User talk:Mz7/September–November 2019
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can use the new termbox interface if you edit Wikidata on a mobile device. This is to edit labels, descriptions and aliases easier on the mobile pages. [1]
The new version of MediaWiki has been deployed during the last week.- The previously announced change of positions of the "Wikidata item" link on all wikis has been rollbacked due to unexpected cache issues. [2]
- The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute. [3]
- The advanced version of the edit review pages (Recent Changes, Watchlist, and Related Changes) now include two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces. However the "All discussions" filter does not include pseudo talk pages, like discussions that are in the Project: or Wikipedia: namespaces. But it will include changes happening on Project talk: or the Wikipedia talk:. [4]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 September. It will be on all wikis from 5 September (calendar).
- When you log in, the software checks your password to see if it follows the Password policy. From this week, it will also complain if your password is one of the most common passwords in the world. If your password is not strong enough, please consider to change your password for a stronger password. [5]
Meetings
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikidata for up to 30 minutes on September 10 at 05:00 (UTC). [6]
- You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 17 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [7]
- You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 24 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [8]
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for up to 30 minutes on September 26 at 05:00 (UTC). [9]
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09:07, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
5 September 2019
Hi Mz7 - It looks like there's now a 'user removal' request. I am not familiar with Wikipedia procedures but I do think this is a bit exaggerated. I think I added valuable substance to the wiki on the Zitterbewegung - but ALL edits got deleted in a rather blanket way. I experience this as random. In any case, it doesn't matter all that much. But thanks that - somehow - you volunteered or got tasked with resolving this issue. In any case, I have not much interest in pursuing the discussion. I value Wikipedia but realize that technical discussions on complicated topics in quantum physics are perhaps not its forte. Kindest regards - Jean Louis — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jean Louis Van Belle (talk • contribs) 12:34, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
- Hi Jean Louis Van Belle. Sorry for the delay in responding. It looks like someone thought that your user page was inappropriate and asked for it to be deleted; however, an administrator reviewed the deletion request and denied it, stating that the request was invalid. No one was trying to remove you as an editor; someone just thought your user page was inappropriate, which it isn't. Sorry for all that confusion—Wikipedia procedures can get unnecessarily complicated sometimes.
- Now, as far as my role in this goes, it appears that you received an automated message with a link to my username inside it. That message is a routine message sent by a robot to most new editors on Wikipedia. It is an invitation to The Teahouse, which is a question board that lets newcomers ask experienced editors how Wikipedia works. I used to help answer questions at the Teahouse often, but I haven't done so for quite some time. If you have any further questions about editing Wikipedia, I recommend giving the Teahouse a visit. Alternatively, you may continue asking me questions on my talk page here. Best of luck, Mz7 (talk) 09:55, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – September 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).
Administrator changes
Bradv • Chetsford • Izno
Floquenbeam • Lectonar
DESiegel • Jake Wartenberg • Rjanag • Topbanana
CheckUser changes
Oversight changes
- Callanecc • Fox • HJ Mitchell • LFaraone • There'sNoTime
Technical news
- Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
- The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.
Arbitration
- A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2019 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
Miscellaneous
- A global request for comment is in progress regarding whether a user group should be created that could modify edit filters across all public Wikimedia wikis.
New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019
Hello Mz7,
- Backlog
Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.
- Coordinator
A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.
- This month's refresher course
Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.
- Deletion tags
Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.
- Paid editing
Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.
- Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion
- Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
- Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.
- Not English
- A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.
- Tools
Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.
Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.
Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.
DannyS712 bot III is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its patrol log.
