User talk:Avishai11/Archives/2024/January

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A belated welcome!

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! Avishai11 (talk) 12:05, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Protection requests

Please do not make another RFPP request until you've read Wikipedia:Protection_policy#Preemptive_protection. We don't protect articles because of "likely" vandalism. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 22:17, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Which request are you talking about? I acknowledge this is true for the Myanmar and Times of Israel article, but for the other ones... Avishai11 (talk) 22:21, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Your last several requests, including the aforementioned ones and the one. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 23:02, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Sorry! Let me understand: there is no protection for articles without vandalism already happening. Is that accurate? Because what about articles relating to U.S. elections and sensitive topics? Avishai11 (talk) 23:04, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Your answer on my talk

Hi Avishai, your answer to the editor seeking help on my talk page is somewhat inaccurate. They are allowed to create a page about their organization or topics they have a conflict of interest with, it is just highly discouraged, not forbidden, like you said on my talk. They do have to go through articles for creation as they have a COI and they need to disclose as a paid editor though. v/r - Seawolf35 ^T--C 20:51, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Oh, sorry! Avishai11 (talk) 21:01, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-04

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

A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed. [1]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 January. It will be on all wikis from 25 January (calendar). [2][3]

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Tech News: 2024-05

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 Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [4]
There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will be on all wikis from 1 February (calendar). [5][6]
On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new Special:QrCode page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [7]
Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the targets option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the skins option instead. [8]

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