User talk:RileyBugz
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RfC at IPA/English
[edit]Hi, I am quite concerned by your comments here. Getting past the slippery use of the word "consensus" where there is merely a majority, your characterization of the proposal seems to indicate that you don't understand what the proposal actually was. You might want to reread the proposal and the discussion (particularly my comments that outline the confusion I'm sure a number of other contributors had as well) and revise your wording. — Ƶ§œš¹ [lɛts b̥iː pʰəˈlaɪˀt] 00:07, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
- I think that I accurately characterized the sentence "To accommodate this, should the key and template allow /ɜː/ to appear solely without /r/?", which is what the proposal is about. I'm assuming that you are talking about my characterization fo the opposes; I stand by that, because it seemed to me like two of the opposes were mainly focused on it, and the other one (besides your own) focusing both on its validity as a diaphoneme and on what I characterized as the viewpoint of the opposes. Your viewpoint, at least to me, seems to be very similar, but I can't find much justification to close it in your favour, because there have been example from dictionaries using the diaphoneme discussed. RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集 00:26, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
- While your explanation is enlightening, you're responding to a strawman. I'm not asking for a readjudication. I'm asking for a reword on what the proposal actually was. This is what I meant when I said, "don't understand what the proposal actually was" (you'll note there is nothing in what I said about your characterization of the opposition). This is important because, IMHO, the proposal was so poorly worded that I suspect (based on people's comments) there were varying interpretations from both sides. I'd at least like the closing admin to get it right.
- If you oversimplify the matter to allowing /ɜː/ instead of /ɜːr/ in some cases, I could accept that. But you stated that the proposal was to do this "in words the /r/ should not be pronounced no matter if one uses a rhotic or non-rhotic dialect." That would mean that /ɜː/ would be used to represent pronunciations that include American pronunciations. That's not what was proposed. — Ƶ§œš¹ [lɛts b̥iː pʰəˈlaɪˀt] 17:00, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
- Would adding "/subdialect" be ok for you? RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集 17:21, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
- That would not address my concern. If you want my input on specific wording, I would be satisfied with "allow /ɜː/ to appear solely without /r/ for certain words." It's generic and doesn't cover the specific instances/words, but it wouldn't be wrong. — Ƶ§œš¹ [lɛts b̥iː pʰəˈlaɪˀt] 18:55, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
- Ok, I've changed it to this: "The consensus is to allow the use of /ɜː/ instead of /ɜːr/ in words where the /r/ should not be pronounced." RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集 19:35, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
- I think that works. Thank you. — Ƶ§œš¹ [lɛts b̥iː pʰəˈlaɪˀt] 01:15, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
- Ok, I've changed it to this: "The consensus is to allow the use of /ɜː/ instead of /ɜːr/ in words where the /r/ should not be pronounced." RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集 19:35, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
- That would not address my concern. If you want my input on specific wording, I would be satisfied with "allow /ɜː/ to appear solely without /r/ for certain words." It's generic and doesn't cover the specific instances/words, but it wouldn't be wrong. — Ƶ§œš¹ [lɛts b̥iː pʰəˈlaɪˀt] 18:55, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
- Would adding "/subdialect" be ok for you? RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集 17:21, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
Concerning Revert of MeToo Movement
[edit]Hey,
Why did you revert my edit? It was neutral especially considering how the page before I got there was riped with uninformed propaganda on this issue of what this movement really is. My edits provided a legal neutral point of view which also kept in tact what was there before. For now, I reverted your edits. You're in violation of Wikipedia guidelines. Roman J. Lane, Esquire (talk) 22:54, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
