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Tech News: 2022-19
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now see categories in the Wikipedia app for Android. [1]
Problems
- Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed. [2]
- Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change. [3]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [4]
- Incompatibility issues with Kartographer and the FlaggedRevs extension will be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the extension on May 24.
- The Vector (2022) skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update about Vector (2022).
Future meetings
- The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.
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15:21, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #519
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- Discussions
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- PangolinBot. Task/s: Automatically replace one property value with another (Approved)
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Live editing session on Twitch about International Museum Day 2022, in French, by Vigneron, May 10 at 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)
- LIVE Wikidata editing #79 - YouTube, Facebook, May 14 at 18:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #106, May 15 at 12.00 UTC
- The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. If you’re interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon, don’t wait too long to book a slot: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #41, Music
- International Museum Day Wikidata Competition, 4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.
- Past:
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- Tool of the week
- MapComplete is an OpenStreetMap viewer and editor that searches Wikidata for species - which means that it is super-easy to link the Wikidata item to a tree one sees!
- User:Nikki/flag-emoji.css is a userscript that adds emoji flags before items for flags supported by either Noto Color Emoji or BabelStone Flags.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: WikiProject importance scale rating, CXSMILES, class of property value, finisher, support of a function, probability mass function, probability generating function, Fisher information, characteristic function, cumulative distribution function
- External identifiers: Investopedia term ID, fanvue creator ID, Encyclopedia of Ideas ID, RBMS Controlled Vocabulary ID, WhoSampled track ID, Identifiant Les Recteurs d'Académie en France, French Inspector General for Education (1802-1914) identifier, TheGuardian.com profile ID, Hmoegirl ID, English Everipedia ID, GeoSciML ID, Présent author ID, Data Commons ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: beteiligte Parteien, ligament insertion, proper motion components, distributed from, IBAN banking code, contains statistical territorial entity
- External identifiers: The Israeli Directors Guild id, Twitter moment ID, Muziekweb composition ID, TOBuilt ID, Afisha.ru movie ID, Rusakters.ru ID, Baidu Scholar paper ID, ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization ID, Chocolatey Community Package, IRIS Emilia-Romagna IDs, Kubbealti Lugati term ID, Kinokolo.ua film ID, Kinokolo.ua person ID, Twitter list ID
- Query examples:
- List of French public administrations with an open data portal, a siren number (P1616) and a servicepublic id (P6671) (source)
- Largest cities with a female mayor (source)
- Reach of Twitter accounts on Wikidata (source)
- Which works published in the 1970s have been most cited from works on archaeology? (source)
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API: We are continuing to implement the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (phab:T305988, phab:T307087, phab:T307088)
- Lexicographical data: We are finishing the version of the page for browsers without JavaScript support (phab:T298160). We started working on the feature to pre-fill the input fields by URL parameter (phab:T298154). And we started working on better suggestions for lexical categories so commonly-used ones can more easily be added to avoid mistakes (phab:T298150).
- We fixed an issue with recently added new language codes not being usable for Lexemes and not being sorted correctly on Special:NewItem (phab:T277836).
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).
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- Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
- Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.
- The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
- A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.
- Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.
Template recursion issues
Ive been looking through Category:Pages with template loops, and ive noticed pretty much all of your /scripts/ pages have popped up in them. Looking further into the issue, it seems to be originating from User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/template, which has confused me quite a bit. First of all, the onlyinclude tags dont seem to be doing much work, if any. The page displays the same no matter how i change it. Second of all, the reccursion is probably comming from the call of {{#invoke:string|match
, and how you fetch its own content. Ill let you decide how you want to fix it, since it still seems to give the content back. Hope this helps. Aidan9382 (talk) 05:28, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
- Turns out im mistaken. The issue of template looping is originating from the call of
{{SAFESUBST:<noinclude />Script installation text}}
in User:Qwerfjkl/tempscript. Looking deeper, the issue seems to originate from this line (<includeonly>{{SAFESUBST:<noinclude />#if:{{SAFESUBST:<noinclude />#invoke:String|match|s={{SAFESUBST:<noinclude />:{{SAFESUBST:<noinclude />FULLPAGENAME}}}}|[[Category:Wikipedia scripts]]|plain=true|nomatch=}}||{{SAFESUBST:<noinclude />#switch:{{{categorize|{{{cat|}}}}}}|never|no=|{{SAFESUBST:<noinclude />#switch:{{SAFESUBST:<noinclude />NAMESPACENUMBER}}|2|4=[[Category:Wikipedia scripts|{{SAFESUBST:<noinclude />SUBPAGENAME}}]]}}}}}}</includeonly>
) in {{Script installation text}}. I dont really know enough to understand the full extent of this line, so I'll leave it to you to decide if its posible to/worth fixing the looping. Aidan9382 (talk) 06:44, 11 May 2022 (UTC)- @Aidan9382, It transcludes the page onto itself in order to check if the page has the category. I suppose {{Find page text}} might be better. ― Qwerfjkltalk 15:21, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
- I gave what you suggested a try and its worked (AFAIK) perfectly. Those were also the last pages in Category:Pages with template loops, so i can officialy consider that as (hopefully) empty now. Thanks for the suggestion. Aidan9382 (talk) 18:10, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Aidan9382, It transcludes the page onto itself in order to check if the page has the category. I suppose {{Find page text}} might be better. ― Qwerfjkltalk 15:21, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
Article created by mistake?
