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Tech News: 2023-17

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

Problems

  • Due to security issues with the Graph extension, graphs have been disabled in all Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia Foundation teams are working to respond to these vulnerabilities. [2]
  • For a few days, it was not possible to save some kinds of edits on the mobile version of a wiki. This has been fixed. [3][4][5]

Changes later this week

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on April 26. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. [6]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

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David Hu (IIG)

Could I please see a copy of David Hu (IIG). Davidgoodheart (talk) 15:04, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

I'll email it to you, I'm not putting a negative BLP in userspace. WP:BLP1E explains the concept to start with, I can answer more questions if you have them. Courcelles (talk) 15:07, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
Oh, wait, appears you don't have email enabled. Courcelles (talk) 15:08, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Your recent changes

Hi.Thank U for making the change I requested for the article Microsoft Office. Can U please remove the {{pp-pc1}} from line 2? Again, thanks in advance.197.26.153.57 (talk) 18:00, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

DoneM Courcelles (talk) 19:56, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Rollback

I saw your name on the Admins granting rollback and was wondering if you could grant me that permission to help stop vandalism on RC. Thanks, PalauanReich (talk) 00:50, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Procedural notification

Hi, I and others have proposed additional options at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#RfC_on_a_procedural_community_desysop. You may wish to review your position in that RfC. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:14, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

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Women in Red May 2023

Women in Red May 2023, Vol 9, Iss 5, Nos 251, 252, 267, 268, 269, 270


Online events:

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DYK

Could you please nominate this page Paul (given name) for DYK. I have spend countless time expanding this. I also don't know how to use DYK. Davidgoodheart (talk) 20:14, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

I haven't spent any significant time at DYK in literally a decade. I wouldn't be considered conversant in their rules anymore by any reasonable measure. Maybe ask at Wikipedia talk:Did you know? Courcelles (talk) 12:29, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Fontainebleaugrantleingang‎

Hi, I see that you blocked Fontainebleaugrantleingang‎ (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) for username violation. I wanted to mention that this same editor is apparently using several other accounts. They have the same username pattern and the exact same type of strange edits to articles about hotels in Las Vegas, all with the same edit summary. The other accounts are:

CodeTalker (talk) 14:56, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Cleaned the sock drawer. Thanks. Courcelles (talk) 15:13, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-18

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Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 May. It will be on all wikis from 4 May (calendar).

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Longer block needed

This user went right back to edit warring, f y i. Two reverts in a half hour. SergeWoodzing (talk) 18:37, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

A WP:BRD reversion of an unsourced edit by you is not edit warring. Gugrak (talk) 18:41, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
You have learned nothing from your recent block. If we feel a source is missing, we ask for that, we don't revert twice in a half hour, no less with snotty comments like a discussion with yourself. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 18:48, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
Both of you, discuss. Find the talk page, find a WP:3O, something rather than the revert button. Courcelles (talk) 20:45, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
I always discuss and use talk pages. Very sad that an admin would tell me off too, rather than seeing habitual edit warring on the part of the user recently blocked for edit warring by that same admin. Very sad. Gives free license to go on edit warring. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 14:10, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
Look at the timeline. You made a proposal, no comments were made so you enacted your own proposal after a few days. No issues there. The problem is then you were reverted, and instead of discussing, you simply reverted. At that point your edit had been challenged, so bringing up the history of the person you were disagreeing with is not the way forward. Courcelles (talk) 14:29, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
"please see and use the talk page to discuss this further" is not what I'd call simply reverting, but you are the boss. It's your prerogative to let someone off the hook who did not see and use the talk page to discuss this further but rather reverted twice in a half hour after recently having been blocked for that by you. I thought you'd care, or I wouldn't have bothered you. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 11:18, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Are you interested in that user's continued very speedy use of revert without visiting a talk page? --SergeWoodzing (talk) 12:12, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Edit war on Reichstag building

Hey, I have seen you fully protected the Raising a Flag over the Reichstag article because there is a dispute on the content of a photo. But in the Reichstag building article, this editorial war is still ongoing. Please fully protect this one too. If I found any related editorial war on the content of that photo on any article, I'll let you know so you can fully protected it. Best regards, SeanTVT (talk) 14:38, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

Honestly, I'm asking you not to make any more reverts on this matter as well. But I did issue one block for edit warring combined with personal attacks. Courcelles (talk) 12:46, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Dilbaggg

This user has defended themselves about their edit warring by repeatedly accusing me and two other users of meatpuppeting. I'm not one to question admin actions, but is 36 hours a long enough block if we factor that in? LilianaUwU (talk / contributions) 11:04, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Honestly, block lengths are as much a matter of art as anything. It was longer than their last edit warring block, which was in 2020. Blocks, not being punitive makes me say this; if the editor comes back and repeats the behavior, it wasn't long enough and I can block them again. If they come back and engage in collegial editing without revert warring, it was exactly long enough. Either way, we end up with an answer on Thursday. Courcelles (talk) 12:50, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup 2023 May newsletter

The second round of the 2023 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to have scored 60 points to advance into round 3. Our top five scorers in round 2 all included a featured article among their submissions and each scored over 500 points. They were:

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So far contestants have achieved thirteen featured articles between them, one being a joint effort, and forty-nine good articles. The judges are pleased with the thorough reviews that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

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Wikidata weekly summary #570

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • ForgesBot (Task: Add licensing information to software forges entries in accordance to what is found in the corresponding Wikipedia page. It is used as a helper in the context of the Forges project)
      • BEANS Bot (Task: Use protocol (P2700) instead of of (P642) to specify the protocol used in port (P1641) statements.)
    • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
      • AddLetterboxdFilmIdBot (Task: Adding Letterboxd Film ID (P6127) statements to items which already have a TMDB Film ID (P4947))
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • WeChangEd is an ERC-funded research project and online database by Ghent University, about women editors in Europe. The database shows stories about women editors and their publications, and is powered by Wikidata and Sciencestories.io.
  • Development
    • EntitySchemas: We are still working on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
    • Wikibase REST API: We're fixing several smaller issues like phab:T335578 and phab:T335581.

