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Books and Bytes - Issue 26
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 26, December – January 2018
- #1Lib1Ref
- User Group update
- Global branches update
- Spotlight: What can we glean from OCLC’s experience with library staff learning Wikipedia?
- Bytes in brief
Arabic and French versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!
Read the full newsletter
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018).
Administrator changes
None
Blurpeace • Dana boomer • Deltabeignet • Denelson83 • Grandiose • Salvidrim! • Ymblanter
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
- Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.
Technical news
- A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.
Arbitration
- The Arbitration Committee has enacted a change to the discretionary sanctions procedure which requires administrators to add a standardized editnotice when placing page restrictions. Editors cannot be sanctioned for violations of page restrictions if this editnotice was not in place at the time of the violation.
A-Class Medal
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The Military history A-Class medal | |
| On behalf of the Milhist coordinators, I hereby award you the A-Class medal for your great work in successfully improving German destroyer Z3 Max Schultz, Type 1934-class destroyer, and German destroyer Z51 to A-Class status. Congratulations! AustralianRupert (talk) 05:12, 4 February 2018 (UTC) |
New Page Reviewer Newsletter
Backlog update:
- The new page backlog is currently at 3819 unreviewed articles, with a further 6660 unreviewed redirects.
- We are very close to eliminating the backlog completely; please help by reviewing a few extra articles each day!
New Year Backlog Drive results:
- We made massive progress during the recent four weeks of the NPP Backlog Drive, during which the backlog reduced by nearly six thousand articles and the length of the backlog by almost 3 months!
General project update:
- ACTRIAL will end it's initial phase on the 14th of March. Our goal is to reduce the backlog significantly below the 90 day index point by the 14th of March. Please consider helping with this goal by reviewing a few additional pages a day.
- Reviewing redirects is an important and necessary part of New Page Patrol. Please read the guideline on appropriate redirects for advice on reviewing redirects. Inappropriate redirects can be re-targeted or nominated for deletion at RfD.
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newspaperarchive.com application
Hi Iazyges - I just applied for a newspaperarchive.com subscription. Unfortunately, my WP library email address is not correct. When I originally tried to apply it pulled an email address incorrectly associated with my account and, while I've updated it in my WP account, it doesn't update in the Library and there's no way for me to manually change it. Would it be possible for you to ignore the email address associated with my request (which I don't have any access to) and could I email you with a correct one? Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience. Chetsford (talk) 04:59, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
- @Chetsford: No problem, you should be able to select it from the sidebar, or use the letter topicon on my userpage. -- Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 05:36, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CXLII, February 2018
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The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 07:16, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
Fold3 Subscription Renewal
Iazyges,
I'll check again tomorrow PM but it's been just shy of 2 weeks now since I got the email confirming my subscription renewal. Cheers, Finktron (talk) 23:02, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
- Yeah, still no word from Fold3 thus far. Cheers, Finktron (talk) 10:10, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
- @Finktron: I’ve already sent in your request, am waiting for confirmation from their side. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 12:53, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello! I really appreciate the GA reviews you did of my articles Aphrodite, Jonah, and Satan. I have just nominated the article Lucian for GA and, seeing how you seem to have a tendency to work on articles relating to classical antiquity, I was wondering if you would be willing to review it. I would be willing to review one of your articles in return, if you would like me to. As I am sure you are already uncomfortably aware, the GA review page is perpetually backlogged and I doubt that Lucian is famous enough nowadays to naturally attract a reviewer on his own, so I thought I would try and actively procure one for him so that I do not end up waiting around for over a year before someone stumbles across the nomination. --Katolophyromai (talk) 23:25, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
- @Katolophyromai: Sure thing. If you have the time to review one of my GANs, I'd suggest you do Marcian or Heraklonas. -- Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 00:36, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Marcian you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. 
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Katolophyromai -- Katolophyromai (talk) 04:20, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
GOCE February 2018 news
Guild of Copy Editors February 2018 News
  Welcome to the February 2018 GOCE newsletter in which you will find Guild updates since the December edition. We got to a great start for the year, holding the backlog at nine months. 100 requests were submitted in the first 6 weeks of the year and were swiftly handled with an average completion time of 9 days. Coordinator elections: In December, coordinators for the first half of 2018 were elected. Jonesey95 remained as lead coordinator and Corrine, Miniapolis and Tdslk as assistant coordinators. Keira1996 stepped down as assistant coordinator and was replaced by Reidgreg. Thanks to all who participated! End of year reports were prepared for 2016 and 2017, providing a detailed look at the Guild's long-term progress. January drive: We set out to remove April, May, and June 2017 from our backlog and all December 2017 Requests (a total of 275 articles). As with previous years, the January drive was an outstanding success and by the end of the month all but 57 of these articles were cleared. Officially, of the 38 who signed up, 21 editors recorded 259 copy edits (490,256 words). February blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 11 through 17 February, focusing on Requests and the last articles tagged in May 2017. At the end of the week there were only 14 pending requests, with none older than 20 days. Of the 11 who signed up, 10 editors completed 35 copy edits (98,538 words). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Miniapolis, Corinne, Tdslk, and Reidgreg. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:00, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Gordian dynasty
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Gordian dynasty you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The lazy mouse -- The lazy mouse (talk) 12:41, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Palladius (Caesar)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Palladius (Caesar) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The lazy mouse -- The lazy mouse (talk) 14:41, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Gordian dynasty
The article Gordian dynasty you nominated as a good article has passed 
; see Talk:Gordian dynasty for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The lazy mouse -- The lazy mouse (talk) 15:02, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Palladius (Caesar)
The article Palladius (Caesar) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Palladius (Caesar) for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of The lazy mouse -- The lazy mouse (talk) 15:41, 26 February 2018 (UTC)