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Bots Newsletter, January 2022
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BRFA activity by month Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots. After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever. Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost two years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020. Overall January 2020 Yeah, you're not gonna be able to get away with this anymore.
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These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the February 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out! Signing off... jp×g 23:22, 31 January 2022 (UTC) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.) | ||
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.
Technical news
- The user group
oversightwill be renamedsuppressin around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. - The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.
- The user group
Arbitration
- Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
- The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
- A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.
Copyvios outage
Hi Ben. Just stopping by to let you know that the Copyvios tool has been down for more than four hours, with "504 Gateway Time-out". Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!— Diannaa (talk) 13:16, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
Update: It was working for a while but has been down again for another three hours. Thanks, — Diannaa (talk) 19:45, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
Yes, I restarted it this morning after seeing your message before I left for work. This buys some time by clearing the backlog of requests but does not solve whatever the underlying issue may be. I can’t do anything until tonight. — The Earwig alt (talk) 20:27, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
WP:AFC Helper News
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.
- AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
- The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.
Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
Cache time for Copyvios
Hi Earwig, what's the cache time for toolforge:copyvios? I'm building a similar tool for files and wanted some inspiration. Cheers, 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 05:23, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
- Hey EpicPupper. The cache time is 3 days, but it's also per-revision and we resolve the latest revision every time, so could probably be much longer. — The Earwig (talk) 06:51, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 27 February 2022
- From the team: Selection of a new Signpost Editor-in-Chief
- News and notes: Impacts of Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Special report: A presidential candidate's team takes on Wikipedia
- In the media: Wiki-drama in the UK House of Commons
- Technology report: Community Wishlist Survey results
- WikiProject report: 10 years of tea
- Featured content: Featured Content returns
- Deletion report: The 10 most SHOCKING deletion discussions of February
- Recent research: How editors and readers may be emotionally affected by disasters and terrorist attacks
- Arbitration report: Parties remonstrate, arbs contemplate, skeptics coordinate
- Gallery: The vintage exhibit
- Traffic report: Euphoria, Pamela Anderson, lies and Netflix
- News from Diff: The Wikimania 2022 Core Organizing Team
- Crossword: A Crossword, featuring Featured Articles
- Humour: Notability of mailboxes
Administrators' newsletter – March 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).
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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.
Permalink.js
Hello! Lately I was recommended to use your user script for easier section sharing options and I'm loving the function it provides. I was wondering, could it be possible that beside the URL+Permalink options it already provides 2 more alternatives were also added? Wikilink + interwikilink (the long/full path)
Also, a kind of nitpick but currently there is no way to set up personalized piped contents to the links provided (other than deleting/modifying what was already provided. This is a user script so behaviors like these are fully expected and very minor, minor nitpicks. But I thought I'd bring it to your attention anyway (every though you most likely are already aware). - Klein Muçi (talk) 11:36, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
- Hi Klein Muçi! I'm glad you find the script useful. These are good suggestions and I've wanted the wikilink functionality myself a few times. My main concern is to avoid making the interface too cluttered, but I'll think about how these options can be added cleanly. Thanks! — The Earwig (talk) 03:19, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, I do understand your concern and it makes sense. Currently it is being discussed to make the share option a native feature of MediaWiki and the usual "Wikipedia way" is being considered: Add [Share] in blue beside the link. I've got to say that I dislike the overall lack of buttons Wikipedia presents, using instead only word-links everywhere so your concern makes sense. What I would suggest would be to make a 2 level design: first you choose URL vs Wikilink and then you choose Current vs Permanent or Relative vs Absolute depending on the prior choice. It seems better than having 4 buttons show up in a row.
- Speaking of the overall interface, MAYBE a slight change in color could be considered also? I'm not exactly sure why - maybe it is because the chosen blue it's not (?) the blue Wikipedia uses for its links - but somethings feels strange in the buttons' appearance. Maybe it's their font-size which should be decreased a bit. I hate that I can't exactly pinpoint what's "wrong" given that I'm an interface admin myself but, again, I thought I'd let you know. Thank you again! :) - Klein Muçi (talk) 09:36, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
Copyvio detector + user script issue
Hey Earwig. How are you? Just wanted to bring to your attention this phab ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T303088. It looks like the fix for this bug might be adding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DannyS712/copyvio-check to some kind of safelist on the copyvio detector API. Are we on the right track? When you get a chance let us know what you think. Thanks for your time. –Novem Linguae (talk) 02:13, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
- Hey Novem Linguae! I'm well, thanks. I'll reply on the ticket. — The Earwig (talk) 03:53, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
Bug for Earwig's Copyvio Detector
Tool would report similarity as 0.0% while check chinese page, e.g. [1], may a bug of encode. SunAfterRain 15:54, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:Terminal
Template:Terminal has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:28, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
Thoughts on a variant of Wikiproject Tagging, but with Wikidata Query and dual tagging scope
I'm looking for feedback on the idea (which feel free to run with). Most Wikiproject tagging bots I've seen seem to rely upon categories on Wiki to categorize, but does your bot or any you know considered tagging pages returned via a Wikidata query and have a language linked article? This could be directly tagging or generating a category for human review for a Wikiproject.
