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Administrators' newsletter – February 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).

Administrator changes

Hog Farm

Mattflaschen • Nandesuka • Savidan • Wangi

CheckUser changes

Berean Hunter • Xeno

Oversight changes

Someguy1221 • Xeno

Arbitration

• The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2021 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2021, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2021, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Wikipedia has now been around for 20 years, and recently saw its billionth edit!

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 20

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (January 2021).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 20th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Ajbura's anrfc-lister assists with listing discussions at WP:ANRFC to request that they receive a formal close

Bradv's endlesscontribs provides for endless scrolling of contributions pages

Evad37's livenotifications displays notification alerts and messages in a little popup box, (almost) live as they happen

Terasail's Edit Request Tool allows users to reply to, close or remove protected edit requests

ToBeFree's clear-watchlist allows emptying your watchlist even if the watchlist is too full to be edited or cleared by conventional methods

Dentonius's GlobalRecentChanges allows you to monitor recent changes across various wikis.

Yahya's SNA (Start New Article) allows you to start a new article or draft from the navigation bar.

Nardog:

• CatChangeLinker bluelinks the "(diff | hist)" part of category additions/removals on your watchlist.
• CatChangesViewer lists recent category additions/removals on a category page.
• Consecudiff adds links to diffs of consecutive edits by the same user on watchlist, history, etc.
• DiffFontSwitcher allows you to toggle between fonts for diff by clicking a line number.
• MoveHistory lists the past moves a page has gone through.

Novem Linguae:

• UserHighlighterSimple is a fork of Chlod's UserHighlighter with a simplified color scheme.
• VisualEditorEverywhere displays the Visual Editor edit tab and section links on pages that don't normally have them.

User:Evad37/TimestampDiffs – fixed compatibility issues with various scripts/gadgets, including Wikipedia:Comments in Local Time. For discussion archives, now looks for revisions on the base page.

User:Enterprisey/undo-last-edit.js - no longer tries to load on special pages.

User:Ahecht/Scripts/pageswap - version 1.4 fixes reading destination from form field if destination is not in article namespace, and fixes self redirects.

Wikipedia:XFDcloser - version 4 brings a new user interface for dialogs, some preferences for customising XFDcloser, major behind-the-scenes coding changes, and resolves various issues raised on the talkpage. Also, since version 3.16.6 non-admin soft delete closure have been allowed at TfD.

Open tasks

• As a reminder, the legacy javascript globals (like accessing wgPageName without first assigning it a value or using mw.config.get('wgPageName') instead) are deprecated. If your user scripts make use of the globals, please update them to use mw.config instead. Some global interface editors or local interface administrators may edit your user script to make these changes if you don't. See phab:T72470 for more.

Miscellaneous

• For people interested in creating user scripts or gadgets using TypeScript, a types-mediawiki package (GitHub, NPM) is now available that provides type definitions for the MediaWiki JS interface and the API.
• A GitHub organization has been created for hosting codebases of gadgets. Users who maintain gadgets using GitHub may choose to move their repos to this organization, to ensure continued maintenance by others even if the original maintainer becomes inactive.

Pending requests

• A script to ease reviewing Good Article nominations
• A script to help manage Z number templates
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, including nominating a featured script, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy new year! --DannyS712 (talk) 01:17, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

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Apology

I'm Sorry... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scoophole2021 (talk • contribs) 09:07, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Tetrathlon edit reversion

Hi Berrely, I'm fairly new to Wikipedia editing, but I wanted to amend the Tetrathlon article as it was severely lacking in detail and in a few cases wildly inaccurate. I only cited three sources, all of which were equally reliable to existing sources, and far more recent. All information (excluding information on equestathon) was provided either explicitly or implicitly in the sources provided. However, I can definitely go and individually source every single claim from sources in Australia, the UK, potentially New Zealand, though probably not the US as they seem to have a negligible amount of information in the public domain; hopefully, this will be adequate to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.

I have first-hand experience with this sport in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, and have done a reasonable amount of online research on the sport in all these nations along with the US (though I've found little on the latter). Hence, I'm reasonably confident that I can act as an authority on the subject and that with proper citing my edit would probably be reasonably informed, though always welcome to amendments because my English is quite poor and I'm sure there will be some omissions.

Unfortunately, I have no idea how to access my existing attempt at an edit, it appears your undo has removed it completely from the history but perhaps I'm just inept at viewing history pages. If you can show me how to recover the information and properly cite it to meet standards, that would be immensely appreciated as the current article is somewhat pathetic. Heyesl (talk) 05:59, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Trout'd

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

Here Some Facts: Nothing!

Scoophole2021 (talk) 07:12, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

>Violates WP:PA

>Trouts me

I love Wikipedia — Yours, Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 10:50, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

self confidence the power in your life

what can i do now ? I want to explain this nice books to people — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mjmsjayamohan (talk • contribs) 14:44, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi there Mjmsjayamohan, in the future, please do not remove AfD templates, as they are key to the maintenance of the Wikipedia project. I have reverted your edit. — Yours, Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 14:48, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

FWIW, I've blocked this editor as an UPE ignoring COI warning, cheers, Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:40, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Article for Review - Draft: Arsh Braich

Hi Berrely,

I've fixed the draft by adding relieable sources and removing Inline links. Can you please review it now and let me know if any changes are required.

Thank You, Tania7 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.229.180.202 (talk) 04:10, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

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Request to revised draft on spatial modulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Spatial_modulation

Dear Berrely,

Many thanks for your comments on my draft on spatial modulation, I also hope you are safe and healthy. Please review the revised draft on spatial modulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Spatial_modulation, I have revised it two months back. It seems you have been busy, I request you to spare some time and I would definitely like to hear about your approval on the article sometime soon.

Thanks and regards, Excell strive (talk) 05:21, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

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