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Summer of Wikivoyage in Albania & Kosovo, 2025
[edit]Hi @SHB2000!
I am @Vyolltsa from the Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group. I wanted to share a quick update for our upcoming Summer of Wikivoyage Edit-a-thon in 2025. This year, we are focusing on Prishtina and other travel destinations across Kosovo and Albania in English. This edit-a-thon will take place offline from 16-18 of May. We are also inviting everyone to join us online here Saturday from 10:00-17:00 (GMT+2) Time Zone.
Could you please update the Albania and Kosovo Expedition pages for 2025? Your support is is greatly appreciated. Thank you! Vyolltsa (talk) 11:20, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
- Sure can do. //shb (t | c | m) 11:26, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
Done both Albania and Kosovo. //shb (t | c | m) 11:56, 24 April 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you 🙏 @SHB2000. Vyolltsa (talk) 13:22, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
- Glad to help. //shb (t | c | m) 22:30, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you 🙏 @SHB2000. Vyolltsa (talk) 13:22, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
Error category
[edit]I have been cleaning up more error categories. I noticed the last remaining error article in this one and wondered if this one was more your area? -- 89.241.67.66 11:00, 26 April 2025 (UTC)
- .. and the two pages listed here. -- 89.241.67.66 16:41, 26 April 2025 (UTC)
- I don't think those are errors – really just highlights the complex nature of those categories in question that it doesn't make much sense to fix them. //shb (t | c | m) 22:47, 26 April 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-18
[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.
Updates for editors
- Event organizers who host collaborative activities on multiple wikis, including Bengali, Japanese, and Korean Wikipedias, will have access to the CampaignEvents extension this week. Also, admins in the Wikipedia where the extension is enabled will automatically be granted the event organizer right soon. They won't have to manually grant themselves the right before they can manage events as requested by a community.
View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- The release of the next major version of Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, is scheduled for 29 April 2025. Technical editors will have access to the release by the week of 5 May 2025. This update will include a number of breaking changes and minor visual changes. Instructions on handling the breaking and visual changes are documented on this page. Pre-release testing is reported in T386298, with post-release issues tracked in T392379 and T392390.
- Users of Wiki Replicas will notice that the database views of
ipblocks,ipblocks_ipindex, andipblocks_compatare now deprecated. Users can query theblockandblock_targetnew views that mirror the new tables in the production database instead. The deprecated views will be removed entirely from Wiki Replicas in June, 2025. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization Newsletter is now available. This edition includes an overview of the improved Content Translation Dashboard Tool, support for new languages, highlights from the Wiki Loves Ramadan campaign, results from the Language Onboarding Experiment, an analysis of topic diversity in articles, and information on upcoming community meetings and events.
Meetings and events
- The Let's Connect Learning Clinic will take place on April 29 at 14:30 UTC. This edition will focus on "Understanding and Navigating Conflict in Wikimedia Projects". You can register now to attend.
- The 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which brings the global technical community together to connect, brainstorm, and hack existing projects, will take place from May 2 to 4th, 2025, at Istanbul, Turkey.
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Script errors
[edit]Any idea what this {{Submit an edit request}} template is all about? It doesn't appear to be used anywhere. You deleted the /doc page for it in August 2024. It appears as an error in Category:Pages with script errors. I assume it can be deleted? -- 89.241.66.36 17:02, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
- I also see it's mentioned at {{Protected page text/template}}, a page with a lot of broken links and which also appears in Category:Pages with script errors. -- 89.241.66.36 17:08, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
- The deletion log says the deleted page was created by a vandal. I assume also the others are, but for some reason not deleted at the time (actually the doc page was created and deleted a few days before the template page was created). I assume they should be deleted, with no VfD needed, but SHB may have a better picture. –LPfi (talk) 19:05, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
- Yep, that was in fact created by an LTA. I've deleted it accordingly. //shb (t | c | m) 00:39, 1 May 2025 (UTC)
- Is {{Protected page text/template}} and {{Protected page text}} and the various sub-pages of both all part of the set? -- 89.241.66.36 00:43, 1 May 2025 (UTC)
- They are; I've deleted both. //shb (t | c | m) 01:01, 1 May 2025 (UTC)
- Many thanks for the fixes, although it's a bit of a mystery to me how the apparent addition of functionality was branded abuse. Is that functionality that is already here in some other form, or something that simply isn't needed here, or something else? Anyway, I'm off to find another error category to tackle. -- 89.241.66.55 14:51, 1 May 2025 (UTC)
- They are; I've deleted both. //shb (t | c | m) 01:01, 1 May 2025 (UTC)
- Is {{Protected page text/template}} and {{Protected page text}} and the various sub-pages of both all part of the set? -- 89.241.66.36 00:43, 1 May 2025 (UTC)
- Yep, that was in fact created by an LTA. I've deleted it accordingly. //shb (t | c | m) 00:39, 1 May 2025 (UTC)
- The deletion log says the deleted page was created by a vandal. I assume also the others are, but for some reason not deleted at the time (actually the doc page was created and deleted a few days before the template page was created). I assume they should be deleted, with no VfD needed, but SHB may have a better picture. –LPfi (talk) 19:05, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 May 2025
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- News and notes: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/News and notes
- In the media: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/In the media
- Recent research: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Recent research
- Arbitration report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Arbitration report
- Discussion report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Discussion report
- Traffic report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Traffic report
- Disinformation report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Disinformation report
- News from the WMF: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/News from the WMF
- Community view: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-05-01/Community view
Some random fixes
[edit]I have fixed over 100 pages with various technical errors in the last few weeks.
1. There's one left where I think I know what the problem is but the page is protected. I noted the details at
2. There's also another one with a hidden error that I don't understand, noted at
3. There's a couple of edit requests for protected pages detailed at
4. Finally, there's a question about template usage and documentation at
-- 89.241.68.83 08:20, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-19
[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.
Weekly highlight
- The Wikimedia Foundation has shared the latest draft update to their annual plan for next year (July 2025–June 2026). This includes an executive summary (also on Diff), details about the three main goals (Infrastructure, Volunteer Support, and Effectiveness), global trends, and the budget and financial model. Feedback and questions are welcome on the talk page until the end of May.
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.
- View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Developers who use the
momentlibrary in gadgets and user scripts should revise their code to use alternatives like theIntllibrary or the newmediawiki.DateFormatterlibrary. Themomentlibrary 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] - 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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This Month in Education: April 2025
[edit]This Month in Education
Volume 14 • Issue 4 • April 2025
- Ceremony of giving certificates and awarding the winners of the edit-a-thon: Meet Slovenia
- The Workshops Wikimedia & Education are back in Brazil
- EduWiki Nigeria: Advancing Digital Literacy in Schools
- Empowering the Next Generation: Wikidata Training at Federal Government Boys College, FGBC Abuja
- Final Wikipedia project with Shefit Hekali school in Peqin, Albania
- Teachers who graduated from the Leamos Wikipedia program in Bolivia become mentors for their colleagues
- Wikivoyage in Has region, Northern Albania
- Wikivoyage workshop in Bulqiza