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May 2022

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is WP:ADMINCOND of Hammersoft. Thank you. This is a courtesy notice as I've mentioned you by name in the filing. Sideswipe9th (talk) 00:02, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Sideswipe9th, acknowledged. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:13, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Answer

The comments were closed while I was writing my reply, and I had an edit conflict. Let me ask you this: If Tazmin had made the exact same comments, but about a Biden voter instead, what would you think? BilCat (talk) 01:38, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

BilCat, what you're asking is an apples-to-oranges comparison. Tamzin's comments in Q14 are directed at a rather specific group: those people expressing avowed, continuing support for Donald Trump following the post-election misinformation generally and the events of January 6, 2021 in particular. Not just those who voted for Trump. You can't say "well, what if she said that about Biden," because, well, Biden didn't egg his followers on until they stormed the U.S. Capitol building. (Also, your question seems to presuppose I'm a Biden supporter...at the very least, I'm not engaged in anything resembling "avowed and continuing" support for him either!). GeneralNotability (talk) 02:07, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
Or, to put it differently: if Tamzin had merely said "I think Trump voters should be desysopped", and we were living in an alternate universe where Trump said "oh well, I lost, good game" a few days after the election, then I wouldn't be supporting her. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:10, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
You mean like Hillary and the Democrats did when Trump won the first time? LOL! The point is, who a person supports politically should have no bearing on their suitability to be an admin. Period. And from what I've seen lately, there are many people who would oppose supporting any admin who simply voted for Trump. I've seen admins openly say that. Scary. BilCat (talk) 03:16, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
BilCat, I'm not particularly interested in getting into extended political arguments here. Much to my displeasure, the past couple days have had me express more political opinions on-wiki than I think I ever have. I really don't have anything else to add on the matter other than acknowledging your stance. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:56, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
Honestly, I agree with you on that, and as a rule, I don't express my political opinions on Wikipedia. I just wish that was everyone's rule too. That's why I thinks Tamzim's comments were inappropriate, and I stand by that. You don't have to respond, and I won't add anymore here anyway. BilCat (talk) 17:34, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Possible impersonator

Hello! I assume this user has nothing to do with you? –FlyingAce✈hello 16:22, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

I don't speak Spanish, but I think I can figure out 'Esta cuenta está bloqueada globalmente'. Looks like they've already been dealt with. Girth Summit (blether) 16:51, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
Certainly not me - they speak much better Spanish than I do. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:57, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
Yup, it turned out to be a sock of GeneralNotability2 (who is also globally locked as a sock). –FlyingAce✈hello 17:58, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #518

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • The new "mul" term language code is now available on Test Wikidata
    • Lexicographical data: We are finishing up the information box that should help new users understand quickly what lexicographical data is. We also added the help text to encourage people to check if the Lexeme already exists before creating one.
    • REST API: We started working on the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item.

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Tech News: 2022-18

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

  • On all remaining wikis (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [2][3]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 May. It will be on all wikis from 5 May (calendar).

Future changes

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19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

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The Admin's Barnstar
Thank you for being an excellent admin, especially helping with vandalism and sockpuppetry. It is much appreciated. Prahlad balaji (talk) 01:48, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-19

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

Problems

  • Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed. [8]
  • Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change. [9]

Changes later this week

Future meetings

  • The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.

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15:21, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022

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

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

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Wikidata weekly summary #520

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
  • Development

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Tech News: 2022-20

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

  • Some wikis can soon use the add a link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are Catalan Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [11]
  • The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 May. It will be on all wikis from 19 May (calendar).

Future changes

  • You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons. [12]

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18:56, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing GeneralNotability a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! interstatefive  (talk) - just another roadgeek 00:09, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

spihelper script

Hi, I was wondering if the script could be "enhanced" to allow the editor using it to control what happens to their watchlist. When I block editors with the script, it adds the blocked account to my watchlist. Sometimes that's okay, but other times it's not. For example, at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rowingasia, I blocked I think over 60 accounts, and there was no reason to have them on my watchlist, so I had to remove them one by one, which was tedious and time-consuming. Is it possible to do something? Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:11, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Bbb23, see User:GeneralNotability/spihelper#Config_file - the config option you're looking for is watchBlockedUser. SubjectiveNotability a GN franchise (talk to the boss) 20:49, 20 May 2022 (UTC) SubjectiveNotability a GN franchise (talk to the boss) 20:49, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
Thanks, I'll see what I can do, but I'm lame when it comes to editing scripts.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:53, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
Bbb23, Go to Special:MyPage/spihelper-options.js and slap the following in there:
spiHelperCustomOpts = {
	watchBlockedUser: false
}
SubjectiveNotability a GN franchise (talk to the boss) 20:56, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022

New Page Review queue March 2022

Hello GeneralNotability/Archives/2022,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 818 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 859 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do 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: 2022-21

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

  • Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. [13]
  • The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [14]

Problems

  • The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [15]
  • Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation. [16]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).

Future changes

  • Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers. [17]

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00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

1067

LTA 1067 filter has been hit at User:ARYA7676. Since you know what that filter's about and I don't, can you have a look at it? JBW (talk) 11:20, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) It's a cross-wiki LTA account. --Minorax«¦talk¦» 10:27, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXCIII, May 2022

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Tech News: 2022-22

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

  • Advanced item In the AbuseFilter extension, an ip_in_ranges() function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple ip_in_range() expressions joined by | into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [18]
  • The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 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 31 May at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
  • The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [19][20]
  • Advanced item The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the uciprange parameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit. [21]
  • A new parser function will be introduced: {{=}}. It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates. [22]

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20:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

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