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Administrators' newsletter – November 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November.
- An RfC is open to discuss having open requests for adminship automatically placed on hold after the seven-day period has elapsed, pending closure or other action by a bureaucrat.
Arbitration
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections.
- The arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion.
- The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has entered the proposed decision stage.
- AmandaNP, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections. Xaosflux and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
Miscellaneous
- The 2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers.
- You can add yourself to the centralised page listing time zones of administrators.
- Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like
{{rangeblock|create=yes}}or{{uw-ublock|contains profanity}}.
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Wikipedia files with unconfirmed permission received by VRT as of unknown date
A tag has been placed on Category:Wikipedia files with unconfirmed permission received by VRT as of unknown date indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 01:21, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-45
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
- An updated version of the Event Registration tool is now available for testing at testwiki and test2wiki. The tool provides features for event organizers and participants. Your feedback is welcome at our project talkpage. More information about the project is available. [1]
Problems
- Twice last week, for about 45 minutes, some files and thumbnails failed to load and uploads failed, mostly for logged-in users. The cause is being investigated and an incident report will be available soon.
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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Tech News: 2022-46
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
- At Wikidata, an interwiki link can now point to a redirect page if certain conditions are met. This new feature is called sitelinks to redirects. It is needed when one wiki uses one page to cover multiple concepts but another wiki uses more pages to cover the same concepts. Your feedback on the talkpage of the new proposed guideline is welcome. [2]
- The www.wikinews.org, www.wikiversity.org, and www.wikivoyage.org portal pages now use an automated update system. [3]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 November. It will be on all wikis from 17 November (calendar).- There will be a new link to directly "Edit template data" on Template pages. [4]
Future changes
Wikis where mobile DiscussionTools are enabled (these ones) will soon use full CSS styling to display any templates that are placed at the top of talk pages. To adapt these “talk page boxes” for narrow mobile devices you can use media queries, such as in this example. [5]- Starting in January 2023, Community Tech will be running the Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) every two years. This means that in 2024, there will be no new proposals or voting.
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Tech News: 2022-47
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 display of non-free media in the search bar and for article thumbnails in Special:Search has been deactivated. Further details are in T320661.
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 22 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 24 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:19, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
Removal of David Mayer page
Hi, could you explain to me better why you deleted the page I created yesterday? The disambiguation page should have been a page called David Mayer (disambiguation), which is what I actually moved the disamb to. The page called just 'David Mayer' should be for the guy called David Mayer, not for the disambiguation page, no matter how long it remained up. Perhaps you did not realise that I created a separate disambiguation page when changing the existing one to the page for a person? Jwslubbock (talk) 13:21, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
- (Writing on my phone) I don’t think I did this? I can’t delete pages (except during page moves perhaps). Are you sure you’re writing to the correct user? I’ll check on my computer when I get home… Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 13:42, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, you reverted the entire creation of the David Mayer article that I did yesterday. I specifically replaced the disambiguation page with the page I created for Mayer, then created a new disamb page for all David Mayers. Please see - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Mayer&action=history Jwslubbock (talk) 15:31, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
- Your reasoning was 'this has always been a disamb page', but that doesn't make sense to me. I created a specific disamb page called David Mayer (disambiguation), but I think my edits to the David Mayer page should be reinstated. Can you please comment on this and tell me what you think should happen? Jwslubbock (talk) 15:32, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
- No, that was Onel5969. My edit was in 2017 (5 years ago), Onel5969 only mentioned my username in their edit summary since they restored the page to that version from 5 years ago. Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 15:41, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
- Hi. Yes, that was me. There is no issue with you creating the page, and that wasn't exactly the message I iterated in my edit summary. What I said was, "Restore dab - this is not the primary topic - no issue with creating a page for this academic, but it must be a new page, rather than hijacking a long-standing dab." That is the proper procedure, then adding your new page to the existing dab.Onel5969 TT me 15:48, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