- I'd disagree. The sentence "It first spread virally in October 2017 as a hashtag on Twitter with truly unknown aims from unverifiable and non-political sources to bring awareness on a possible widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment in the workplace" isn't exactly neutral. I mean, we clearly know its aims: to bring awareness to sexual assault and harassment. And ""It was also a propagandist media campaign against American film producer, Harvey Weinstein, among others in the entertainment industry regarding anonymous and non-anonymous sexual misconduct allegations"?! C'est absurde! RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集 23:00, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
- Did you check the sources for which was next to that sentence? Okay, okay, okay. Maybe, you could say, "from diverse perspectives to bring awareness," instead. And it was also a media campaign against Weinstein. Read the New York Times. This is why it blew up the way it did to get him to step down from his company. Roman J. Lane, Esquire (talk) 23:11, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
- Uhhh... I don't have to check the sources, because while you sorta tell the facts, you twist them. For example, "propagandist media campaign" is non-neutral no matter what the sources tell you. And "from diverse perspectives to bring awareness" also seems pretty twisted to me. Also, news stories can be full of bias (looking at you, Fox News and CNN), and you shouldn't let that bias spill in to the article. RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集 23:27, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
- Your revert edits are counter productive, pal. Roman J. Lane, Esquire (talk) 00:14, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
- Uhhh... I don't have to check the sources, because while you sorta tell the facts, you twist them. For example, "propagandist media campaign" is non-neutral no matter what the sources tell you. And "from diverse perspectives to bring awareness" also seems pretty twisted to me. Also, news stories can be full of bias (looking at you, Fox News and CNN), and you shouldn't let that bias spill in to the article. RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集 23:27, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
- Did you check the sources for which was next to that sentence? Okay, okay, okay. Maybe, you could say, "from diverse perspectives to bring awareness," instead. And it was also a media campaign against Weinstein. Read the New York Times. This is why it blew up the way it did to get him to step down from his company. Roman J. Lane, Esquire (talk) 23:11, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
Timeless Newsletter • Issue 1
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Welcome to the first issue of the Timeless newsletter! This issue is being sent or forwarded to everyone who has at some point expressed an interest in the project, give or take, as well as a couple of other potentially relevant pages, so if you would like to continue (or start) receiving this newsletter directly, please sign up for further updates on the meta page.
The news:
The Timeless grant has been selected for funding, and the project is now underway!
While I've had a somewhat slow start working on the project for health reasons, I'm pleased to announce that everything described in the proposal is now either happening, or on its way to happening.
Current progress:
- The project now has a hub on Meta to serve as a directory for the various related pages, workboards, and local discussions and help pages. It's probably incomplete, especially with regards to specific language projects that might have local pages for Timeless, so if you know of others, please add them!
- Outreach: I've been talking to various people and groups directly about skinning, desktop/mobile interfaces, project management, specific component support, and other things, and have begun to compile a very shoddy list of skinning problems and random issues on mw.org based on this. Some of this may inform the direction of this project, or possibly this project will result in building a more proper list that can then be used for other things. We shall see.
- Some development - task triage, code review, bug fixing, and various rabbit holes involving ...overflows.
General plan for the future:
- Triage the rest of the workboard.
- Catch up with all the talkpages and other bug reports that have been left various other places that are not the project workboard
- Do all the bug fixes/features/other things!
- Some proposals aimed at Commons and Wikisource in particular (maybe, we'll see)
Essentially, the grant as written shall be carried out. This was the plan, and remains the plan. Timelines remain fuzzy, but while there have been some initial delays, I don't particularly expect the timeline for project as a whole to change a whole lot.
Also, for anyone at Wikimania right now: I am also at Wikimania. Come talk to me in person!
Thank you all for your interest and support thus far!
