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Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

removed Pppery

Interface administrator changes

removed Pppery

Oversighter changes

removed Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

removed

Guideline and policy news

  • Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
  • A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Tech News: 2024-36

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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.

Weekly highlight

  • Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help to test the charts.

Feature news

  • Editors who use the Special:UnusedTemplates page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements. [1]
  • Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
  • Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now. [2]
  • Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu.

Project updates

  • A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:03, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 4 September 2024

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DCWC September update

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The Developing Countries WikiContest has now been running for two months, and we've seen tremendous improvement in the encyclopedic coverage of several underrepresented areas from a wide range of editors! The coordinators would like to highlght some of the newer faces who have been making notable contributions in the contest, including but by no means limited to:

Only one month remains until the end of the contest, so it's time to make your remaining nominations! Please consider answering some review requests, particularly the older entries, as a way of helping out your fellow participants and moving up the leaderboard. Good luck!

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or ask one of the coordinators: Ixtal (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 22:00, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Blanked user page?

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I'm not sure why you blanked User:Ajay2287. The prior contents described the user and their interests as they related to Wikipedia editing. This is the very definition of what a user page should be used for. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 15:49, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@WikiDan61, You are right; the user seems to be a good-faith editor. I ended up blanking their userpage because most of its content felt more like self-promotion rather than neutral info about themselves. Although, the last two sections were fine. I've never used a blank template on other userpages before, but I did here because I was a bit unsure about just blanking the page completely. I wanted them to see the policy I mentioned in the edit summary and read the notice I left on their userpage so they could make the necessary changes. – DreamRimmer (talk) 16:09, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Developing replacement patterns

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Ways back in this discussion you said you might help if I could develop a list of files and replacement patterns. I don't have JWB access, which is the tool I'm aware of that would let me work on that. Do you know of another way? Perhaps an impotent version of JWB that would let me generate lists and preview changes but not actually do any edits? Or some script that would manage sets of regexes? Dicklyon (talk) 16:08, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am familiar with AWB/JWB, but I am not sure if there are any other tools that could help with this. – DreamRimmer (talk) 18:33, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Renames

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Hello, DreamRimmer,

When you are renaming editors, please leave a redirect from their old User pages to their new ones unless it is a Courtesy Vanishing. If you have doubts about this, please check with other renamers. But this is how it's always been done. Otherwise, we are left with a lot of broken redirects especially if the editor has more than one username change. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 18:13, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Liz, I always keep redirects when I rename users, but I make exceptions for cases like courtesy vanishing or when a rename is requested for privacy reasons. – DreamRimmer (talk) 18:25, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-37

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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.

Feature news

  • Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page. [4][5]
  • Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions entity:getSitelink() and mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [6]

Project updates

  • Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [7]
  • Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new MOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with MOS: (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language code mos). [8]

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:49, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator Elections: Updates & Schedule

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Administrator Elections | Updates & Schedule
  • Administrator elections are in the WMF Trust & Safety SecurePoll calendar and are all set to proceed.
  • We plan to use the following schedule:
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    • Oct 22 – Oct 24: Discussion phase
    • Oct 25 – Oct 31: SecurePoll voting phase
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:18, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AFC stats

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Can we move the AFC stats graph to a subpage to avoid having a bot notification every day? It's a minor enough change that it won't need any formal approval or anything. (please do not ping on reply) Primefac (talk) 10:29, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have moved the graph to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/stats page and transcluded it on WT:AFC. My apologies for not confirming the page name with you before creating it. – DreamRimmer (talk) 11:08, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No worries, I guess I just figured it would be updated somewhere and transcluded since that's what I've seen in other places. Thanks for the change. Primefac (talk) 11:48, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Backlog drive removal

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Hi, you just removed me from the NPP backlog drive participation list (and got reverted by Josh). May I ask if this was accidental or if you see any reason to do so? Regards ...GELongstreet (talk) 17:07, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@GELongstreet, my bad! I use a script that displays users' permissions next to their names, and it updates daily. When I removed you, it didn't show your permission badge, so I assumed you weren't an NPR. Sorry about that, I should have double-checked your permissions manually. – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:24, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Okay. No worries, all good, just wanted to be sure. Indeed got the permission just earlier today after requesting it (my previous stint with RC/NP editing was a decade ago). Thanks for clarifying. ...GELongstreet (talk) 17:35, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User renames

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Hello, DreamRimmer,

When you rename an editor, like User:Taskyn7, you need to move all of their user pages to the new username so the pages at the old username don't show up for speedy deletion as nonexistent user pages. I moved this editor's User page to Draft space but this is a necessary step you must take when doing any editor username rename. Please don't forget to do this in the future. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 20:48, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Liz, we renamers do not manually move user pages; this is done automatically by the rename script. There is an option called 'Move user pages' that is checked by default, and I never uncheck it when renaming a user. It may be an issue with the rename script. I process hundreds of requests per week and have never left user pages behind. – DreamRimmer (talk) 00:58, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Edits made to the page of Suresh Prabhu

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Hi DreamRimmer,

Thank you for your review of the edits I made yesterday - I am working on the issues that you pointed out and rewriting the same, especially wrt Wiki's BLP policy.

Post your edit, I have removed all matter that had no verifiable and reliable sources of information (several links were non-existent)/overly descriptive, "peacock" in nature. This page still needs a lot of work. something which I hope to help with as and when I find time.

In the meantime if you wish to discuss the changes I made this morning then do let me know :-)

Cheers

T4I Truth4India (talk) 01:50, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much for the AfD cleanup

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if I can ever be of help, don't hesitate to reach out unless it's tech related ;-) Star Mississippi 03:05, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, thanks for the kind words :) – DreamRimmer (talk) 03:31, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:BaranBOT/Task 1/Drives/2024-09 New Page Patrol/leaderboard

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Hi.DreamRimmer , I reviewed after completely renaming of my user account to new username this page and my old data are zero but I'm earned 90+ point during the time, but now it's is zero, what that means?If this a fault then I hope you fixing this probelm via bot as soon as possible. Happy editing! --- Bhairava7 • (@píng mє-tαlk mє) 12:35, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your points were updated in the last bot run. – DreamRimmer (talk) 12:48, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks a lot for update my points. Happy editing!--- Bhairava7 • (@píng mє-tαlk mє) 13:49, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-38

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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.

Improvements and Maintenance

  • Wishlist item Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.
  • The new automated Special:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. [9]
  • References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed. [10]
  • It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order. [11]
  • Advanced item Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
  • Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes mw-message-box need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer cdx-message group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. [12]

Technical project updates

  • Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible. [13]

Tech in depth

  • Advanced item The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
  • Advanced item To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
    • Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are more details and links available in the Phabricator task.
    • Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:59, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Packers All-Time Roster

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Thank you again for your help in pulling this together! I have copied everything over, if you need to take back your sandbox. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 14:32, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Gonzo fan2007: Glad to help! I went ahead and blanked the sandbox since your work is done. I don't use this sandbox much, so I am fine with keeping any data there. Feel free to restore or edit the page anytime if needed. – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:42, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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