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Tech News: 2022-14

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

  • For a few days last week, edits that were suggested to newcomers were not tagged in the Special:RecentChanges feed. This bug has been fixed. [1]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 April. It will be on all wikis from 7 April (calendar).
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 7 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

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21:00, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928)
  • When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Tech News: 2022-15

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

  • There is a new public status page at www.wikimediastatus.net. This site shows five automated high-level metrics where you can see the overall health and performance of our wikis' technical environment. It also contains manually-written updates for widespread incidents, which are written as quickly as the engineers are able to do so while also fixing the actual problem. The site is separated from our production infrastructure and hosted by an external service, so that it can be accessed even if the wikis are briefly unavailable. You can read more about this project.
  • On Wiktionary wikis, the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [3][4]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar).

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19:43, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Kane Pixels: creepypasta prodigy

I originally became aware of this 16-year old film maker, KANEpixels, 2 months ago after Muta reviewed his first video ("The Creepy Backrooms Found Footage..."). I noticed today that he's added 8 videos since (videos vary in length from 1-10 min). I'm liking the style and the lore, so check it out. I don't normally recommend artists this young, but this is good stuff. Great promise. El_C 16:08, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

@El C: The setting reminds me of drunkenly returning to a conference hotel in the middle of the night; a true horror! I watched a few of them, and they're quite haunting. I also appreciate the Mutahar review since I didn't realize it was related to the copypasta. It's amazingly well done, and I admire the commitment to putting the whole thing through a VHS to get the right effects. Reminds me of how The Mountain Goats recorded a lot of their early albums on cassette tape to get the right tone. Thanks for sharing! — Wug·a·po·des​ 04:17, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
NP. I notice how some of the best creepypasta stuff out there are VHS-like (found footage or otherwise analogue in some way). My favourite of all the Nexpo curations, as you recall, is "LOCAL58: The Broadcast Station that Manipulates You," a VHS found footage. I find it fascinating that a 16 year old kid on a shoe string budget, out-eerie's professional, big studio-backed fright masters, who mostly use the same ol' tropes. It's been 17 years since The Descent, what have have ya done for me recently, film industry? El_C 10:39, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

  1. Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
  2. Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period

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22:53, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

WikiCup 2022 May newsletter

The second round of the 2022 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 115 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top seven contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 11 featured articles and the 79 good articles achieved in total by contestants.

Our top scorers in round 2 were:

  1. New York (state) Epicgenius, with 1264 points from 2 featured article, 4 good articles and 18 DYKs. Epicgenius was a finalist last year but has now withdrawn from the contest as he pursues a new career path.
  2. Christmas Island AryKun, with 1172 points from two featured articles, one good article and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews.
  3. Kingdom of Scotland Bloom6132, with 605 points from 44 in the news items and 4 DYKs.
  4. Sammi Brie, with 573 points from 8 GAs and 21 DYKs.
  5. Ealdgyth, with 567 points from 11 GAs and 34 good and featured article reviews.
  6. United States Panini!, with 549 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and several other sources.
  7. England Lee Vilenski, with 545 points from 1 FA, 4 GAs and a number of reviews.

The rules for featured and good article reviews require the review to be of sufficient length; brief quick fails and very short reviews will generally not be awarded points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:39, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-16

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

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 April. It will be on all wikis from 21 April (calendar).
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 19 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 21 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
  • Administrators will now have the option to delete/undelete the associated "Talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is also available. This concludes the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
  • On selected wikis, 50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents. When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements project. [5]
  • Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS classes: successbox, errorbox, warningbox. The styles for those classes and messagebox will be removed from MediaWiki core. This only affects wikis that use these classes in wikitext, or change their appearance within site-wide CSS. Please review any local usage and definitions for these classes you may have. This was previously announced in the 28 February issue of Tech News.

