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March Madness 2020

G'day all, March Madness 2020 is about to get underway, and there is bling aplenty for those who want to get stuck into the backlog by way of tagging, assessing, updating, adding or improving resources and creating articles. If you haven't already signed up to participate, why not? The more the merrier! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:19, 29 February 2020 (UTC) for the coord team

The Signpost: 1 March 2020

Administrators' newsletter – March 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
  • A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news

  • Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

Miscellaneous



00:36, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Closure of Ninja

Can you please expand your closing statement at Talk:Ninja_(video_game_player)#Requested_move_12_January_2020 to explain how you found no consensus for the original proposal? In particular, please clarify whether you just counted !votes or whether you weighed the arguments, and, if the latter, summarize your understanding of the arguments supporting and opposing the proposal, and how you weighed them and why. Or, you can revert your close and allow someone else to evaluate the arguments accordingly. Thanks! --В²C 00:40, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

@Born2cycle: Gladly. I'll draft an expanded rationale up now. OhKayeSierra (talk) 00:45, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
@Born2cycle:  Done. OhKayeSierra (talk) 02:07, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
First, congratulations on your page movership. That should make closing RMs less of a pain (though, sometimes it's easier to pawn off the actual moves and associated corrections on someone else, so it's kind of a mixed blessing)!
So, thanks for explaining your close decision. Now I can see that you seem to have missed that there was no policy basis for the Oppose position, while Support had strong policy basis. Let's review how RM closers are supposed to determine consensus, per WP:RM/CI#Determining consensus:
Consensus is determined not just by considering the preferences of the participants in a given discussion, but also by evaluating their arguments, assigning due weight accordingly, and giving due consideration to the relevant consensus of the Wikipedia community in general as reflected in applicable policy, guidelines and naming conventions.
So while I agree the participants did prefer keeping the current title, their arguments were, frankly, totally lame. Consider:
  • Although oppose cited NCVG, you acknowledge NCVG is agnostic about the two choices. Just because someone cites policy does not mean their argument is supported by that policy. In this case it obviously did not.
  • You characterized the disagreement as "between whether WP:CONCISE should apply vs. WP:PRECISE", apparently without recognizing that PRECISE applies to the entire title, not to the disambiguator alone. That is, the proposed title, Ninja (gamer), meets PRECISE ("titles should unambiguously define the topical scope of the article, but should be no more precise than that") just as well as the current longer title. Since there is no other Ninja that is a "gamer", Ninja (gamer) "unambiguously define[s] the topical scope of the article". It doesn't matter that "gamer" is "vague" in determining whether the title meets WP:PRECISE, and this was explained (by yours truly) at length. If anything, the longer title violates PRECISE because it is "more precise than that".
  • As to the "too informal" point, there is no policy basis for that position either, not to mention that wide use of "gamer" in reliable sources annihilated that argument anyway.
But there can be no question, and none was cited in the discussion, about which title is preferred by WP:CONCISE, a key WP:CRITERIA listed at the WP:AT policy page, establishing the Support argument as grounded firmly in policy.
In short, the Oppose side was based entirely on WP:JDLI, while Support was firmly based in policy. I know it's hard to find against the obvious preference of participants, but when their arguments are as lame as they were in this case, I really think you have to. Otherwise, we're just encouraging weak JDLI arguments in future RM discussions. I urge you to reconsider your decision accordingly. Thanks again. --В²C 19:08, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
@Born2cycle: Thank you for sharing your input on this. While I do concur that there were a few baseless opposes for reasons that crossed into WP:JDLI territory, I also found that they were in the minority, and the majority couldn't fully hash out whether WP:CONCISE or WP:PRECISE prevailed. Even if I were to discount the JDLI opposes, I think that my rationale would still be the same and I still would've thought that there wasn't a consensus to move the pages. As I stated in my final paragraph, I encourage all interested editors to start an RfC to determine the proper naming conventions moving forward, as I firmly believe that mass RM's like this one shouldn't dictate the current consensus on naming in any way and needs to involve the broader editing community. And, of course, if you still disagree with my close, you're more than welcome to take it to WP:MR to ask uninvolved editors to determine if my close should be endorsed or overturned. OhKayeSierra (talk) 19:33, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
I will add that this was the most difficult close I've done to date. OhKayeSierra (talk) 19:36, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
I will consider going to WP:MR because I think we really need to discourage taking positions in discussions based entirely on JDLI, as I believe the Opposers did on this one (though not intentionally). However, I respect your decision and understand why you went the way you did; many if not most RM closers would probably have done the same (unfortunately, in my view). Regarding the RFC suggestion, that's good, but please don't dismiss the value of examining these broader issues in narrow RMs like this one. I've addressed this on my FAQ, here: User:Born2cycle/FAQ#Change_guideline_first. --В²C 19:50, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Page mover granted

