Wikibooks:Reading room/Archives/2023/February

Global ban for PlanespotterA320/RespectCE
Per the Global bans policy, I'm informing the project of this request for comment: Requests for comment/Global ban for PlanespotterA320 (2) about banning a member from your community. Thank you.--Lemonaka (talk) 21:40, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

New details about the Private Incident Reporting System
We have an update about the Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) development.

We have created an FAQ on the project page to help answer your questions. Please check it, and give feedback, or ask additional questions if you have more.

Best regards, Trust & Safety Tools team. –– STei (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 11:28, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

Community feedback-cycle about updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use starts



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Hello everyone,

Wikimedia Foundation Legal Department is organizing a feedback-cycle with community members to discuss updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use.

The Terms of Use (ToU) are the legal terms that govern the use of websites hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. We will be gathering your feedback on a draft proposal from February through April. The draft will be translated into several languages, with written feedback accepted in any language.

This update comes in response to several things:


 * Implementing the Universal Code of Conduct
 * Updating project text to the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license
 * Proposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing
 * Bringing our terms in line with current and recently passed laws affecting the Foundation, including the European Digital Services Act

As part of the feedback cycle two office hours will be held, the first on March 2, the second on April 4.

For further information, please consult:


 * The proposed update of the ToU by comparison
 * The page for your feedback
 * Information about the office hours

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Team, Mervat (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 18:36, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Editing news 2023 #1
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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:


 * 1) The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
 * 2) They are beginning a new project, Edit check.

Talk pages project

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences. Please tell them what you think.



An A/B test for on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)) 23:24, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Your wiki will be in read only soon


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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.

All traffic will switch on . The test will start at .

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.
 * 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.
 * We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
 * GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.

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. 

Trizek (WMF) (m:User talk:Trizek (WMF)) 21:20, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Broken print version
I would like to attract your attention to the broken print version. Kittypet's Guide To Warrior Cats/Print version. None of the pages of the book show up there. Thanks in advance, -Slava Ukrajini Heroyam Slava (discuss • contribs) 17:38, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Update, I fixed it by manually embedding the pages. -Slava Ukrajini Heroyam Slava (discuss • contribs) 19:35, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Conflict Resolution
your page on conflict Resolution has a passage which uses pick-up artistry as an example. It's pretty lame.73.37.53.57 (discuss) 21:42, 27 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Don't think calling a passage "lame" is going to help us improve it. —Atcovi (Talk - Contribs) 22:37, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry. I mean to say that the page is off topic. I was just a little frustrated that it's about something I have a very low opinion of. 73.37.53.57 (discuss) 01:47, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
 * If you have ideas on how to improve it, you're more than welcome to work on it yourself! We are always happy to have people working on and updating wikibooks :) —Kittycataclysm (discuss • contribs) 13:23, 28 February 2023 (UTC)