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Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018

• Op-ed: Death knell for The Signpost?

• News and notes: Wiki Conference roundup and new appointments.

• Arbitration report: Ironing out issues in infoboxes; not sure yet about New Jersey; and an administrator who probably wasn't uncivil to a sockpuppet.

• In the media: The media on Wikipedia's workings: the good and not-so-good

• Traffic report: Real sports, real women and an imaginary country: what's on top for Wikipedia readers

• Featured content: Animals, Ships, and Songs

• Technology report: Timeless skin review by Force Radical.

• Special report: ACTRIAL wrap-up.

• Humour: WikiWorld Reruns

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New Page Review Newsletter No.10

Hello Clpo13, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:

• ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing

• Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

• The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
• Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies. A further discussion is currently taking place at: Can a subject specific guideline invalidate the General Notability Guideline?

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled

• While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE.

News

• The next issue Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it, including ACTRIAL wrap-up that will be of special interest to New Page Reviewers. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. The Signpost is one of the best ways to stay up date with news and new developments - please consider subscribing to it. All editors of Wikipedia and associated projects are welcome to submit articles on any topic for consideration by the The Signpost's editorial team for the next issue.

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Please comment on Talk:Matthew Island and Hunter Island

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).

Administrator changes

331dot • Cordless Larry • ClueBot NG

Gogo Dodo • Pb30 • Sebastiankessel • Seicer • SoLando

Guideline and policy news

• Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
• Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
• The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
• The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

Technical news

• There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

Miscellaneous

• A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
• The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.

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Tech News: 2018-14

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
• The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.

Problems

• MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [1][2][3]
• The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [4]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
• User subpages ending in .json will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js and .css pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns. [5]
• Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time. [6][7][8]
• AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks. [9] [10]
• In Special:Preferences, the preference "Reload the watchlist automatically whenever a filter is changed (JavaScript required)" is now only visible for users who have opt-out the New Filters for the Watchlist. [11]
• You can see names of individual abuse filters in Special:AbuseLog. Now if the name of an abuse filter contains some wikisyntax like links, it will not change to a link when displayed. [12]
• You can now search through filter patterns at Special:AbuseFilter. You may specify either a plain string or a regular expression and the matching filters will show a snippet of their pattern with the match highlighted. [13]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• If you're using, creating or improving Lua modules, you can give your feedback to help harmonizing the modules across wikis and add more useful functions.
• On April 11th, we plan to turn off Tidy on all wikis with less than 50 entries in all high priority linter categories. About 60 wikis will have Tidy replaced. Currently about 600 wikis have had Tidy replaced and we have another 300 wikis to go. We plan to finish this transition from Tidy to RemexHtml by end of June 2018. Please follow T175706 to monitor progress of Tidy replacement. [14][15]

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19:28, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-15

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Some pages have templates that describe problems with that article. There is now more information for mobile readers and what is wrong with the article and how they could help fix it. [16]
• You can now thank users for many more actions than edits to a page. This was one of the top ten requests in the Wishlist Survey last year. [17]
• The sort order of categories will have errors for a short time starting Monday 9 April (UTC). We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a script to update the database. This will take between a few hours and a few days depending on wiki size. You can read more details. [18]
• Tag filter titles will now work better on wikis where the tag filter title is in a language that is written in another direction than the language of that wiki. This could for example be an English title (written from left to right) on a Hebrew or an Arabic wiki (written from right to left). [19]

Problems

• The bookmark icon for saved filters on the recent changes page disappeared because of new icon changes. This has now been fixed. [20]
• For a week in March rollbacks got both the rollback and the undo tag on the recent changes page and other pages where you see tags. This has now been fixed. [21]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 April. It will be on all wikis from 12 April (calendar).
• Patrolled edits now have three states instead of two. Recent changes filters are updated to show unpatrolled, autopatrolled and manually patrolled edits. [22]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The iOS and Android apps will get synced reading lists later in April.

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18:08, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Bitcoin Cash

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Tech News: 2018-16

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• Profiling statistics for an abuse filter tell how often edits match the filter. The statistics for the abuse filters were reset after 10000 actions. Wikis can now decide to reset it more or less often. They can file a phabricator task to do so. [23]
• Abuse filters will now treat integers and floats more precisely. For example, 5/2 was rounded down to 2 but will now be 2.5 and 2*4 will be the integer 8 and not the floating-point number 8.0. Division values are the only ones changed. For the rest only strict comparisons (=== and !==) will be affected leaving the values unchanged. [24][25]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 April. It will be on all wikis from 19 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 17 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The new PDF renderer could not create PDFs from books. Books are in this case collections of pages on a Wikimedia wiki. PediaPress will take over development of the books-to-PDF function. [26]
• Pywikibot will no longer support Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3. [27]
• Volunteer developers can fill out the Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey. The last day is April 22 (UTC). This is a third-party service survey. See the privacy statement.