Hello, OhKayeSierra. Your account has been granted the "extendedmover" user right, either following a request for it or demonstrating familiarity with working with article names and moving pages. You are now able to rename pages without leaving behind a redirect, move subpages when moving the parent page(s), and move category pages.

Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Page mover for more information on this user right, especially the criteria for moving pages without leaving redirect. Please remember to follow post-move cleanup procedures and make link corrections where necessary, including broken double-redirects when suppressredirect is used. This can be done using Special:WhatLinksHere. It is also very important that no one else be allowed to access your account, so you should consider taking a few moments to secure your password. As with all user rights, be aware that if abused, or used in controversial ways without consensus, your page mover status can be revoked.

Useful links:

If you do not want the page mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! ~Swarm~ {sting} 07:15, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

17:15, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXVII, March 2020

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GOCE March newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors March 2020 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the March newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since December 2019. All being well, we're planning to issue these quarterly in 2020, balancing the need to communicate widely with the avoidance of filling up talk pages. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

Election results: There was little changeover in the roster of Guild Coordinators, with Miniapolis stepping down with distinction as a coordinator emeritus while Jonesey95 returned as lead coordinator. The next election is scheduled for June 2020 and all Wikipedians in good standing may participate.

January Drive: Thanks to everyone for the splendid work, completing 215 copy edits including 56 articles from the Requests page and 116 backlog articles from the target months of June to August 2019. At the conclusion of the drive there was a record low of 323 articles in the copy editing backlog. Of the 27 editors who signed up for the drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

February Blitz: Of the 15 editors who signed up for this one-week blitz, 13 completed at least one copy edit. A total of 32 articles were copy edited, evenly split between the twin goals of requests and the oldest articles from the copy-editing backlog. Full results are here.

March Drive: Currently underway, this event is targeting requests and backlog articles from September to November 2019. As of 18 March, the backlog stands at a record low of 253 articles and is expected to drop further as the drive progresses. Awards will be given to everyone who copyedits at least one article from the backlog. Help set a new record and sign up now!

Progress report: As of 18 March, GOCE copyeditors have completed 161 requests in 2020 and there was a net reduction of 385 articles from the copy-editing backlog – a 60% decrease from the beginning of the year. Well done and thank you everyone!

Election reminder: It may only be March but don't forget our mid-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 June. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.

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Thinking of you

... with best wishes for well-being for you and your daughter! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:05, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Thank you so much for the well-wishes, and likewise! Unfortunately, I found out today that someone I'm close to tested positive for COVID-19 (we actually found out about it from the local health department), so I and my spouse are both self-quarantining as a precaution. So far, Clara, User:Mistbreeze, and I are all fine (thankfully). Unfortunately, it also means there's most likely going to be a lot more doctor's visits in my future! 🙃 OhKayeSierra (talk) 07:37, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
Good to here that you are all fine, hoping it may stay so, - and self-quarantine is more or less what we all have to live in Germany these days. I received a nice caricature, showing a man, a women and a dog in meditating lotus position, saying: "You can't go outside? Go inside ;) - I received it from one of the students of Willigis Jäger I know. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:27, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
Clara, what a great name, thinking of Clara Schumann! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:29, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 March 2020

17:26, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).

Guideline and policy news

  • There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - March Newsletter

This is our fourth newsletter, covering March 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3 and 11.

