User talk:TheSandDoctor/Archives/2023/January

Happy New Year, TheSandDoctor!

Happy New Year!

TheSandDoctor,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Abishe (talk) 21:55, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

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Happy New Year!

TheSandDoctor,
Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and a Happy New Year to you and yours! CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:13, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, TheSandDoctor!

Happy New Year!

TheSandDoctor,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
–Davey2010^Talk 00:49, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023

Hello TheSandDoctor/Archives/2023,

New Page Review queue December 2022

Backlog

The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.

2022 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!

Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)

New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js to User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js

Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.

Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2023

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

Administrator changes

• ComplexRational
• Extraordinary Writ

Stephen

• Andrew Yong
• Dbenbenn
• DESiegel
• GlassCobra
• Joe Decker
• Nancy
• Pathoschild
• StuffOfInterest
• William Pietri
• Wwwwolf
• Xdamr

Interface administrator changes

Nihiltres

CheckUser changes

Moneytrees

• Ivanvector
• SilkTork

Oversighter changes

• GeneralNotability
• Moneytrees

• Guerillero
• SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.

Arbitration

• Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, SilkTork.
• The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
• Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.

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Happy Sixth First Edit Day!

Hey, TheSandDoctor. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Chris Troutman (talk) 00:13, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

It's that time of year already?! Dang am I starting to feel old...5 years...yikes! @Chris troutman: TheSandDoctor ^Talk 02:00, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-02

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 use tags to filter edits in the recent changes feed or on your watchlist. You can now use tags to filter out edits you don't want to see. Previously you could only use tags to focus on the edits with those tags. [1]
• Special:WhatLinksHere shows all pages that link to a specific page. There is now a prototype for how to sort those pages alphabetically. You can see the discussion in the Phabricator ticket.
• You can now use the thanks function on your watchlist and the user contribution page. [2]
• A wiki page can be moved to give it a new name. You can now get a dropdown menu with common reasons when you move a page. This is so you don't have to write the explanation every time. [3]
• Matrix is a chat tool. You can now use matrix: to create Matrix links on wiki pages. [4]
• You can filter out translations when you look at the recent changes on multilingual wikis. This didn't hide translation pages. You can now also hide subpages which are translation pages. [5]

Changes later this week

• Realtime preview for wikitext is a tool which lets editors preview the page when they edit wikitext. It will be enabled for all users of the 2010 wikitext editor. You will find it in the editor toolbar.
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 10 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 12 January at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 January. It will be on all wikis from 12 January (calendar).

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Request for comments at FA for High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

Hello again. As we have previously collaborated on article nominations, I would like to ask if you are able to leave any comments here at my FA nomination for High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. Any small amount of comments would be appreciated, but I completely understand if you are too busy or uninterested. Thanks in advance. SatDis (talk) 06:32, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-03

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

Problems

• The URLs in "prev" links on page history now contain diff=prev&oldid=[revision ID] in place of diff=[revision ID]&oldid=[revision ID]. This is to fix a problem with links pointing to incorrect diffs when history was filtered by a tag. Some user scripts may break as a result of this change. [6]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 January. It will be on all wikis from 19 January (calendar).
• Some changes to the appearance of talk pages have only been available on Talk: and User talk: namespaces. These will be extended to other talk namespaces, such as Wikipedia talk:. They will continue to be unavailable in non-talk namespaces, including Wikipedia: pages (e.g., at the Village Pump). You can change your preferences (beta feature). [7]
• On Wikisources, when an image is zoomed or panned in the Page: namespace, the same zoom and pan settings will be remembered for all Page: namespace pages that are linked to a particular Index: namespace page. [8]
• The Vector 2022 skin will become the default for the English Wikipedia desktop users. The change will take place on January 18 at 15:00 UTC. Learn more.

Future changes

• The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey, which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts next week on 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC. You can start drafting your proposals in the CWS sandbox.

