User talk:AmandaNP/Archives/2024

Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

Administrator changes

Clovermoss

Dennis Brown

• Julia W
• Marasmusine
• PBS

CheckUser changes

• Aoidh
• HJ Mitchell
• Sdrqaz
• Spicy
• ToBeFree
• Vanamonde93
• Z1720

Maxim

• Enterprisey
• Izno
• SilkTork

Oversighter changes

• Aoidh
• Firefly
• Sdrqaz
• ToBeFree
• Z1720

Maxim

• Enterprisey
• Izno
• SilkTork

Arbitration

• Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
• The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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Happy New Year, AmandaNP!

Happy New Year!

AmandaNP,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
--MDK-Fan 23:12, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages. --MDK-Fan 23:12, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

WP:UAA/BOT again

Hi Amanda, it's me again. Is the bot working correctly, or are there still issues? It looks like it worked only for 20 minutes the last time you fixed it. Also Happy New Year Nobody (talk) 09:48, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

-_- I'm unlikely to have time to review before the weekend...I'll see if I just stupidly forgot something tonight, but otherwise it'll be on hold. -- Amanda (she/her) 01:54, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

@1AmNobody24: Thank you. I made a silly mistake implementing the last fix. After this run, I'll reenable the automatic one, and please let me know if it stops again. -- Amanda (she/her) 06:38, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Looks good. I'll keep an eye out to see if it keeps working. Thanks for the timely fix. Nobody (talk) 07:48, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi @AmandaNP, could you check if it's still working? There haven't been new listings for 10 hours now. Nobody (talk) 16:19, 15 January 2024 (UTC) nevermind it's listing again.Nobody (talk) 17:48, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Adminship Nomination

Hi @AmandaNP,

I recently saw your nomination of @Red-tailed hawk and was wondering if you could take a look at my page and see if I qualify. This would be extremely helpful. If you have any criticism, feedback, critiques, comments, etc. please let me know. I would really appreciate this. Please let me know as soon as you can.

Thank you,

@Avishai11

Avishai11 (talk) 01:54, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

My comments would fall in line with WP:TOONEW. -- Amanda (she/her) 03:10, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Ok, thank you! Avishai11 (talk) 23:12, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Your other username and old usernames on discussion messages

Hello Amanda,

As I changed my username from Breathinkeeps32 12 hours ago, did you change your name from DeltaQuad to AmandaNP (your main account) at some point? This is because on your old discussions, it still links to User:DeltaQuad, which is an alt account but normally, they redirect to the new username. So basically on old discussions, the username does not change (but newer discussions will) so I still see my former username in existing discussions. Is that correct? JuniperChill (talk) 13:35, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Correct. -- Amanda (she/her) 01:49, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Great, thank you for the help Amanda. Your the best! (and loved the fact I got them all right!) JuniperChill (talk) 23:52, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

Administrator changes

• Red-tailed hawk
• Robertsky

• Ameliorate!
• Ancheta Wis
• Anthony Bradbury (deceased)
• Cobi
• Ev
• Moondyne
• Worm That Turned

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

CheckUser changes

Wugapodes

Interface administrator changes

• Enterprisey
• Izno

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
• Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
• Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
• The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:01, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

User:DeltaQuadBot

Hello, Amanda,

Typically, at about 02:00 UTC, DeltaQuadBot fills up Category:Non-free files with orphaned versions more than 7 days old needing human review with files that need additional review by a human editor. But nothing showed up today so I'm just checking in on the Bot and making sure everything is working fine. DeltaQuadBot somestimes adds images to this category at different times of the day but the main bunch of files arrives at 02:00 UTC so it's unusual that there was nothing tonight. Many thanks for all that you do on the project! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:29, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

@Liz: The bot does run every 4 hours, but is contingent on there being files in Category:Non-free files with orphaned versions more than 7 days old. If people don't put them there to begin with, they won't process. I ran the bot, it had zero errors and the category is empty. I'm not sure if one person works later in the night and puts them in the category for mass processing for that time or if a bot does, but my first sense is to say working as intended from the bots viewpoint. -- Amanda (she/her) 04:09, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Did my IP change after moving?

Note, please do not give my IP address here, just say if it changed or not.

Hi Amanda,

I just moved houses around 3 February (where I took a one week pause from editing - my edit history) and idk remember what my IP address was so has it changed? I have never edited anywhere outside my current and former house as I do not edit from my phone. When I moved, it was only a 15 min walk away meaning I still live in the same city the east of England (Norfolk). I also never edited while logged out. In other words, I have only edited from this account on a PC.

