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== Tech News: 2024-35 ==
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== Administrators' newsletter – September 2024 ==
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== WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - September 2024 ==
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<big>'''The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] Newsletter'''</big><br /> Issue 197 – September 2024 <br />
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[[File:Fairytale left.png|30px]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Newsletter/August 2024|August issue]]
<br /><div style="text-align:center;"><small>Got any suggestions?<br /> — ''Add them [[WT:YORKS|<span style="color:#000;">here</span>]]''</small></div><br />
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; Project News
* Welcome to the one hundred and ninty seventh [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire|WikiProject Yorkshire]] monthly newsletter.
* Thanks to the contributions of our many members and supporters, [[WP:YORKS|WikiProject Yorkshire]] has become a leading local British WikiProject in terms of the total number of articles supported (up from 19,698 last month to 19,787 on 31 August 2024). In the area of GAs [[WP:YORKS|WikiProject Yorkshire]] at 218 is ahead of [[WP:GM|WikiProject Greater Manchester]] who have 91. [[WP:YORKS|WikiProject Yorkshire]] also has the lead in FAs at 95 while [[WP:GM|WikiProject Greater Manchester]] has 65 out of a total number of 5,114 articles.
{{classicon|FA}}Currently we have seventy eight Yorkshire featured articles:
[[George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore]] • [[York City F.C.]] • [[Joseph Priestley]] • [[Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C.]] • [[Valley Parade]] • [[William Wilberforce]] • [[History of Bradford City A.F.C.]] • [[Last of the Summer Wine]] • [[Ealdred (archbishop of York)]] • [[Paulinus of York]] • [[Wilfrid]] • [[HMS Endeavour]] • [[Cosmo Gordon Lang]] • [[Thomas of Bayeux]] • [[Cottingley Fairies]] • [[Wilfred Rhodes]] • [[Guy Fawkes]] • [[Yorkshire captaincy affair of 1927]] • [[Roy Kilner]] • [[George Macaulay]] • [[Frederick Delius]] • [[Battle of Towton]] • [[Halifax Gibbet]] • [[Gerard (archbishop of York)]] • [[George Hirst]] • [[Geoffrey (archbishop of York)]] • [[Len Hutton]] • [[Hedley Verity]] • [[Abe Waddington]] • [[Æthelwold ætheling]] • [[Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball]] • [[The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished]] • [[The Wrestlers (Etty)]] • [[Bootham Crescent]] • [[History of York City F.C. (1922–1980)]] • [[William Etty]] • [[History of York City F.C. (1980–present)]] • [[William Sterndale Bennett]] • [[Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed]] • [[The World Before the Flood]] • [[Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed']] • [[North Eastern Railway War Memorial]] • [[York City War Memorial]] • [[Northern England]] • [[Albert Pierrepoint]] • [[RSPB Dearne Valley Old Moor]] • [[Keldholme Priory election dispute]] • [[2018 World Snooker Championship]] • [[2019 World Snooker Championship]] • [[Capture of Wakefield]] • [[2017 World Snooker Championship]] • [[2017 EFL Championship play-off Final]] • [[1985 World Snooker Championship]] • [[Cardiff City F.C. 2–1 Leeds United F.C. (2002)]] • [[1986 World Snooker Championship]] • [[1988 Football League Second Division play-off Final]] • [[2020 World Snooker Championship]] • [[1984 World Snooker Championship]] • [[1925 FA Cup Final]] • [[2006 Football League Championship play-off Final]] • [[Acamptonectes]] • [[1997 Football League First Division play-off Final]] • [[1987 World Snooker Championship]] • [[1989 World Snooker Championship]] • [[2014 World Snooker Championship]] • [[1983 World Snooker Championship]] • [[1988 World Snooker Championship]] • [[2015 World Snooker Championship]] • [[2002 World Snooker Championship]] • [[2021 World Snooker Championship]] • [[1982 World Snooker Championship]] • [[2016 World Snooker Championship]] • [[2022 World Snooker Championship]] • [[1981 World Snooker Championship]] • [[1980 World Snooker Championship]] • [[Ian Carmichael]] •[[2023 World Snooker Championship]] • [[1858 Bradford sweets poisoning]]
{{classicon|FA}} There are also seventeen featured lists:
[[York City F.C. Clubman of the Year]] • [[List of York City F.C. managers]] • [[List of York City F.C. players]] • [[List of York City F.C. seasons]] • [[List of Bradford City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of York City F.C. records and statistics]] • [[List of Leeds United F.C. seasons]] • [[List of Scarborough F.C. seasons]] • [[List of awards and nominations received by Arctic Monkeys]] • [[List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland]] • [[List of Hull City A.F.C. seasons]] • [[List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in Northern England]] • [[Sheffield United F.C. league record by opponent]] • [[York City F.C. league record by opponent]] • [[List of York City F.C. players (25–99 appearances)]] • [[List of York City F.C. players (1–24 appearances)]] • [[Bootham Crescent]] • [[Kate Rusby discography]]
'''Thank you and well done''' to all those who contributed.