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Feedback request: All RFCs request for comment

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Shawntheshipper socks

The EKA (manufacturing company) is re-created it was pastly created by the socks that have been blocked. --- Misterrrrr (talk) 09:52, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

@Misterrrrr: Which master is this related to or what name was it under previously? I'm going in circles from this one to draft and Draft:EKA (Manufacturing company) (and EKA (Manufacturing company)) to this title but there are no blocked socks in any of the editing histories that I can see (including deleted revisions). TheSandDoctor ^Talk 15:59, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

I just found Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shawntheshipper and have endorsed the check. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 16:06, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks --- Misterrrrr (talk) 16:59, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, whether it's Christmas or some other festival, I hope you and those close to you have a happy, restful time! Have fun, Donner60 (talk) 00:16, 23 December 2022 (UTC)}}

Donner60 (talk) 23:25, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-04

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

Problems

• Last week, for ~15 minutes, all wikis were unreachable for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a timing issue. [9]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 January. It will be on all wikis from 26 January (calendar).
• If you have the Beta Feature for DiscussionTools enabled, the appearance of talk pages will add more information about discussion activity. [10][11]
• The 2023 edition of the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS), which invites contributors to make technical proposals and vote for tools and improvements, starts on Monday 23 January 2023 at 18:00 UTC.

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Need help

How can i be a Autopatrolled user, my last request was declined. --- Misterrrrr (talk) 18:08, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

@TheSandDoctor can you please reply. --- Misterrrrr (talk) 10:53, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

We are volunteers and aren't always around to answer questions immediately and appreciate some patience. You were just declined by @HJ Mitchell: on January 9th stating that you need more experience so I don't feel comfortable granting it at this time. @Usernamekiran: stated at the time that they believed you didn't have much experience with notability guidelines and reliably identifying reliable sources, which are admittedly tricky concepts to pick up on. I would start by reading the policies and looking at other examples (perhaps featured articles and good articles for quality examples) and try to mirror the structure. Going through the Articles for Creation process would also be helpful, as would asking for assistance with particular questions at the Teahouse.

If HJ Mitchell or usernamekiran have any other suggestions, please do drop them here. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 16:18, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

@Misterrrrr: Hello. Being auto-patrolled gives no additional technical abilities, or tools/features to the user. That means, if you become autopatrolled user, you will not even realise it. An autopatrolled user can create the same articles as of a normal user, there is no limit for any user on how many articles can be created per day. Only the editors who have shown clear understanding of notability criteria, have perfect article creations, and are generally trusted by the community get this perm. Regarding notability understanding, your two articles have been moved to draftspace, and almost all your articles are stubs about NPOL candidates, these are not at difficult to be reviewed/patrolled. Most of your articles are 2-3 lines cookie-cutter stubs: Dalip Thakur, Kedar Prasad Gupta, Rivaba Jadeja, Fazle Azim Molla. Regarding perfect creations: there are currently 59 of your articles in mainspace, you did not create talkpages for any of these articles (they were created by others) - you should create talkpages with relevant wikiproject banners on them. In all the articles that I sampled, there are no templates in articles like stub, default sort, or authority control. I checked history of Umesh Makwana here. The article you created lacked many things, which were later added by others. I am not saying you should do it one go/edit, you could do it in multiple hours/edits, those who do get auto-patrolled flag, others need to be patrolled. I also have some other concerns which I am not comfortable to share. —usernamekiran (talk) 17:00, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

courtesy link to auto-patrolled request where I had given a brief explanation: special:permalink/1133183923#User:Misterrrrr. —usernamekiran (talk) 17:08, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Ok, i understood everything now. I was asking for that right because, if i would get any other right than autoconfirmed and the automatic extended confirmed then i would thought that i got something in exchange of my time given to wikipedia. --- Misterrrrr (talk) 04:05, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

@Misterrrrr: Ah, I see. No, there are no other automatic user permissions. The rest need to be applied for in their respective sections at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions (with cause and demonstrated experience). User rights aren't trophies to be acquired, either. I would strongly recommend reading the last explainer I just linked and perhaps going through the pages that describe what each right is/does. cc @Usernamekiran and HJ Mitchell: TheSandDoctor ^Talk 15:07, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, I understood. --- Misterrrrr (talk) 16:09, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Shawntheshipper socks, again

Hello, Please look into it again Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Shawntheshipper ‎. --- Misterrrrr (talk) 17:48, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-05

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

Problems

• Last week, for ~15 minutes, some users were unable to log in or edit pages. This was caused by a problem with session storage. [12]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

• Wikis that use localized numbering schemes for references need to add new CSS. This will help to show citation numbers the same way in all reading and editing modes. If your wiki would prefer to do it yourselves, please see the details and example CSS to copy from, and also add your wiki to the list. Otherwise, the developers will directly help out starting the week of February 5.

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