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Tech News: 2024-33
editLatest 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
- AbuseFilter editors and maintainers can now make a CAPTCHA show if a filter matches an edit. This allows communities to quickly respond to spamming by automated bots. [1]
- Stewards can now specify if global blocks should prevent account creation. Before this change by the Trust and Safety Product Team, all global blocks would prevent account creation. This will allow stewards to reduce the unintended side-effects of global blocks on IP addresses.
Project updates
- Nominations are open on Wikitech for new members to refresh the Toolforge standards committee. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open until at least 2024-08-26.
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in West Coast Bajau (
w:bdr:) [2]
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Unblock rq
editHello, please unblock User talk:"jplazek" per ticket:2024080910008916. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - uselesscontributions} 06:57, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
Apologizing for the earlier incident
editAs I am new to Wikipedia, by mistake I didn't understand well what I was editing. In assurance after I have review and go through tutorials, I promise I'll never repeat such thing again. I'm sorry sir Whoxein Hassan (talk) 04:42, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
Please Unblock
editI'm really sorry, I humbly requesting for my account unblock. I'm feeling terribly sorry Whoxein Hassan (talk) 04:44, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- You need to request an unblock on your original account and not create new ones to get around your block. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 12:51, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 14 August 2024
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