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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.
Tech News writers, editors and translators wish you a pleasant 2019 year.
Recent changes
- RelatedSites extension has been undeployed. It was used to create interwiki links on Wikivoyage, now handled by Wikidata. [1]
MediaWiki logstash logging is moving to a new infrastructure. This is an ongoing deployment. [2]- codesearch.wmflabs.org has been updated, with new and updated repositories and a new search options for code. [3]
- On several wikis, an account named "Edit filter" has been created on December 17 to perform some technical maintenance on AbuseFilter. This account has sysop rights but it's a system user and no human can use it. The account already existed on wikis where AbuseFilter can perform blocks, which are issued using this account. See T212268 for more information and future plans.
Problems
- In AbuseFilter, the "Throttle" action takes three parameters: count, period and groups. They must now strictly respect the requirements listed on mediawiki.org. A list of broken filters is on Phabricator. If you're familiar with AbuseFilter, please take a look and fix them. [4]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from January 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from January 9. It will be on all wikis from January 10 (calendar).
Meetings
- Search Platform Office Hours is rescheduled to January 9. Check the details for time and date.
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2019).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment is currently open to reevaluate the activity requirements for administrators.
- Administrators who are blocked have the technical ability to block the administrator who blocked their own account. A recent request for comment has amended the blocking policy to clarify that this ability should only be used in exceptional circumstances, such as account compromises, where there is a clear and immediate need.
- A request for comment closed with a consensus in favor of deprecating The Sun as a permissible reference, and creating an edit filter to warn users who attempt to cite it.
Technical news
- A discussion regarding an overhaul of the format and appearance of Wikipedia:Requests for page protection is in progress (permalink). The proposed changes will make it easier to create requests for those who are not using Twinkle. The workflow for administrators at this venue will largely be unchanged. Additionally, there are plans to archive requests similar to how it is done at WP:PERM, where historical records are kept so that prior requests can more easily be searched for.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2019 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2019, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2019, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- A new IRC bot is available that allows you to subscribe to notifications when specific filters are tripped. This requires that your IRC handle be identified.
Administrators' newsletter – March 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2019).
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Guideline and policy news
- The RfC on administrator activity requirements failed to reach consensus for any proposal.
- Following discussions at the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and Wikipedia talk:Administrators, an earlier change to the restoration of adminship policy was reverted. If requested, bureaucrats will not restore administrator permissions removed due to inactivity if there have been five years without a logged administrator action; this "five year rule" does not apply to permissions removed voluntarily.
Technical news
- A new tool is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.
Arbitration
- The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN or WP:SPI).
- paid-en-wp
wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private evidence related to abusive paid editing. - checkuser-en-wp wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private requests for CheckUser. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to this address instead of the functionaries-en list.
- paid-en-wp
- The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN or WP:SPI).
Miscellaneous
- Following the 2019 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Base, Einsbor, Jon Kolbert, Schniggendiller, and Wim b.
Ref
This is not really a single ref but is just a search on Science Direct. Better to use a PMID or DOI or ISBN and page number.
Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:34, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).
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Technical news
- In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
- The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Please see meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019 to provide your input on this idea.
Arbitration
- The Arbitration Committee clarified that the General 1RR prohibition for Palestine-Israel articles may only be enforced on pages with the {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} edit notice.
Miscellaneous
- Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
- As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.
A message from K.M. Thorpe
Hi! Thank you for your help with my edits. I specified that I work for her not to be a reliable source but to be completely transparent. I will definitely use the request edit page and cite the source if I make any edits. Thanks again! --K.M. Thorpe (talk) 16:29, 13 April 2019 (UTC) K.M. Thorpe (talk) 16:29, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
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Thanks for uploading File:Event horizon telescope logo 2019.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. Aspects (talk) 23:32, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 April 2019
- News and notes: An Action Packed April
- In the media: Is Wikipedia just another social media site?
