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122		Media General (talk)	Cleanup
59		Defence Force of Haiti (talk)	Expand
5,974		Prime Minister of India (talk)	Expand
5,805		Telangana (talk)	Expand
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1,823		Autocracy (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
139		Criticism of Java (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
161		Communal violence (talk)	Merge
26		Tornado outbreak of February 23–24, 2016 (talk)	Merge
14		Aretology (talk)	Merge
940		Circular economy (talk)	Wikify
1,964		Popular Front of India (talk)	Wikify
7		November 2020 North American storm complex (talk)	Wikify
3		Lon R. Greenberg (talk)	Orphan
2		Antonio Urcelay (talk)	Orphan
2		Bert Tucker (talk)	Orphan
82		Jon Caramanica (talk)	Stub
39		Franco Israel (talk)	Stub
20		Julia Krajewski (talk)	Stub
31		Seychelles Coast Guard (talk)	Stub
71		Junoon (1994 TV series) (talk)	Stub
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2022

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

Administrator changes

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Oversighter changes

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Guideline and policy news

• A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
• A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

Technical news

• The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
• Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
• The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)

Arbitration

• Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
• Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
• The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.

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WikiCup 2022 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the WikiCup. Last year anyone who scored more than zero points moved on to Round 2, but this was not the case this year, and a score of 13 or more was required to proceed. The top scorers in Round 1 were:

• Epicgenius, a finalist last year, who led the field with 1906 points, gained from 32 GAs and 19 DYKs, all on the topic of New York buildings.
• AryKun, new to the contest, was second with 1588 points, having achieved 2 FAs, 11 GAs and various other submissions, mostly on the subject of birds.
• Bloom6132, a WikiCup veteran, was in third place with 682 points, garnered from 51 In the news items and several DYKs.
• GhostRiver was close behind with 679 points, gained from achieving 12 GAs, mostly on ice hockey players, and 35 GARs.
• Kavyansh.Singh was in fifth place with 551 points, with an FA, a FL, and many reviews.
• SounderBruce was next with 454 points, gained from an FA and various other submissions, mostly on United States highways.
• Ktin, another WikiCup veteran, was in seventh place with 412 points, mostly gained from In the news items.

These contestants, like all the others who qualified for Round 2, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews of a large number of good articles as the contest ran concurrently with a GAN backlog drive. Well done all! To qualify for Round 3, contestants will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two participants.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Anything that should have been claimed for in Round 1 is no longer eligible for points. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.

Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:07, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Mobileye

Hi there Matthew, nice to meet you. My name is Gideon, I'm working to improve the Mobileye article and have a COI, and am therefore seeking editors with whom to collaborate. I recently put up a draft with suggestions at Talk:Mobileye, and seeing as you're an active member of WP:TECH, thought you might be willing to check it out. Looking forward to discussing further! Gideon at Mobileye (talk) 09:58, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Good morning, thanks for reaching out! I see your comments on the talk page as well as the draft article, and I will take a look in the next few days. ~ Matthewrb ^{Talk to me · Changes I've made} 15:49, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Great, thank you! Looking forward to your thoughts. Gideon at Mobileye (talk) 08:22, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Request list

Template:Request list has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:28, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-10

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

• There was a problem with some interface labels last week. It will be fixed this week. This change was part of ongoing work to simplify the support for skins which do not have active maintainers. [1]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all wikis from 10 March (calendar).

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21:15, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

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30		Bumper Stumpers (talk)	Add sources
12		Heroica Escuela Naval Militar (talk)	Add sources
10,610		2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war (talk)	Add sources
13		Comparative air force officer ranks of the Americas (talk)	Add sources
17		Comparative navy enlisted ranks of the Americas (talk)	Add sources
21		Admiral (Canada) (talk)	Add sources
218		Chief petty officer (talk)	Cleanup
42		Mansura, Sindh (talk)	Cleanup
1,390		Mali Empire (talk)	Cleanup
67		Cavium (talk)	Expand
3,562		Turkish Armed Forces (talk)	Expand
76		Counter admiral (talk)	Expand
1,488		All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
2,667		Argentina national football team (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
231		Lost television broadcast (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
86		Jewish Palestinian Aramaic (talk)	Merge
26		Quaternary prevention (talk)	Merge
7		Haileybury Rendall School (talk)	Merge
90		Valkyria Revolution (talk)	Wikify
35		Gabe Turner (talk)	Wikify
27		Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (talk)	Wikify
12		Maria Minogarova (talk)	Orphan
3		Senek (talk)	Orphan
10		Kush Bottles (talk)	Orphan
9		Kiran Chandra Roy (talk)	Stub
15		Afif (talk)	Stub
17		Emanuele Pecorino (talk)	Stub
4		2020–21 Juventus F.C. Under-23 season (talk)	Stub
23		Nikola Sekulov (talk)	Stub
8		Lynn Kiro (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2022-11

