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Wikidata weekly summary #587
- Discussions
- Welcome to our new admin Yahya! (see the closed request)
- Events
- The deadline for submitting your proposals for WikidataCon 2023 is July 31st (23:59) anywhere in the world. Submit your proposals at https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon2023/
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- An analysis of discussions in collaborative knowledge engineering through the lens of Wikidata, Elisavet Koutsiana et. al.
- Tool of the week
- osm.js will add a link to the navigation for items that have a Wikidata mapping on the OSM side.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- median household income (median of the household income (cumulated salaries etc.) of a specific place, such as city, state, country)
- login URL (URL of a webpage used to log into a service)
- registration page URL (URL of a webpage used to sign up for a service)
- shortcode (string of text replaced by an emoji or other character on a platform (e.g. :heart_eyes:))
- verdict (decision made at the end of a trial by the judge or jury)
- External identifiers: Stage 32 profile ID, Livres Hebdo award ID, NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry, NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry, ifkdb.se player ID, Livres Hebdo tag ID, stats.fm album ID, Ligue nationale de rugby ID, Holarse article ID, Musée critique de la Sorbonne ID, Spotlight PIN ID, myjewishitaly.it ID, Minerba One Data Indonesia ID, Wikibase World ID, Open Yearbook org id, ProQuest publication ID, Friedländer ID, FIGC player ID, hitparade.ch song ID, Theapolis theatre ID, IbsenStage ID, IMDb keyword
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Top scorer (This property is for the best scorer of a single season of a team sport's competition, or even for the best ever scorer of the history of a competition. The qualifiers to be admitted to this property should be: {{p|54}}; {{p|1532}}; {{p|1013}} (es.: goals / tries / points / etc ).)
- Project partner (property to list the partners of a project or an event, when different from the organizing body.)
- External identifiers: TV Guide movie ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Digitale Sammlungen Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt ID, Capitolium Art artist ID, Nurnet ID, Roku Channel Store ID, BHL item ID, GamerProfiles Game ID, identifiant Pouët d'un groupe de démo, identifiant Pouët d'une démo, identifiant Pouët d'un membre d'un groupe de démo, Kastelenlexicon ID, SEVIS school ID, Xiaohongshu User ID, Musée d'Arts de Nantes ID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikibase REST API:
- We released the following new stuff to Wikidata:
- GET /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements (phab:T339356) (new route)
- GET /entities/properties/{property_id}/statements/{statement_id} (phab:T338383) (new route)
- GET /statements/{statement_id} (now supports statements on Properties)
- We started work on a new route for replacing the data of a statement on a Property (phab:T340006)
- We released the following new stuff to Wikidata:
- EntitySchemas:
- We worked on improving the termbox (the table of labels, descriptions and aliases) on EntitySchema pages to bring it more in line with the one on Items and Properties
- We made sure that EntitySchemas are shown by their label instead of ID when available in Recent Changes and similar lists (phab:T339924)
- Mismatch Finder: We added a language selector so you can switch the interface language (phab:T328149)
- mul language code: We are working on showing more labels from fallback languags in the termbox (phab:T340832, phab:T338330)
- Wikibase REST API:
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.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2023-31
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 Synchronizer tool is now available to keep Lua modules synced across Wikimedia wikis, along with updated documentation to develop global Lua modules and templates.- The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. For example, you can hide edits that were made using an automated tool. [1][2]
- The Wikipedia ChatGPT plugin experiment can now be used by ChatGPT users who can use plugins. You can participate in a video call if you want to talk about this experiment or similar work. [3]
Problems
- It was not possible to generate a PDF for pages with non-Latin characters in the title, for the last two weeks. This has now been fixed. [4]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (calendar).- Starting on Tuesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Georgian Wikipedia, Kara-Kalpak Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Kabardian Wikipedia, Kabiyè Wikipedia, Kikuyu Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Khmer Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia, Kashmiri Wikipedia, Colognian Wikipedia, Kurdish Wikipedia, Cornish Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [5]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:52, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 August 2023
- News and notes: City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians, Ruwiki founder banned, WMF launches Mastodon server
- In the media: Truth, AI, bull from politicians, and climate change
- Disinformation report: Hot climate, hot hit, hot money, hot news hot off the presses!
- Tips and tricks: Citation tools for dummies!
- In focus: Journals cited by Wikipedia
- Opinion: Are global bans the last step?
- Featured content: Featured Content, 1 to 15 July
- Traffic report: Come on Oppie, let's go party
The Bugle: Issue 208, August 2023
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Wikidata weekly summary #588
- Events
- Upcoming: Submit your proposal for GLAM Wiki Conference 2023. Deadline has been extended to August 20, 23:59 anywhere in the world.
