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Hey, can I bother you for a sec?

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This post has me messed up. I don't know anyone personally in this community, yes I know shit happens, but..... I look for your enlightenment. - FlightTime (open channel) 16:38, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like it was all figured out :) stwalkerster (talk) 21:25, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, thanx Simon.. - FlightTime (open channel) 18:08, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 1 May 2025

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Tech News: 2025-19

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

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Updates for editors

  • For wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled, two new feature improvements have been released:
    • Admins can now choose which namespaces are permitted for Event Registration via Community Configuration (documentation). The default setup is for event registration to be permitted in the Event namespace, but other namespaces (such as the project namespace or WikiProject namespace) can now be added. With this change, communities like WikiProjects can now more easily use Event Registration for their collaborative activities.
    • Editors can now transclude the Collaboration List on a wiki page (documentation). The Collaboration List is an automated list of events and WikiProjects on the wikis, accessed via Special:AllEvents (example). Now, the Collaboration List can be added to all sorts of wiki pages, such as: a wiki mainpage, a WikiProject page, an affiliate page, an event page, or even a user page.
  • Recurrent item View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Developers who use the moment library in gadgets and user scripts should revise their code to use alternatives like the Intl library or the new mediawiki.DateFormatter library. The moment library has been deprecated and will begin to log messages in the developer console. You can see a global search for current uses, and ask related questions in this Phabricator task.
  • Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikidata term store tables (wbt_*) need to update their code to connect to a separate database cluster. These tables are being split into a separate database cluster. Tools that query those tables via the wiki replicas must be adapted to connect to the new cluster instead. Documentation and related links are available. [1]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

  • The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on preparing to expand the deployment to additional wikis as soon as this week (starting May 6) and scaling up over the following weeks, plus exploring filtering and transforming source data.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:12, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2025

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2025).

Administrator changes

added Rusalkii
readded NaomiAmethyst (overlooked last month)
removed

Interface administrator changes

removed Galobtter

Guideline and policy news

Miscellaneous

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Tech News: 2025-20

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

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  • The "Get shortened URL" link on the sidebar now includes a QR code. Wikimedia site users can now use it by scanning or downloading it to quickly share and access shared content from Wikimedia sites, conveniently.

Updates for editors

  • The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a system called Edge Uniques, which will enable A/B testing, help protect against distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is to help more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for. Tech News has previously written about this. The deployment will be gradual. Some might see the Edge Uniques cookie the week of 19 May. You can discuss this on the talk page.
  • Starting May 19, 2025, Event organisers in wikis with the CampaignEvents extension enabled can use Event Registration in the project namespace (e.g., Wikipedia namespace, Wikidata namespace). With this change, communities don't need admins to use the feature. However, wikis that don't want this change can remove and add the permitted namespaces at Special:CommunityConfiguration/CampaignEvents.
  • The Wikipedia project now has a Wikipedia in Nupe (w:nup:). This is a language primarily spoken in the North Central region of Nigeria. Speakers of this language are invited to contribute to new Wikipedia.
  • Recurrent item View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Developers can now access pre-parsed Dutch Wikipedia, amongst others (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) through the Structured Contents snapshots (beta). The content includes parsed Wikipedia abstracts, descriptions, main images, infoboxes, article sections, and references.
  • The /page/data-parsoid REST API endpoint is no longer in use and will be deprecated. It is scheduled to be turned off on June 7, 2025.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

  • The IPv6 support is a newly introduced Cloud virtual network that significantly boosts Wikimedia platforms' scalability, security, and readiness for the future. If you are a technical contributor eager to learn more, check out this blog post for an in-depth look at the journey to IPv6.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:35, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Issues with Iljhgtn

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First of all, I wanted to thank you for handling my case the other day, where you suppressed a vaguely threatening comment on Trs9k's user page where Iljhgtn mentioned my city and state (I changed my username in response to that event - I was gcollins94).

The "beef" between us seems to center around some editing issues I've raised in the talk page of Cody Wilson's article. He's launched countless bogus "warning" templates on my page and is now seemingly following my activity by the minute.

Even though I explained how what he did bothered me, and even though I've explained that I don't appreciate the constant angry postings to my user page - he doesn't feel a need to stop, not even after being warned for harassment.

I launched a RfC case the other day on Talk:Cody Wilson (before this he seemed to want to reach "consensus" on changes to the page, yet he has not contributed to that discussion. only in private, away from scrutiny, and with quibbles and accusations of my supposed policy violations).

Full transparency: I am a new editor, and he knows this. His latest "warning" to me is apparently over canvassing for the RfC -- I can only imagine this has to do with the discussion I had on Trs9k's page, but that was before I posted the RfC. In fact, posting the RfC was a learning process in of itself to me. I haven't been "advertising" it anywhere - so it's quite baseless to me.

Regardless, I've told him I want him to stop these interactions. If I were in his position, even if I thought I was fully in the right, I'd be taking a step back. Yet he doesn't seem to care.

I left his post up on my Talk page. Thank you for any assistance you can give. Wasn't sure if this was the right process to deal with it. Bgx14 (talk) 19:34, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've responded via IRC - as I don't have the mental capacity to take this on at the moment, I've given pointers towards WP:DWH and WP:RUCD. stwalkerster (talk) 20:49, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I address this concern more fully here in my most recent comment in a Teahouse post. Iljhgtn (talk) 04:22, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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