I believe P_talk:SARS-CoV-2 was created in mainspace by mistake when making the portal redirect. If you want to G7 it or move it where you believe it should be. WikiVirusC(talk) 23:51, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of P talk:SARS-CoV-2
I've nominated this for speedy deletion as you seem to have created it by accident. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 05:28, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, Q, I'm not sure what you were going for here, with this page. Liz Read! Talk! 06:07, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
- Sorry @Liz, @Mako001. The Wp:AFCRC helper script tried to place the WikiProject banner on the talk page, which it determined by adding
talk
just before a colon, so P:SARS-CoV-2 becomes P talk:SARS-CoV-2. This is a known bug, but I always forget to fix it (see #Speedy deletion nomination of ISO 639-6 talk:xghu). ― Qwerfjkltalk 06:29, 14 May 2022 (UTC)- Well, that makes sense. I hadn't heard of that bug before, but I'm glad I know about it now. Cheerio. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 06:49, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
- Sorry @Liz, @Mako001. The Wp:AFCRC helper script tried to place the WikiProject banner on the talk page, which it determined by adding
Regarding a CfD outcome
Hi Qwerfjkl, thanks for closing Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 April 9 § Category:Wikipedia requested edits. Not a big deal but I think one of the post-split categories should be Category:Wikipedia partially-block edit requests per mine and DarthFlappy's responses. Thanks! —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 13:04, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
- @CX Zoom, I read those; however, users can be partially blocked, but the block is a partial block. The edit request is not partially blocked; it is a partial block edit request.w ― Qwerfjkltalk 15:42, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
- Ah, I see that. This one actually seems better. Thanks! —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 05:06, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
Relisting
First of all thanks a lot for all your work at CfD! Regarding the 3rd relisting of this discussion, I hope you are aware that relisting more than twice is a bit unusual? See also WP:RELIST about that. Fwiw, personally I am even a bit more reluctant with relisting than that. I would mainly relist a second time when there has been some more discussion since the first relisting but nothing conclusive. But in case of no further discussion and if I am too uncertain about it I would usually not relist it a second time but rather leave it to an administrator to close. (In this particular case I might have closed the discussion as rename though.) Please just treat this as a minor comment, not as serious criticism. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:34, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #520
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- Events
- Upcoming:
- The Wikimedia Hackathon will take place online on May 20–22, 2022. Are you interested in presenting something around Wikidata and Wikibase during the hackathon? Book a slot in the Wikidata+Wikibase room: Wikimedia Hackathon 2022/Schedule.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 17, 2022: Anson Parker and Lucy Carr-Jones (University of Virigina Claude Moore Health Sciences Library) will be talking about their Open Data Dashboard for analyzing University of Virginia Health publications using EuropePMC publication data as well as work to group publications based on institutional departments in Wikidata and how much of their content is "open." Agenda
- LIVE Wikidata editing #80 - YouTube, Facebook, May 21 at 18:00 UTC
- Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #108, May 22 at 12.00 UTC
- 1 July: Abstract submission deadline for the Biodiversity Data Standards Conference TDWG 2022, including for a session on "The role of the Wikimedia ecosystem in linking biodiversity data"
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #42, Constitution Day, Norway
- International Museum Day Wikidata Competition, 4 May 2022 - 18 May 2022.
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- How to create Wikidata item (in Assamese) - YouTube
- Tool of the week
- Wikidata Guesser allows you to guess the locations of random Wikidata items!
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.
- The Wikidata community onboarding documentation by Wiki Education.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: quantile function, mean of a probability distribution, median of a probability distribution, mode of a probability distribution, dance, variance of a probability distribution, skewness, excess kurtosis, information entropy, moment-generating function
- External identifiers: OBD Memorial ID, GeolISSTerm ID, TIME.com author ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: Similar web ranking
- External identifiers: Italian Chamber of Deputies Government ID, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID, TamTam chat ID, PM20 ware ID, ANR project ID, HeHaCham HaYomi id, Delaware Department of State file number, JBIS horse ID, Camp Wild
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- REST API: We continued implementing the REST routes to get all statements of an Item and retrieve a single statement from an Item (phab:T305988, phab:T307087, phab:T307088)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2022-20
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- Some wikis can soon use the add a link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are Catalan Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [5]
- The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 May. It will be on all wikis from 19 May (calendar).
