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UPDATE! Bay Area WikiSalon moved to June 6!
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Our apologies, but we are rescheduling to Wednesday, June 6 at 6:00 p.m. due to a WMF host scheduling conflict.
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REMINDER: Bay Area WikiSalon is Wednesday, June 6
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Hot articles request
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HotArticlesBot
Hello! I'm interested in your HotArticlesBot... can it run in other Wikipedias? If not... how could I make another instance to run in euwiki? Thanks! -Theklan (talk) 15:19, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
Football Lads Alliance
Hi Kaldari, I was wondering if you could help me with the article Football Lads Alliance. It might be helpful if you read this thread and the subsequent threads first. There is a now a new discussion Talk:Football Lads Alliance#Proposal. I wondered how you would feel about taking over from me, so I can post a message there saying, handing this over to Kaldari as per User talk:Kaldari#Football Lads Alliance.
I've had the stuffing knocked out of me on this one, particularly the suggestion that I'm "advertising" for the far-right, diff, by using a source - Socialist Worker - that is unreliable due to its left-wing leaning. I know you created the WP:WikiProject Wikipedians against censorship which I feel like this is, and there is also something of a personality clash going on between me and other editors which my stepping away might help. Thanks. --The Vintage Feminist (talk) 13:16, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
- Hi Kaldari, thanks for your work on this Talk:Football Lads Alliance#RfC about restoring content has now been closed as restore which I have done in this diff. --The Vintage Feminist (talk) 12:29, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
Bay Area WikiSalon invitation for July 25!
Periodically, on the last Wednesday evening of the month, wiki enthusiasts gather at the Bay Area WikiSalon series to munch, mingle, and learn about new projects and ideas.
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- For further details and to RSVP, please see: Wikipedia:Bay Area WikiSalon, July 2018 (note: we are meeting at the new WMF HQ at 120 Kearny Street!)
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Hungarian deer
Hi!
The difference between hu:Szarvasfélék and hu:Szarvas_(állat) is that the first is a taxon family and the second is more describes in general what is in Hungarian language "deer" is used, since it can be several species which have antler, and not only in those belonging to Cervidae family. JSoos (talk) 15:36, 21 July 2018 (UTC) (Or wearing Horn which is in Hungarian hu:Szarv.JSoos (talk) 15:45, 21 July 2018 (UTC) )
- @JSoos: Thank you! I'm still confused though. In English, Cervidae = mammals with antlers = deer (in a broad sense). There are also animals like elk and moose and reindeer, but they all belong to Cervidae as well and are considered types of deer. I'm pretty sure that there are no animals with antlers that aren't in the family Cervidae. So I still don't understand the difference between hu:Szarvasfélék and hu:Szarvas_(állat). Can you tell me a species that is in one, but not the other? Maybe they are actually the same thing and need to be merged. Kaldari (talk) 16:09, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
Well, if you like, the first is stricly biological, the second one more a linguistic approach. Sh nassau (talk) 06:59, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
- @Sh nassau: Usually on Wikipedia we don't create separate articles for the animal and the word unless the scope of the word doesn't match the animal taxon. In this case, it seems that Szarvasfélék and Szarvas are the same thing, just as "Cervidae" and "deer" are the same thing in English. Unless there is some specific difference between them (for example, a species that would belong to one but not the other), could you nominate these articles for merging so that we don't have two different items in Wikidata? Kaldari (talk) 09:31, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
Usually Hungarian is not English. There should be a reason why this two was not merged. Two of us tried to explain you the differences. Probably, for you to understand, you will be needed to learn Hungarian and read both articles in the original language, because seemingly google translate does not reflects the details good enough. As for wikidata, my knowledge in technical matters is too marginal to emphasize the importance of this question.Sh nassau (talk) 10:29, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
- @Sh nassau: Thanks for trying to explain it to me. I'm still a little confused, but hopefully closer to understanding. Kaldari (talk) 12:50, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
In Hungarian language the problem is that horn (szarv), and deer (szarvas) are similar words. Szarvas literally means an animal which has horn, but in biology it can be only antrel (agancs), so there are animals in which name the word "szarvas" is included but it is not included in the Cervidae family. Unfortunately the article: hu:Szarvas_(állat) is not really well detailed, so it is not only the translation to blame. JSoos (talk) 16:17, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
Autoblock
@Mifter: I think you accidentally autoblocked everyone at Wikimania. Kaldari (talk) 10:09, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
