User talk:Mz7/December 2019–February 2020
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).
Administrator changes
EvergreenFir • ToBeFree
Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂
CheckUser changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
- Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.
Technical news
- Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. (T219126)
Arbitration
- Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.
Miscellaneous
- The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF
will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive
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- The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF
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
- Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (calendar).
Meetings
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work. [1]
- The
{{REVISIONID}}magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns""(empty string). When you read a page it returns"-"(dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces. [2]
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16:58, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
Draft:Mombello Psychiatric Hospital (Italy)
Hi Mz7, I am a student from university and, for a group project we have to create a wikipedia page to understand the mechanisms behind the internet of things and wikimarkup. I see you are a rather experienced user of the platform and It would be really awesome if you could give us some tips about our draft article Draft:Mombello Psychiatric Hospital (Italy) in order to achieve a higher level of quality for the page. Thanks in advance, FlavioDC00 (talk) 15:48, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
- Hi FlavioDC00, thanks for reaching out. You caught me at a somewhat busy time, unfortunately, but I just wanted to acknowledge that I have seen your message and will try to take a look at your article and respond with some suggestions by tomorrow. At first glance, however, your draft looks like a good start! Before I take a closer look, I would say that the most important thing to the long-term survival of your article on Wikipedia is not necessarily the quality of your prose or layout, but rather the quality of your sources—and at first glance it looks like you have some good sources. The important thing is to find high-quality reliable sources, preferably secondary sources, that compellingly demonstrate that this asylum is worth including in an encyclopedia. The reasoning is that if reliable sources are writing about it, then it must be worth writing about. Mz7 (talk) 21:18, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
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
- Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language. [3]
- There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article. [4]
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16:38, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
Partial block Rfc
Hello Mz7, Belated congratulation are being appointed CU and Oversight. Thanks for agreeing to take on this extra work!
I'm wondering if now would be a good time to start the Partial block Rfc. I left a post on the talk page of the draft Rfc with update of the status of partial block development and deployment. Let me know what you think. SPoore (WMF), Strategist, Community health initiative (talk) 17:32, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
- SPoore (WMF), thanks! I've left a response there. Mz7 (talk) 19:59, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/AndrewBasumatary
Hi,
I didn't notice that the case was closed when I added another sock. Do I need to open another case to have this handled or could you look into it based on the information posted to the closed case? Thanks. -- Whpq (talk) 13:39, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi Mz7
I believe that we haven’t crossed paths yet on Wikipedia, so Hi! I noticed that you’ve cleared the backlog at WP:RFP/PCR, thank you! There’s still a backlog at WP:RFP/A. Would you please be able to review my request for autopatrolled? Much appreciated. Shemtov613 (talk) 05:24, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
- Shemtov613, apologies for the delay in responding. As I said to another user below, I think we are currently in an awkward spot where not enough administrators have the time and interest to clear out WP:PERM backlogs. I'll try to take a look when I get the chance but keep in mind that WP:RFP/A is not my usual task, so I may be unfamiliar with how other administrators typically grant it. Mz7 (talk) 07:09, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Mz7: Understand. Thanks Shemtov613 (talk) 03:25, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
Permissions
Hello Mz7 I had a quick question, I requested a permission about 8-9 days ago and I have not had a response, last time I request a perm when I was new (I had no idea about any thing permissions and requested a right but you know what happened) And it took about 2 days. So I was wondering if I was just luck that it took only 2 days, and it actually takes a longer time. I don’t mind if I don’t get the right I just want a response. Thanks for your time Mz7. The4lines (talk) 20:49, 13 December 2019 (UTC)The4lines
- @The4lines: Apologies for the delay in responding. I think we are currently in an awkward spot where not enough administrators have the time and interest to clear out this specific backlog. I'll try to take a look when I get the chance. Mz7 (talk) 07:08, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Mz7: Thanks Mz7 for the help, and telling me why they might of not of responded. If you want to know what perm it is Wikipedia:RFP/PCR. Thanks again and have a good day
The4lines (talk) 16:07, 14 December 2019 (UTC)The4lines
- @Mz7: Thanks Mz7 for the help, and telling me why they might of not of responded. If you want to know what perm it is Wikipedia:RFP/PCR. Thanks again and have a good day
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 Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again. [5]
- Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem. [6]
Changes later this week
- You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki. [7]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now. [8]
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00:16, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
Re: December 2019
Hello Mz7, Thank you for your message. After publishing the article, I did send the link to a few of my friends, to share the accomplishment. Since I'm a relatively new editor, I was very excited. Hence the share. I don't operate any other account. I'd like to be an active member of the Wikipedia community, and editing a new article already. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sharan Shias (talk • contribs) 07:21, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
Another HipHopVisionary sock
I believe American gypsy palmdale is another one. --Muhandes (talk) 08:46, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Muhandes: Yes, it certainly is. I've blocked a number of related accounts, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/HipHopVisionary. Mz7 (talk) 09:10, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
- American hamburger 123 seems like another. --Muhandes (talk) 14:02, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
Cheers
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Merry Christmas, Mz7! Or Season's Greetings or Happy Winter Solstice! As the year winds to a close, I would like to take a moment to recognize your hard work and offer heartfelt gratitude for all you do for Wikipedia. May this Holiday Season bring you nothing but joy, piece, health and prosperity. Andrew Base (talk) 09:22, 20 December 2019 (UTC) |
New Page Review newsletter December 2019
- Reviewer of the Year
This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.
Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.
Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.
| Rank | Username | Num reviews | Log |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rosguill (talk) | 47,395 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 2 | Onel5969 (talk) | 41,883 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 3 | JTtheOG (talk) | 11,493 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 4 | Arthistorian1977 (talk) | 5,562 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 5 | DannyS712 (talk) | 4,866 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 6 | CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk) | 3,995 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 7 | DragonflySixtyseven (talk) | 3,812 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 8 | Boleyn (talk) | 3,655 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 9 | Ymblanter (talk) | 3,553 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 10 | Cwmhiraeth (talk) | 3,522 | Patrol Page Curation |
(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)
- Redirect autopatrol
A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.
- Source Guide Discussion
Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
- This month's refresher course
While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.
Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 16:11, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
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Tech News
- Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.
Recent changes
- All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "advanced mode".
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Future changes
- You can use
setlangin the URL to change the user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if Javascript is not working in your browser. [9]
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20:06, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
Good luck
Merry Christmas, my friend!
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Hello Mz7: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, TheSandDoctor Talk 07:32, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
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- Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings1}} to send this message
- I hope that you have a wonderful Christmas holiday and a Happy New Year! --TheSandDoctor Talk 07:32, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
Joyous Season
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I wish that you may have a very Happy Holiday! 
Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Hogmanay, Festivus or your hemisphere's Solstice, this is a special time of year for almost everyone! May the New Year provide you joy and fulfillment! Thanks for everything you do here. — Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 10:23, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:Coffee/Holidays}} to your fellow editors' talk pages.
- @Miraclepine, TheSandDoctor, and Coffee: Thank you, and to you as well! Mz7 (talk) 19:29, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
Happy New Year Mz7!
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Thanks for all of your contributions to improve the encyclopedia for Wikipedia's readers, and have a happy and enjoyable New Year! Cheers, Donner60 (talk) 00:32, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
The Signpost: 27 December 2019
- From the editors: Caught with their hands in the cookie jar, again
- News and notes: What's up (and down) with administrators, articles and languages
- In the media: "The fulfillment of the dream of humanity" or a nightmare of PR whitewashing on behalf of one-percenters?
- Discussion report: December discussions around the wiki
- Arbitration report: Announcement of 2020 Arbitration Committee
- Traffic report: Queens and aliens, exactly alike, once upon a December
- Technology report: User scripts and more
- Gallery: Holiday wishes
- Recent research: Acoustics and Wikipedia; Wiki Workshop 2019 summary
- From the archives: The 2002 Spanish fork and ads revisited (re-revisited?)
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- WikiProject report: Wikiproject Tree of Life: A Wikiproject report
Advice on CU / COI issue
Hi Mz7, with your CU hat on, could you give me some advice on the best way to proceed with an issue? It's recorded in detail at Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Paul_Atherton, but I don't think you need to read through it all. Briefly:
- There is a new account which appears only to be interested one subject, Paul Atherton, an article with a history of COI editing.
- It has been suggested at COIN that they either are Atherton himself, or are someone closely connected with him - the owner of the account denies this.
- On the 19th of November, the account in question was actively editing EnWiki, and at about the same time an account that self-identified as Atherton uploaded an image to commons; the EnWiki account later added that image to the article.