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Pornography industry source for false revision
[edit]Hello, I see you have protected the me too movement article page with a revision based on the lack of a source. The casting couch is a pornographic genre and is battled in books such as this which actually is also a source. Please don’t tamper with that point because people need to know about sources like this one:
Please fix it. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:100E:B047:240E:AD12:37C7:8DD1:3001 (talk) 20:24, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
- I'm not going to fix it, because I'm not very interested in the article. If you do cite that source, and demonstrate that it has a direct connection (supported by reliable sources) to the Me Too movement, then I will not revert the edit. But, since my area of interest is biology, I don't want to put significant effort into the Me Too article, unless I want to. RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集 20:28, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
- Oh, also, I can't protect things; I can only request it, since I'm not an admin. See this for how to cite your sources. I personally find this website useful for creating citations from google books urls. RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集 20:30, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
- I just realized it is semi-protected. I'll request that semi-protection to be lifted and replaced with pending changes protection, which is basically where new users and IPs can edit the page, but a pending changes reviewer (like me) must review them first. RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集 20:44, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Neocalanus cristatus
[edit] Hello! Your submission of Neocalanus cristatus at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Anarchyte (work | talk) 07:28, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
DYK for Metridia longa
[edit]On 29 July 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Metridia longa, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the copepod Metridia longa cannibalizes up to 85% of its eggs? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Metridia longa. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Metridia longa), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018
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Hello RileyBugz, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
- June backlog drive
Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.
- New technology, new rules
- New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
- Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
- Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.
- Editathons
- Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.
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DYK nomination of Neocalanus plumchrus
[edit] Hello! Your submission of Neocalanus plumchrus at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:45, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
Thank you ...
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... for improving article quality in July! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:41, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: Thanks for the thanks! The picture reminds me a bit of the Tour de France; they frequently go up beautiful mountains like that one. RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集 21:42, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
- ... and for August! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:35, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you for today's Red-billed tropicbird! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:43, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
- Welcome! And thank you so much for that message; it helped lift my spirits a lot. RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集 15:53, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you for today's Red-billed tropicbird! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:43, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
- ... and for improvements in September! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:58, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you for today's tree swallow, "about an American swallow in the genus Tachycineta. There has been a lot of research done on it (at least compared to most of the other birds I have worked on), with some even considering it a model organism."! - I have a FAC open, DYK? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:57, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
- ... and for improvements in October! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:27, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
- ... and in November! - I hope I'll get to your FAC. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:55, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2018
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2018).
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- After a discussion at Meta, a new user group called "interface administrators" (formerly "technical administrator") has been created. Come the end of August, interface admins will be the only users able to edit site-wide JavaScript and CSS pages like MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css, or edit other user's personal JavaScript and CSS. The intention is to improve security and privacy by reducing the number of accounts which could be used to compromise the site or another user's account through malicious code. The new user group can be assigned and revoked by bureaucrats. Discussion is ongoing to establish details for implementing the group on the English Wikipedia.
- Following a request for comment, the WP:SISTER style guideline now states that in the mainspace, interwiki links to Wikinews should only be made as per the external links guideline. This generally means that within the body of an article, you should not link to Wikinews about a particular event that is only a part of the larger topic. Wikinews links in "external links" sections can be used where helpful, but not automatically if an equivalent article from a reliable news outlet could be linked in the same manner.
- The WMF Anti-Harassment Tools team is seeking input on the second set of wireframes for the Special:Block redesign that will introduce partial blocks. The new functionality will allow you to block a user from editing a specific set of pages, pages in a category, a namespace, and for specific actions such as moving pages and uploading files.
DYK for Neocalanus cristatus
[edit]On 7 August 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Neocalanus cristatus, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Neocalanus cristatus nauplii feed off their yolks during the 40 days it may take them to ascend to the surface of the sea? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Neocalanus cristatus. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Neocalanus cristatus), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
DYK for Neocalanus plumchrus
[edit]On 9 August 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Neocalanus plumchrus, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Neocalanus plumchrus is able to uptake dissolved glucose directly from seawater despite its exoskeleton? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Neocalanus plumchrus. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Neocalanus plumchrus), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
DYK nomination of Pseudocalanus newmani
[edit] Hello! Your submission of Pseudocalanus newmani at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 20:27, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
DYK for Pseudocalanus newmani
[edit]On 24 August 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Pseudocalanus newmani, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the preferred food of the copepod Pseudocalanus newmani includes diatoms of the genus Thalassiosira, which can be toxic to its young? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Pseudocalanus newmani. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Pseudocalanus newmani), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Timeless Newsletter • Issue 2
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The second issue of the Timeless newsletter is out.