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23:11, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Question from Cai Damane on User:Cai Damane/sandbox (13:12, 18 April 2022)

Hello,i want to start a page.Can you please help😣😣😣 --Cai Damane (talk) 13:12, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi Cai Damane, and welcome to Wikipedia! If you're interested in starting to edit, I recommend our introduction to Wikipedia which will teach you about our policies and how to edit. What are you interested in writing about? — Wug·a·po·des​ 17:49, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
About the problems in the society and my organisation... Cai Damane (talk) 15:12, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Question from Friendofkharkiv on Battle of Kharkiv (2022) (07:26, 21 April 2022)

Hi Wugapodes! I want to add the killing of my friend's 21-year-old daughter on 3 March while volunteering and add this article as a reference: https://m-cacm.acm.org/news/259846-in-memoriam-yulia-zdanovska-2000-2022/. I have no coding experience. --Friendofkharkiv (talk) 07:26, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi Friendofkharkiv. My condolences for your friend and their daughter; she seems to have been bright and generous. I appreciate your interest interest, and hopefully I can help orient you to Wikipedia. I would recommend reading our policy on recently deceased people (counterintuitively titled "biographies of living people") and due-weight. When writing about subjects, especially private individuals who were not public figures, our editorial policies have us err on the side of privacy. We try to avoid drawing undue attention to individuals, and other editors at that page may ask you about those editorial policies.
As for how to add information and citations, I recommend our introduction to citing sources using the VisualEditor. It will walk you through the specifics of how to cite sources, and there are also links to other tutorials you might find helpful. Let me know if you have other questions or run into problems, and I look forward to your contributions! — Wug·a·po·des​ 03:38, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-17

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

  • On many wikis (group 1), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [10][11]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 April. It will be on all wikis from 28 April (calendar).
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 26 April at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
  • Some very old browsers and operating systems are no longer supported. Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in very old browsers like Internet Explorer 9 or 10, Android 4, or Firefox 38 or older. [12]

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22:54, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-18

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

  • On all remaining wikis (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [13][14]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 May. It will be on all wikis from 5 May (calendar).

Future changes

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19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Signpost essay

Hi! I was wondering if you'd be okay with running User:Wugapodes/RFA trend lines as next issue's essay for the Signpost. I think it would provide very interesting reading in conjunction with our reporting of Tamzin's RfA and the subsequent 'crat chat. — Ixtal ( T / C ) ⁂ Join WP:FINANCE! 10:24, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

@Ixtal Of course. What's the publication timeline? If there's a few weeks I was hoping to expand it based on discussion with Avi and others, but if the deadline is close I'm fine with you running it as is. — Wug·a·po·des​ 17:41, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
We have 26 days until publication, so there's plenty of time for you to expand :) — Ixtal ( T / C ) ⁂ Join WP:FINANCE! 18:33, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

:)

As soon as I saw someone make a half-baked statistical argument to justify their subjective impressions, I was waiting for you to step in and systematically debunk it. And I wasn't disappointed! :) Thank you for what you bring to the table—I can't speak for anyone else, but I really appreciate it. MastCell Talk 17:16, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

@MastCell Thanks for the kind words. I think the unique combination of rare and important makes crat chats one of the most interesting rituals on Wikipedia, so I do my best to pay attention when they happen. I'm glad you found something interesting in my comments. — Wug·a·po·des​ 18:42, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
As a rule, if I'm participating in a crat chat I don't read the talk page before I submit my assessment. Afterwards, however, I was pretty relieved to see your thorough analysis, which I think lined up with the conclusions that I drew from the discussion. So...what do you think about running for RFB? bibliomaniac15 04:44, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
@Bibliomaniac15: I'd prefer a poke from a sharp stick, but I felt the same about admin and arb and look where that got me. Last time I was asked about an RfB I said no. In February I didn't view the concern about representation as particularly serious: things seemed fine so while younger crats would have been nice I doubted whether it would make a practical difference. But given the crat chat talk page and BN discussions over the last few days, I think I was wrong. The community seems more concerned about the composition of the crat corps than I expected. As I said at BN, I've come to agree that the viable path forward is more candidates from the post-Primefac (2017) sysop cohorts. For the reasons I gave to sdrqaz, I'd still prefer if that solution didn't involve me, but I'm also aware that "let someone else do it" on Wikipedia means "no one will do it". If I were to ask for a wrench, it wouldn't be until the summer as I've got some major commitments in May and early June. — Wug·a·po·des​ 06:44, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