It seems likely to me that something fishy is going on - either they are the same person (Atherton himself, or someone editing on his behalf) or that they are coordinating their edits - either case would imply a strong COI with the article. So, my question for you is what is the best way to approach this? It's not a straightforward SPI, since the two accounts are on Commons and on EnWiki - can an EnWiki CU run a check on this, or is a Steward required? Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated. Cheers GirthSummit (blether) 13:08, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Girth Summit: Ah, a crosswiki case—these are generally kind of pesky. Stewards would be able to compare checkuser data on loginwiki (but the data would very limited; they would only have data associated with account registration), but they can't pull data from enwiki and commons directly because both projects have local CUs. Since the account Paul Atherton (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) does not exist on enwiki yet, there is no data on enwiki that I can query. If the user is also abusing multiple accounts on Commons, we can ask Commons' CUs to run a check and send us the data, but the Commons has more lenient rules about sock puppetry than we do. Looking at the WP:COIN discussion, another thing I should point out from the CU angle is that the Wikimedia projects only store CheckUser information for 90 days (to the minute), after which the information is expunged from the database. With that in mind, Amanda Paul (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki) is
Stale because it has not edited or made a logged action since 2016. So the only non-stale account is Itsallnewtome (talk+ · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki). With just one enwiki account, I'm thinking enwiki checkuser is probably not going to be very fruitful here. Mz7 (talk) 19:18, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for that - yes, I knew that we weren't going to get anywhere with CU on the Amanda Paul account, it's really just whether or not it's worth trying to link Itsallnewtome to the Paul Atherton account on commons - if it is him, he obviously shouldn't be editing his own page, or soaking up hours of volunteers' time making suggestions about creating content with Atherton's own diaries as a source... Do you think it's worth bothering trying to get someone at commons to look at it, or should we just leave him to it? GirthSummit (blether) 19:25, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Girth Summit: Hmm, I am not 100% sure, but I can explain my thought process. Personally, Paul Atherton on commons and Itsallnewtome on enwiki don't "feel" like the same person based on the way they write—Itsallnewtome tends to be long-winded and rambling [10], whereas Paul Atherton is much terser [11]. The image that Paul Atherton uploaded on November 19 was not inserted into the Wikipedia article until December 13—more than three weeks later—so it wasn't "immediate". On a behavioral basis, I would say it is more likely the case that Itsallnewtome and Paul Atherton are separate people who may be working together, and CheckUser isn't very good at telling us whether two people are working together, since they could be working remotely. Another angle to this is that the main policy violation here would be Itsallnewtome lying about a conflict of interest; it is not necessarily sock puppetry to use one account on Wikipedia and another account on Commons. Since they have not really violated any sock puppetry policies on Commons, I'm not sure how inclined Commons CUs would be to check this account for us. With all this in mind, if you wish to continue pursuing a check against these users, I would be happy to contact a Commons checkuser to get their opinion. Mz7 (talk) 21:53, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
- Mz7, thanks for your views on this. I think that, with the benefit of your perspective, I'll probably leave this here - as you say, it isn't exactly sock-puppetry that we're concerned about, so this seems like the wrong tool for the job. I'm also grateful for your comments about their behaviour - I've purely been looking at the subject matter, but I believe you are right that their styles are different. I guess it will just be a case of continuing with regular discussion/consensus building, until anything more concrete comes up. Thanks again for your thoughts, it's always appreciated. GirthSummit (blether) 01:23, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Girth Summit: Hmm, I am not 100% sure, but I can explain my thought process. Personally, Paul Atherton on commons and Itsallnewtome on enwiki don't "feel" like the same person based on the way they write—Itsallnewtome tends to be long-winded and rambling [10], whereas Paul Atherton is much terser [11]. The image that Paul Atherton uploaded on November 19 was not inserted into the Wikipedia article until December 13—more than three weeks later—so it wasn't "immediate". On a behavioral basis, I would say it is more likely the case that Itsallnewtome and Paul Atherton are separate people who may be working together, and CheckUser isn't very good at telling us whether two people are working together, since they could be working remotely. Another angle to this is that the main policy violation here would be Itsallnewtome lying about a conflict of interest; it is not necessarily sock puppetry to use one account on Wikipedia and another account on Commons. Since they have not really violated any sock puppetry policies on Commons, I'm not sure how inclined Commons CUs would be to check this account for us. With all this in mind, if you wish to continue pursuing a check against these users, I would be happy to contact a Commons checkuser to get their opinion. Mz7 (talk) 21:53, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for that - yes, I knew that we weren't going to get anywhere with CU on the Amanda Paul account, it's really just whether or not it's worth trying to link Itsallnewtome to the Paul Atherton account on commons - if it is him, he obviously shouldn't be editing his own page, or soaking up hours of volunteers' time making suggestions about creating content with Atherton's own diaries as a source... Do you think it's worth bothering trying to get someone at commons to look at it, or should we just leave him to it? GirthSummit (blether) 19:25, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
Happy New Year!