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15:20, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-17

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• All Wikipedias now have Page Previews.
• The iOS and Android apps now have synced reading lists. This means you can save articles to a private list that can be seen on your other devices if you use the apps.
• The icons in the 2010 wikitext editor have changed. [28]
• The visual editor and the 2017 wikitext ask you to write an edit summary after you press Publish. This button now also shows an ellipsis. This is to show that pressing Publish is not the last step. [29]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 April. It will be on all wikis from 26 April (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 24 April at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• <mapframe> will come to most Wikipedias in May. This means that you can put interactive maps in the articles. Nine Wikipedias that use a strict version of flagged revisions will not get this feature in May. [30]
• The rollback function could change. This was a German community request. All editors with rollback rights can leave feedback on the proposed solution. The last day to leave feedback is 4 May (UTC).

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18:16, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 April 2018

• From the editors: The Signpost's presses roll again

• Signpost: Future directions for The Signpost

• News and notes: Photo of Kim Jong-un. Stephen Hawking death tops hits on many Wikipedias.

• In the media: The rise of Wikipedia as a disinformation mop

• In focus: Admin reports board under criticism

• Special report: ACTRIAL results adopted by landslide

• Opinion: Guideline for Organization Notability revised

• Op-ed: World War II Myth-making and Wikipedia

• Community view: It's time we look past Women in Red to counter systemic bias

• Discussion report: The future of portals

• Arbitration report: No new cases, and one motion on administrative misconduct

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Military History

• Blog: Why the world reads Wikipedia

• Humour: Our Favorite Places to Whine About Stuff

• Traffic report: A quiet place to wrestle with the articles of March

• Technology report: Coming soon: Books-to-PDF, interactive maps, rollback confirmation

• Featured content: Featured content selected by the community

• Gallery: A look at some famous and not as well-known border tripoints

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Please comment on Template talk:Infobox writer

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Tech News: 2018-18

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The parameter for unpatrolled edits in recent changes filters changed name. You might need to update saved filters and links. [31]

Problems

• We are migrating wikis from Tidy to Remex. Because of a bug the 250 wikis which do not yet use Remex were switched on 23 April. This is two months early. This meant that pages with broken wikitext showed wrongly to readers. The bug was undone the next day. You can help fix broken wikitext to avoid this problem when your wiki switches. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. You can follow the process on Phabricator. [32]

Changes later this week

• You will be able use CodeMirror in the 2017 wikitext editor on all wikis. CodeMirror helps with syntax highlighting. It has previously been a beta feature and only available on wikis with scripts that are written from left to right. [33]
• When an administrator blocks someone they will have a calendar they can use to choose when the block ends. This is to make it easier to pick a specific date. [34]
• You can soon turn on the Performance Inspector in the Editing section in your preferences. It shows information about the performance of pages. This could be the size of modules in the page, how many CSS selectors are defined on the page and how many are used, or the size of the images on the page. This tool is intended to help editors fix pages that load slowly. [35]
• There is a new abuse filter function called equals_to_any. You can use it to check if its first argument is equal (===) to any of the following ones. For example you can use it to check if the page's namespace is amongst a given set of values in a more compact way than you could earlier. You can read more on mediawiki.org.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 May. It will be on all wikis from 3 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 1 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Cloud Services team is working on a new project called Toolhub. The goal is to make it easier for Wikimedians to discover software tools they can use. You can leave feedback on the talk page or email jharewikimedia.org to leave private feedback.
• All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in all namespaces will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 2 May. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Wikibooks wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch on 9 May. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [36][37][38]

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16:18, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Chochopk • Coffee • Gryffindor • Jimp • Knowledge Seeker • Lankiveil • Peridon • Rjd0060

Guideline and policy news

• The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
• A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

• AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
• When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
• The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
• There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is seeking additional clerks to help with the arbitration process.

Obituaries

• Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

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Taiwan

Could you semi the article too? IP already back with IP hopping and block evasion. Galobtter (pingó mió) 08:31, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

 Done Hopefully that will help for a time. clpo13_(talk) 08:35, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

All of the information in the Taiwan is completely backed up with reliable reference sources, why do you continue to allow this Taiwan page to be negatively edited in by communist Chinese trolls who want to paint a negative image of Taiwan instead of listing Taiwan's achievements in technology just like the South Korea page? Again all the information pertaining to Taiwan's achievements are 100% true and completely backed up with reliable reference sources. Please reconsider your semi-block?? Thank you! 27.81.5.60 (talk) 08:38, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

It's not just a matter of having appropriate references. It's also important to consider whether content is appropriate for a neutral encyclopedia (see WP:NPOV). Unnecessarily promotional material can and will be removed from articles.

At any rate, you should be discussing your concerns about the article at its talk page instead of constantly reverting to your preferred version. That is called edit warring and it's a blockable offense. Jumping to different IP addresses to continue edit warring is why the article is currently protected from editing by anonymous users. I'm sure there's a balance to be found between overemphasizing certain achievements and omitting them entirely, but that can only be determined through talk page discussion. clpo13_(talk) 08:50, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

I'm not sure how much talking to them is going to help :) From the ANI thread they appear to be doing this for some time, constantly IP hopping and block evading Galobtter (pingó mió) 08:56, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Worth a shot, eh? Can't say I didn't give them fair warning. clpo13_(talk) 09:09, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Shaw Communications / 24.87.196.38