The reason I ask is while working on Wikidata Wikiproejct Every Politician and while working through Wikiprojects - Lakes, Rivers, Mountains, etc items all queries seem to fall in scope of certain project scope, but they often don't have the corresponding Wikiproject tag. Often a dual project scope is obvious, but lack a corresponding geographic tag which also applies. While petscan offers a means of evaluating this, a more regular and consistent scan would help offload those efforts to other tasks not as easily automated. Example a lake in Michigan - Wikiproject Michigan as well as Wikiproject Lakes would apply. Example persons having held the position of member of the State Senate of Michigan - falls withing scope of Wikiproject Michigan as well as Wikiproject Biography with Politician-work-group=yes tagging.
Would you be interested in supporting this query based Wikiproject tagging approach with your bot? How do you think Wikiprojects could provide indications of their project scope to let a bot know what query should be run? I was thinking possibly either a template or new parameters to the Wikiproject Infobox that would not display, but could provide a query or property-value pair to indicate possible scopes to check. Any initial reactions to any part of this concept which are a cause for concern? Wolfgang8741 says: If not you, then who? (talk) 18:22, 17 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
- 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
- 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
Administrators' newsletter – April 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.
Technical news
- Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the
deletelogentryanddeletedhistoryrights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928) - When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)
Arbitration
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
- A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
- A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.
Miscellaneous
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.
New administrator activity requirement
The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.
Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:
- Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
- Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period
Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.
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The Signpost: 24 April 2022
- News and notes: Double trouble
- In the media: The battlegrounds outside and inside Wikipedia
- Special report: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (Part 2)
- Technology report: 8-year-old attribution issues in Media Viewer
- Featured content: Wikipedia's best content from March
- Interview: On a war and a map
- Serendipity: Wikipedia loves photographs, but hates photographers
- Traffic report: Justice Jackson, the Smiths, and an invasion
- News from the WMF: How Smart is the SMART Copyright Act?
- Humour: Really huge message boxes
- From the archives: Wales resigned WMF board chair in 2006 reorganization
Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
- Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.
Technical news
- The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
- A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.
Arbitration
- Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.
A barnstar for you!
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| For creating the Copyvio detector I only just found (and it was through a google search!). Wish I had known about it sooner. ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 18:19, 10 May 2022 (UTC) |
- Thank you, Blaze Wolf! — The Earwig (talk) 00:13, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
- No problem! I accidentally gave this to User:Earwig at first because your copyvio detector just said "Earwig". ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 12:54, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
Copyvio tool
I was wondering if the copyvio tool is down. I can't get it to load. SL93 (talk) 23:25, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- @SL93, it was briefly down when you sent this message, but is back up now. — The Earwig (talk) 00:00, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- Maybe it's just my computer. It just says Loading... on the tab and I wish I could use it to help me file a contributor copyright investigation. SL93 (talk) 01:27, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- It works now. Now time to start the case. SL93 (talk) 01:29, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- I spoke too soon. SL93 (talk) 01:38, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- SL93: Sometimes I find the tool won't work for me, too. I have noticed sometimes the weekends in particular. I try to do the tasks at times of day that are not so busy, and tend to get a better result than at peak editing hours. Also: We have a status thingy for the tool at https://stats.uptimerobot.com/BN16RUOP5/784331770. — Diannaa (talk) 23:44, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 May 2022
- From the team: A changing of the guard
- News and notes: 2022 Wikimedia Board elections
- Community view: Have your say in the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections
- In the media: Putin, Jimbo, Musk and more
- Special report: Three stories of Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
- Discussion report: Portals, April Fools, admin activity requirements and more
- WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19 revisited
- Technology report: A new video player for Wikimedia wikis
- Featured content: Featured content of April
- Interview: Wikipedia's pride
- Serendipity: Those thieving image farms
- Recent research: 35 million Twitter links analysed
- Tips and tricks: The reference desks of Wikipedia
- Traffic report: Strange highs and strange lows
- News from Diff: Winners of the Human rights and Environment special nomination by Wiki Loves Earth announced
- News from the WMF: The EU Digital Services Act: What’s the Deal with the Deal?
- From the archives: The Onion and Wikipedia
- Humour: A new crossword
Forficula pyrenaica unsourced
Administrators' newsletter – June 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.
Technical news
- Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
- The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.
Arbitration
- Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
- An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.