- I am not sure I follow but if this is not already resolved I would be happy to look into it. After checking my logs, I have not issued any blocks/been around for a few weeks, so unless someone tried to edit from an account I blocked beforehand from the same IP the autoblock should not be kicking in. Let me know if you need me to do any digging. Thanks, Mifter (talk) 04:40, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
Discussion about The Sun
There is a discussion about retargeting The Sun from Sun to a disambiguation page. Because you have participated in the previous discussion, I am inviting you to participate in the current discussion here - Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2018_July_25#The_Sun. The editor whose username is Z0 07:05, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018
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Hello Kaldari, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
- June backlog drive
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Dendryphantina
I noted your addition of subtribe Dendryphantina to Zygoballus. However the Dendryphantina article has a genus list based on an out-of-date and hence unreliable source. Can you update it? Peter coxhead (talk) 09:35, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
- @Peter coxhead: Will do! It's sad that our most cited source for spider taxonomy is Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog. Which is just a self-published list based largely on Simon's Histoire naturelle des araignées from 1903! Kaldari (talk) 16:22, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
- Sad indeed! I've usually tended to bypass or ignore ranks that aren't in the WSC. We're supposed to use secondary sources, but what other taxonomic databases are available for spiders? Peter coxhead (talk) 21:54, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
- @Peter coxhead: The WSC made a good choice in not including minor ranks between genus and family, as few people actually use them and they have been constantly in flux as new molecular studies have been done. Now that Maddison's long-awaited phylogeny for Salticidae has been released (which was decades in the making) I expect that it will serve as an authoritative taxonomic reference for that family for a while. For the other families, I'm not sure. The WSC is the only body doing comprehensive cataloging, and honestly we're quite lucky to have it, as that catalog has a long pedigree of excellent scholarship going back to Platnick who took over from Brignoli who took over from Roewer – almost a century of continuous work, as each stood on the shoulders of his predecessor. Personally, I'm fine with ignoring the minor taxa indefinitely. After all, this is an encyclopedia, not a taxonomic reference, and we frankly don't have the man-power to keep up with all the changes, especially now that molecular phylogenetics lets us define potentially infinite clade levels. Let people read the references if they want more detailed taxonomy. I'm sure other people will disagree with me and want us to include as many taxon levels as possible (which is how we ended up with Joel Hallan's catalog). Personally, though, if I'm not willing to maintain it, I'm not interested in creating it (under the assumption that someone else will do the maintenance). That's a recipe for burn-out and rotting data. Kaldari (talk) 02:16, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
- I agree with you entirely. Peter coxhead (talk) 05:52, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
- @Peter coxhead: The WSC made a good choice in not including minor ranks between genus and family, as few people actually use them and they have been constantly in flux as new molecular studies have been done. Now that Maddison's long-awaited phylogeny for Salticidae has been released (which was decades in the making) I expect that it will serve as an authoritative taxonomic reference for that family for a while. For the other families, I'm not sure. The WSC is the only body doing comprehensive cataloging, and honestly we're quite lucky to have it, as that catalog has a long pedigree of excellent scholarship going back to Platnick who took over from Brignoli who took over from Roewer – almost a century of continuous work, as each stood on the shoulders of his predecessor. Personally, I'm fine with ignoring the minor taxa indefinitely. After all, this is an encyclopedia, not a taxonomic reference, and we frankly don't have the man-power to keep up with all the changes, especially now that molecular phylogenetics lets us define potentially infinite clade levels. Let people read the references if they want more detailed taxonomy. I'm sure other people will disagree with me and want us to include as many taxon levels as possible (which is how we ended up with Joel Hallan's catalog). Personally, though, if I'm not willing to maintain it, I'm not interested in creating it (under the assumption that someone else will do the maintenance). That's a recipe for burn-out and rotting data. Kaldari (talk) 02:16, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
- Sad indeed! I've usually tended to bypass or ignore ranks that aren't in the WSC. We're supposed to use secondary sources, but what other taxonomic databases are available for spiders? Peter coxhead (talk) 21:54, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
HotArticlesBot
Hi, I've recently found your bot and I love it! Currently I have to update vi:Wikipedia:Dự án/Khủng long/Trang hot by hand according to edits for the last 7 days. Could you tweak your bot so that it could run there too, because my IT knowledge is limited. Thank you very much :) Khủng Long (talk) 🌴🦕🦖 -- 21:05, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
You're a really cool person and you should be proud.
