19:20, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
So is it CC BY-SA 2.0 or CC BY-SA 3.0 licensed then or does it not really matter? --Adamant1 (talk) 19:58, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
It's GFDL, CC BY-SA 3.0 & CC BY-SA 2.0. A re-user can choose. Multichill (talk) 16:59, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Back to Template:Heritage information from SDC

I created {{Heritage information from SDC}} to make information in SDC more visible and to get derived information into the search index.

Multichill (talk) 16:59, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Focusing on location of creation, see {{Location/sandbox}} and Commons_talk:Structured_data#Location_of_creation. What do you think? I did it in template code, but do you think that's something that can be integrated in the LUA code? Multichill (talk) 22:26, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
@Multichill: One thing I would flag, is that for any template drawing from SDC, it should be possible for users who only know wikitext (or only want to work in wikitext) to either over-ride what is in the SDC (which should possibly also trigger a maintenance category), and to be able to add additional information to what is drawn from SDC.
I'd suggest that there is an issue with the current Geograph templates that it is not so obvious how to do either of these things. A wikitext 'additional information' field on that template in particular would be very useful. Jheald (talk) 09:15, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
@Multichill: , I will look into Template:Heritage information from SDC now. --Jarekt (talk) 02:08, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
Can you review these changes and deploy it?
This will add Category:Files with coordinates missing SDC location of creation to files which do have coordinates, but don't have location of creation (P1071).
For the Netherlands I'm doing a pilot where I divide it up in one by one degree categories like for example Category:Files with coordinates missing SDC location of creation (52° N, 4°E). If that works well, we can enable it for a larger region. Multichill (talk) 17:25, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Category:Lithographs by century

Hello, could you explain to me how could people produce lithographic prints before 1796 ? Where did you get this ? I can't find any kind of references. Regards Marc-AntoineV (talk) 08:28, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Marc-AntoineV, I do not know much about lithographs. If you are looking for information or references about the process I would suggest en:Talk:Lithography or the article. I am not one of the authors of that article and I do not think I ever claimed that there are pre-1796 lithographs. I can imagine that if you find pre-1796 files claiming to be lithographs, than you know that either the date or the printing process is not correct. --Jarekt (talk) 03:10, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for your answer. I didn't write that you claimed there are lithographs before 1798. I just noticed that you created categories for 16th and 17th centuries. Which should be cancelled. Because I don't know how to cancel its. Lithographs emerged in Europe at the very end of the 18th century, that is for sure. Regards, --Marc-AntoineV (talk) 05:16, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
Marc-AntoineV I did not created Category:16th-century lithographs or Category:17th-century lithographs, but I can delete them. I agree they are not needed. --Jarekt (talk) 01:52, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
Jarekt Thanks for yout help. Regards, --Marc-AntoineV (talk) 06:25, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

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  • 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]

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  • 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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  • 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]

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  • 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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  • 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]

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  • 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).

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Tech News: 2023-18

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  • 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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Tech News: 2023-19

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  • 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]

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  • 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]

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Elon Musk

Vi Văn Khoa Chàng Trai Tài phiệt Sinh Năm 2008 hiện mới độ tuổi 16 nhưng anh đã Có khối tài sản kết xì Hanhuy2 (talk) 02:05, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2023-20

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  • 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

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Tech News: 2023-21

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  • 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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Tech News: 2023-22

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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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Tech News: 2023-23

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  • 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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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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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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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]

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Photo of Michał Kołodziejczak

Hi Jarek, do you think you could help me out with this? He keeps reverting my pic to the poorer, undeveloped version. Jacek Halicki worked on my RAW upon my request and did a great job. This is exactly the same photo. Thanks! Boston9 (talk) 19:29, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

Boston9 sorry I was on vacation. It seems like the editwar stabilized, so unless it flares up again I would let it be. That said, why not upload the original as a separate file if it is an issue for some? --Jarekt (talk) 20:15, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

Possibly weird edits

Hi Jarek, I do not want to sound alarmist. But some possibly weird edits have occurred on this page. I still do not know why file names were changed and why some files were removed (one was my contribution). Going through the recent history, I see there were some more deletions/modifications made by the same user. Since it's a contest page of June, I do not know what's the right approach to handle this situation. Your help/feedback will be appreciated. John Samuel (talk) 10:39, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-27

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  • 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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MediaWiki message delivery 22:49, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Need your input on a policy impacting gadgets and UserJS

Dear interface administrator,

This is Samuel from the Security team and I hope my message finds you well.

