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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q4 2020

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Volume 12, No. 4 — 4th Quarter, 2020
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2021

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

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
  • Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.

Hi, TheSandDoctor. An AfD discussion for Harajuku Girls (song) has started. Please feel free to comment if you are interested. Thank you very much, (talk) 16:13, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

@CAPTAIN RAJU: It's that time of year again already?! Been a while since that faithful edit that started it all. --TheSandDoctor Talk 05:34, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Happy New Year, TheSandDoctor!

   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

15:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Paint It Black

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Paint It Black you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Kyle Peake -- Kyle Peake (talk) 19:01, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

16:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Editing news 2021 #1

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Reply tool

Graph of Reply tool and full-page wikitext edit completion rates
Completion rates for comments made with the Reply tool and full-page wikitext editing. Details and limitations are in this report.

The Reply tool is available at most other Wikipedias.

  • The Reply tool has been deployed as an opt-out preference to all editors at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
  • It is also available as a Beta Feature at almost all Wikipedias except for the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias. If it is not available at your wiki, you can request it by following these simple instructions.

Research notes:

  • As of January 2021, more than 3,500 editors have used the Reply tool to post about 70,000 comments.
  • There is preliminary data from the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedia on the Reply tool. Junior Contributors who use the Reply tool are more likely to publish the comments that they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.[10]
  • The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month.[11] Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
  • A large A/B test will start soon.[12] This is part of the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone. During this test, half of all editors at 24 Wikipedias (not including the English Wikipedia) will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. Editors at those Wikipeedias can still turn it on or off for their own accounts in Special:Preferences.

New discussion tool

Screenshot of version 1.0 of the New Discussion Tool prototype.

The new tool for starting new discussions (new sections) will join the Discussion tools in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures at the end of January. You can try the tool for yourself.[13] You can leave feedback in this thread or on the talk page.

Next: Notifications

During Talk pages consultation 2019, editors said that it should be easier to know about new activity in conversations they are interested in. The Notifications project is just beginning. What would help you become aware of new comments? What's working with the current system? Which pages at your wiki should the team look at? Please post your advice at mw:Talk:Talk pages project/Notifications.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 01:02, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Hey, just to let you know that I have overhauled the article. Though I think it is suitable for GA now (it's still quite a long way for FA), I don't think I'll have enough time to carry on the GAN as I'm retiring in the near future soon... It would be great if you could nominate the article. How do you think? (talk) 03:54, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

I would be honoured, though I am still saddened by your retirement. I hope we cross paths again. TheSandDoctor Talk 04:45, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

@: What would you think it needs to bring it up to FA quality? Just curious as I probably will want to do that some time. --TheSandDoctor Talk 05:08, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
I do hope we could cross paths! If possible, just drop me an email via my Wikipedia email and I'm more than happy to have a convo. Regarding Red for FA, I think more substance should be added to the "Music and lyrics" section (for which I have requested a book source from a music professor here). Perhaps more of the "Legacy" section should also be expanded so that the impact of Red on Swift's subsequent pop albums is discussed thoroughly. The rest is okay-ish, I think. (talk) 13:50, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
@: Emailed! Fingers crossed that that book source arrives soon! Those are good notes for me to go off of, thank you. I have made some edits to the page to improve some of the references from a technical standpoint and will probably do that again later today. I will probably nominate it for GA within a week or 2. --TheSandDoctor Talk 14:16, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Emailed you back! Thank you for reaching me out :) The book source has arrived, so I'll forward it to you in the next few days.

Another note, I saw you de-italicizing certain sources (i.e. Billboard, Rolling Stone). Although web sources are usually not italicized, I would say that it is better (and more appropriate) to italicize them, given that the "work" parameter of {{Cite web}} is automatically italicized; furthermore, since all paper magazines now all have digital websites, it may be unfair to judge that all content on the web has not been published physically beforehand (I believe interviews and album reviews must have been published on paper before going digital). Just my two cents (talk) 13:56, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
@: I was made aware of that misunderstanding between "work"/website and publisher and shall go back through and revert. --TheSandDoctor Talk 22:02, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

18:30, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Ted Kaczynski Peer Review

Hello! You have roughly 10% authorship on Ted Kaczynski, which I am currently working on promoting to FA. I plan on going to FAC after this peer review is completed, so if you would like to look over the article and make suggestions it would be appreciated. Thanks! AviationFreak💬 21:04, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

DYK for New Year's Day (Taylor Swift song)

— Maile (talk) 00:03, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Paint It Black

On 31 January 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Paint It Black, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that "Paint It Black" by the Rolling Stones, which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, was almost scrapped? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Paint It Black. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Paint It Black), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 31 January 2021 (UTC)