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92 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C TOPS (talk) Add sources
150 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: C Mercedes-Benz MB100 (talk) Add sources
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16 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start British Rail Class 499 (talk) Add sources
78 Quality: High, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: GA LDV Convoy (talk) Cleanup
123 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: GA British Rail Class 172 (talk) Cleanup
116 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Alienators: Evolution Continues (talk) Cleanup
166 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: C Mercedes-Benz buses (talk) Expand
214 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: GA Finding Nemo (franchise) (talk) Expand
277 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B British Rail Class 37 (talk) Expand
92 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: C Multi-stop truck (talk) Unencyclopaedic
178 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C British Rail Class 91 (talk) Unencyclopaedic
179 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Pacific Data Images (talk) Unencyclopaedic
49 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Motive power depot (talk) Merge
113 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C VeggieTales in the City (talk) Merge
125 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C VeggieTales in the House (talk) Merge
16 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Stub Twelve-wheel drive (talk) Wikify
405 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Bedford Vehicles (talk) Wikify
269 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C True and the Rainbow Kingdom (talk) Wikify
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Amitava Datta (talk) Orphan
10 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Start Active Power (talk) Orphan
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Amour d'Enfants (talk) Orphan
8 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start British Rail Class 418 (talk) Stub
7 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Reading TMD (talk) Stub
6 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: C British Rail Class D2/5 (talk) Stub
116 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Rocket Pictures (talk) Stub
7 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start SR Class CW (talk) Stub
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2018).

Administrator changes

added PbsouthwoodTheSandDoctor
readded Gogo Dodo
removed AndrevanDougEVulaKaisaLTony FoxWilyD

Bureaucrat changes

removed AndrevanEVula

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC about the deletion of drafts closed with a consensus to change the wording of WP:NMFD. Specifically, a draft that has been repeatedly resubmitted and declined at AfC without any substantial improvement may be deleted at MfD if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the reasons for deletion outlined in the deletion policy.
  • A request for comment closed with a consensus that the {{promising draft}} template cannot be used to indefinitely prevent a WP:G13 speedy deletion nomination.

Technical news

  • Starting on July 9, the WMF Security team, Trust & Safety, and the broader technical community will be seeking input on an upcoming change that will restrict editing of site-wide JavaScript and CSS to a new technical administrators user group. Bureaucrats and stewards will be able to grant this right per a community-defined process. The intention is to reduce the number of accounts who can edit frontend code to those who actually need to, which in turn lessens the risk of malicious code being added that compromises the security and privacy of everyone who accesses Wikipedia. For more information, please review the FAQ.
  • Syntax highlighting has been graduated from a Beta feature on the English Wikipedia. To enable this feature, click the highlighter icon () in your editing toolbar (or under the hamburger menu in the 2017 wikitext editor). This feature can help prevent you from making mistakes when editing complex templates.
  • IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in July (previously scheduled for June). This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.

Miscellaneous

  • Currently around 20% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 17% a year ago. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless if you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

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Views/Day Quality Title Tagged with…
100 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C British Rail Class 360 (talk) Add sources
16 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Pre Metro Operations (talk) Add sources
164 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: C President of Guatemala (talk) Add sources
138 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C British Rail Class 142 (talk) Add sources
1,059 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: FA Capital city (talk) Add sources
102 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C British Rail Class 166 (talk) Add sources
58 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: FA Trains in the Netherlands (talk) Cleanup
22 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: C Value brands in the United Kingdom (talk) Cleanup
251 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Dirt track racing (talk) Cleanup
184 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: FA Southern (Govia Thameslink Railway) (talk) Expand
6 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Spurt (Dutch Railways) (talk) Expand
336 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: GA Northern (train operating company) (talk) Expand
61 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Booze cruise (talk) Unencyclopaedic
217 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: GA Turbo-diesel (talk) Unencyclopaedic
315 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Rail transport in Great Britain (talk) Unencyclopaedic
13 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Traction maintenance depot (talk) Merge
52 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: C Homeplus (talk) Merge
11 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Start Tannochside (talk) Merge
168 Quality: High, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: FA Buses in London (talk) Wikify
40 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start GS25 (talk) Wikify
86 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Invasion America (talk) Wikify
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start NS Timetable 2010 (talk) Orphan
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start 2014 Jamalpur Encounter (talk) Orphan
1 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Banainia (talk) Orphan
78 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Book of Dragons (talk) Stub
14 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Graham Scott (referee) (talk) Stub
5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Landore TMD (talk) Stub
8 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Bletchley TMD (talk) Stub
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40 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Tim Johnson (film director) (talk) Stub