Becoming a User Group

  • Wikimedians for Sustainable Development are recognized as a Wikimedia user Group [5]

In the news

  • Wikipedia is flooded with information — but it has a blind spot (SDG 11) [1]

New WikiProjects

  • Wikidata:WikiProject COVID-19 (SDG 3) [9]
  • (Arabic) ويكيبيديا:مشروع ويكي طب/فريق عمل كوفيد-19 (SDG 3) [10]
  • (Czech) Wikipedie:WikiProjekt SARS-CoV-2 (SDG 3) [11]
  • (English) Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19 (SDG 3) [12]

Academic studies

  • Uneven Coverage of Natural Disasters in Wikipedia: the Case of Floods (SDG 11) [2]

Events

  • The COVID-19 pandemic halts all in-person events funded through the Wikimedia Foundation (SDG 3) [6]
    • Which lead to a renewed interest in remote events (SDG 17) [8]

Information from the Wikimedia Foundation

  • COVID-19 (SDG 3) [20]

The Sustainable Development Goals

  • The United Nations adopt changes to the Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (SDG-all) [7]

New Wikidata properties

  • GreatSchools ID (SDG 4) [4]
  • food energy (SDG 1) [14]
  • number of recoveries (SDG 3) [15]
  • number of clinical tests (SDG 3) [16]

New Wikidata example queries

  • Updated chart of the number of infections and deaths caused since the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, as reported by the World Health Organisation (SDG 3) [3]
  • World map of hospitals (SDG 3) [13]
  • Notable people with COVID-19 by number of sitelinks (SDG 3) [17]
  • COVID-19 case statistics for India (SDG 3):
    • State-level map [18]
    • State-level line graph [19]

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19:03, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

US politicians known to have anti-Chinese views

Thanks for removing that entire section, which would have been my preference as well. my own contribution there was just to balance out what seemed to be a POV-based Republican-bashing section, but it is much better to just remove the whole thing. "yikes" is right. JungerMan Chips Ahoy! (talk) 17:43, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

@JungerMan Chips Ahoy!: Yeah, when I read it, it smacked of undue libel and a needless hatchet job that didn't really add anything of value to the article. OhKayeSierra (talk) 20:30, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Happy Easter

or: the resurrection of loving-kindness - and thank you for the quote above. Hope you and yours are well? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:56, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Thank you for the well wishes, and I hope you had a lovely Easter as well. By a miracle, I'm somehow the only one infected with COVID (most likely got it from volunteering to handle the grocery shopping and errands so that my husband didn't have to), so I've spent my time quarantined in the basement, to avoid getting Clara and Mistbreeze sick. Aside from a bit of a nasty cough and a fever, I'd say that I'm relatively ok, all things considered. I've spent far too much time getting rest throughout the day. 😂 OhKayeSierra (talk) 04:09, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
Thinking of you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:09, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXVIII, April 2020

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The Signpost: 26 April 2020

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - April Newsletter

This is our fifth newsletter, covering April 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 15..


News

  • GLAM Newsletter Special report on COVID-19 (SDG 3) [1]
  • Wikidata and the bibliography of life in the time of coronavirus (SDG 3) [7]
  • Video: Wikidata Lab XXII - Wikiprojeto COVID-19 (SDG 3) [20]
  • How Wikipedia is Covering the Coronavirus Pandemic (SDG 3) [21]
  • Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during the pandemic (SDG 3) [23]
  • Using CC Licenses and Tools to Share and Preserve Cultural Heritage in the Face of Climate Change (SDG 11) [25]
  • Video: Mapping against COVID-19 (SDG 3) [26]
  • Student-created immunology content on Wikipedia receiving a lot of attention this month (SDG 3) [34]
  • How Wikipedia shows disability matters (SDG 10) [35]

Tools

  • COVID-19 dashboard (SDG 3) [2]
  • COVID-19 dashboard for Tunisia (SDG 3) [22]

In the news

  • Why Wikipedia Is Immune to Coronavirus (SDG 3) [3]

Research

  • Why and how medical schools, peer-reviewed journals, and research funders should promote Wikipedia editing (SDG 3) [4]
  • A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata, a case report (SDG 3) [5]
  • Multilingual enrichment of disease biomedical ontologies (SDG 3) [6]

New Wikidata properties

  • FHF establishment ID (SDG 3) [8]
  • FHF hospital group ID (SDG 3) [9]
  • Spanish National Catalog of Hospitals ID (SDG 3) [10]
  • Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Code (SDG 9) [24]
  • Forest Stewardship Council License Code (SDG 9) [27]
  • Psocodea Species File ID (SDG 15) [28]
  • Swedish Glaciers ID (SDG 13) [29]

