User talk:JPxG

The Dumbarton Rail Bridge in San Francisco Bay, July 2021. Canon EOS 650D. 1/125, ISO 100, f/6.3

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Tech News: 2024-20

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

Recent changes

• On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word __EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__ to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list. [1]
• If you use the user-preference "Show preview without reloading the page", then the template-page feature "Preview page with this template (what's this?)" will now also work without reloading the page. [2]
• Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the alt= attribute. This is identical in usage to the alt= attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive. [3]
• The old Guided Tour for the "New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people. [4]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar). [5][6]
• The Special:Search results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure. [7]

Future changes

• In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022. Learn more. [8]
• Two columns of the pagelinks database table (pl_namespace and pl_title) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new linktarget table instead (lt_namespace and lt_title). In your existing SQL queries:
  1. Replace JOIN pagelinks with JOIN linktarget and pl_ with lt_ in the ON statement
  2. Below that add JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
  • See phab:T222224 for technical reasoning. [9][10]

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note to self

https://searchengineland.com/google-hides-search-results-count-under-tools-section-440299 wtf jp×g🗯️ 04:08, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

mmm chezburger

good job moderating (owo)b Imoutofchoices (talk) 02:31, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 May 2024

• News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections

• Special report: Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?

• Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24

• In the media: Deadnames on the French Wikipedia, and a duel between Russian wikis

• Op-Ed: Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure

• Comix: Generations

• Traffic report: Crawl out through the fallout, baby

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Signpost article

In relation to your arbcom article, I've been concerned about Jonathunder since he left. We hit it off well at the 2019 North American Conference, and I was particularly impressed with his love of photography and adding images to Commons. His last posting mentioned "a long and serious illness", and hopefully you are right that he left because of the desyop and not anything worse - although at the time he didn't seem the type of personality who would stop volunteering because of that. You probably would have liked him, and it would be nice if he surfaced again (reminds me of another editor I knew only on-line who ducked out for a couple years during covid and then, happily, popped up again) Randy Kryn (talk) 13:03, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

JPxG, thanks for the ArbCom report. Well-written and informative, with a touch of levity. And thanks for confirming that I'm not the only one who had no idea was SMALLCATS was about. I tried reading the ArbCom discussions and just gave up.  :) Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 14:31, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Perms

Did you mean to give yourself all those perms indefinitely? – 2804:F14:80B7:8201:90E7:C193:821D:E8C2 (talk) 09:17, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Offensive usernames

It is my understanding that Stewards are able to globally hide usernames such that they stop appearing in search results and list:users, but they will do so only for names that are targeted harassment or egregiously offensive. I've emailed them before to get usernames taken down when they were attacking specific editors. Vanamonde93 (talk) 16:54, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Stewards are able to globally hide usernames as above. Additionally en.wp oversighters can hide usernames from local lists, but iirc this can sometimes cause issues if they are later globally hidden (it was several years ago it was last discussed, and things may have changed since then or my memory may be faulty so don't take this as gospel). In any event, if you wish to draw attention to a username you think should be hidden, you should do so by email (see WP:STEWARDS and WP:OVERSIGHT). Thryduulf (talk) 22:13, 19 May 2024 (UTC)