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.

Administrators' newsletter – May 2023

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

Guideline and policy news

  • A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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Wikidata weekly summary #571

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Infrastruktur (RfP scheduled to end after 12 May 2023 14:16 UTC)
  • Tool of the week

Open Burial Map - Interactive map showing the details of burial places based on OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.

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Tech News: 2023-19

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

  • Last week, Community Tech released the first update for providing better diffs, the #1 request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. This update adds legends and tooltips to inline diffs so that users unfamiliar with the blue and yellow highlights can better understand the type of edits made.
  • When you close an image that is displayed via MediaViewer, it will now return to the wiki page instead of going back in your browser history. This feature request was voted #65 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [12]
  • The SyntaxHighlight extension now supports wikitext as a selected language. Old alternatives that were used to highlight wikitext, such as html5, moin, and html+handlebars, can now be replaced. [13]
  • Preloading text to new pages/sections now supports preloading from localized MediaWiki interface messages. Here is an example at the Czech Wikipedia that uses preload=MediaWiki:July. [14]

Problems

  • Graph Extension update: Foundation developers have completed upgrading the visualization software to Vega5. Existing community graphs based on Vega2 are no longer compatible. Communities need to update local graphs and templates, and shared lua modules like de:Modul:Graph. The Vega Porting guide provides the most comprehensive detail on migration from Vega2 and here is an example migration. Vega5 has currently just been enabled on mediawiki.org to provide a test environment for communities. [15]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 May. It will be on all wikis from 11 May (calendar).
  • Until now, all new OAuth apps went through manual review. Starting this week, apps using identification-only or basic authorizations will not require review. [16]

Future changes

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This Month in GLAM: April 2023



Headlines
  • Albania report: International Roma Day Edit-a-thon in Albania, 2023
  • Brazil report: "Every Book its Public" Campaign and Strategic Committee on Libraries
  • Czech Republic report: What's new at GLAM in the Czech Republic
  • Indonesia report: GLAM Mini Grants; Structured Data Marathon VIII; Wikisource Online Workshop
  • Italy report: Bridges between Wikimedia and culture
  • New Zealand report: BHL Whitepaper and outreach for Citizen Science Month and WeDigBio, Auckland Museum suburbs project update, New Zealand Women in Architecture Wikidata Project
  • Poland report: Another meeting of EU GLAM Coordinators; Guided tours for Wikipedians in museums in Krakow; Presentation on Art in Wikipedia; Online training on the basics of copyright law; Polish monuments among the top winners of WLM
  • Sweden report: ISOF workshop; More articles from students; SAAB veterans shared their knowledge during metadata edit-a-thon; ArkDes edit-a-thons
  • UK report: Democratising knowledge and cultural diversity
  • USA report: Into the Wikiverse; Earth Day 2023 Bushwick
  • Content Partnerships Hub report: Wikipedia day pitches by FAO and IEA
  • Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: Activities are starting!
  • WMF GLAM report: Biodiversity Heritage Library whitepaper and the #1Lib1Ref campaign
  • Calendar: May's GLAM events
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Why did you name yourself after a municipality in Belgium?

I'm just curious. CodemWiki (talk) 16:26, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

LOL. I actually picked it not from Belgium. My place in Paris was on Line 2, two stops from Etoille. No longer being my residence, but somewhere I enjoyed living greatly, it seemed reasonable enough. Courcelles (talk) 16:29, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Australia article

Hello there I request that you change the article back to the stable version which is the one last edited by Materialsscientist here. The repeated attempt by one editor to include a definite number of Indigenous languages in the info box does not have consensus, is contradicted by the information in the main body of the article and is contradicted by other sources which I have included on the Talk page. I think we should revert to the stable version until a consensus is reached on the Talk page. Thanks. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 12:47, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

We really don’t pick a version to protect unless there’s something utterly unacceptable on the version we happen to find. [21]. Courcelles (talk) 12:59, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Australia Languages Misinformation

there is a guy that keeps putting like 200 native languages in the Australia info box and it’s incorrect and outdated plus it doesn’t belong to the info box. please fix it thank you Michael Reinolds (talk) 20:02, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

See above. We don’t really have a lot of choice between non vandalized versions when protecting. Courcelles (talk) 20:55, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
i understand that, but wouldn’t it be possible for the references that he added to be removed? everyone on the talk page says the same Michael Reinolds (talk) 21:40, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
I dropped it back to EC to allow edits to be made, since the talk page appears to have a rough consensus. Courcelles (talk) 21:42, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
ok Michael Reinolds (talk) 21:42, 6 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #572

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
  • Development
    • EntitySchemas: We've continued work on the new datatype to link to EntitySchemas in statements. (phab:T214884)
    • Converted a number of Properties from string to external ID datatype (phab:T334450)
    • mul language code: We've worked on preparing the special pages related to labels, descriptions and aliases for the new language code. (phab:T330193, phab:T329626)
    • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the ability to modify labels of an Item using the HTTP PATCH method. (phab:T332739).

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May 17: WikiWednesday Salon + Queering Wikipedia

May 17: WikiWednesday + Queering Wikipedia @ BPL + on Zoom
WikiWednesday is back in-person, pizza included!

