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There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we welcome a new member of the team, we ask for feedback about our "About" widget designs, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on July 1, at 17:30 UTC (link to the meeting).

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 13:20, 27 June 2024 (UTC) Reply

The ability to change the interface language using the selector at the top of each screen appears to be broken. Choosing another language makes no difference, it always comes back to English. I use it so that I can select appropriate versions of "The chosen username is similar to an existing username or it used to be username of someone else that got renamed" in the renamer interface. Any ideas? Thanks, Cabayi (talk) 07:18, 1 July 2024 (UTC) Reply

@Cabayi what are the steps to get the interface message you are seeing to appear? This could need upstream work, or it could be a local problem. — xaosflux ^Talk 09:23, 1 July 2024 (UTC) Reply

Is it this message: MediaWiki:Globalrenamequeue-request-antispoof-conflicts ? — xaosflux ^Talk 09:39, 1 July 2024 (UTC) Reply

I see at least one exists on translatewiki, can you try in es (Spanish) to see if that displays? [1] — xaosflux ^Talk 09:44, 1 July 2024 (UTC) Reply

Note: if the target language doesn't have a translation written, it will fall back to English as that is the base language here. — xaosflux ^Talk 09:53, 1 July 2024 (UTC) Reply

Sorry, I appear to have muddied the issue with an explanation of why I want to change language. The change of language is not happening. Hopefully this will explain better... [2] I'm selecting another language, I've tried Portuguese and French, and when the screen refreshes, it's still English. - Cabayi (talk) 14:20, 1 July 2024 (UTC) Reply

@Cabayi I think I see it - and this is not a problem you are seeing only in the globalrenamequeue, but everywhere? Is this correct:

Steps:

1) Load a page

2) Change interface language from English to French

3) Refresh the page

What happens:

a) The interface of the page is in English

What you expected to happen:

a) The interface of the page is in French

? — xaosflux ^Talk 15:12, 1 July 2024 (UTC) Reply

If so, I think what is happening is this: something is broken with the 'change interface language' in general. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:18, 1 July 2024 (UTC) Reply

Which is probably bug phab:T368595. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:19, 1 July 2024 (UTC) Reply

That's it! I'll watch the task for a fix. Thanks. Cabayi (talk) 16:01, 1 July 2024 (UTC) Reply

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we present our objectives and lines of work for this quarter, we remember to give your feedback about our "About" widget designs, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on July 8, at 17:30 UTC (link to the meeting).

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 12:59, 5 July 2024 (UTC) Reply

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There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we discuss our current draft about Type proposals for accessing Lexemes, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

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Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 10:21, 12 July 2024 (UTC) Reply

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we present you the results of a research about how to integrate Wikifunctions and Wikipedia, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

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Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 13:33, 19 July 2024 (UTC) Reply

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we discuss our upcoming Wikifunctions events at Wikimania 2024, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

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Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:13, 29 July 2024 (UTC) Reply

Can you clarify on whether I need to go through Meta:RfA for this if it would edit only a few times per day or so? It isn't clear on the bots page since that says that it's only required if a bot flag is required. Also do you know what the general practice for this is on other wikis (i.e, those that don't have a clear bot policy themselves)? Leaderboard (talk) 19:06, 22 August 2024 (UTC) Reply

In general, bots should get community acceptance on a project before they are used. This can usually be accomplished on the village pump pages of projects without dedicated bot pages (c.f. International names for Village Pump). Yes, I think you should do a meta:request for bot flag here as well, m-w is fairly low-key on this and many requests will just pass silently. You certainly should not try to unleash bot editing on hundreds of projects that haven't asked for it - that's a good way to start getting lots of blocks. It's a good idea to have a bot flag where you will operate, it helps assure others you ask is approved. If you want to try to run this bot "globally" you will certainly need to go through the steps outlines in Bot_policy#Global bots. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:25, 22 August 2024 (UTC) Reply

Just to be clear, you're suggesting that it's OK to have a bot that wouldn't edit all that much to have the bot flag set anyway? Leaderboard (talk) 06:40, 23 August 2024 (UTC) Reply

It is certainly OK to have a bot flag on a bot that doesn't edit that much. Also note, having a bot flag doesn't require you to assert the bot flag on edits that for some reason shouldn't be flagged bot on recentchanges/watchlists as well. As this is mostly for usertalk keep in mind that you shouldn't use +bot and +minor at the same time or it will supress newtalk notification. — xaosflux ^Talk 09:30, 23 August 2024 (UTC) Reply

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we discuss the introduction of more stringent limits on the length of object names, input names, and descriptions, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive! You might be interested in the launch of our "About" widget, a summary of our experience at Wikimania 2024, or the refinement of WasmEdge.

Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on September 2, at 17:30 UTC (link to the meeting).

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 08:04, 30 August 2024 (UTC) Reply

Good day. Can you re-run the dump for the page again? ref User_talk:Xaosflux/Archive3#User:Minorax/$_wanted. Thanks in advance. --Min☠︎rax ^«¦talk¦» 02:09, 31 August 2024 (UTC) Reply

@Minorax done to User:Minorax/$ wanted. — xaosflux ^Talk 09:38, 31 August 2024 (UTC) Reply

Hi, Xaos. I noticed that you granted Ergo Sum global interface editor access. I assume that you meant to add global IPBE instead, as you gave them Meta IPBE too? Thanks, Sdrqaz (talk) 09:46, 3 September 2024 (UTC) Reply

@Sdrqaz thank you for the note, yes that was my error and it has been corrected. I also went through their global contribs since then to see if there were any communities I needed to follow up with, but don't see any edits over their other access. — xaosflux ^Talk 09:53, 3 September 2024 (UTC) Reply

Hi, I've been waiting a while for this without any update - is there something specific I need to do? Apologies if this is irritating. Thanks in advance. Leaderboard (talk) 04:05, 6 September 2024 (UTC) Reply

Bot requests on this project sometimes take a while, this is a low-volume project. In any case, I've closed the task request as accepted now. — xaosflux ^Talk 09:56, 6 September 2024 (UTC) Reply

There is a new update for Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we introduce Dagbani Wikipedia as our first wiki for Wikifunctions integration, discuss the recent stability challenges we've had in the past few days, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

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Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 13:51, 13 September 2024 (UTC) Reply

The template {{Votings}} doesn't seem to work correctly with this election. Would you mind having a look? I've tried a purge action on the template, with no result. Thanks, M/ (talk) 18:38, 13 September 2024 (UTC) Reply

Solved with a workaround. The LUA code doesn't understand relative paths. --M/ (talk) 19:19, 13 September 2024 (UTC) Reply

Hi Xaosflux, thanks for your undo here. Just a little explanation as to why this happened; a user requested IA, but it was deleted by EPIC shortly after I added it to the request page. Regards, Wüstenspringmaus _talk 12:31, 15 September 2024 (UTC) Reply

There is a new update for Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we introduce focus topic areas for generating natural language texts and we update you on last week's site incident.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 11:30, 21 September 2024 (UTC) Reply

There is a new update for Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we give you an overview of what we will focus on in the next three months, we discuss our presentation at Celtic Knot conference 2024, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 15:42, 26 September 2024 (UTC) Reply

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