; Article Activity
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{{icon|NOGA}} [[York]] delisted from GA on '''31 July'''<br />
{{icon|FA}} [[1858 Bradford sweets poisoning]] promoted to FA on '''11 August'''<br />
; Member News
There are 100 members of WikiProject Yorkshire! No new members have joined us since the August newsletter.
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; '''Assessment'''<br />[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Assessment|Assess and review]]
<div style="float: center; margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yorkshire articles by quality statistics}}</div>
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|align=center|As of 28 August 2024, we have assessed <big>'''100%'''</big> of all articles with a project banner.
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;Thanks
* A very big {{Thank you}} to all the editors who labour away quietly and help make this WikiProject what it is; no edit goes unnoticed.
* To members who have added suggestions to the ToDo list at [[Portal:Yorkshire|Yorkshire Portal]].
* To the football and rugby editors who have done sterling work in keeping abreast of the top clubs.
* To all the WikiProject Yorkshire editors who have been busy on vandal patrol at [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Watch All|watchlist]].
{{Great}}
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; Aims
After discussion at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire]] in April 2008.
'''Specific aims''' for the project are:-
*To complete tagging and assessment of all Yorkshire related articles (See below)
*To recruit more active editors (See Member News)
*To bring our top level article [[Yorkshire]] up to [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|Featured article]] status
*To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least [[Wikipedia:Good articles|Good article]] status
*To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
*To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
and apropos of the above a '''2010 New Year''' article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.
;'''Priority Articles'''
The '''top priority articles''' that have been identified to date are as follows -
* [[Bradford]] • [[Doncaster]] • [[East Riding of Yorkshire]] • [[Henry Moore]] • [[Kingston upon Hull]] • [[Leeds]] • [[Northern England]] • [[North Yorkshire]] • [[Ripon]] • [[Sheffield]] • [[South Yorkshire]] • [[Wakefield]] • [[West Yorkshire]] • [[William Wilberforce]] • [[York]] • [[Yorkshire]] • [[Yorkshire and the Humber]]
The number has been kept deliberately low to give us a fighting chance of improving them to at least GA status, also so we can concentrate our efforts on these first.
;Wiki Loves Monuments
We failed on keeping [[York]] as a [[good article]] as it was down graded as the previous newsletter was being published. This month is the annual [https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org.uk/ Wiki Loves Monuments], may be we can do better this month and get some relevant photographs in the Yorkshire area that are [[listed building]]s without photographs.
;'''WikiProject Yorkshire Collaboration of the Month Project'''
The September 2024 articles selected below are an editor choice as there were no nominations on the project talk page.
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|[[Rosie Jones (comedian)]]
|[[Female Prison, York]]
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|173
|1 May 2024 ~ 31 May 2024
|[[Kellingley Colliery]]
|[[Garton on the Wolds]]
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|1 Jun 2024 ~ 30 Jun 2024
|[[Disappearance of Claudia Lawrence]]
|[[Heart Research UK]]
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|1 Jul 2024 ~ 31 Jul 2024
|[[Henry Moore]]
|[[Ingleton Waterfalls Trail]]
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|1 Aug 2024 ~ 31 Aug 2024
|[[Richard Neile]]
|[[Jacobs Well, York]]
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|177
|1 Sep 2024 ~ 30 Sep 2024
|[[On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at]]
|[[Kaiser Chiefs]]
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Please nominate future articles for improvement at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yorkshire]].
; '''Please bear in mind...'''
[[File:Imbox style.png]]The project is subscribed to a [https://bambots.brucemyers.com/cwb/bycat/Yorkshire.html '''clean-up listing'''] which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
*''Monitoring is essential''<br />Use the [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Yorkshire/Watch All|watchlist]] to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
*''Moves''<br />Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR. You will also have to check that the Commons link is set correctly.
; '''Comments, questions and suggestions about this, or any, issue of the newsletter are always welcome and can be made by pressing the feedback button below...'''
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== Tech News: 2024-36 ==
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'''Weekly highlight'''
* Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Chart/Project/Updates|read more about this project update]] and help to test the charts.
'''Feature news'''
* Editors who use the [[{{#special:Unusedtemplates}}]] page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic words#EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE|<code dir="ltr"><nowiki>__EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__</nowiki></code>]] to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184633]
* Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will [[phab:T334163|now be reminded]] to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and {{formatnum:28}} other community-submitted tasks that were [[m:Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]].
* Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373243]
* Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the [[phab:T298852#10087288|new dropdown menu]].
'''Project updates'''
* A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs [[m:Special:MyLanguage/API Policy Update 2024|has been published on Meta-Wiki]]. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on [[m:Talk:API Policy Update 2024|the proposed update’s talk page]] until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.
'''Learn more'''
* To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
** [[c:File:Wikimania 2024 - Ohrid - Day 2 - Charts, the successor of Graphs - A secure and extensible tool for data visualization.webm|Charts, the successor of Graphs - A secure and extensible tool for data visualization]] (25 mins) – about the above-mentioned Charts project.