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why you delete my page without my permission?
my page named Mr Dawar hase been deleted from live space just because of you as my deletion shows your name — Preceding unsigned comment added by Westrextravels (talk • contribs) 13:40, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
- Hello, Westrextravels. A Wikipedia editor nominated the article about Mr Dawar for deletion because they believed that Mr Dawar was not notable enough to be included in Wikipedia. A group of editors reviewed the deletion proposal and agreed that the article should be deleted—you can read their comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mr Dawar. For this reason, I deleted the article. In order to understand why editors thought the article should be deleted, it is important to note that as an encyclopedia, Wikipedia cannot include an article about everyone. In order to determine the notability of a subject, Wikipedia editors look at the extent to which reliable sources have written about that subject. If reliable sources think that a subject is worth writing about, then it is generally safe to presume that the subject is indeed worth writing about in Wikipedia. In the case of Mr Dawar, the Wikipedia editors who participated in the deletion discussion agreed that not enough reliable sources existed which cover Mr Dawar significantly. It is also important to note that by submitting your article to Wikipedia, you irrevocably allow others to use, edit, and (in this case) delete the page at any time. This is why your permission was not required for me to delete the article—for more information about this, please see Wikipedia:Ownership of content. I hope this explanation is helpful to you. If you are confused or have any further questions, please feel free to let me know. Mz7 (talk) 09:51, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 September 2019
- From the editors: Where do we go from here?
- Special report: Post-Framgate wrapup
- Traffic report: Varied and intriguing entries, less Luck, and some retreads
- News from the WMF: How the Wikimedia Foundation is making efforts to go green
- Recent research: Wikipedia's role in assessing credibility of news sources; using wikis against procrastination; OpenSym 2019 report
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- Last week's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The problem where some pages got it three times should now be fixed. [10]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 October. It will be on all wikis from 3 October (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working on a watchlist expiry feature. This means you can put things on your watchlist for a period of time instead of forever. They are looking for feedback on the questions they have.
- Special:Contributions will get the standard OOUI look. This makes it easier to use on mobile and makes it look like other
Special:pages. There is a script you can use to make the form smaller if you want to. [11]
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16:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – October 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which
applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories
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- Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which
Technical news
- As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.
Arbitration
- The 2019 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place October 4th to 10th.
- The arbitration case regarding Fram was closed. While there will be a local RfC
focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future
, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.
Miscellaneous
- The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.
Lapras IP
May also want to tidy up this. GMGtalk 05:54, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
- @GreenMeansGo:
Done Mz7 (talk) 05:55, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
- Sigh. GMGtalk 06:36, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
- Ah shoot, someone else got it while I wasn't on-wiki at the time. Thanks for the heads up, though. Mz7 (talk) 11:08, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
- Sigh. GMGtalk 06:36, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The abuse filter function now has a faster parser. This is to shorten the waiting time when you save an edit. [12]
Problems
- There is a problem in the visual editor when you copy or delete text with footnotes. It will be fixed soon. [13]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 October. It will be on all wikis from 10 October (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Community Wishlist Survey has a new format. It will focus on wikis that typically get less support. It will probably go back to the normal format next year. It is not decided exactly how it will work this year. You can leave feedback.
- The URL of the Wikimedia wiki main pages could be changed. This is because the current URLs cause several problems. For example
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Pagewould behttps://www.wikidata.org/instead. You can tell the developers if this would cause problems for your wiki. - There is a new technical community newsletter. You can read more about the work of Wikimedia's technical community. Subscribe to get the information in the future.
- Outreachy is an internship program for groups who are underrepresented in free and open-source software. There are seven Wikimedia projects about coding, documentation and quality assurance in the next round. Persons who fit the criteria can apply. The last day to apply is 5 November.
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15:35, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
Help w/locmapin
yo I'm trying to insert a map of Lombardy in a new draft, can someone help me with that, thx — Preceding unsigned comment added by FlavioDC00 (talk • contribs) 16:20, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
- Hi FlavioDC00. Unfortunately, I'm not too knowledgeable about inserting maps into Wikipedia articles. I would try asking your question at the Wikipedia:Teahouse; someone there might know. Best of luck, Mz7 (talk) 00:48, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
My sincere apologies
...for misclicking on your account and accidentally blocking you. I was in the process of converting a block that you had made into a checkuser block. It took a few minutes for me to realize what had happened before I undid the block.
