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Edits on Donald Trump
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Hey, I just wanted to let you know that I reverted your edit on Donald Trump. I'm not sure why you made this edit, as you removed a link to the Justice's Department's PDF of the Russian Interference Investigation (which was part of a reference) and you also incorrectly changed the titles of multiple news articles, making some letters lowercase when, according to the source themselves, they are capitalized. -- Politicsfan4 (talk) 00:13, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
- @Politicsfan4:The url to the Justice Dept's document has been restored. It was probably removed by the formatting script as linkspam, but the {{efn}} has now been protected so the links within will not be removed. As to the formatting changes to the article titles, titles should abide to our WP:MOS. Downcasing of titles that are incorrectly in upper case is appropriate even though sources may apply their own MOS to these. Indeed there's no question that prepositions in works titles cannot be downcased. -- Ohc ¡digame! 09:32, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
Edit on Joe Biden
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Your edit has deleted two images from the Joe Biden article and I do not have the privileges to restore them. Omnibus (talk) 23:56, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks, it's been changed.-- 5 albert square (talk) 00:09, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
Ian and Sharon's marriage
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Hi thank you for reverting the marriage duration I have already reverted it once and now I've just had to change it on Ian once again. Adavid299 (talk) 22:08, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
- No problems, I was about to thank you for doing the same thing :) I added the hidden comment beforehand as this usually happens. I'll keep an eye on both the articles plus The Queen Vic in case it gets added as an event.-- 5 albert square (talk) 22:13, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
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- IPv6 addresses were written in lowercase letters in diffs. This caused dead links since Special:Contributions only accepted uppercase letters for the IPs. This has been fixed. [1]
Changes later this week
- You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource. [2]
- Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will now be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background. [3][4]
Wikis use abuse filters to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like 1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55as well as the1.2.3.4/27syntax for IP ranges. [5]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).
Future changes
- Minerva is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext to work on mobile. You can read more. [6][7]
- Cloud VPS and Toolforge will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be
185.15.56.1. This will happen on February 8. You can read more.
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Recent changes
- The Wikipedia app for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app. [8]
Changes later this week
- You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [9]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).
Future changes
- When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [10][11]
- Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [12]
- Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [13]
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17:40, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
EastEnders sockpuppetry
Hello – could you please place semi-protection for the 2014 (and potentially 2019) character lists? 2014 is always hit by an IP sock, and 2019 is more often than not changed too. I don't know of any SPIs for this Gavin Ellis sock but protection would help. 
– DarkGlow (contribs • talk) 19:01, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
Done I don't think there is any. Sometimes it's best to just revert, block and ignore-- 5 albert square (talk) 19:31, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
Thanks.
Thanks. Got it. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 02:03, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
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Problems
- There were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version. Some updates and new functions will come later than planned. [14][15]
- Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [16]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).
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17:54, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
Porn vandals and LTAs
Re [17], please, please just block these people on sight! They know what they are doing is wrong. MusikAnimal and zzuuzz know about this. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 19:18, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
SaltySaltyTears
SaltySaltyTears is requesting unblock on UTRS. AmandaNP has said to extend them rope. Please let me know your thoughts. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 01:05, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
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Recent changes
- The visual editor will now use MediaSearch to find images. You can search for images on Commons in the visual editor when you are looking for illustrations. This is to help editors find better images. [18]
- The syntax highlighter now works with more languages: Futhark, Graphviz/DOT, CDDL and AMDGPU. [19]
Problems
- Editing a timeline might have removed all text from it. This was because of a bug and has been fixed. You might need to edit the timeline again for it to show properly. [20]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 February. It will be on all wikis from 25 February (calendar).
Future changes
- There is a user group for developers and users interested in working on Wikimedia wikis with the Rust programming language. You can join or tell others who want to make your wiki better in the future.
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00:16, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
Thanks
Hi, 5. Thanks for the information you sent me a couple of days ago. For reasons I can't be bothered to explain, I have only just seen it, but as you will see I've taken it on board and acted accordingly. JBW (talk) 14:38, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
Precious anniversary
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Problems
- There was a problem with the job queue. This meant some functions did not save changes and mass messages were delayed. This did not affect wiki edits. [21]
- Some editors may not be logged in to their accounts automatically in the latest versions of Firefox and Safari. [22]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 March. It will be on all wikis from 4 March (calendar).
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19:06, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
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
- Section translation now works on Bengali Wikipedia. It helps mobile editors translate sections of articles. It will come to more wikis later. The first focus is active wikis with a smaller number of articles. You can test it and leave feedback.
- Flagged revisions now give admins the review right. [23]
- When someone links to a Wikipedia article on Twitter this will now show a preview of the article. [24]
Problems
- Many graphs have JavaScript errors. Graph editors can check their graphs in their browser's developer console after editing. [25]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 March. It will be on all wikis from 11 March (calendar).
- The New Discussion tool will soon be a new discussion tools beta feature for on most Wikipedias. The goal is to make it easier to start new discussions. [26]
Future changes
- There will be a number of changes to make it easier to work with templates. Some will come to the first wikis in March. Other changes will come to the first wikis in June. This is both for those who use templates and those who create or maintain them. You can read more.
- Reference Previews will become a default feature on some wikis on 17 March. They will share a setting with Page Previews. If you prefer the Reference Tooltips or Navigation-Popups gadget you can keep using them. If so Reference Previews won't be shown. [27][28]
- New JavaScript-based functions will not work in Internet Explorer 11. This is because Internet Explorer is an old browser that doesn't work with how JavaScript is written today. Everything that works in Internet Explorer 11 today will continue working in Internet Explorer for now. You can read more.
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17:50, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Classification
Hi how come we are changing past back to Former? Adavid299 (talk) 20:41, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- Hi, there was a discussion on the talk page of the template here and it was decided to use former 5 albert square (talk) 21:14, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
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
- Wikis that are part of the desktop improvements project can now use a new search function. The desktop improvements and the new search will come to more wikis later. You can also test it early.
- Editors who put up banners or change site-wide JavaScript code should use the client error graph to see that their changes has not caused problems. You can read more. [29]
Problems
- Due to database issues the Wikimedia Beta Cluster was read-only for over a day.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 March. It will be on all wikis from 18 March (calendar).
Future changes
- You can add a newline or carriage return character to a custom signature if you use a template. There is a proposal to not allow them in the future. This is because they can cause formatting problems. [30][31]
- You will be able to read but not edit 12 wikis for a short period of time on 23 March at 06:00 (UTC). This could take 30 minutes but will probably be much faster.
- You can use Quarry for SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas. Cross-database
JOINSwill no longer work from 23 March. There will be a new field to specify the database to connect to. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech. PAWS and other ways to do SQL queries to the Wiki Replicas will be affected later. [32]
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23:20, 15 March 2021 (UTC)