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- Thank you, Praxidicae! Mz7 (talk) 22:56, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
Arbitration case opened
You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/RHaworth. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/RHaworth/Evidence. Please add your evidence by January 14, 2020, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/RHaworth/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, CodeLyokotalk 03:15, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
Happy New Year, Mz7!
Mz7,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
-Nahal(T) 23:26, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ronalditos58815738
Hi Mz7, a very happy new year to you and I hope this message finds you well. Just a very quick query re. the above. First of all, I'm not looking to quibble either with the outcome of the SPI investigation or your application of the current rules. You had no alternative but to delete the stuff you did, which I accept. You have acted correctly in every aspect and that's definitely not at issue.
I just wanted to see if you had any discretion to help us out a bit because the Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Women's football task force have been left with a headache, through no fault of our own. It's our misfortune that this "sock puppet" created some decent articles on notable subjects and now they've gone we've been left with three or four very conspicuous red links at Mexico women's national football team!
Inevitably, the articles will come back. But if you could find it in your heart to undelete Itzel González, Mónica Rodríguez, Diana Evangelista and Ana Paola López it would save me or someone like me a huge amount of time and effort which we could spend on improving the encyclopedia elsewhere. Alternatively, if you were able to 'userfy' me a draft/copy of them I'd undertake to review and expand: cleaning up, checking/improve referencing, and then re-publish. Many thanks for your consideration, Bring back Daz Sampson (talk) 21:10, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
- Ps. In Evangelista's case (from memory) what little sourced prose there was had been put there by me, not the sock puppet. So maybe with that one you'd have some leeway to look at overturning a deletion made under G5? Not sure about the others. Thanks again, Bring back Daz Sampson (talk) 21:13, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
- @Bring back Daz Sampson: Happy New Year! I understand where you are coming from.
Done—I have gone ahead and undeleted those four articles for you. The spirit of WP:CSD#G5 is rooted in WP:BE, which states This does not mean that edits must be reverted just because they were made by a blocked editor (obviously helpful changes, such as fixing typos or undoing vandalism, can be allowed to stand), but the presumption in ambiguous cases should be to revert.
I apologize for the inconvenience I caused your WikiProject in my cleanup after the sockpuppet. Please let me know if I can be of further assistance. Mz7 (talk) 02:43, 4 January 2020 (UTC)- Thanks so much Mz7!!! I am massively appreciative for your quick and helpful response. You are a credit to the admin team. And no apology is necessary on your part. If anything I should apologise for coming here and whining, when what you did as part of the cleanup was totally correct. Bring back Daz Sampson (talk) 11:14, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
- @Bring back Daz Sampson: Happy New Year! I understand where you are coming from.
Administrators' newsletter – January 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).
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Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
- A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
- Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.
Arbitration
- The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being
the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted
rather thanreasonably construed
. - Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Bradv, Casliber, David Fuchs, DGG, KrakatoaKatie, Maxim, Newyorkbrad, SoWhy, Worm That Turned, Xeno.
- The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being
Miscellaneous
- This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [12]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 January. It will be on all wikis from 9 January (calendar).
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21:21, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
regarding the multiple accounts
hye there.regarding the multiple accounts,how to disable the other account?using the same laptop & wifi.the other account cant be logged in.how to disable it?tq.requested to abandon this account as well. update:just notice both are signed up with the same email.we r sorry for tht — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clowzsama (talk • contribs) 13:53, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
Mandinka2000
Mandinka2000 (talk · contribs) is asking for TPA to be revoked. Cabayi (talk) 09:36, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
Happy Adminship Anniversary!
Have a very happy adminship anniversary on your special day!
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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 no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade attacks. Since 9 December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can read the browser recommendations. [13]
- Special:LinkSearch has been moved from the "Redirecting special pages" section on Special:SpecialPages to the "Lists of pages" section. [14]
Changes later this week
- Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are Require autoconfirmed or confirmed access and Require administrator access. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see. [15]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be on all wikis from 16 January (calendar).
Future changes
- Deepcat and Catgraph will stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can now use the normal search function instead. [16]
- You can use
<ref follow="…">to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead. [17]
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:40, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 January. It will be on all wikis from 23 January (calendar).
Future changes
- There is a new suggestion for what to show when someone edits without registering an account. This is to give unregistered editors better privacy and make some anti-vandalism work go faster. You can give feedback.
- Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will no longer support Python 2. Use the
python2tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so. [18] - The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The timing for this cut may change. You can discuss in Phabricator if this affects you. [19]
- You can read about coming technical events and mentoring interns.
