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Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:23, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you :) @Gerda Arendt – DreamRimmer (talk) 10:24, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On the main page Edith Mathis, who portrayed young women by Mozart, the video of a 1993 interview has videos of her performances, - yesterday's story. - "places" come with food and flowers, - sharing with you ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:18, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I point at a composer today, as the main page does. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:16, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please give us Main page history 3 May? I wonder if bot could do it? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:38, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

3 March or 3 May? – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:10, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I must have been dreaming, March of course, premiere of Carmen 150 years ago, but interested almost every day ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:14, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Since it uses templates and doesn't keep a history, retrieving past content isn't easy. While it's possible to manually collect all the main page content from March 3 and recreate it, that would take a lot of time. If you want, I can set up an automated script on Toolforge to check every day whether the main page history is saved. If it’s not, the script can save a txt file so we can manually paste the content here for any missed days. – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:37, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I thought it's there to keep history, - wrong? How did you write 4 March? About changes: TFA remains the same, DYK remains the same, OTD remains the same, and for ITN, one could find the state, no? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:18, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: ProcBot creates main page history snapshots daily, but it has been down for a few days due to issues with its Cloud VPS environment. If the bot has not saved the history for a given day by 12:00, you can use this script to save it semi-automatically. To keep track of this, you can add the {{MPH alert}} template to your user page or any page you visit daily. This template indicates whether a history snapshot has been created for the day. If not, you can run the script to create one.

@ProcrastinatingReader, just a friendly suggestion—I have written a Python script for this, so if you are having trouble with your VPS instance, you might find it easier to use this script on Toolforge. – DreamRimmer (talk) 13:32, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I'll keep it on my mind, but am not a technical person ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:11, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

But I know you are an awesome person who is capable of achieving anything. – DreamRimmer (talk) 16:53, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

blushing, thank you for the encouragement, - sometimes I'm loosing patience in the process ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:45, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah shucks, I thought the cluster recreation would've fixed it :(

Thanks for that script! I'll run it on Toolforge for some redundancy. I'll set it to run once at end of day. Seems DYK doesn't rotate twice a day anymore, so separate `b` pages are probably not as worthwhile saving. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 18:25, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK is on and off the 12 hour cycles, and RD also changes fast - sometimes. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:45, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please check my attempt at Wikipedia:Main Page history/2025 March 3. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:14, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Would it be easy for you to write today's b-version, - with 2 of "my" DYK in the same time, nos. 2 and 3 of the year? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:37, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, done. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 14:52, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@ProcrastinatingReader: If you could provide me with that EW script or SQL query, I can write it in Python so you can use it on Toolforge without any VPS issues. I can also help with other scripts if needed :) – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:07, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

March music

On Ravel's birthday, we also think of a conductor and five more composers ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:47, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today I could have written five stories off the main page, and chose Sofia Gubaidulina. I find the TFA also interesting, and two DYK, and a birthday OTD. How about you? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:49, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for improving article quality in March! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:11, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today, 300 years of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1! We sang works for (mostly) double choir by Pachelbel, Johann Christoph Bach, Kuhnau/Bach, Gounod and Rheinberger! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:22, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Quarry

Hello, DreamRimmer,

I'm having trouble again with a Quarry query you helped me set up last year. It returns 0 results even when your bot returns several G13-eligible pages. I'm wondering if something changed with the daylight savings time in the U.S. but then I don't know where you are located. The last time this happened, you advised me to change some hourly totals for the period but I wanted to get your opinion again. But here it is if you have any suggestions here. Thanks for any tweaking you can suggest. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:28, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Liz: I have fixed it at quarry:query/91568. Please copy or fork it. After this change, you won't encounter this issue again. – DreamRimmer (talk) 05:28, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-11

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Updates for editors

Editors who use password managers at multiple wikis may notice changes in the future. The way that our wikis provide information to password managers about reusing passwords across domains has recently been updated, so some password managers might now offer you login credentials that you saved for a different Wikimedia site. Some password managers already did this, and are now doing it for more Wikimedia domains. This is part of the SUL3 project which aims to improve how our unified login works, and to keep it compatible with ongoing changes to the web-browsers we use. [1][2]
The Wikipedia Apps Team is inviting interested users to help improve Wikipedia’s offline and limited internet use. After discussions in Afrika Baraza and the last ESEAP call, key challenges like search, editing, and offline access are being explored, with upcoming focus groups to dive deeper into these topics. All languages are welcome, and interpretation will be available. Want to share your thoughts? Join the discussion or email aramadan@wikimedia.org!
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 19. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
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In depth

The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: the launch of the Community Updates module, the most recent changes in Community Configuration, and the upcoming test of in-article suggestions for first-time editors.
An old API that was previously used in the Android Wikipedia app is being removed at the end of March. There are no current software uses, but users of the app with a version that is older than 6 months by the time of removal (2025-03-31), will no longer have access to the Suggested Edits feature, until they update their app. You can read more details about this change.