I also love it when my current IP is far from accurate as it shows that it comes from London, around ~ 100 miles (160 km) away. But hey, at least it got the country/state (UK and England respectively) correct. JuniperChill (talk) JuniperChill (talk) 13:29, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

I would not give your IP address out as it's against many different policies, but barring security concerns, we don't really run checks just to check things out on accounts. 99% of the time (if your UK based network is not dynamic as hell) when you move, you would get a new IP address. -- Amanda (she/her) 14:00, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

So WP:Checkusers are there only/mostly if there is a concern ? Which explains the main purpose of a checkuser is for WP:sockpuppet reasons or other concerns, rather than what I just did since almost all of my edits were not problematic and I also don't have another account. JuniperChill (talk) 15:27, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @JuniperChill: If you know your old IP, you can get your current IP at whatismyipaddress.com. - FlightTime (open channel) 15:40, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) also Wikipedia:Get my IP address. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:58, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Basically, but I also forgot what the other talkpage stalkers said as I was super tired when I replied last night. -- Amanda (she/her) 01:36, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Question

Hello Amanda NP. This is in regards to File:Robert Shulman (serial killer).jpg. I uploaded that image 10 years ago, then it looks like someone came along a week ago and uploaded a new large-sized version against the non-free rules. So, a bot adjusted his version down to size and then your bot deleted my original. Do you know if there is anyway to just reinstate my version of the image? It's not a big deal but still. It doesn't show up in my uploaded images anymore. Thanks, ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 02:59, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

It would have to be the active image in order to do so. See the reasoning on Template:Orphaned non-free revisions. -- Amanda (she/her) 04:45, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Administrator changes

• Sdkb
• The Night Watch

• East718
• Isabelle Belato
• Mzajac
• Staecker
• Stan Shebs
• Sugarfish
• Tamzin

Bureaucrat changes

SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
• Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news

• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous

• The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:21, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Six years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:39, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

DQP bot glitch

Just a notice that your bot may have glitched. It flagged a username (CaptainUnderpantsLover) under "derp" and this seems incorrect. Mseingth2133444 (talk/contribs) 02:46, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

@Mseingth2133444: Please see User talk:AmandaNP/UAA/Whitelist#Instructions. -- Amanda (she/her) 13:17, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

Administrator changes

• Kbdank71
• Kosack
• NrDg
• TLSuda

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

Technical news

• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

Miscellaneous

• Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:47, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Unblock table

Your bot seems to have missed the unblock request on User talk:Plutonical. It was posted on 5 February 14:48, but it wasn't added at 15:00. It's still not there. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 20:17, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Issue was much bigger than was thought, with a total of 26 entries missing. The issue is now fixed and pushed to the server. -- Amanda (she/her) 03:34, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Can you make your bot undelete an older revision of this file?

Hi. I'm here to ask for moving this file to Commons. I've relicensed under public domain because it's too simple for protection. Files for moving to Commons must have all revisions exist, and it's missing the first revision uploaded by Vacant0. Can you use your bot for undeleting it? If yes, I'm very pleased for moving free files to Commons! Kys5g ^talk! 02:57, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

I can't use my bot to do it no, but if you can get a commons admin (or recognizable SME in the area of PD-textlogo) to sign off that this is sufficiently meets that standard as I don't have the knowledge to tell, then I will happily make it available from my regular account. -- Amanda (she/her) 03:43, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Oh, my fault. I though while bots can delete older revisions when unnecessary or unused fair use (CSD F5), bots can also restore revisions in place; but I was wrong, only their owners can undo these deletions. Thanks for your explanation! Kys5g ^talk! 04:25, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Kys5g: The file cannot be moved to Commons because it's above threshold of originality in Poland, its country of origin. I have updated the description page accordingly. It's an SVG so the size is just numbers in the file for how the computer should show it by default—in reality the file is essentially infinite resolution. So the revision doesn't have to be restored. It can be though. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 03:47, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

Then can you explain why did PZ's JPEG logo exist on Commons? Kys5g ^talk! 04:27, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

It's not supposed to. I've put it up for deletion. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 04:37, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

JayCubby blocked as sockpuppet

2 days ago, you globally locked BMX is on wikibreak right now! as an LTA. Yesterday, JayCubby, the creator of that account, was blocked for sockpuppetry by Primefac. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 19:30, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

This is a very puzzling situation cause I feel like I want to AGF, but there is too much here to use AGF, so I've processed a lock in the meantime. -- Amanda (she/her) 02:55, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Deprotect the redirect page for 9/11

