User talk:TheSandDoctor/Archives/2019/April
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GA bot
Hi SandDoctor. A while ago you answered a request to take over some bots that are involved in the GA process. I will admit that I lost track of where that discussion ended up. Is this still happening? I recently closed a lot of WP:GARs and was reminded that the archive function hasn't worked for about four years now. AIRcorn (talk) 00:37, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- Notifications tell you about things that happen on the wiki. You can turn on notifications about new links to pages you created. For performance reasons you can no longer get e-mails about this. [1]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar).
Meetings
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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16:28, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
A barnstar for you
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Barnstar of Existence |
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).
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Technical news
- In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
- The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Please see meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019 to provide your input on this idea.
Arbitration
- The Arbitration Committee clarified that the General 1RR prohibition for Palestine-Israel articles may only be enforced on pages with the {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} edit notice.
Miscellaneous
- Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
- As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.
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
- More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can read more.
- Admins on French and Polish Wikipedia can block someone from editing a page or a namespace. If your wiki wants to get these blocks before they are available to all wikis, you can tell the developers. [2][3]
Problems
- You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on 11 April at 05:00 (UTC). This is because of a hardware problem. You can see a list of the affected wikis. [4]
- A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [5]
- Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [6]
Changes later this week
- When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual and wikitext modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site. [7]
- The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more. [8]
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{{REVISIONID}}magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return""(empty string). When you read a page it will return"-"(dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces. [9] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (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 10 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like page previews. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. [10][11]
- The Wikidata JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code.
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18:24, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedia Editor,
My name is Slilla, Corporate PR from BDMS. I would like to correct and update BDMS information on wikipedia as detail below; 1. Name: Bangkok Dusit Medical Services Public Company Limited 2. Update information about BDMS and our hospital group. -- now is not update 3. Company name on BDMS logo 4.and etc.
So could you please kindly advise what can I do to correct and update our information in wikipedia as soon as possible.
Thank you very much
Best Regards, slilla — Preceding unsigned comment added by Slillasv (talk • contribs) 09:57, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
- Hi there! I've been asked by TheSandDoctor to step in and respond to your message here and assist you. First and foremost, Wikipedia's behavioral guidelines on conflict of interest highly discourage users who have a personal conflict of interest with the article subject from editing or even discussing it on Wikipedia. Doing so adds issues to the article, since someone close to the subject edited it. It also makes it nearly impossible for the article to be worded to reflect a neutral point of view. Instead, you can follow the instructions in order to make edit requests. These will allow you to request another editor review the changes you believe should be made (make sure to include reliable sources to support those changes), and have another editor make the change for you (assuming they approve). This way, you'll be able to help with updating the article, but you won't be violating any policies and guidelines. Also, if you're being paid or compensated in any way to be on Wikipedia and make these changes, you are required to disclose this information per Wikipedia's Terms of Use. Please follow the instructions listed here in order to properly disclose this information if you're being paid to edit Wikipedia in any way.
- If you have any questions, you're welcome to respond here or you're welcome to ask them on my user talk page (click here to go there). Myself, or another admin, will be happy to answer any questions you have and help you. I appreciate your understanding and your cooperation in this matter, and I hope you have a great day. :-) Best regards - ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 04:01, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
Global locks at SPI
Hey TSD, your requests for global locks at meta, when needed, are enormously helpful. Thanks!--Bbb23 (talk) 22:56, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Bbb23: You're welcome! I try to help out wherever and however I can. Lately, that seems to be making global lock requests on meta that I find need doing in open and recently closed SPI cases.
--TheSandDoctor Talk 01:36, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
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 wikis now have the TemplateWizard for the wikitext editor.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (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 17 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Wikidata will get a new constraint status called
suggestion. This will change how theWikibaseQualityConstraintsconstraint checking API works. [12][13] - You can test the
depictsproperty for structured data on Commons.
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23:00, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
Subpages
Hey TSD, I saw you were the deleting admin. on the MfDs of Portal:Ainu and Portal:Ajman. Those portals have a bunch of subpages as well; can you take care of them or do I have to tag each subpage with CSD G8 myself instead? Thanks! UnitedStatesian (talk) 02:42, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
- @UnitedStatesian: Thanks for pointing those out. I should have looked for subpages at the time, but clearly forgot,
Done. --TheSandDoctor Talk 03:36, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
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 advanced search function URL now shows which namespaces you search in. The namespace field is collapsed by default on the search page. You can also add new fields to the search interface through a hook. [14][15][16]
- The wikis now look slightly different in the mobile web version. [17]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Wikipedia articles will have the
sameAsmeta property. It adds structured data. This makes it easier for search engines to find Wikipedia articles. It also makes it easier to reuse content. There will an A/B test. [18][19]
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19:08, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Keith Richards
The article Keith Richards you nominated as a good article has passed 
; see Talk:Keith Richards for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of 12george1 -- 12george1 (talk) 00:41, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
Mohd faheem
Why delete this page sir Monismansoori (talk) 06:12, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
- Hello @Monismansoori:. The article has not been deleted, but has been proposed for deletion on the grounds that it as, quite frankly, undecipherable as to who this person is nor their significance. This leads me to believe that it is possibly a poor translation(?). The reason for this is clearly displayed on the article and your talk page. If you have any questions about editing Wikipedia, please do feel free to ask. One thing that I would request though is that you read your talk page and remove the statement that you are an administrator and other falsehoods present on your userpage. They do not gain you any respect and are extremely easy to debunk. --TheSandDoctor Talk 07:03, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
Million Award: Keith Richards
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The Million Award |
| For your contributions to bring Keith Richards (estimated annual readership: 1,500,000) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Mz7 (talk) 08:55, 26 April 2019 (UTC) |
- Thank you Mz7! Just trying to [write articles], before they make me.
"I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police." - KR - Okay, okay. I'll stop with the cheap puns and quotes --TheSandDoctor Talk 08:58, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
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 Wikipedia app for Android now invites users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. [20][21]
Problems
- Tech News was late last week because of a MassMessage bug. Other newsletters had the same problem. [22]
Changes later this week
- You will see when you last refreshed the recent changes page. This is so you can see how recent the changes are. [23]
- When you write a comment in Structured Discussions but have not posted it yet your web browser will save it in
local storageinstead ofsession storage. This means you do not lose them even if you close your web browser. Structured Discussions used to be called Flow. [24] - You will be able to turn off milestone notifications. Milestone notifications congratulate you when you have made certain numbers of edits. [25]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 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 1 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikidata
wb_termstable will be dropped. This will affect some Wikidata tools. They need to be updated. The table has become too big which is causing problems. This will happen on 29 May. You can read more. You can ask for help if you need it. - Wikimedia wikis will soon use a token when you log out. This changes how the API works. Some tools might need to be updated. [26]
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22:27, 29 April 2019 (UTC)