As Shaw Communications appears to be an ISP, how does that IP warrant a shared template? I'm guessing most IP addresses are registered to an ISP, but that doesn't make them shared. ―Mandruss ☎ 16:08, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

I usually just slap {{Shared IP}} on dynamic IPs, but I guess {{ISP}} (or {{Dynamic IP}}) would be a better template. clpo13_(talk) 16:11, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

How can one tell whether it's dynamic? ―Mandruss ☎ 16:13, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

At the bottom of the user or user talk page of IP editors, there are a few links to get info about the IP address. The link that says Geolocate points to a page like this that says whether the address is dynamically or statically assigned. Since a dynamic IP could represent many different users of an ISP, it can be helpful to put a template on the talk page so that users can be made aware that messages might not be relevant to them. clpo13_(talk) 16:20, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

User talk:Raydeon Precast & Infra

You may wish to revoke talk page access.--Cahk (talk) 07:12, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Done, thanks for the heads up. clpo13_(talk) 15:46, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Jacques Goulet

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Could you please be more careful?

You declined my request for semi-protection, characterizing my concern as a "content dispute".

Excuse me? If this was a genuine good faith content dispute my wikistalker would not resort to masking their ID by using an anonymous IP address.

The edit summary you left recommended I "consider dispute resolution."

Excuse me? Do you really not understand how editing using an anonymous IP address works? The sockpuppets who have been wikihounding me choose to use anonymous IP addresses for two reasons. They either use them to escape being held accountable for indefensible edits -- making any attempt at dispute resolution a complete waste of time; or they have to use anonymous IP addresses because they have been indefinitely blocked for persistent vandalism. Trying to engage in dispute resolution with someone who has proven they hate me, who has proven they have a hopeless irredeemable bad attitude? Also a complete waste of time.

I don't know you. I don't remember us ever interacting before. I am willing to accept that your decision does not represent your best work, and that the rest of your contributions are reasonable, show good quality decision making. But, if the effort you put into giving my request reasonable fair consideration is typical of the effort you put into being an administrator? Honestly, I would encourage you to consider resigning your mop. Geo Swan (talk) 02:30, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

@Geo Swan: I apologize if I gave the impression that I dismissed your concerns too quickly, but from an outside perspective, your claims of hounding and sockpuppetry weren't immediately clear. The situation looked like a simple editing dispute that didn't require page protection. Anonymous editors frequently do participate in dispute resolution, which is why I mentioned it. If you have evidence of bad behavior by other users, I would recommend you request action at WP:ANI, which is better suited for situations like this than WP:RFPP. clpo13_(talk) 16:27, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-19

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. It is now easier to find nearby places that need pictures. It helps you with direct uploads and title and category suggestions. The app only works on Android phones. [39]

Problems

• The abuse filters had a problem with blocks where you had changed how long they last. It used the default length everywhere. This was in late April. Abuse filter users should make sure the right block length is used and change them if needed. This is only for filters where how long blocks last had been changed. [40]

Changes later this week

• The advanced search function beta feature will be on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. [41]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 May. It will be on all wikis from 10 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• All wikis with fewer than 100 high-priority linter errors in the main namespace will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 16 May. Other wikis will switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed on all wikis before July 2018. [42][43]

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16:28, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Afd decision for List of North American supercentenarians

I strongly disagree with your decision. The redirect is misleading and inaccurate, as is the Asian one. Would you object to my creating Lists of North American supercentenarians, a list of lists, and redirecting there? If not, I'll also do some research and try to figure out a fix for the Asian/Japanese case as well. Clarityfiend (talk) 07:35, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

@Clarityfiend: I agree that both redirects are less than ideal. I have no objection to retargeting it to a better article. clpo13_(talk) 15:18, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Done. Clarityfiend (talk) 07:02, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-20

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Dynamic maps are now available on most Wikipedias. Labels on maps can also be in different languages.
• The new Advanced Search interface is now available as a Beta Feature on all wikis. This makes it easier to learn about and to use many of the powerful options in our search. Feedback is appreciated. [44]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 May. It will be on all wikis from 17 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• In the mobile view, warnings for when something is wrong with a page are not as clear as they should be. The developers are working on this. You can give feedback and suggestions.
• The developers are working on making the Wikipedia Android app available in more languages. You can give feedback, suggestions and help test it. Read more on mediawiki.org [45]

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22:23, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Joy-Ann Reid

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Tech News: 2018-21

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 May. It will be on all wikis from 24 May (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• It could become easier to reference different pages of a book in an article. You can give feedback. The last day for feedback is 27 May.

