User talk:Dreamy Jazz

As edited by Lima Bean Farmer ^{talk | contributions} on 1 07 2023

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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

Hello Dreamy Jazz,

New Page Review queue April to June 2023

Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.

Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.

You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.

Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).

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Tech News: 2023-25

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

• Flame graphs are now available in WikimediaDebug. [1][2]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• There is now a toolbar search popup in the visual editor. You can trigger it by typing \ or pressing ctrl + shift + p. It can help you quickly access most tools in the editor. [3][4]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:06, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

COI/Meat editors

Thanks for your work at SPI. I made this followup with the {{Connected contributor (paid)}} template. It seems that editor #3 has gone out of their way not to declare the obvious paid relationship, nor to annotate their userpage or the article talkpage appropriately. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:39, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Community sanctions mostly un-updated

Hey. Maybe I'll do it myself at some point, if I have the time (bigef), but as a way also of a reminder / magic, I just noticed in passing that virtually all the community-authorized sanctions, active and defunct alike, have not been updated to CT. I first saw that it @WP:GS/IRANPOL, which reads: For the specific Committee decision that rescinded or modified these community sanctions, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Iranian politics#Discretionary sanctions — an incorrect link, since that (Remedy 4.3.1) was changed to #Contentious topic designation. And so on.

So then I took a non-exhaustive look at a few others: WP:CASTE (active), WP:GS/COVID19 (defunct), WP:GS/Crypto (active), WP:SCW (active), WP:GS/IPAK (defunct), and WP:GS/PAGEANT (active) — of those, only the last two had been updated (i.e. not going on about discretionary sanctions, etc.). I think that it would work towards lowering the confusion quotient to get all of them updated to CT — I was gonna say confusion on the part of new users, but after this (the impetus for my discovery), I'd also say veteran ones. Thanks as always. El_C 15:55, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

@El C, thanks for pointing this out. I've gone through the ones in the category and updated them to mention contentious topics instead of discretionary sanctions. If you see any other not updated text, feel free to report to me or update as you see fit. Thanks and happy editing, Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 23:08, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-26

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

• The Action API modules and Special:LinkSearch will now add a trailing / to all prop=extlinks responses for bare domains. This is part of the work to remove duplication in the externallinks database table. [5]

Problems

• Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours. [6][7]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
• The Minerva skin now applies more predefined styles to the .mbox-text CSS class. This enables support for mbox templates that use divs instead of tables. Please make sure that the new styles won't affect other templates in your wiki. [8][9]
• Gadgets will now load on both desktop and mobile by default. Previously, gadgets loaded only on desktop by default. Changing this default using the |targets= parameter is also deprecated and should not be used. You should make gadgets work on mobile or disable them based on the skin (with the |skins= parameter in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition) rather than whether the user uses the mobile or the desktop website. Popular gadgets that create errors on mobile will be disabled by developers on the Minerva skin as a temporary solution. [10]
• All namespace tabs now have the same browser access key by default. Previously, custom and extension-defined namespaces would have to have their access keys set manually on-wiki, but that is no longer necessary. [11]
• The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized user interface components. [12]

Future changes

• How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change in the coming weeks at group2 wikis. This change improves the accessibility of content. You may need to update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to check, how to update the code, and where to report any related problems. [13]

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:17, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar

There isn't a Checkuser's Barnstar but consider this one to be for your SPI efforts. I just noticed how many SPI cases you got to today! They certainly pile up quickly and I'm sure those editors who filed them appreciate your, and other CUers, getting to them, whatever the results turn out to be. I imagine that focusing so much of your on-Wikipedia time on sockpuppets could be dreary so here's a token of appreciation for your efforts! Liz Read! Talk! 00:31, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

@Liz, thanks for the barnstar! It can get a bit dreary at times, but better than the cases sitting for months while the socks continue to be disruptive. Thanks again and happy editing, Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 10:59, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TjinHGek

Hello. Another one of TjinHGek's sockpuppets has sprung up. See Contributions/TjinHGek2. Mike Allen 01:02, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the report. The account seems to have been dealt with by another checkuser. Happy editing, Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 10:37, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

New pages patrol needs your help!

New pages awaiting review as of June 30th, 2023.

Hello Dreamy Jazz,

The New Page Patrol team is sending you this impromptu message to inform you of a steeply rising backlog of articles needing review. If you have any extra time to spare, please consider reviewing one or two articles each day to help lower the backlog. You can start reviewing by visiting Special:NewPagesFeed. Thank you very much for your help.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

Administrator changes

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• Deckiller
• Electionworld
• MBisanz
• Penwhale
• Raul654
• Roadrunner
• Viridae
• Yannismarou

Bureaucrat changes

MBisanz

Guideline and policy news

• Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.

Technical news

• Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.

Arbitration

• Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:58, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Appeal of topic ban

Hello, I’m posting this message to inform you that I am currently appealing your topic ban on me. As you had previously stated, you would not lift it but you would leave it up to other uninvolved administrators. Still, following guidelines, I wanted to inform you.

thank you Lima Bean Farmer (talk) 19:08, 1 July 2023 (UTC)