- Discussion report: English Wikipedia community's conclusions on talk pages
- Featured content: Anguish, accolades, animals, and art
- Arbitration report: An Active Arbitration Committee
- Traffic report: Mötley Crüe, Notre-Dame, a black hole, and Bonnie and Clyde
- Technology report: A new special page, and other news
- Gallery: Notre-Dame de Paris burns
- News from the WMF: Can machine learning uncover Wikipedia’s missing “citation needed” tags?
- Recent research: Female scholars underrepresented; whitepaper on Wikidata and libraries; undo patterns reveal editor hierarchy
- From the archives: Portals revisited
Administrators' newsletter – May 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).
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Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment concluded that creating pages in the portal namespace should be restricted to autoconfirmed users.
- Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.
Technical news
- XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.
Arbitration
- In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases,
the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions
; administrators found failing to have adequately done sowill not be resysopped automatically
. All current administrators have been notified of this change. - Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.
- In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases,
Miscellaneous
- A request for comment is currently open to amend the community sanctions procedure to exclude non XfD or CSD deletions.
- A proposal to remove pre-2009 indefinite IP blocks is currently open for discussion.
The Signpost: 31 May 2019
- From the editors: Picture that
- News and notes: Wikimania and trustee elections
- In the media: Politics, lawsuits and baseball
- Discussion report: Admin abuse leads to mass-desysop proposal on Azerbaijani Wikipedia
- Arbitration report: ArbCom forges ahead
- Technology report: Lots of Bots
- News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation petitions the European Court of Human Rights to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey
- Essay: Paid editing
- From the archives: FORUM:Should Wikimedia modify its terms of use to require disclosure?
Administrators' newsletter – June 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019).
Administrator changes
Andonic • Consumed Crustacean • Enigmaman • Euryalus • EWS23 • HereToHelp • Nv8200pa • Peripitus • StringTheory11 • Vejvančický
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
- An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
- An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.
Technical news
- The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion. You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
- Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution! The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.
Miscellaneous
- The previously discussed unblocking of IP addresses indefinitely-blocked before 2009 was approved and has taken place.
- The 2019 talk pages consultation produced a report for Phase 1 and has entered Phase 2.
The June 2019 Signpost is out!
- Discussion report: A constitutional crisis hits English Wikipedia
- News and notes: Mysterious ban, admin resignations, Wikimedia Thailand rising
- In the media: The disinformation age
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Traffic report: Juneteenth, Beauty Revealed, and more nuclear disasters
- Technology report: Actors and Bots
- Special report: Did Fram harass other editors?
- Recent research: What do editors do after being blocked?; the top mathematicians, universities and cancers according to Wikipedia
- From the archives: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching
- In focus: WikiJournals: A sister project proposal
- Community view: A CEO biography, paid for with taxes
Administrators' newsletter – July 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019).
Administrator changes
- 28bytes • Ad Orientem • Ansh666 • Beeblebrox • Boing! said Zebedee • BU Rob13 • Dennis Brown • Deor • DoRD • Floquenbeam1 • Flyguy649 • Fram2 • Gadfium • GB fan • Jonathunder • Kusma • Lectonar • Moink • MSGJ • Nick • Od Mishehu • Rama • Spartaz • Syrthiss • TheDJ • WJBscribe
- 1Floquenbeam's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.
- 2Fram's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.
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Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment seeking to alleviate pressures on the request an account (ACC) process proposes either raising the account creation limit for extended confirmed editors or granting the account creator permission on request to new ACC tool users.
- In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.
- The scope of CSD criterion G8 has been tightened such that the only redirects that it now applies to are those which target non-existent pages.
- The scope of CSD criterion G14 has been expanded slightly to include orphan "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects that target pages that are not disambiguation pages or pages that perform a disambiguation-like function (such as set index articles or lists).
- A request for comment seeks to determine whether Wikipedia:Office actions should be a policy page or an information page.
Technical news
- The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.