New Wikidata query examples

  • Infectious diseases and their number of cases (SDG 3) [11]
  • The longest river that feeds into another river (SDG 6 & 14) [30]
  • Longest rivers that do not feed into a sea or ocean (SDG 6 & 14) [31]
  • Recently published works on COVID-19 (SDG 3) [32]
  • Welsh hospitals, health centres, doctors surgeries and temporary Covid19 hospitals (SDG 3) [33]

New Wikidata schema examples

  • pandemic (E184) (SDG 3) [12]
  • hospital (E187) (SDG 3) [13]
  • 2020 coronavirus pandemic local outbreaks (E188) (SDG 3) [14]
  • clinical trial (E189) (SDG 3) [15]
  • Lockdown (E190) (SDG 3) [16]
  • lockdown part of the 2019-2020 coronavirus disease pandemic (E191) (SDG 3) [17]
  • virus taxon (E192) (SDG 3) [18]
  • contact tracing app (E195) (SDG 3) [19]

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Oversight changes

readded HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Miscellaneous


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The Bugle: Issue CLXIX, May 2020

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May

May · Mary · Monteverdi

Thank you for article improvements in May! - DYK our list of people for whose life I'm thankful enough to improve their articles? - I have a FAC open, one of Monteverdi's exceptional works, in memory of Brian who passed me his collected sources. - How are you, and yours? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:39, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

17:19, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

14:18, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Page moves

Thanks for your work at WP:RMTR! I simply wanted to bring to your attention that you removed four listings in this edit, but only performed three sets of moves. Did you mean to reject the move of Chinese in New York City? Should the move of Chinese in New York City be re-proposed as an RM, or can the move be actioned after linking to the diff of the original proposal as seems standard for RMTRs? It seems uncontroversial, as the related article is located at Chinese people. I note that articles with similar titles exist, such as Chinese people in Korea, Chinese people in Myanmar, and Chinese people in Germany, but some related topics are distinct enough to warrant unique titles, see Chinese diaspora in France, Chinese immigration to Sydney. Vycl1994 (talk) 06:50, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

@Vycl1994: Thanks for bringing that to my attention! That was a mistake on my part. I’ll handle the move request shortly. OhKayeSierra (talk) 09:16, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Anddd...  Done. OhKayeSierra (talk) 09:20, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).

Administrator changes

added CaptainEekCreffettCwmhiraeth
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CheckUser changes

removed SQL

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

  • A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - May Newsletter

This is our sixth newsletter, covering May 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 4, 5, 15 and 16.

Meetings

  • Next meeting for Wikimedians for Sustainable Development is Sunday, 7 June 18.00-19.00 UTC (SDG-all) [17]

News

  • Wikimedia and COVID-19: April overview (SDG 3) [1]
  • Extract Knowledge from Wikidata to Wikipedia articles related to Coronavirus (SDG 3) [8]
  • How Wikipedia became a trusted source for COVID-19 information (SDG 3) [15]
  • Future Historians Will Rely on Wikipedia’s COVID-19 Coverage (SDG 3) [16]
  • Students document workplace health risks on Wikipedia amidst global pandemic (SDG 3) [18]

New Wikidata properties

  • COVIDWHO ID (SDG 3) [2]
  • DGHS facility code (SDG 3) [3]
  • DPVweb ID (SDG 15) [4]
  • RPPS ID (SDG 3) [5]
  • hardiness of plant (SDG 15) [9]
  • hardiness zone (SDG 15) [10]
  • voting system (SDG 16) [11]
  • DPE school code (SDG 4) [12]

New Wikidata query examples

  • Map of countries receiving the Nobel peace prize (SDG 16) [6]
  • Map of geolocated Argentine libraries (SDG 4) [7]
  • Map of hospitals (blue) and health centers (green) of Argentina (SDG 3) [13]
  • Map of National parks in Sweden (SDG 15) [14]
  • Universities ranked by PageRank on English Wikipedia (SDG 4) [19]

New Wiki projects

  • Wikidata:WikiProject Schools (SDG 4) [20]
  • Swedish Wikipedia: Projekt HBTQI (SDG 5) [21]

Links

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GOCE June newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2020 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2020. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. All times and dates stated are in UTC.

Current events

Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 00:01 on 16 June. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, or you know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here.