- I'm afraid I just don't understand what you put there. David Mayer should have a page called David Mayer. The dab page should be called David Mayer (disambiguation). Can you explain why I need to create a new page, and why the dab page should not be moved to a page called David Mayer (disambiguation)? Jwslubbock (talk) 16:20, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
- Can you explain to me what I should do please according to 'proper procedure'? Are you saying I should create a page called David Mayer (academic)? Because there is no David Mayer page currently, as that page redirects to the disambiguation page. I'd appreciate your advice on this so I can create the page and you don't delete it again. Thanks. Jwslubbock (talk) 00:11, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
- Since you've not explained to me why you've deleted this page, I'm just going to put it back. Jwslubbock (talk) 17:09, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
- Can you explain to me what I should do please according to 'proper procedure'? Are you saying I should create a page called David Mayer (academic)? Because there is no David Mayer page currently, as that page redirects to the disambiguation page. I'd appreciate your advice on this so I can create the page and you don't delete it again. Thanks. Jwslubbock (talk) 00:11, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
- I'm afraid I just don't understand what you put there. David Mayer should have a page called David Mayer. The dab page should be called David Mayer (disambiguation). Can you explain why I need to create a new page, and why the dab page should not be moved to a page called David Mayer (disambiguation)? Jwslubbock (talk) 16:20, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
- Hi. Yes, that was me. There is no issue with you creating the page, and that wasn't exactly the message I iterated in my edit summary. What I said was, "Restore dab - this is not the primary topic - no issue with creating a page for this academic, but it must be a new page, rather than hijacking a long-standing dab." That is the proper procedure, then adding your new page to the existing dab.Onel5969 TT me 15:48, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
- No, that was Onel5969. My edit was in 2017 (5 years ago), Onel5969 only mentioned my username in their edit summary since they restored the page to that version from 5 years ago. Jonatan Svensson Glad (talk) 15:41, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
- Your reasoning was 'this has always been a disamb page', but that doesn't make sense to me. I created a specific disamb page called David Mayer (disambiguation), but I think my edits to the David Mayer page should be reinstated. Can you please comment on this and tell me what you think should happen? Jwslubbock (talk) 15:32, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, you reverted the entire creation of the David Mayer article that I did yesterday. I specifically replaced the disambiguation page with the page I created for Mayer, then created a new disamb page for all David Mayers. Please see - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Mayer&action=history Jwslubbock (talk) 15:31, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Wikipedia files with unconfirmed permission received by VRT as of unknown date
A tag has been placed on Category:Wikipedia files with unconfirmed permission received by VRT as of unknown date indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 05:11, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
Precious anniversary
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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:07, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 November 2022
- News and notes: English Wikipedia editors: "We don't need no stinking banners"
- In the media: "The most beautiful story on the Internet"
- Disinformation report: Missed and Dissed
- Book review: Writing the Revolution
- Technology report: Galactic dreams, encyclopedic reality
- Essay: The Six Million FP Man
- Tips and tricks: (Wiki)break stuff
- Recent research: Study deems COVID-19 editors smart and cool, questions of clarity and utility for WMF's proposed "Knowledge Integrity Risk Observatory"
- Featured content: A great month for featured articles
- Obituary: A tribute to Michael Gäbler
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
- CommonsComix: Joker's trick
Tech News: 2022-48
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
- A new preference, “Enable limited width mode”, has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also available as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. It allows for increasing the width of the page for logged-out and logged-in users. [6]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It will be on all wikis from 1 December (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 29 November at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 1 December at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
- Mathematical formulas shown in SVG image format will no longer have PNG fall-backs for browsers that don't support them. This is part of work to modernise the generation system. Showing only PNG versions was the default option until in February 2018. [7][8][9]
- On some wikis that use flagged revisions, a new checkbox will be added to Special:Contributions that enables you to see only the pending changes by a user. [10]
Future changes
- How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change early next week at group1 wikis (but not Wikimedia Commons or Meta-Wiki). This change improves the accessibility of content, and makes it easier to write related CSS. You may need to update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to check, how to update the code, and where to report any related problems. [11]
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