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The behavior is now as intended and only large animations are no longer thumbnailed.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The default <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_tutorial#Thumbnails" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Picture tutorial">thumbnail</a>-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.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>All <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy" title="Wikipedia:Protection policy">protected pages</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bots_approved" data-mw-thread-id="h-Bots_approved-signpost-article-title"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Bots_approved-signpost-article-title"></span>Bots approved<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Bots_approved-signpost-article-title"></span></h3></div> <p>The following bots and tasks have been approved in the past four weeks: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/User:DYKUpdateBot" title="User:DYKUpdateBot">DYKUpdateBot</a> – Makes updates related the Did you know section of the Main Page</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:AstaBOTh15" title="User:AstaBOTh15">AstaBOTh15</a> – interwiki bot</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:7SeriesBOT" title="User:7SeriesBOT">7SeriesBOT</a> – Admin-bot that deletes strictly-complying pages tagged with CSD-G7</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:WildBot" title="User:WildBot">WildBot</a> (Task 5) – Note a book's problematic links on the talk page</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:EyeEightDestroyerBot" title="User:EyeEightDestroyerBot">EyeEightDestroyerBot</a> – An adminbot that deleted 25000 selected duplicates of Commons images.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:FrescoBot" title="User:FrescoBot">FrescoBot</a> (Task 3) – Checking and fixing lowcase wikilinks to uppercase sections.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:EarwigBot" title="User:EarwigBot">EarwigBot</a> (Task 8) – Delinking mainspace categories in declined Articles for creation submissions.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:KingpinBot" title="User:KingpinBot">KingpinBot</a> (Task 2) – Archiving the requests for permissions requests, after they have been inactive for some time.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:DASHBot" title="User:DASHBot">DASHBot</a> (Task 9) – Rescale non-free media in Category:Non-free_Wikipedia_file_size_reduction_request</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Kotbot" title="User:Kotbot">Kotbot</a> (Task 5) – Add infoboxes to articles on Romanian communes</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:EarwigBot" title="User:EarwigBot">EarwigBot</a> (Task 10) – Combines <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:DYK_talk" title="Template:DYK talk">DYK talk</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> into <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:ArticleHistory" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:ArticleHistory">ArticleHistory</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> on talk pages where <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:ArticleHistory" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:ArticleHistory">ArticleHistory</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> is already being used.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:EarwigBot" title="User:EarwigBot">EarwigBot</a> (Task 9) – Tags files whose extension does not match their MIME type, with <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Rename_media" title="Template:Rename media">rename media</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:EmausBot" title="User:EmausBot">EmausBot</a> – Searches for possible interwikis</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:DASHBot" title="User:DASHBot">DASHBot</a> (Task 10) – Find orphaned fair use files and tag them for deletion.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:HRoestBot" title="User:HRoestBot">HRoestBot</a> – Interwiki bot</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:DASHBot" title="User:DASHBot">DASHBot</a> (Task 3.14) – Update wikiproject's work-list with articles that are listed as unreferenced BLPs (Opt in bot)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:TedderBot" title="User:TedderBot">TedderBot</a> (Task 4) – Adds wikilinks inside <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Anime_voices" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Anime voices">Anime voices</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:FrescoBot" title="User:FrescoBot">FrescoBot</a> (Task 4) – Checking and fixing broken section wikilinks</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:SheepBot" title="User:SheepBot">SheepBot</a> – Adds <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Dead_end" title="Template:Dead end">dead end</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> to dead end pages</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:EarwigBot" title="User:EarwigBot">EarwigBot</a> (Task 12) – Adds |blp=yes to either <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:WikiProject_Banners" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:WikiProject Banners">WikiProject Banners</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> or <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:WikiProject_Banner_Shell" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:WikiProject Banner Shell">WikiProject Banner Shell</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> on talk pages where <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:WikiProject_Biography" title="Template:WikiProject Biography">WikiProject Biography</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> is used along with |living=yes and <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a 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bot</li></ul> <p>For more information, please see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval#Approved_requests" title="Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval">Bots – Requests for approval</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References_and_notes" data-mw-thread-id="h-References_and_notes-signpost-article-title"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-References_and_notes-signpost-article-title"></span>References and notes<span data-mw-comment-end="h-References_and_notes-signpost-article-title"></span></h3></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a class="external free" href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2010-April/047527.html">http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2010-April/047527.html</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a 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