— Berean Hunter (talk) 12:53, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
- Ah welp, there goes my clean block log.
Mz7 (talk) 19:44, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
- Welcome to the Accidental Block Club! Your complimentary smoking jacket is in the mail...-- Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 19:52, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
- Excellent. I'm sure it'll look quite dapper. Mz7 (talk) 21:40, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
- Just wait until the monogrammed spats arrive! -- Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 21:45, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
- Excellent. I'm sure it'll look quite dapper. Mz7 (talk) 21:40, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
- Welcome to the Accidental Block Club! Your complimentary smoking jacket is in the mail...-- Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 19:52, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
- Bit late to the party, but welcome to the club! (mine). Speaking of which...still waiting on my jacket, Ponyo. Is this "smoking jacket" a new addition or just an enwiki thing?
--TheSandDoctor Talk 06:33, 12 October 2019 (UTC) - If it's any consolation, and you're wondering where to go from here, my block log after 11 years of being clean is always worth a laugh. All I got was a squashed roll‑up. -- zzuuzz (talk) 08:29, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
Malaysian IP problem
Hi. I noticed you've run into the Malaysian IP vandal(s) 2001:d08::0/34 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · block user · block log). It's been reported at AN/ANI a number of times (most recently here) and I spent some time to come up with a more limited set of seven /40 ranges from which the vandalism originates (see here). The contributions are almost universally reverted, and what isn't reverted is questionable. If there's anything productive coming from the range, I doubt it outweighs the damage being done. I understand long-term IP range blocks are troublesome, but isn't this a candidate? —[AlanM1(talk)]— 00:56, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
- @AlanM1: I apologize for the delay in getting back to you. Personally, I have not blocked a range this wide before, so I am uncomfortable doing it without first consulting other administrators. I noticed that you had previously brought this range up at AN/ANI—that may be a good venue to get more eyes on this. Mz7 (talk) 07:51, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
- @Mz7: Thanks. I've made the case repeatedly, but other admins don't seem to want to engage either. The last one didn't even get a comment. Part of the problem may be that motives/actions of another plaintiff, Gundam5447, were questioned on his talk page (to AGF, possibly due to evidence of which I am unaware). Regardless of whatever might be going on there, this is a damaging persistent problem. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 20:19, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
Happy Birthday to you!!!
Have a very happy birthday on your special day!
Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 01:47, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
Happy birthday
Happy birthday, Mz7!
Little birdie told me it was your birthday. Bit belated, but a happy birthday to you! 
. --TheSandDoctor Talk 07:02, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
Happy Birthday!
| Happy Birthday | from the Birthday Committee | |
|---|---|---|
  Wishing Mz7 a very happy birthday on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Don't forget to save us all a piece of cake!--PATH SLOPU 13:09, 14 October 2019 (UTC) | ||
2019 CheckUser and Oversight appointments: Candidates appointed
The Arbitration Committee is pleased to welcome the following editors to the functionary team:
- L235 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is appointed as a CheckUser and Oversighter.
- Mz7 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is appointed as a CheckUser and Oversighter.
- SQL (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is appointed as a CheckUser.
- ST47 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is appointed as a CheckUser and Oversighter.
- Stwalkerster (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is appointed as an Oversighter.
- The Blade of the Northern Lights (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is appointed as an Oversighter.
- Xaosflux (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) is appointed as an Oversighter.
The Committee thanks the community and all candidates for helping to bring this process to a successful conclusion.
The Committee also welcomes the following user back to the functionary team:
- Ivanvector (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), who resigned his CheckUser permission in May 2019, is reappointed as a CheckUser following a request to the committee for return of the permission.
The Committee also thanks Timotheus Canens (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) for his long history of contributions to the functionary team. Timotheus Canens voluntarily resigned his CheckUser and Oversight permissions in September 2019.