June Blitz: This blitz begins at 00:01 on 14 June and ends at 23:59 on 20 June, with themes of articles tagged for copyedit in May 2020 and requests.

Drive and blitz reports

March Drive: Self-isolation from coronavirus may have played a hand in making this one of our most successful backlog elimination drives. The copy-editing backlog was reduced from 477 to a record low of 118 articles, a 75% reduction. The last four months of 2019 were cleared, reducing the backlog to three months. Fifty requests were also completed, and the total word count of copy-edited articles was 759,945. Of the 29 editors who signed up, 22 completed at least one copy edit. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

April Blitz: This blitz ran from 12 to 18 April with a theme of Indian military history. Of the 18 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed a total of 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

May Drive: This event marked the 10th anniversary of the GOCE's copy-editing drives, and set a goal of diminishing the backlog to just one month of articles, as close to zero articles as possible. We achieved the goal of eliminating all articles that had been tagged prior to the start of the drive, for the first time in our history! Of the 51 editors who signed up, 43 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.

Other news

Progress report: as of 2 June, GOCE participants had processed 328 requests since 1 January, which puts us on pace to exceed any previous year's number of requests. As of the end of the May drive, the backlog stood at just 156 articles, all tagged in May 2020.

Outreach: To mark the 10th anniversary of our first Backlog Elimination Drive, The Signpost contributor and GOCE participant Puddleglum2.0 interviewed project coordinators and copy-editors for the journal's April WikiProject Report. The Drive and the current Election of Coordinators have also been covered in The Signpost's May News and Notes page.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist.

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The Bugle: Issue CLXX, June 2020

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21:38, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

A belated welcome!

The welcome may be belated, but the cookies are still warm!

Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, OhKayeSierra! I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may still benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:

If you don't already know, you should sign your posts on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) to insert your username and the date.

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! Sm8900 (talk) 20:34, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi! I happened to notice some of your recent comments, and your listing at WP:Teahouse. If I am not mistaken, it seems like you have not been welcomed here yet. hard to believe!! anyway, if I am mistaken, please forgive my error. thanks for all your great work here, either way! cheers!! --Sm8900 (talk) 20:36, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
@Sm8900: Haha, thanks for the warm welcome! Much appreciated! I still can't believe I've been with the project for over two years now! Definitely wish I had more time for content creation than I have had lately, but... y'know, time constraints with being a mom now, grad school and whatnot. 🙃 OhKayeSierra (talk) 22:38, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

June

June
Vespro della Beata Vergine

Thank you for improving articles in June. I can proudly present a FA, quite a gift after a year without, and a FL is in the making, comments welcome. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:56, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Sorry, just noticed the message today. Congratulations on the FA and FL! OhKayeSierra (talk) 01:02, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
Thank you, - that's in memory of Brian. - Now in memory of a friend who died, - sad list growing, - it was her husband whose death started it, - my wake-up call to write their article. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:29, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

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16:31, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

recruiting for a research project

Hi OhKayeSierra,

I hope this finds you well. I’m a graduate student researcher undertaking a study on how women learn to participate in Wikipedia and factors that enable them to persist as contributors. I’m currently seeking individuals who self-identify as women and actively participate in Wikipedia authorship, and you seem to fit this criteria. I'm asking potential participants to sit down with me for an hour long Zoom, Skype, or phone call. Would you be interested in interviewing for this project? Thank you for considering. Feel-flourish (talk) 16:35, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

@Feel-flourish: Wow. Thank you for considering me for your research project. Unfortunately, I'm more or less semi-retired at the moment and don't think that I would be an ideal candidate for your study. After having a daughter earlier in the year and adjusting to motherhood while simultaneously trying to juggle my course load towards earning my M.A. in English, my editing on the project has been sporadic at best since approximately last year. Also, have you tried reaching out with a message on the Village Pump or the Administrator's noticeboard? They're both well-watched pages on the project, and I'm sure you'd get the attention of other editors that might be interested in assisting you with your research. OhKayeSierra (talk) 18:09, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
@OhKayeSierra: I understand and very much appreciate your response. Your life sounds incredibly busy right now. Congrats on your new daughter! Best of luck with your MA coursework and thank you so much for the leads. Take care! Feel-flourish (talk) 18:43, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration


Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - June Newsletter

This is our seventh newsletter, covering June 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 16 and 17.