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Brooklyn Public Library by Grand Army Plaza, in the Central Library's Info Commons Lab, as well as an online-based participation option. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

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Tech News: 2023-20

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

Problems

  • Citations that are automatically generated based on ISBN are currently broken. This affects citations made with the VisualEditor Automatic tab, and the use of the citoid API in gadgets and user scripts. Work is ongoing to restore this feature. [22]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 May. It will be on all wikis from 18 May (calendar).
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Gorontalo Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Hakka Chinese Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Fiji Hindi Wikipedia, Croatian Wikipedia, Upper Sorbian Wikipedia, Haitian Creole Wikipedia, Interlingua Wikipedia, Interlingue Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Iloko Wikipedia, Ingush Wikipedia, Ido Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Inuktitut Wikipedia, Jamaican Patois Wikipedia, Javanese Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [23]

Future changes

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User 2nd 2nd Mugistan

2nd 2nd Mugistan Was recently blocked from editing for socking. They can still edit their own talkpage, where they are repeatedly spouting hateful language. Can they be blocked from editing the talk page in the same manner as the puppet master 2nd Mugistan? IceBergYYC (talk) 16:25, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

Done. Courcelles (talk) 16:27, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
Thank you IceBergYYC (talk) 16:32, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

2023 Israeli airstrikes in Gaza - protected

Hello, the article lacks some important events for its NPOV. Can I write you here and you add (after your consideration/edit)? Thank you. Lilijuros (talk) 14:09, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

You can try the talk page? Courcelles (talk) 16:03, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
Tried. Can you do this? Lilijuros (talk) 07:01, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
No. I am not getting involved in this topic as an editor. Courcelles (talk) 12:39, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

Australia protection duration

Hi, I saw that you put Australia under ECP due to edit warring, which seems like a good move, but I'm wondering if it was necessary to impose it indefinitely, rather than, say, a week or so? It looks like the edit war around languages, vigorous as it was, had only been going on for less than 24 hours. Colin M (talk) 16:48, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

It was "indef" only in the sense that there's no way to automatically restore the semi, and I didn't want it to fall back all the way to unprotected. I'll send it back to semi now. Courcelles (talk) 17:26, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
Ah, got it, I wasn't aware of that limitation. Thanks for clarifying! Colin M (talk) 17:41, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
Yeah, it's kind of a stupid thing, but if you raise a protection (to ECP or full), the system loses the underlying semi when it expires. On a high-profile target like this, that's not a desirable outcome. Something like "ECP for a week, semi indef" has been asked for before but never coded into the software. Courcelles (talk) 17:47, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
Thanks a lot for semi protecting Prodigy Education! It's been facing some severe disruption from a bunch of IP's. -- Shadow of the Starlit Sky 13:04, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
Thanks. Couldn’t find a beneficial and proportional range block, so this was the fallback plan. Courcelles (talk) 13:08, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
Yeah. I expected to find a lot of vandalism on that page anyway because it's about an educational game that is commonly used in schools.... and thus might attract some school IP's. -- Shadow of the Starlit Sky 13:21, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar
For probably the most thoughtful close I've ever seen. Pure excellence. Curbon7 (talk) 13:42, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
I appreciate it! At the core, "merge and delete" is not an allowable action under the CC-BY-SA, and the merge had already been done. That said, if this came back under a different title, I'd consider G4 to apply and be willing to delete it (noting one of the AFD's was under a different title years ago.) Courcelles (talk) 13:51, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #573

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Development
    • We continue working on modify data of labels of an Item in the Wikibase REST API. (phab:T332739)
    • We continued working on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas.
    • We are continuing to prepare various special pages for the mul language code.
    • We fixed a bug on Wikipedia and co where the "add interlanguage link dialog threw an error (phab:T337081)
    • We attended the Wikimedia hackathon.

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Tech News: 2023-21

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  • An improved impact module will be available at Wikipedias. The impact module is a feature available to newcomers at their personal homepage. It will show their number of edits, how many readers their edited pages have, how many thanks they have received and similar things. It is also accessible by accessing Special:Impact. [26]
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar).

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16:53, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Anonymous resumed the edit war and vandalism after leaving the block

This whole mess is at ANI. Courcelles (talk) 00:42, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.


As I predicted, after the end of the blocking, the anonymous person resumed deleting information with renewed vigor and with a monotonous repetition of his actually only argument about the alleged lack of connection between the discussion of decisions during the localization of the show and the show itself. It is obvious that this was vandalism and the anonymous person, as before, is not going to discuss anything. But I'm not even going to delete it again, because last time you made it clear to me that the removal of systematic vandalism is an edit war and is punishable. Even despite the removal of information from sources and the general surrealism of the situation (anonymous insists that the situation is not related to the show, although all sources mention this only in the context of the show). Not to mention that the requester most likely complained about an "edit war" due to a conflict of interest and interest in removing this information. Thank you. Solaire the knight (talk) 11:27, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