There is an ongoing discussion on a proposed policy governing the use of external resources in gadgets and UserJS. The proposed Third-party resources policy aims at making the UserJS and Gadgets landscape a bit safer by encouraging best practices around external resources. After an initial non-public conversation with a small number of interface admins and staff, we've launched a much larger, public consultation to get a wider pool of feedback for improving the policy proposal. Based on the ideas received so far, the proposed policy now includes some of the risks related to user scripts and gadgets loading third-party resources, best practices for gadgets and UserJS developers, and exemptions requirements such as code transparency and inspectability.

As an interface administrator, your feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome until July 17, 2023 on the policy talk page.

Have a great day!

Samuel (WMF), on behalf of the Foundation's Security team 23:02, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

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  • 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.

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  • 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]
  • Special:LinkSearch and its API counterparts will now search for all of the URL provided in the query. It used to be only the first 60 characters. This feature was requested fifteen years ago. [120]

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]
  • There is an ongoing discussion on a proposed Third-party resources policy. The proposal will impact the use of third-party resources in gadgets and userscripts. Based on the ideas received so far, policy includes some of the risks related to user scripts and gadgets loading third-party resources, some best practices and exemption requirements such as code transparency and inspectability. Your feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome until July 17, 2023 on on the policy talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:51, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

FP Promotion
★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★

The image File:Crack climbing in Indian Creek, Utah.jpg, that you uploaded is now assessed as one of the finest pictures on Wikimedia Commons, the nomination is available at Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Crack climbing in Indian Creek, Utah.jpg. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate, please do so at this nomination page.

/FPCBot (talk) 21:01, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-29

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  • 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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MediaWiki message delivery 23:06, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

What's going on here?

This seems like a really weird edit, and with no summary. Is it intentional? If I saw this from a less experienced user, I would have assumed vandalism & reverted it. - Jmabel ! talk 23:50, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Actually, looking again: it has to be wrong, because not only did you revive a bunch of old discussions, you also killed all the current ones. I'll revert, then you can do again whatever you meant to do. - Jmabel ! talk 23:52, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

{{License from structured data}}

Is it okay to start using {{License from structured data}} on a large number of pages? I incorporated it into {{DPLA metadata}}—which is able to display all DPLA fields except for two now—and I'd like to start doing replacements soon like this one. I have my template working for all cases in the DPLA files, but I didn't want to start applying it widely without checking with you first. Dominic (talk) 01:35, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

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  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 July. It will be on all wikis from 27 July (calendar).

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Tech News: 2023-31

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  • 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]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar).
  • 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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Tech News: 2023-32

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  • Mobile Web editors can now edit a whole page at once. To use this feature, turn on "⧼Mobile-frontend-mobile-option-amc⧽" in your settings and use the "Edit full page" button in the "More" menu. [129]

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  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:18, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-33

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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]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Latin Wikipedia, Ladino Wikipedia, Luxembourgish Wikipedia, Lak Wikipedia, Lezghian Wikipedia, Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia, Ganda Wikipedia, Limburgish Wikipedia, Ligurian Wikipedia, Lombard Wikipedia, Lingala Wikipedia, Latgalian Wikipedia, Latvian Wikipedia, Maithili Wikipedia, Basa Banyumasan Wikipedia, Moksha Wikipedia, Malagasy Wikipedia, Armenian Wikipedia, Kyrgyz Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [131]

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MediaWiki message delivery 05:57, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

Category:Piri Reis, Kitab-ı Bahriye (Walters MS 658)

Hi, There is a copy of this work with much higher resolution on File:Ottoman Manuscript Atlas, by Piri Reis (W658 000001).jpg (davidrumsey.com). I started downloading and converting images to JPEG (they are on JPEG2000 format there), when I noticed the files uploaded by Kaldari, who is inactive now. Is there a way to avoid uploading duplicates? I contact you since you created this category. Thanks, Yann (talk) 21:27, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

