Codename Noreste

EFH

Hi CN, your local EFH is redundant, now that you're a global EFH. You might want to get an admin to clean that up. Cheers Nobody (talk) 11:01, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion 1AmNobody24, but I've earned the trust of the local and Meta communities to earn these highly trusted rights, and I'll step up to be a Meta admin by the end of this year, and to be an edit filter manager by next spring. Which noticeboard do I request this in, the edit filter noticeboard? Anyway, cheers. :) Codename Noreste 🤔 Talk 15:55, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Going for meta adminship is definitely a smart move, since you're working on global abuse filters. But abuse filter helper won't be removed when becoming a meta admin so having the local edit filter helper is redundant when having the global abuse filter helper. No need to ask on a noticeboard, just ask any admin of your choice. Good luck and keep up the great work. Nobody (talk) 17:38, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

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• Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.
• The new automated Special:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. [1]
• References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed. [2]
• It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order. [3]
• Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
• Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes mw-message-box need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer cdx-message group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. [4]

Technical project updates

• Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible. [5]

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