Still not vandalism. Likely even a valid removal per UNDUE. Continuing to say it doesn’t make you right. Courcelles (talk) 13:59, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
Doesn't it even bother you that he continued the edit war after being blocked for it? Having an up-to-date warning on the talk page? That is, now blocking and warnings, even blocking, do not matter, the main thing is who was the last to cancel?! Okay, let's "play by your rules". If I now undo his edit, will it be a violation of the rules? I literally predict that he will undo edits again, up to the next block. You don't care at all? Or do you want me to cancel each time until he breaks the three-time cancellation rule, and then wait for him to block then again every time they come out of the block? Considering that the anonymous person is obviously not going to discuss anything and will do it forever, this is a vicious circle. Which, however, only exists if one takes his edits seriously. Solaire the knight (talk) 14:26, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
Or you could start an RFC and get a consensus this material belongs from the wider community. You’re crying vandalism, but not making any case for the reinsertions you made as to why this material isn’t a COATRACK in this particular article. Courcelles (talk) 15:11, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
He will not write or discuss anything there, he will just continue the edit war. Well, or completely ignore the discussion if the article remains on his version. Just look at how he completely ignored my warning or your message about blocking and just continued to delete the text without any reaction (In fact, I already added a source to the article that covered the topic in much detail and connected these two issues much better, but it was removed because users recognized it as non-authoritative, because it contradicted their political views. Another irony). As for the arguments, if you stopped defending the vandal for a second and looked at the source, then you would know that the situation with this anime is being used as complaints about representation in the casting, because a number of VAs, including, believe that the show could not take a variety of casts for the role of characters due to a number of very unfortunate decisions of the licensor. Moreover, you continue to ignore the fact that the anonymous one monotonously deletes it without any arguments and, judging by the history of edits and bans of other addresses, it does this because of a political conflict of interest. Anyway, I already explained the situation to you. And I want to repeat my question, would my undoing their edit be a violation of the rules? I have no other options, because the anonymous person will either ignore the discussion or continue the edit war. Or most likely both. Only if you do not offer me to uselessly waste my time creating a meaningless topic in which no one will participate only in order to prove to you a few days later that the anonymous person is not agreeable. Solaire the knight (talk) 15:20, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
Due to your blocking and subsequent disputes, I even forgot that the necessary section was created by ME on the article's talk page a few months ago. At the time when the section was discussed even with its original author. Of course, anonymous successfully ignored him. But if you like wasting my time so much, then I created another one, only to once again show that anonymous is not negotiable and will wage edit wars endlessly. By the way, while I was creating it, another user had already canceled it. I bet the anonymous person will continue again and not even look at the thread. Solaire the knight (talk) 15:43, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
Hi @Courcelles Could you take a look here and here and here [27]. Solaire is really starting to be overtly WP:UNCIVIL and some administrative action might be warranted. Best, CandyScythe (talk) 15:42, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
Oh, as soon as I created a section to demonstrate that the anon will ignore any discussion and continue the edit wars again, you started complaining about me again. If you really want to convince me that you're not covering him up because you want to save his edits, then you've clearly not chosen the best tactic. However, you have a literal conflict with me, which you are well aware of. What did you expect from me? Solaire the knight (talk) 15:45, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
I have notified you that I view your behavior as targeted harassment. In this case, I will ask the administrators to stop any contact between us and from now on I will ignore any of your comments to me. Solaire the knight (talk) 15:51, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Change to the Checkuser team

Following a request to the Committee, the CheckUser permissions of Courcelles (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) have been restored. For the Arbitration Committee, Barkeep49 (talk) 18:13, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

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Books & Bytes – Issue 56

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Women in Red - June 2023

Women in Red June 2023, Vol 9, Iss 6, Nos 251, 252, 271, 272, 273


Online events:

See also:

Tip of the month:

  • Looking for new red links? Keep an eye out for interesting and notable friends, family, or associates of your last article subject, and re-examine group photos for other women who may still need an article.

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Henrysemple

Please revoke TPA for Henrysemple, whom you blocked. Thanks. Firestar464 (talk) 17:39, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

Done. Courcelles (talk) 17:59, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

For blocking the editor that trouted me 40,000 times. What a waste of perfectly good trout.

interstatefive  23:39, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, and, yes, that trout would be better fed to my cats! Courcelles (talk) 23:39, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #578

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 30, 2023: We will discuss results from our community survey on advocacy for Wikidata in libraries and hear from community members Mary Aycock, Steve Baskauf and Eric Willey about their experiences with advocacy and gaining support for Wikidata work within their respective libraries. Agenda
  • Tool of the week
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • The libraries of the London School of Economics and the University of York have collaborated to produce a toolkit for uploading research theses metadata to Wikidata. Full announcement and access to the toolkit
    • The contents of most Wikimedia Cloud Services Wiki Replicas are out-of-date owing to large & increasing replication lag; see https://replag.toolforge.org/ & Phab T337446. Exercise caution using data from any tools that have a dependency on these databases.
  • Development
    • Ontology issues: We are finishing the evaluation of the survey about which types of ontology issues are hindering reuse of Wikidata's data the most.
    • Otherwise mostly a slow week because of the Wikimedia hackathon.

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.

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Tech News: 2023-22

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

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Problems

  • For a few days earlier this month, the "Add interlanguage link" item in the Tools menu did not work properly. This has now been fixed. [30]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 May. It will be on all wikis from 1 June (calendar).
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Protection level for Charles III

Hello Courcelles. I'm requesting the protection level for Charles III to be reduced from 30/500 protection to 4/10 protection. Per WP:RFUP, "[b]efore posting, first discuss with the protecting admin at their talk page". I understand that the page had just been vandalised, but that was because it was the day of his coronation; things have cooled down since then. Cheers, Tim O'Doherty (talk) 16:12, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. Tim O'Doherty (talk) 16:14, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
The coronation was full of mess-making accounts. Think we can try regular semi now. Courcelles (talk) 16:14, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

FoXX4961

You had blocked them as Mosart.fr; they have changed username and talked about what edits they would make. Can you take a look? Daniel Case (talk) 06:18, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Reblocks are cheap. Let them try. Courcelles (talk) 12:03, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Draft:Emmanuel Ekwedike

New creation - you might like to see how similar it is to the previous one you deleted. The creating editor has a rather similar editing history (10 minor edits and a full scale article). PamD 17:40, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Cleaned the sock drawer. Thanks. Courcelles (talk) 17:43, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
Three socks and a few drafts removed. Courcelles (talk) 17:56, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Hanuman Chalisa

Hi Courcelles, none of the accounts is autoconfirmed. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:07, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Twinkle misclick… but I think I’m good with it. Some are old enough to get autoconfirmed with a few edits. Courcelles (talk) 23:48, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Stubbing clarification

Hello Courcelles. I'm hoping to get something clarified about my topic ban please. Am I still allowed to remove old posts from my Talk page? Regards, MrsSnoozyTurtle 10:33, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Yes. Unlike some of the other actions you are restricted from, stubbing is something that, by definition, can only be done to content pages. Archiving/managing your own talk page is an entirely different matter. Courcelles (talk) 11:16, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
For speedily dealing with a transphobic troll and protecting my page - thank you! TheTranarchist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 21:49, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
Anytime. We do not need trolls at AN, ever. Courcelles (talk) 22:00, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Follow-up re. Meeraa chopraa