The news: Themes are coming to Timeless! Your infobox and navbox templates in particular are probably going to look absolutely horrible in the new built-in night mode.
For more information, background, plans and progress updates, please see the full issue on Meta, complete with a ridiculous list of phabricator task links, gratuitous mention of other skins, and me complaining about the current state of MediaWiki skinning in general.
Administrators' newsletter – September 2018
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2018).
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Asterion • Crisco 1492 • KF • Kudpung • Liz • Randykitty • Spartaz
Optimist on the run → Voice of Clam
Interface administrator changes
Amorymeltzer • Mr. Stradivarius • MusikAnimal • MSGJ • TheDJ • Xaosflux
- Following a "stop-gap" discussion, six users have temporarily been made interface administrators while discussion is ongoing for a more permanent process for assigning the permission. Interface administrators are now the only editors allowed to edit sitewide CSS and JavaScript pages, as well as CSS/JS pages in another user's userspace. Previously, all administrators had this ability. The right can be granted and revoked by bureaucrats.
- Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
- Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says
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- The Arbitration Committee has resolved to perform a round of Checkuser and Oversight appointments. The usernames of all applicants will be shared with the Functionaries team, and they will be requested to assist in the vetting process. The deadline to submit an application is 23:59 UTC, 12 September, and the candidates that move forward will be published on-wiki for community comments on 18 September.
Tree swallow scheduled for TFA
[edit]This is to let you know that the Tree swallow article has been scheduled as today's featured article for October 6, 2018. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 6, 2018, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1100 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:07, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
- @Jimfbleak: Thank you! I have edited the main page text, just to include a sentence of extra-pair paternity. RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集 15:23, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018
[edit]Hello RileyBugz, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.
- Project news
- The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.
- As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.
- There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination#Coordinator tasks for more info to see if you can help out.
- Other
- A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.
- Moving to Draft and Page Mover
- Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
- If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
- Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
- The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
- The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.
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Writing
[edit]Looking forward to your development. You could always run through a few of my writing exercises. Tony (talk) 02:02, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
- @Tony1: Thank you! I've started to look at them (I found them in your subpages). Hopefully that helps my writing improve. :) RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集 10:43, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Killdeer you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:41, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
The article Killdeer you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Killdeer for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Chiswick Chap -- Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:41, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – October 2018
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2018).
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Justlettersandnumbers • L235
Bgwhite • HorsePunchKid • J Greb • KillerChihuahua • Rami R • Winhunter
Interface administrator changes
Cyberpower678 • Deryck Chan • Oshwah • Pharos • Ragesoss • Ritchie333
Guerillero • NativeForeigner • Snowolf • Xeno
- Following a request for comment, the process for appointing interface administrators has been established. Currently only existing admins can request these rights, while a new RfC has begun on whether it should be available to non-admins.
- There is an open request for comment on Meta regarding the creation a new user group for global edit filter management.
- Partial blocks should be available for testing in October on the Test Wikipedia and the Beta-Cluster. This new feature allows admins to block users from editing specific pages and in the near-future, namespaces and uploading files. You can expect more updates and an invitation to help with testing once it is available.
- The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team is currently looking for input on how to measure the effectiveness of blocks. This is in particular related to how they will measure the success of the aforementioned partial blocks.
- Because of a data centre test, you will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia projects for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.
- The Arbitration Committee has, by motion, amended the procedure on functionary inactivity.
- The community consultation for 2018 CheckUser and Oversight appointments has concluded. Appointments will be made by October 11.
- Following a request for comment, the size of the Arbitration Committee will be decreased to 13 arbitrators, starting in 2019. Additionally, the minimum support percentage required to be appointed to a two-year term on ArbCom has been increased to 60%. ArbCom candidates who receive between 50% and 60% support will be appointed to one-year terms instead.