WIR Metrics
Hi, The_Earwig; it's that time again. WIR Metrics have not updated since 1 June - e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Metrics/June_2022&action=history ... if you'd be able to have a look into that, it would, as normal, be very much appreciated. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 10:35, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
- Ah; either, thank you for fixing, or, they're back in any event & request cancelled. I'll go with the first of those. --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:04, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
Indeed, Tagishsimon :) - I kicked the bot back into gear but was in a rush and didn’t have a chance to reply. Happy editing. — The Earwig alt (talk) 15:16, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
- t/y. Very glad you're here. --Tagishsimon (talk) 20:34, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
Copyvio Detector timing out
Hi, I was wondering if the copyvio Detector is malfuncioning in some way? Every comparison I've attempted this morning has timed out. Not a gateway timeout, but a time out like "The URL https://nickquested.com/about timed out before any data could be retrieved." Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, — Diannaa (talk) 14:12, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
Adding, attempting to search an entire article using search mode results in a 502 Bad Gateway. The example I tried this on was Margaret Sullavan. — Diannaa (talk) 14:32, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
Update: All functions are operating properly again. Peppy and fast, in fact. Thanks, will update again if the problem resumes. — Diannaa (talk) 16:43, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
revdel-responder.js
Hi User:The Earwig/revdel-responder.js is very useful but won't work with any redirect to {{copyvio-revdel}} and a number of the people identifying copyvios are using the redirect {{revdel}}. Can you amend the script to include redirects or at least this one? Thanks Nthep (talk) 17:19, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
- I'll fix this. Thanks. — The Earwig (talk) 17:21, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
- Hi again, I don't know if this is a WP:THURSDAY issue or not but the script isn't working. It loads and if i hit the history button, the page history opens but the revisions that need revdel aren't checked. The other functions like decline and complete aren't working either, the page reloads but that's it. Nthep (talk) 14:30, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
- Nthep, thanks again for reporting an issue. This edit broke it, but I think I've fixed it now. — The Earwig (talk) 03:18, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
- Looks like we're cooking on gas again. Thanks. Nthep (talk) 12:39, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
- something has snapped again - so no highlighting of the required revisions when it's a redirect to {{copyvio-revdel}}. No problems with the other functions though. Nthep (talk) 12:37, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks again, Nthep. I believe this is fixed now. — The Earwig (talk) 00:40, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
- something has snapped again - so no highlighting of the required revisions when it's a redirect to {{copyvio-revdel}}. No problems with the other functions though. Nthep (talk) 12:37, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
- Looks like we're cooking on gas again. Thanks. Nthep (talk) 12:39, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
- Nthep, thanks again for reporting an issue. This edit broke it, but I think I've fixed it now. — The Earwig (talk) 03:18, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
- Hi again, I don't know if this is a WP:THURSDAY issue or not but the script isn't working. It loads and if i hit the history button, the page history opens but the revisions that need revdel aren't checked. The other functions like decline and complete aren't working either, the page reloads but that's it. Nthep (talk) 14:30, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 26 June 2022
- News and notes: WMF inks new rules on government-ordered takedowns, blasts Russian feds' censor demands, spends big bucks
- In the media: Editor given three-year sentence, big RfA makes news, Guy Standing takes it sitting down
- Special report: "Wikipedia's independence" or "Wikimedia's pile of dosh"?
- Featured content: Articles on Scots' clash, Yank's tux, Austrian's action flick deemed brilliant prose
- Recent research: Wikipedia versus academia (again), tables' "immortality" probed
- Serendipity: Was she really a Swiss lesbian automobile racer?
- News from the WMF: Wikimedia Enterprise signs first deals
- Gallery: Celebration of summer, winter
Administrators' newsletter – July 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).
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Technical news
user_global_editcountis a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)
Arbitration
- An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.
Miscellaneous
- The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.
The Signpost: 1 August 2022
- From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something
- News and notes: Information considered harmful
- In the media: Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap
- Op-Ed: The "recession" affair
- Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3)
- Community view: Youth culture and notability
- Opinion: Criminals among us
- Arbitration report: Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement
- Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country
- Discussion report: Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us
- Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists
- Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot
- On the bright side: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories
- Essay: How to research an image
- Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed
- Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia
- Gallery: A backstage pass
- From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened
Administrators' newsletter – August 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
- An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.
Technical news
- The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
- Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)
Arbitration
- The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.
Miscellaneous
- You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
- Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
- Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.
"Interstate Twenty-one" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Interstate Twenty-one and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 August 6#Interstate Twenty-one until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. -- Tavix (talk) 21:23, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
Aaron Golbin protection
On 14th June 2021, this user protected the page titled “Aaron Golbin”. This protection is such that the page may not be created: only confirmed or extended confirmed users can edit it. This information was found in the protection log. This user did not provide a reason for this action, and no other information about this action is available on Wikipedia. The user makes overwhelmingly positive contributions on the whole, but this unexplained action is somewhat confusing. LeetToTheBeatMakeItRoar (talk) 11:58, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
- Te poster above has made similar comments at two other user talk pages, in one case criticism of an editor who hasn’t edited for over two years. Doug Weller talk 12:54, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
- Hi LeetToTheBeatMakeItRoar. The page log shows the reason for protection: the draft was repeatedly recreated after being deleted several times over the years for being blatantly promotional or having other issues. It can be difficult to follow the log as the title was moved multiple times, so you can also check the logs at Aaron Golbin and and Aaron Gabriel Golbin.