Miscellaneous
- In February 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) changed its office actions policy to include temporary and project-specific bans. The WMF exercised this new ability for the first time on the English Wikipedia on 10 June 2019 to temporarily ban and desysop Fram. This action has resulted in significant community discussion, a request for arbitration (permalink), and, either directly or indirectly, the resignations of numerous administrators and functionaries. The WMF Board of Trustees is aware of the situation, and discussions continue on a statement and a way forward. The Arbitration Committee has sent an open letter to the WMF Board.
Editing News #1—July 2019
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Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.
Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.
Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:
Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?
If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.
Follow these instructions and share your experience:
Recent releases
The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team has recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:
- Section editing
- The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
- The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were 1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
- Loading overlay
- The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.
Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.
New and active projects
This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.
- Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now. Go here to see how: 📲Try Edit Cards.
- Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
- Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks: Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor? We are collaborating with 20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
- Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use. The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.
Looking ahead
- Wikimania: Several members of the Editing Team will be attending Wikimania in August 2019. They will lead a session about mobile editing in the Community Growth space. Talk to them about how editing can be improved.
- Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.
Learning more
The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
PPelberg (WMF) (talk) and Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:25, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 July 2019
- In the media: Politics starts getting rough
- Discussion report: New proposals in aftermath of Fram ban
- Arbitration report: A month of reintegration
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Community view: Video based summaries of Wikipedia articles. How and why?
- News from the WMF: Designing ethically with AI: How Wikimedia can harness machine learning in a responsible and human-centered way
- Recent research: Most influential medical journals; detecting pages to protect
- Special report: Administrator cadre continues to contract
- Traffic report: World cups, presidential candidates, and stranger things
Administrators' newsletter – August 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, the page Wikipedia:Office actions has been changed from a policy page to an information page.
- A request for comment (permalink) is in progress regarding the administrator inactivity policy.
Arbitration
- Editors may now use the template {{Ds/aware}} to indicate that they are aware that discretionary sanctions are in force for a topic area, so it is unnecessary to alert them.
Miscellaneous
- Following a research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page.
- The new page reviewer right is bundled with the admin tool set. Many admins regularly help out at Special:NewPagesFeed, but they may not be aware of improvements, changes, and new tools for the Curation system. Stay up to date by subscribing here to the NPP newsletter that appears every two months, and/or putting the reviewers' talk page on your watchlist.
Since the introduction of temporary user rights, it is becoming more usual to accord the New Page Reviewer right on a probationary period of 3 to 6 months in the first instance. This avoids rights removal for inactivity at a later stage and enables a review of their work before according the right on a permanent basis.
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The Signpost: 30 August 2019
- News and notes: Documenting Wikimania and our beginnings
- In focus: Ryan Merkley joins WMF as Chief of Staff
- Discussion report: Meta proposals on partial bans and IP users
- Traffic report: Once upon a time in Greenland with Boris and cornflakes
- News from the WMF: Meet Emna Mizouni, the newly minted 2019 Wikimedian of the Year
- Recent research: Special issue on gender gap and gender bias research
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
Administrators' newsletter – September 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).
Administrator changes
Bradv • Chetsford • Izno
Floquenbeam • Lectonar- DESiegel • Jake Wartenberg • Rjanag • Topbanana
CheckUser changes
Oversight changes
- Callanecc • Fox • HJ Mitchell • LFaraone • There'sNoTime
Technical news
- Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
- The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.
Arbitration
- A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2019 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
Miscellaneous
- A global request for comment is in progress regarding whether a user group should be created that could modify edit filters across all public Wikimedia wikis.
Afc reject, etc.
Please note this tiny but very important edit. By using a "raw" speedy tag, you caused User talk:Selva2508 to appear in CAT:CSD which was not meant to happen. You did the same with User talk:91.206.0.63. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 12:57, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
A message from Mayorgeneraljm
Mayorgeneraljm (talk) 17:45, 9 September 2019 (UTC) Hi! I saw you decline the page I was trying to create on wikipedia! Ok, Im new on this and I have honestly any idea of how it works and how to have it done! I just know this: The text I add is the text we used on our website which its explain and describe the Lost on You project! The media links are not build by us. Because our hard work and the importance of what we do all those magazines have talked about us. Is not the rolling stone but the person who doesn't know the magazines I mention then have quite a very small knowledge about electronic music.