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

Problems

  • Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed. [19]
  • 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. [20]

Changes later this week

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)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

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Question from B d pandya on DD Girnar (11:52, 11 May 2022)

Sir my son lost while studying in Surat engineering college on 30/09/1999 i have tried many times by published in news paper at fulchhab local Surat news paper and done police complain at that year in 1999 and 2000 year given with photo for searching him by no result all over India regional places visit but no results if alive or not Not till today any one show him his mother died in his sons reason so i again try because I his father now aged of69 yrs so wanted to give add in lost people yr message u daily relays so please guide me what to do after 22yrs passed so please coordinate me and reply thanks B d pandya Himatnagar mobile no 9427402527 --B d pandya (talk) 11:52, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

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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. [22]
  • 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. [23]

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18:57, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

He's Back

Hi Wugapodes, that persistent disruptive editing person is back again. He's been blocked many times using different ip addresses over the past few years. His latest was the Jersey City Fire Department page. His ip address 2603.6011.DF01. Please assist. Thank you, Doriden (talk) 14:53, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022

New Page Review queue March 2022

Hello Wugapodes,

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 815 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 858 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.

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Question from Snbtower16 (17:20, 23 May 2022)

Hello. I need some help because I added a picture of Joel Berghult and someone copyright the photo. I'm not sure what I did wrong. Joel Berghult took the photo himself and he does not care about what we do with his photo. The only person should be able to copyright it would be Joel himself. I can promise you that he does not care and I can get permission from the man himself. --Snbtower16 (talk) 17:20, 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. [24]
  • The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [25]

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. [26]
  • 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. [27]

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. [28]

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00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

WugBot error

Hi. In this edit, WugBot erroneously removed a brand new (and thus, obviously unapproved) nomination. Can the bot be fixed to properly handle edit conflicts?  MANdARAX  XAЯAbИAM  02:32, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-22

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

  • Advanced item In the AbuseFilter extension, an ip_in_ranges() function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple ip_in_range() expressions joined by | into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [29]
  • The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org.

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).
  • Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 31 May at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
  • The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [30][31]
  • Advanced item The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the uciprange parameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit. [32]
  • A new parser function will be introduced: {{=}}. It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates. [33]

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20:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Featured picture scheduled for POTD

Hi Wugapodes,

This is to let you know that File:IPA-euler-manners-features.svg, a featured picture you nominated, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for September 17, 2022. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2022-09-17. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.9% of all FPs 17:53, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Distinctive feature

In linguistics, a distinctive feature is the most basic unit of phonological structure that distinguishes one speech sound from another within a language. They are grouped into categories according to the natural classes of segments they describe: major class features, laryngeal features, manner features, and place features. These feature categories are in turn further specified on the basis of the phonetic properties of the segments in question. This Euler diagram illustrates a typical classification of speech sounds, represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet, with the relationship between manners of articulation and related categories, including distinctive features.

Diagram credit: Nardog

Well, this was a challenging yet fun caption to write (at Alan's request). Some categories in the image are both a manner and a feature (like lateral) and some are neither (like rhotic), so I figured equivocation was more nitpick-proof. At first I was like, "phonology deals with segments and features, phonetics with sounds and manners", but obviously it's not that clear-cut so I just did away with mentions of the branches altogether. I know there are substance-free approaches to phonology, but "sound" as a synonym for "segment" doesn't seem too controversial. I'm not familiar with POTDs so feel free to brush it up. Nardog (talk) 22:23, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Clarification request

The individual doing the socking is motivated against me personally and not bound to the topics I am interested in. The "third head" I mentioned earlier has had no encounters with me on abortion or abortion related topics, instead it was other topics. Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations says, "if you need to submit off-wiki evidence for some other reason, you must email". Does the topic ban prohibit me from submitting information to the the checkuser team off-wiki?--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 04:17, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