For the Arbitration Committee,
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now use more advanced editing tools on the mobile web. You can turn them on and off in your preferences in the mobile version. [14]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 October. It will be on all wikis from 17 October (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are no longer supported. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They will not get security support. You can't read Wikimedia wikis in Internet Explorer on Windows XP or Windows versions that are older than Windows XP. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them made the wikis less secure for everyone else. [15]
- In the future section headings might have a share link. This is to make it easier to link to the section. You can read more and discuss.
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23:55, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
You've got mail!
Message added 06:52, 16 October 2019 (UTC). It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.
——SerialNumber54129 06:52, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
- Replied :) Mz7 (talk) 07:52, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
i am going to make the Mr Dawar wikipedia page again
i am going to make the Mr Dawar wikipedia page again with sites refrence. Please if you read the negative suggess about delition kindly also check out positive ones the people just jelouse and nothing else they showoff with there instagram followers is this is include in your wikipedia policy to mention that a person should more followers on instagram then your editors have please do not delete this time — Preceding unsigned comment added by Westrextravels (talk • contribs) 20:43, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
Thanks
Stellar checkuser service! I filed it, and twenty minutes later the mystery was solved. Thanks.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 04:05, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
- @ThatMontrealIP: Yeah, by chance I happened upon your request just as soon as you had posted it. Mz7 (talk) 22:48, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
You and SPI
I wish you would please stop writing such thoughtful comments at SPI, e.g., Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Joohnny braavoo1. I'm so glad you were appointed a CU. Best.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:41, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
- Bbb23, I'm melting at the kindness of your words. Mz7 (talk) 23:46, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The API sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as
internal. API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives. [16]
Problems
- There is a translation tool we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed. [17]
- The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed. [18]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (calendar).
- Reference Previews will be a beta feature on all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 October. See how to join.
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14:38, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
The Train Master Drafts
I think I accidentally recreated a draft in an edit conflict with you, see Draft:Saucon Rail Trail. Cards84664 (talk) 00:50, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
- @Cards84664: Huh, that's interesting. I've never seen that happen before. Well, it's gone now. :) Mz7 (talk) 00:52, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
- Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist. [19][20]
- You can share feedback and ideas on the Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
- OOUI now allows using
px(pixels) instead ofem(em) for some specific cases. [21][22]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 October. It will be on all wikis from 31 October (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January. [23]
- Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named
wg*tomw.config. The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can know more about it and tell the developers if you want to try this out on your wiki first.
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16:16, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 October 2019
- In the media: How to use or abuse Wikipedia for fun or profit
- Special report: “Catch and Kill” on Wikipedia: Paid editing and the suppression of material on alleged sexual abuse
- Interview: Carl Miller on Wikipedia Wars
- Community view: Observations from the mainland
- Arbitration report: October actions
- Gallery: Wiki Loves Broadcast
- Recent research: Research at Wikimania 2019: More communication doesn't make editors more productive; Tor users doing good work; harmful content rare on English Wikipedia
- News from the WMF: Welcome to Wikipedia! Here's what we're doing to help you stick around
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
Reply
Hello, Mz7. In response to the question you asked here, the material removed here was a copyvio of Sweezy's The Theory of Capitalist Development. Freeknowledgecreator (talk) 20:42, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
New Page Review newsletter November 2019
Hello Mz7,
This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.
- Getting the queue to 0
There are now 803 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox.
Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.
- Coordinator
Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.
- This month's refresher course
Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.
- Tools
- It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
- It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
- Reviewer Feedback
Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.
- Second set of eyes
- Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
- Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
- Arbitration Committee
The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.
- Community Wish list
There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).
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Guideline and policy news
- An RfC was closed with the consensus that the resysop criteria should be made stricter.
- The follow-up RfC to develop that change is now open at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2019 Resysop Criteria (2).
- A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.
