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The Katherine Hughes (activist) draft
I've meant to improve the draft and I've had some ideas, but I have struggled to actually do anything with them. I started reading a book about Katherine Hughes (it was called 'Sweet Sixteen,' can't remember the author atm but can find this information later when my bedroom is more organized) but most of the information contained in that book (until the point I read) was about the other 15 female journalists who covered the 1914 St. Louis World Fair. It's a very interesting book actually, but I haven't read much about Katherine Hughes yet (other than that she was one of the total 16 journalists and that her birth date recorded in the book is different from other sources). I guess what I'm trying to say, is that I'm still not sure how to improve the draft at this point. I know that you also mentioned that you had some ideas earlier about the draft and since I haven't been able to think of anything to improve the article in two months, I would appreciate any improvements, if you're interested in editing the draft. One other thing to note: the book does mention that Hughes did not support women's suffrage. I'll look at my notebook for a page number, but this claim was mentioned in other sources. I thought it was strange at first from a modern perspective, but Anti-suffragism existed. Clovermoss (talk) 07:12, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
- Hi Clovermoss, thanks for reaching out. Currently I'm doing quite a bit both on Wikipedia and in real life, but I'll try to do what I can for the page as time permits. I did find the book you meniton and both the author and the publisher seem reliable, so if you would like to use it it should be fine; if the birth dates conflict, you could mention in the article that the exact DOB varies between sources. Cheers, --SkyGazer 512 My talk page 14:16, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
- Hi again. I'm glad that you're considering helping. I understand that you're busy with other things. I don't mind waiting, I'm grateful for any help you can give. I don't know why I'm finding it so hard to expand my own draft. I've been expanding other articles and adding references, so it feels weird to have such a hard time thinking about how to apply that to my own draft. Anyways, I did some research for research while trying to expand the article before. I have a list of potential resources that could be very helpful of online sources in my sandbox. If you think they could be helpful, I have no problem with you looking around/using them to improve the article. Clovermoss (talk) 16:16, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Clovermoss: It can be hard to expand articles sometimes. I'm less busy IRL currently so I'll try to do what I can. :-)--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 18:17, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
- Good news! I've done some expansion to the draft. However, a lot of the information still needs to be converted into running prose, which is on my to-do list. Other than converting to running prose, do you have any other suggestions? Clovermoss (talk) 05:16, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Clovermoss: Awesome! Now that you've added sources following all statements in the article, it will be much easier for me to try to copy-edit it, convert to running prose, and expand it. I'll take a look now!--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 00:40, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you so much for taking a look at it! I do have one question though - at what point should the draft be submitted for review? I'm thinking that once the rest of the article has been converted to running prose? Again, thank you for the all the time you've spent helping me and giving advice... I'm actually quite proud that the draft has progressed into what it has and it wouldn't have been that way without your help. Clovermoss (talk) 02:05, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Clovermoss: Well, once a draft has shown that it is notable, follows core policies for the most part (most importantly copyvio and sourcing), is mostly formatted correctly, it will usually be accepted. Unfortunately, I've found myself quite busy IRL recently but I'm going to try to see what I can do over the weekend.--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 02:48, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
- Would [1] this be of any help? It's the Library of Congress information for her book about Father Lacaombe. It mentions her as the author and other general information. Clovermoss (talk) 14:59, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
- There's also [2] about her involvement in the Catholic Women's League. It's from The Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton. Clovermoss (talk) 15:03, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
- [3] This is a wordpress website, but it has an author (that if believed, has a PhD in history), is quite detailed and cites sources at the bottom. I'm thinking that those cited sources (they're books), if accesible, could be quite helpful. If they mention Katherine Hughes, they'd be useful. Clovermoss (talk) 18:01, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks! I'll have a look.--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 22:10, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
- [3] This is a wordpress website, but it has an author (that if believed, has a PhD in history), is quite detailed and cites sources at the bottom. I'm thinking that those cited sources (they're books), if accesible, could be quite helpful. If they mention Katherine Hughes, they'd be useful. Clovermoss (talk) 18:01, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Clovermoss: Well, once a draft has shown that it is notable, follows core policies for the most part (most importantly copyvio and sourcing), is mostly formatted correctly, it will usually be accepted. Unfortunately, I've found myself quite busy IRL recently but I'm going to try to see what I can do over the weekend.--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 02:48, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you so much for taking a look at it! I do have one question though - at what point should the draft be submitted for review? I'm thinking that once the rest of the article has been converted to running prose? Again, thank you for the all the time you've spent helping me and giving advice... I'm actually quite proud that the draft has progressed into what it has and it wouldn't have been that way without your help. Clovermoss (talk) 02:05, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Clovermoss: Awesome! Now that you've added sources following all statements in the article, it will be much easier for me to try to copy-edit it, convert to running prose, and expand it. I'll take a look now!--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 00:40, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
