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Volume 20

Issue 10

22 July 2024

JPxG – GFDL

Discussion report

Internet users flock to Wikipedia to debate its image policy over Trump raised-fist photo

Iconic photograph, invalid fair use exemption criterion #3a claimant, or both?

? – PD

News and notes

Wikimedia community votes to ratify Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation opposes ratification

Establishment of power-sharing agreement between WMF corporation and volunteer user community in limbo.

Jack E. Boucher – PD

News from the WMF

Wikimedia Foundation Board resolution and vote on the proposed Movement Charter

Natalia Tymkiv, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, on the Charter vote results, the resolution, meeting minutes, and proposed next steps.

Avsa, ClockworkSoul – LGPL

Essay

Reflections on editing and obsession

A lost Signpost submission from fifteen years ago brought into the light, as good and true now as it was then.

Michael Mandiberg, Victor Grigas – CC BY-SA 3.0

In the media

What's on Putin's fork, the court's docket, and in Harrison's book?

Failing forks, smart and well-researched stories, LGBT rights, and oral sex!

JamesR – CC BY 3.0

Obituary

JamesR

Rest in peace.

Jacobin_357 – CC BY-SA 4.0

Crossword

Vaguely bird-shaped crossword

Do you know these Wikipedia quotes?

Susan Sterner – PD

Humour

Joe Biden withdraws RfA, Donald Trump selects co-nom

Dems in disarray, GOP in chaos — analysts say news expected, but few can predict how race will shape up from here.

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Administrators' newsletter

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

Isabelle Belato

Interface administrator changes

Izno

CheckUser changes

Barkeep49

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Tech News weekly

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.

Bugs status

Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
Editors can use the IP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
There is an update on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Czech (voy:cs:) [1]

Learn more

There is a new Wikimedia Foundation data center in São Paulo, Brazil which helps to reduce load times.
There is new user research on problems with the process of uploading images.
Commons Impact Metrics are now available via data dumps and API.
The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available.

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