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On 08-Sep-2018 at 23:15 UTC, you edited a Wiki Page on Ramdas Kadam, through InternetArchiveBot with a serious complaint embedded in it. What ever was written, is it true?
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- You're mistaken. This edit was performed by a bot, and has nothing to do with this editor, who has never edited Ramdas Kadam. As for whether the information the source for which was restored (using an archive of the original URL) by the bot is true, please see the restored source. General Ization Talk 19:48, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
- @Sudipta Soo: Apologies to Kaldari, I see now that they are an operator of InternetArchiveBot. However, the bot is just that; Kaldari cannot tell you whether every piece of content for which the bot rescues links to sources is true or not; you'll need to use the source link to see what the source(s) say that supports the content. General Ization Talk 19:59, 12 September 2018 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018
Hello Kaldari, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.
- Project news
- The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.
- As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.
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- Moving to Draft and Page Mover
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creation log
Hi.
The main (and maybe the only) reason from the community behind requesting/supporting the create log was to see the creators of a a deleted article. But when it seems it is not working properly, for Anirudh Tanwar. It is being shown up in deletion log properly. Would you please take a look at it? Thanks. 03:17, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
- @Usernamekiran: It was originally created as a draft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=create&user=&page=Draft%3AAnirudh+Tanwar&wpdate=&tagfilter=. Kaldari (talk) 03:28, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
- oh, lol. I didnt know about that option being the default one. Sorry for such a stupid question
and thanks for the answer. See you around :) —usernamekiran(talk) 03:46, 22 August 2018 (UTC) - From both the comments above by me, I striked out few grammatical mistakes, and added underlined content on 19:39, 20 September 2018 (UTC) which I though I had already included. I blame sleep deprivation. —usernamekiran(talk) 19:39, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
- oh, lol. I didnt know about that option being the default one. Sorry for such a stupid question
Hello again. Like you mentioned above, the creation log doesnt show the pages that were moved to mainspace from other space(s) (draft/user). Like Ousepachan Vaalakuzhy. Do you think it would be easy/feasible on technical levels to include that function? And I apologise for the fact that I keep nagging you about this log. —usernamekiran(talk) 19:39, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
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Peter coxhead (talk) 20:11, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
Last call for RSVPs for Wednesday evening
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Name changes in Salticidae
Hi, just to note that the World Spider Catalog is implementing the name changes in Blick, T.; Marusik, Y.M (2018), "Three junior synonyms of jumping spider genera (Araneae: Salticidae)", Arthropoda Selecta, 27 (3): 237–238 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |lastauthoramp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help) [available in the WSC]. I've think I've fully fixed Sittiflor to Calositticus here (most language wikis and taxonomic databases haven't yet caught up with the creation of Sittiflor!). No time for the other two right now. Peter coxhead (talk) 11:02, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
Links to Sci-hub
Please don't add links to that site. It's full of copyright violations in general, and is now blacklisted on Wikipedia. DMacks (talk) 22:29, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018
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Hello Kaldari, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
- Backlog
As of 21 October 2018[update], there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.
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- There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.
