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The Signpost: 22 May 2023

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Tech News: 2023-21

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16:53, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 56

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The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 56, March – April 2023

  • New partner:
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  • Library access tips and tricks
  • Spotlight: EveryBookItsReader

Read the full newsletter

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The Signpost

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Hi JPxG, I'm very much interested to know if you have any example for The Signpost covering any other decision than those of the englisch de:Arbitration Committee. From what I am aware, the Signpost is exclusively edited by English Wikipedia editors and covers exclusively matters of interest for the same community. I believe that, in that regard, the article is very much biased and is not what other language Wikipedias would call expressing a neutral point of view. Please accept that I am not questioning your intention. Thanks for your time and best regards. −Sargoth 11:44, 29 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

(talk page stalker) We've covered the Schiedsgericht a few times in The Signpost, e.g. Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-10-05/News_and_notes, Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-10-22/Special_report, Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-12-22/Special_report.
I do edit the German Wikipedia occasionally (mostly I just contribute to the Kurier these days). User:HaeB is another Signpost regular who edits de:WP. User:Kudpung isn't currently active in the Signpost, but he's edited German de:WP as well. I may well have missed others.
If we don't cover German ArbCom stories more often, it's due more to a lack of capacity and contributors than to a lack of will to do stories about non-English editions of Wikipedia (or indeed other Wikimedia projects). Regards, Andreas JN466 12:15, 29 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

Tech News: 2023-22

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:59, 29 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

Feedback request: Wikipedia style and naming request for comment

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The Signpost: 5 June 2023

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2023

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).

  Guideline and policy news

  • Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
  • As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

  Technical news

  • Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

  Arbitration

  • The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

  Miscellaneous


Tech News: 2023-23

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:50, 5 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Guild of Copy Editors June 2023 Newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors June 2023 Newsletter
 

 

Hello and welcome to the June 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since March. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

Election news: Fancy helping out at the Guild? Nominations for our half-yearly Election of Coordinators are open until 23:59 on 15 June (UTC)*. Starting immediately after, the voting phase will run until 23:59 on 30 June. All Wikipedians in good standing are eligible and self-nominations are welcomed; it's your Guild and it doesn't organize itself!

Blitz: Of the 17 editors who signed up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, nine editors completed at least one copy-edit. Between them, they copy-edited 24 articles totaling 53,393 words. Barnstars awarded are here.

Drive: 51 editors signed up for the month-long May Backlog Elimination Drive, and 31 copy-edited at least one article. 180 articles were copy-edited. Barnstars awarded are posted here.

Blitz: Sign up here for our week-long June Copy Editing Blitz, which runs from 11 to 17 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted here.

Progress report: As of 03:09 on 6 June 2023, GOCE copyeditors have processed 91 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 1,887 articles.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybongo.

*All times and dates in this newsletter are in UTC, and may significantly vary from your local time.

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Scottywong case opened

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You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Scottywong. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Scottywong/Evidence. Please add your evidence by June 21, 2023, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Scottywong/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, –MJLTalk 19:22, 7 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

CS1 error on Mr. Winkle

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Tech News: 2023-24

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MediaWiki message delivery 14:48, 12 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

June 21: WikiWednesday Salon back in Manhattan!

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June 21: WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce
 
WikiWednesday is back in Manhattan!

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

We are proud to announce that monthly food has returned!

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Prime Produce encourages the wearing of masks when indoors, and especially be mindful of those in your proximity.

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
(Prime Produce, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan)
Also online via Zoom

(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)

--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:05, 14 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

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Hello JPxG,

 
New Page Review queue April to June 2023

Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.

Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.

You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.

Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).

Reminders

Feedback request: Wikipedia style and naming request for comment

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Your feedback is requested at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters on a "Wikipedia style and naming" request for comment. Thank you for helping out!
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The Signpost: 19 June 2023

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Tech News: 2023-25

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:07, 19 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

DYK for Longcat

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On 20 June 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Longcat, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Longcat was long? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Longcat. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Longcat), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

Aoidh (talk) 00:04, 20 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

  Hook update
Your hook reached 31,271 views (1,303.0 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of June 2023 – nice work!

GalliumBot (talkcontribs) (he/it) 03:27, 21 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for your work on this DYK. Got a kick out of the punchily short Longcat hook. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 04:41, 20 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for your work on this topic. I hope it will protect me from notability issues for the near future 😉. —  AjaxSmack  14:57, 20 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Tech News: 2023-26

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:17, 26 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Concern regarding User:JPxG/LLM dungeon/Social Security in the United States of America (USA)

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  Hello, JPxG. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that User:JPxG/LLM dungeon/Social Security in the United States of America (USA), a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 13:01, 29 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

New pages patrol needs your help!

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New pages awaiting review as of June 30th, 2023.

Hello JPxG,

The New Page Patrol team is sending you this impromptu message to inform you of a steeply rising backlog of articles needing review. If you have any extra time to spare, please consider reviewing one or two articles each day to help lower the backlog. You can start reviewing by visiting Special:NewPagesFeed. Thank you very much for your help.

Reminders:

Sent by Zippybonzo using MediaWiki message delivery at 06:58, 1 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

Administrators' newsletter – July 2023

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

 

  Administrator changes

  Novem Linguae
 

  Bureaucrat changes

  MBisanz

  Guideline and policy news

  Technical news

  Arbitration

  • Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.