Hi! I saw that you blocked the user Meeraa chopraa following my report at UUA. First, a quick thanks for your work! I have a question regarding this block. I also reported this user for an unrelated issue at AIV, and this report was subsequently removed by the helperbot. I'm not sure anyone saw the report at AIV; my concern was that the user in question has been editing in blatant violation of WP:COI, and (in my opinion) their comments indicate that they have no intention of familiarising themselves with relevant policies. What do you think? Thanks! Actualcpscm (talk) 10:58, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Well, the bot removed it because we can’t block that account twice. At this point, they’ll have either do the verification VTRS lays out, and be unblocked, or not. Nothing else to do. Courcelles (talk) 11:02, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
Of course they can't be double-blocked, but I thought a hard block from AIV would have some kind of precedence over a precautionary soft block. Or not? I imagine this is not a very common situation :) Actualcpscm (talk) 11:06, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
(Was just explaining why the bot did what it did. Yeah, it’s unlikely a human admin saw the AIV report I didn’t) Well, two possibilities. Either they are Ms. Chopra and just completely unfamiliar with WP. Or they’re not, and the soft block stops the impersonation. Either way, the edits were not vandalism, so that sort of block would be unnecessarily antagonistic in case they are who they say they are. Courcelles (talk) 11:14, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
Fair enough, thanks! Have a good day. Actualcpscm (talk) 11:53, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Another sockpuppet in hiding

Hello!

Thank you for executing a block on the sockpuppet "Sem Lula" and the anonymous IP user "182.228.179.211". There seems to be a third account to which this person is linked.

In a preceding discussion, two people were referred to as "militant women". Then "Sem Lula" made clear that she was one of these people. None of them is yet blocked. They are "Dinoz1" and "Ertrinken".

In order to get to the bottom of this abuse and root out the problem, we should put a block on the main user behind all of this. Otherwise that person might continue their suspect activities. Trakking (talk) 11:51, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

No. The LTA who started that thread has a history of lobbing grenades into ANI with new socks. Nothing they say should be taken seriously. Courcelles (talk) 11:55, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
I don't relate to those IP and accounts. To be clear, yesterday I've opened and incident against user Gondolabúrguer, wich has a consolidated history of crosswiki abuse. Ertrinken (talk) 12:04, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
@Courcelles: Today I was vandalized again and had my legitimate edits reverted by an anonymous troll using the same extremist phrase "sai minion" as the previous troll you blocked. Trakking (talk) 11:39, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
Blocked for 60 hours. Courcelles (talk) 12:35, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Russian SFSR

Since what I recently edited [32][33] Vladimir Vysotsky with Russian SFSR to infobox, then someone removed it, every Russian person has an infobox with "Russian SFSR" without redundancy per |birth_place = parameter. In this recent case as a result for edit warring on Vladimir Putin article, [34][35][36] as per discussion from the talk page and ANI notice. Should we enforce these restrictions per WP:GS/RUSUKR and WP:TBAN? 112.204.206.165 (talk) 03:06, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Vysotsky died in 1980, so he has nothing to do with the general sanctions. And who is topic banned? What are you even asking be done? Courcelles (talk) 10:38, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
See User talk:Mike Novikoff#Unsolicited advice, as posted by Firefangledfeathers, so if this user had tried to warn them, next time you revert it I'll report you to WP:ANI, the case will be indisputable. But also for example, Russia-related topics with "Russian SFSR" is needed for the infobox in biography and historical events, including Vladimir Lenin, 1980 Summer Olympics, Battle of Stalingrad, and so on. 112.204.206.165 (talk) 12:17, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
Okay why is this here? (As in, on my talk page?) Courcelles (talk) 12:36, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
I was pinged, but I'm not involved and don't care to become so. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 13:10, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
Neither am I... hence my great confusion! Courcelles (talk) 13:11, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

User talk:DarklarkOxs

What account or accounts did the user sock with?--Bbb23 (talk) 22:08, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

WikipediaWarrior01, TheWarriorOfWikiiz, User101FrOas… and it all traces back to Javalsta which means this is MasterofRoblox anyway. Courcelles (talk) 22:14, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
My.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:28, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
What a catch Courcelles! What tipped you off? -- Ponyobons mots 22:34, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
Some stranger from BC, I think… ;) Courcelles (talk) 22:40, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
Teamwork makes the dream work.-- Ponyobons mots 22:45, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Charles III protection

Hi Courcelles! I noticed you changed the protection level at Charles III with summary "dropping to semi", but the actual change made was to drop move protection from sysop to ECP, with editing protection unchanged. Misclick? -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she|they|xe) 19:08, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

Huh? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_III&diff=prev&oldid=1156387788 I changed editing to semi and moving to ECP. Not sure if we need sysop move protection or not, but I think I got the editing protection exactly where it needs to be. Courcelles (talk) 19:33, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
And if you think we need sysop move protection, please feel free to put it back. Courcelles (talk) 19:39, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
Huh, guess I misread that! I was confused because it was showing up as "recently extendedconfirmed-protected", but I guess that's because of the downgrade on move prot. Sorry for the confusion. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she|they|xe) 19:51, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

MenuRax39272

Hey Courcelles. MenuRax39272 looks like a dead ringer for User101FrOas. Worth another sweep? -- ferret (talk) 23:30, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

Yep. Blocked and tagged. Courcelles (talk) 23:47, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
Got three more sleepers and tagged everyone. Courcelles (talk) 00:12, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
For a fun follow up, MenuRax39272 joined Discord to complain to me about this "incorrect" block and that I brought it to your attention. They did so under the Discord account "Javalsta" :P -- ferret (talk) 12:54, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
ROFL… they’re socking everywhere. Courcelles (talk) 13:21, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
Looks like there's another one: Special:Contributions/JaioLang. — Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 20:06, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
Confirmed and tagged. No new sleepers, though. Courcelles (talk) 20:19, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2023

