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Technology report

Technology report

Usability rollout

As announced last week, the rollout of the new interface has begun and Wikimedia Commons was switched April 6 at 8:00 UTC. No major problems have been encountered so far.

Other changes

• Bug 22041 about problems with scaling GIF images was finally fixed and closed. The behavior is now as intended and only large animations are no longer thumbnailed.^[1]
• The default thumbnail-size of images was changed from 180 pixels wide to 220 pixels wide on the Commons, following a similar change on the English Wikipedia in February.^[2]
• All protected pages now have a "Submit an edit request" link on the View Source tab (shown instead of Edit This Page if the user doesn't have permission to edit that page). The link takes users to a form to help them request an edit be made.^[3]

Bots approved

The following bots and tasks have been approved in the past four weeks:

• DYKUpdateBot – Makes updates related the Did you know section of the Main Page
• AstaBOTh15 – interwiki bot
• 7SeriesBOT – Admin-bot that deletes strictly-complying pages tagged with CSD-G7
• WildBot (Task 5) – Note a book's problematic links on the talk page
• EyeEightDestroyerBot – An adminbot that deleted 25000 selected duplicates of Commons images.
• FrescoBot (Task 3) – Checking and fixing lowcase wikilinks to uppercase sections.
• EarwigBot (Task 8) – Delinking mainspace categories in declined Articles for creation submissions.
• KingpinBot (Task 2) – Archiving the requests for permissions requests, after they have been inactive for some time.
• DASHBot (Task 9) – Rescale non-free media in Category:Non-free_Wikipedia_file_size_reduction_request
• Kotbot (Task 5) – Add infoboxes to articles on Romanian communes
• EarwigBot (Task 10) – Combines {{DYK talk}} into {{ArticleHistory}} on talk pages where {{ArticleHistory}} is already being used.
• EarwigBot (Task 9) – Tags files whose extension does not match their MIME type, with {{rename media}}.
• EmausBot – Searches for possible interwikis
• DASHBot (Task 10) – Find orphaned fair use files and tag them for deletion.
• HRoestBot – Interwiki bot
• DASHBot (Task 3.14) – Update wikiproject's work-list with articles that are listed as unreferenced BLPs (Opt in bot)
• TedderBot (Task 4) – Adds wikilinks inside {{Anime voices}} template
• FrescoBot (Task 4) – Checking and fixing broken section wikilinks
• SheepBot – Adds {{dead end}} to dead end pages
• EarwigBot (Task 12) – Adds |blp=yes to either {{WikiProject Banners}} or {{WikiProject Banner Shell}} on talk pages where {{WikiProject Biography}} is used along with |living=yes and {{BLP}} is not used.
• Rfambot (Task 2) – Updates Infobox data of RNA related articles
• InactivityEmailBot – Emails inactive administrators asking them to voluntarily give up access if it is no longer needed.
• TuHan-Bot – Interwiki
• WildBot (Task 6) – Adds banner to talkpages for issues found using Check Wikipedia.
• Ganeshbot (Task 4) – Create 600 new species stub articles under the genus Conus using World Register of Marine Species.
• MuZebot (Task 2) – Automatic WikiProject notifications on members' user talk pages in the form of announcements, dispatches, or newsletters.
• KingpinBot (Task 3) – Removes Category:Wikipedian usernames editors have expressed concern over from user/talk pages of blocked users.
• SoxBot (Task 23) – Replacement for HBC NameWatcherBot.
• Adlerbot – interwiki bot

For more information, please see Bots – Requests for approval.

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