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DreamWorks Pictures

yeah the reason why I made that edit was because why do former subsidiaries and divisions matter? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:448:102:37C0:61E7:60DC:77BE:1762 (talk) 08:21, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

@2601:448:102:37C0:61E7:60DC:77BE:1762: That's a question that should be discussed at Talk:DreamWorks Pictures (For help, see how to use a talk page). ~ Matthewrbowker ^{Comments · Changes} 08:25, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020).

Administrator changes

Ajpolino • LuK3

Jackmcbarn

Ad Orientem • Harej • Lid • Lomn • Mentoz86 • Oliver Pereira • XJaM

There'sNoTime → TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely 1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.

Technical news

The filter log now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions (phab:T261630).

Arbitration

The 2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
Following a request for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either the Ombuds Commission or the WMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committee passed a motion implementing those results into their procedures.

Miscellaneous

The Universal Code of Conduct draft is open for community review and comment until October 6th, 2020.
Office actions may now be appealed to the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee.

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Tech News: 2020-41

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Recent changes

There is a new tool where you can see which home wiki users have in discussions on Meta. This can help show which communities are not part of the discussion on wikis where we make decisions that affect many other wikis.
You can now thank users for file uploads or for changing the language of a page. [1]

Problems

There were many errors with the new MediaWiki version last week. The new version was rolled back. Updates that should have happened last week are late. [2]
Everyone was logged out. This was because a user reported being logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now. [3]
Many pages have JavaScript errors. You can read more and now see a list of user scripts with errors.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 October. It will be on all wikis from 8 October (calendar).
Letters immediately after a link are shown as part of the link. For example the entire word in [[Child]]ren is linked. On Arabic wikis this works at both the start and end of a word. Previously on Arabic wikis numbers and other non-letter Unicode characters were shown as part of the link at the start of a word but not at the end. Now only Latin and Arabic letters will extend links on Arabic wikis. [4]

Future changes

You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [5]

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16:24, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2020-42

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Problems

Because of the problems with the MediaWiki version two weeks ago last week's updates are also late. [6][7][8]

Changes later this week

Live previews didn't show the templates used in the preview if you just edited a section. This has now been fixed. You can also test CSS and JavaScript pages even if you have the live preview enabled. Previously this didn't work well. [9][10]
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Future changes

A new stable version of Pywikibot is coming soon. [11]

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15:23, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2020-43

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Tech News: 2020-44

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Problems

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Changes later this week

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Future changes

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Pages Created

Hallo, I'm user mainly in the Polish Wikipedia. I founded on my user page with ceated pages (xtools.wmflabs.org/pages/pl.wikipedia.org/Czyz1) information that to pages has been deleted: nr 39 (Szkoła Podstawowa w Zaraszowie) and nr 66 (Tajna agentka (film). It has to be mistake. I never created that pages. Can you help me with it and correst it? Thank you in advance. --Czyz1 (talk) 13:46, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

@Czyz1: Hello! I've filed a task for you: T266894. Feel free to watch that page as I investigate the issue. ~ Matthewrbowker ^{Comments · Changes} 17:38, 30 October 2020 (UTC)