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22		History of the Later Roman Empire (talk)	Wikify
59		Almaqah (talk)	Wikify
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10		Zimele Asset Management Company Limited (talk)	Orphan
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Tech News: 2021-49

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Problems

• MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 December. It will be on all wikis from 9 December (calendar).
• At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at Special:MentorDashboard. It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project.
• The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API (which was created in 2008), action=ajax, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module. [1]
• An old ResourceLoader module, jquery.jStorage, which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to mediawiki.storage instead. [2]

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21:57, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).

Administrator changes

A Train • Berean Hunter • Epbr123 • GermanJoe • Sanchom • Mysid

Technical news

• Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
• The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
• The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.

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4,374		Sudan (talk)	Add sources
41		Socialist Republic of Chile (talk)	Add sources
195		Air marshal (talk)	Add sources
5		Howard Gable (talk)	Cleanup
11,630		2020 United States presidential election (talk)	Cleanup
55		Operation Alula (talk)	Cleanup
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234		Oberst (talk)	Expand
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307		False positive rate (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
725		Administrative divisions of India (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
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57		Economic policy of the Joe Biden administration (talk)	Merge
10		Saudi Arabia national football team results (2010–2019) (talk)	Merge
26,007		Twitter (talk)	Merge
608		Transportation Security Administration (talk)	Wikify
71		Nairobi Securities Exchange (talk)	Wikify
1,013		Circular economy (talk)	Wikify
3		Douglas Hofsass (talk)	Orphan
4		Blüm machine gun (talk)	Orphan
2		2012 Lone Star Conference football season (talk)	Orphan
10		Al Muharraq Stadium (talk)	Stub
30		Military Gendarmerie (Poland) (talk)	Stub
12		Battle of Rimini (432) (talk)	Stub
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Bots Newsletter, December 2021

Bots Newsletter, December 2021

BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

Our last issue was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots.

Overall

• Between September and December 2019, there were 33 BRFAs. Of these, Y 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful (N2 3 denied, ? 3 withdrawn, and 2 expired).

September 2019

Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, IT'S ALIVE!

• Y Monkbot 16, DannyS712 bot 60, Ahechtbot 6, PearBOT 3, Qbugbot 3 · N2 DannyS712 bot 5, PkbwcgsBot 24 · ? DannyS712 bot 61, TheSandBot 4
• TParis goes away, UTRSBot goes kaput: Beeblebrox noted that the bot for maintaining on-wiki records of UTRS appeals stopped working a while ago. TParis, the semi-retired user who had previously run it, said they were "unlikely to return to actively editing Wikipedia", and the bot had been vanquished by trolls submitting bogus UTRS requests on behalf of real blocked users. While OAuth was a potential fix, neither maintainer had time to implement it. TParis offered to access to the UTRS WMFLabs account to any admin identified with the WMF: "I miss you guys a whole lot [...] but I've also moved on with my life. Good luck, let me know how I can help". Ultimately, SQL ended up in charge. Some progress was made, and the bot continued to work another couple months — but as of press time, UTRSBot has not edited since November 2019.
• Article-measuring contest resumed: The list of Wikipedians by article count, which had lain dead for several years, was triumphantly resurrected by GreenC following a bot request.

October 2019

• Y OAbot 3, DannyS712 bot 47, Pathbot 2, PearBOT 2, DannyS712 bot 59, DannyS712 bot 62, HasteurBot 14, PearBOT 4, WOSlinkerBot 4, MilHistBot 5
• Curb Safe Charmer adopts reFill: TAnthony pointed out that reFill 2's bug reports were going unanswered; creator Zhaofeng Li had retired from Wikipedia, and a maintainer was needed. As of June 2021, Curb Safe Charmer had taken up the mantle, saying: "Not that I have all the skills needed but better me than nobody! 'Maintainer' might be too strong a term though. Volunteers welcome!"
  

November 2019

Now you're thinking with portals.

• Y BHGbot 4, YiFeiBot 2, DannyS712 bot III 64 · ? PearBOT
• Old bots do new tricks: DannyS712 bot III 64 prowled redirects, YiFeiBot 2 archived GoCE requests, and BHGbot 4 removed links to portals deleted at MfD (until its authorization was revoked in January at operator BrownHairedGirl's request).