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17:34, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Ocean Nuclear

My AIV report is being ignored and archived w/o action, with respect to this user [46], so many violations of policies can we do something? --Quek157 (talk) 19:42, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

and to add, they created at mainspace first, then G11, then moved over to draft space --Quek157 (talk) 19:45, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

@Quek157: as Maile said on AIV, this user has made some good contributions, and I'm sure they've got the hint by now about COI. At this time, I don't think any action is necessary. The promotional draft has been deleted and they haven't edited since. If they recreate it again or start editing promotionally in other ways, you should definitely bring their behavior up at WP:ANI. clpo13_(talk) 23:12, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

concurred. Quek157 (talk) 23:17, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-22

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now use global preferences on most wikis. This means you can set preferences for all wikis at the same time. Before this you had to change them on each individual wiki. Global preferences will come to the Wikipedias later this week. [47][48]
• It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked. [49]
• Wikidata now supports lexicographical data. This helps describe words.
• There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups. [50]
• Some rare invisible Unicode characters have recently been banned from page titles. This includes soft hyphens (U+00AD) and left-to-right (U+2066) and right-to-left (U+2067) isolate markers. Existing pages with these characters will soon be moved by a script. [51]
• There's a new Wikimedia Foundation team to support the Wikimedia technical communities. It's called the Technical Engagement team. Most of the team members did similar work in other teams before this. [52]

Problems

• Some translatable pages are showing old translations instead of latest ones. The cause of this issue has been fixed. We will update all pages automatically to show the latest translations. [53]

Changes later this week

• There will be a new special page named PasswordPolicies. This page gives information about the password rules for each user group on that wiki. [54]
• A new way to see moved paragraphs in diffs is coming to most wikis. This is to make it easier to find the moved paragraphs and the changes in them. [55]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 May. It will be on all wikis from 31 May (calendar).
• Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. This is complex. The tool will now disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. It has warned about this in the JavaScript console since February. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [56]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 29 May at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
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Future changes

• Content Translation drafts which have not been updated in over a year will be removed. This allows other users to translate those articles. [57]
• A survey is collecting information on what users think about how Wikimedia wiki pages are loaded. This information could be used in future development. [58]
• Some wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 30 May and 13 June. Wikis with fewer than 100 linter issues in the main namespace in all high-priority linter categories will switch. This includes Wikidata. Tidy will probably be removed on all wikis in the first week of July. [59][60]

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12:40, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

You're biased

This is baloney. Not only is Dr Fleischman edit-warring in violation of multiple reliable sources AND talk page consensus, I wasn't even given a chance to respond.

Also, would you mind having a look at at this in-no-way-suspicious conversation? 222.233.53.136 (talk) 03:15, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

• Aw shucks that's terrible. Hey Clpo13, thank you for looking at that matter again. I appreciate it. Drmies (talk) 16:08, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

User talk:203.14.52.145

Despite the school block in place, it appears vandalism is continuing from this IP address.--Cahk (talk) 07:30, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Looks like Dlohcierekim got there first and disabled talk page access. clpo13_(talk) 15:28, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Faik Konica

Hi Clpo13. Osourdounmou moved Faik Konica. If Osourdounmou wants to move the page, they should open a move request. You have warned them for massive disruption related to page moves [61]. I can not move the page back to its previous name as it says "The page could not be moved: a page of that name already exists, or the name you have chosen is not valid. Please choose another name, or use Requested moves to ask an administrator to help you with the move". Can you move it back to the previous name? Ktrimi991 (talk) 14:02, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

@Ktrimi991: I've moved the page back to its old title with a note that future moves should be discussed as potentially controversial per WP:RM#CM. clpo13_(talk) 15:32, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks a lot Clpo13. Much appreciated. Cheers, Ktrimi991 (talk) 19:03, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

White Helmets RfC

Thank you for your input. I thought I would alert you that in the past 24 hours MVBW has deleted one of my comments and Alsee has attempted to rewrite my proposal without warning. Please continue to monitor this page. GPRamirez5 (talk) 03:43, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018).

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Following a successful request for comment, administrators are now able to add and remove editors to the "event coordinator" group. Users in the event coordinator group have the ability to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit. Users will no longer need to be in the "account creator" group if they are in the event coordinator group.
• Following an AN discussion, all pages with content related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed, are now under indefinite general sanctions.

Technical news

• IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in June. This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
• The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page.
• There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
• It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.

Arbitration

• A recent technical issue with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.

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Tech News: 2018-23

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The MonoBook skin has been optimised for mobile devices. It now looks different. [62]
• Planet Wikimedia collects blogs about Wikimedia. It will now use the Rawdog feed aggregator to do this instead of Planet. [63][64]
• Redirect links in Special:WhatLinksHere now link to the original page and not the target page. This was done earlier and changed the used messages on some pages. This was a problem for wikis that customized the message. A new change fixed this by using the old messages with one more parameter for customization. Wikis that already changed their customized messages will have to move the customization back again. [65]

Problems

• You will not be able to edit some wikis between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 13 June. You can see if your wiki is one of them.
• MassMessage did not work 24–28 May. This is also why last week's Tech News was late. [66]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 June. It will be on all wikis from 7 June (calendar).

