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May 2022
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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Certainly not me - they speak much better Spanish than I do. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:57, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #518
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- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- PangolinBot. Task/s: Automatically replace one property value with another
- TolBot 14. Archives Wikidata:Requests for deletions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Wikidata Bug Triage Hour on May 5th at 16:00 UTC, online. Open discussion - you can bring a Phabricator ticket that you care about or that needs to be improved.
- Conclusion du Cultural Venues Datathon (in French), May 2, 16:00-16:30 UTC.
- Cultural Venues Datathon wrap-up, May 2, 19:00-19:30 UTC.
- Live editing session on Twitch about structured data on Wikimedia Commons, in French, by Vigneron, May 3 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours May 3, 2022
- May 3rd. Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: The call will include presentations on two projects using Wikidata to enhance discoverability of archival and museum collections. Sharon Garewal (JSTOR) will present “Adding Wikidata QIDs to JSTOR Images,” and Daniela Rovida and Jennifer Brcka (University of Notre Dame) will present “‘Archives At’: An opportunity to leverage MARC to create Linked Open Data.” [1]
- Wikidata Workshop: Wikidata items for dance and theatre productions, May 4, 19:30-21:00 UTC
- Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—May 4th, 2022
- Import of a Breton dictionary into Wikidata lexicographical data, on Twitch, in French, by Envlh, May 8 at 10:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #40, International Workers' Day
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report by WhoseKnowledge
- Videos
- Workshop "Wikidata, Zotero and Cita": tools to understand the construction of knowledge (in Spanish) - YouTube
- Georeferencing cultural heritage on Wikidata - YouTube
- Theory of Machine Learning on Open Data: The Wikidata Case by Goran S. Milovanovic - YouTube
- Introduction to SPARQL (Wikidata Query Service (in Czech) - YouTube
- Wikidata: A Knowledge Graph for the Earth Sciences - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- User:Nikki/LowercaseLabels.js - is a userscript that adds a button when editing labels to change the text to lowercase.
- EqualStreetNames - is a tool that maps the inequality of name attributions.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- OpenRefine is running its two-yearly user survey! Do you use OpenRefine? Then fill in the survey to tell us how and why you use OpenRefine. Results and outcomes will inform future decisions about the tool.
- The April update for the Wikidata Query Service scaling project is now available.
- Wikidata now contains all major integrated library systems listed at Library Technology Guides.
- Wikidata Lexeme Forms has a new template for Norwegian Bokmål passive verbs
- Job opening: PR Manager in Digital Technologies, software development department - Wikimedia Deutschland
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: franchisor, government debt-to-GDP ratio, ionic radius, Thai romanization, introduced in, image set, Bill Number
- External identifiers: Aldiwan poet ID, EIA plant ID, Uber Eats store ID, Aldiwan poem ID, Library of the Haskala person ID, Google Fonts ID, Personality Database work ID, OpenStreetMap object, GEMET ID, Enciclopedia Colchagüina ID, DBLP event ID, CNKI institute ID, Woolworths product ID, TEİS ID, FamousFix topic ID, Parcours de vies dans la Royale ID, Reflora ID, Hrono.ru article ID, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID, Historic Oregon Newspapers ID, DACS ID (2022), AccessScience ID, settlement area code in Sweden, North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ID, Galaxy Store app ID, Invasive.org species ID, EIA utility ID, Biografiskt Lexikon för Finland (urn.fi) ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: probability distribution related properties, Ladungszahl, Koordinationszahl, danse, Median household income, background of death, Number of housing units, number of reblogs, IBAN banking code, contraindication, incorporated
- External identifiers: PlantFiles taxon ID, Garden.org Plants Database ID, Woody Plants Database ID, Gun Violence Archive incident ID, WhoSampled television series ID, WhoSampled track ID, Encyclopedia of ideas, Personality Database person identifier, TheGuardian.com profile ID, TIME.com author ID, Investopedia term ID, GeoSciML, GeolISS, National Archives of Sweden persistent identifier, Linz DB ID, belfercenter person ID, Data Commons ID, sextpanther person ID, Tüik number, ERR project, MCCP ID
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- 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.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Feedback request: Wikipedia policies and guidelines request for comment
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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
- The developers are working on talk pages in the Wikipedia app for iOS. You can give feedback. You can take the survey in English, German, Hebrew or Chinese.
- Most wikis will receive an improved template dialog in VisualEditor and New Wikitext mode. [4] [5]
- If you use syntax highlighting while editing wikitext, you can soon activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme. [6]
Several CSS IDs related to MediaWiki interface messages will be removed. Technical editors should please review the list of IDs and links to their existing uses. These include
#mw-anon-edit-warning
,#mw-undelete-revision
and 3 others.
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Feedback request: Engineering and technology Good Article nomination
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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
- You can now see categories in the Wikipedia app for Android. [7]
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
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [10]
- Incompatibility issues with Kartographer and the FlaggedRevs extension will be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the extension on May 24.
- The Vector (2022) skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update about Vector (2022).
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).
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- Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
- Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.
- The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
- A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.
- Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.
Wikidata weekly summary #520
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- Events
- Upcoming:
- The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. Are you interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon? Book a slot in the Wikidata+Wikibase room: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 17, 2022: Anson Parker and Lucy Carr-Jones (University of Virigina Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) will be talking about their Open Data Dashboard for analyzing University of Virginia Health publications using EuropePMC publication data as well as work to group publications based on institutional departments in Wikidata and how much of their content is "open." Agenda
- LIVE Wikidata editing #80 - YouTube, Facebook, May 21 at 18:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #108, May 22 at 12.00 UTC
- 1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data Standards Conference TDWG 2022, including for a session on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #42, Constitution Day, Norway
- International Museum Day Wikidata Competition, 4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- How to create Wikidata item (in Assamese) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Wikidata Guesser allows you to guess the locations of random Wikidata items!
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.
- The Wikidata community onboarding documentation by Wiki Education.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: quantile function, mean of a probability distribution, median of a probability distribution, mode of a probability distribution, dance, variance of a probability distribution, skewness, excess kurtosis, information entropy, moment-generating function
- External identifiers: OBD Memorial ID, GeolISSTerm ID, TIME.com author ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Similar web ranking
- External identifiers: Italian Chamber of Deputies Government ID, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID, TamTam chat ID, PM20 ware ID, ANR project ID, HeHaCham HaYomi id, Delaware Department of State file number, JBIS horse ID, Camp Wild
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API: We continued implementing the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (phab:T305988, phab:T307087, phab:T307088)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
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!
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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:
- 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)
spiHelperCustomOpts = {
watchBlockedUser: false
}
- SubjectiveNotability a GN franchise (talk to the boss) 20:56, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022
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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 821 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 851 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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The Signpost: 29 May 2022
- From the team: A changing of the guard
- News and notes: 2022 Wikimedia Board elections
- Community view: Have your say in the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections
- In the media: Putin, Jimbo, Musk and more
- Special report: Three stories of Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
- Discussion report: Portals, April Fools, admin activity requirements and more
- WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19 revisited
- Technology report: A new video player for Wikimedia wikis
- Featured content: Featured content of April
- Interview: Wikipedia's pride
- Serendipity: Those thieving image farms
- Recent research: 35 million Twitter links analysed
- Tips and tricks: The reference desks of Wikipedia
- Traffic report: Strange highs and strange lows
- News from Diff: Winners of the Human rights and Environment special nomination by Wiki Loves Earth announced
- News from the WMF: The EU Digital Services Act: What’s the Deal with the Deal?
- From the archives: The Onion and Wikipedia
- Humour: A new crossword
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
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 multipleip_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]
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)