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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
- A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that
[s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment
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Technical news
- Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)
Arbitration
- The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming
local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus
. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged tonote when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful
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Miscellaneous
- Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.
Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open
Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election have opened. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting will commence on 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:05, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-36
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
- EditInSequence, a feature that allows users to edit pages faster on Wikisource has been moved to a Beta Feature based on community feedback. To enable it, you can navigate to the beta features tab in Preferences. [1]
As part of the changes for the Generate Audio for IPA and Audio links that play on click wishlist proposals, the inline audio player mode of Phonos has been deployed to all projects. [2]- There is a new option for Administrators when they are changing the usergroups for a user, to add the user’s user page to their watchlist. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. [3]
- One new wiki has been created:
Problems
- The LoginNotify extension was not sending notifications since January. It has now been fixed, so going forward, you may see notifications for failed login attempts, and successful login attempts from a new device. [5]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar).- Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Eastern Mari Wikipedia, Maori Wikipedia, Minangkabau Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Mongolian Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Western Mari Wikipedia, Malay Wikipedia, Maltese Wikipedia, Mirandese Wikipedia, Erzya Wikipedia, Mazanderani Wikipedia, Nāhuatl Wikipedia, Neapolitan Wikipedia, Low German Wikipedia, Low Saxon Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Newari Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Novial Wikipedia, N'Ko Wikipedia, Nouormand Wikipedia, Northern Sotho Wikipedia, Navajo Wikipedia, Nyanja Wikipedia, Occitan Wikipedia, Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia, Oromo Wikipedia, Oriya Wikipedia, Ossetic Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Pangasinan Wikipedia, Pampanga Wikipedia, Papiamento Wikipedia, Picard Wikipedia, Pennsylvania German Wikipedia, Palatine German Wikipedia, Norfuk / Pitkern Wikipedia, Piedmontese Wikipedia, Western Punjabi Wikipedia, Pontic Wikipedia, Pashto Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [6][7]
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Question from Toypanda (06:51, 8 September 2023)
Hello I'm really confused now regards citations and references.
I've listed the books the bands been in and newspapers magazines they've been in.
Is it you need the date of books and newspaper articles date published.
I've worked really hard on researching the band and frustrated I can't get any further
Please Please Help --Toypanda (talk) 06:51, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
Question from Toypanda (11:34, 8 September 2023)
Hi Sand Doctor how do I add reference links to the main body of the story please.... --Toypanda (talk) 11:34, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
Question from Toypanda (11:35, 8 September 2023)
Are these okay as references please
This is our Generation Calling, Publisher 'Days like Tomorrow Books'...Published 24th September 2010
Our Generation ,Publisher ' Upfront Publishing , May 5th 2009
The Charade, Publisher ACM Retro,7th November 2012 --Toypanda (talk) 11:35, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
Question from Toypanda (11:36, 8 September 2023)
Hi Sand Doctor are these okay to add....
UK Cabaret https://www.ukcabaret.com/ivor-on-the-unglamorous-side-of-entertaining/
Author Editor Mark Richie, published September 4th 2014
Rotherham Advertiser https://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/leisure/view,clubland-veteran-ivor-hillman-on-daytime-tv-gigs-social-media-abuse-and-why_34651.htm Article by Michael Upton Dec 30th 2019
Mixcloud radio interview https://m.mixcloud.com/officialtmcrfm/ivor-hillman-my-pierrot-dolls-interview/ Radio presenter Peter Lee, January 21st 2016
Cargo Studios https://www.cargostudios.co.uk/news/ December 8th 2020
Rhythm Town Council DANCING queens and disco divas can strut their ... - Rhyl Town Council https://rhyltowncouncil.org.uk/downloads/020718-retro-rhyl.pdf
The Toy My Pierrot Dolls Amazon Music DANCING queens and disco divas can strut their ... - Rhyl Town Council https://rhyltowncouncil.org.uk/downloads/020718-retro-rhyl.pdf
My Pierrot Dolls Rotherham Advertiser My Pierrot Dolls to play a reunion gig at the Chantry Brewery Tap in Parkgate https://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/leisure/view,my-pierrot-dolls-to-play-a-reunion-gig-at-the-chantry-brewery-tap-in-parkga_44365.htm
Author Michael Upton February 3rd 2023
NTS Radio My Pierrot Dolls | Discover music on NTS https://www.nts.live/artists/46936-my-pierrot-dolls
My Pierrot Dolls Spotify My Pierrot Dolls Radio - playlist by Spotify https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E4yyPJGFBBMyi
Deadpan Records MY PIERROT DOLLS - Dead Wax Records https://deadwaxrecords.es/portfolio/my-pierrot-dolls/ --Toypanda (talk) 11:36, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-37
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
- ORES, the revision evaluation service, is now using a new open-source infrastructure on all wikis except for English Wikipedia and Wikidata. These two will follow this week. If you notice any unusual results from the Recent Changes filters that are related to ORES (for example, "Contribution quality predictions" and "User intent predictions"), please report them. [8]