- Our draft review processes tend to be be backlogged, and we sometimes instate this protection when repeated attempts are made to create an article that does not follow our policies on spam, copyright, or the subject's suitability for an encyclopedia article, especially when the repeated attempts don't seem to be improving on these issues. I don't remember the specifics of this case other than what I've written here.
- If you think the subject is suitable now and want to create an article with this title, you can create it as a userspace draft and then submit it for review so the protection can be removed. — The Earwig alt (talk) 22:45, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 August 2022
- News and notes: Admins wanted on English Wikipedia, IP editors not wanted on Farsi Wiki, donations wanted everywhere
- Special report: Wikimania 2022: no show, no show up?
- In the media: Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth
- Discussion report: Boarding the Trustees
- News from Wiki Education: 18 years a Wikipedian: what it means to me
- In focus: Thinking inside the box
- Tips and tricks: The unexpected rabbit hole of typo fixing in citations...
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- Recent research: The dollar value of "official" external links
- Traffic report: What dreams (and heavily trafficked articles) may come
- Essay: Delete the junk!
- Humour: CommonsComix No. 1
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).
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- A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
- An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.
Technical news
- The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
- The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.
Arbitration
- An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
- The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.
Miscellaneous
- The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
- Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.
Earwig question for Rudy Hartono
Hi -- I'm a fan of the Earwig tool, as so many of us are (thank you), but I have a question. Running it in copyvio mode on Rudy Hartono finds a mirror but then nothing down to 26.5%. Running it in comparison mode against this URL, which is in the article, finds a 69.8% copyvio which turned out to be real. Shouldn't that have been caught in copyvio mode? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 15:04, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
- Hi Mike and thanks for your question. You're right that this URL should've been caught. The problem is the site is rather slow, taking about 11 seconds for the tool to load. When we run a full check, the tool will only wait 5 seconds per URL to avoid taking too much time (it's slow enough as it is...), so this URL times out and doesn't get compared. When we do the direct comparison, the tool waits longer and is able to load it. — The Earwig (talk) 19:35, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
- Good to know. How about created a collapsed list of the URLs you have to give up on, so users can see and perhaps try them in compare mode? Or even better, put them on the percentage-sorted list as "unknown %" with a link to allow one-click running of the comparison for each? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 19:45, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
- That's a good suggestion. I can make the tool clearer about the reason it couldn't evaluate each URL. — The Earwig (talk) 20:00, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
- Good to know. How about created a collapsed list of the URLs you have to give up on, so users can see and perhaps try them in compare mode? Or even better, put them on the percentage-sorted list as "unknown %" with a link to allow one-click running of the comparison for each? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 19:45, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
Thank you
I just wanted to come and say thank you for the Earwig copyright violator tool. I use it ALL THE TIME!! It is such a huge help and I am grateful it's available! It has saved me all kinds of grief I'm sure. Jenhawk777 (talk) 20:17, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks, Jenhawk777!
— The Earwig alt (talk) 16:50, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 September 2022
- News and notes: Board vote results, bot's big GET, crat chat gives new mop, WMF seeks "sound logo" and "organizer lab"
- In the media: A few complaints and mild disagreements
- Special report: Decentralized Fundraising, Centralized Distribution
- Discussion report: Much ado about Fox News
- Traffic report: Kings and queens and VIPs
- Featured content: Farm-fresh content
- CommonsComix: CommonsComix 2: Paulus Moreelse
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 Years ago: September 2022
Administrators' newsletter – October 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).
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- Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
- Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
- Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.
Technical news
- The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.
Arbitration
- Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
- A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
- The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.
Miscellaneous
- An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
- Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October.
- You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
- An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
- Tech tip: You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete.
The Signpost: 31 October 2022
- From the team: A new goose on the roost
- News from the WMF: Governance updates from, and for, the Wikimedia Endowment
- Disinformation report: From Russia with WikiLove
- Featured content: Topics, lists, submarines and Gurl.com
- Serendipity: We all make mistakes – don’t we?
- Traffic report: Mama, they're in love with a criminal
Administrators' newsletter – November 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November.
- An RfC is open to discuss having open requests for adminship automatically placed on hold after the seven-day period has elapsed, pending closure or other action by a bureaucrat.
Arbitration
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections.
- The arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion.
- The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has entered the proposed decision stage.
- AmandaNP, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections. Xaosflux and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
Miscellaneous
- The 2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers.
- You can add yourself to the centralised page listing time zones of administrators.
- Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like
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The Signpost: 28 November 2022
- News and notes: English Wikipedia editors: "We don't need no stinking banners"
- In the media: "The most beautiful story on the Internet"
- Disinformation report: Missed and Dissed
- Book review: Writing the Revolution
- Technology report: Galactic dreams, encyclopedic reality
- Essay: The Six Million FP Man
- Tips and tricks: (Wiki)break stuff
- Recent research: Study deems COVID-19 editors smart and cool, questions of clarity and utility for WMF's proposed "Knowledge Integrity Risk Observatory"
- Featured content: A great month for featured articles
- Obituary: A tribute to Michael Gäbler
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
- CommonsComix: Joker's trick
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- Consensus has been found in an RfC to automatically place RfAs on hold after one week.
- The article creation at scale RfC has been closed.
- An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.
Technical news
- A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449)
Arbitration
- Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
- The proposed decision for the 2021-22 review of the discretionary sanctions system is open.
- The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has been closed.
- The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
- A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop.
Miscellaneous
- Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add
/64to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.
Running a query of yours
Hi Earwig, I was working to deorphan the currently orphaned talk page archives in October. Got busy in November, and now I'm back. Can you please run the SQL query at User:The Earwig/Sandbox/Orphaned archives once again so that I can get a fresh up to date list in which I can work? Thanks! —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 15:29, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
- Hey CX Zoom. Sure, User:The Earwig/Sandbox/Orphaned archives is updated now. — The Earwig (talk) 01:43, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you so much! —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 10:11, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
Happy holidays!
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Hello The Earwig: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 03:14, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
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Orphaned non-free image File:Town of Devon Flag.png
Thanks for uploading File:Town of Devon Flag.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Yeeno (talk) 04:35, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
Revdel script (WP:THURSDAY?) again
Hi again, the revdel script User:The Earwig/revdel-responder.js seems to have another issue, although it might be User:Enterprisey/url-select-revdel.js that has the problem. The last couple of days, the scripts are correctly identifying the revisions to be deleted but then when I hit the change visibility button the script isn't either setting the option to delete the revision text nor is it populating the reason box and the source pages. Nthep (talk) 12:28, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
- Hey Nthep! This is fixed now. Indeed it looks like a MW software change last week was the cause. — The Earwig (talk) 05:41, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 1 January 2023
- 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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- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
Administrators' newsletter – January 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
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.
The Signpost: 16 January 2023
- 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
- Featured content: Flip your lid
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2022
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
Administrators' newsletter – February 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
- Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.
Technical news
- The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
- In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
- Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.
The Signpost: 4 February 2023
- From the editor: New for the Signpost: Author pages, tag pages, and a decent article search function
- News and notes: Foundation update on fundraising, new page patrol, Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan
- Disinformation report: Wikipedia on Santos
- Op-Ed: Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter
- Recent research: Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Organized Labour
- Tips and tricks: XTools: Data analytics for your list of created articles
- Featured content: 20,000 Featureds under the Sea
- Traffic report: Films, deaths and ChatGPT
Copyvios tool is down
Hi Ben. Just stopping by to let you know that the Copyvios tool has been down for more than six hours, with "504 Gateway Time-out". Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! — Diannaa (talk) 01:47, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- We're back up now. Sorry for the trouble. — The Earwig (talk) 06:25, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 20 February 2023
- In the media: Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage
- Disinformation report: The "largest con in corporate history"?
- Tips and tricks: All about writing at DYK
- Featured content: Eden, lost.
- Gallery: Love is in the air
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago: Let's (not) delete the Main Page!
- Humour: The RfA Candidate's Song
Administrators' newsletter – March 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
- Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
- A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline.
Technical news
- The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.
Arbitration
- Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
- The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023.
- A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon.
Miscellaneous
- The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
- Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
- The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a
[p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing
. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.
WPMED
Six years ago, you did me a favor by assessing some articles for WikiProject Medicine. Now I am back with a new request: Do you know how to extract the mw:ORES assessments? I'd like to have all stubs tagged as being stubs. (In my experience, ORES is 100% reliable for stub ratings.)
@Nettrom did some research on this in the past; I don't know if any of that would be helpful.
Eventually, after Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Display assessments on inactive wikiproject banners and Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Project-independent quality assessments get settled (pinging @Aymatth2 and @Piotrus), I'd like to have this run for all unassessed pages. More than 400,000 existing articles are tagged but not assessed for quality, and about half of those are stubs. There's no need for Stub assessments to be assigned by a human; doing it by bot would be ~200,000 minutes (=five months of round-the-clock work) of volunteer time saved. WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:25, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- As someone who was pinged and who often does assessment, I concur that bots should be perfectly fine assessing content as stubs based on length (249 words of prose or less, IIRC based on WP:STUB). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:54, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- WP:STUB is vaguer than that, as multiple methods are used and acceptable. ORES is conservative about its understanding of stubs (what I call a "good stub", ORES labels as Start-class), though, so if we can use ORES's rating system, anything it tags as a Stub will be accurate.
