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Administrators' newsletter – November 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).
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Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment determined that non-administrators will not be able to request interface admin access.
- A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the Mediation Committee should be closed and marked as historical.
- A village pump discussion has been ongoing about whether the proposed deletion policy (PROD) should be clarified or amended.
- A request for comment is in progress to determine whether pending changes protection should be applied automatically to today's featured article (TFA) in order to mitigate a recent trend of severe image vandalism.
Technical news
- Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
- A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
- The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.
Arbitration
- Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
- The Arbitration Committee's email address has changed to arbcom-en
wikimedia.org. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.
West Africa Ebola virus epidemic
Hi this is to inform you that West African Ebola virus epidemic which you edited will be submitted for WikiJournal of Medicine...The objective of this message is to invite the contributors to collaboratively submit the article for review through Wiki.J.Med, and if possible, to help in further betterment of the article in accordance to the suggestions of the reviewers. Wikipedia articles are collaboratively authored. So, it is very important to make the authors aware of such a process that the article is currently undergoing[1] thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:39, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
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
- You can now use TemplateWizard to edit templates. This works only with the 2010 wikitext editor and not in the visual editor or the 2017 wikitext editor. If you click on
you can enter the information in a pop-up. You can turn on TemplateWizard in your beta feature preferences. [2]
Changes later this week
- You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
- When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [3]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).
Meetings
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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17:28, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
Air stripline
Hi Josve05a,
I'm confused by your edit summary here where you said "despite other formatting in rest of article". Citation templates are not used anywhere on the page. In fact, the only place the word "cite" appears anywhere on the page is in your own hidden comment. Whatever did you mean? SpinningSpark 07:59, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, that was my mistake. I meant to write something else, but as I started to write "adding note" in the ES, it autocompleted (or rather was in that auto-complete drop-down list) to that. I don't remember having written that before though in an ES, but I didn't take much note about it until I had already saved the page. My bad. (t) Josve05a (c) 08:35, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
Public domain works and links
Sorry for the inconvenience, but nice to see you sending patches again. ;) Meanwhile, I wonder how I can better express Wikimedia practices on the handling of public domain materials in presence of contradictory, misleading or approximate statements (e.g. PD-Art and PD-Gov). It seems I don't manage to get the message across. Or is it really policy around here to apply stricter standards for links than we would for uploads? Some directions would be appreciated. Nemo 17:09, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
- I'll answer today over email. (t) Josve05a (c) 08:33, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
- Seems it drifted my mind. Well, for starters, Commons has much more restictive rules. Uplaods needs to be both free for reuse, and froma. verfied source/own work. 'Publically visable' documents is not the same as 'public domain'. As an example: Just because a movie can be found on the internet, it doesn't mean they have the rights to dispaly it in that manner. Wikipedia rules (based on international laws) go a bit further than not just not accepting you to upload that video found elsewhere, but you are not even allowed to link to that streaming website from Wikipedia. In this case, the document host may not have the rights to distribute the documents, and therefore you are not allowed to link to them. The website in question is doubios and may be licnese laundering. (t) Josve05a (c) 00:03, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
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
- Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [4]
Problems
- You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [5][6][7]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [8]
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19:21, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
ArbCom 2018 election voter message
Hello, Josve05a. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
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
- You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote until 30 November.
- There is an A/B test for
sameAsdata. This is to make it easier to find the right information with a search engine. This changes the metadata for a wiki page. It doesn't change how the page looks. [9]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The Wikimedia wikis use templates to show readers there are problems with the content on some pages. For example if there are no sources or the page needs to be rewritten. The mobile website will soon show more information when you use these templates. Some templates may need to be updated. [10]
- The Education Program extension was removed from all Wikimedia projects. The database tables used by the extension will be archived. This will happen in a month. If you want the information on your wiki you should move it to a normal wiki page. [11]
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23:28, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
Why are you removing the names of publishers and URLs from references in this article? Please explain your rationale on Talk:White nationalism, and do not make any additional edits on this kind until you have explained and received a consensus for this kind of edit. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:37, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
Citevar
It's almost a religion that the one to begin an article defines the citation style. I have been reverted many times when I tried to change to a more editor-friendly style, and came to think that there are more important topics. Not that I'll ever understand, though, why using citation templates, and moving references in a separate section for better reading of text and easier changing of refs, would be reverted. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:45, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- Yeah, so annoying, but I'll comply. (t) Josve05a (c) 13:02, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
- And, Tim riley, sorry for editwarring. I'm editing based on a dynamic list, and did not notice I'd already edited that page (and gotten reverted). Will do better. (t) Josve05a (c) 13:08, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
Precious
gnome with a gnome bot
Thank you for gnomish help, including a bot to help with tedious tasks, for redirects, dealing with articles for creation, improving references, disambiguations, header syntax, for making connections to the Swedish Wikipedia, for admitting human errors, for images, - Jonatan, you are an awesome Wikipedian!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:19, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
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 wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use
/to create a new page:/wiki/Page/Subpage. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [12]
Changes later this week
- The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [13]
- Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word
__EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__. [14] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The
mw.util.jsMessage()function was deprecated in 2012. It will be removed next week. Look for the warningUse of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecatedin the JavaScript console to know if you use an affected script or gadget. If you are a gadget maintainer you should check if your JavaScript code containsmw.util.jsMessage. There is a migration guide. It explains how to usemw.notifyinstead. [15]
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22:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
Dheeraj Sharma (professor)
Hi there. About Dheeraj Sharma (professor): I cannot check the url that matches for the copyvio [16] [17] because it is blocked here in China. However, so much of the article is a match, and none of the article that I can see was added in a lump, but rather built bit by bit, that I suspect a reverse copyvio. Thoughts?
Oh, and I've soft blocked the editor claiming to be the subject. If someone reappears with the same behaviour, it's likely him. If that happens, a hard block may be in order.
Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 11:26, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
Azad (upcoming film) listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Azad (upcoming film). Since you had some involvement with the Azad (upcoming film) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 (talk) 19:43, 28 November 2018 (UTC)