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Qbugbot spider articles
The problem with articles like Pelegrina flaviceps and other Qbugbot-created spider articles is that the bot added references indescriminately and also used a standard set of Further reading items, many or even most of which aren't relevant. All these articles ideally need a lot of cleaning up. Sigh... Peter coxhead (talk) 08:50, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
Spider images
Some great spider images you've been adding to articles! Thanks. Peter coxhead (talk) 08:54, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
- @Peter coxhead: My pleasure. Mostly I was trying to save all the good jumping spider photos that are going to be deleted from Flickr in a couple months. Glad there were so many useful ones! Kaldari (talk) 16:54, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
Pageviews tool
It's really good! 
Thank you. You know, it's really appreciated by a lot of people. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 11:25, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018
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- With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.
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NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018
Hello Kaldari,
- Reviewer of the Year
This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.
- Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.
See also the list of top 100 reviewers.
- Less good news, and an appeal for some help
The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640 holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.
- Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019
At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3 December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.
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DYK nomination of Webbed foot
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HotArticlesBot
Hi, is the bot still working? It doesn't seem to have updated these[1][2] projects at least since 29 November. FunkMonk (talk) 02:52, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
- @FunkMonk: Thanks for the heads up. I think it should be running again now! Kaldari (talk) 18:01, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
MediaWiki:Gadget-markblocked.js
Hi there! I'm coming to you as the creator of MediaWiki:Gadget-markblocked.js. Concerning the gadget, is there a way to make only the user's name (and/or direct talk page link and contributions link) be striked out, instead of every link to their user and talk page? As an example, see how all the cur/prev and perma links are all striked out, as well as links to section of the talk page. Cheers! -- AlexTW 10:10, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
You are cordially invited to Stanford University to celebrate Wikipedia's birthday
- I am delighted to invite you to the 2019 Wikipedia Day party at Stanford, which will be held on Tuesday, January 15, 2019, at 5:00-8:30pm.
- There will be pizza, cake, and refreshments; both newcomers and experienced Wikimedians are welcome! We will have a beginner track with tutorials, and an advanced track with presentations, lightning talks, and tips and tricks. Admission is free, and you do NOT have to be a Stanford University student to attend.
See you soon! All the best, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c)
DYK nomination of Webbed foot
Hello! Your submission of Webbed foot 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! Joseph2302 (talk) 10:27, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
Incomplete DYK nomination
Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Webbed foot at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; if you would like to continue, please link the nomination to the nominations page as described in step 3 of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with {{db-g7}}, or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot (talk) 10:23, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
Hot Articles config issue
Hey K, there are 4 consecutive projects that configured their target page incorrectly in the User:HotArticlesBot/Config.json code: they used "Wikipedia:Wikiproject" rather than the correct CamelCase "Wikipedia:WikiProject". Could you correct these four so the correct page gets updated? Thanks, UnitedStatesian (talk) 18:40, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
Fixed czar 10:51, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
User talk:The Earwig
Hi, can you please take a look at this discussion? It would be useful for me to hear your opinion on this. Best regards, Luke081515 14:29, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
Adding a link to Ukrainian Wikipedia version of the bot
Hi, could you please add "Ukrainian Wikipedia" to the section here User:InternetArchiveBot called "Wikis currently supported". I noticed that the bot has been on Ukrainian Wikipedia since Aug 2018 (see [3] and has been active (I noticed today it did edits to one of the pages I follow edits hisotry of B&H article. Thanks!--Piznajko (talk) 18:26, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
DYK for Webbed foot
 | On 21 February 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Webbed foot, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that some water birds use their webbed feet (example illustrated) as an aid in elaborate courtship displays? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Webbed foot. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, daily totals), 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) 12:01, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
HotArticlesBot
Hi. Your very useful HotArticlesBot hasn't updated it's usual pages since 1st March. Little pob (talk) 20:07, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Little pob: Should be fixed now. Looks like it was an issue with the bot password needing to be reset. Kaldari (talk) 23:05, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
MediaWiki:Gadget-markblocked.js
Hi there. I posted on your talk page back in December with a request concerning MediaWiki:Gadget-markblocked.js, but it was archived the next month without a response. I was wondering if you'd gotten the change to look at the message and/or request? Cheers. -- /Alex/21 23:09, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
- @Alex 21: Sorry I missed this earlier. That sounds like a good idea. It should be possible to use a RegEx to look for the user's name or signature, although unfortunately it would fail if the user changed their signature. Any ideas about how to solve that loophole? Kaldari (talk) 23:39, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
citation bot restart
Can you do a "webservice restart" as an admin (Assuming that no one else has yet). AManWithNoPlan (talk) 18:13, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
- @AManWithNoPlan: Done. Kaldari (talk) 18:18, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
- Execellent. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 18:21, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.17
Hello Kaldari,
- News
- The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the {{rough translation}} tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.