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Bootstrapping possible unattributed articles via Wikidata

Courtesy link: User:DreamRimmer/Possible unattributed articles

Hi, DreamRimmer. I am starting to think about how to improve productivity on what is now the weak link in the chain for resolving unattributed articles, which is the creation of the input file. (Or maybe the weakest link is finding them in the first place, but you've looked at that, and I haven't.) I have gained a lot of experience with building the Input file, but I am still improving and finding efficiencies, which I will have to stop and document at some point. I'll just mention at this point some templates that have helped me; maybe you are already aware of them. Given a page history line containing an en-wiki article name (as it must), and the name of a language somewhere in the edit summary (which the editor may have added), you can find the likely origin article on the foreign Wikipedia automatically by translating the language name into a language code, and then using {{Sitelink}}.

The lang to code versions of {{iso 639 name}} are handy; I make use of those at Thriley/translations. If you are pretty sure it is translated, but the language name or code is not available, you can automatically add the Wikidata qid to the file, which gives you one-click access to all the foreign articles, which you can then manualy peruse to help discover the right one (still a manual operation though). See Pete Maverick/translations for an example where I included qid in a file that is a precursor to an attrib input file; the qid is an intermediate step to get me to the foreign source, but {{Sitelink}} (which I discovered later) is more powerful and more direct. Qid is still useful, for those cases where you have neither country nor language.

If something in the title has ties to some country, then you can likely find the country through a series of steps (maybe just one step) using Module:WikidataIB (function location, #25 under § Utilities functions), and from the country, a property get_value will get you the language, and with the lang code and the en-wiki title, you've got a likely culprit for the translation source page. I just discovered Module:WikidataIB yesterday, it is very powerful, but I haven't had time to experiment with it yet. I might write a template wrapper for the useful bits, once I figure out how it works. For example, a new wrapper template {{Title to langcode}} would return the language code for the country which a given en-wiki title has ties to, or empty if it can't figure it out. Then, with the lang code and en-wiki title, {{Sitelink}} will get you the foreign title. Putting it all together, we should be able to automatically update many of the lines in Possible unattributed articles with a single regex replace edit to link the desired foreign source article candidate.

I'm only at the initial stages of this, but I'm imagining a big new section in the Attrib bot proposal page about how to build the Input file, taking advantage of a lot of these tips, and maybe some new templates to help out, once I figure it all out and create them to simplify the process. But if you are familiar enough with Sitelink and WikidataIB already, maybe you don't need to wait and can upgrade the poss unattrib list using some of these ideas. Mathglot (talk) 10:01, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

enwiki CHUHelper

For some reason that script doesn't work for me. Phương Linh (thảo luận) 12:25, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-12

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Twice a year, around the equinoxes, the Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team performs a datacenter server switchover, redirecting all traffic from one primary server to its backup. This provides reliability in case of a crisis, as we can always fall back on the other datacenter. Thanks to the Listen to Wikipedia tool, you can hear the switchover take place: Before it begins, you'll hear the steady stream of edits; Then, as the system enters a brief read-only phase, the sound stops for a couple of minutes, before resuming after the switchover. You can read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog. If you want to keep an ear out for the next server switchover, listen to the wikis on March 19 at 14:00 UTC.

Updates for editors

The improved Content Translation tool dashboard is now available in 10 Wikipedias and will be available for all Wikipedias soon. With the unified dashboard, desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-based article suggestion filters (initially available only for mobile device users); Discover and access the Community-defined lists filter, also known as "Collections", from wiki-projects and campaigns.
On Wikimedia Commons, a new system to select the appropriate file categories has been introduced: if a category has one or more subcategories, users will be able to click on an arrow that will open the subcategories directly within the form, and choose the correct one. The parent category name will always be shown on top, and it will always be possible to come back to it. This should decrease the amount of work for volunteers in fixing/creating new categories. The change is also available on mobile. These changes are part of planned improvements to the UploadWizard.
The Community Tech team is seeking wikis to join a pilot for the Multiblocks feature and a refreshed Special:Block page in late March. Multiblocks enables administrators to impose multiple different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. If you are an admin or steward and would like us to discuss joining the pilot with your community, please leave a message on the project talk page.
Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at 12 Wikipedias: Multi-Check. Half of the newcomers on these wikis will see all Reference Checks during their edit session, while the other half will continue seeing only one. The goal of this test is to see if users are confused or discouraged when shown multiple Reference Checks (when relevant) within a single editing session. At these wikis, the tags used on edits that show References Check will be simplified, as multiple tags could be shown within a single edit. Changes to the tags are documented on Phabricator. [3]
The Global reminder bot, which is a service for notifying users that their temporary user-rights are about to expire, now supports using the localized name of the user-rights group in the message heading. Translators can see the listing of existing translations and documentation to check if their language needs updating or creation.
The GlobalPreferences gender setting, which is used for how the software should refer to you in interface messages, now works as expected by overriding the local defaults. [4]
View all 26 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Wikipedia App for Android had a bug fixed for when a user is browsing and searching in multiple languages. [5]