Yann, The history of the category was that in 2012 Kaldari, me and couple other people worked together with Walters museum staff to upload their entire digitized collection, see Commons:Walters Art Museum. Kaldari was doing uploads and I was fixing metadata. I am not sure what is David Rumsey Historical Map Collection and how it relates to Walters Art Museum collection. It is quite common to have multiple version of the same artwork, but it would be good to have the same description. Commons software can detect attempts to upload binary identical images, but I do not know how to avoid uploading different resolution images of the same object. --Jarekt (talk) 19:43, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks for answering. This is the same document, as it is mentioned on David Rumsey's website (images are also numbered W658 for Walters MS 658. But the resolution is much higher and there are more available pages. Yann (talk) 20:06, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
I uploaded the whole work. Yann (talk) 20:49, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
Yann, great. The old category only had illustrations while yours the whole thing. --Jarekt (talk) 06:35, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

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  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).

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15:22, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Module:PermissionTicket

Dear Jarekt, please see: File:Joelibby 2016 angry-arty-300-1.jpg. Why does the VRTS link render to "https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketID=2023081010001458" while "TicketID" doesn't appear at all in the module, and the correct parameter was TicketNumber? --Krd 13:55, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Krd, it is related to resent changes from external to internal style links in Template:PermissionTicket/en and other similar templates. User:Lucas Werkmeister, I fixed Template:PermissionTicket/en but similar correction will have to be made in other language subtemplates. Can you fix those? I am at the traveling at the moment and might be offline for couple days. --Jarekt (talk) 19:27, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
It looks like already done. Thank you! Krd 16:11, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
Yeah, I did a few replacements of the translated pages after seeing this explanation above. Hopefully it will be fixed now :) --Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 20:58, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
Thank you both! Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 17:50, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-35

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  • As part of the changes for the better diff handling of paragraph splits, improved detection of splits is being rolled out. Over the last two weeks, we deployed this support to group0 and group1 wikis. This week it will be deployed to group2 wikis. [142]
  • All Special:Contributions pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. [143]
  • Wikisource users can now use the prpbengalicurrency label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the <pagelist> tag. [144]
  • Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "Enable the visual editor" is now shown on the "Editing" tab at all wikis. Previously it was shown on the "Beta features" tab at some wikis. The preference "Use the wikitext mode inside the visual editor, instead of a different wikitext editor" is now also shown on the "Editing" tab at all wikis, instead of the "Beta features" tab. [145][146]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar).
  • New signups for a Wikimedia developer account will start being pushed towards idm.wikimedia.org, rather than going via Wikitech. Further information about the new system is available.
  • All right-to-left language wikis, plus Korean, Armenian, Ukrainian, Russian, and Bulgarian Wikipedias, will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. This feature will come to more wikis in future weeks. [147]

Future changes

  • 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.
  • A proposal has been made to merge the second hidden-categories list (which appears below the wikitext editing form) with the main list of categories (which is further down the page). More information is available on Phabricator; feedback is welcome!

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MediaWiki message delivery 13:58, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Zmiana dla konkursu WLZ

Cześć. Mam prośbę. Czy mógłbyś zmienić nazwę parametru. Przez jakąś zaszłość to miał być ID z bazy, ale teraz podajemy tam Q z Wikidanych.

Coś takiego powinno być OK:

Nr zabytku w Wikidanych (Q...)

Pozdrawiam, Nux (talk··dyskusja) 16:00, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Nux który to szablon to używa? A może Kreator przesyłania plików (typu wlm-pl) to używa? Ja chętnie zmienie ale chce sie upewnić że nie uszkodzę istniejacych stron. --Jarekt (talk) 19:07, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
Tak, używa tego formularz kampanijny (startujemy za tydzień z hakiem). Tutaj jest nowa wersja mapki: https://zabytki.toolforge.org/#!?c=52.2321:21.0067:15 (stworzona pierwotnie przez Yarla). Po kliknięciu na jeden z linków „prześlij” dostajesz URL ze wstępnie wypełnionymi danymi. Url zawiera id, w którym jest Q. To co jest wpisane w id trafia potem jako parametr szablonu {{Zabytek nieruchomy}}. Nux (talk··dyskusja) 07:34, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
Nux Przepraszam zapomnialem o tej rozmowie. Poprawilem nazwę parametru, ale na stronie Kampanii. --Jarekt (talk) 02:54, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