- A bot should be able to detect errors in Redirect-class (both articles that are incorrectly listed as redirects and articles that have been merged/redirected but are still listed with a different rating). Beyond that, I've generally found that when the rating is off by 2+ classes (e.g., ORES says Start and the rating says B-class, or vice versa), then it's worth a human review. When ORES suggests an adjacent rating (e.g., long Stub vs short Start), it's less useful to pay attention. I wouldn't recommend that for a bot, though. WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:13, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- Hey WhatamIdoing. I think this is an interesting idea and potentially a good bot task, but I'm afraid I don't have much bandwidth to commit to it any time soon. It might be best if we can find another bot op to work on it. — The Earwig (talk) 04:47, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
- Shall I take it to WP:BOTREQ, and is there anything beyond the link above that I should tell them? WhatamIdoing (talk) 07:13, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
- Yes, let's take it to BOTREQ. The links above and one to this discussion should be sufficient for context. Thanks! — The Earwig (talk) 13:37, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
- I've posted this to Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 84#Stub assessments with ORES. WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:06, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
- Yes, let's take it to BOTREQ. The links above and one to this discussion should be sufficient for context. Thanks! — The Earwig (talk) 13:37, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
- Shall I take it to WP:BOTREQ, and is there anything beyond the link above that I should tell them? WhatamIdoing (talk) 07:13, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 9 March 2023
- News and notes: What's going on with the Wikimedia Endowment?
- Technology report: Second flight of the Soviet space bears: Testing ChatGPT's accuracy
- In the media: What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propaganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently?
- Featured content: In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter
- Recent research: "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
The Signpost: 20 March 2023
- News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate
- Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians
- In the media: Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences
- Featured content: Way too many featured articles
- Interview: 228/2/1: the inside scoop on Aoidh's RfA
- Traffic report: Who died? Who won? Who lost?
earwig/earwigbot/pull/79
Hey, wasn't sure the best place to poke you — I have an earwigbot PR open to add DuckDuckGo as a search engine option. I think it'd be interesting to compare the results from the Google Search API and DuckDuckGo's search API. What do you think? 
— TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 09:37, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
- Hey! I definitely saw it, and it's on my radar, I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Rest assured it will happen. — The Earwig (talk) 04:16, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
copyvios.toolforge.org is down
Hi, I just wanted to let you know your tool is down:
$ curl https://copyvios.toolforge.org -v
* Trying 185.15.56.11:443...
* Connected to copyvios.toolforge.org (185.15.56.11) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
* CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
* CApath: /etc/ssl/certs
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
* ALPN, server accepted to use h2
* Server certificate:
* subject: CN=toolforge.org
* start date: Mar 18 10:47:38 2023 GMT
* expire date: Jun 16 10:47:37 2023 GMT
* subjectAltName: host "copyvios.toolforge.org" matched cert's "*.toolforge.org"
* issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=R3
* SSL certificate verify ok.
* Using HTTP2, server supports multi-use
* Connection state changed (HTTP/2 confirmed)
* Copying HTTP/2 data in stream buffer to connection buffer after upgrade: len=0
* Using Stream ID: 1 (easy handle 0x561fa31fc2e0)
> GET / HTTP/2
> Host: copyvios.toolforge.org
> user-agent: curl/7.74.0
> accept: */*
>
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):
* old SSL session ID is stale, removing
* Connection state changed (MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS == 128)!
< HTTP/2 500
< server: nginx/1.14.2
< date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 08:51:23 GMT
< content-type: text/html
< content-length: 291
<
* HTTP/2 stream 0 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2)
* stopped the pause stream!
* Connection #0 to host copyvios.toolforge.org left intact
curl: (92) HTTP/2 stream 0 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2)Thanks Metamorforme42 (talk) 09:01, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
- Many tools are down, there was an announced maintenance period. See Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Scheduled_tools_downtime_next_week —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:11, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you for the link @TheDJ. Sadly, it hasn't been announced on my local wiki. Metamorforme42 (talk) 09:42, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 03 April 2023
- From the editor: Some long-overdue retractions
- News and notes: Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI
- Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing
- Featured content: Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid
- Recent research: Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT
- From the archives: April Fools' through the ages
- Disinformation report: Sus socks support suits, seems systemic
Administrators' newsletter – April 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.
Technical news
- Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
- The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
- A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.
Arbitration
- The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
- A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.
The Signpost: 26 April 2023
- News and notes: Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns
- In the media: Contested truth claims in Wikipedia
- Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman
- Arbitration report: Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping
- Special report: Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022
- News from the WMF: Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation
- Featured content: In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again
- From the archives: April Fools' through the ages, part two
- Humour: The law of hats
- Traffic report: Long live machine, the future supreme
Administrators' newsletter – May 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).
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- A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.
Technical news
- Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.
Arbitration
- The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.
Miscellaneous
- The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.
Hello, I recently edited the draft of this article, however, the draft was declined for not being "written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article." However, to me the tone feels very formal, straightforward, and factual. Could you please advise on any specific changes that need to be made for me to resubmit?