December 2019

• Y DemonDays64 Bot, DannyS712 bot III 66, Bot1058 6, Monkbot 15, MilHistBot 6, PearBOT 5, DannyS712 bot IV 65 · N2 SportsStatsBot · Xinbenlv bot, SteveBot 8
• Redirects to be autopatrolled: A RfC took place at WP:NPP, closing with unanimous consensus that new redirects should be automatically marked as patrolled by bot. DannyS712 wasted no time, and submitted DannyS712 bot III 66 the next day; it passed two days after that.
• 200,000 bios get short descs: Along a similar vein, Bot1058 6 was approved to remove disambiguation pages from Category:Monitored short pages and a new bot (DemonDays64 Bot) changed lots of http links to https using JavaScript Wiki Browser. One particularly neat task, PearBOT 5, automatically generated short descriptions for more than 200,000 biographies.

In the next issue of Bots Newsletter:
What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?

• What happens when two bots want to clerk the same page?
• What happens when an adminbot goes hog wild?
• Will reFill ever get fixed?
• What's up with ListeriaBot, anyway?
• Python 3.4 deprecation? In my PyWikiBot? (It's more likely than you think!)

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the January 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... jp×g 04:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2021-50

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

• There are now default short aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis, [[WB:]] will go to the local language default for the [[Project:]] namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via the usual process. [3]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 December. It will be on all wikis from 16 December (calendar).

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22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

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85		Etiolation (talk)	Merge
4		Ubiquitin bacterial (talk)	Merge
4		Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 11, No. 10 (Scriabin) (talk)	Merge
263		Luang Prabang (talk)	Wikify
65		South Australian National Football League (talk)	Wikify
463		Nigerian Air Force (talk)	Wikify
2		Andre Bellos (talk)	Orphan
5		Aleksander Gawronik (talk)	Orphan
2		Bartosz Kaśnikowski (talk)	Orphan
5		Line S3 (Nanjing Metro) (talk)	Stub
36		Arkadiusz Reca (talk)	Stub
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Question regarding a page you created

Hey, was Wikipedia:Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences/Architecture/Buildings a test? Seeing as how it was never used or update ever again. Gonnym (talk) 19:33, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

@Gonnym: Hello! That page was created as a demonstration of how I was proposing updating the RA process. It was coupled with a tool that would allow anonymous users to request an article using a web form and a bot. I haven't had the chance to continue developing the tool. To see the discussion where I proposed the new tool, see Wikipedia_talk:Requested_articles/Archive_7#Thoughts? ~ Matthewrbowker ^{Comments · Changes} 16:24, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Is this something you are planning to work on? The reason I'm asking is because Template:Article request is only used there and I'm planning to send it to TfD. The options are either to delete or to move it to your sandbox. Gonnym (talk) 09:46, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Feel free to move it to my sandbox, thanks for asking! ~ Matthewrbowker ^{Comments · Changes} 19:43, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-51

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 10 January 2022.

Recent changes

• Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (<DynamicPageList>) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis. [4]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

• The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
• The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February. [5]

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22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

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175		British Left (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
39		Cities in Flight (talk)	Merge
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52		Grand Prix motorcycle racing sponsorship liveries (talk)	Wikify
101		Splatterhouse (2010 video game) (talk)	Wikify
98		Lekki Conservation Centre (talk)	Wikify
2		Aldo Catani (talk)	Orphan
32		Augmented Analytics (talk)	Orphan
4		Bioanalysis (journal) (talk)	Orphan
28		Bessarabian Soviet Socialist Republic (talk)	Stub
21		Harvard Crimson women's basketball (talk)	Stub
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The Signpost: 28 December 2021

• From the editor: Here is the news

• News and notes: Jimbo's NFT, new arbs, fixing RfA, and financial statements

• Serendipity: Born three months before her brother?

• In the media: The past is not even past

• Recent research: STEM articles judged unsuitable for undergraduates below the first paragraph

• Arbitration report: A new crew for '22

• By the numbers: Four billion words and a few numbers

• Deletion report: We laughed, we cried, we closed as "no consensus"

• Gallery: Wikicommons presents: 2021

• Traffic report: Spider-Man, football and the departed

• Crossword: Another Wiki crossword for one and all

• Humour: Buying Wikipedia

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17		Maria (empress) (talk)	Cleanup
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22		Iran national football team records and statistics (talk)	Cleanup
99		Early Germanic culture (talk)	Expand
115		Ducati Corse (talk)	Expand
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79		Lou and Andy (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
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7		Dagblad van het Noorden (talk)	Merge
6		James F. Gibbons (talk)	Wikify
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16		Yakö people (talk)	Wikify
13		British Land Units of the First World War (talk)	Orphan
418		Jeff Gutheim (talk)	Orphan
2		Ankililoaka mine (talk)	Orphan
2		Kuleaen District (talk)	Stub
39		Yeshimebet Ali (talk)	Stub
49		Gupteshwar Pandey (talk)	Stub
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