User talk:Jarekt/2023#{{License from structured data}}

I was just wondering if you saw this question from a few weeks ago? I just wanted to make sure to check in with you before using this template across many pages. Dominic (talk) 19:34, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Dominic, I did see it, but did not had time that day, and than I forgot. Sorry about it. Module:License which if the backbone of {{License from structured data}} as I recall is stable and I am not working on it at the moment. It supports only limited number of licenses and relies to some degree on license related wikidata items to be set up correctly, so there is a danger that someone can cause large number of licenses to disappear by deleting key property from an key item. I would also test it for each license type. --Jarekt (talk) 04:08, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
Right now, I really only need standard CC licenses. Here is my full list of possible DPLA rights values where I look up the Qid for SDC based on URI (not all of which would ever be uploaded to Commons, of course). It would maybe be useful to have a fallback condition in case there is an unrecognized case, if there isn't already. With a category that could be monitored, too.

The only cases I know aren't covered by the template currently (and so I have built in exceptions for them) are RightsStatements.org statement according to source website (P6426) No Copyright - United States (Q47530911) -> {{NoC-US}} and RightsStatements.org statement according to source website (P6426) No Known Copyright (Q47530955) -> {{NKC}}. It would be great if the template could support the rights statement property—these are the only two statements really compatible with Commons, except for edge cases. They require a P195 statement as well, since a rights statement is applied by an institution, not Commons editors. I can still go ahead even if it only supports CC for now, though. Dominic (talk) 15:51, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

Powazne lamanie prywatnosci naszego obywatela przez wikicholote pospolita odwieczna!

Pisalam ci 2 razy a ty nic! Ciezko odpisac i dac paprcie? -Wanda 102.184.211.93 21:17, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

Oszczegam cie ostatni raz... nie ignoruj tego problemu, bo bedzie tobie i calej wikipedii "encycklopedii" a r ch've.is/Y'0'B;B bedize na wieki wiekow zle... chcesz tez zeby twoje imie bylo smiec? obiecuj mi ze na moj email odpiszesz i zalatwisz problem a napewno masz kumpla polskiego z commons ktory da ci wsparcie.

Jestem starsza osoba a masz tylko dzisiaj zeby dales mi pozytywna odpowiedz i pokazales troche szacunku ktorej wikimedia foundation misinformation disinformation wogole nie ma!

ritualabuse.us/riLtualabuse/articles/wikipedia-has-a-long-history-of-problems/ AND GROWING EXPONENTIALLY EVERY DAY!!!

JA CI GNOJU/GNOJKU POKAZE (GDZIE PIEPSZ ROSNIE) ZE BEDZIESZ CYTOWANY W LAWSUIT VS WMF z raymond I INNA CHOLOTA POSPOLITA OVERSIGHTERS ZBEDNI KTORZY SWEJ POWINNOSCI NIE ROBIA I NAPEWNO NA WIEKI WIEKOW BEDZIECIE PAMIETANI JAKO NIE PRZEBACZALNE WIKISMIECI!!!!

jarekt, Typowy polski wikiZdrajca, na wieki wiekow pluc na takiego gnoja i na jego pamiec!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tech News: 2023-36

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Problems

  • The LoginNotify extension was not sending notifications since January. It has now been fixed, so going forward, you may see notifications for failed login attempts, and successful login attempts from a new device. [152]

Changes later this week

  • 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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Tech News: 2023-37

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  • ORES, the revision evaluation service, is now using a new open-source infrastructure on all wikis except for English Wikipedia and Wikidata. These two will follow this week. If you notice any unusual results from the Recent Changes filters that are related to ORES (for example, "Contribution quality predictions" and "User intent predictions"), please report them. [155]
  • When you are logged in on one Wikimedia wiki and visit a different Wikimedia wiki, the system tries to log you in there automatically. This has been unreliable for a long time. You can now visit the login page to make the system try extra hard. If you feel that made logging in better or worse than it used to be, your feedback is appreciated. [156]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
  • The Technical Decision-Making Forum Retrospective team invites anyone involved in the technical field of Wikimedia projects to signup to and join one of their listening sessions on 13 September. Another date will be scheduled later. The goal is to improve the technical decision-making processes.
  • 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]

Future changes

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 20 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [158]
  • The Enterprise API is launching a new feature called "breaking news". Currently in BETA, this attempts to identify likely "newsworthy" topics as they are currently being written about in any Wikipedia. Your help is requested to improve the accuracy of its detection model, especially on smaller language editions, by recommending templates or identifiable editing patterns. See more information at the documentation page on MediaWiki or the FAQ on Meta.

