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Tech News: 2023-18

MediaWiki message delivery 01:43, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #570

Administrators' newsletter – May 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

Guideline and policy news

  • A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


May the Fourth be with you

Happy Star Wars Day GNotability! -- Grapefanatic (talk) 13:20, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 205, May 2023

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The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
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) 11:35, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Volunteer information on the Holocaust in Poland case

I am putting this on your talk page as someone higher up involved in this case and because I am not versed in Wikipedia protocols at all.

Disclaimer: I am not involved in this dispute. I am a lowly editor mainly for vegetables, translations, and a WikiGnome. I am of Eastern European descent (Romanian) with an average (for EU) history knowledge and with two grandfathers that fought in WWII on different fronts, and they never shut up about the war stories. Aim: I am here, unfortunately, to add more pressure on you, the arbitrators, by telling you, with evidence, that the attempt to reduce the involvement of Poles in the Holocaust is much more serious, dangerous, and systematic than the Wikipedia TA. But because Wikipedia is, by and large, where most young people go for information when their own government suppresses it, Wikipedia has a far larger role and, consequently, it makes your job in this case much more difficult as it carries, unfortunately, a much more responsibility than the banning of certain editors or admins.

Bear in mind that your decision in this case will both set a precedent for Wikipedia policy and have far-reaching consequences on the scale of influencing at least a whole generation of youths for whom en-Wikipedia may very well be their only neutral POV source. I am not so arrogant as to not realize that at least some of you are aware of the gravity of these implications. I am just stressing the point. I do not envy your job. I wish you my most sincerest good luck, as you (we) all are going to need it. ♦ WikiUser70176 ♦(My talk page) 14:23, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

How can this blocked user make edits?

Should be technically impossible, shouldn't it? Just wondering. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 22:16, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Or is it just a page-specific block? Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 22:17, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
@Nederlandse Leeuw, it's a page-specific block, they are only blocked from editing London Action Resource Centre. GeneralNotability (talk) 22:19, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
Alright, I hadn't seen that before. I also didn't see it might only be page-specific until just after I posted here. Thanks for clarifying. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 22:20, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 8 May 2023

Wikidata weekly summary #571

Tech News: 2023-19

MediaWiki message delivery 00:34, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #572

Tech News: 2023-20

MediaWiki message delivery 21:43, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue 205, May 2023

Full front page of The Bugle
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The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
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) 08:05, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 May 2023

Wikidata weekly summary #573

Tech News: 2023-21

16:53, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

About my TCG SPI

Considering your (and others') words over at the TCG SPI, what would you say if I voluntarily bind myself to refrain from adding new entries to the TCG SPI for one week, just to see how it goes? NotReallySoroka (talk) 03:25, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

I think you should voluntarily not edit it period. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:56, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #578

Tech News: 2023-22

MediaWiki message delivery 21:59, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Not sure if I fit the description of making a blatantly obvious and useless observation on the merits of the case? Maybe I should've told her on her talk page that she is misbehaving and that she should withdraw the request? The request itself seemed like the place to get her attention (if possible). —DIYeditor (talk) 17:28, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Stating the obvious-- not

Thanks. That has long needed saying. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 17:42, 30 May 2023 (UTC)