Lost on You ( the record label) is a project created to help children from poor countries, and since we started in january 2018 we have been donating all the income from our music sales to help children around the world.
This may feel as a promotional page but isn't a promotional page! Our project deserves to have a page here cause each time you write Lost on You all you get is LP song!
I will ask you please to have a search about the project to understand it and to please help us to have a page here.
You are actually the second person who have said its feels like a promotional page but if you guys cant understand our purpose then I don't know what to say.
Help us to spread our mission.
Thank you
- Mayorgeneraljm Your draft was deleted as it was unambiguous advertising or promotion. Try WP:YFA for help writing your first article.
{{u|waddie96}} {talk}10:00, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
A message from Onefunsite
Hi, thanks for taking a look at the page I tried to create: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft:World_Adventure_Golf_Masters
I have now edited the page and added a number of reliable sources from around the web. Hopefully the page can be accepted. Thanks! Onefunsite (talk) 21:19, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
- Onefunsite Hi, so I made a lot of cleanup edits for you, removed peacock terms and unnecessary unencyclopedic info. See World Adventure Golf Masters for the article now published.
{{u|waddie96}} {talk}10:27, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
A message from Russolini1979
Hello, Waddie96! I am writing about page created by me. Draft:Ruslan Sabirly, which is declined by you. First I would like to thank you for your viewing. But, I would like to mark some points, which are no understandable to me.
1. In that page External Links (to social media accounts) deleted by some user, while in many page of celebrities like Tom Cruise has links to his social media accounts and it is ok for wikipedia community.
2. I had comment on that page: Symbol opinion vote.svg Comment: "face of... prestigious" SITH (talk) 19:45, 9 April 2019 (UTC) And deleted that phrases, and also peacock word. But now, you rejected submission: "This submission does not appear to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. Entries should be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources. Please rewrite your submission in a more encyclopedic format. Please make sure to avoid peacock terms that promote the subject."
So please, could you show me exact sentences where used peacock terms, because i really can not see them. And i need help. I want to change but i can not find the issues which is the reason of rejection.
Will be glad for your help on both points. Tnank you in advance! :)
Russolini1979 (talk) 12:55, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
- Russolini1979 Hi, (1) social media accounts are not linked on wikipedia (see why at WP:Twitter-EL, WP:NOTSOCIALNETWORK, and WP:SOCIALMEDIA), and no social media accounts are linked at Tom Cruise; (2) In general, the draft is not written in a neutral, formal, encyclopedic tone, see WP:MOS for help regarding this and try WP:BLOWITUP. Peacock terms: "intelligent family", WP:RS is needed for a claim like this. The article sounds more like an WP:ESSAY and somewhat WP:PROMO.
{{u|waddie96}} {talk}09:58, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
- Hi again. Actually, you are wrong with "no social media accounts are linked at Tom Cruise". There are all social media accounts on that page. Please, look at the bottom of page External links. Those are the same i did. :) So, why some persons can have links and some of them not? I think this is not right way. --Russolini1979 (talk) 18:13, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
- Russolini1979 Besides the social media accounts on your draft there are other issues that need fixing as mentioned above.
{{u|waddie96}} {talk}18:56, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
- Russolini1979 Besides the social media accounts on your draft there are other issues that need fixing as mentioned above.
- Hi again. Actually, you are wrong with "no social media accounts are linked at Tom Cruise". There are all social media accounts on that page. Please, look at the bottom of page External links. Those are the same i did. :) So, why some persons can have links and some of them not? I think this is not right way. --Russolini1979 (talk) 18:13, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
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A message from JelenaIlicVienna
Dear Waddie96, Regarding my article, you stated that the submission appears more like an advertisement and that there are not much reliable secondary sources.