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19:41, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
Recent edit on my talk page by JTB007
I refer to [20] this edit]. I am well aware that the blocking policy says that edits by block-evading editors may be reverted on sight, but it also says that such edits are not required to be so reverted. I would strongly prefer that you not revert any such edits to my talk page in future. Adding a note that the editor was a sock (although in this case that was blatantly obvious) would be sufficient, unless there is something else about such an edit that demands a revert. I am seriously considering reverting your revert, but probably won't do so. There was not such a reason in this case as far as I can see. I will be responding to the edit as if it had not been reverted, on the editor's original talk page, and probably by email as well. Thus the revert served no purpose whatever. DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 00:35, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
- DESiegel, thanks for letting me know. It is your talk page, so I’m fine with you restoring the edit. However, as a matter of principle, I do not believe we should be encouraging editors who are blocked to create new accounts in order to edit user talk pages in violation of that block—allowing such edits to stand risks undermining the reason for why an editor was blocked. There is a process for appealing blocks and global locks, and editing other user talk pages is not a part of that process. I hope this helps clarify why I reverted the edit to your talk page. Mz7 (talk) 01:23, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) I do not disagree (with your inital comment), and I do not propose to in any way encourage the behavior, indeed I intend to discourage it in the strongest terms I can. I think that by responding I can do so more effectively than by reverting. Nor am in any way suggesting unblocking his "new" account (aka his sock). DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 01:32, 22 January 2020 (UTC)
User talk:Wislawaszymbor
Is there a plan here I can not see? Feel free to respond privately--but I was about to drop infinite semi-protection against this idiocy. Drmies (talk) 02:32, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 27 January 2020
- From the editor: Reaching six million articles is great, but we need a moratorium
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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
- Some mobile diffs have problems. A couple of buttons are not shown. Structured data diffs on Commons are confusing. The developers are working on fixing it. [21][22]
- Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions can't move discussion pages. This is a bug. The developers are working on fixing it. [23]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
- There is JavaScript code on Special:Undelete for administrators that makes it possible to automatically select multiple checkboxes by holding the "Shift" key and clicking. This code is also loaded by accident on other special pages and on articles. This makes pages slower to load. This will be fixed. If you know of other special pages where this is useful please tell the developers at phab:T232688.
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18:53, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
You are cordially invited to the SPIE Photonics West edit-a-thon on 02.02.2020
- I am delighted to invite you to the SPIE Photonics West 2020 edit-a-thon, at Park Central Hotel (Franciscan I, 3rd Level / 50 Third Street / San Francisco, California), on Sunday, February 2, 2020, at 5:00-7:00pm.
- Newcomers and experienced Wikimedians are welcome to participate alongside SPIE conference attendees. Admission is free. Training will be provided.
- Details and sign-in here
See you soon! All the best, --Rosiestep (talk) 06:59, 31 January 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Administrators' newsletter – February 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
- The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with
wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input
. No proposed process received consensus.
Technical news
- Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
- When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [24]
Arbitration
- Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators
that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.
- Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- The English Wikipedia has reached six million articles. Thank you everyone for your contributions!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 February. It will be on all wikis from 6 February (calendar).
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20:05, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
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 new version of the Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem. [25]
Problems
- There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things. [26]
Changes later this week
- The MediaWiki action API is used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change. Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work. [27]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be on all wikis from 13 February (calendar).
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19:12, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020
Hello Mz7,
- Source Guide Discussion
The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.
- Redirects
New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.
- Discussions and Resources
- There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
- A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
- A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
- A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.
- Refresher
Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.
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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
- Pages on Wikidata and Commons now load faster. You can read more about page load performance. [28][29]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 February. It will be on all wikis from 20 February (calendar).
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16:17, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
Crat
Hi Mz7. Hope you're doing well. Have you ever thought about running for bureaucrat? There seems to be some agreement we could use more crats and it seems to me that you would be a fine one. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 20:04, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
Cat
Hi Mz7. Hope you're doing well. Have you ever thought about becoming a cat? There seems to be some agreement we could use more cats and it seems to me that you would be a fine one. Best, Natureium (talk) 20:17, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be on all wikis from 27 February (calendar).
Future changes
- There will be a reply button after each post on a talk page if you want one. This will soon be a beta feature on the Arabic, French, Dutch and Hungarian Wikipedias. You will have to turn it on if you want to use it. It will come to more wikis later. You can test the reply button. It was briefly shown earlier than planned by mistake on the four first wikis last week.
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21:00, 24 February 2020 (UTC)