- Good news! I've done some expansion to the draft. However, a lot of the information still needs to be converted into running prose, which is on my to-do list. Other than converting to running prose, do you have any other suggestions? Clovermoss (talk) 05:16, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Clovermoss: It can be hard to expand articles sometimes. I'm less busy IRL currently so I'll try to do what I can. :-)--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 18:17, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
- Hi again. I'm glad that you're considering helping. I understand that you're busy with other things. I don't mind waiting, I'm grateful for any help you can give. I don't know why I'm finding it so hard to expand my own draft. I've been expanding other articles and adding references, so it feels weird to have such a hard time thinking about how to apply that to my own draft. Anyways, I did some research for research while trying to expand the article before. I have a list of potential resources that could be very helpful of online sources in my sandbox. If you think they could be helpful, I have no problem with you looking around/using them to improve the article. Clovermoss (talk) 16:16, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).
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On 10 April 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Chinese alligator, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the critically endangered Chinese alligator (pictured) may have helped inspire the mythology of the Chinese dragon? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chinese alligator. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Chinese alligator), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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... for improving articles in April! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:39, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
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The article has been accepted at AFC, but I'm guessing that you already know that with the links to other articles :) Once again, thank you for all the help you've put into helping the article get there. I'm kind of excited that the article passed AFC. I know that it's all about improving Wikipedia, but I like the sense of acomplishment when I think about my efforts actually being a part of that. Clovermoss (talk) 17:08, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
- Yep, I noticed, Clovermoss. I'm happy I was able to help; I'll try to further expand and improve as time permits, we might could even nominate it for WP:DYK. Making creations/edits is about improving Wikipedia, but there's no problem with having a sense of accomplishment for having such an important article you wrote yourself moved to mainspace. Congrats!--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 18:44, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
- I'm worried that there's one sentance in the article that could be confusing. Edmonton is the capital city of the province Alberta. Each province/territory in Canada has its own capital. The only exception to this is Ontario: Toronto is the capital of Ontario, but Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. I could look at the sources again, but I'm thinking that it's meant in the "she worked in Edmonton as the first provincial archivist for Alberta" kind-of-way. Side note: Should I put any further discussions of the article on the talk page now that it's a live article? Since you have been the other main contributor to the article I wanted to mention it here. Clovermoss (talk) 19:07, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Clovermoss: Wonder if something like "Hughes became the first provincial archivist for Alberta in 1908, while residing in Edmonton" would work? I don't think it matters a whole lot where you ask questions about issues like this, but for more important discussions it would probably be best to use the talk page. I am watchlisting Hughes' page and the talk page, so I'll see whenever you post something there. Cheers, --SkyGazer 512 My talk page 19:15, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
- Okay! I didn't want to assume it was on your watchlist (in case it wasn't/not everyone uses watchlists anyways). It's on my watchlist too, so I'll see anything you bring up there, too. I think the suggestion you just made about that particular sentance would work. Clovermoss (talk) 19:20, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
- As for DYK, I read the link and the eligibility criteria. The article as-is seems to meet the criteria, since it's a new article to mainspace (1.c), I'm not sure if the article currently meets the characters of prose requirement, I'm not sure how to run the scripts mentioned. There could be several hooks; but if there was one in particular, I was thinking a hook about becoming the first provincial archivist of Alberta would meet the requirements. If you're planning on expanding the article further, I'm guessing that the nomination should probably wait? Clovermoss (talk) 19:31, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Clovermoss: I checked, and the article is 2,277 characters in prose size so it exceeds the length requirement. I don't think your hook suggestion is bad at all and it probably could work, but I think it would be best to have something that is very intriguing for a broad audience. I probably will expand the article further, and when I do so, I may find something that would work even better for DYK.--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 21:38, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Clovermoss: Wonder if something like "Hughes became the first provincial archivist for Alberta in 1908, while residing in Edmonton" would work? I don't think it matters a whole lot where you ask questions about issues like this, but for more important discussions it would probably be best to use the talk page. I am watchlisting Hughes' page and the talk page, so I'll see whenever you post something there. Cheers, --SkyGazer 512 My talk page 19:15, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
- I'm worried that there's one sentance in the article that could be confusing. Edmonton is the capital city of the province Alberta. Each province/territory in Canada has its own capital. The only exception to this is Ontario: Toronto is the capital of Ontario, but Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. I could look at the sources again, but I'm thinking that it's meant in the "she worked in Edmonton as the first provincial archivist for Alberta" kind-of-way. Side note: Should I put any further discussions of the article on the talk page now that it's a live article? Since you have been the other main contributor to the article I wanted to mention it here. Clovermoss (talk) 19:07, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2019
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DYK for Morpeth, Northumberland
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NPR Newsletter No.18
Hello SkyGazer 512,
- WMF at work on NPP Improvements
Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:
- Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
- Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.