First of it, I would like to draw your attention to this articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearstream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euroclear
Clearstream is the German and Luxembourg CSD, Euroclear is the Belgian CSD and OeKB CSD is the Austrian CSD. The Central Securities Depository Regulation (reference 1 in my article) says that every CSD in a country has to apply for a certification. After the approvement of each Authority (in Austria it is the Financial Market Authority (FMA)), the company can act as the CSD of the country. By the way, why did you chance the name of the article to OeKB central securities depository, as this is wrong. The name of the austrian CSD is OeKB CSD, this is a fact (see also companies register, reference 10) and cannot be changed.
So my article has provable secondary facts about the company eg. the companies register(reference 10), it has the prove from the Austrian Financial Authority that it can act as an CSD (reference 8), it has the prove from the Austrian National Bank that OeKB CSD provides the securities account administration on T2S (reference 16), it has the prove of ECSDA that it is a member of the European central securities depositories (reference 23), it has the prove from the European Central Bank that OeKB CSD is in charge for the market practice in Austria. The scope of OeKB CSD in my article is similar to the scope of Clearstram and Euroclear. Therefore, this is no advertisment, the article describes only the tasks of the Austrian CSD, not more and not less. So please have a look at it again - if you want to change something, I am open for any discussion, but please do not decline the submission.
Thx a lot! Kind regards, Jelena
JelenaIlicVienna (talk) 08:43, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
- I've deleted the spam and posted guidance on her talk page Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:28, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
- @JelenaIlicVienna: I've restored your blanked talk page for future Wikipedians. The article was removed due to a copyright violation, please note that repeat offenders of copyright violations may be blocked from editing
{{ping|waddie96}} {talk}08:46, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
Issue Wikilinking 5′ reported on Phab
@Waddie96: T233101 {{ping|waddie96}} {talk} 11:49, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
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I'm not convinced that enough time has passed yet to be sure that "Kitchikeesik" won't just rewrite the whole thing into an advertisement for her film work that almost completely obliterates her political career again, so I'm not yet prepared to drop it completely. I have dropped it from admin-only to extended-confirmed, however (autoconfirmed wouldn't work, as Kitchikeesik has already passed that bar.) Bearcat (talk) 17:34, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
- @Bearcat: That's fine, I do wish to point out that your charged tone is directed at the wrong individual—if it should be directed to anyone at all. I so kindly thank you for lowering the page protection. I do strongly believe that admin-only should be used with a specific date of expiry and only in the most dire of situations. It is unfair to limit editing to the 513 active admins[1] and exclude the 127,866 active users indefinitely.[2] Best,
{{ping|waddie96}} {talk}17:58, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
References
A message from 178.172.239.99
Greetings, I write in regard to my edit to the Platoon movie page. Please check the links below with proof that Gordon is incorrect:
- French Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platoon#Distribution
- German Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platoon_(Film)#Synchronisation
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091763/ (please scroll down to and read the Storyline section)
- War film Wiki: https://warfilm.fandom.com/wiki/Elias_Grodin
- Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/platoon/quotes/ (please scroll down to quotes with Sgt. Grodin)
- WhatCulture: http://whatculture.com/film/20-most-iconic-movie-deaths-of-all-time?page=19
178.172.239.99 (talk) 10:29, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
A message from 5.157.71.6
Regarding my edits to the Angola Civil War page: I updated out of date clearance stats, added a clause stating that the 15 million figure was a pre-survey estimate (this is evident from the current citation), and removed obsolete and no longer useful information regarding staff numbers at a demining organisation. Happy to engage with you on this, if you are interested? 5.157.71.6 (talk) 11:30, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
Hi Waddie96, I saw your revision deletion request. I have two problems with it: (1) The text may not be protected by copyright, see Copyright on the content of patents and in the context of patent prosecution and (2) it was not clear which revisions need deleting, you targeted some that are older than the patent claim. Could you try to piece this together and maybe comment at WT:CP? Thank you, —Kusma (t·c) 12:03, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
- @Kusma: Hi there, I had no idea Copyright on the content of patents and in the context of patent prosecution existed. Also, it appears at first glance that the addition predates the patent but actually the patent US8501186B2 was first filed on 2009-05-05 as a priority to IN2009MU01184A. I will post a comment at WT:CP.