- When you are logged in on one Wikimedia wiki and visit a different Wikimedia wiki, the system tries to log you in there automatically. This has been unreliable for a long time. You can now visit the login page to make the system try extra hard. If you feel that made logging in better or worse than it used to be, your feedback is appreciated. [9]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
The Technical Decision-Making Forum Retrospective team invites anyone involved in the technical field of Wikimedia projects to signup to and join one of their listening sessions on 13 September. Another date will be scheduled later. The goal is to improve the technical decision-making processes.- As part of the changes for the Better diff handling of paragraph splits wishlist proposal, the inline switch widget in diff pages is being rolled out this week to all wikis. The inline switch will allow viewers to toggle between a unified inline or two-column diff wikitext format. [10]
Future changes
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 20 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [11]
- The Enterprise API is launching a new feature called "breaking news". Currently in BETA, this attempts to identify likely "newsworthy" topics as they are currently being written about in any Wikipedia. Your help is requested to improve the accuracy of its detection model, especially on smaller language editions, by recommending templates or identifiable editing patterns. See more information at the documentation page on MediaWiki or the FAQ on Meta.
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Hello, TheSandDoctor,
After you restored a draft deleted via CSD G13, you need to make an edit to the page or it immediately because eligible for speedy deletion again. See User:SDZeroBot/G13 eligible. There is a script used by admins who frequent WP:REFUND that might be useful for you, it's at User:SD0001/RFUD-helper. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 00:37, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
- Hi @Liz:! I did? TheSandDoctor Talk 00:39, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
- Yep! But don't feel bad, it's a G13 restoration trick that admins don't know about until this thing happens. Very common. Liz Read! Talk! 05:15, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
New username categories
Hello, again, TheSandDoctor,
I see you created some new categories about usernames but they are showing up as categories to be deleted in Category:Candidates for uncontroversial speedy deletion. They are very full categories so they can't be deleted but they probably shouldn't be there any way and I can't see a tag on the pages that I can remove. Just as a head's up, when I've run into this kind of problem with templates or pages mysteriously showing up in CSD categories to be deleted (when they shouldn't be deleted), I've gone to Pppery for help and they seem to be able to find what is causing the problem. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 05:15, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
- @Liz: Thanks for the heads up. That is so weird that they are listed as they definitely weren't nominated and shouldn't have been listed based on the page source/categories having members. It'll be interesting to see what @Pppery: thinks. TheSandDoctor Talk 05:22, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
- Old (referring to the month the category refers to, not when it was created) {{Monthly clean-up category}}-es with no members are automatically tagged for speedy deletion. This is standard practice and not a problem. It appears what happened in this case is that the bot created the category before populating it (thus resulting in it being correctly tagged for speedy deletion), and then it took some time for the system to realize the category was now populated and remove it from the speedy deletion category. A WP:NULLEDIT would have worked to properly remove it from the category, although by the time I saw that ping the problem had fixed itself. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:51, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
- @Pppery: Ah, I didn't know that the categories would be automatically created if a page was inserted; I thought I had to have it do that itself. That said, the retroactive actions that required historical creations are all done and shouldn't re-occur. TheSandDoctor Talk 04:15, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
- Old (referring to the month the category refers to, not when it was created) {{Monthly clean-up category}}-es with no members are automatically tagged for speedy deletion. This is standard practice and not a problem. It appears what happened in this case is that the bot created the category before populating it (thus resulting in it being correctly tagged for speedy deletion), and then it took some time for the system to realize the category was now populated and remove it from the speedy deletion category. A WP:NULLEDIT would have worked to properly remove it from the category, although by the time I saw that ping the problem had fixed itself. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:51, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
Question from EmilyBozzo on User:EmilyBozzo/sandbox (01:30, 14 September 2023)
Hello, I am having difficulty with the formatting of my page. Can you please help? --EmilyBozzo (talk) 01:30, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
- @EmilyBozzo: I've done some basic formatting on it. For starters, I would recommend taking a look at {{Infobox person}} and replacing massive caption with that. Take inspiration from another article's infobox, such as Bill Gates or another person? TheSandDoctor Talk 04:30, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-38
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Recent changes
- MediaWiki now has a stable interface policy for frontend code that more clearly defines how we deprecate MediaWiki code and wiki-based code (e.g. gadgets and user scripts). Thank you to everyone who contributed to the content and discussions. [12][13]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar).