Future changes
- You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons. [6]
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18:57, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
MfD nomination of User:Qwerfjkl/preservedCategories
User:Qwerfjkl/preservedCategories, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Qwerfjkl/preservedCategories and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:Qwerfjkl/preservedCategories during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:50, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
Lillup
Hello,
I see you recently reverted an edit at List of Australian Aboriginal group names that had changed 'lillup' to 'lollup'. I'm just letting you know that I'm going to delete 'lillup' as an alternative name to Alura. I'm a linguist and work with Australian languages and have been trying to find how/why this name came to be inserted as an alternative to Alura (who actually prefer to be known as Jaminjung) but it seems pretty clearly an error. There is a plant from Central Australia known as 'alura' (in the Alyawarr language) which has an alternative name of 'lilup' and I think that's how the confusion arose. Anyway, as you made a relevant edit I thought I'd let you know.
Cheers, Dougg (talk) 04:55, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
Page mover
I've granted page mover per your request at WP:PERM; guidelines for usage of the right are found at Wikipedia:Page mover. If you have any questions, or in the future decide that you do not intend to use the tool, you can contact me or any other administrator. Hog Farm Talk 20:15, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
Hello, Qwerfjkl,
You tagged this category for deletion but it still has 68,291 pages in it so I'm going to remove the tag. The category has to be emptied first and I think you need help from an admin who closes CFD cases for this one. Liz Read! Talk! 03:48, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Liz, I also placed an edit request at Template talk:Infobox musical artist#Template-protected edit request on 18 May 2022, and tagged the template that populates the category for deletion at Template talk:Infobox musical artist/tracking. ― Qwerfjkltalk 06:05, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
Noticeboard notice
Hello Qwerfjkl, there is a discussion open regarding edits made by your bot at Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#Controversy_About_Report_Being_Generated_by_Bot. Please see and comment there when you have a moment. — xaosflux Talk 14:10, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022
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Hello Qwerfjkl,
At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.
Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.
In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 814 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 854 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.
This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.
If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}}
on their talk page.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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Wikidata weekly summary #521
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- Discussions
- New request for comments: Use of dates in the descriptions of items regarding humans
- Events
- Upcoming:
- 6 and 8 June: Scholia hackathon with focus on software-related visualizations and curation workflows
- 29 July 2022: The submission deadline for the Wikidata Workshop 2022 that will be co-located with the 21st International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC 2022).
- Ongoing:
- Weekly Lexemes Challenge #43, Towel Day
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos
- Interrogating linked open data and Wikidata with SPARQL Lorenzo Losa - YouTube
- Videos
- Tool of the week
- LOD4Culture is a web application for exploring world-wide cultural heritage.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- UNLOCK, a Wikimedia Deutschland program, is looking for your project ideas. These could be the development of tools building on top of Wikidata's data, of applications for social and public good or related to civic tech. Apply until May 29th, 2022!
- Job opening: Community Communications Manager - Wikibase at Wikimedia Deutschland.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: Similarweb ranking
- External identifiers: Chocolatey Community package ID, Twitter moment ID, Kino-kolo film ID, netkeiba horse ID, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books term ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes: has vector, ECLI court code, Mirror image, Norges Nasjonalmuseum Creator ID
- External identifiers: Radio France person ID, ORKG ID, Authority control/Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici id, Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy ID, Kino.mail.ru film ID, Kino.mail.ru series ID, Kino.mail.ru person ID, TVG Programme Identifier, CPRF person ID, New Mexico Digital Collections identifier, Ukrainian Live Classic composer ID, Odnoklassniki artist ID, Lithuania Minor encyclopedia ID
- Query examples:
- Relationships of Roman deities (source)
- Ingrediants of dishes on Wikidata (source)
- Food names after a place in the UK (source)
- French heads of government classified by tenure (source)
- Places in Antarctica over 3000km away from the South Pole
- Topics that members of the Swedish Parliament motioned about 2020/21 (source)
- Albums with more than one language statement where none has preferred rank (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikibase REST API: Initial implementation of a route providing all statements of an item (phab:T305988), an a route to retrieve a single statement (phab:T307087) completed.
- First batch of WBstack.com accounts successfully migrated to Wikibase.cloud. You can keep track of our progress on this phabricator ticket phab:T303852.