- Reliable Sources for NPP
Rosguill has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.
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Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of DannyS712 (talk) at 19:17, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for helping make The Black Dahlia (graphic novel) a English Wikipedia article :)
I noticed that you sent a "Thank You" notification to me when I thanked User:Phospheros on his talk page I don't know how to send "Thank You" Notifications, so I'll just say THANK YOU here! I know it's late praise, and late expression of gratitude, but it was important to me, that article. From The Black Dahlia (graphic novel)'s History page, it seems yourself, and User:Phospheros and User:Worldbruce helped out a lot in making it an article. Like I mentioned, this article was important to me (Also, I've created eight other English Wikipedia articles, not counting the three English files; See [Contributions]), and I've never had this kind of trouble creating an article on Wikipedia before. I have always tried to create articles that are noteworthy on Wikipedia. It was moved to draftspace before I even had time to work on it. Is this a new thing? Is this something you might know about or have experienced yourself firsthand? ?
Anyway, once again, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SkyGazer 512, for your help. :) I'm going by the article's history, so let me know if there is anyone else that helped out. God bless you and Best prayers to you.PeaceShield5 (talk) 22:20, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
- Hi PeaceShield5, thank you for the kind message. Quite honestly, I didn't do a whole lot; just cleaned up a little bit (and after it was moved to mainspace), but I'm happy I was able to help. Thanks notifications can only be sent for specific edits (and you can't thank people for thanks); to send one, you must navigate to the history of a page and click the "thank" option next to the edit in question. Let me know if you need further clarification on how to do this.
- I understand your frustration of the article being moved to draftspace before you had a chance to work on it. This is something that happens often and not at all something to be worried about. When you first created the article, there weren't any links to sources to verify the information, and it remained that way for several hours. Having an article moved to draftspace does not mean it's going to be deleted; it just means that the mover is giving the author a chance to work on it some more before it becomes a mainspace article again. Now, are we expected for an article to be perfect in its initial creation? Absolutely not. But you should have a list of sources for all the information in any mainspace article probably within an hour of its creation; they don't necessarily have to be inline, even, as long as they aren't direct quotations or possibly controversial material. If you can't do that, that is completely understandable; people become busy or have other issues in real life. A possible option would be to start a draft of the article as a user subpage and then move it to mainspace yourself once you think it's ready. As you probably know, sourcing is very important to establish both notability and verifiability and probably the most important thing to have in an article; if an article needs a bit of cleanup or formatting fixes, reviewers can easily fix it themselves and the article is most likely not worth moving to draftspace.
- I hope this helps and please let me know if you have any questions. Cheers, --SkyGazer 512 My talk page 02:39, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
'Did you know' nomination for Milton Keynes
If it amuses you, perhaps you might do the review of template:Did you know nominations/Milton Keynes?
No need to reply. If you don't have time, you don't have time. Thank you for even considering it. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 16:57, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
- Hi John Maynard Friedman, thanks for reaching out. I'm happy that the GA passed and that you nominated it for DYK. I don't think I could commit myself to a full review, particularly making sure that the cited source is reliable and explicitly mentions the hook content, however I've looked over the article and hook a bit and compared them to the DYK criteria. It's obviously new enough, within policy, etc. One minor issue I noticed: the hook is currently a bit long, it's at exactly 200 characters when the DYK rules states that hooks must be fewer than 200 characters. I think that "that among the smaller villages and hamlets" is unneeded detail – I'd suggest using an alt, something like "that Broughton, Loughton and Woughton on the Green, three villages in Milton Keynes, each use a different pronunciation of the ough letter sequence in English" (which is about 160 characters); adding links and bolding when necessary, of course. I hope this suggestion is helpful and sorry for not being able to do a full review.--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 02:55, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you, I completely missed the 200 character limit. I like your suggested reword and will apply. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 20:23, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
June events with WIR
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The Signpost: 31 May 2019
- From the editors: Picture that
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019).
