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Guild of Copy Editors December 2023 Newsletter
Guild of Copy Editors December 2023 Newsletter
  Hello, and welcome to the December 2023 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since September. Don't forget that you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Election news: The Guild needs coordinators! If you'd like to help out, you may nominate yourself or any suitable editor—with their permission—for the Election of Coordinators for the first half of 2024. Nominations will close at 23:59 on 15 December (UTC). Voting begins immediately after the close of nominations and closes at 23:59 on 31 December. All editors in good standing (not under current sanctions) are eligible, and self-nominations are welcome. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term that ends at 23:59 on 30 June. Drive: Of the 69 editors who signed up for the September Backlog Elimination Drive, 40 copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 661,214 words in 290 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here. Blitz: Of the 22 editors who signed up for the October Copy Editing Blitz, 13 copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 109,327 words in 52 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here. Drive: During the November Backlog Elimination Drive, 38 of the 58 editors who signed up copy-edited at least one article. Between them, they copy-edited 458,620 words in 234 articles. Barnstars awarded are listed here. Blitz: Our December Copy Editing Blitz will run from 10 to 16 December. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 20:33, 10 December 2023 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 344 requests since 1 January, and the backlog stands at 2,191 articles. Other news: Our Annual Report for 2023 is planned for release in the new year. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Zippybonzo. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2023)
Hello, TimothyBlue. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: East Sussex • Sports science Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 11 December 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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New pages patrol invitation
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Hello, TimothyBlue.
Thank you for your consideration. We hope to see you around! Thanks, Hey man im josh (talk) 15:00, 11 December 2023 (UTC) |
Tech News: 2023-50
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- There was a problem showing the Newcomer homepage feature with the "impact module" and their page-view graphs, for a few days in early December. This has now been fixed. [3][4]
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Precious anniversary
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Happy New Year! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:23, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Edit warring
Hi! Can you help me with Primary Sources? What's wrong with them, and why should they be inferior to false secondary sources?
Respectfully yours, Aruturo Van Kaigan (talk) 18:52, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
- You need to seriously read the warnings left on your talk page. I think you are very close to being blocked. // Timothy :: talk 18:59, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2024)
 An antacid is a substance which neutralizes stomach acidity and is used to relieve heartburn, indigestion or an upset stomach.
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Fish slice • Carbon source (biology) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 8 January 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Why are you deleting Asianet article?? Do you know any basic history of Asianet channel???
do you know the history of Asianet??? Don't try to explain with bloody excuse by saying that there are no references, if you want to know what is Asianet channel Habibi come to what's app, I will tell you everything Manish Asianet (talk) 17:04, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-02
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Recent changes
- mediawiki2latex is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can install on your local machine.
The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing. [7]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar). [8][9]
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The Bugle: Issue 213, January 2024
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If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 18:32, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
Incidents early archive
Hello. It appears one of the Incidents discussions that you created was archived early without all of the incidents being addressed. Do you know if a discussion for this can be recreated and is this something you are interested in doing? Thanks, KhndzorUtogh (talk) 22:29, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
- I think admins are hoping this quiets down on its own, it appears new editors have joined the discussion and hopefully regardless of the content issue, normal order resumes. It is frustrating, this whole area is a bit like playing Whac-A-Mole. If the previous state of affairs returns, it can be recreated.
- It might be worth bringing up the early archive issue at WP:AN if the bot looks like it is not archiving correctly. // Timothy :: talk 22:52, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
- It happened again, in spite of a lot of disruption evidence. Is the bot usually supposed to archive as quickly as three days after the last comment? --KhndzorUtogh (talk) 23:54, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
The Arrows of Time
@TimothyBlue Good day! I hope you can give me some elaborations for your remarks on my draft for „The Arrows of Time“, because (as you can for example see on my talk page) I'm pretty confused about what is wrong with it. I hope you can help me resolve it further.
Why do you consider it a „personal reflection, personal essay“? With the number of references, how can it be personal? As another user has already explained me a bit: I wrote the „Background (mathematics and physics)“ section fully based on what the author himself wrote in the afterword of the novel and on his website (of which sections are referenced multiple times). I will not submit the draft with connections to real science left, that he has not explicitly stated or calculated. How is this original research? (I do know that the last quarter does not have references yet. I first intended to add them later as keeping something unsourced should be possible for an unpublished draft, but have now deleted it completely as the claim of original research was already brought up before. In the current state, I consider the draft ready for resubmission.)
