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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.
Tech News
- There will be no Tech News issue next week. The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 2 September 2019.
Problems
Some abuse filters stopped working because of a code change. Only variables for the current action will work. Variables defined inside a branch may not work outside of that branch. You can read more to see how to fix the filters.- Only six accounts can be created from one IP address per day. Between 12 August and August 15 this was two accounts per day. This was because of a security issue. It is now six accounts per day again. [1]
Changes later this week
- Only a limited number of accounts can be created from one IP address. An IP address can be whitelisted so that it can create as many accounts as needed. This is useful at events where many new persons learn to edit. IP addresses that are whitelisted for this reason will also not show CAPTCHAs when you create accounts. This will happen on Wednesday. [2]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 August. It will be on all wikis from 22 August (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- There is an RFC about creating a new global user group with the right to edit abuse filters. This will be used to fix broken filters and make sure all filters will still work when software changes happen. You can read more and comment.
Special:Contributions/newbieswill no longer be working. This is because of performance reasons. It showed edits by new accounts. You can see this in the recent changes feed instead. [3]
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15:20, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
Adani Group - added information 'too promotional'
Hi,
The additions made by me on this page under the 'listed companies' section were removed by you stating them as 'too promotional'. However, the content I added briefly explained two subsidiaries of the group. Just like the other subsidiaries listed under that section, my additions only stated facts and were to the point. They respect the Wikipedia guidelines and maintain a Neutral Point of View. Also, the content is cited from credible sources. Can you please explain why and how the additions were removed? Trendyforever (talk) 09:53, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi @Edwardx:
You removed the additions made to the page again. The information I added strictly follow facts and do not sound like an advertisement at all. Further, the citations were credible as well. I fail to understand how the information added was promotional. Can you please point out the excerpts that sound promotional and need tweaking? Otherwise, please allow me to add the information. Thank You! Trendyforever (talk) 06:40, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
September 2019 at Women in Red
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--Rosiestep (talk) 16:23, 27 August 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging
The Signpost: 30 August 2019
- News and notes: Documenting Wikimania and our beginnings
- In focus: Ryan Merkley joins WMF as Chief of Staff
- Discussion report: Meta proposals on partial bans and IP users
- Traffic report: Once upon a time in Greenland with Boris and cornflakes
- News from the WMF: Meet Emna Mizouni, the newly minted 2019 Wikimedian of the Year
- Recent research: Special issue on gender gap and gender bias research
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
Hi. I'm struggling to find a good version of the above article to restore to. Would you mind taking a look? --kingboyk (talk) 16:11, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
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
- You can use the new termbox interface if you edit Wikidata on a mobile device. This is to edit labels, descriptions and aliases easier on the mobile pages. [4]
- The new version of MediaWiki has been deployed during the last week.
- The previously announced change of positions of the "Wikidata item" link on all wikis has been rollbacked due to unexpected cache issues. [5]
- The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute. [6]
- The advanced version of the edit review pages (Recent Changes, Watchlist, and Related Changes) now include two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces. However the "All discussions" filter does not include pseudo talk pages, like discussions that are in the Project: or Wikipedia: namespaces. But it will include changes happening on Project talk: or the Wikipedia talk:. [7]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 September. It will be on all wikis from 5 September (calendar).
- When you log in, the software checks your password to see if it follows the Password policy. From this week, it will also complain if your password is one of the most common passwords in the world. If your password is not strong enough, please consider to change your password for a stronger password. [8]
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 September at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikidata for up to 30 minutes on September 10 at 05:00 (UTC). [9]
- You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 17 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [10]
- You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 24 at 05:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. [11]
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for up to 30 minutes on September 26 at 05:00 (UTC). [12]
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09:07, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
DYK for Eva Mudocci
On 10 September 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Eva Mudocci, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that English violinist Eva Mudocci (depiction shown) was a muse to Edvard Munch and Henri Matisse? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Eva Mudocci. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Eva Mudocci), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Maile (talk) 00:01, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: August 2019
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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019
Hello Edwardx,
- Backlog
Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.
