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The Signpost: 1 January 2023

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation ousts, bans quarter of Arabic Wikipedia admins

• In the media: Odd bedfellows, Elon and Jimbo, reliable sources for divorces, and more

• Interview: ComplexRational's RfA debrief

• Technology report: Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"

• Essay: Mobile editing

• Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee Election 2022

• Recent research: Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes

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This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2023)

Scarves in the Armenian Quarter, Jerusalem Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Scarf Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Summer Palace of Peter the Great • Central Bosnia Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 2 January 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Happy New Year, K6ka!

Happy New Year!

K6ka,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
— Moops ^⋠T⋡ 04:38, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

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120		Sibelius (scorewriter) (talk)	Wikify
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4		Growing Underground (talk)	Orphan
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).

Administrator changes

• ComplexRational
• Extraordinary Writ

Stephen

• Andrew Yong
• Dbenbenn
• DESiegel
• GlassCobra
• Joe Decker
• Nancy
• Pathoschild
• StuffOfInterest
• William Pietri
• Wwwwolf
• Xdamr

Interface administrator changes

Nihiltres

CheckUser changes

Moneytrees

• Ivanvector
• SilkTork

Oversighter changes

• GeneralNotability
• Moneytrees

• Guerillero
• SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.

Arbitration

• Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, SilkTork.
• The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
• Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.

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Happy Sixth Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing K6ka a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Chris Troutman (talk) 14:21, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2023)

The start line of the Canberra Marathon in 2006 Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Canberra Marathon Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Scarf • Summer Palace of Peter the Great Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 9 January 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

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760		Treaty of Sèvres (talk)	Add sources
96		Street hierarchy (talk)	Add sources
116		Space medicine (talk)	Add sources
18		Washout (erosion) (talk)	Add sources
10		Real Time AudioSuite (talk)	Add sources
73		Timeline of African-American history (talk)	Cleanup
88		Japanese hip hop (talk)	Cleanup
145		Expressways of China (talk)	Cleanup
205		Minecraft modding (talk)	Expand
387		Primeval (film) (talk)	Expand
50		Iron Gate I Hydroelectric Power Station (talk)	Expand
66		Writing in space (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
6,874		Terrell Owens (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
96		Vico C (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
24		Backroad (talk)	Merge
22		Country lane (talk)	Merge
75		Cakewalk by BandLab (talk)	Merge
6		Barbara Parker (politician) (talk)	Wikify
29		Midway High School (talk)	Wikify
7		DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport (talk)	Wikify
2		Anselmus Ephorinus (talk)	Orphan
2		Badli, Shahkot (talk)	Orphan
2		Barbara Sierakowska (talk)	Orphan
2		Pyotr Isakov (talk)	Stub
3		Bishopville High School (talk)	Stub
21		Green Bay Press-Gazette (talk)	Stub
4		Paul Mooney: Analyzing White America (talk)	Stub
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25		Wild Wild West (Kool Moe Dee song) (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2023-02

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 tags to filter edits in the recent changes feed or on your watchlist. You can now use tags to filter out edits you don't want to see. Previously you could only use tags to focus on the edits with those tags. [1]
• Special:WhatLinksHere shows all pages that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype for how to sort those pages alphabetically. You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket.
• You can now use the thanks function on your watchlist and the user contribution page. [2]
• A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you don't have to write the explanation every time. [3]
• Matrix is a chat tool. You can now use matrix: to create Matrix links on wiki pages. [4]
• You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also hide subpages which are translation pages. [5]

Changes later this week

• Realtime preview for wikitext is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it in the editor toolbar.
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 10 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 12 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 January. It will be on all wikis from 12 January (calendar).

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This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2023)

A kiddie ride is a coin-operated amusement ride for young children. Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Kiddie ride Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Canberra Marathon • Scarf Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 16 January 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

The Signpost: 16 January 2023

• From the team: We heard zoomers liked fortnights: the biweekly Signpost rides again

• Special report: Coverage of 2022 bans reveals editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020

• News and notes: Revised Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines up for vote, WMF counsel departs, generative models under discussion

• In the media: Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again

• Technology report: View it! A new tool for image discovery

• In focus: Busting into Grand Central

• Serendipity: How I bought part of Wikipedia – for less than $100

• Gallery: What is our responsibility when it comes to images?

• Humour: New geologically speedy deletion criteria introduced

• Opinion: Good old days, in which fifth-symbol-lacking lipograms roam'd our librarious litany

• Featured content: Flip your lid

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2022

• From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago

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4		Adriano (footballer, born December 1987) (talk)	Orphan
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Tech News: 2023-03

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

• The URLs in "prev" links on page history now contain diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID] in place of diff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]. This is to fix a problem with links pointing to incorrect diffs when history was filtered by a tag. Some user scripts may break as a result of this change. [6]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).
• Some changes to the appearance of talk pages have only been available on Talk: and User talk: namespaces. These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such as Wikipedia talk:. They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including Wikipedia: pages (e.g., at the Village Pump). You can change your preferences (beta feature). [7]
• On Wikisources, when an image is zoomed or panned in the Page: namespace, the same zoom and pan settings will be remembered for all Page: namespace pages that are linked to a particular Index: namespace page. [8]
• The Vector 2022 skin will become the default for the English Wikipedia desktop users. The change will take place on January 18 at 15:00 UTC. Learn more.

Future changes

• The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey, which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts next week on 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. You can start drafting your proposals in the CWS sandbox.