Meetings

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• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This is planned to happen in June or early July. [67][68]

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21:54, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:White Helmets (Syrian Civil War)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:White Helmets (Syrian Civil War). Legobot (talk) 04:24, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Actually that was my first time as i was redirected there by a third party accessing my google account n my data system as what i can see from my device as im in canada but my device shows usa as all my policies are alternated n all my trusted certifates shows third party accessing them ..as what i know there is another person joined in my account .. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.87.104.49 (talk) 04:40, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

June 2018 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2018 News Welcome to the June 2018 GOCE newsletter, in which you will find Guild updates since the February edition. Progress continues to be made on the copyediting backlog, which has been reduced to 7 months and reached a new all-time low. Requests continue to be handled efficiently this year, with 272 completed by the end of May (an average completion time of 10.5 days). Fewer than 10% of these waited longer than 20 days, and the longest wait time was 29 days. Wikipedia in general, and the Guild in particular, experienced a deep loss with the death on 20 March of Corinne. Corinne (a GOCE coordinator since 1 July 2016) was a tireless aide on the requests page, and her peerless copyediting is a part of innumerable GAs and FAs. Her good cheer, courtesy and tact are very much missed. March drive: The goal was to remove June, July and August 2017 from our backlog and all February 2018 Requests (a total of 219 articles). This drive was an outstanding success, and by the end of the month all but eight of these articles were cleared. Of the 33 editors who signed up, 19 recorded 277 copy edits (425,758 words). April blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 15 through 21 April, focusing on Requests and the last eight articles tagged in August 2017. At the end of the week there were only 17 pending requests, with none older than 17 days. Of the nine editors who signed up, eight editors completed 22 copy edits (62,412 words). May drive: We set out to remove September, October and November 2017 from our backlog and all April 2018 Requests (a total of 298 articles). There was great success this month with the backlog more than halved from 1,449 articles at the beginning of the month to a record low of 716 articles. Officially, of the 20 who signed up, 15 editors recorded 151 copy edits (248,813 words). Coordinator elections: It's election time again. Nominations for Guild coordinators (who will serve a six-month term for the second half of 2018) have begun, and will close at 23:59 UTC on 15 June. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible, and self-nominations are encouraged. Voting will take place between 00:01 UTC on 16 June and 23:59 UTC on 30 June. June blitz: Stay tuned for this one-week copy-editing blitz, which will take place in mid-June. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Corinne, Jonesey95, Miniapolis, Reidgreg and Tdslk. >>> Participate in the June elections! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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White Helmets

Hello Clpo13. Thanks for keeping tabs of the White Helmets article and for all your endeavour to mediate in what is truly a divisive matter. You've protected the page from vandalism and you tagged it to explain the situation. Hours later, an editor removed your tag as well as the neutrality marker placed there by an editor who hasn't touched the article since the time our conflict began[69]. As you see from the link, Volunteer Marek claims that this is an IDONTLIKEIT issue - as though there is no dispute when you know full well there is an RfC to which Marek has heavily participated. Obviously I reverted. All I wish to know is, are editors (especially those party to an RfC) permitted to remove tags as such? And did I do something wrong in replacing them? If Marek is right to remove them then I will self-revert but what he is not right about is the reasoning. The IDONTLIKEIT label is being thrust upon us to disagree with the current text but in reality, IDONTLIKEIT is a non sequitur here. Our side is pushing for parity whilst the other is pushing to tilt the balance so as to justify one word. I'm not using this space to criticise them as we have the talk page to discuss differences, I am just saying that the summary reason in Marek's removal is a false representation of the editor to add the neutrality tag and the rest of us. --Coldtrack (talk) 21:08, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Honestly, I'd leave the POV tag up since the discussion is clearly not settled, though it didn't really need to be (re-?)added yesterday either. There's already a discussion going on and the presence (or lack) of the tag isn't going to substantially affect that. The removal of the protection lock was probably accidental and it's not a big deal. Anonymous editors will still get a warning when they try to edit. clpo13_(talk) 21:57, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

OK I take the points. Thanks. --Coldtrack (talk) 22:06, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

File:RIGHT HANDLE - Royal Enfield Motorcycle 1961.jpg

The delete discussion ended with a consensus that the image be moved to Commons. Why hasn't it yet happened? --Kailash29792 (talk) 12:38, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

@Kailash29792: it must have been an oversight by the discussion closer. I see that file's already been moved, so I'll take care of the others. clpo13_(talk) 16:26, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-24

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• In the Wikipedia app for Android or iOS users can create reading lists. The reading lists can be seen on different devices if you are logged in to your account. There is now a browser extension so you can add pages to your reading list from a web browser. At the moment it works with Firefox and Chrome. [70]
• There is a new version of Pywikibot. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis. [71]

Problems

• The MonoBook skin was changed to make it work better for mobile users. This caused some problems. The change was rolled back to fix them. The new version is now back on the wikis. MonoBook users can opt out from the new responsive design. [72]

Changes later this week

• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. For most wikis this will happen on 18 June. For the rest it will happen on 25 June. [73][74]

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 June. It will be on all wikis from 14 June (calendar).

Meetings

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Future changes

• You will be able to move local wiki files to Commons and keep their original data intact. This is planned to come to the first wikis in June.

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21:55, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Anonymous post used

Hi,

Could you please help me out with something?

On the Talk page of this article (post on talk pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Origin_of_the_Romanians&diff=845077995&oldid=845041006) someone (has posted a reprobable message using unacceptable language). What I find outrageous is that two other editors have gone and accused me of this.