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- An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
- An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
- An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.
Technical news
- The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion. You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
- Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution! The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.
Miscellaneous
- The previously discussed unblocking of IP addresses indefinitely-blocked before 2009 was approved and has taken place.
- The 2019 talk pages consultation produced a report for Phase 1 and has entered Phase 2.
Update about a script you use
Hi SkyGazer 512. I'm DannyS712 (talk), and I wanted to send you a warning about a change I am making to a script, User:DannyS712/DiscussionCloser, that you currently import. If you are an administrator, feel free to ignore this message. For non-administrators, you should be advised that I am removing the script's automatic addition of {{nac}} to your closes. If you have relied on this to mark such closes for you, please remember to add {{nac}} yourself. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk)
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Approved DYK nomination for Katherine Hughes (activist)
Hi, it's me again. I noticed that my nomination was approved in DYK, but I have no idea what the next steps are (or if I'm involved in them). I noticed that there's a queue and prep area, but I don't know how they work or how it affects the main page. Clovermoss (talk) 19:22, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
- Hey Clovermoss, congrats on getting it approved! For now, there's nothing you have to do. At some point (usually at most a few weeks from approval), a user who is experienced with DYK will look at the nomination and if there are problems ask if they can be addressed or otherwise promote the hook to a preparation area, which is basically where hook sets are prepared. After that, an admin will move them to a queue (if they don't notice any problems), which usually takes a few days, and a bot will move the queue to the main page at the appropriate time. Basically someone could ask for you to address issues with the hook anytime during this process, but you'll most likely be notified about it, especially if you have the DYK page on your watchlist. Hope this helps!--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 21:27, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
- Currently it's in prep area #2. I guess that means that it's already been promoted? Clovermoss (talk) 21:46, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
- Yep, now all that needs to be done is an admin move it to one of the queues and then a bot add it to the main page at the appropriate time.--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 23:08, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
- Currently it's in prep area #2. I guess that means that it's already been promoted? Clovermoss (talk) 21:46, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
DYK for Katherine Hughes (activist)
On 24 June 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Katherine Hughes (activist), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Canadian journalist Katherine Hughes became Alberta's first provincial archivist, but later became a political activist, fighting for Irish self-determination? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Katherine Hughes (activist). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Katherine Hughes (activist)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
July events from Women in Red!
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New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019
Hello SkyGazer 512,
- WMF at work on NPP Improvements
More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.
- QUALITY of REVIEWING
Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.
- Backlog
The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.
- Move to draft
NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.
- Notifying users
Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.
- PERM
Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway.
- Other news
School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.
Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.
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The June 2019 Signpost is out!
- Discussion report: A constitutional crisis hits English Wikipedia
- News and notes: Mysterious ban, admin resignations, Wikimedia Thailand rising
- In the media: The disinformation age
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Traffic report: Juneteenth, Beauty Revealed, and more nuclear disasters
- Technology report: Actors and Bots
- Special report: Did Fram harass other editors?
- Recent research: What do editors do after being blocked?; the top mathematicians, universities and cancers according to Wikipedia
- From the archives: Women and Wikipedia: the world is watching
- In focus: WikiJournals: A sister project proposal
- Community view: A CEO biography, paid for with taxes
Administrators' newsletter – July 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019).
Administrator changes
- 28bytes • Ad Orientem • Ansh666 • Beeblebrox • Boing! said Zebedee • BU Rob13 • Dennis Brown • Deor • DoRD • Floquenbeam1 • Flyguy649 • Fram2 • Gadfium • GB fan • Jonathunder • Kusma • Lectonar • Moink • MSGJ • Nick • Od Mishehu • Rama • Spartaz • Syrthiss • TheDJ • WJBscribe
- 1Floquenbeam's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.
- 2Fram's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.
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Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment seeking to alleviate pressures on the request an account (ACC) process proposes either raising the account creation limit for extended confirmed editors or granting the account creator permission on request to new ACC tool users.