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [14]
- All wikis will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. [15]
Future changes
- The team investigating the Graph Extension posted a proposal for reenabling it and they need your input.
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Question from Thando30 on Demola Aladekomo (11:01, 21 September 2023)
Hey --Thando30 (talk) 11:01, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
- Hi @Thando30:! Do you have a question? TheSandDoctor Talk 17:31, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
Requesting a copy of a deleted article: 2023 Isabela Cessna 206 disappearance
Hi, TheSandDoctor! I am Abacusada, the main contributor to the 2023 Isabela Cessna 206 disappearance article, which was deleted in February 2023 per an AfD. It was about the Cessna 206 that disappeared (now found as of March 2023) around Isabela, Philippines. It was challenged due to notability issues (particularly because of WP:RUNOFTHEMILL, WP:LASTING, and WP:NOTNEWS), as the nominator argued.
Now that it has been months since the incident, I think there has been enough development to the incident to make it almost warrant an article. The aircraft has been found with no survivors in retrieval operations that took more than a month, investigations are taken into place, and two more similar aircraft crashed, all questioning the reliability of each aircraft's emergency locator transmitters. Above that, there are plenty of published reliable sources covering the incident since it disappeared until the present. I would like to humbly ask for a copy of the deleted article since I do not really want to start from scratch. I also chose to approach you since your name appeared on this list, and I have come across your name pretty often on Wikipedia. Your help is well appreciated. Thank you! – Abacusada (t • c) 15:00, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
- Hi @Abacusada:! I did you one better and restored the article as a draft at Draft:2023 Isabela Cessna 206 disappearance. Please do not move it back to the article namespace unless it has gone through WP:AFC. TheSandDoctor Talk 17:35, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
- This is noted. Thank you very much! – Abacusada (t • c) 17:46, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-39
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 Vector 2022 skin will now remember the pinned/unpinned status for the Table of Contents for all logged-out users. [16]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September (calendar).
- The ResourceLoader
mediawiki.uimodules are now deprecated as part of the move to Vue.js and Codex. There is a guide for migrating from MediaWiki UI to Codex for any tools that use it. More details are available in the task and your questions are welcome there. - Gadget definitions will have a new "namespaces" option. The option takes a list of namespace IDs. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages in the given namespaces.
Future changes
- New variables will be added to AbuseFilter:
global_account_groupsandglobal_account_editcount. They are available only when an account is being created. You can use them to prevent blocking automatic creation of accounts when users with many edits elsewhere visit your wiki for the first time. [17][18]
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on 27 October at 17:00 (UTC). See details and how to join.
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Backlog update: At the time of this message, there are 11,300 articles and 15,600 redirects awaiting review. This is the highest backlog in a long time. Please help out by doing additional reviews!
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Notability tip: Professors can meet WP:PROF #1 by having their academic papers be widely cited by their peers. When reviewing professor articles, it is a good idea to find their Google Scholar or Scopus profile and take a look at their h-index and number of citations. As a very rough rule of thumb, for most fields, articles on people with a h-index of twenty or more, a first-authored paper with more than a thousand citations, or multiple papers each with more than a hundred citations are likely to be kept at AfD.
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