@Epiphyllumlover The topic ban only covers sockpuppet investigations where they are related to abortion; it's not a general ban on SPI. If it is unrelated to abortion, you can submit information to the checkuser team via email. That said, if you are unsure or on the fence about whether the report is unrelated to abortion, it would be safest to refrain. You should be avoiding the topic and discussions, and if checkusers feel that an email report violates your ban they might take action. TLDR You're probably fine given what you've told me but the safest option is to just avoid anything even remotely related to the topic area for now. — Wug·a·po·des​ 20:55, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
The IP range editor straddled abortion and non-abortion topics, and interacted with people with me in mind, or with me personally on
  • 1. the abortion article's talk page
  • 2. the message I left at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Where_should_the_counting_begin_for_Wikipedia:Silence_and_consensus_?, which was a general question which I asked partly with IP editor's behavior on three non-abortion pages in mind. The IP editor's comment about my message did not mention abortion and was made before a complaint about my behavior was initiated at the AN. Yet by inference, the IP editor appeared to interpret my general question to relate solely to someone else with whom I had a content dispute concerning 44 words dealing with Richard Nixon and abortion, as well as a more ambiguous content dispute dealing with Norma McCorvey.
  • 3. three geographical articles
Would it be okay if I submitted an SPI report relating items #2 and #3 from the IP range to non-abortion edits and comments made by the "third head"? The proposed SPI report would not mention abortion.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 21:41, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
Epiphyllumlover If I were in your position I would not file an SPI report given the relationship the IP has to the abortion talk pages. The community has exhausted it's patience in that topic area, and I don't believe filing an SPI on an IP who edits there will be viewed positively. That said, how about we try this: email me what you have and I'll review it. If need be I'll forward it to other checkusers or take actions myself if it's clear enough. Hopefully this can address the issue without you needing to test the limits of your topic ban. If you go that route, I'll say that Tuesdays and Wednesdays are incredibly busy for me so I likely won't be able to review what you send me until Thursday, US Pacific Time. — Wug·a·po·des​ 22:59, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
That sounds even better to me, because then I wouldn't have to worry about the topic coming up in the ensuing discussion. And after reviewing it and deciding if it is worthwhile, I would also like it if you emailed me back to tell me if you submitted it or not. I'm not done compiling things, so I don't think it will be this week.
It also helps that the individual in question, who I presume is monitoring my contributions list, understands your offer to review things by email and by that is discouraged from pulling anything in the short term.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 02:49, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Featured picture scheduled for POTD

Hi Wugapodes,

This is to let you know that File:Chemerinsky during Hyatt III sketch.jpg, a featured picture you nominated, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for October 10, 2022. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2022-10-10. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.9% of all FPs 11:05, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt

Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt was a 2019 United States Supreme Court case that determined that, unless they consent, states have sovereign immunity from private lawsuits filed against them in the courts of another state. The 5–4 decision overturned precedent set in the 1979 Supreme Court case Nevada v. Hall. This was the litigants' third time presenting their case to the Supreme Court, which had previously ruled on the issue initially in 2003 and subsequently in 2016. This courtroom sketch by the American sketch artist Arthur Lien depicts Erwin Chemerinsky presenting oral arguments for the respondent in the 2019 case, with the Supreme Court justices Elena Kagan and Brett Kavanaugh looking on in the background.

Illustration credit: Arthur Lien

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An IP you partially blocked added fake news/unconfirmed news

The IP 37.211.33.241 added fake news/unconfirmed news in the article: List of NCAA Division I institutions. I think it would be relevant for you to know. Thank you, Luks25 (talk) 02:04, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

@Luks25 Thanks for letting me know. That range block covers ~16,000 addresses and is only intended to stop disruption from an IP-hopping vandal at the given page. It's highly unlikely that the IP you ran into is the person the block is meant to restrict. Looking at the contributions, I don't see the need for a more targeted block or other intervention. That editor seems to have been quickly reverted and moved on. — Wug·a·po·des​ 22:51, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

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