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*Feature news*
- AbuseFilter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter editors and maintainers can now make a CAPTCHA show if a filter matches an edit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter/Actions#Show_a_CAPTCHA. This allows communities to quickly respond to spamming by automated bots. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T20110 - Stewards https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Stewards can now specify if global blocks should prevent account creation. Before this change https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T17273 by the Trust and Safety Product https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/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 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Toolforge/Toolforge_standards_committee#August_2024_committee_nominations for new members to refresh the Toolforge standards committee https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Toolforge_standards_committee. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Right_to_fork_policy and Abandoned tool policy https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/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 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2880037 (w:bdr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bdr:) [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T371757
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