I expect the main reason, somebody would go to this article is to read about the consequences of the sign change of the metric in physics explained as short as possible instead of going through the ~ 80,000 words (the length of a short novel) the author wrote about it on his website. But the „Background (mathematics and physics)“ section seems to be the main problem everybody has with the draft. Would you prefer to have it deleted completely? Or is the comment I've now added to mention the explanations in the afterword and to reference the entire website with an overview over every single section enough?
What must be done to get the draft published? Thank you for your help! Samuel Adrian Antz (talk) 11:38, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
- I took another look at the article, the previous draft notes appeared and it looks like your receiving two different opinions from two different article reviewers (it happens), but this isn't your issue so I have moved it back into article (main) space.
- Draft:The Arrows of Time#Background (mathematics and physics) is the part I feel is OR, but that appears to be what the previous reviewer was advising. The plot section strays into essay imo.
- I also think the article would benefit from a reviews sections. This would be very helpful and the reviews exist.
- I'm looking forward to reading the series. Greetings from Los Angeles, Timothy // Timothy :: talk 12:28, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you very much for you help! Since your comment, I've added more references I already had in mind, so that some claims now have at least two: One scientific source and one from the author's website. This should make it a lot easier to verify, that connections inbetween are not made up by me and hence there isn't original research. I've also deleted another section completely as it concerns explanations exclusively given inside the novel and its afterword and not the author's website, hence no reference for them is possible and I do understand it looks like original research.
- So you mean the plot summary is actually what reads like an essay? But what is different about it compared to other plot summaries on other pages about novels?
- Isn't the idea for review section you mentioned already what the reception section currently is?
- Unfortunately, the article got moved to draft space again (after the above changes) and I really don't know what do to any more. I've completely exhausted every possibility to improve and every source to add to the draft by now. What should I do?
- I wish you a lot of fun with the series! Both science and ideas are pretty amazing! Best regards, Samuel Adrian Antz (talk) 11:27, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- Update: I was explained the problems in the meantime, which is that the draft has to be shortened. (Of course, that's not something I would have come up with myself, because then I wouldn't have written it in the first place.) I have already done so and might also shift concepts from the "Background (mathematics and physics)" section into the "See also" section to further deal with the assumption of original research. Thank you! Best regards, Samuel Adrian Antz (talk) 16:48, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Please fix your mistake
Please fix your removal of the word "revert" from this discussion [10] IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 10:02, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
- I fixed it. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 17:21, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
Happened here as well [11] IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 05:16, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2024)
Hello, TimothyBlue. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Antacid • Fish slice Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 15 January 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2024-03
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Recent changes
- Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. [12]
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requiresES6option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future. [13] - Bot passwords and owner-only OAuth consumers can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages. [14]
- You can now thank edits made by bots. [15]
- An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024 has been published. Please read and give your feedback.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar). [16][17]
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jquery.cookiemodule was deprecated and replaced with themediawiki.cookiemodule last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed. [19]
Future changes
- Wikimedia Deutschland is working to make reusing references easier. They are looking for people who are interested in participating in individual video calls for user research in January and February.
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extended-confirmed-protected edit request on Zamorin
Hello there is a extended-confirmed-protected edit request on [20]] 207.96.13.213 (talk) 15:55, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
March 2024 GAN backlog drive
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Re: Kraków Uprising
Hi! What is the point of me specifically having to add sources for the Krakow Uprising, as the entire article does not have too many sources. Because where is the source of, for example: the Kościuszko Uprising, the January Uprising, the Gulf War, or even World War II. Because according to your criteria, that without a source, nothing can be added to the list, so 90% of the article should be removed because they don't have sourses. If we accept that a link to the article is enough, so this mean that Kraków Uprising should be readded. Why does the Krakow Uprising have to be sourced, but not WWII - where is the certainty that such a war existed, and Poland take part in? Szturnek (talk) 08:30, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- Entries with wikilinks to articles with references verifying reliable sources label the event a war and meets the article list criteria do not need sources in the article.
- You are correct on the point there are other entries that need proper sourcing; if proper sourcing cannot be found showing the entry meets the list criteria, the entries should be removed. // Timothy :: talk 09:15, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2024)
File:Bucaram foto.png Hello, TimothyBlue. The article for improvement of the week is:
Abdalá Bucaram
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Natural resource • Religious music Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 25 March 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2024-13
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- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar). [21][22]
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Why israel?