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Tech News: 2023-38

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  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar).
  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [161]
  • All wikis will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. [162]

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Tech News: 2023-39

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  • 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]

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:49, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

PWPW logos for deletion

Prośba o przyspieszenie usunięcia plików.

Cześć, w lipcu opublikowałem cztery wersje logo Polskiej Wytwórni Papierów Wartościowych popełniając błąd, ponieważ nie były one na wolnej licencji, na co zwrócił mi uwagę Boston9, mimo iż są one dostępne do pobrania na oficjalnej stronie PWPW (link). Boston9 zgłosił wtedy do usunięcia tylko jeden z plików (został usunięty). Napisałem również do PWPW z zapytaniem o wyjaśnienie na jakiej licencji opublikowali logo na swojej stronie. We wrześniu otrzymałem odpowiedź z prośbą o usunięcie pozostałych trzech plików z repozytorium. Byłbym wdzięczny gdybyś mógł mi pomóc i przyspieszyć ich skasowanie i tym samym pomóc mi naprawić moje błędy. Poniżej linki do zgłoszeń:

Pozdrawiam — Antoni12345 (talk) 23:06, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Antoni12345, ✓ Załatwione --Jarekt (talk) 03:15, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
Dziękuje bardzo! Antoni12345 (talk) 14:45, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

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  • 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.

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  • 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).

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:24, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Challenge beach 2023/09

Hello Jarekt, is there any chance to eliminate double entries in the challenges? Or do any rules prevent this? I believe that the two double entries of 'Long Strand Beach' and 'Sheep Cove' were not done intentionally. As there are no votes yet, this could be changed without disturbing any sorting. Greetings, --PtrQs (talk) 13:33, 6 October 2023 (UTC).

PtrQs ✓ Done thanks for letting me know.--Jarekt (talk) 02:35, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

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  • 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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Template:SDC statement or Module:SDC tracking not working for Preferred Ranks

Hi Jarekt, could I ask you to look into the following case:

Happy to hear your thoughts. --Schlurcher (talk) 10:28, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

Schlurcher, I got your message but did not have a chance to look into it yet. --Jarekt (talk) 03:54, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
Schlurcher, You are correct that is caused by line 76 of Module:SDC_tracking where the code is seeking the "best" statements instead of "All" statements. SDC "preferred" mark is called on Wikidata a rank where one can choose "Preferred Rank", "Normal Rank" or "Depreciated Rank". Page d:Help:Ranking, explains how to use them. The use of ranks in File:Abschiedsbesuch des amerikanischen Botschafters Philip D. Murphy im Kölner Rathaus-0669.jpg makes no sense to me as it marks a single license as one special one. Licenses are not like that as different people could prefer different licenses. I would just change the rank to the normal one. I am also a bit afraid to mess with this statement as including all statements would also include depreciated statements and those should be avoided (I am not sure if there is a way to set them in GUI, or wouth they be set by bots. --Jarekt (talk) 03:49, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for the explanation. I think that the logic in Wikidata makes less sense here in Commons. Could I ask you to change the SDC tracking module to check "All" statements then? Please also consider the following two aspects:
  1. Whereas I agree that differents ranks for license statementes may be less appropriate. In this case the user would like to have a preferred license for the endusers to use ([172]).
  2. I'm quite sure there is no GUI option to add depreciated statements. And according to this Query ([173]), depreciated statements are not used so far on Commons. So there should be no issue with depreciated statements.
Happy to hear your further thoughts. @Raymond: pinging you for awareness. --Schlurcher (talk) 09:23, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
@Schlurcher, Jarekt: My idea to mark CC BY-SA 4.0 license as preferred, is that it is the most modern and current license. Nobody needs the older licenses GFDL/CC BY-SA 3.0. Therefore I think it is a good idea to "hide" the older licenses in case someone uses the API to request image and license information for reusage. Why to clutter the API output with 3 licenses and make the reusage more complicate the necessary? This is the case with older of my images only. Since release of the CC version 4 I am using CC BY-SA 4.0 only. Raymond (talk) 16:19, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
@Schlurcher and Raymond: Ok, I think that without depreciated ranks being used on Commons, that would make sense. @Multichill: , you are big user of this module and template. Do you see any potential consequences I do not see but we should consider? If not I will change it in a day or two. --Jarekt (talk) 21:10, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
@Schlurcher, I changed the code. Let me know if it is OK now. --Jarekt (talk) 00:28, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
Thanks, this works perfectly for the case mentioned above. I'll also make a mental note to never use depreciated statements with my bot. I'm currently working on all these mismatching categories, so I will report back in case there are any hick-ups. On a different note, could I also ask you to have a look at this edit-request: Template talk:GFDL-1.3. I'm trying to solve GFDL-1.2+ vs. GFDL-1.3+ and this would give me an easy way to find those files. Unfortunately, nobody seems to timely monitor these edit request, so that's why I'm asking. --Schlurcher (talk) 08:26, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
Schlurcher, as someone that was often worked on evaluating and fulfilling edit requests in the past, sorry for not checking on them lately. However if you ping me I will be happy to help. --Jarekt (talk) 02:48, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in/contribute to a photo contest.