{{ping|waddie96}} {talk}16:09, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
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- @Worldbruce: Thanks!
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The Signpost: 30 September 2019
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Your Sig
Not sure what you've been doing with your signature, or what the intentions are, but templates (and especially parser functions) should not be used in signatures (for example Special:Diff/918858447 and Special:Diff/918855687). Primefac (talk) 19:35, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
- Primefac, I noticed the same things. Well, no, I didn't, cause I don't know all that technical stuff and I have no idea what it means, but I do know that it looks unnecessarily weird. Waddie96, there is no reward for others in what is in that signature. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 20:07, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
Visual Editor breakage
There is a serious bug in Visual Editor, when copy-pasting text into the article it destroys citations. Because of this there has been added a lot of bad content to List of benzodiazepines that needs to be deleted. In this diff search on "cite%20note". All that has to go, it's garbage data. I'll remove it, but suggest you re-add the citations you intended, but not using the copy-paste method, and/or not use VisualEditor. -- GreenC 21:38, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – October 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).
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- Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which
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- Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which
Technical news
- As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.
Arbitration
- The 2019 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place October 4th to 10th.
- The arbitration case regarding Fram was closed. While there will be a local RfC
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Miscellaneous
- The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.
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I added float: right; width: 100px; to the tmbox's at the top of my talkpage but it doesn't seem to work —comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 13:22, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
- I don't think {{tmbox}} is the right template for this purpose. You'd probably have to check the underlying Lua module to be sure, but to me it appears that template already comes with some pre-defined formatting that you cannot override entirely. Maybe {{userbox}} or some other box template would work better? Huon (talk) 22:19, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
Celebritynetworth.com as a source
Hi Waddie96. I noticed that you recently used celebritynetworth.com as a source for biographical information in Jeffree Star. Please note that the general consensus as expressed at WP:RSN is that celebritynetworth.com does not meet the reliable sourcing criteria for the inclusion of personal information in such articles. If you disagree, let's discuss it. Thanks.--Ronz (talk) 17:08, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages – October 2019
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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.
Help
What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!
Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team would value your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.
Talk Pages
The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.
The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.
Mobile visual editor
The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
Edit Cards
- On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
- There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
- Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.
Toolbar
- In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
- One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
- New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
- Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
- Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.
Wikimania
The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.
Looking ahead
- Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
- Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
- Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: The Editing team hopes to share results in November. This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.
– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:51, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
A message from Superpose LS
Dear Waddie96,you decline the page I was trying to create on wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Repeated_superposition_of_finite_strains). Thanks for taking a look at the page, but your comments are not specific enough. All sources in the article are articles in peer-reviewed high-level scientific journals. All sources are available online. Which sources on the topic of the article can you recommend as reliable? Superpose L.S. (talk) 16:53, 13 October 2019 (UTC)Superpose LS
- @Superpose L.S.: As I mentioned in my comment, the refs used are mostly, if not all, work published by a single person. Yes they are all peer-reviewed WP:PRIMARY articles but we also need WP:SECONDARY and/or WP:TERTIARY articles by different authors. This may put undue weighting on the work of that single author (see WP:UNDUE). In addition, like I also said the title is too long (see WP:TITLE). Unfortunately, I do not have the will or time to search for recommendations for you, please see Wikipedia:Reliable_sources#Locating_reliable_sources for guidance on finding more sources that are reliable. —comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 17:34, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
thanks
....for your closings in gw/cc topic area today NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 11:18, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
- NewsAndEventsGuy Thank you! comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 12:33, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
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Hello, Waddie96. Your account has been granted the "extendedmover" user right, either following a request for it or demonstrating familiarity with working with article names and moving pages. You are now able to rename pages without leaving behind a redirect, move subpages when moving the parent page(s), and move category pages.
Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Page mover for more information on this user right, especially the criteria for moving pages without leaving redirect. Please remember to follow post-move cleanup procedures and make link corrections where necessary, including broken double-redirects when suppressredirect is used. This can be done using Special:WhatLinksHere. It is also very important that no one else be allowed to access your account, so you should consider taking a few moments to secure your password. As with all user rights, be aware that if abused, or used in controversial ways without consensus, your page mover status can be revoked.
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).
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Guideline and policy news
- An RfC was closed with the consensus that the resysop criteria should be made stricter.
- The follow-up RfC to develop that change is now open at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2019 Resysop Criteria (2).
- A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.
Arbitration
- Eligible editors may now nominate themselves as candidates for the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections. The self-nomination period will close November 12, with voting running from November 19 through December 2.
The proposed titles were based on a misunderstanding, and I objected as they are proper names and almost always capitalised - can the discussion be reopened and relisted? Peter James (talk) 22:13, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
- @Peter James: Per WP:TM titles are not capitalised. If you wish to content the moves you may bring it up at Wikipedia:Move review. comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 08:57, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
- What WP:MOSTM actually says is "Capitalize trademarks, being proper names". I don't know if these are trademarks, but they are proper names.. Peter James (talk) 09:58, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
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About 'Mothman' edition
It's all right. Probably it should be in some 'Trivia' chapter that doesn't exist at the page. WBR, 176.111.79.100 (talk) 21:38, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
Thanks
I had to try to reverse the edit on Benevolent dictatorship but he slipped past me! Thanks tor helping Damien Swann (talk) 12:51, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
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Templating
Hi there, this edit, where you appear to be reprimanding Panda619, doesn't seem terribly constructive to me. The recipient of the template has been here about 3 months, has fewer than 1000 edits and they have 0 edits to article Talk pages and only 8 edits on any other talk page. With that little exposure to common articles, I would absolutely consider them to be templatable. Note also that WP:DTR is not a Wikipedia behavioural guideline or policy, making it a relatively toothless warning anyway. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 02:37, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
- Yes WP:DTR is an essay not a policy, but it's something to keep in mind (not a "warning"). Templates can seem "patronising and uncivil", and "counterproductive in resolving the issue". Thank you for your opinion Cyphoidbomb. comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 10:20, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 November 2019
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- News and notes: How soon for the next million articles?
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).
Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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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
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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
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The Signpost: 27 December 2019
- From the editors: Caught with their hands in the cookie jar, again
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).
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- 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
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- 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!
White privilege
Hi, im intersted in getting closure on the white privilege discussion on the NPOV noticeboard. I wonder if archiving the discussion makes it less likely it will be closed? I would also welcome any thoughts you might have of getting it closed.Keith Johnston (talk) 18:05, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
- @Keith Johnston: I didn't archive the discussion, it was automatically archived. I simply pointed it out for the person who'd like to close it themselves, which you are more than welcome to do. I do believe it's less likely to get closed now that it is archived, yes, but a lack of discussion is the reason it was archived automatically and, since it wasn't an RfC, a consensus was clearly not needed. It will probably be revisited if the need for consensus arises, but for the moment it appears that the need is not present. Determining consensus and closing it was not of interest to me. comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 18:28, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
- Moving the archived discussion back to the page and pinning it to avoid automatic archival is the best option to keep the discussion open for further comments and eventual closure by an admin at WP:ANRFC. comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 18:33, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you Keith Johnston (talk) 18:34, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
- Moving the archived discussion back to the page and pinning it to avoid automatic archival is the best option to keep the discussion open for further comments and eventual closure by an admin at WP:ANRFC. comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 18:33, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
Edit warring at Surf culture
Thank you for volunteering to close the discussion at Talk:Surf culture. However, one of the editors involved has repeatedly deleted your comments there. If you don't want to get further involved in what is a pretty dumb edit war then I totally understand, I just wanted to let yo uknow. 61.10.67.14 (talk) 00:27, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
My word, I’d prefer to not be involved any further. comrade waddie96 ★ (talk) 08:14, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 27 January 2020
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).