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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. (Purge)

Hello Nightfury, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

New technology, new rules
  • New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
  • Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
  • Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.
Editathons
  • Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.
The Signpost
  • The next issue of the monthly magazine will be out soon. The newspaper is an excellent way to stay up to date with news and new developments between our newsletters. If you have special messages to be published, or if you would like to submit an article (one about NPR perhaps?), don't hesitate to contact the editorial team here.

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2018).

Administrator changes

added Sro23
readded KaisaLYmblanter

Guideline and policy news

  • After a discussion at Meta, a new user group called "interface administrators" (formerly "technical administrator") has been created. Come the end of August, interface admins will be the only users able to edit site-wide JavaScript and CSS pages like MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css, or edit other user's personal JavaScript and CSS. The intention is to improve security and privacy by reducing the number of accounts which could be used to compromise the site or another user's account through malicious code. The new user group can be assigned and revoked by bureaucrats. Discussion is ongoing to establish details for implementing the group on the English Wikipedia.
  • Following a request for comment, the WP:SISTER style guideline now states that in the mainspace, interwiki links to Wikinews should only be made as per the external links guideline. This generally means that within the body of an article, you should not link to Wikinews about a particular event that is only a part of the larger topic. Wikinews links in "external links" sections can be used where helpful, but not automatically if an equivalent article from a reliable news outlet could be linked in the same manner.

Technical news


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86 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C British Rail Class 143 (talk) Add sources
43 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C British Rail Classes 251 and 261 (talk) Add sources
199 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: GA British Rail Class 153 (talk) Add sources
110 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C British Rail Class 56 (talk) Add sources
176 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: GA British Rail Class 221 (talk) Add sources
342 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: C British Rail Class 43 (HST) (talk) Add sources
266 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B BBC Breakfast (talk) Cleanup
69 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Saurer (talk) Cleanup
87 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C M&C Saatchi (talk) Cleanup
68 Quality: High, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: GA 21st-century modernisation of the Great Western main line (talk) Expand
25 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C British railcars and diesel multiple units (talk) Expand
74 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Degiro (talk) Expand
718 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life (talk) Unencyclopaedic
35 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C British Rail Class 117 (talk) Unencyclopaedic
62 Quality: High, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: GA One-man operation (talk) Unencyclopaedic
241 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Clio Renault Sport (talk) Merge
991 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: C Renault Clio (talk) Merge
2,276 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Hamburger (talk) Merge
266 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Opel Manta (talk) Wikify
203 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Albert Heijn (talk) Wikify
4 Quality: High, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: GA 2011 Toyota Racing Series (talk) Wikify
3 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Apparent Project (talk) Orphan
2 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Archaeology of Hatfield and Thorne (talk) Orphan
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Alberto Argañaraz (talk) Orphan
7 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start British Rail Class 129 (talk) Stub
29 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: B British Rail Class 140 (talk) Stub
37 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Cloud (operating system) (talk) Stub
16 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start British Rail Class 123 (talk) Stub
14 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start British Rail Class 125 (talk) Stub
20 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start British Rail Class 116 (talk) Stub

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2018).

Administrator changes

added None
removed AsterionCrisco 1492KFKudpungLizRandykittySpartaz
renamed Optimist on the runVoice of Clam

Interface administrator changes

added AmorymeltzerMr. StradivariusMusikAnimalMSGJTheDJXaosflux

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a "stop-gap" discussion, six users have temporarily been made interface administrators while discussion is ongoing for a more permanent process for assigning the permission. Interface administrators are now the only editors allowed to edit sitewide CSS and JavaScript pages, as well as CSS/JS pages in another user's userspace. Previously, all administrators had this ability. The right can be granted and revoked by bureaucrats.