English

Dear Jarekt,

We’re excited to share with you our first-ever art and photo contest for this year’s #VisibleWikiWomen, on Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports!

We’re inviting submissions of photos, illustrations, and other forms of art depicting womxn and non-binary people in sports — as athletes, fans, cheerleaders, referees, journalists, and much more. Our #VisibleWikiWomxn contest celebrates the bodies of womxn in sports by centering their voices, images, stories, and experiences in all their diversity, plurality, and glory.

You can find all the information on our landing page: Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports

Spanish

Hola Jarekt,

Queremos invitarte a participar de nuestro primer concurso de arte y fotografía "Cuerpos plurales en el deporte" en el marco de la campaña #VisibleWikiWomen de este año.

Estamos convocando a presentar fotos, ilustraciones y otras formas de arte que representen a mujeres y personas no binarias en el deporte - atletas, personas aficionadas, animadoras, árbitras, periodistas y personas ligadas al deporte en todos los aspectos. Nuestro concurso #VisibleWikiWomxn celebra los cuerpos de las mujeres en el deporte centrándose en sus voces, imágenes, historias y experiencias en toda su diversidad, pluralidad y gloria.

Puedes encontrar toda la información en la página del concurso.

Portuguese

Olá Jarekt,

Ficamos felizes em convidar você a participar de nossa primeira Wiki-competição de arte e fotografia, como parte da campanha #VisibleWikiWomen deste ano, sobre "Corpos plurais no esporte"!

Estamos recebendo fotos, ilustrações, e outras formas de arte que retratem mulheres e pessoas não-binárias nos esportes — como atletas, torcedoras, juízas, jornalistas, e muito mais. Nossa competição #VisibleWikiWomxn celebra os corpors de mulheres e pessoas não-binárias e coloca ao centro suas vozes, imagens, histórias, e experiências em toda sua pluralidade e glória.

Você pode encontrar todas as informações necessárias em nossa página: Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports.


Sunshine Fionah Komusana (talk) 14:39, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

File:004 Baildon Scarecrows 30 September 2023 (343).JPG and File:010 Baildon Scarecrows 30 September 2023 (247a).JPG