Meetings

  • Upcoming: 5 July, Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting (SDG 17) [12]
  • Upcoming: 18 July, Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting (SDG 17) [12]
  • Past: 7 June, Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting (SDG 17) [13]

News

  • Webinar: COVID-19 and human rights: How to share the facts on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [1]
  • Vad menas egentligen med öppenhet? (Swedish) (SDG 4) [2]
  • How Wikipedia Has Responded to the George Floyd Protests (SDG 10) [3]
  • 50 000 kvinnor på svenskspråkiga Wikipedia! (Swedish) (SDG 5) [4]

Videos

  • COVID & health topics on Wikidata (SDG 3) [9]

New Wikidata properties

  • curriculum topics (SDG 4) [5]
  • ISCO-08 occupation code (SDG 8) [6]
  • FEMA number (SDG 2) [7]
  • Democracy Index (SDG 16) [10]

New Wikidata query examples

  • Species of birds (SDG 15) [8]
  • Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic (SDG 3) [11]

Links

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Editing news 2020 #3

On 16 March 2020, the 50 millionth edit was made using the visual editor on desktop.

Seven years ago this week, the Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:

  • The 50 millionth edit using the visual editor on desktop was made this year. More than 10 million edits have been made here at the English Wikipedia.
  • More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
  • Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
  • The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has been increasing every year.
  • Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.
  • On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor.
  • In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers, and half of their first edits, were made using the visual editor. This percentage has been increasing every year since the tool became available.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:06, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

20:18, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXI, July 2020

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16:30, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

19:11, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Thank you in July

July
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Thank you for improving articles in July! Now a FTN is open. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:47, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

2020 Open Championship

Hi, you just closed this move discussion as "no consensus" without any explanation. Please could you elaborate? Given 3 "supports", 1 "oppose" and 2 "comments" (the last one not directly related to the move itself, but seemingly seeing consensus for the move), and the arguments that were put forward, it seems like consensus clearly supported the move to me. Regards. wjematherplease leave a message... 07:55, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

@Wjemather:  Done I left a note with my rationale on the RM. OhKayeSierra (talk) 08:11, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
@Wjemather: After reconsidering my initial impression on the RM's consensus, I decided that it would be better to self-revert my closure and relist the RM. I hope that this is an acceptable solution. OhKayeSierra (talk) 08:26, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
Thanks. When I proposed the move, I thought it could possibly fail due to being considered "too soon". I would normally have preferred to leave it for a while, but was mostly trying to avoid creation of a duplicative 2021 Open Championship article by one of our friends with a crystal ball (which happened anyway). wjematherplease leave a message... 08:34, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

13:53, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).

Administrator changes

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Oversight changes

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Guideline and policy news


Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - July Newsletter

This is our seventh newsletter, covering June 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 15 and 16.

Meetings

  • Upcoming: Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting August 2 (SDG all) [19]
  • Upcoming: Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting August 16 (SDG all) [20]
  • Past: Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting July 5 (SDG all) [18]

News

  • Another Wikipedian is cultivated (SDG 3) [1]
  • Wikijournal of Medicine to be indexed in SCOPUS (SDG 3) [2]
  • How Wikipedia Became a Battleground for Racial Justice (SDG 10) [3]
  • Sask. doctor keeps COVID-19 Wikipedia info accurate with encyclopedic dedication (SDG 3) [4]
  • We stand for racial justice (SDG 10) [10]
  • Edit Loud, Edit Proud: LGBTIQ+ Wikimedians and Global Information Activism (SDG 10) [15]
  • WikiProject Black Lives Matter (SDG 10) [16]
  • The Power of Knowledge: A Look at the AfroCROWD Juneteenth Conference on Civil Rights (SDG 10) [24]
  • #WikiHerStory: a month-long initiative to amplify gender equity work on Wikimedia projects (SDG 5) [25]
  • How the internet will change our coronavirus memories (SDG 3) [26]
  • How volunteers created Wikipedia’s world-beating Covid-19 coverage (SDG 3) [30]
  • COVIWD - A Covid-19 Wikidata dashboard (SDG 3) [31]

Research

  • COVID-19 research in Wikipedia (SDG 3) [11]
  • A Quantitative Portrait of Wikipedia's High-Tempo Collaborations during the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic (SDG 3) [12]
  • COVID-19 mobility restrictions increased interest in health and entertainment topics on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [13]
  • A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata, a case report (SDG 3) [14]