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Later this week, the way that Codex styles are loaded will be changing. There is a small risk that this may result in unstyled interface message boxes on certain pages. User generated content (e.g. templates) is not impacted. Gadgets may be impacted. If you see any issues please report them. See the linked task for details, screenshots, and documentation on how to fix any affected gadgets.
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Need help?

Hi!

I'm Pawnyy. I'm relatively new to contributing on wikipedia. Unfortunately, I'm not that great of a writer, but my background is in Computer Science and Software Engineering. I see you're very active in Wikipedia:Bot requests and I was just wondering how I could get started with helping out the project, code-wise. I've been lurking around for the better part of a couple months trying to understand the lay of the land, and I figured I might as well ask! If you have a backlog of tasks, I'd be happy to take one off and figure out how I can help!

Thanks! Pawnyy (talk) 02:38, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Hi, Pawnyy! Well, there are many related areas. You can read WP:HI for introduction! As you're related to computers etc, you can learn wikitext and help us out in templates & userboxes. I'm happy to help! Sarvebhyah (talk) 08:35, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-13

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The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking your feedback on the drafts of the objectives and key results that will shape the Foundation's Product and Technology priorities for the next fiscal year (starting in July). The objectives are broad high-level areas, and the key-results are measurable ways to track the success of their objectives. Please share your feedback on the talkpage, in any language, ideally before the end of April.

Updates for editors

The CampaignEvents extension will be released to multiple wikis (see deployment plan for details) in April 2025, and the team has begun the process of engaging communities on the identified wikis. The extension provides tools to organize, manage, and promote collaborative activities (like events, edit-a-thons, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. The extension has three tools: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation Lists. It is currently on 13 Wikipedias, including English Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and Spanish Wikipedia, as well as Wikidata. Questions or requests can be directed to the extension talk page or in Phabricator (with #campaigns-product-team tag).
Starting the week of March 31st, wikis will be able to set which user groups can view private registrants in Event Registration, as part of the CampaignEvents extension. By default, event organizers and the local wiki admins will be able to see private registrants. This is a change from the current behavior, in which only event organizers can see private registrants. Wikis can change the default setup by requesting a configuration change in Phabricator (and adding the #campaigns-product-team tag). Participants of past events can cancel their registration at any time.
Administrators at wikis that have a customized MediaWiki:Sidebar should check that it contains an entry for the Special pages listing. If it does not, they should add it using * specialpages-url|specialpages. Wikis with a default sidebar will see the link moved from the page toolbox into the sidebar menu in April. [6]
The Minerva skin (mobile web) combines both Notice and Alert notifications within the bell icon (). There was a long-standing bug where an indication for new notifications was only shown if you had unseen Alerts. This bug is now fixed. In the future, Minerva users will notice a counter atop the bell icon when you have 1 or more unseen Notices and/or Alerts. [7]
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Developers who use the mw.Api JavaScript library, can now identify the tool using it with the userAgent parameter: var api = new mw.Api( { userAgent: 'GadgetNameHere/1.0.1' } );. If you maintain a gadget or user script, please set a user agent, because it helps with library and server maintenance and with differentiating between legitimate and illegitimate traffic. [8][9]
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Satish Kumar (IRSME Officer)

DreamRimmer, Hi there and I hope you're doing well, can you help me to rectifying few several issue on my newly created article if possible and remove notability tag and please mark this page as reviewed. Best regards, Sukumar05 (talk) 08:18, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't find this subject notable, so I don't feel comfortable marking it as reviewed. Also, you should phrase it something like: ...is currently serving as the CEO of the Railway Board of Indian Railways. He is the first Dalit to hold this post, since 'first Dalit chairperson' doesn't seem accurate. – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:11, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]