I know WP:WHATABOUT exists (it’s mainly for page deletion but still) but when it comes to page protection and if you’re not trying to compare how “controversial” the things are it’s fine. The page for the actual September 11th attacks that it redirects to are semi protected, so a redirect page that goes to that shouldn’t have extended confirmed protection, especially since it has only been edited a few times since the protection went on (which is a reasonable amount for a redirect page). I propose a trial deprotection of the 9/11 redirect page and, if vandalism returns, raise the level to what you see fit. CharlieEdited (talk) 21:19, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

I have several concerns about this. 9/11 has been subject to alternate theories in the past and currently falls under AMPOL CT. Given this is also the year of an election, and disinformation campaigns that have occurred more and more as of recent, I don't think this is good timing either. And beyond that, the talkpage gives a good indication of how unprotection could go wrong, even if it's not related to a page move. I don't see a balanced argument to deprotect it until at least after the election without a more valid reasoning. If you are wishing to edit the redirect, forming consensus and/or using the edit request would be a good idea. -- Amanda (she/her) 02:41, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

I am not talking about the page for the actual attacks. I am talking about the redirect page. Redirect pages almost never get more vandalism than the page they redirect to, so it makes no sense for the redirect page that is named 9/11 (which is the one I am referring to) to have a higher level of protection than the page it goes to. CharlieEdited (talk) 16:43, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

(Amanda, you are welcome to leave your own reply but I am also giving my own as I am a (talk page stalker)). I think the reason why redirect pages may have a higher protection than its target is because the target pages needs to be edited every now and then, but for redirect pages, there is usually no good reason to. You could either wait until you reach 500 edits, or better yet, do an edit request. Plus, people may do a cut and past move so I see why the redirect needs to be protected.

See the redirect page for kiev as an example. The redirect page is fully protected but the target page kyiv is ECP protected. I am almost ECP myself (480 edits). See Wikipedia:Redirect#protection:

Sometimes, a redirect to an article pertaining to a very controversial topic will be fully or, more rarely, semi-protected indefinitely. This is done when any of the following criteria are met:

*There is no reason for it to be edited

• It is frequently expanded into whole articles
• It is an obvious vandalism target
• It redirects and/or refers to a very controversial topic

IMO, it meets criteria 1, 3 and 4, so its clear why it is protected. Also, 9/11 is actually included in that section so that page will need to change should it be unprotected. JuniperChill (talk) 17:06, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Fair. I wasn’t even interested in editing it anyway but I just got caught up in the fact that I keep trying to lower protection on certain pages, (namely Roblox which I still think should go back to semi but Ferret said no and the only real argument against it was “JuSt WaIt To EdIt It”), because for many articles their protection stays way after it’s necessary from admins forgetting about it. CharlieEdited (talk) 17:37, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

For your information

I just saw some vandalism on my watchlist mentioning "Project Ban AmandaNP". Perhaps this is a sockpuppet of someone you encountered before? - ZLEA _T\^C 04:02, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Another satisfied customer of some sort...no clue who this could be. -- Amanda (she/her) 08:39, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

Administrator changes

Nyttend

• JohnOwens
• Killiondude
• MelanieN
• Nihonjoe

Bureaucrat changes

Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

Joe Roe

Oversight changes

GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

Technical news

• Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!

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Tech News: 2024-19

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

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. [1][2]
• Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the SiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page. [3]
• Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services. [4]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar). [5][6]
• When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". [7]

Future changes

• A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update regarding this extension.
• Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally. [8]

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:41, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

IP block on Met Office

Hey @AmandaNP I'm a Wikimedian in Residence working on climate change info. Yesterday I was at the UK Met Office to run an editathon but my group was unable to edit for most of the session due to your IP block on the Met Office. I'm sure there's a reason the block is in place. I wanted to ask if that reason has been resolved and the block can be lifted? Alternatively, would it be possible to lift the block for one day on Friday the 10th of May 2024 (UK time) so that I can do a follow up session with the participants?

Much appreciated! TatjanaClimate (talk) 08:32, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

@TatjanaClimate: I would of course need to know which block this is related too (aka the IP address) but I can understand you not posting it openly. If you could email it to me for review, I can check to see what possibilities exist. -- Amanda (she/her) 12:01, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Email sent! Thanks! TatjanaClimate (talk) 13:43, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

@TatjanaClimate: This IP does not directly belong to the Met Office. It belongs to IBOSS, which essentially acts as a proxy for many people which is something we have to keep strictly blocked. Can you advise participants to create one from home before they come? That or we might be able to see what ACC could do in real time - but day before the event is really not the time to be organizing this :/ especially since I work 10+ hours days right now. @Stwalkerster and FastLizard4: for additional guideance & help outside hours i'm avail. -- Amanda (she/her) 13:57, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

@AmandaNP is it an anononly block?