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Recent changes

• In the Wikipedia Android app it is now possible to change the toolbar at the bottom so the tools you use more often are easier to click on. The app now also has a focused reading mode. [2][3]

Problems

• There was a problem with the collection of some page-view data from June 2021 to January 2022 on all wikis. This means the statistics are incomplete. To help calculate which projects and regions were most affected, relevant datasets are being retained for 30 extra days. You can read more on Meta-wiki.
• There was a problem with the databases on March 10. All wikis were unreachable for logged-in users for 12 minutes. Logged-out users could read pages but could not edit or access uncached content then. [4]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
• When using uselang=qqx to find localisation messages, it will now show all possible message keys for navigation tabs such as "View history". [5]
• Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights through their group memberships. Before, only those with the deleterevision right could access this special page. [6]
• On the Special:Undelete pages for diffs and revisions, there will be a link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions. [7]

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the IP Masking implementation strategy and next steps. The announcement can be read here.
• The Wikipedia Android app developers are working on new functions for user talk pages and article talk pages. [8]

Events

• The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place as a hybrid event on 20-22 May 2022. The Hackathon will be held online and there are grants available to support local in-person meetups around the world. Grants can be requested until 20 March.

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50		Tuba, Benguet (talk)	Add sources
105		Operation Credible Sport (talk)	Add sources
12		Tineg (talk)	Add sources
77		Muhammad Saddiq Al-Minshawi (talk)	Add sources
8		Iran–America Society (talk)	Add sources
1,213		Free Syrian Army (talk)	Add sources
12		Tayum (talk)	Cleanup
13		Disinvestment from Iran (talk)	Cleanup
47		Negotiations leading to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (talk)	Cleanup
4		The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in El Salvador (talk)	Expand
140		La Trinidad, Benguet (talk)	Expand
24		Oil Platforms case (talk)	Expand
17		Tahrir al-Wasilah (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
386		Sectarianism (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,121		Antelope Canyon (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,361		Democratic backsliding (talk)	Merge
285		Nuclear weapons in popular culture (talk)	Merge
2		Tshabalala v Tshabalala (talk)	Merge
133		Lithuanian Riflemen's Union (talk)	Wikify
1,018		Goa Forward Party (talk)	Wikify
219		Lesser Sunda Islands (talk)	Wikify
1		Bryndís Lára Hrafnkelsdóttir (talk)	Orphan
2		Belinda Noack (talk)	Orphan
7		Bioz (talk)	Orphan
20		Tublay (talk)	Stub
10		Lagayan (talk)	Stub
40		Isaac Olaofe (talk)	Stub
248		Barangay captain (talk)	Stub
101		Algiers Accords (talk)	Stub
32		Leapster Explorer (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2022-12

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New code release schedule for this week

• There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one. This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can read more about this project.

Recent changes

• You can now set how many search results to show by default in your Preferences. This was the 12th most popular wish in the Community Wishlist Survey 2022. [9]
• The Jupyter notebooks tool PAWS has been updated to a new interface. [10]

Future changes

• Interactive maps via Kartographer will soon work on wikis using the FlaggedRevisions extension. Please tell us which improvements you want to see in Kartographer. You can take this survey in simple English. [11]

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15:59, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 March 2022

• From the Signpost team: How The Signpost is documenting the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

• News and notes: Of safety and anonymity

• Eyewitness Wikimedian, Kharkiv, Ukraine: Countering Russian aggression with a camera

• Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary

• Eyewitness Wikimedian, Western Ukraine: Working with Wikipedia helps

• Disinformation report: The oligarchs' socks

• In the media: Ukraine, Russia, and even some other stuff

• Recent research: Top scholarly citers, lack of open access references, predicting editor departures

• Wikimedian perspective: My heroes from Russia, Ukraine & beyond

• Discussion report: Athletes are less notable now

• Technology report: 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon

• Arbitration report: Skeptics given heavenly judgement, whirlwind of Discord drama begins to spin for tropical cyclone editors

• Traffic report: War, what is it good for?

• Deletion report: Ukraine, werewolves, Ukraine, YouTube pundits, and Ukraine

• Gallery: "All we are saying is, give peace a chance..."

• From the archives: Burn, baby burn

• Essay: Yes, the sky is blue

• Tips and tricks: Become a keyboard ninja

• On the bright side: The bright side of news

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Tech News: 2022-13

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 is a simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for macOS users, Sunflower.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular database maintenance. It will be performed on 29 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 31 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [12][13]

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19:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)