Since I am relatively new, I do fear this - since at least one of the editors has tried in the past to shut me down on technical grounds (account behind a proxy - which I explained why that is and moreover, when the problem was pointed to me I immediately created my account and signed all my posts.). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cealicuca (talk • contribs) 10:22, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Strange, since I have not accused anyone besides the IP for being a strawman sock. See [75]. So, only one editor has accused Cealicuca of being that IP. Tgeorgescu (talk) 12:05, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Quite strange indeed. You entire post is here. Quoting you, "Creating a separate account to argue one side [...]" implies that the person you were referring already has an account and created a new one (separate). Corroborated with the fact that your post was made on 05:59, 9 June 2018 (UTC), and that at 06:27, 9 June 2018 (UTC) you posted on my Talk page a quite lengthy "reminder" of Wiki Policies (a thing you never did, not even when we had quite heated arguments/debates), to which I replied at 10:04, 9 June 2018 (UTC) It feels quite natural that I argue you were actually accusing me. Either that or you were actually accusing Borsoka (who, incidentally, was one of the people "praised" by the inappropriate post, you being the only one who was mentioned in an unacceptable way) but somehow decided to "remind" me of the Wiki policies. So which is it? Cealicuca (talk) 18:31, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

See formal fallacy. I have decided to inform you of WP:RULES regardless of whether it was you who was socking. Tgeorgescu (talk) 18:34, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

@Tgeorgescu: On the contrary, I believe you should see formal fallacy. As I said, having a "separate account" implies that there was another account (let's call it "main"), regardless of the timing oddity of you reminding me of the Wiki policies. Again, which is it? Which of the editors was implied to have created a separate account in order for them to post a provocative and vulgar message under the cover of anonymity?Cealicuca (talk) 19:20, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

I did not profess to know who it was. Tgeorgescu (talk) 19:34, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

@Cealicuca, Tgeorgescu, and Borsoka: the message I removed certainly felt a lot like someone who is already involved in the talk page (or solicited there by someone), but without evidence, it's inappropriate to insinuate that it was anyone specific. That said, Cealicuca, a brief rundown of Wikipedia's guidelines and policies is certainly not amiss for a relatively new (and frankly, single-purpose) editor in such a heated topic area.

As far as where to go from here, I can only second Swarm's suggestion to look into dispute resolution, such as an RFC, for further discussion. There doesn't appear to be much progress among the current participants on the talk page. clpo13_(talk) 20:01, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

@Clpo13: Precisely. @Tgeorgescu has shown in the past he does not cower from launching an investigation - so I find both the explicit accusation and the insinuation (even more so) extremely bothersome. If they have something they want to say - why not ask for an investigation? As for him reminding me of the WP:RULES - sure, he can do that. But doing that immediately after the insinuation, on my talk page, without mentioning an explicit reason for it leaves no room for interpretation. Sorry to have bothered you and thank you for your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cealicuca (talk • contribs) 20:30, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Yes, my message implied their association. However, I must admit, it can only be a coincidence that neither of them can use the "ping" template and sign their posts and both of them make comments mainly on the Talk page of the Origin of the Romanians. Borsoka (talk) 00:34, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Vitamin B3

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Help with image

Hi and thank you for your help with this image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Press_photo_2_Brothers_on_the_4th_floor_A-700x998.jpg#Summary

I guess I'm all confused about this. One of the artists gave me permission to use it. I know that normally the photographer would legally hold the copyright, but this was a work for hire, and as an employee, the artist would, I think, have the ability to give permission. Failing that, I can see if the producers (who founded the group) want to go to all the trouble of donating. Please let me know. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Albanymike (talk • contribs) 22:10, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

@Albanymike: I'm happy to help as much as I'm able. Copyright is a very tricky business to get right. The page WP:DONATEIMAGE has information on the right email address to send permission to (permissions-enwikimedia.org) and how to format the email properly. I'm pretty sure that the rightsholder has to send the email, but forwarded permissions might be acceptable (don't quote me on that). If this was a work for hire, then whoever hired the photographer does own the copyright, but that may have to be proven as well to avoid any question of doubt. Once permission to use the image under an appropriate free license is received and processed by the volunteers monitoring that email address, a special tag will be placed on the image to show there is permission for it to be used. This could take a very long time, however, given the backlog that queue experiences. The image may be deleted in the meantime, but if so, it'll be restored once the permission is processed. clpo13_(talk) 22:36, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Clpo13, Albanymike I gather from a different photo permissions issue I was involved in recently that forwarded emails of permissions used to be acceptable, but are now generally rejected by OTRS as being too easy to forge. Our help pages are out of date on this, it seems. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 12:58, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-25

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Syntax highlighting has been a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It is now a normal feature. It is based on CodeMirror. [76]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

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Future changes

• Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a PlayStation 3. [77][78]
• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July. [79][80]
• All wikis that have not already done so will switch to use the Remex parsing library on 5 July. This is to replace Tidy. You can help fix remaining errors. [81]

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21:47, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:31, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Brian Martin (social scientist)

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Tech News: 2018-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• PAWS, our JupyterHub system, got an upgrade and a logo. Several bugs should be fixed.

Problems

• When a link text was in italics or had other formatting you could sometimes not edit it in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [82][83]

Changes later this week

• Content translation users who translate between any two of Arabic, English, French, Japanese and Russian will be asked to be part of a research project. This is to create better tools for translating articles. [84]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 June. It will be on all wikis from 28 June (calendar).