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

Guideline and policy news

  • Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
  • As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

Technical news

  • Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

Arbitration

  • The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

Miscellaneous

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Tech News: 2023-23

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

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  • The RealMe extension allows you to mark URLs on your user page as verified for Mastodon and similar software.
  • Citation and footnote editing can now be started from the reference list when using the visual editor. This feature request was voted #2 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [37]
  • Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference for "Group results by page". This has now been fixed. [38]

Problems

  • For a few days last week, some tools and bots returned outdated information due to database replication problems, and may have been down entirely while it was being fixed. These issues have now been fixed. [39]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on all wikis from 8 June (calendar).
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Wikidata weekly summary #579

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Introduction workshop about Wikidata for employees of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB, national library of the Netherlands), to make them more familiar and self-reliant with Wikidata - 6 June 2023, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, The Netherlands - Slides (in Dutch) on Commons.
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour June 5, 2023: In collaboration with the Black Bibliography Project, we will be adding metadata for undescribed or under-described African-American women authors listed in The Pen Is Ours: a Listing of Writings by and about African-American Women before 1910, compiled by Jean Fagan Yellin and Cynthia D. Bond.Event page
    • Registration has opened for the workshop on mathematical research data taking place on 9-11 October 2023 in Leipzig. Talks, demos and lightning talks can be suggested, including Wikidata-related ones.
  • Tool of the week
    • IdentifierInput makes it easier to add identifier properties by letting you put in the full url and then stripping it down to just the identifier for you.
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API: We finished the new endpoint for patching labels (phab:T332739). We also started work on the new endpoint for retrieving Property data (phab:T337720)
    • Client wikis: We drastically reduced the size of a ResourceLoader module that’s loaded on most Wikipedia page views (phab:334682)
    • Language code: With awesome help from Nikki, we improved documentation for how to add language codes to Wikibase/Wikidata (phab:T335857)
    • EntitySchemas: We are getting the new datatype ready for testing.

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.

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Ruach Chayim

Should not their other account, HoneymoonAve27, be blocked too? They have accepted on srwiki they are the same person, and their editing on enwiki too shows obvious similarities. Ktrimi991 (talk) 17:10, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

I saw Ruach Chayim claiming to be Honeymoon, but nothing from Honeymoon indicating such. I'm not sure I trust the word of a troll to confirm sockpuppetry when I can't confirm the same through checkuser. Do we have anything more definitive? Courcelles (talk) 17:12, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
Agreed, one can't rely just on RC's words. However, behavioral evidence is strong IMO. Among other things:
  • HA27 proposed to split the Netflix article into Netflix Inc and Netflix [41]. RC did the same thing [42].
  • HA27 made that edit [43]. RC edit warred to readd that edit and got blocked for that [44]
  • HA27 had the habit to write "fix" in the edit summary (some examples [45][46][47][48]). So did RC (some examples [49][50][51][52]). In many cases what they are "fixing" is adding the now-deleted "Kosovo template" to next to every mention of Kosovo
  • HA27 removed Albanian names from the Balsic article [53]. So did RC [54]. Note how for both the justification in the edit summary is "no need"
  • Both removed stuff they did not like from articles with the justification "no need" in the edit summary. Many such examples as [55][56][57][58][59][60][61]
  • HA27 added that [62] and RC edit warred to keep it in the article [63][64][65]
I can cite more similarities if need be, but IMO these are enough. Ktrimi991 (talk) 18:00, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
Over on the Serbian wikipedia they submitted a request to have their user rights transferred to this account [66] and were apparently able to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Serbian wiki admins that both accounts were controlled by the same person [67]. I expect the evidence is in the revision deleted history of the first account's talk page [68], which was deleted to protect their privacy [69].
Behaviourally there's also this thread on their talk page, where the new account is warned to avoid getting involved in the same problems their last account was getting involved with [70]. I don't think it's too likely that someone impersonating an established account would mimic drama that would risk getting the account blocked.
I do find it funny that on srwiki they seem to be telling everyone who'll listen what their previous account was, but when asked on this project who they are they evaded the question [71] then got offended and demanded an apology [72]. 192.76.8.85 (talk) 18:02, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
Now that was a convincing case. Blocked. Courcelles (talk) 18:06, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
Thanks. I had been trying for some time to figure out their previous account, but only the IP user made the connection. Cheers, Ktrimi991 (talk) 18:11, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
I guess my first response was too jaded... I've seen entirely too many socks show up and claim to be a more experienced editor to take such statements at face value without deeper analysis or a reciprocal declaration. Thanks to you both for providing that. Courcelles (talk) 18:24, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Afd ?

Hi Courcelles. I was just going through to see how the AfD backlog got down so quickly and I came across Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Suryapet Junction. Given that the only keep vote is from someone not topic banned from deletion, it seems to me that maybe there's a draftify and/or soft delete consensus? Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 00:32, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

I was aware of Jack’s topic ban, but A) the AFD is so old the comment was not a violation, so I’m not sure we can discount it and soft delete purely on the later topic ban, and B) the two other commenter’s arguments are not the strongest reasoning I’ve ever seen. Courcelles (talk) 00:56, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2023-24

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 content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the Dutch, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias. This was the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [73]
  • The Search Preview panel has been deployed on four Wikipedias (Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian and Norwegian). The panel will show an image related to the article (if existing), the top sections of the article, related images (coming from MediaSearch on Commons), and eventually the sister projects associated with the article. [74]
  • The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software. [75]
  • The default project license has been officially upgraded to CC BY-SA 4.0. The software interface messages have been updated. Communities should feel free to start updating any mentions of the old CC BY-SA 3.0 licensing within policies and related documentation pages. [76]

Problems

  • For three days last month, some Wikipedia pages edited with VisualEditor or DiscussionTools had an unintended __TOC__ (or its localized form) added during an edit. There is a listing of affected pages sorted by wiki, that may still need to be fixed. [77]
  • Currently, the "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is broken. Existing {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords incorrectly appear as missing templates in VisualEditor. Developers are exploring how to fix this. In the meantime, those wishing to edit the default sortkey of a page are advised to switch to source editing. [78]
  • Last week, an update to the delete form may have broken some gadgets or user scripts. If you need to manipulate (empty) the reason field, replace #wpReason with #wpReason > input. See an example fix. [79]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar).
  • VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on English Wikipedia on Monday, and all other large wikis on Thursday. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [80]

Future changes

  • From 5 June to 17 July, the Foundation's Security team is holding a consultation with contributors regarding a draft policy to govern the use of third-party resources in volunteer-developed gadgets and scripts. Feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome at Third-party resources policy on meta-wiki.