- Lexicographical data: We updated the input placeholders on the new version of the NewLexeme special page (T302877, T307443). We finished the feature to prefill the inputs from URL parameters if present (T298154) and to suggest common lexical category items (T298150). We are working on some accessibility improvements (T303806, T290733, T305359) and improving validation / error messages (T305854).
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
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CfD closure
I think in this discussion you accidentally moved the nominated category to the wrong target. Can you have another look please? Marcocapelle (talk) 18:40, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-21
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. [7]
- The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [8]
Problems
- The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [9]
- Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation. [10]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).
Future changes
Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers. [11]
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00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Sarah-Nicole Robles
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A tag has been placed on Sarah-Nicole Robles requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a real person or group of people that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. scope_creepTalk 15:46, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
Hello, Qwerfjkl,
I don't think you can find an admin who will delete a full category based on a CSD tag. All of the contents of this category need to be recategorized first to the new category, prior to this page being deleted. But you should be familiar with this process since you regularly close CFD discussions now so I'm a little bit confused by your request. Liz Read! Talk! 19:56, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- Hi Liz, the pages can't be recategorised because it is the category page; it needs to be deleted so that the other category can be moved in its place. On second thoughts, a round-robin move might have simplified this. ― Qwerfjkltalk 20:20, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
Would you mind reversing this closure? Per WP:BADNAC, A non-admin closure is not appropriate [... when] the outcome is a close call (especially where there are several valid outcomes) or likely to be controversial. Such closes are better left to an administrator
. That argument seems to apply here. * Pppery * it has begun... 15:44, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- The same applies to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 April 1#Category:Wikipedians who oppose rebranding the WMF and Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 April 1#Category:Wikipedians assessed by WikiProject Users. I don't think an unexplained
no consensus
really constitutes a proper closure. * Pppery * it has begun... 15:46, 25 May 2022 (UTC)- @Pppery, Not much I can do for Wikipedians who oppose rebranding the WMF, but I've reverted the rest. ― Qwerfjkltalk 15:52, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- Sorry, that was my mistake (I was only intending to challenge the no consensus closures, not the earlier relisting I conflated them with). For what it's worth I don't think the relisting there accomplished anything either, but that's water under the bridge now. * Pppery * it has begun... 15:55, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Pppery, the discussions have been closed as no consensus by Fayentic London. ― Qwerfjkltalk 13:03, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
- Sorry, that was my mistake (I was only intending to challenge the no consensus closures, not the earlier relisting I conflated them with). For what it's worth I don't think the relisting there accomplished anything either, but that's water under the bridge now. * Pppery * it has begun... 15:55, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Pppery, Not much I can do for Wikipedians who oppose rebranding the WMF, but I've reverted the rest. ― Qwerfjkltalk 15:52, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
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I know I've disagreed with several of your decisions regarding categories in the past, but still you are doing a very good job at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion. * Pppery * it has begun... 16:08, 26 May 2022 (UTC) |
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Please clarify this CFD close
Hi, please could you expand your close of Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2022_April_23#Video_games_set_in_a_fictional_location, to specify which parents you merged each deleted category to? E.g. it appears from [12] that you merged Category:Video games set on fictional islands to Category:Video games set on islands, but not also to Category:Works set on fictional islands.
IMHO it would also be appropriate for you to state your rationale for merging to only one parent, as suggested by User:Zxcvbnm, rather than to all parents, as suggested by me.
I have no objection to you processing CFDs manually, as you are leaving a clear edit summary, but feel free to list them instead at WT:CFDW, so that an admin can then feed the donkey work to a bot. – Fayenatic London 09:55, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Fayenatic london, Looking at it again, if there is consensus to keep Works set on fictional X, then the categories should probably have upmerged to both. I'll fix the closing statement and upmerge to the other categories based on my contributions, though it'll take a while - some of those categories had over 400 pages.
It's mostly easier to manually process them, as with Cat-a-lot I can manage <90 pages in about 20 seconds, so it's easier, although any more than that and I have to wait another minute to avoid the rate limit. Once I remove d ~1300 pages from a category, and that took around half an hour. ― Qwerfjkltalk 11:12, 30 May 2022 (UTC)- Thanks. Don't feel you have to do that just because I asked, though. There was some weight against my suggestion, and you may be able to find consensus for a single upmerge... but if so, the justification should be documented.– Fayenatic London 12:55, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Fayenatic london, actually, I'll wait until the DRV below finishes. ― Qwerfjkltalk 17:12, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks. Don't feel you have to do that just because I asked, though. There was some weight against my suggestion, and you may be able to find consensus for a single upmerge... but if so, the justification should be documented.– Fayenatic London 12:55, 30 May 2022 (UTC)