Meetings

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23:10, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Meghan Markle Page

HI, IT's Duchess Begum There's a spelling error and I can't change it do the page protective status. In the Sentence The Duchess's first engagement... There's no need for the s on the end All I want to do is change it. Is there a way you can? Also maybe a more recent picture should be used. Or at least add one from their wedding like there is on the Page for the Duchess of Cambridge's page.

Thank You

Duchess Begum (talk) 01:26, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

@Duchess Begum: the page is semi-protected. You'll be able to edit the page once your user account is four days old and you've made ten total edits to Wikipedia. Until that time, you can request an edit to a semi-protected page by placing the code {{Edit semi-protected}} along with your request on the article's talk page in the form of "please change X to Y". This is good for simple and uncontroversial changes. In this case, however, Wikipedia's Manual of Style recommends using 's for the possessive of singular nouns even when the word ends with the letter s (MOS:POSS), so I'm inclined to leave it as is.

As for the picture, there are some other freely-licensed pictures at commons:Category:Meghan Markle in 2018, but it doesn't look like there are any that are more recent than March 2018, and the only pictures from the wedding are of guests. You could also look for alternative pictures on Flickr, but be aware that in order to be used on Wikipedia, the pictures must have a free license (see commons:COM:L for what that means). If you do find one, you can request it to be uploaded with the appropriate license at WP:FFU, or you can upload it yourself at Wikimedia Commons via the Upload Wizard. I hope that helps. clpo13_(talk) 16:30, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Please help.

Hi, I see you noticed and edited my article on Thaddeus Golas. Earlier today someone did a massive edit of my hard work and marked the article for deletion. I wonder if a new paradigm in Wikipedia ethics could encourage a heads up to the author before making such aggressive edits to take the time and courtesy of a discussion no matter how brief. Regarding the portrait of Golas - that was inserted by the artist himself and I don't know how to properly verify that. What I need is assistance and cooperation on this article not an ongoing battle with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Escape_Orbit who did the aggressive edit and others to come. Obviously I need to be hyper-meticulous to keep this article intact. Are you at all interested in assisting me? Metaphysics Man (talk) 18:34, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

@Metaphysics Man: I'm happy to offer advice, but I can't help you preserve your preferred version of Thaddeus Golas. The first thing you need to understand about Wikipedia is that no one owns an article. Once text is put on Wikipedia, other editors can change it as they please with no obligation to notify previous editors or ask their permission. That said, you should also assume that other editors are doing their best to improve an article, even if it looks to you like they're doing the opposite (see Wikipedia:Assume good faith). Escape Orbit's edits look like they were intended to bring the article more in line with Wikipedia's editorial policies and guidelines, such as WP:PROMO and WP:NPOV, though they made a mistake in nominating it for deletion using a process intended only for living people.

So, what do you do if you disagree with someone's changes to an article? First, you should calmly ask them about the matter and see if the two of you can come to an agreement about how best to word the article. Preferably, such a discussion would happen on the article's talk page so other interested editors can give their opinions and hopefully everyone involved can come to a consensus about what to do. If that doesn't work, disagreements can be solved in a number of other ways, as listed at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution.

As for the image, the artist would need to give evidence of permission by following the guidance at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. This is a necessity given how often copyrighted works are uploaded with false claims of free licensing by people who found them somewhere online. clpo13_(talk) 23:09, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 June 2018

• From the editor: The Admin Ship is still barely afloat, while a Foundation project risks sinking

• Special report: NPR and AfC – The Marshall Plan: an engagement and a marriage?

• Op-ed: What do admins do?

• Opinion: Google isn't responsible for Wikipedia's mistakes

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Thanks

Big thanks for the insights. One point though: the artist himself uploaded his portrait of Thaddeus Golas when he (Sylvain Despretz) created this article. (I didn't create this article; I'm care-taking it in cooperation with Sylvain Despretz personally). Under the portrait I wrote "permission to use here by Sylvain Despretz". I looked at "Wikipedia: Donating Copyrighted Materials" keeping in mind that this is a portrait not a photograph. Is there more to do concerning the permission notation? Metaphysics Man (talk) 02:04, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The database for tags will be changed. This will happen on 2 July on French Wikipedia and 9 July on all other wikis. Please report if recent changes get slower or you can't save edits. This could especially affect editors who use the database on ToolForge. [85]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a database problem. [86]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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00:46, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2018).

Administrator changes

Pbsouthwood • TheSandDoctor

Gogo Dodo

Andrevan • Doug • EVula • KaisaL • Tony Fox • WilyD

Bureaucrat changes

Andrevan • EVula

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about the deletion of drafts closed with a consensus to change the wording of WP:NMFD. Specifically, a draft that has been repeatedly resubmitted and declined at AfC without any substantial improvement may be deleted at MfD if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the reasons for deletion outlined in the deletion policy.
• A request for comment closed with a consensus that the {{promising draft}} template cannot be used to indefinitely prevent a WP:G13 speedy deletion nomination.