Videos

  • Wikimedia Research: Medical knowledge on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [23]
  • More black stories need to be told -- and more black contributors need to tell them! (SDG 10) [29]

New WikiProjects

  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Black Lives Matter (SDG 10) [17]

Featured content

  • Alpine newt (SDG 15) [5]
  • Dementia with Lewy bodies (SDG 3) [6]
  • Secretarybird (SDG 15) [7]
  • List of procyonids (SDG 15) [8]
  • List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire (SDG 15) [8]

New Wikidata properties

  • thefreedictionary medical term ID (SDG 3) [21]
  • Naturvårdsverket Anordningar OBJECTID (SDG 15) [22]
  • public transport stop (SDG 11) [27]
  • energy consumption per transaction (SDG 7) [28]
  • BTI Governance Index (SDG 16) [32]
  • BTI Status Index (SDG 16) [32]
  • distribution map of taxon (SDG 15) [34]
  • Queensland Biota ID (SDG 15) [35]
  • Australian Weed ID (SDG 15) [36]

Links

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Notice of ANI that mentions you in passing

Greetings, FYI I filed a request at WP:ANI titled "CIR-based community-imposed site ban re: RTG". In providing a basis for my request I mentioned you and your prior dealings with this editor. Your input at ANI is optional, i.e., invited but not specifically requested. Thanks for reading. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 13:02, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

@NewsAndEventsGuy: Thanks for the heads-up. It's unfortunate that RTG didn't take my advice to avoid editing with a battleground mentality, but not unexpected. I'm currently reading through the ANI thread to get myself up to speed on the issues since then. OhKayeSierra (talk) 19:48, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #427

15:43, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXII, August 2020

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16:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

RM procedure question

Greetings, re 'global wawrming', As you may have seen, I am proposing an article move, but to a different target than the opening RM request. What is the prefered manner to offer an alternative idea, but in a way that facilitates discussion and not-voting? Thanks for format suggestions (if any). NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 22:23, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

@NewsAndEventsGuy: I took a crack at editing the formatting to include a discussion section (basically incorporating the text from the RM survey format at Template:Requested move/talk). Here's the diff. I hope that will help with moving the RM more towards a discussion as other editors notice the relist. OhKayeSierra (talk) 22:53, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
I just realized that I didn't really answer your question. I think that the way that you've handled the RM so far has been the ideal approach for your proposal. Unfortunately, this is a contentious topic in and of itself, so naturally, judging consensus has been difficult, to put it mildly. I dare say it has even bordered on WP:NOGOODOPTIONS territory. If I were to close it right now, I would probably err on no consensus and encourage an RM to be reopened. I'm hoping that the relist will help attract more editors to the RM to get a clearer consensus on what the title should be. OhKayeSierra (talk) 23:04, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for paying attention; I've been deep in the climate pages for years, and compiled much of the history of article name/scope debates for pages
  • Global warming (title/scope status quo unchanged since pre WP:ARBCC) and
  • (former) 'Climate change' (title/scope tweaked over the past year for first time since split with Global warming)... scope is the same but title went to 'climate change (general concept) and then changed again to the current Climate variability and change
I expect the GW RM may succeed this time around, especially if real life gives me time and mental powers to finish the advocacy for the atlernative so it can sink or swim. If I can't get around to it, I'll get out of the way before the relisting is up. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 23:24, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

20:41, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

17:59, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #4

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Reply tool

The number of comments posted with the Reply Tool from March through June 2020. People used the Reply Tool to post over 7,400 comments with the tool.

The Reply tool has been available as a Beta Feature at the Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias since 31 March 2020. The first analysis showed positive results.

  • More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
  • Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
  • Comments from Wikipedia editors are positive. One said, أعتقد أن الأداة تقدم فائدة ملحوظة؛ فهي تختصر الوقت لتقديم رد بدلًا من التنقل بالفأرة إلى وصلة تعديل القسم أو الصفحة، التي تكون بعيدة عن التعليق الأخير في الغالب، ويصل المساهم لصندوق التعديل بسرعة باستخدام الأداة. ("I think the tool has a significant impact; it saves time to reply while the classic way is to move with a mouse to the Edit link to edit the section or the page which is generally far away from the comment. And the user reaches to the edit box so quickly to use the Reply tool.")[106]

The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).