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- 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. [5]
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!
The Signpost: 1 March 2020
- From the editor: The ball is in your court
- News and notes: Alexa ranking down to 13th worldwide
- Special report: More participation, more conversation, more pageviews
- Discussion report: Do you prefer M or P?
- Arbitration report: Two prominent administrators removed
- Community view: The Incredible Invisible Woman
- In focus: History of The Signpost, 2015–2019
- From the archives: Is Wikipedia for sale?
- Traffic report: February articles, floating in the dark
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- Opinion: Wikipedia is another country
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).
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- Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops
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. - A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.
- Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops
Technical news
- Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.
Miscellaneous
- Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
- The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.
The Signpost: 29 March 2020
- From the editors: The bad and the good
- News and notes: 2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked
- WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report
- Special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters
- In the media: Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story
- Discussion report: Rethinking draft space
- Arbitration report: Unfinished business
- In focus: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …"
- Community view: Wikimedia community responds to COVID-19
- From the archives: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
- Traffic report: The only thing that matters in the world
- Gallery: Visible Women on Wikipedia
- News from the WMF: Amid COVID-19, Wikimedia Foundation offers full pay for reduced hours, mobilizes all staff to work remote, and waives sick time
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).
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Guideline and policy news
- There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.
Technical news
- There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
Arbitration
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a
Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment
. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a
Miscellaneous
- The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.
Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools
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The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.
The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.
- On 31 March 2020, the new reply tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
- The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page. The team will test features such as:
- an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
- a rich-text visual editing option, and
- other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.
To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch 
these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.
– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:46, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
Desktop improvements prototype
Hello, Waddie96!
Thanks for taking the time to participate in the user feedback round for our desktop improvements prototype. This feedback is super valuable to us and is currently being used to determine our next steps. We have published a report gathering the main takeaways from the feedback and highlighting the changes we’ll make based on this feedback. Please take a look and give us your thoughts on the talk page of the report. To learn more about the project overall and the other features we’re planning on building in the future, check out the main project page.
SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 12:51, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 26 April 2020
- News and notes: Unbiased information from Ukraine's government?
- In the media: Coronavirus, again and again
- Discussion report: Redesigning Wikipedia, bit by bit
- Featured content: Featured content returns
- Arbitration report: Two difficult cases
- Traffic report: Disease the Rhythm of the Night
- Recent research: Trending topics across languages; auto-detecting bias
- Opinion: Trusting Everybody to Work Together
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- In focus: Multilingual Wikipedia
- WikiProject report: The Guild of Copy Editors
Administrators' newsletter – May 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversight changes
Guideline and policy news
- Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
- Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
- A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
- A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.
Technical news
- The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
- Enterprisey created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.
Miscellaneous
- A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.
ANI Notice regarding edit war on Attraction to Transgender People
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. --Loki (talk) 04:59, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
Regarding User:Akshay843
Hi there, and thanks for your anti-vandalism efforts. Just wanted to point out that in the case of User:Akshay843, the talk page templates don't thoroughly explain why he was reverted. Since he reached out for clarification, it's better to give a detailed explanation, rather than to just "refer to his talk page", where such a explanation doesn't exist. Please note that he/she acted in WP:AGF, and encourage the newcomers. Thanks, and happy editing! ◢ Ganbaruby! (Say hi!) 09:17, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
Honesty, neutrality, fairness?
Hello, waddie96, vandal applies only on IP or registered users as well, I am learning, assuming good faith. Fairness, honesty, and neutrality must prevail; otherwise, what to say such vandal that Saqib has removed 12,837 bytes of well-sourced material from the article about Ehsan Sehgal without explanation and discussion, and get the article protected from IP. Who will execute rules that mostly apply to IPs - Talk page explains. Can you perform the tool here as well as you did for only one name removal? -Thanks🌹 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:1C00:1604:BB00:459B:2CED:129E:AAB0 (talk) 11:10, 8 May 2020 (UTC)