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Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup!
Hello and Happy New Year!
Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup, the competition begins today. If you have already joined, your submission page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and we will set up your submissions page. One important rule to remember is that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2019, and which you have nominated this year, is eligible for points in the competition, the judges will be checking! Any questions should be directed to one of the judges, or left on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will make it to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:14, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
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Thank you for your project help last year! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:46, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).
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Guideline and policy news
- There are a number of new or changed speedy deletion criteria, each previously part of WP:CSD#G6:
- G14 (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-disambig}}; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages.
- R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no file links) that have the same name as a file or redirect at Commons are now covered under the new R4 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-redircom}}; the text is unchanged.
- G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use {{db-blankdraft}}.
- The Wikimedia Foundation now requires all interface administrators to enable two-factor authentication.
- Members of the Bot Approvals Group (BAG) are now subject to an activity requirement. After two years without any bot-related activity (e.g. operating a bot, posting on a bot-related talk page), BAG members will be retired from BAG following a one-week notice.
Technical news
- Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors, et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length. All accounts must have a password:
- At least 8 characters in length
- Not in the 100,000 most popular passwords (defined by the Password Blacklist library)
- Different from their username
- User accounts not meeting these requirements will be prompted to update their password accordingly. More information is available on MediaWiki.org.
- Blocked administrators may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
- {{Copyvio-revdel}} now has a link to open the history with the RevDel checkboxes already filled in.
Arbitration
- Following the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: AGK, Courcelles, GorillaWarfare, Joe Roe, Mkdw, SilkTork.
Miscellaneous
- Accounts continue to be compromised on a regular basis. Evidence shows this is entirely due to the accounts having the same password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately.
- Around 22% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 20% in June 2018. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless of whether you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
Request for NPR tutelage
Greetings,
I have recently found myself wanting to experience reviewing new pages, however, I feel that an instructor would be the best way to start engaging myself in the process of NPR. I have met the requirements for the school, and request that you can become my instructor, seeing that our time zones are very similar and you seem very knowledgeable about the subject. If you have any comments, concerns, or objections to my request, I would be happy to address those in hopes that you could be my instructor.
Best regards, Redactyll Letsa taco 'bou it, son! 18:34, 31 December 2018 (UTC) at 18:34, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
- @Redactyll: Sure thing! -- Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 05:35, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
Eleven GA reviews needs completing
Iazyges, good to see you back editing.
This is just a friendly reminder that you have eleven GA reviews still open from last July and August. Please give these what priority you can, and please do not open any new GA reviews until these have all been taken care of. Thank you very much, and Happy New Year! BlueMoonset (talk) 18:45, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
- @BlueMoonset: Many thanks for the reminder, I'll get on them ASAP. -- Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 18:45, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
2018 Year in Review
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The Epic Barnstar | |
| For your work on Volusianus and Hostilian you are hereby awarded The Epic Barnstar. Congrats! TomStar81 (Talk) 19:32, 4 January 2019 (UTC) |
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The Biography Barnstar | |
| or your work on Volusianus and Hostilian you are hereby awarded The Biography Barnstar. Congrats! TomStar81 (Talk) 19:32, 4 January 2019 (UTC) |
The Bugle: Issue CLIII, January 2019
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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) 23:58, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
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Thank you for improving articles! Did you know that Precious began 7 years ago? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:41, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
GAN reviews
Every so often I run through old reviews and check to see how progress is going. Some have been stalled for many months and I try to get them moving again. Unfortunately I have noticed your name appear as a reviewer more times than anyone elses at these stalled nominations. I brought some to your attention in May last year User talk:Iazyges/Archives/2018/May#Talk:Audi S and RS models/GA1. I am not sure what is going on, but it seems unfair to the nominator and the general GA community to take these on and then not complete them. It is supposed to be a lightweight process so if there is no action or response for a while then it might be best to fail them. If you run out of time it is probably not a good idea to take on many reviews at once. Currently we have Talk:Reign of Marcus Aurelius/GA1 that was started in July, over six months ago as your oldest, plus a whole lot in August. All up I count 11 started in July/August of last year, most with the same boilerplate intial review and not much else. Is there a reason for this? I am considering taking it to WT:GAN, but would like to here an explanation first. Is it something related to the wikicup? AIRcorn (talk) 21:19, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
- I removed them, which probably should've happened some time ago. If you're unable to do GA reviews, then don't take 10+ at once, and don't just leave them, let someone know so the writers aren't just sitting there waiting for you, it's not fair to them. Should a slew be nommed again I'm not waiting 4+ months before deleting them. Wizardman 22:24, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
- @Aircorn and Wizardman: Apologies for the erratic pattern; I've been very busy IRL, but you are correct, I should have notified others that I would not be able to complete them. I kept thinking I would be able to get around to it; the fault is very much mine. -- Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 20:50, 30 January 2019 (UTC)