Technical news

• Starting on July 9, the WMF Security team, Trust & Safety, and the broader technical community will be seeking input on an upcoming change that will restrict editing of site-wide JavaScript and CSS to a new technical administrators user group. Bureaucrats and stewards will be able to grant this right per a community-defined process. The intention is to reduce the number of accounts who can edit frontend code to those who actually need to, which in turn lessens the risk of malicious code being added that compromises the security and privacy of everyone who accesses Wikipedia. For more information, please review the FAQ.
• Syntax highlighting has been graduated from a Beta feature on the English Wikipedia. To enable this feature, click the highlighter icon () in your editing toolbar (or under the hamburger menu in the 2017 wikitext editor). This feature can help prevent you from making mistakes when editing complex templates.
• IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in July (previously scheduled for June). This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.

Miscellaneous

• Currently around 20% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 17% a year ago. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless if you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

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Tech News: 2018-28

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• WebM video files have smaller file size but still be of the same quality. Creating WebM files will take longer time. [87]
• The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This was supposed to already have happened but was delayed. For most wikis this will happen on 9 July. For the rest it will happen on 16 July. [88]
• All wikis now use the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy. This could cause errors. You can help fix the errors. [89]

Problems

• When you rolled back an edit it could get both the Rollback and Undo tags. This has been fixed. [90]
• Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This has been fixed. [91]

Changes later this week

• When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label). [92][93]
• On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a user page. [94]
• When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures. [95]
• Structured discussions toolbars will have more style options. [96]
• When you look at Wikimedia code in Gerrit there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening. [97]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Today all administrators can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can read more. [98]
• Page previews will be on by default for new accounts. [99]

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23:09, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2018-29

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now use global preferences on Wikimedia wikis. You can set them on the global preferences page. [100]
• You can now see a new log of pages being created at Special:Log/create. It includes pages which are later deleted. It is now available on all Wikimedia wikis except Commons and Wikidata. [101]
• You can see how many pageviews a wiki had from specific countries. The Wikistats2 maps have now been updated. [102]

Changes later this week

• Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change. [103]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on July 17 at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on July 18 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Some articles have messages to readers about problems with the article. For example that it does not cite sources or might not be neutral. Readers do not see these messages on the mobile version. The developers now want to show them. You can read more and leave feedback.
• You can use <inputbox> to create search boxes for specific pages. For example to search the archives of a community discussion page. Instead of prefix:Page name you will see a text that explains which pages are being searched. You can read more and leave feedback.

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16:00, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

AN RfC page

Hi, I don't know if you can help, but this request for closure has been waiting more than two weeks and the Request for Comments is more than two months old. Can anything be done to resolve it? GPRamirez5 (talk) 16:38, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

@GPRamirez5: I'll have to pass on that. Closing RfC discussions is not my strong point, especially in contentious topic areas. You might be able to find a willing closer by asking at WP:AN. I don't think nearly as many people watch the request for closure page as they do the main noticeboard. clpo13_(talk) 17:14, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Disputed non-free use rationale for File:NewYorkTimesMangalyaanCartoon-fairuse.jpg

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If it is determined that the file does not qualify under the non-free content policy, it might be deleted by an administrator seven days after the file was tagged in accordance with section F7 of the criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions, please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.

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Tech News: 2018-30

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [104]
• Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [105]
• Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [106]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 July. It will be on all wikis from 26 July (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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09:44, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. ()

Hello Clpo13, 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.

The Signpost

• The next issue of the monthly magazine will be out soon. The newspaper is an excellent way to stay up to date with news and new developments between our newsletters. If you have special messages to be published, or if you would like to submit an article (one about NPR perhaps?), don't hesitate to contact the editorial team here.

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Tech News: 2018-31

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [107]

Problems

• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [108][109]
• Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [110][111]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 August. It will be on all wikis from 2 August (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 31 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 1 August at 15:00 (UTC) as well as at 23:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• After a community discussion, a new group for users will be created. "Interface administrators" will be the only users allowed to edit interface pages like MediaWiki:Common.css or MediaWiki:Common.js. This is done to avoid technical issues and improve security. That change will be effective by the end of August 2018.

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14:05, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 July 2018

• From the editor: If only if

• Op-ed: The last leg of the Admin Ship's current cruise

• Opinion: Wrestling with Wikipedia reality

• News and notes: Another newspaper for Wikipedia; Wikimania 2018 ends; changes at NPR

• In the media: Blackouts in Europe; Wikipedia and capitalists; WMF Jet Set

• Discussion report: Wikipedias take action against EU copyright proposal, plus new user right proposals

• Featured content: Wikipedia's best content in images and prose

• Arbitration report: Status quo processes retained in two disputes

• Traffic report: Soccer, football, call it what you like – that and summer movies leave room for little else

• Technology report: New bots, new prefs

• Gallery: Independence days, national holidays, and football – all in July

• Blog: Motivation of two editors

• Recent research: Different Wikipedias use different images; editing contests more successful than edit-a-thons

• Humour: It's all the same

• Essay: Wikipedia does not need you

• From the archives: The pending changes fiasco: how an attempt to answer one question turned into a quagmire

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2018).

Administrator changes

Sro23

KaisaL • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

Technical news

• 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.

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