Wikibooks:Reading room/Archives/2021/June

About WB:NOTWP
Must The implementation of E-Government be deleted? I think, there are problems with rule WB:NOTWP. Kylaix (discuss • contribs) 04:08, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

My 10-minute block
This is just to note the community that I did a very short 10-minute block on because he was manually deleting, which would take hours to complete. I understand that this may be controversal, and I apologise if I did something wrong, but I meant only good faith as I had no other idea how to quickly inform. I have absolutely nothing against Mrjulesd, and apologise profusely for the rudeness I did here. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 21:05, 23 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Look I'm trying to figure out: was there actually anything wrong in me manual deleting these pages? I mean from the point-of-view of trying to protect this project? If not I would greatly appreciate you not doing this in future. I note that you added pseudo-bot to your account. -- Jules (Mrjulesd) 21:11, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:File link' not found.
On a number of template pages, the "Latest draft" pages show this error instead of transcluding the documentation page. Template:Wikisource is one example. Template:Header used to have this but doesn't anymore. Module:File link does seem to exist. Does anyone know what's going on here? —CalendulaAsteraceae (discuss • contribs) 01:50, 19 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Purge the cache perhaps? I can't reproduce the issue myself. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 08:05, 19 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Purging the cache works; thank you! —CalendulaAsteraceae (discuss • contribs) 09:59, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Category:Wikisource protected templates and Category:Wikisource semi-protected templates
These categories don't exist, but a number of template pages are categorized into them. I'm guessing this is the result of importing something from Wikisource and not updating to reflect that it's now on Wikibooks, but I can't track down where this is coming from. Pp-meta seems plausible but I really don't know, so I'd appreciate any input here! —CalendulaAsteraceae (discuss • contribs) 10:43, 19 June 2021 (UTC)


 * , just go to the category itself without editing: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Wikisource_protected_templates and https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Wikisource_semi-protected_templates (notice that the  part has been removed). That gives you the list of pages that are calling this category. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 10:47, 19 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you; that is easier to browse. The issue is that I've looked at the source for some of these pages, and their documentation pages, and I can't figure out where they're calling the category (or what other template/module/etc. that they use is calling the category). Based on !, I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the protection process, since nothing on that page calls Category:Wikisource protected templates directly. Are Category:Protected templates and Category:Semi-protected templates the categories that are supposed to be called? —CalendulaAsteraceae (discuss • contribs) 10:57, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅. It's actually Module:Protection_banner/config that is doing the work - if you look closely, you can see several Wikisource reference which was calling the non-existent categories. Rewiring them to their Wikibooks equivalents worked - the Wikisource categories are now empty. Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 11:07, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Universal Code of Conduct News – Issue 1
Universal Code of Conduct News Issue 1, June 2021 Read the full newsletter

Welcome to the first issue of Universal Code of Conduct News! This newsletter will help Wikimedians stay involved with the development of the new code, and will distribute relevant news, research, and upcoming events related to the UCoC.

Please note, this is the first issue of UCoC Newsletter which is delivered to all subscribers and projects as an announcement of the initiative. If you want the future issues delivered to your talk page, village pumps, or any specific pages you find appropriate, you need to subscribe here.

You can help us by translating the newsletter issues in your languages to spread the news and create awareness of the new conduct to keep our beloved community safe for all of us. Please add your name here if you want to be informed of the draft issue to translate beforehand. Your participation is valued and appreciated. 
 * Affiliate consultations – Wikimedia affiliates of all sizes and types were invited to participate in the UCoC affiliate consultation throughout March and April 2021. (continue reading)
 * 2021 key consultations – The Wikimedia Foundation held enforcement key questions consultations in April and May 2021 to request input about UCoC enforcement from the broader Wikimedia community. (continue reading)
 * Roundtable discussions – The UCoC facilitation team hosted two 90-minute-long public roundtable discussions in May 2021 to discuss UCoC key enforcement questions. More conversations are scheduled. (continue reading)
 * Phase 2 drafting committee – The drafting committee for the phase 2 of the UCoC started their work on 12 May 2021. Read more about their work. (continue reading)
 * Diff blogs – The UCoC facilitators wrote several blog posts based on interesting findings and insights from each community during local project consultation that took place in the 1st quarter of 2021. (continue reading)

22:07, 10 June 2021‎ (UTC)

Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions
Dear all,

Wikimania 2021 will be hosted virtually for the first time in the event's 15-year history. Since there is no in-person host, the event is being organized by a diverse group of Wikimedia volunteers that form the Core Organizing Team (COT) for Wikimania 2021.

Event Program - Individuals or a group of individuals can submit their session proposals to be a part of the program. There will be translation support for sessions provided in a number of languages. See more information here.

Below are some links to guide you through;
 * Program Submissions
 * Session Submission Guidelines
 * FAQ

Please note that the deadline for submission is 18th June 2021.

Announcements- To keep up to date with the developments around Wikimania, the COT sends out weekly updates. You can view them in the Announcement section here.

Office Hour - If you are left with questions, the COT will be hosting some office hours (in multiple languages), in multiple time-zones, to answer any programming questions that you might have. Details can be found here.

Best regards,

MediaWiki message delivery (discuss • contribs) 04:18, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team

== Please provide input here or on Meta and during an upcoming Global Conversation on 26-27 June 2021 about the Movement Charter drafting committee ==

Hello, I'm one of the Movement Strategy and Governance facilitators working on community engagement for the Movement Charter initiative.

We're inviting input widely from users of many projects about the upcoming formation of the Movement Charter drafting committee. You can provide feedback here, at the central discussion on Meta, at other ongoing local conversations, and during a Global Conversation upcoming on 26 and 27 June 2021.

The Movement Charter drafting committee is expected to work as a diverse and skilled team of about 15 members for several months. They should receive regular support from experts, regular community reviews, and opportunities for training and an allowance to offset costs. When the draft is completed, the committee will oversee a wide community ratification process.

Further details and context about these questions is on Meta along with a recently-updated overview of the Movement Charter initiative. Feel free to ask questions, and add additional sub-sections as needed for other areas of interest about this topic.

If contributors are interested in participating in a call about these topics ahead of the Global Conversation on 26 and 27 June, please let me know. Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 16:41, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

The three questions are:
 * 1) What composition should the committee have in terms of movement roles, gender, regions, affiliations and other diversity factors?
 * 2) What is the best process to select the committee members to form a competent and diverse team?
 * 3) How much dedication is it reasonable to expect from committee members, in terms of hours per week and months of work?
 * 1) How much dedication is it reasonable to expect from committee members, in terms of hours per week and months of work?
 * 1) How much dedication is it reasonable to expect from committee members, in terms of hours per week and months of work?

Editing news 2021 #2
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Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:


 * Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
 * The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 14:14, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Server switch
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The Wikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.


 * You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Tuesday, 29 June 2021. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (07:00 PDT, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 WEST/BST, 16:00 CEST, 19:30 IST, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Wednesday 30 June).
 * If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it.  If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal.  Then you should be able to save your edit.  But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:


 * Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
 * There will be code freezes for the week of June 28. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. Please share this information with your community. SGrabarczuk (WMF) 01:19, 27 June 2021 (UTC)