Just curious Natieboi (talk) 15:04, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
- Because Israel is fighting the same Russian sponsored terror coalition that Ukraine and the rest of the free world is fighting. // Timothy :: talk 00:03, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
Inexplicable
You have in this edit linked WP:ONUS to justify the *addition* of content to an article. Were you confused about whether you were removing text instead? 100.36.106.199 (talk) 12:41, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- A quick look at the article history shows the above is incorrect.[23],[24],[25] The article has been restored to the stable consensus version which existed before the dispute arose.
- Gain WP:CONSENSUS per WP:ONUS for any change. For additional information, read WP:BRD. Further questions about Wikipedia guidelines and policies can be answered at WP:TEAHOUSE. // Timothy :: talk 14:07, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- Have you read WP:ONUS? It refers to the onus for inclusion of disputed material exclusively, ergo it cannot possibly be used as an explanation for inclusion. After you have read it, I will happily accept your apology on this point, and then be willing to consider your (unrelated) suggestion that I am wrong about the history of the page. 100.36.106.199 (talk) 18:22, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- This is not a subject up for discussion. Per WP:ONUS, "the responsibility for achieving consensus for inclusion is on those seeking to include disputed content." Further questions can be answered at the WP:TEAHOUSE or if you're feeling particularly foolish you know your way to WP:ANI. // Timothy :: talk 19:24, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- Let me help you: "the responsibility for achieving consensus for inclusion is on those seeking to include disputed content." The policy section ONUS is explicitly asymmetric: it puts an onus on those who want to include content only, not on those who want to remove it. As I was not seeking to include disputed content, it cannot possibly be a valid explanation for reverting my edit. Be a decent human being and apologize for your (now thrice repeated) error. 100.36.106.199 (talk) 00:40, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
- Astonishing. Too bad WP:Don't be a dick isn’t a thing any more. 100.36.106.199 (talk) 12:01, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
- Yea, too bad. // Timothy :: talk 00:25, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
- Astonishing. Too bad WP:Don't be a dick isn’t a thing any more. 100.36.106.199 (talk) 12:01, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
- Let me help you: "the responsibility for achieving consensus for inclusion is on those seeking to include disputed content." The policy section ONUS is explicitly asymmetric: it puts an onus on those who want to include content only, not on those who want to remove it. As I was not seeking to include disputed content, it cannot possibly be a valid explanation for reverting my edit. Be a decent human being and apologize for your (now thrice repeated) error. 100.36.106.199 (talk) 00:40, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
- This is not a subject up for discussion. Per WP:ONUS, "the responsibility for achieving consensus for inclusion is on those seeking to include disputed content." Further questions can be answered at the WP:TEAHOUSE or if you're feeling particularly foolish you know your way to WP:ANI. // Timothy :: talk 19:24, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- Have you read WP:ONUS? It refers to the onus for inclusion of disputed material exclusively, ergo it cannot possibly be used as an explanation for inclusion. After you have read it, I will happily accept your apology on this point, and then be willing to consider your (unrelated) suggestion that I am wrong about the history of the page. 100.36.106.199 (talk) 18:22, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
The lack of sources for editing the Khatyn Massacre
I am the source, since I am about 90 years old and I lived in those areas at that time. Wikipedia says that anyone can edit - but apparently not the witnesses. You apparently expect the German and Soviet bandits to doccument their genocidal actions and preserve those documents in the public libraries. The only published fact of that kind was Hitler's order to his generals several days before the planned attack, beginning WW2: "Be cruel! Be more cruel than your neighbour in action! I will shoot everyone who utters a word against this order." In the USSR the secrecy was general and overwhelming, so issuing such orders was not needed; the results were obtained by killing those officers who failed to guess properly. You probably want documents for this as well; don't you? When the Russia's President Yeltzin allowed publis access to the Russian documents of the Katyn (not Khatyn) Massacre, the British Government asked him to stop that since some of the facts could be unpleasant for the UK; Nr. Yeltzin complied. Please read books by Wiktor Suvorov , "Aquarium" in the first olace. 142.129.131.22 (talk) 03:45, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
- For information on sourcing guidelines, see WP:IS, WP:RS, WP:CITE. For verification policy, see WP:V, and WP:BURDEN and WP:CONSENSUS for guidelines on editing content. // Timothy :: talk 04:27, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2024)
 Gabin in The Little Rebels (1955)
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Abdalá Bucaram • Natural resource Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 1 April 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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- An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.
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- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)
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- An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
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- Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [26]
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- 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). [27][28]
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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
Hello TimothyBlue,
Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.
Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.
Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.
It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!
2023 Awards
Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!
WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.