The Signpost: 8 May 2023
- News and notes: New legal "deVLOPments" in the EU
- In the media: Vivek's smelly socks, online safety, and politics
- Recent research: Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions
- Featured content: I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists; My first featured picture of this year now finally exists!
- Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion
- News from the WMF: Planning together with the Wikimedia Foundation
The Signpost: 22 May 2023
- In the media: History, propaganda and censorship
- Arbitration report: Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland"
- Featured content: A very musical week for featured articles
- Traffic report: Coronation, chatbot, celebs
The Signpost: 5 June 2023
- News and notes: WMRU director forks new 'pedia, birds flap in top '22 piccy, WMF weighs in on Indian gov's map axe plea
- Featured content: Poetry under pressure
- Traffic report: Celebs, controversies and a chatbot in the public eye
Administrators' newsletter – June 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
- As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.
Technical news
- Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.
Arbitration
- The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.
Miscellaneous
- Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.
Copyvio tool is down
Hi Ben! Just a note to let you know that the Copyvio tool has been out of service for 4 hours now. Reason: 504 gateway timeout. Thanks for any assistance! — Diannaa (talk) 23:21, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 19 June 2023
- News and notes: WMF Terms of Use now in force, new Creative Commons licensing
- Featured content: Content, featured
- Recent research: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics
Administrators' newsletter – July 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.
Technical news
- Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.
Arbitration
- Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.
The Signpost: 3 July 2023
- Disinformation report: Imploded submersible outfit foiled trying to sing own praises on Wikipedia
- Featured content: Incensed
- Traffic report: Are you afraid of spiders? Arnold? The Idol? ChatGPT?
The Signpost: 17 July 2023
- In the media: Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia
- Tips and tricks: What automation can do for you (and your WikiProject)
- Featured content: Scrollin', scrollin', scrollin', keep those readers scrollin', got to keep on scrollin', Rawhide!
- Traffic report: The Idol becomes the Master
Copyvio exclusions
Hi Earwig! I noticed a mirror site for Spanish Wikipedia, and I wondered if we can add them to the exclusions page of the Copyvio detector. The page is https://es-academic.com/contents.nsf/eswiki/, let me know if I can help with anything, and also thanks to you for the tool!! Best, Soylacarli (talk) 15:20, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
- Added, thanks! Might take a few hours to update. — The Earwig (talk) 15:34, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 August 2023
- News and notes: City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians, Ruwiki founder banned, WMF launches Mastodon server
- In the media: Truth, AI, bull from politicians, and climate change
- Disinformation report: Hot climate, hot hit, hot money, hot news hot off the presses!
- Tips and tricks: Citation tools for dummies!
- In focus: Journals cited by Wikipedia
- Opinion: Are global bans the last step?
- Featured content: Featured Content, 1 to 15 July
- Traffic report: Come on Oppie, let's go party
Administrators' newsletter – August 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Technical news
- The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
- Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)
Arbitration
- The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
- The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.
The Signpost: 15 August 2023
- News and notes: Dude, Where's My Donations? Wikimedia Foundation announces another million in grants for non-Wikimedia-related projects
- Tips and tricks: How to find images for your articles, check their copyright, upload them, and restore them
- Cobwebs: Getting serious about writing
- Serendipity: Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether
- Featured content: Barbenheimer confirmed
- Traffic report: 'Cause today it just goes with the fashion
Copyvio tool is down
Hi Ben, the copyvio tool is not functioning properly today. It is throwing a 502 Bad Gateway error, or failing to load at all (it just spins and spins). If you have a minute I would appreciate it if you could have a look. Thanks, — Diannaa (talk) 16:34, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
- Hey Diannaa, I'm not seeing any issues at the moment, are you still having problems? — The Earwig (talk) 17:43, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
An RFC that affects you has closed
You are receiving this message as one of the overseers of TFA Protector Bot. I have just closed the TFA semi-protection RfC with consensus to implement both it and its sub-RfC. I leave the finer details in the hands of the bot operators. Your service is appreciated :) CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 22:30, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
- As a further note, in case you already read my close, I have amended my close after a conversation with Sdkb, withdrawing my close of the sub-RfC. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 23:35, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 August 2023
- From the editor: Beta version of signpost.news now online
- News and notes: You like RecentChanges?
- In the media: Taking it sleazy
- Recent research: The five barriers that impede "stitching" collaboration between Commons and Wikipedia
- Draftspace: Bad Jokes and Other Draftspace Novelties
- Humour: The Dehumourification Plan
- Traffic report: Raise your drinking glass, here's to yesterday
Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).
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- Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
- A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that
[s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment
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Technical news
- Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)
Arbitration
- The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming
local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus
. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged tonote when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful
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Miscellaneous
- Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.
The Signpost: 16 September 2023
- In the media: "Just flirting", going Dutch and Shapps for the defence?