Hi Jarekt, I hope this finds you well. Please could you kindly help with the above images, which are not showing on their filepages? I am currently uploading a large number of pictures from a scarecrow carnival in this category, and the other uploads are working fine, so I cannot identify the problem. I have clicked on "purge" a million times, to no avail. NB. I have attempted to re-upload the same picture to the same file, but the system will not let me, citing duplication. (Please ping me when answering?) Thank you. Storye book (talk) 17:06, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Storye book, I do not know what is wrong with those so I created a ticket phabricator:T348827 at phabricator, as there is something wrong with the software. I will give it a few days, and if there is no prograss I would try to reupload. --Jarekt (talk) 03:08, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
Thank you. Today both files are still showing no picture, so I'll wait as advised. Storye book (talk) 08:54, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
Update. I have just begun today's image file uploads in the same category, and the first upload shows no picture. The automatic error message is: "An unknown error occurred in storage backend "local-swift-eqiad".". I'll try a couple more, and if they come out blank too, I'll have to stop. That is a pain, as I have loads more to upload. Storye book (talk) 09:02, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
Update 2: I forgot to say the third faulty upload is File:011 Baildon Scarecrows 30 September 2023 (250a).JPG. I tried uploading it as a slightly cropped version and, interestingly, the slightly cropped picture shows up in the file history at the bottom of the filepage, but not as the big picture at the top. Weird. I'll try again with a gif version of the original pic, then one last try with a new pic and filepage. Is this happening to anyone else? Or is my camera introducing some issue that is tripping Commons software? Storye book (talk) 09:20, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
Update 3: After the various abovementioned experimental attempts to rectify the three filepages, we now have success in all three. I don't know whether the Commons system has been recified (if so, thank you!), or whether I hit on a lucky tactic myself? I have since uploaded one more new image filepage, and that worked fine. Fingers crossed, and thank you for your patience ... Storye book (talk) 10:15, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
Update 4. Since the last update, I have managed to upload the rest of that category of images so that they show on the filepage. However the occasional filepage is still refusing to display the picture after my first upload attempt. After several further attempts, using the abovementioned tactics, those errant filepages have displayed the image properly. However, I shouldn't have to be faced with a pictureless filepage, and the effort to put it right is time-consuming. I guess there is still more techy work to do, for the Commons elves. Sigh. Storye book (talk) 09:41, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
Something is broken, please see phabricator:T348586 to see and maybe join discussion about it. --Jarekt (talk) 21:02, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
Thank you. I looked at that page and my brain pixellated. I have used computers since 1982, and I was married for 30 years to someone with a PhD in IT tech, but ... nope. I think I shall sit out on this one, and admire the good work from a polite distance, being humbly grateful for their good work. I did another photoshoot yesterday, and will be uploading that lot soon, but I'm hoping that Monday's software repair/reset will do the trick. Fingers crossed. Storye book (talk) 09:03, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

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  • 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. [174]
  • Edit notices are now available within the MobileFrontend/Minerva skin. This feature was inspired by the gadget on English Wikipedia. See more details in T316178.

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  • 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).

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  • 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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  • 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. [175]

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  • 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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  • 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. [176][177]
  • 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. [178]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:19, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

JarektBot was misbehaving

Hi Jarekt, I reverted the edit of your misbehaving bot. How do I get rid of all the wrong infos?. Regards Oursana (talk) 15:06, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Oursana, I was using my bot account because I was editing at a fast pace, but those edits from 5 years ago were quite manual. When the file File:Davidis-Teniers - After Raphael.jpg was uploaded 7 yeatrs ago by User:Jane023 it was connected to a wrong wikidata item: Naked Young Woman in Front of the Mirror (Q3766167), based on that some years latter I added digital representation of (P6243). I would use SQL query to capture wikidata items artworks were connected to, create QuickStatements from them and add those to the files. The wrong info was in the file before my edits. We could look at the Jane023 other uploads from that time to see how often did issue happen, but other than that I do not know how to detect other "wrong infos". --Jarekt (talk) 00:51, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
Thank you Jarekt, sorry I did not see the starting mistake, I was afraid, your bot was misbehaving. My problem is still to get rid of this wrong Qnumber's info, as deletion was not sufficient to eliminate this Wikidata connection. You certainly can help. Thanks--Oursana (talk) 01:08, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
Oursana, I cleared the wrong qnumber. --Jarekt (talk) 01:19, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
Again thanks and stupid, that I did not realize the impact of these statements. I hope to remember..--Oursana (talk) 01:27, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for all your work on wikidata-Commons synchronization for artworks, Jarekt! This set of images (old scans of 1660s engravings made after paintings or miniature copies by Teniers that were in the Archducal collection at Antwerp in 1650) still needs to be fully indexed, but I still have trouble with the data modelling approach for popular engravings such as these. Especially when not all of the miniatures survive and not even all the originals survive. Jane023 (talk) 10:00, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
Yes, my gut feeling is that we shouldn't have multiple copies of engravings on Wikidata, but I guess it depends on the age of the engravings. woodcuts involve more work and have fewer copies than the 1660 set, but 1660 is early enough that I won't merge multiple copies if someone adds them. Jane023 (talk) 14:23, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
Jane023, I ran into some engraving modeling issues when working on w:List of woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer some years back. My issues were mostly related to different copies of a single woodcut being in the many museums and different museums having different metadata like year, size, etc. I ended up using one item per woodcut, as opposed to one item per copy. The modeling was tricky at a time. --Jarekt (talk) 13:07, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