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User talk:Haskko

Hiya!

Would you mind revisiting this? I think we mistook a good faith misunderstanding of WP:RS and WP:NOR with WP:HOAX. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 18:59, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

@Jpgordon Can you verify anything they’re saying? Because this blew all my AGF when I was trying to investigate if they were legitimate or trolling us. If you can see enough to feel like they’re working legitimately, go ahead and unblock. Courcelles (talk) 19:37, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
Agreed, that stupid piece of nonsense hurt his appeal pretty badly. I've reduced his block to mainspace only and suggested he prove himself in his user space. Thanks. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 21:35, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Tendentious IP at Ramen

Howdy! There's lots of WP:RGW activity going on here from an IP who targets random articles for "Chinophilia", with no sources and no talk page usage. Do you mind taking a look? Thanks. - Julietdeltalima (talk) 00:00, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

3 months without that IP should help. Let me know if they change IPs and I’ll drop some protections. Courcelles (talk) 00:24, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Mark Curry (rapper)

Hello. I see you deleted Mark Curry (rapper). He had a No. 13 hit with Bad Boy for Life, thereby satisfying WP:MUSICBIO#C2. Please restore to User:Launchballer/Mark Curry (rapper). Launchballer 11:25, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

@Launchballer As far as I’m aware, userifying isn’t really a thing now that we have Draftspace. So I’ve moved the entire history to Draft:Mark Curry (rapper). Courcelles (talk) 13:53, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Sacred Name Movement

You inserted a warning about sock puppetry for the article "Sacred Name Movement". I've not been watching an article that became marked in this way before, so I don't know the protocol. Thought it would be logical to name at least one of the accounts you thought was socking. My first time, so I'm only asking about this. Pete unseth (talk) 14:56, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Look through the history. I count six accounts blocked for being socks. Wikipedia:Deny recognition, as to not calling out the sockmaster in the protection log. Courcelles (talk) 15:05, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
I have not yet learned how to spot such. Thanks for helpful reply. Pete unseth (talk) 17:12, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
Special:Contributions/Church of Christ (Temple Lot) Independence, Missouri QUORUM OF THE TWELVE. This is just one of the endless stream of socks that have been hitting both that page and the content area. Courcelles (talk) 17:15, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

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IP block exemption request for my alternate account

Hello, I plan to be travelling a lot this summer, which will at times involve the use of VPNs or anonymous proxies to avoid local blocks of content. According to WP:IPECPROXY, I should be able to get IPBE for this reason. I would like it on my alternate account, User:Asheiouy, which is the account I will be using to travel with. If you need any information from me, please let me know.

Please @ ping me as I often lose conversations. > Asheiou (they/them • talk) 21:18, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

@Ponyo, you might have handled something like this more recently than I have? Do you have any thoughts? Courcelles (talk) 23:07, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
Yeah, the policy has loosened up quite a bit whilst you were on your sabbatical. You can set it for a specific amount of time now as well. How long will you be travelling Asheiou?-- Ponyobons mots 23:11, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
@Ponyo I'll be popping in and out of my home country until the end of September. I don't see myself needing it after that point for a good while > Asheiou (they/them • talk) 23:16, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
(So expiring Oct 1 would be perfect, I am flying back home for the last time on Sep 30) > Asheiou (they/them • talk) 23:19, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
Ok, you should be good to go (literally and figuratively).-- Ponyobons mots 23:29, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
Thanks. Knew you’d know what was up. Courcelles (talk) 23:44, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for your help :) > Asheiou (they/them • talk) 23:45, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

UT Bethsheba Ashe mention

Good <morning/afternoon/evening> Courcelles. I got the notification that you mentioned me on BA's page but of course their silliness has been revdel'd so I can't actually see whatever it was. Was it anything that needed attention like a mistake I made or something I should have done differently? -Thanks for your time, GabberFlasted (talk) 16:41, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Nope. Just me basically saying I was deleting that self-promo user page they had. Courcelles (talk) 16:44, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Update to the SP/SM situation. Please check your filtered emails.

Hello Courcelles. Last week, I emailed you updates to the SP/SM situation with more ongoing evidence but my guess is they may have been filtered to spam or a similar category. Please check those and pass them on to the functionaries. Thank you. Saucysalsa30 (talk) 20:10, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

I’ve sent everything up to functionaries-en. Courcelles (talk) 22:19, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #580

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call June 13, 2023: Helen Williams will discuss her work with Wikidata at the London School of Economics Agenda
    • Wikidata Workshop 2023 will be co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC) in November 2023 in Athens. The submission deadline is Thursday, 20 July 2023. More details and call for papers
  • Tool of the week
    • narrow.css attempts to make the Wikidata desktop interface work better on narrower screens.