- Nominations for the 2018 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission are being accepted until 12 October. These are the editors who help run the ArbCom election smoothly. If you are interested in volunteering for this role, please consider nominating yourself.
NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018
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Hello RileyBugz, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
- Backlog
As of 21 October 2018[update], there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.
- Community Wishlist Proposal
- There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding the drafting of a Community Wishlist Proposal for the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
- Please join the conversation as we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!
- Project updates
- ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
- There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.
- New scripts
- User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js(info) — A new script created for quickly placing {{copyvio-revdel}} on a page.
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Please rewrite the history section of The Des Moines Register
[edit]- Hi, I have a request. As my English is not my native language. I asked you to edit The Des Moines Register. The history section seems to have some bugs. Please check and use the resource[1] and rewrite.
- I can't find the newspaper called "the Iowa Citizen" in Iowa. I guess this is a bug and I deleted it not to make readers confused.
- The Iowa Stateman seems a newspaper name from the Iowa star since 1854. But the Iowa State Register is unable to be found.
- In 1857, The Statesman becomes the Iowa State Journal. Is Iowa State Journal a newspaper name or has it grew up as a state-scale publication?
- In 1860, it shows The weekly Citizen. I can't find the newspaper, too. So I removed it.
- In 1870, Iowa State Leader and Iowa Daily State Register are rival. I guess that's another newspaper who fight with each other in Iowa.
- Des Moines Tribune, when was this newspaper created. Delete it or reader would get confused.
- Also, I will rewrite a small part in the beginning history. If you see what I was doing. You go on to rewrite.
--Beta Lohman (talk) 23:42, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2018
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).
- A request for comment determined that non-administrators will not be able to request interface admin access.
- A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the Mediation Committee should be closed and marked as historical.
- A village pump discussion has been ongoing about whether the proposed deletion policy (PROD) should be clarified or amended.
- A request for comment is in progress to determine whether pending changes protection should be applied automatically to today's featured article (TFA) in order to mitigate a recent trend of severe image vandalism.
- Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
- A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
- The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.
- Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
- The Arbitration Committee's email address has changed to arbcom-en
wikimedia.org. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.
NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018
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Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. |
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Hello RileyBugz,
- Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW
- Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.
- If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.
- We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.
- With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.
Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)18:37, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
ArbCom 2018 election voter message
[edit]Hello, RileyBugz. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
Asking about the title
[edit]- Hi, I was intending to create an article, considering the title as List of banned films in the Russian Federation. Is it correct? --Beta Lohman (talk) 10:24, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
- @Beta Lohman: Hi! I'd say "List of films banned in the Russian Federation" would be better. RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集 01:28, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – December 2018
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018).
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Al Ameer son • Randykitty • Spartaz
Boson • Daniel J. Leivick • Efe • Esanchez7587 • Fred Bauder • Garzo • Martijn Hoekstra • Orangemike
Interface administrator changes
- Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
- A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
- A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
- A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.
- Administrators and bureaucrats can no longer unblock themselves unless they placed the block initially. This change has been implemented globally. See also this ongoing village pump discussion (permalink).
- To complement the aforementioned change, blocked administrators will soon have the ability to block the administrator that placed their block to mitigate the possibility of a compromised administrator account blocking all other active administrators.
- Since deployment of Partial blocks on Test Wikipedia, several bugs were identified. Most of them are now fixed. Administrators are encouraged to test the new deployment and report new bugs on Phabricator or leave feedback on the Project's talk page. You can request administrator access on the Test Wiki here.
- Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 3 December 2018. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.
- In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
- Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.
- Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (Raymond Arritt) passed away on 14 November 2018. Boris joined Wikipedia as Raymond arritt on 8 May 2006 and was an administrator from 30 July 2007 to 2 June 2008.
NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018
[edit]Hello RileyBugz,
- Reviewer of the Year
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This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.
- Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.
See also the list of top 100 reviewers.
- Less good news, and an appeal for some help
The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640 holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.
- Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019
At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3 December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.