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Fatih Yıldız
Thanks for your participation late in this debate. Unfortunately there wasn't enough input in total to close as anything other than 'no consensus' given the way the debate had gone. Just a heads-up in case you want to consider an immediate re-nomination based on your rationale, I explicitly noted in my close that it was with NPASR. Cheers, Daniel (talk) 05:14, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
What are outlines good for?
Timothy,
There seems to be ignorance and confusion at AfDs, and in general discussions, as to the purposes of outlines. Like, what they are for, how they are used, and so on. I'm trying to update the outline guideline and WikiProject page to address these problems and issues, and I'm reaching out to you to learn about your perceptions and attitudes toward outlines.
So, with that in mind, and out of curiosity...
Why did you create the Outline of the Israel–Hamas war?
- How do you think it will improve Wikipedia?
- How do you imagine Wikipedia users will make use of it?
How do you use outlines?
Why not just use categories instead?
If an editor said to you that readers can navigate just fine from the main article on a subject and that outlines are just redundant, what would your answer be?
What are the biggest problems that outines have?
What else do you think about outlines?
I look forward to your responses.
Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 06:59, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
- Great questions, I want to think on them for a bit to give a better reply, and I may answer the questions in parts, to help give better feedback.
- I was thinking about you recently, I have a simple Python script that gathers items in a cat name you have copied into your clipboard and formats them eg: *Name of article/n and outputs to the clipboard to easily paste into an article. I use Visual Studio Code to create articles, so this works well for me. I was going to add it to a git repo, if you would find this helpful I can send you the link. I have a few others, but they have to be customized for the job at hand atm. Fair warning, they work well, but I am definitely a hack not a pro :)
- Hope you are well, greetings from Los Angeles. // Timothy :: talk 08:35, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
- That reminds me, another question is: Why do we need outlines when we have search? — The Transhumanist 23:52, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
Your edit summary makes no sense
[29] editor was removing content, not adding it. The content is partly supported by the body though. (t · c) buidhe 23:14, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
War of Ceraja and Slatina
Whats the problem? Some call it a war some call it a battle, and actual document calls it a war instead of some news Prizrenali.berisha (talk) 09:11, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2024)
 A crewed submersible used for underwater exploration
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Pool (cue sports) • Antarctic Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 29 April 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Outline draft tracker
Hey,
Here's a page I created for tracking outline drafts, that shows the date of the latest edit for each.
Drafts that haven't been edited in 6 months get deleted from draft space. This list lets us see if any drafts are getting close to the 6-month danger date. Once an edit is made to an outline draft, the date for it in this list automatically updates.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines/Draft tracker.
I hope you find it useful.
Cheers, — The Transhumanist 08:09, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-18
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
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- The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks. [30]
- Seven new wikis have been created:
- You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. [38]
- Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis. See more detailed guidelines.
Problems
- Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using
mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [39]
Changes later this week
- 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). [40][41]
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).
Guideline and policy news
- Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.
Technical news
- Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.
Miscellaneous
- This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!
Reminder to vote now to select members of the first U4C
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List of articles in Dapoli
Hello! You said that you removed unsourced material on this article, but I created it and definitely linked two reliable Indian government sources. What's the problem? PolarClimates (talk) 16:16, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2024)
 Papyriform columns in the Luxor Temple
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Exploration • Pool (cue sports) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 6 May 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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WikiProject Tree of Life Newsletter Issue 27
- March and April 2024—Issue 027
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Tech News: 2024-19
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 appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. [42][43]
- Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the
SiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page. [44] - Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services. [45]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar). [46][47]
- When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". [48]
Future changes
- A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update regarding this extension.
- Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally. [49]
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The Bugle: Issue 217, May 2024
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The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 20:19, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
Arbitration Committee case request participation invite
You are involved in a recently filed request for arbitration. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Persistent WP:IDONTLIKEIT behavior in WP:NCROY discussions and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. As threaded discussion is not permitted on most arbitration pages, please ensure that you make all comments in your own section only. Additionally, the guide to arbitration and the Arbitration Committee's procedures may be of use.
Thanks, AndrewPeterT (talk) (contribs) 02:31, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2024)
Hello, TimothyBlue. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Ancient Egyptian architecture • Exploration Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 13 May 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Speedy deletion
Hello, can you please revert the speedy deletion of Soviet and Russian aerial bombs, I have explained why it should not be deleted in the talk page. I ask you to look at this case soon, as in 3 days i will be away and wont be able to mount a defence. Thank you. F.Alexsandr (talk) 23:01, 13 May 2024 (UTC)