- Coordinator
A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.
- This month's refresher course
Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.
- Deletion tags
Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.
- Paid editing
Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.
- Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion
- Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
- Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.
- Not English
- A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.
- Tools
Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.
Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.
Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.
DannyS712 bot III is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its patrol log.
Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:15, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
The article Wang Wenxue has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (biographies) requirement. If you disagree and deprod this, please explain how it meets them on the talk page here in the form of "This article meets criteria A and B because..." and ping me back through WP:ECHO or by leaving a note at User talk:Piotrus. Thank you.
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 14:14, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
Deletion of Starqt awards
Greetings, i have seen you have deleted the page Starqt Award. And as per your two comments places on the tag does not indicate how they fit in on the Article written . Would you be so kind and put the article on the draft instead of deleting and with no room for discussion. Also consider writers are taking their time to writer an article for the wikipedia and by that offer advise or direct them so they can properly do it right and not deleting an article with no proper direction as to what needed to be done or at least you would have said " The page will be deleted but it will be placed under draft so it can be re-edited in proper way" Kindly put the page to draft instead of deleting the entire work someone was working on for weeks. Thanks Ndizibanana (talk) 01:37, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you, Ndizibanana. If you would like to request that the deleted article, Starqt Awards, be restored as a draft, you will need to contact the deleting admin, User:Bbb23. Edwardx (talk) 10:09, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
October Events from Women in Red
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--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:35, 23 September 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Stewart Resnick
i think your fastidious adherence to describing that man as only a "businessman" has orwellian undertones to it. i am not trying to remove businessman but add another label that i have demonstrated through both sources and by definition is true. Wikipedia has a common sense policy too, remember. I'd really like to know why i am wrong if in fact i am. if we can get some third party input too that would be great! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:387:8:11:0:0:0:C0 (talk) 20:35, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you. I have added a heading to your comment, so that people will know that this is about Stewart Resnick. Otherwise, there would be little or no prospect of third party input. I would suggest that you read Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section before reinserting "farmer", "farm owner" or suchlike. Resnick owned a janitorial services company, and then the Franklin Mint, before he was involved in agricultural produce. And his expertise is in branding and marketing, not farming. Having "farmer", "farm owner" or suchlike in the lead is quite misleading. In any event, there is no mention of anything of the sort in the body of the article.
- Before you posted on my talkpage, your edit summary included "not trying to start an edit war". By adding "farm owner" to the lead, that is precisely what you are doing. I will be removing "farm owner" from the article lead, and will copy this thread to Talk:Stewart Resnick, where it would be better to continue, if you hope for some "third party input". Edwardx (talk) 23:02, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
"Rachel Matthews" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Rachel Matthews. Since you had some involvement with the Rachel Matthews redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Geraldo Perez (talk) 19:31, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 35, July – August 2019
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 35, July – August 2019
- Wikimania
- We're building something great, but..
- Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
- A Wikibrarian's story
- Bytes in brief
On behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:58, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
Re: article Rodney Mims Cook, Jr.
I deeply apologize for the issues from my edits to this article. Would you be willing to give me guidance as to how to correct the issues so this article can remain posted? I am a novice Wikipedia content creator, so am not familiar with all of the policies governing posts and edits, but am more than willing to learn.
12.163.219.138 (talk) 14:55, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you. As you will be aware, I have nominated this article for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rodney Mims Cook Jr.. This process will last for seven days, and anyone can contribute to the discussion. As you are apparently being paid for your time here (I am not), I suggest you read WP:COI, and then WP:GNG and WP:BIO. Then try to find in-depth coverage of the subject in reliable sources and suggest appropriate revisions at Talk:Rodney Mims Cook Jr. Edwardx (talk) 16:11, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 September 2019
- From the editors: Where do we go from here?