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Tool of the week
- WikiShootMe expanded to make it possible to find the Items close to pictures you took so you can upload and add them to them (source)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Template:Synia is a new template which makes it easy to create links to Synia from Wikidata. Template:Synia+ guesses the relevant configuration pages for each entity depending on the values of P31 and P106.
- Wikifunctions, Wikidata's newest sibling project, had a soft launch. Welcome to the Wikimedia wikiverse, functioneers!
- The ORES service will be decommissioned and replaced by Lift Wing. If you have a tool that relies on ORES scores to judge edits or the quality of an Item please read the migration announcement. We are collecting affected community tools in phab:T343419.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: National Union of Composers of Ukraine person ID, Encyclopaedia Islamica ID, Master's degree Mon master ID, Virksomme ord ID, Swetrails route ID, European Bridge League ID, CAMEO Chemicals ID, The Literary Encyclopedia work ID, IMVDb artist numeric ID, Team France athlete ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- disinherited (someone who received or will receive no or little the subject's property or title even if otherwise eligible, (partially) the opposite of [[Wikidata:Property proposal/heir or beneficiary]])
- conference schedule (Conference schedule in Pentabarf XML format)
- state of transmission
- External identifiers: Works Diamond Catalogue ID, Editions Diamond Catalogue ID, NFSA ID, Identifiant Médiathèque Numérique CVS, DCB Number, wadoku id, USP Libraries Catalogue ID, Mémoire déposé sur DUMAS, Experimental Factor Ontology ID, BG EGN, Google Scholar Organization ID, fiba.basketball player ID
- General datatypes:
- Deleted properties:
- Query example: Entry dates and discovery dates of the objects of the museum of Brittany (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- EntitySchemas:
- We continued the work on giving them the same termbox as Items and Properties (phab:T324235)
- We finished the work on showing the labels for EntitySchemas in Recent changes, All Pages, Watchlist and edit summaries (phab:T339924, phab:T339921, phab:T339925, phab:T343231)
- We added missing messages related to IP editing and license notes (phab:T343333, phab:T343118)
- Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on the route for replacing the data of a statement on a Property (phab:T340006)
- EntitySchemas:
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.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2023-32
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
- Mobile Web editors can now edit a whole page at once. To use this feature, turn on "⧼Mobile-frontend-mobile-option-amc⧽" in your settings and use the "Edit full page" button in the "More" menu. [6]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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MediaWiki message delivery 21:19, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Technical news
- The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
- Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)
Arbitration
- The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
- The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.
Wikidata weekly summary #589
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- MangadexBot (Task: add metadata from mangadex to manga with Mangadex manga ID)
- WingUCTBOT (Task: Batch Upload of Niger-Congo B Lexemes, including Senses and Forms)
- New request for comments: Adapt blocking policy to IPv6 networks (Regarding the need to block IPv6 addresses and networks by a minimum /64 range )
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Events
- Upcoming:
- Wikimania 2023 (16–19 August, Singapore and Online) program is out: wikimania:2023:Program
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour August 18, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The first Wikidata Working Hour in the series will cover creating a bibliography of diverse LIS articles and books. We will generate a spreadsheet of sources ready for use during subsequent Working Hours. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page. Event page
- Past: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #104, Police
- Upcoming:
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Papers
- Videos
- Adding Wikidata To Openstreetmap
- Recording mass paths on Wikimedia and Wikidata
- FOSS4G 2023 - Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap - Edward Betts
- SPARQLE session - Sport, rugby and units - Nicolas VIGNERON
- Virtual Inauguration: AfLIA Wikidata Online Course for Cohort 2
- Live Wikidata editing (in Italian)
- KGC 2023 Masterclass: Wikibase and Question-Answering by The QA Company's CEO, Dennis Diefenbach
- Notebooks
- SEmantic Graphs (SEG) - Cautiously nudging RDF towards more expressivity (paper)
- Movie settings and population (What is the relation between how big a city is and how many movies are set in that city?)
- Wikidata study day
- SPARQL Queries for Cross-referencing and Data Cleanup
- Presentations: Chemistry in Wikidata visualized with Scholia, Egon Willighagen et al.
- Tool of the week
- Everything is connected - is a knowledge-based puzzle game where players must fit square pieces representing entities in the world together based on their known connections.
