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nixOS
editnixOS is cool, and it's cool that you contribute with it.
That is all. /home/gracen/ (yell at me here) 15:50, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- Hey thanks! :D I've used NixOS exclusively for about one or two years now. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 06:06, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- I use Arch (btw) and really have no interest in switching to anything else, but I've heard a lot of nice things about nixOS (and a friend of mine is considering switching from Gentoo). How is it? /home/gracen/ (yell at me here) 15:56, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- The main selling point is quite good: a reproducible system with configurations that can be uploaded to a repository and be saved effortlessly. The bad parts is that the tooling is not very good, documentation is not the best (definitely not as good as the Arch and Gentoo wikis, those are really really good), and the language is often confusing. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 10:09, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
- I use Arch (btw) and really have no interest in switching to anything else, but I've heard a lot of nice things about nixOS (and a friend of mine is considering switching from Gentoo). How is it? /home/gracen/ (yell at me here) 15:56, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-51
editLatest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page.
Updates for editors
- Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history.
- Users of the Android Wikipedia App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.
- The global reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page for more information.
- The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the Android Wikipedia App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.
Updates for technical contributors
- There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January. [1]
Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
WikiAuthBot2 on Russian Wikimedia's alternative server
editHello! We at the Russian Wikimedia's alternative all-projects Discord server (I'm its owner) would like to invite WikiAuthBot2 to be used as an auth bot (as the old WikiAuthBot is not working for quite a while so we are currently authenticating members manually). Thanks! Well very well (talk) 20:31, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
- I have DM'd you on Discord. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 14:30, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
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JJPMaster (she/they) 23:53, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @JJPMaster: I don't think this requires discussing privately so I'll reply here. I'd consider reaching out to Enterprisey via the channels mentioned at the top of his user page or open an issue on GitHub (https://github.com/enterprisey/wikipediholism-test/issues), as I don't see any licenses in the repo, and he developed the test so he has to be the person to release it under an open source license. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 14:38, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
Happy holidays!
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Hello there, 'tis the season again, believe it or not, the years pass so quickly now! A big thank you for all of your contributions to Wikipedia in 2024! Wishing you a Very happy and productive 2025! ♦ Maliner (talk) 17:11, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you! 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 14:33, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2025
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RFC, Wikipedia:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
- A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.
Technical news
- The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.
Arbitration
- Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Liz, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, Theleekycauldron, Worm That Turned.
Miscellaneous
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!