Technical news

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
  • Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title.
  • Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age.

Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee has resolved to perform a round of Checkuser and Oversight appointments. The usernames of all applicants will be shared with the Functionaries team, and they will be requested to assist in the vetting process. The deadline to submit an application is 23:59 UTC, 12 September, and the candidates that move forward will be published on-wiki for community comments on 18 September.

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1,526 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Rachel Johnson (talk) Add sources
52 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B British Rail Class 325 (talk) Add sources
107 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C British Rail Class 165 (talk) Add sources
70 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C British Rail Class 332 (talk) Add sources
20 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Mangapps Railway Museum (talk) Add sources
512 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Diesel multiple unit (talk) Add sources
28 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Northenden (talk) Cleanup
89 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C British Rail Class 315 (talk) Cleanup
53 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Domestic technology (talk) Cleanup
77 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B British Rail Class 159 (talk) Expand
6 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: C Nepal humanitarian crisis (2015-2017) (talk) Expand
67 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon (talk) Expand
23 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Brakspear Brewery (talk) Unencyclopaedic
15 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start The Brooksbank School (talk) Unencyclopaedic
6 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: C Parliamentary motion to impeach Tony Blair (talk) Unencyclopaedic
186 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B RATP Group (talk) Merge
7 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Edwin M. Stanton School (Jacksonville) (talk) Merge
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Ivan Anz Frankopian (talk) Merge
167 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: C Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class (R171) (talk) Wikify
43 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Greybull Capital (talk) Wikify
441 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Insolvency (talk) Wikify
5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start France rail pass (talk) Orphan
3 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: C Annoying Actor Friend (talk) Orphan
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Adoniah Lewis (talk) Orphan
152 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start British Rail Class 755 (talk) Stub
285 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Harvey Street Kids (talk) Stub
11 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub International Railway Journal (talk) Stub
117 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Zagtoon (talk) Stub
10 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Shipton railway station (talk) Stub
7 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start SR Class CP (talk) Stub

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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Nightfury, 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
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.
Other
Moving to Draft and Page Mover
  • Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
  • If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
  • Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
  • The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
  • The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.
List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

  • Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget.
  • In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions.
  • MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues.
  • User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page)
  • User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50).
  • User:Primefac/revdel.js(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you.
  • User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js(info): Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link.
  • User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion.
  • User:Evad37/rater.js(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2018).

Administrator changes

added JustlettersandnumbersL235
removed BgwhiteHorsePunchKidJ GrebKillerChihuahuaRami RWinhunter

Interface administrator changes

added Cyberpower678Deryck ChanOshwahPharosRagesossRitchie333

Oversight changes

removed Guerillero NativeForeigner SnowolfXeno

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Partial blocks should be available for testing in October on the Test Wikipedia and the Beta-Cluster. This new feature allows admins to block users from editing specific pages and in the near-future, namespaces and uploading files. You can expect more updates and an invitation to help with testing once it is available.
  • The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team is currently looking for input on how to measure the effectiveness of blocks. This is in particular related to how they will measure the success of the aforementioned partial blocks.
  • Because of a data centre test, you will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia projects for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.

Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee has, by motion, amended the procedure on functionary inactivity.
  • The community consultation for 2018 CheckUser and Oversight appointments has concluded. Appointments will be made by October 11.
  • Following a request for comment, the size of the Arbitration Committee will be decreased to 13 arbitrators, starting in 2019. Additionally, the minimum support percentage required to be appointed to a two-year term on ArbCom has been increased to 60%. ArbCom candidates who receive between 50% and 60% support will be appointed to one-year terms instead.
  • Nominations for the 2018 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission are being accepted until 12 October. These are the editors who help run the ArbCom election smoothly. If you are interested in volunteering for this role, please consider nominating yourself.

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NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Nightfury, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Backlog

As of 21 October 2018, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.

Community Wishlist Proposal
Project updates
  • ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
  • 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.
New scripts

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
  • A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
  • The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.

Arbitration

  • Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
  • The Arbitration Committee's email address has changed to arbcom-en@wikimedia.org. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.

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NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Nightfury,

Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW
  • Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.
If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.
We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.
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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