- Special report: Post-Framgate wrapup
- Traffic report: Varied and intriguing entries, less Luck, and some retreads
- News from the WMF: How the Wikimedia Foundation is making efforts to go green
- Recent research: Wikipedia's role in assessing credibility of news sources; using wikis against procrastination; OpenSym 2019 report
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- Last week's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The problem where some pages got it three times should now be fixed. [13]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 October. It will be on all wikis from 3 October (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working on a watchlist expiry feature. This means you can put things on your watchlist for a period of time instead of forever. They are looking for feedback on the questions they have.
- Special:Contributions will get the standard OOUI look. This makes it easier to use on mobile and makes it look like other
Special:pages. There is a script you can use to make the form smaller if you want to. [14]
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16:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
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 abuse filter function now has a faster parser. This is to shorten the waiting time when you save an edit. [15]
Problems
- There is a problem in the visual editor when you copy or delete text with footnotes. It will be fixed soon. [16]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 October. It will be on all wikis from 10 October (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 9 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Community Wishlist Survey has a new format. It will focus on wikis that typically get less support. It will probably go back to the normal format next year. It is not decided exactly how it will work this year. You can leave feedback.
- The URL of the Wikimedia wiki main pages could be changed. This is because the current URLs cause several problems. For example
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Pagewould behttps://www.wikidata.org/instead. You can tell the developers if this would cause problems for your wiki. - There is a new technical community newsletter. You can read more about the work of Wikimedia's technical community. Subscribe to get the information in the future.
- Outreachy is an internship program for groups who are underrepresented in free and open-source software. There are seven Wikimedia projects about coding, documentation and quality assurance in the next round. Persons who fit the criteria can apply. The last day to apply is 5 November.
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15:35, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi
Hello! Your submission of Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 00:13, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: September 2019
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Earl's Court Square has been nominated for Did You Know
Hello, Edwardx. Earl's Court Square, an article you either created or to which you significantly contributed,has been nominated to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page as part of Did you know
. You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. EnterpriseyBot (talk!) 12:01, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
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
- You can now use more advanced editing tools on the mobile web. You can turn them on and off in your preferences in the mobile version. [17]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 October. It will be on all wikis from 17 October (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are no longer supported. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They will not get security support. You can't read Wikimedia wikis in Internet Explorer on Windows XP or Windows versions that are older than Windows XP. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them made the wikis less secure for everyone else. [18]
- In the future section headings might have a share link. This is to make it easier to link to the section. You can read more and discuss.
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23:33, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
Chief Mike Adenuga
Hello, Edward.
I noticed that you undid my edit concerning the chief yesterday. I thought that perhaps this had something to do with the fact that I didn't include a reference. As such, I've taken the liberty of restoring it but including an appropriate link this time.
Yours sincerely,
O.
O.ominirabluejack (talk) 04:37, 15 October 2019 (UTC)O.ominirabluejack.
DYK for Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi
On 17 October 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that property developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, fiancé of Princess Beatrice of York, co-founded a charity in Rwanda that aims to use cricket to foster social change? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Gatoclass (talk) 00:01, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
Warwick Road, Earl's Court has been nominated for Did You Know
Hello, Edwardx. Warwick Road, Earl's Court, an article you either created or to which you significantly contributed,has been nominated to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page as part of Did you know. You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. EnterpriseyBot (talk!) 12:00, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
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 API sandbox and help pages now show more clearly when API modules are marked as
internal. API modules marked as internal were probably internal before. It was easier to miss. You should look for non-internal alternatives. [19]
Problems
- There is a translation tool we use on wikis with more than one language. For a few days it did not create pages for new languages when someone translated a page. The languages did not show in the language bar. This has been fixed. [20]
- The history and diffs can show wrong content. This is because of a cache problem. It will soon be fixed. [21]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 October. It will be on all wikis from 24 October (calendar).
- Reference Previews will be a beta feature on all Wikipedias and some Wikivoyages. It shows you a preview of the footnote when you hover over or click on the number. It has been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 23 October. See how to join.
