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Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 06:24, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
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So tell me...the other editor is edit warring over whether Liston's nickname is "The Big Bear" instead of "the Big Bear"... Previously I had misunderstood as to what the simmering ongoing issue was, I thought someone was thinking his nickname wasn't Big Bear and someone else was saying oh yes it was Big Bear.
Anyway, just wanted to mention that in a 1968 Sports Illustrated article he was referred to as "The Big Bear" with a capital T...
- "Don't be afraid," Geraldine used to counsel. "He don't bite." We poor, petty men were not going to try to find out. Instead, we called him The Big Bear, because maybe he did bite, and we described his look as "baleful," a word which means "foreboding evil."
- Shearonink (talk) 17:58, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- PS - Yes I did read your talkpage instructions and I do know this is about the Sonny Liston article but wanted to get your take on it here first if that's ok. Shearonink (talk) 17:58, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- As you know, we have guidelines for how we present content. Just because a source capitalizes "The" doesn't mean we are supposed to do that. I was going by WP:THE. If I have misunderstood the guideline, please inform. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 18:03, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
- I have left a note for the other editor to hopefully further help clear up the matter. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 18:42, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-16[edit]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [1][2]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [3][4]
- Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked). [5]
- A new variable
page_last_edit_age
will be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [6]
Future changes
- Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
- Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the
abuse_filter
andabuse_filter_history
tables. Some queries might need to be updated. [7]
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Tech News: 2024-17[edit]
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
- Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [8]
- You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar). [9][10]
Future changes
- This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of Special:MyPage/vector.js to Special:MyPage/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [11]
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:26, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 62[edit]
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Issue 62, March – April 2024
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The Signpost: 25 April 2024[edit]
- In the media: Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics and another wikirace on live TV
- News and notes: A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law
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- Traffic report: O.J., cricket and a three body problem
Wlinks[edit]
Hi. May i ask why you unpipe wlinks, as here which resulted in at least eight links to redirects which previously pointed to the exact article required through the pipe? I'm sure that there probably is a reason for this that i'm just unaware of, so i'm wondering for my future use if the use of the pipe trick is deprecated in favour of adding redirects? Thanks. Happy days, ~ LindsayHello 05:14, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
- WP:NOPIPE is in play here ("It is generally not good practice to pipe links simply to avoid redirects"). If a redirect is what you actually want to say and it already redirects to the correct article, use the redirect. Otherwise, pipe from the actual article link. This is about having the least complicated wiki text possible and also being able to track redirect use (like to help decide if a new article is necessary).
- What I'm doing with the script is fixing all the links back to where they should have been, kind of a reset, or lint cleaning if you will. In ordinary wiki writing, it's easy to unnecessarily pipe a direct link, and I make that mistake as well. But it's not a serious problem, and I wouldn't sweat it. Stefen Towers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 05:35, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
A Dobos torte for you![edit]
7&6=thirteen (☎) has given you a Dobos torte to enjoy! Seven layers of fun because you deserve it.
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Tech News: 2024-18[edit]
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
- The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks. [12]
- Seven new wikis have been created:
- You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. [20]
- Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis. See more detailed guidelines.
Problems
- Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using
mapstyle="osm"
. This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [21]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar). [22][23]
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My Recent Addition[edit]
Apologies about the mix up it appears my account was accessed illegitimately as i have been away from my computer thank you for bringing this to my attention JohnLeHistorian (talk) 19:19, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
ITN recognition for 2024 Kentucky Derby[edit]
On 5 May 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article 2024 Kentucky Derby, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 23:18, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-19[edit]
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
- The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. [24][25]
- Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the
SiteAdminHelper
. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page. [26] - Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services. [27]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar). [28][29]
- When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". [30]
Future changes
- A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update regarding this extension.
- Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally. [31]
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MediaWiki message delivery 16:42, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free image File:150th Kentucky Derby logo.jpg[edit]
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