ACC might be able to help with this if it's just accounts that are needed, especially if we know a time window where most requests will be coming in so we can keep a closer eye on the queue. The best approach at this point is indeed to get participants to pre-create if possible, or maybe to use something like the Programs and Events dashboard to create the accounts as needed for you. This is all contingent on what type of block is in place though as to whether you'll be able to edit through the block while logged in. stwalkerster (talk) 14:51, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

@Stwalkerster: Global hard block that I just converted to a soft block, but still going to have issues with account creation even for logged in users last I checked. -- Amanda (she/her) 03:25, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

That's fine, P&E dashboard does account creations via OAuth just like ACC as I understand it. stwalkerster (talk) 05:06, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes

Graham Beards

• Deskana
• Mets501
• Staxringold

Bureaucrat changes

• Deskana
• Warofdreams

Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
• The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous

• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:43, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

SPI colors and User:AmandaNP/SPI case list

As a heads up, I moved the SPI colors to TemplateStyles invoked in Template:SPIstatusheader, which leaves your custom SPI list colorless. I think that makes your list look nicer since it's pre-separated, but either way, this is to let you know to make an adjustment in the bot to add the stylesheet if you want them back. Izno (talk) 20:51, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Blocking of Japan

Can I request a reason as why you have blocked Japanese mobile services from creating an account?  Augu  Maugu ♨ 04:12, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

i had a friend try to create an account the other day and a “This IP address range has been globally blocked” message appeared.  Augu  Maugu ♨ 04:15, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

@AuguMaugu: I can't give comment without knowing the IP range you speak of. "Japanese mobile services" is a major surface for IPs. -- Amanda (she/her) 17:21, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

DQB and usernames (not) longer than 40 chars

Minor bug report: DQB probably shouldn't consider "attempting to skip filter" for the 40 chars rule. (Example.) jlwoodwa (talk) 07:02, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

@Jlwoodwa: I don't get involved in the day to day administration of the blacklist used for the bot. You are looking for User talk:AmandaNP/UAA/Blacklist and the instructions are on that page. -- Amanda (she/her) 17:20, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Ah, sorry, and thanks for the directions. jlwoodwa (talk) 17:26, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Bot error

Hi, It seems like your bot User:DeltaQuadBot made an error in WP:AIU. The name JustaFictionalGoogologist is fine, but your bot marked it as inappropriate. Thanks! Martin^talk 02:34, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

@Martinc021: Please see the section above for instructions as I don't handle any of the day to day management of the filters it uses. -- Amanda (she/her) 02:45, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

ok, sorry Martin^talk 02:47, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

Administrator changes

• Elli
• HouseBlaster
• Pickersgill-Cunliffe

• Brianga
• De728631
• Georgewilliamherbert
• Hyacinth (deceased)
• ProveIt
• The Night Watch

Technical news

• Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)

Miscellaneous

• The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more

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Tech News: 2024-30

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature News

• Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
• Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [9]
• Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. [10]
• Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
• Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons. [11]

Project Updates

• Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.

Learn more

• Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff.
• How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin and Add a Fact, to help take Wikimedia into the future.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:01, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-32

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

• Two new parser functions will be available this week: {{#dir}} and {{#bcp47}}. These will reduce the need for Template:Dir and Template:BCP47 on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania. [12][13]
• Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Wikipedia: or Wikisource: namespaces) if they understand the known limitations. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools in these namespaces.
• The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.

Project updates

• Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.
• The new parser is being rolled out on Wikivoyage wikis over the next few months. The English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikivoyage were switched to Parsoid last week. For more information, see Parsoid/Parser Unification.

Learn more

• There will be more than 200 sessions at Wikimania this week. Here is a summary of some of the key sessions related to the product and technology area.
• The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available.
• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages; Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and more.
• The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available.
• The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:40, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

Isabelle Belato

• Ian.thomson
• Modussiccandi

Interface administrator changes

Izno

CheckUser changes

Barkeep49

Technical news

• Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
• Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:59, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

Why have you blocked me?

I want to know why you have blocked me when I haven't done anything wrong.

Toppmoller Toppmoller (talk) 22:44, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

I assume you are talking about one of my global blocks about a proxy or VPN. I would need the IP address to be able to review anything. -- Amanda (she/her) 01:04, 8 August 2024 (UTC)