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14:29, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
DYK for Earl's Court Square
On 24 October 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Earl's Court Square, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Earl's Court Square. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Earl's Court Square), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Gatoclass (talk) 01:05, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
Nomination of CogitalGroup for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article CogitalGroup is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CogitalGroup until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. DGG ( talk ) 05:28, 26 October 2019 (UTC)
The article Antin Infrastructure Partners has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Fails WP:NCORP/WP:GNG. Coverage limited to press-releases or their rewrites about routine 'company seeks funds/gets funds/etc.'
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:04, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
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
- You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
- Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist. [22][23]
- You can share feedback and ideas on the Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
- OOUI now allows using
px(pixels) instead ofem(em) for some specific cases. [24][25]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 October. It will be on all wikis from 31 October (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January. [26]
- Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named
wg*tomw.config. The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can know more about it and tell the developers if you want to try this out on your wiki first.
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16:13, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
November 2019 at Women in Red
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--Rosiestep (talk) 22:57, 29 October 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging
The Signpost: 31 October 2019
- In the media: How to use or abuse Wikipedia for fun or profit
- Special report: “Catch and Kill” on Wikipedia: Paid editing and the suppression of material on alleged sexual abuse
- Interview: Carl Miller on Wikipedia Wars
- Community view: Observations from the mainland
- Arbitration report: October actions
- Gallery: Wiki Loves Broadcast
- Recent research: Research at Wikimania 2019: More communication doesn't make editors more productive; Tor users doing good work; harmful content rare on English Wikipedia
- News from the WMF: Welcome to Wikipedia! Here's what we're doing to help you stick around
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
A beer for you!
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The history of prostate surgery thanks you. To the flow of things to come. Whispyhistory (talk) 16:02, 2 November 2019 (UTC) |
New Page Review newsletter November 2019
Hello Edwardx,
This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.
- Getting the queue to 0
There are now 816 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox.
Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.
- Coordinator
Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.
- This month's refresher course
Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.
- Tools
- It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
- It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
- Reviewer Feedback
Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.
- Second set of eyes
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16:47, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
Nomination for Deletions
Hi Edwardx,
First of all, I would like to say that I respect and commend your big list of contributions on Wikipedia.
I have been struggling for months to become a contributor because of the respect and admiration I gained for Wales at a program in Ethiopia were some people from Wikimedia encouraged us about telling our stories from Africa instead of letting others tell it. I was flabbergasted to say the least when I came home and saw wikimedia notifications about nominations for speedy deletions all over again, something I thought I was finally able to put behind me. It is hard enough to find content worthy of Wikipedia but is a completely different thing when it seems like one is being accused of bias or even worse some sort of poverty to create articles for money. I use my real name on Wikipedia and my personal biography can be researched. I came to understand in my first three articles that I was indeed biased and in the first case, couldn't find 'official references'. But for Grace Ihejiamaizu, one of whom I've been privileged to meet, it's kinda feels like bullying and to some level an insult, to not just nominate them for deletion but a speedy one. I have read guidelines, I have explored similar categories, I have put effort in understanding what should be on Wikipedia. So I would really love to know what I am missing because this is beginning to feel quite weird and disheartening to me. Thank you and look forward to your response. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Opatachibueze (talk • contribs) 21:20, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
Speedy deletion declined: Lorenzo Menakaya
Hello Edwardx. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Lorenzo Menakaya, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Winning a notable award indicates importance/significance (WP:CCSI#ALL, WP:CCSI#SINGER, WP:CCSI#BAND). Thank you. SoWhy 08:40, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
Speedy deletion declined: Victor Ngumah
Hello Edwardx. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Victor Ngumah, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Winning a notable award indicates importance/significance (WP:CCSI#ALL, WP:CCSI#SINGER, WP:CCSI#BAND). Thank you. SoWhy 08:41, 5 November 2019 (UTC)