- WMF is moving from ORES to Lift Wing, an open-source machine learning infrastructure. Your input is vital to train the model for more accurate bad edits detection on Wikidata. Join us in enhancing edits detection by using the Annotation tool: https://annotool.toolforge.org/
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: Tolkien Gateway ID, Biblioteca centrale Cappuccini authority ID, FSHF player ID, Mandarin-Cantonese Comparative Study ID, Internet Broadway Database touring theatre ID, British Institute at Ankara person ID, British Institute at Ankara place ID, Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal GTB ID, GSAFD ID, USP Libraries Catalogue ID, Nantes Museum of Arts ID, Mythoskop ID, Lemmy community ID, NFSA title ID, PesticideInfo chemical ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- Steam Deck compatibility rating (official rating used to determine which games, as a result of the review process, are compatible with Steam Deck and which are not)
- name version for other gender (use for when names that are not given name or surnames are gendered (since those two have their own properties), would also be helpful for many noble titles and honorifics as well as affixes)
- Curator of (has curated a collection or (art) exhibition)
- Philippine middle name ()
- External identifiers: Rumble channel, protected heritage site in Brussels ID (web), archINFORM Awards ID, RCS number, NFDI4Culture ID, Windows Package Manager Community package ID, AFC-Ajax.info player ID, FaroeSoccer referee ID, Steam curator ID, Футзал.рус player ID, alyga.lt player ID, CRIS Unique Site Number, Höhlenkataster ID (Österreich), Sitios ID, FNAC ID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Map of places located in Rennes with an article on the French Wikipedia (and colored according to the number of pages in all Wikimedia projects)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles weapon types, and primary colors (source)
- Number of albums in Wikidata by year of release (source)
- Objects in Dresden with significant event (source)
- Newest WikiProjects:
- WikiProject Svenska Grillplatser (WikiProject Swedish Grill Places) - The idea is to see what Wikidata and OSM can contribute when it comes to barbecue sites and connections to municipalities, grillplatser.nu, naturkartan.
- WikiProject Nollywood - This is a WikiProject for adding and enhancing items in Wikidata for Nollywood (Nigerian films) held as VHS at the Northwestern University Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies. These films were primarily produced and collected from 1990-2000. Items will be added with information from the catalog record (MARC).
- Newest properties:
- Development
- Wikibase REST API: We are working on adding and replacing statements on Properties (phab:T339363, phab:T340006)
- EntitySchemas:
- We continued working on making the mobile termbox from Items and Properties work on EntitySchemas
- We fixed a missing warning for non-logged-in editors and license note (phab:T343333, phab:T343118)
- IP Masking: We are investigating what implications the upcoming IP Masking changes in MediaWiki have for Wikibase (phab:T328454)
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.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Revoke TPA
78.180.247.13 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) Trolling on their talk page after being blocked for block evasion. — Prodraxis {talk • contribs} (she/her) 14:22, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-33
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 translation system is no longer using Youdao's machine translation service. The service was in place for several years, but due to no usage, and availability of alternatives, it was deprecated to reduce maintenance overheads. Other services which cover the same languages are still available. [7]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).
- Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Latin Wikipedia, Ladino Wikipedia, Luxembourgish Wikipedia, Lak Wikipedia, Lezghian Wikipedia, Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia, Ganda Wikipedia, Limburgish Wikipedia, Ligurian Wikipedia, Lombard Wikipedia, Lingala Wikipedia, Latgalian Wikipedia, Latvian Wikipedia, Maithili Wikipedia, Basa Banyumasan Wikipedia, Moksha Wikipedia, Malagasy Wikipedia, Armenian Wikipedia, Kyrgyz Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [8]
Future changes
- A few gadgets/user scripts which add icons to the Minerva skin need to have their CSS updated. There are more details available including a search for all existing instances and how to update them.
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MediaWiki message delivery 05:58, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 15 August 2023
- News and notes: Dude, Where's My Donations? Wikimedia Foundation announces another million in grants for non-Wikimedia-related projects
- Tips and tricks: How to find images for your articles, check their copyright, upload them, and restore them
- Cobwebs: Getting serious about writing
- Serendipity: Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether
- Featured content: Barbenheimer confirmed
- Traffic report: 'Cause today it just goes with the fashion
Wikidata weekly summary #590
- Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot: TiagoLubianaBot 2 (Task: The Open Targets Platform is an important biomedical resource that makes its data available under a CC0 license waiver. The request at hand is to extend the permissions of User:TiagoLubianaBot to import information from Open Targets, initially with a focus on physical interactions between proteins and drugs.)
