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Timeless Newsletter • Issue 3
Welcome to the third issue of the Timeless newsletter, complete with a somewhat dubious explanation of where I've been all this time.
Somewhat dubious explanation of where I've been all this time:
I suffered a rather bad concussion in October, which knocked me pretty much completely out of commission through November, and I'm still recovering even now. One person = bus factor of one, even though it wasn't actually a bus but a very short flight of stairs.
Updates:
- Random bugs have been fixed. More bugs have been found. For a full list of horrors, see the workboard.
- Implementing themes (T131991: the dark/night mode and winter variants of the skin) has proven far more complicated than initially thought, lacking either the extension, or preferably, some core support for this functionality. Thus:
- I have submitted a Request for Comment proposing to merge Extension:Theme into core - this will enable skins to specify style variants as distinct options for users to select in their preferences by letting the skin specify the styles separately for each, a much neater way of implementing this than some of the existing hacks.
- Jack Phoenix has already submitted a patch to do this. We simply need the buy-in and consensus to merge it, and to resolve whatever issues may arise from this wider review.
Comments on the RfC (MediaWiki wiki RfC page, task) or bugs, or further reports, are always appreciated.
Until next time, hopefully with no further injuries,
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
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Hi Titodutta, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas |
Merry Christmas !!!
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Spread the Christmas spirit by adding {{subst:User:Matty.007/template/Christmas}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message. If everyone who got this put it on two talk pages, we would have... lots of Christmas spirit! Have fun finding links in this message!
— 18:08, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 December 2018
- From the editors: Where to draw the line in reporting?
- News and notes: Some wishes do come true
- In the media: Political hijinks
- Discussion report: A new record low for RfA
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- Arbitration report: Year ends with one active case
- Traffic report: Queen dethroned by U.S. presidents
- Gallery: Sun and Moon, water and stone
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- Essay: Requests for medication
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).
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Guideline and policy news
- There are a number of new or changed speedy deletion criteria, each previously part of WP:CSD#G6:
- G14 (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-disambig}}; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages.
- R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no file links) that have the same name as a file or redirect at Commons are now covered under the new R4 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-redircom}}; the text is unchanged.
- G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use {{db-blankdraft}}.
- The Wikimedia Foundation now requires all interface administrators to enable two-factor authentication.
- Members of the Bot Approvals Group (BAG) are now subject to an activity requirement. After two years without any bot-related activity (e.g. operating a bot, posting on a bot-related talk page), BAG members will be retired from BAG following a one-week notice.
Technical news
- Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors, et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length. All accounts must have a password:
- At least 8 characters in length
- Not in the 100,000 most popular passwords (defined by the Password Blacklist library)
- Different from their username
- User accounts not meeting these requirements will be prompted to update their password accordingly. More information is available on MediaWiki.org.
- Blocked administrators may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
- {{Copyvio-revdel}} now has a link to open the history with the RevDel checkboxes already filled in.
Arbitration
- Following the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: AGK, Courcelles, GorillaWarfare, Joe Roe, Mkdw, SilkTork.
Miscellaneous
- Accounts continue to be compromised on a regular basis. Evidence shows this is entirely due to the accounts having the same password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately.
- Around 22% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 20% in June 2018. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless of whether you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
DYK for Dui Bigha Jomi
On 3 January 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Dui Bigha Jomi, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that "Dui Bigha Jomi", a Bengali poem written by Rabindranath Tagore, inspired a story which was the basis for the 1953 Hindi film Do Bigha Zamin? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dui Bigha Jomi. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Dui Bigha Jomi), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Maile (talk) 00:01, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
Happy New Year, Titodutta!
Titodutta,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
DBigXrayᗙ 07:38, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
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Wikimedians of India user group
Hi greetings, wish you a prosperous 2019. I thinks a user group should be needed for Indian wikimedians. There are usergroups even for our states like Kerala, Bengal, etc. But I didn't see any for India. Would you mind create a new user group with this scope? Thank you--PATH SLOPU (Talk) 05:43, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
- In India level we have a m:Wikimedia India chapter and support organisation m:CIS-A2K. National-level is too big for a user group. --Titodutta (talk) 06:03, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
- Okay, I understood about the difficulties of a user group in national level. Thank you for your help.--PATH SLOPU (Talk) 08:55, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
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--PATH SLOPU (Talk) 13:52, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Lists of Odia films by decade
A tag has been placed on Category:Lists of Odia films by decade requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
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Dear WAM organizers!
Wikipedia Asian Month 2018 is now 26 days away! It is time to sign up for WAM 2018,
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Total DHAMAAL
Bro total DHAMAAL me Himesh Reshammiya ka Gaana surely Nehi hai Kaya? Kaya hue batao please? Rocking Anup hr fan (talk) 01:55, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
Total DHAMAAL
Bro total DHAMAAL me Himesh Reshammiya ka Gaana surely Nehi hai Kaya? Kaya hue batao please — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rocking Anup hr fan (talk • contribs) 01:57, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
PRS
I got an email from PRSIndia asking how they can help to improve Indian politicans' articles. My suggestion was only:
Kindly share your suggestion on the English-Wikipedia noticeboard so that the wider community may comment and suggest different Wikipedia policies.
This is the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_topics
Create an account and write about your idea in details.
--Titodutta (talk) 07:11, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
Articles for deletion/Devyani Khobragade
Hello, Titodutta,
Interacting with you after a long time, I am having a technical problem, I recently tagged Devyani Khobragade for deletion but deletion discussion link created is going to a redirect Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Devyani Khobragade incident old discussion. As an Admin can you please resolve this link issue. Thanks Jethwarp (talk) 07:22, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
- The deletion tag was reverted twice [2] - I resign for sometime now. Jethwarp (talk) 10:30, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
- I have created the deletion page for the user manually. Sorry for any misunderstandings caused by me. Regards. << FR (mobileUndo) 11:49, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
- The deletion tag was reverted twice [2] - I resign for sometime now. Jethwarp (talk) 10:30, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
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Administrator changes
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- A request for comment is currently open to reevaluate the activity requirements for administrators.
- Administrators who are blocked have the technical ability to block the administrator who blocked their own account. A recent request for comment has amended the blocking policy to clarify that this ability should only be used in exceptional circumstances, such as account compromises, where there is a clear and immediate need.
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Technical news
- A discussion regarding an overhaul of the format and appearance of Wikipedia:Requests for page protection is in progress (permalink). The proposed changes will make it easier to create requests for those who are not using Twinkle. The workflow for administrators at this venue will largely be unchanged. Additionally, there are plans to archive requests similar to how it is done at WP:PERM, where historical records are kept so that prior requests can more easily be searched for.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2019 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2019, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2019, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
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You might wish
to comment over this thread in light of being one of the most prominent Indic Wikimedians in the project and that CIAS is intrinsically linked with the described grant (the second bullet). ∯WBGconverse 14:04, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
- Hello, I read parts of this last year. I have not gone through the modules. Let them reply to the questions. Regards. --Titodutta (talk) 14:58, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
- Hmm. To what extents, were you aware of the project development, as a Wikimedian (sans your CIAS garbs)? Did you know of any community consultation phase, that was happening w.r.t the modules, across any span of the last year, (as supposed to be per the grant page)? ∯WBGconverse 15:14, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
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