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  • 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. [179]

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. [180]

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. [181][182]

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  • 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. [187]
  • Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong font size. The problem is now resolved. [188]

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  • 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).

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  • 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. [189]

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  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [190][191]
  • 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. [192][193][194]
  • 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. [195]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:52, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

File:Rebecca makkai 8315471.jpg

File:Rebecca makkai 8315471.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.

If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues.

Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!
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  • 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. [196][197]
  • 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. [198]
  • The deployment of "Add a link" announced last week was postponed. It will resume this week.

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  • 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. [199]
  • 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. [200]

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  • 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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MediaWiki message delivery 23:47, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Lua error in Template:Redeye

Hi, Jarekt, this template has a error due to a bad edit by a newbie. Do you have any way to fix it? 0x0a (talk) 13:54, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

0x0a I think I fixed it. --Jarekt (talk) 03:49, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

File:Rachel Pickup.jpg

Hi, I saw that you added a VRTS ticket number to the above file on 13 April 2022‎, would it be possible to check if the ticket is valid? The user who uploaded the file is now blocked on all Wikimedia sites and their Commons talk page, User talk:Oli2000s, shows two other files they uploaded have been deleted as copyright violations. I investigated after seeing a query at en:Wikipedia:Help desk#how can I remove a photo?. TSventon (talk) 14:10, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

TSventon, Yes I was handling this VRTS ticket, but I do not remember anything about it and no longer have access to VRTS tickets. VRTS ticket mostly means that someone was willing to send an email from a existing email account with presumably real name, stating that they are the copyright owners of that image. If the image and the email does not raise any of many possible red flags, than the statement is taken at the face value and stored in VRTS database. There is no way to know if statements made in the email or the names are true, but it would have been the first time I run into a fraudulent VRTS ticket. I would reach out to active VRTS members and they can have a second look or contact original email address with questions. --Jarekt (talk) 03:35, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
Thank you,I will try VRT/N. TSventon (talk) 03:46, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

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User:Klovija

Please would you kindly look at the user contributions for the above? Since they are apparently a brand new user, it is odd that they have almost consistently confined their edits to depicts statements, and have got the entries all wrong due (presumably) to a language barrier. I am wondering whether they are a previously banned editor in a new sock? I have attempted to correct their statements which appear to be in several languages (Slovenian, Arabic etc.) plus some mis-spelt and misunderstood English, but I am no expert on the depicts system. But if they are going to continue this behaviour, we can't use all our time reverting everything. Storye book (talk) 17:19, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Storye book, I agree, ocassional wrong depict statement is could happen but most of his seems bad. I think this might be case of vandalism and reported it at Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Vandalism. --Jarekt (talk) 16:39, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Could you put on your Admin hat and do something about it?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 16:42, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Jeff G., I could, but I have not dealt with vandalism cases for a while and do not remember the procedure, proper warning templates, etc. Also I am not 100% sure it was intentional and could use second opinion. So it seems easier to leave it to "professionals". --Jarekt (talk) 17:03, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Category:Artworks with digital representation of missing same main subject full of books

Hi Jarek, any idea why Category:Artworks with digital representation of missing same main subject is full with books that don't use {{Artwork}}? Multichill (talk) 21:58, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Multichill, {{Artwork}} and {{Book}} templates are both based on Module:Artwork, so they share 99% of the code. I guess someone added digital representation of (P6243) to them but not main subject (P921), so they landed in that maintenance category. I was not doing much of SDC adding lately, and some of those maintenance categories got quite big. --Jarekt (talk) 00:02, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

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