- Events
- Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #106, Sleep
- Past:
- Wikimania happened over the weekend. You can find a playlist of the events on YouTube here
- Past: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #105, Wikimania Singapore
- Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
- Celebrating the 2023 Wikimedian of the Year Winners. Congratulations Tofeiku and Siobhan Leachman for your dedication to Wikidata \o/
- Videos
- Blogs
- Tool of the week
- Psychiq, a Distributed Wikidata Game system, suggests statements to add to Items based on Wikipedia English articles content.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes:
- appears before phonological feature (this lexeme form appears only when another lexeme form with this phonological feature comes after it)
- appears after phonological feature (this lexeme form appears only when it comes after another lexeme form with this phonological feature)
- appears before lexeme form (this lexeme form appears only when this other specific lexeme form comes after it)
- appears after lexeme form (this lexeme form appears only when it comes after this other specific lexeme form)
- Gottstein code (code representing a variant of the cuneiform sign according to the Gottstein system)
- tournament type (significance or status of a sports competition for a league, tour, association, etc.)
- External identifiers: Lemmy community ID, NFSA title ID, PesticideInfo chemical ID, Unidades de Conservação no Brasil ID, UMLS Semantic Network ID, Experimental Factor Ontology ID, Moroccan geographic code (2015), BHL item ID, TVING ID, Google Scholar organization ID, Rumble channel, GSA player ID, Roku Channel Store ID, snookerscores.net tournament ID, OlimpBase FIDE ratings ID, Antenna Structure Registration Number, Korean Tour player ID, Kastelenlexicon ID, NFDI4Culture ID, Pouët group ID, Pouët group member ID, Pouët demo ID, Steam curator ID, Podbay ID, Rostocker Matrikelportal ID, Panjab Digital Library ID, Diamond Catalogue work ID, Diamond Catalogue edition ID, Frankfurt University Library Digital Collection ID, Nurnet ID, DUMAS thesis ID, Syok podcast ID
- General datatypes:
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- patron deity ()
- WHO Aware Classification (The World Health Organization currently classifies 258 antibiotics into "Access", "Watch", and "Reserve" based partly on the risk of resistance developing as a result of such use and critical nature of the antibiotic in question.)
- nombre de niveaux (number of levels in a video game or number of stages in a particular sport)
- URL du plan du jeu vidéo (URL of the video game detailed map in subject provided by the site CPC-Power)
- Positioning (A list of all the satellite navigation system (ex. GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO, BDS, NavIC etc. ) a mobile device, or a smartphone supports. [https://w.wiki/7HE9 List of all the Satellite Navigation System].)
- place on the route (object, station, facility, city, natural formation or other place on a road, track, route, line, watercourse, utility line or other linear route)
- simule (the element imitates or makes the value of the property appear real)
- External identifiers: ANPI person ID (2), J. Paul Getty Museum agent ID, ID ve Slovníku české literatury po roce 1945, Vazhaju Word ID, MUDlistings ID, The Mud Connector ID, Visiongame.cz game ID, Visiongame.cz studio ID, Databáze her developer ID, Biographical Directory of Federal Judges Numeric ID, Living Music Database composer ID, Anikore anime ID, wiki.gg wiki ID
- General datatypes:
- Query examples:
- Count of items with an article on fr.wikivoyage.org by country (source)
- Count of items with an article on fr.wikiquote.org by instance of (source)
- Count of items that have X amount of statements. A simple showcase of Blazegraph optimizations.
- Week 33, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
- Newest properties:
- Development
- EntitySchemas: We investigated ways to help you search for EntitySchemas by their Labels, Aliases and Descriptions (phab:T341969)
- Mismatch Finder: We have added the Language Selector to the Mismatch Finder (phab:T328149)
- Improved language fallback: We are testing to clearly show the fallback Label in the placeholders for empty Labels (phab:T338330, phab:T340832)
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.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Tech News: 2023-34
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 GDrive to Commons Uploader tool is now available. It enables securely selecting and uploading files from your Google Drive directly to Wikimedia Commons. [9]
- From now on, we will announce new Wikimedia wikis in Tech News, so you can update any tools or pages.
- Since the last edition, two new wikis have been created:
- To catch up, the next most recent six wikis are:
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).
Future changes
- There is an existing stable interface policy for MediaWiki backend code. There is a proposed stable interface policy for frontend code. This is relevant for anyone who works on gadgets or Wikimedia frontend code. You can read it, discuss it, and let the proposer know if there are any problems. [18]
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15:23, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
Hello GeneralNotability, I'd like to discuss something related to my topic ban. Since this question directly concerns my topic ban itself and what's necessary to appeal it, I think I'm allowed to ask about it here under the exception to topic bans listed at WP:BANEX.