- Training video
Due to a number of changes having been made to the feed since this three-minute video was created, we have been asked by the WMF for feedback on the video with a view to getting it brought up to date to reflect the new features of the system. Please leave your comments here, particularly mentioning how helpful you find it for new reviewers.
If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here.
Timeless Newsletter • Issue 3
[edit]Welcome to the third issue of the Timeless newsletter, complete with a somewhat dubious explanation of where I've been all this time.
Somewhat dubious explanation of where I've been all this time:
I suffered a rather bad concussion in October, which knocked me pretty much completely out of commission through November, and I'm still recovering even now. One person = bus factor of one, even though it wasn't actually a bus but a very short flight of stairs.
Updates:
- Random bugs have been fixed. More bugs have been found. For a full list of horrors, see the workboard.
- Implementing themes (T131991: the dark/night mode and winter variants of the skin) has proven far more complicated than initially thought, lacking either the extension, or preferably, some core support for this functionality. Thus:
- I have submitted a Request for Comment proposing to merge Extension:Theme into core - this will enable skins to specify style variants as distinct options for users to select in their preferences by letting the skin specify the styles separately for each, a much neater way of implementing this than some of the existing hacks.
- Jack Phoenix has already submitted a patch to do this. We simply need the buy-in and consensus to merge it, and to resolve whatever issues may arise from this wider review.
Comments on the RfC (MediaWiki wiki RfC page, task) or bugs, or further reports, are always appreciated.
Until next time, hopefully with no further injuries,
Austral season's greetings
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Tuck into this! We've made about three of these in the last few days for various festivities. Supermarkets are stuffed with cheap berries. Season's greetings! Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:41, 24 December 2018 (UTC) |
- @Casliber: Thanks, and happy holidays to you! Hope you enjoyed all of the food. :) RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集 23:54, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
2019
[edit]Thank you for your project help last year! - When would you like Killdeer to go for TFA? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:49, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
Please check out "Happy" once more, for a smile, and sharing (a Nobel Peace Prize), and resolutions. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:33, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
- Now I'm listening to the whole of Bach's Christmas Oratorio; thank you for the encouragement! As for the killdeer, I don't have much preference as to when it would go for TFA. RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集 16:49, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for article improvements in February! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:31, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Killdeer --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:36, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
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... with thanks from QAI |
... and for March! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:27, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you! RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集 00:43, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2019
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).
- There are a number of new or changed speedy deletion criteria, each previously part of WP:CSD#G6:
- G14 (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-disambig}}; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages.
- R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no file links) that have the same name as a file or redirect at Commons are now covered under the new R4 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-redircom}}; the text is unchanged.
- G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use {{db-blankdraft}}.
- The Wikimedia Foundation now requires all interface administrators to enable two-factor authentication.
- Members of the Bot Approvals Group (BAG) are now subject to an activity requirement. After two years without any bot-related activity (e.g. operating a bot, posting on a bot-related talk page), BAG members will be retired from BAG following a one-week notice.
- Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors, et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length. All accounts must have a password:
- At least 8 characters in length
- Not in the 100,000 most popular passwords (defined by the Password Blacklist library)
- Different from their username
- User accounts not meeting these requirements will be prompted to update their password accordingly. More information is available on MediaWiki.org.
- Blocked administrators may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
- {{Copyvio-revdel}} now has a link to open the history with the RevDel checkboxes already filled in.
- Following the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: AGK, Courcelles, GorillaWarfare, Joe Roe, Mkdw, SilkTork.
- Accounts continue to be compromised on a regular basis. Evidence shows this is entirely due to the accounts having the same 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.
- Around 22% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 20% in June 2018. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless of whether you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
Oops
[edit]Hey Riley,
Sorry about rolling back a reply on your talk page, I was going through my watchlist in multi-tab mode and clicked the wrong button.
Best,
SITH (talk) 23:05, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
- It's fine. :) RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集 23:25, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2019
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2019).
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Interface administrator changes
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2019).
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- 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.
- A new tool is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.
- 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).