** [[c:File:Wikimania 2024 - Ohrid - Day 3 - State of Language Technology and Onboarding at Wikimedia.webm|State of Language Technology and Onboarding at Wikimedia]] (90 mins) – about some of the language tools that support Wikimedia sites, such as [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Content translation|Content]]/[[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Content translation/Section translation|Section Translation]], [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/MinT|MinT]], and LanguageConverter; also the current state and future of languages onboarding. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368772]
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== Deep Patel ==
Hello, back in 2016 you indefinitely blocked this page from being created. As an admin, I've been asked to unblock the page, but I'm uncomfortable doing so for fear of a possible conflict of interest without first seeking broader opinion. For context, I was [https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/should-the-reliability-of-wikipedia-be-questioned-for-the-jewish-community/ recently interviewed by the Times of Israel], and the author of that article asked me to unblock the article (she knows the subject well). As the admin who blocked the article, what do you think? Has enough time passed? The subject might be notable, as there are a few RS articles on him, which she passed on to me. Cheers. -- [[User:Earl Andrew|Earl Andrew]] - [[User talk:Earl Andrew|talk]] 14:13, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
:Hi [[User:Earl Andrew|Earl]]. I see I salted the page as it was an article about a (then) non-notable individual that was being repeatedly created. That was a long time ago, I think enough time has passed and I have unprotected the page. -- [[User:Malcolmxl5|Malcolmxl5]] ([[User talk:Malcolmxl5#top|talk]]) 14:36, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
::Thanks! -- [[User:Earl Andrew|Earl Andrew]] - [[User talk:Earl Andrew|talk]] 14:41, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
== Open proxy user question ==
Hey there, thanks for checking on the proxy status of the user I brought to the OP project. When these folks go on a spree again, would it be safe to block the IPs as proxies as soon as I see them? Or should I bring them to y'all to check? Or something else? [[User:Joyous!|Joyous!]] [[User_talk:Joyous%21|Noise!]] 02:48, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
:It’s probably best to block first - for a week or a month - as a LTA and then bring them to WP:OPP for checking. -- [[User:Malcolmxl5|Malcolmxl5]] ([[User talk:Malcolmxl5#top|talk]]) 16:13, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
== Tech News: 2024-37 ==
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Latest '''[[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News|tech news]]''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/37|Translations]] are available.
'''Feature news'''
* Starting this week, the standard [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeMirror|syntax highlighter]] will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror|help page]]. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T365311][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259059]
* Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>entity:getSitelink()</code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid)</code></bdi> will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from [[m:Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects/Projects/Watchlist Wikidata Sitelinks Tracking|inconsistent sitelinks tracking]]. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T295356]
'''Project updates'''
* Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370962]
* Contributors of [[phab:T363538#10123348|11 Wikipedias]], including English will have a new <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>MOS</code></bdi> namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>MOS:</code></bdi> (usually shortcuts to the [[w:en:Wikipedia:Manual of Style|Manual of Style]]) are not broken by [[w:en:Mooré|Mooré]] Wikipedia (language code <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>mos</code></bdi>). [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363538]
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== Tech News: 2024-38 ==
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'''Improvements and Maintenance'''
* [[File:Octicons-gift.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item]] Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Community Wishlist/Focus areas/Template recall and discovery|Template recall and discovery]], and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Community Wishlist|new wishes]].
* The new automated [[{{#special:NamespaceInfo}}]] page helps editors understand which [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Namespaces|namespaces]] exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263513]
* [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Edit check#Reference check|References Check]] is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373692]
* It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Requesting wiki configuration changes|request]] a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373480]
* [[File:Octicons-tools.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item]] Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's [[wikitech:Portal:Data Services#ToolsDB|public databases]] from both [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Research:Quarry|Quarry]] and [[wikitech:Superset|Superset]]. Those databases have always been accessible to every [[wikitech:Portal:Toolforge|Toolforge]] user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Research:Quarry#Querying Quarry's own database|queried from Quarry itself]]. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and {{formatnum:20}} other community-submitted tasks that were [[m:Tech/News/Recently resolved community tasks|resolved last week]].
* Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>mw-message-box</code></bdi> need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a [https://global-search.toolforge.org/?q=mw-message-box®ex=1&namespaces=&title= global-search] to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>cdx-message</code></bdi> group of classes as a replacement (see [https://doc.wikimedia.org/codex/latest/components/demos/message.html#css-only-version the relevant Codex documentation], and [https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tech/Header&diff=prev&oldid=27449042 an example update]), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374499]
'''Technical project updates'''
* Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at [https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1727276400 15:00 UTC]. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server switch|This maintenance process also targets other services.]] The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370962]
'''Tech in depth'''
* [[File:Octicons-tools.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item]] The latest monthly [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki Product Insights/Reports/August 2024|MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter]] is available. This edition includes details about: research about [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks|hook]] handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
* [[File:Octicons-tools.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item]] To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
** [[c:File:Wikimania 2024 - Auditorium Kyiv - Day 4 - Hackathon Showcase.webm|Hackathon Showcase]] (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are [[phab:T369234|more details and links available]] in the Phabricator task.
** [[c:File:Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem.webm|Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem]] (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.
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