As I'm sure you're aware, the reason I'm topic banned is for promoting a "conspiracy theory"; the one that I described in my comment in this discussion. I mentioned there that outside of Wikipedia this "conspiracy theory" has been largely accepted, and you advised me, "If the circumstances surrounding you TBAN have changed, the correct response would have been to appeal it, not to ignore it." Some additional evidence about this came to light last month, but I've also realized there is an issue that prevents me from following the advice you gave me there. I'd like to discuss what would be the correct way forward.
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First, please be aware of this article on Substack, particularly the section titled "RationalWiki's parody content". That article is primarily about RationalWiki, but the linked section also describes how the user responsible for most of that site's parody material, the banned user Deleet, also has added similar material in Wikipedia articles, and what account here he has used for that. That article refers to Deleet by his real name, but linking to that post that is not outing because he gave his real name on his Wikipedia user page. Substack presumably is not a RS, but ArbCom should be aware of that article because Deleet almost certainly is one of its authors, so there he is obliquely taking credit in public for his "demonstrations of how easily Wikipedia can be exploited" (that is a direct quote from the Substack post). No one aside from Deleet would know all the details described there about customs authorities searching his computer, or the advice he was given by his legal team while suing someone. These details that nobody else could know are described in the sections titled "A change of targets" and "The legal status of RationalWiki articles". He has more overtly taken credit in this comment:
The mention of Wikipedia editors being punished for bringing up his "experiment" in public is apparently referring to the reason I was topic banned, and the reason Gardenofaleph was indefinitely blocked. The account that posted this comment, "Kfotfo", is the original account that Deleet used to add parody material mocking leftist views on intelligence, beginning in 2018, a little over a year before this experiment spread to Wikipedia. The article created from that account (about Richard Haier) was deleted last month, but the fact that he was its creator is mentioned in this discussion. Finally, I want to bring ArbCom's attention to this comment. If what that person is saying is correct, there are several other users aside from me who have privately contacted ArbCom about this issue, and presented additional evidence about it, including Ferahgo the Assassin and DGG. Again, I'm not arguing that post is a RS, but if those other people did indeed contact ArbCom about the same issue, ArbCom should be able to verify that from their own records. Perhaps Ferahgo could confirm that she contacted ArbCom about it, and that in response they told her it could only be addressed in a public arbitration request, yet simultaneously discouraged her from making one? |
By taking credit in public for his Wikipedia "experiment", Deleet is not only mocking other people at RationalWiki; he's also mocking ArbCom. He clearly does not expect ArbCom to ever do anything about this. Whether that assumption is correct or not, I think at least my topic ban ought to be re-evaluated now that the person I accused of being responsible is gloating about it in public.
Here's the problem: my topic ban was imposed by the Wikipedia community, not by ArbCom, so my understanding of how sanctions work is that only the community has the power to remove it. But it's clear from the last comment I linked above is that a large portion of the evidence about Deleet's WP "experiment" has been submitted to ArbCom privately, including the evidence that I submitted to ArbCom in 2020. Since much this evidence is private, I don't believe making public a topic ban appeal with a full summary of the evidence would actually be possible.
Here is my most important question: is there any way to have ArbCom make a public statement, such as a finding of fact, summarizing all of what they know about this issue, including both the public and private evidence, while redacting any information (real names, private emails, etc.) that can't be posted in public? I think it's reasonable to request such a statement from ArbCom now, and also realistically speaking, it's extremely unlikely the community would accept a topic ban appeal from me unless something like what I'm suggesting could happen first. 2600:1004:B11D:E9D:C4AF:7F57:214C:519C (talk) 15:38, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
Proposed decision posted for the SmallCat dispute case
The proposed decision in the SmallCat dispute has been posted. You are invited to review this decision and draw the arbitrators' attention to any relevant material or statements. Comments may be brought to the attention of the committee on the proposed decision talk page. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 10:53, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
SPI
Hello, since you have experience with this case, I was wondering if you could take a look at this SPI when you have time. Thank you. --Griboski (talk) 17:38, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
Smartmarty123
Would you mind revoking TPA for this chap Thanks! Firestar464 (talk) 00:19, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
- (I personally wouldn't mind being compared to Fanny Price, but oh well.)[Joke] Firestar464 (talk) 00:20, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
- Firestar464 I'm inclined to leave it for now, given that they haven't edited in two days. (And my appreciation to Ponyo for the decline reason) GeneralNotability (talk) 00:27, 26 August 2023 (UTC)