- Following the 2019 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Base, Einsbor, Jon Kolbert, Schniggendiller, and Wim b.
This is to let you know that the Killdeer article has been scheduled as today's featured article for April 3, 2019. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 3, 2019, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1000 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so.
We also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors on the day before and the day of this TFA. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:52, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
Precious anniversary
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Two years! |
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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:24, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Jimfbleak and Gerda Arendt: Thank you both (Gerda Arendt especially, for nominating the article for TFA)!
- @Jimfbleak and Gerda Arendt: Re-ping since I forgot to add my sig. RileyBugz私に叫ぼう私の編集 00:45, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
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... with thanks from QAI |
- Thank you for the article "about a (primarily) North American shorebird. It is found both inland and on the coast."! - Nice to share the page, with Trois Chansons, DYK? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 04:29, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
- Three years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:03, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
Please participate to the talk pages consultation
[edit]Hello
Our team at the Wikimedia Foundation is working on a project to improve the ease-of-use and productivity of wiki talk pages. As a Teahouse host, I can imagine you’ve run into challenges explaining talk pages to first-time participants.
We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis – to ask questions, to resolve differences, to organize projects and to make decisions. Communication is essential for the depth and quality of our content, and the health of our communities. We're currently leading a global consultation on how to improve talk pages, and we're looking for people that can report on their experiences using (or helping other people to use) wiki talk pages. We'd like to invite you to participate in the consultation, and invite new users to join too.
We thank you in advance for your participation and your help.
Trizek (WMF), 08:37, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
Please participate to the talk pages consultation - link update
[edit]The previous message about the talk pages consultation has a broken link.
The correct link has been misinterpreted by the MassMessage tool. Please use the following link: Wikipedia:Talk pages consultation 2019.
Sorry for the inconvenience, Trizek (WMF), 08:48, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.17
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Hello RileyBugz,
- News
- The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the {{rough translation}} tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.
- Discussions of interest
- Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
- {{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
- A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
- There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.
- Reminders
- NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.
- NPP Tools Report
- Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
- copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
- The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.
Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828
Looking for inspiration? There are approximately 1000 female biographies to review.
Stay up to date with even more news – subscribe to The Signpost.
Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings.
Administrators' newsletter – April 2019
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Administrators' newsletter – May 2019
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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,
- 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.
Timeless Newsletter • Issue 4
[edit]Welcome to the fourth issue of the Timeless newsletter, with a cat! Or maybe not.
Un chat qui miaule???
It's true! The angry cat, a fundamental part of Timeless, has resulted in confusion and bug reports all across the projects and phabricator. And now it shall be immortalised forever in the new, shiny Timeless logo.
Updates:
After putting off the project for three months because I got hit in the head with a flight of stairs, and then putting off the project for another two months while working out what the status of the grant was, I have now put off the project even more in order to focus on my other project for a bit. So progress lately has been a bit whims-based as a result:
- The project now has a logo. For some reason.
- The angry cat in the background is now customisable! Behold: not a cat. What would you like to replace it with on your project?
- I broke, unbroke, and then sort of sideways broke all the form styles. Help.
Radar:
- The French Wiktionary voted to set Timeless as their default skin, with results possibly as you might expect: I ran away and hid, and the WMF said no. A bit of discussion later and we largely agreed that all else aside, this is a bit of a branding issue, but we love the enthusiasm! Also the bug reports that inevitably come out of such a discussion. I'm still working on properly going through those.
- Theme support is still stuck in limbo, but now we have another skinning RfC. tl;dr, we wanna replace the entire skinning system, and Skizzerz'll write a prototype later.
I will be fully resuming work on Timeless next week, or maybe the week after, depending on what madness (or illness) comes out of the Hackathon in Prague. Please come talk to me there to discuss strategy!
NPR Newsletter No.18
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Hello RileyBugz,
- WMF at work on NPP Improvements
Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:
- Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
- Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.
- Reliable Sources for NPP
Rosguill has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.
- Backlog drive