The Reply tool is still in active development. Per request from the Dutch Wikipedia and other editors, you will be able to customize the edit summary. (The default edit summary is "Reply".) A "ping" feature is available in the Reply tool's visual editing mode. This feature searches for usernames. Per request from the Arabic Wikipedia, each wiki will be able to set its own preferred symbol for pinging editors. Per request from editors at the Japanese and Hungarian Wikipedias, each wiki can define a preferred signature prefix in the page MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix. For example, some languages omit spaces before signatures. Other communities want to add a dash or a non-breaking space.

New requirements for user signatures

  • The new requirements for custom user signatures began on 6 July 2020. If you try to create a custom signature that does not meet the requirements, you will get an error message.
  • Existing custom signatures that do not meet the new requirements will be unaffected temporarily. Eventually, all custom signatures will need to meet the new requirements. You can check your signature and see lists of active editors whose custom signatures need to be corrected. Volunteers have been contacting editors who need to change their custom signatures. If you need to change your custom signature, then please read the help page.

Next: New discussion tool

Next, the team will be working on a tool for quickly and easily starting a new discussion section to a talk page. To follow the development of this new tool, please put the New Discussion Tool project page on your watchlist.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:48, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

20:08, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikiproject Military history coordinator election nominations open

Nominations for the upcoming project coordinator election are now open. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting doesn't commence until 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the coord team. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 02:06, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2020).

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Guideline and policy news

Arbitration


Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - August Newsletter

This is our ninth newsletter, covering August 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 4, 6, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 17.

Meetings

  • Upcoming: Online meeting - 2020-09-06 (SDG all) [1]
  • Upcoming: Online meeting - 2020-09-20 (SDG all) [1]
  • Past: Online meeting - 2020-08-02 (SDG all) [2]

Activities

  • Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' celebrated its first published translation: 'Réchauffement climatique en Afrique', a French translation of the English Wikipedia article 'Climate change in Africa' by User:J. N. Squire in French (SDGs 4, 13) [20]
  • Past: World Water Week ISA campaign (SDG 6) [21]
  • Past: Editathon about Covid-19 in Swedish (SDG 3) [22]
  • Past: Editathon about water in Swedish (SDG 6) [23]

News

  • Covid-19 is one of Wikipedia’s biggest challenges ever. Here’s how the site is handling it. (SDG 3) [12]
  • Adding biographies of female oceanographers (SDG 14) [13]
  • Wiki Education participants improve COVID-19 local response articles (SDG 3) [14]
  • Wikimedia Policy Brief - COVID-19 - How Wikipedia helps us through uncertain times (SDG 3) [15]
  • Personal perspective on the forming of the user group (SDG all) [19]

Research

  • Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [3]
  • Wikidata-focused presentations at the Workshop "Data Science in Climate and Climate Impact Research" taking place on 20-21 August 2020 in Zurich and online. (SDGs 4, 13, 17) [16] [17]

Videos

  • Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data Perspective (SDGs 4, 13, 17) [18]
  • Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing about water #17 (SDG 6) [24], [25]

Featured content

  • Vermilion flycatcher (SDG 15) [4]
  • Canada lynx (SDG 15) [5]
  • Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian (SDG 11) [6]
  • Leeches (SDG 15) [7]
  • Gigantorhynchus (SDG 15) [8]
  • List of World Heritage Sites in Iceland (SDG 11) [9]
  • Ursidae (SDG 15) [10]
  • Mephitidae (SDG 15) [11]
  • Orangutan (SDG 15) [32]
  • Horseshoe bat (SDG 15) [33]
  • Hurricane Willa (SDG 11) [34]
  • List of World Heritage Sites in Lithuania (SDG 11) [35]

New Wikidata properties

  • extinction date (SDG 15) [26]
  • Monumentbrowser ID (SDG 11) [27]
  • Nasjonalt skoleregister ID (SDG 4) [28]
  • American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID (SDG 11) [29]
  • Sculptures and cities database ID for sculptures (SDG 11) [31]

New Wikidata query examples

  • Bar chart showing the number of research output (articles, etc) annotated with a SARSCoV2 proteins as 'main subject' (SDG 3) [30]

Links

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