Arbitration
- Eligible editors may now nominate themselves as candidates for the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections. The self-nomination period will close November 12, with voting running from November 19 through December 2.
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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 03:34, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- At Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites. [24]
Changes later this week
MediaWiki:ipb-default-expirycan set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to useMediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ipto set a different default block length for IP editors. [25]- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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16:48, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
2.29.209.7
Could you please block user:2.29.209.7. AIV is not responding, and she clearly does not intend to stop until she is blocked. CLCStudent (talk) 00:24, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
- Done. Mz7 (talk) 00:26, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
Block evasion by Ramykhodeir
- Ramykhodeir (talk · contribs) appears to be back: [26]. Thanks, 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 04:55, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
- Ad Orientem took care of it. 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 05:15, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
Hi. Regarding above SPI, the other socks are globally locked. I think these 3 should be as well. Thanks. Flix11 (talk) 10:50, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
- Hi Flix11. I've requested global locks at meta:Steward requests/Global: diff. Thanks, Mz7 (talk) 10:52, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
Thank you
For your kind comment. Must add here am rightly impressed with your contributions. Infinity11114444 (talk) 13:14, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.
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22:03, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
Request for a last chance
Can a last chance be given to me? I realized my mistake and understood that i misused my rights . Can u please give me a last chance .I promise that this will not happen anywhere and anytime in future except for the acts of vandalism.
Otherwise I think I should open a new account on Wikipedia and start all over again. King Rishab Dugar (talk) 05:25, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
- Hi King Rishab Dugar. You should not feel like you will never get rollback again unless you create a new account and start over (please see WP:SOCK for our policy on multiple accounts). I recommend spending the next few weeks reverting vandalism by patrolling Special:RecentChanges, making sure that you appropriately distinguish between vandalism and good faith edits in your edit summaries. If you edit from desktop, Twinkle is a fantastic tool that provides a sort of "rollback" button of its own, and it also makes warning vandals very easy as well. Once you have more experience reverting vandalism, feel free to re-request rollback either at WP:PERM or by asking me here on my talk page. Mz7 (talk) 07:27, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
help adding candidate page
see Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2019/Candidates/DGG
It isn;'t transcluding DGG ( talk ) 23:07, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
- @DGG: I took a look, and I think you've transcluded it properly. There is some technical magic on the page that organizes all of the candidate statements in random order every time you refresh the page, so make sure you aren't looking at the bottom of the candidate statements for yours! Mz7 (talk) 01:19, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
- thanks! DGG ( talk ) 05:43, 13 November 2019 (UTC) .
A survey to improve the community consultation outreach process
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The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking to improve the community consultation outreach process for Foundation policies, and we are interested in why you didn't participate in a recent consultation that followed a community discussion you’ve been part of.
Please fill out this short survey to help us improve our community consultation process for the future. It should only take about three minutes.
The privacy policy for this survey is here. This survey is a one-off request from us related to this unique topic.
Thank you for your participation, Kbrown (WMF) 10:45, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
You've got mail
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:25, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
- @Cwmhiraeth: Just want to acknowledge that I have seen your email. Apologies for the delay in responding. Mz7 (talk) 03:29, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the
centralauthdatabase. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames. [27]
Changes later this week
- You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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20:17, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
ArbCom 2019 election voter message
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Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
Hello,
Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.
I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!
From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.
If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.
Thank you!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script. [28]
- Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them. [29]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view. [30]
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16:52, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 November 2019
- From the editor: Put on your birthday best
- News and notes: How soon for the next million articles?
- In the media: You say you want a revolution
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Arbitration report: Two requests for arbitration cases
- Traffic report: The queen and the princess meet the king and the joker
- Technology report: Reference things, sister things, stranger things
- Gallery: Winter and holidays
- Recent research: Bot census; discussions differ on Spanish and English Wikipedia; how nature's seasons affect pageviews
- Essay: Adminitis
- From the archives: WikiProject Spam, revisited