- Discussions of interest
- Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
- {{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
- A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
- There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.
- Reminders
- NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.
- NPP Tools Report
- Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
- copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
- The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.
Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828
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A barnstar for you!
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| Thanks for fixing the ref toolbar :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:00, 20 March 2019 (UTC) |
Looking for your opinion on my RefToolbar proposal
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Request
Greetings. I would like to kindly ask your team to translate the full article of Muslim conquest of Azerbaijan into English so I can translate it into Arabic language. Your cooperation in this regard will be highly appreciated.شيماء (talk) 09:47, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello
May I ask the origin of your username? Thank you Masgouf (talk) 05:27, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
IABot
Hi! I see that you're one of the operators of IABot. Since Cyberpower678 is on an indefinite Wikibreak, I figured I'd ask you what do we need to do to bring IABot to hr.wiki? --Hmxhmx 16:26, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
IABot configuration for Azerbaijani Wikipedia
Hi. I requested to Cyberpower678 for IABot configuration for Azerbaijani Wikipedia. But he did not answer. Can you help me?--NMW03 (talk) 19:14, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
InternetArchiveBot
Hi Kaldari. I'm contacting you as Cyberpower678 is on an indefinite wikibreak and you're listed as the other operator of User:InternetArchiveBot. I continue to be concerned about the bot making unnecessary cosmetic changes to external links which it marks with misleading edit summaries, claiming to have "rescued sources" (see User talk:Cyberpower678/Archive 62#InternetArchiveBot 2 and User talk:Cyberpower678/Archive 62#InternetArchiveBot 3). In response to my last query on this point Cyberpower678 responded that "beta15 of IABot will no longer convert archive templates outside of references", which sounds like good news, but could do with some clarification for the less clued-up, as InternetArchiveBot continues to make the same unhelpful edits (e.g. this edit today, in which the same unnecessary changes to external links are made, also inexplicably adding inaccurate and unnecessary access dates to the links, as well as more useful changes to references). However I see that the edit summary in this case specifies "v2.0beta14". Am I right in thinking, then, that these edits will cease at some point in the future when the bot switches from "beta14" to "beta15". If so, do you know when that will be? All the best, – Arms & Hearts (talk) 17:28, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
Can you reboot citation bot
If no one else has. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 12:44, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.18
Hello Kaldari,
- WMF at work on NPP Improvements
Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:
- Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
- Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.
- Reliable Sources for NPP
Rosguill has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.
- Backlog drive coming soon
Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the New Page Patrol talk page.
- News
- Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.
- Discussions of interest
- A request for bot approval for a bot to patrol two kinds of redirects
- There has been a lot discussion about Notability of Academics
- What, if anything, would a SNG for Softball look like
Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7242 Low – 2393 High – 7250
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User:InternetArchiveBot
<joke>I just noticed that the bot does not say which one of you is operating it for each and every edit. Shame, shame, shame! </joke> AManWithNoPlan (talk) 17:58, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019
Hello Kaldari,
- WMF at work on NPP Improvements
More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.
- QUALITY of REVIEWING
Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.
- Backlog
The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.
- Move to draft
NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.
- Notifying users
Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.
- PERM
Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway.
- Other news
School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.
Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:38, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
Reboot citation bot please
Thank you. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 20:35, 11 July 2019 (UTC)