User talk:TheSandDoctor/Archives/2022/June

Piper Perri

Hi adminstrator, Soft deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Piper Perri. Deletion arguing that this pornstar is not remarkable enough is completely subjective and it is not based on evidence. Piper Perri is one of the leading pornstar in Spain! the page in question was removed in a poll, but the page was created without quality and resources, which was deleted, but the page I created was created with a lot of resources and translated from Spanish The porn star has starred in about 400 films and has been nominated for several AVN Awards and Pornhub Award.--{{user|CeSoe}} ^talk 20:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

@CeSoe: It was regularly deleted, not deleted under the soft deletion practice, because it received sufficient participation to gauge a consensus. As such, no lone administrator can overrule or restore it for you unless you can provide new sourcing that demonstrates that the subject passes the notability criteria on the English Wikipedia. Whether or not it passes on another edition is non-material and irrelevant to here (see WP:OTHERSTUFF). A good explanation of the deletion process can be found here. @Liz: was also the last one to delete the attempt and probably should've been contacted. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 13:39, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for dealing with such questions so handily, TheSandDoctor. This editor was blocked for being a sockpuppet by the way. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:18, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

@Liz: You're welcome! Thanks for the update. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 04:31, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

Administrator changes

Tamzin

Barek • Darkwind • Geometry guy • ProcseeBot • RoyBoy • Sean Whitton • Valereee • Visorstuff • WAvegetarian

Sn0wflake → VersedFenrir

CheckUser changes

Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news

• Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.

Technical news

• Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
• The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
• An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.

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Category:Forbes 30 Under 30 recipients has been nominated for deletion

Category:Forbes 30 Under 30 recipients has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. UnitedStatesian (talk) 01:03, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-23

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).
• A new str_replace_regexp() function can be used in abuse filters to replace parts of text using a regular expression. [1]

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02:45, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Question from LeviLancewood (05:28, 13 June 2022)

How to write a new article? --LeviLancewood (talk) 05:28, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

@LeviLancewood: I would recommend starting with this tutorial followed by this guide to creating your first article. Please let me know if you have any questions! TheSandDoctor ^Talk 00:27, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-24

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

• All wikis can now use Kartographer maps. Kartographer maps now also work on pages with pending changes. [2][3]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 14 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [4]
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Abkhazian Wikipedia, Achinese Wikipedia, Adyghe Wikipedia, Afrikaans Wikipedia, Akan Wikipedia, Alemannisch Wikipedia, Amharic Wikipedia, Aragonese Wikipedia, Old English Wikipedia, Syriac Wikipedia, Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, Asturian Wikipedia, Atikamekw Wikipedia, Avaric Wikipedia, Aymara Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, South Azerbaijani Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [5]
• The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [6][7]

Future meetings

• The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place today (13 June). The following meetings will take place on: 28 June, 12 July, 26 July.

Future changes

• By the end of July, the Vector 2022 skin should be ready to become the default across all wikis. Discussions on how to adjust it to the communities' needs will begin in the next weeks. It will always be possible to revert to the previous version on an individual basis. Learn more.

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16:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Happy Fourth Adminship Anniversary

Wishing TheSandDoctor a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Chris Troutman (talk) 20:26, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

Importing userscripts

Hi TheSandDoctor, importing userscripts from non-sysops gives them access to your toolset. It's not as bad as if you were a checkuser or oversighter, but "advisable" would be an overstatement.

Fortunately, if you trust the current code not to become malicious over time (e.g. by importing stuff that could be changed later, or by having a timer after which it turns evil), a solution is to use the following syntax to pin one specific revision:

mw.loader.load('https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/Angrenamer.js&oldid=1082732803&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');

Alternatively and more simply, as everything is freely licensed, you may like to create a copy of the current code in your own userspace and import that instead.

Best regards,
~ ToBeFree (talk) 16:21, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

@ToBeFree: That is a very good point, thank you for raising this. I don't know why I never thought of this. I have gone through my user scripts and think I got them all now. Please let me know if you notice anything I missed. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 16:45, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick fix! Looks good to me ~ ToBeFree (talk) 16:54, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-25

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

• The Wikipedia App for Android now has an option for editing the whole page at once, located in the overflow menu (three-dots menu ). [8]
• Some recent database changes may affect queries using the Quarry tool. Queries for site_stats at English Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata will need to be updated. Read more.
• A new user_global_editcount variable can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. [9]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 June. It will be on all wikis from 23 June (calendar).
• Users of non-responsive skins (e.g. MonoBook or Vector) on mobile devices may notice a slight change in the default zoom level. This is intended to optimize zooming and ensure all interface elements are present on the page (for example the table of contents on Vector 2022). In the unlikely event this causes any problems with how you use the site, we'd love to understand better, please ping Jon (WMF) to any on-wiki conversations. [10]

Future changes

• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.
• Parsoid's HTML output will soon stop annotating file links with different typeof attribute values, and instead use mw:File for all types. Tool authors should adjust any code that expects: mw:Image, mw:Audio, or mw:Video. [11]

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20:17, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Question from Abubakar Osman Rathore (09:28, 20 June 2022)

I want to write an article, Please guide me --Abubakar Osman Rathore (talk) 09:28, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

@Abubakar Osman Rathore: Please see this guide and this one. Please let me know if you have any further questions! TheSandDoctor ^Talk 04:42, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

Question from Tapasserai (05:47, 21 June 2022)

How to change topics --Tapasserai (talk) 05:47, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello @Tapasserai:! I Hope that you enjoy your time here and decide to stay. Unfortunately, I don't exactly understand what you are asking. Could you please clarify the question? Perhaps this interactive tutorial might help? TheSandDoctor ^Talk 03:46, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

It's fine. I Googled for the answer. 106.51.66.186 (talk) 04:56, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022

New Page Review queue June 2022

Hello TheSandDoctor/Archives/2022,

Backlog status

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 at the end of May.

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

Backlog drive

A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. Barnstars will be awarded.

TIP – New school articles

Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.

Misc

There is a new template available, {{NPP backlog}}, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:

Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 13790 articles, as of 10:00, 28 November 2024 (UTC), according to DatBot

There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.

Reminders

• Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
• If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.
• If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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Tech News: 2022-26

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

• Wikimedia Enterprise API service now has self-service accounts with free on-demand requests and monthly snapshots (API documentation). Community access via database dumps & Wikimedia Cloud Services continues.
• All Wikimedia wikis can now use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua after creating local modules and templates. Discussions are welcome on the project talk page.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 28 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [12]
• Some global and cross-wiki services will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 30 June at 06:00 UTC. This will impact ContentTranslation, Echo, StructuredDiscussions, Growth experiments and a few more services. [13]
• Users will be able to sort columns within sortable tables in the mobile skin. [14]

Future meetings

• The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (28 June). The following meetings will take place on 12 July and 26 July.

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20:01, 27 June 2022 (UTC)