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Your block of 207.195.80.0/24 range

New vandal whose first edit was WikiLove for an an address in that range is pretty suspicious.   –Skywatcher68 (talk) 17:44, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2023)

Side one of a 1930 brochure for the Ambassador Hotel in San Francisco Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Brochure Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Kiddie ride • Canberra Marathon Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 23 January 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

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88		Columbus Metropolitan Airport (talk)	Add sources
980		Maya peoples (talk)	Add sources
2,262		Jim Varney (talk)	Add sources
126		Haitian diaspora (talk)	Cleanup
15		Chamblee High School (talk)	Cleanup
20		Denton High School (talk)	Cleanup
67		Option ROM (talk)	Expand
38		Dell Inspiron desktop computers (talk)	Expand
129		Dell monitors (talk)	Expand
317		Computer fan (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
58		Enthusiast computing (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
25		Astronautical hygiene (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
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576		Space colonization (talk)	Merge
8,000		Proprietary software (talk)	Merge
54		Apple–Intel architecture (talk)	Wikify
28		Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science (talk)	Wikify
145		Pensacola International Airport (talk)	Wikify
5		Stacy Ritter (talk)	Orphan
39		Atraumatic restorative treatment (talk)	Orphan
2		Adam Jastrzebski (talk)	Orphan
59		John R. Cherry III (talk)	Stub
3		Stone Mountain Airport (talk)	Stub
2		Dennis High School (talk)	Stub
6		Aleksandr Laveykin (talk)	Stub
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Tech News: 2023-04

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, for ~15 minutes, all wikis were unreachable for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a timing issue. [9]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).
• If you have the Beta Feature for DiscussionTools enabled, the appearance of talk pages will add more information about discussion activity. [10][11]
• The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS), which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts on Monday 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC.

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This week's article for improvement (week 5, 2023)

Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: The Sims (video game) Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Brochure • Kiddie ride Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 30 January 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

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129		Dell Vostro (talk)	Add sources
2,893		Turmeric (talk)	Add sources
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166		Silicon on insulator (talk)	Add sources
232		Lavalier microphone (talk)	Add sources
33		IdeaPad Y series (talk)	Add sources
20		Plug-in electric vehicles in Canada (talk)	Cleanup
88		BAIC Motor (talk)	Cleanup
71		Plug-in electric vehicles in Europe (talk)	Cleanup
1,979		Electric vehicle (talk)	Expand
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890		Electric car use by country (talk)	Expand
154		Electric truck (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
43		HP Pavilion dv9000 series (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
779		GeForce (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
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426		Soviet space dogs (talk)	Merge
7		Biblioteca Oliveriana, Pesaro (talk)	Merge
7		Thomas Heyward Academy (talk)	Wikify
227		Dell Inspiron laptop computers (talk)	Wikify
258		Plug-in electric vehicle fire incidents (talk)	Wikify
7		Billy Taylor House (talk)	Orphan
3		A Boy Named 68818 (talk)	Orphan
1		Alf Sheldon (talk)	Orphan
4		Wylliesburg, Virginia (talk)	Stub
18		Reza Yazdani (talk)	Stub
4		Rahim Aliabadi (talk)	Stub
3		Natsagsürengiin Zolboo (talk)	Stub
3		Aboutaleb Talebi (talk)	Stub
48		Audio Units (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2023-05

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, for ~15 minutes, some users were unable to log in or edit pages. This was caused by a problem with session storage. [12]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 February. It will be on all wikis from 2 February (calendar).

Future changes

• Wikis that use localized numbering schemes for references need to add new CSS. This will help to show citation numbers the same way in all reading and editing modes. If your wiki would prefer to do it yourselves, please see the details and example CSS to copy from, and also add your wiki to the list. Otherwise, the developers will directly help out starting the week of February 5.

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Growth team newsletter #24

Welcome to the twenty-fourth newsletter from the Growth team!

Newcomer experience projects

The Growth team partnered with other WMF teams to conduct several experiments around increasing account creation and new editor retention. Results from four of these experiments are now available:

• Thank you pages & banners - Encourage donors to create accounts through thank you pages and banners.
• Marketing experiment - Run ads on-wiki and off-wiki to see how this impacts account activation.
• "Add an image" GLAM events - Host GLAM events that focus on using the "Add an image" tool.
• Welcome emails - Experiment sending welcome emails to newly created accounts.

Newcomer tasks

• Several communities suggested improving "add a link", by suggesting underlinked articles first. We released this change to Growth pilot wikis. We will review the data and collect feedback before considering releasing it to more wikis. [13]
• The deployment of the "add a link" to all Wikipedias is still in progress. Suggested links use a prediction model, which has to be trained. The deployments will resume after we finish training all models. [14]

Mentorship

• When someone wants to signup as a mentor, they are now informed if they don't meet the defined criteria. [15]
• Workshop hosts asked us to have workshop attendees assigned to them. They can soon use a custom URL parameter. This way, workshop hosts will continue mentoring the event's attendees after the workshop. It will be available in February. [16]
• Have you considered to help new editors on your wiki, by signing up to be a Mentor?
  • Please visit Special:MentorDashboard to check on the conditions to be a mentor, and sign up.
  • If your wiki does not have Mentorship enabled, consider setting it up. The Growth team can provide advice and assist as needed. Please ping Trizek (WMF) for assistance.

Other news

• In Special:SpecialPages, Growth experiments now have their own section. [17]
• This newsletter will have a new publication period, 6 times a year: January, March, May, July, September, November.

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