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.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 12:59, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you

For this, I was recently informed that I can not use the template anymore because I am not an admin... - Adolphus79 (talk) 22:12, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

Hmm… not aware of the background on why you were told that, but the bot is quirky enough that “nothing left to do here” requests sit around a good bit. Courcelles (talk) 22:16, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
I know, that is why I have generally tried to do my best as a useless non-admin to clear the backlog when possible... lol - Adolphus79 (talk) 22:20, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
P.S. I just happened to notice this, just to make us both feel old... - Adolphus79 (talk) 03:02, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
Wikihistory, wow. Just for the record, I need little help feeling old these days! Courcelles (talk) 15:21, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #581

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Vargenau (RfP scheduled to end after 25 June 2023 07:51 UTC)
    • Closed request for adminship: Infrastruktur (closed on May 12th without prior mention)
    • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  • Tool of the week
    • Mapping Diversity is a platform that utilizes Wikidata to discover key facts about diversity and representation in street names across Europe. E.g. 59% of the streets and squares in Paris are named after people. Of those, 8.9% are named after women.
  • Development
    • REST API:
      • We finished the endpoint for getting data from Properties and it is now available on Wikidata.
      • We started expanding that endpoint with filter options and conditional http headers.
    • EntitySchemas: The new datatype is now available for testing and feedback.
    • mul language code: We've continued working on making the mobile termbox (labels, descriptions, aliases) ready for the new language code. (phab:T329644, phab:T338302, phab:T329655, phab:T316767)
    • Vector 2022 skin: We are fixing an issue with the bolding of results in the main search suggester. (phab:T327510)


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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 17:24, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

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. [81][82]

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. [83][84]

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

Notice of noticeboard discussion

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. I merely mentioned you, but I’m not 100% sure if I need to do this, but I’m just doing so to protect myself, and for your information, of course. It’s in regards to an issue involving my protection requests. Fork99 (talk) 20:22, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

You're a coward

Just admit you only protected those pages due to some perceived threat to protect their honor. I'm just telling you, those pages did not meet any criteria to jump protection and there wasn't any mass coordinated disruption. You're a coward who is only on here to spread your far-right worldview of pointing out every hypothetical Jew with a blue badge of dishonor. 77.247.90.25 (talk) 15:49, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

Me? Far right? ROFL. Courcelles (talk) 15:51, 15 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. [85]

Problems

  • Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours. [86][87]

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. [88][89]
  • 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. [90]
  • 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. [91]
  • The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized user interface components. [92]

Future changes

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

Wikidata weekly summary #582

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: Wolverène (RfP scheduled to end after 2 July 2023 18:46 UTC)
    • Closed request for adminship: Vargenau (successful) Welcome onboard \o/
    • New requests for permissions/Bot: RomesfulImporterBot (Task: Creating and updating Russian Lexemes by transferring information from the Russian Wiktionary)
  • Tool of the week
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • TU Berlin research group "The Restitution of Knowledge" are exploring the use of Wikidata to build a Linked Open Data (LOD) project that maps German colonial military expeditions into Africa. Interested in getting involved or learning more about their project? Reach out on the project's talk page: Wikidata:WikiProject TheRoK/Data Models.
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API: We are working on making it possible to get statements from a Property. (phab:T338383)
    • EntitySchema: We're looking into the feedback we received from the testing of the new datatype.
    • Ontology issues: We have released the survey results. The next step is looking into solutions.
    • mul language code: We are continuing to adapt the desktop UI to make it ready for the new special language code. (phab:T329644, phab:T338302, phab:T339103, phab:T329655, phab:T329655)
    • Vector 2022: We are changing the style for search suggestions as the default of the skin isn't working well for Wikidata. (phab:T327510)

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 18:33, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Here's to cowardice! SPECIFICO talk 17:08, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
Thanks. I did find it funny to be called a coward without them saying what pissed them off. Courcelles (talk) 18:41, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

Blocked user

Hi - I think you recently blocked User:CptJohnMiller as a sock of User:Militaryfactchecker. You might want to take a look at User:Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves Britons never, never, never shall be slaves who is apparently a new editor but has a very similar edit pattern and does not hesitate to make offensive comments. Thanks. Dormskirk (talk) 23:35, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. Confirmed and blocked. Courcelles (talk) 23:41, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 19 June 2023

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Reducing the protection level for 'List of active Russian Navy ships'

Hi! You increased the protection level for the 'List of active Russian Navy ships' page on 25 May 2023. In my opinion, I think this protection level should be reduced, as now the edit activity on this page has decreased substantially. Due to the topic's relatively niche nature, many relevant sources will only present on Russian-language sites, without which the page would be updated much less frequently. Since the protection level has increased, myself along with other regular editors of the page, can no longer update the page based on these sources. For example, over the past month, two new vessels have been laid down for the Russian Navy, and another is expected to be commissioned imminently. Despite me putting in a request on the Talk Page (with sources included), there have been virtually no updates to the page since the protection level increase was implemented, aside from a few minor updates to references. Thanks. IvtI 09 (talk) 15:05, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

We can try semi… but non Wikipedia:Extended confirmed editors can’t edit anything about the ongoing war, per Wikipedia:General sanctions/Russo-Ukrainian War. Courcelles (talk) 15:52, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red July 2023

Women in Red June 2023, Vol 9, Iss 7, Nos 251, 252, 274, 275, 276


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--Lajmmoore (talk) 07:42, 27 June 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging

TP access

You and ToBeFree recently rangeblocked this IP. Could we please revoke TPA access, if possible? Thanks in advance. Add: See User talk:2600:8807:A00:23:703E:BC2A:F771:8306. Amaury • 23:47, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

Done. We need not tolerate this kind of abuse. Courcelles (talk) 23:57, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi Amaury and Courcelles, thank you both very much. Please let me/us know if this continues from other addresses. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 11:29, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

Topic Ban

Ive appealed your ban, I think it was an unfair knee jerk reaction[94]. DarrellWinkler (talk) 16:30, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you

Forgot to say thank you for sorting out the sock puppets I posted at ANI, so thank you, cheers. Govvy (talk) 15:08, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Happy to help! Courcelles (talk) 15:18, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
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