- Obituary: Nosebagbear
- Featured content: Catching up
- Traffic report: Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
Women in Red metrics
I'm afraid there's once again a problem here. Would appreciate your attention.--Ipigott (talk) 06:38, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
- Looking. Harej, did you make any changes to the way the bot runs on Toolforge? It looks like its virtual environment has disappeared. — The Earwig (talk) 15:21, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
- I recreated the venv, and it seems to be running now. We'll know for sure in about half an hour. — The Earwig (talk) 15:41, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
- Fortunately that resolved the issue, though I still don't know how it broke in the first place. — The Earwig (talk) 03:57, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
- I recreated the venv, and it seems to be running now. We'll know for sure in about half an hour. — The Earwig (talk) 15:41, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
CfD nomination at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 October 1 § Category:WikiProject X members
A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 October 1 § Category:WikiProject X members on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Qwerfjkltalk 09:36, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 3 October 2023
- News and notes: Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published
- Recent research: Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"
- Featured content: By your logic,
- Poetry: "The Sight"
Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).
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- An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text:
Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.
Technical news
- Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)
Arbitration
Miscellaneous
- The 2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of one new CheckUser.
- Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.
The Signpost: 23 October 2023
- News and notes: Where have all the administrators gone?
- In the media: Thirst traps, the fastest loading sites on the web, and the original collaborative writing
- Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to know how to restore images to make massive improvements
- Featured content: Yo, ho! Blow the man down!
- Traffic report: The calm and the storm
- News from Diff: Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes
November Articles for creation backlog drive
Hello The Earwig:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.
You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.
Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
The Signpost: 6 November 2023
- Arbitration report: Admin bewilderingly unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was extremely banned in 2015
- In the media: UK shadow chancellor accused of ripping off WP articles for book, Wikipedians accused of being dicks by a rich man
- Opinion: An open letter to Elon Musk
- WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2023
- News from Wiki Ed: Equity lists on Wikipedia
- Recent research: How English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades
- Featured content: Like putting a golf course in a historic site.
- Traffic report: Cricket jumpscare
Administrators' newsletter – November 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
Technical news
- The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
- There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.
Arbitration
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
- Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
- Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
- Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
- Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
- Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
- An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.
Miscellaneous
- The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!
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Hi, can you take a look at [2]. I get no responses from Σ and I saw you co-manage some tools, so maybe you have access to that tool as well? If the source code is available I can try and donate the change myself. thanks Kotz (talk) 15:29, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
- Hi Kotz. Thanks, this is a reasonable feature request. I've added it to the tool. Hope you find it useful. — The Earwig (talk) 04:07, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
Cool!! Thanks a lot. I'll check it up and either put it up for use immediately or come back to complain some more. Thanks again Kotz (talk) 10:02, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
Inspired captions...
CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 02:30, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
- Love it! Thanks Eek! — The Earwig (talk) 04:24, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
- surprisingly for me, you are young. I always thought of you to be in 40s/50s
—usernamekiran (talk) 00:05, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
- Heh, thanks... I've heard this quite a bit at meetups. — The Earwig (talk) 08:31, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
- surprisingly for me, you are young. I always thought of you to be in 40s/50s
The Signpost: 20 November 2023
- In the media: Propaganda and photos, lunatics and a lunar backup
- News and notes: Update on Wikimedia's financial health
- Traffic report: If it bleeds, it leads
- Recent research: Canceling disputes as the real function of ArbCom
- Wikimania: Wikimania 2024 scholarships
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Copyvio lang hu
Hi! Copyvio Detector doesn't work with lang=hu. https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=hu&project=wikipedia&title=Rakovn%C3%ADk&oldid=&action=search&use_engine=1&use_links=1&turnitin=0 Could you please post your answer here? Thanks, Bean49 (talk) 21:25, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks, I'll reply there. — The Earwig (talk) 03:34, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 4 December 2023
- In the media: Turmoil on Hebrew Wikipedia, grave dancing, Olga's impact and inspiring Bhutanese nuns
- Disinformation report: "Wikipedia and the assault on history"
- Comix: Bold comics for a new age
- Essay: I am going to die
- Featured content: Real gangsters move in silence
- Traffic report: And it's hard to watch some cricket, in the cold November Rain
- Humour: Mandy Rice-Davies Applies
Administrators' newsletter – December 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.
Arbitration
- Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
- The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
- Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
Happy holidays!
Hello The Earwig: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 14:25, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 14:25, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks MrLinkinPark333, and same to you! — The Earwig (talk) 20:33, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
Copyvio Tool 504 Gateway Timeout
Hi,
The copyvio tool is timing out already, could you take a look at it.
Discussion at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/KiranBOT 8
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/KiranBOT 8. —usernamekiran (talk) 15:57, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- I have commented there, your response/feedback would be appreciated a lot. —usernamekiran (talk) 15:57, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Replied there. — The Earwig (talk) 04:41, 21 December 2023 (UTC)