- In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.
- The scope of CSD criterion G8 has been tightened such that the only redirects that it now applies to are those which target non-existent pages.
- The scope of CSD criterion G14 has been expanded slightly to include orphan "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects that target pages that are not disambiguation pages or pages that perform a disambiguation-like function (such as set index articles or lists).
- A request for comment seeks to determine whether Wikipedia:Office actions should be a policy page or an information page.
Technical news
- The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.
Miscellaneous
- In February 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) changed its office actions policy to include temporary and project-specific bans. The WMF exercised this new ability for the first time on the English Wikipedia on 10 June 2019 to temporarily ban and desysop Fram. This action has resulted in significant community discussion, a request for arbitration (permalink), and, either directly or indirectly, the resignations of numerous administrators and functionaries. The WMF Board of Trustees is aware of the situation, and discussions continue on a statement and a way forward. The Arbitration Committee has sent an open letter to the WMF Board.
August 2019 at Women in Red
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The Signpost: 31 July 2019
- In the media: Politics starts getting rough
- Discussion report: New proposals in aftermath of Fram ban
- Arbitration report: A month of reintegration
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Community view: Video based summaries of Wikipedia articles. How and why?
- News from the WMF: Designing ethically with AI: How Wikimedia can harness machine learning in a responsible and human-centered way
- Recent research: Most influential medical journals; detecting pages to protect
- Special report: Administrator cadre continues to contract
- Traffic report: World cups, presidential candidates, and stranger things
Administrators' newsletter – August 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, the page Wikipedia:Office actions has been changed from a policy page to an information page.
- A request for comment (permalink) is in progress regarding the administrator inactivity policy.
Arbitration
- Editors may now use the template {{Ds/aware}} to indicate that they are aware that discretionary sanctions are in force for a topic area, so it is unnecessary to alert them.
Miscellaneous
- Following a research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page.
- The new page reviewer right is bundled with the admin tool set. Many admins regularly help out at Special:NewPagesFeed, but they may not be aware of improvements, changes, and new tools for the Curation system. Stay up to date by subscribing here to the NPP newsletter that appears every two months, and/or putting the reviewers' talk page on your watchlist.
Since the introduction of temporary user rights, it is becoming more usual to accord the New Page Reviewer right on a probationary period of 3 to 6 months in the first instance. This avoids rights removal for inactivity at a later stage and enables a review of their work before according the right on a permanent basis.
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Here's a special barnstar
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- @Clovermoss: Thank you very much for the kind words. I'm very happy I've been able to help you; I really enjoy watching you grow as an editor!--SkyGazer 512 My talk page 00:20, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
September 2019 at Women in Red
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The Signpost: 30 August 2019
- News and notes: Documenting Wikimania and our beginnings
- In focus: Ryan Merkley joins WMF as Chief of Staff
- Discussion report: Meta proposals on partial bans and IP users
- Traffic report: Once upon a time in Greenland with Boris and cornflakes
- News from the WMF: Meet Emna Mizouni, the newly minted 2019 Wikimedian of the Year
- Recent research: Special issue on gender gap and gender bias research
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
Administrators' newsletter – September 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).
Administrator changes
Bradv • Chetsford • Izno
Floquenbeam • Lectonar- DESiegel • Jake Wartenberg • Rjanag • Topbanana
CheckUser changes
Oversight changes
- Callanecc • Fox • HJ Mitchell • LFaraone • There'sNoTime
Technical news
- Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
- The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.
Arbitration
- A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2019 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
Miscellaneous
- A global request for comment is in progress regarding whether a user group should be created that could modify edit filters across all public Wikimedia wikis.
New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019
Hello SkyGazer 512,
- Backlog
Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.
- Coordinator
A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.
- This month's refresher course
Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.
- Deletion tags
Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.
- Paid editing
Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.
- Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion
- Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
- Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.
- Not English
- A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.
- Tools
Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.
Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.
Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.
DannyS712 bot III is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its patrol log.
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October Events from Women in Red
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The Signpost: 30 September 2019
- From the editors: Where do we go from here?
- Special report: Post-Framgate wrapup
- Traffic report: Varied and intriguing entries, less Luck, and some retreads
- News from the WMF: How the Wikimedia Foundation is making efforts to go green
- Recent research: Wikipedia's role in assessing credibility of news sources; using wikis against procrastination; OpenSym 2019 report
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
Administrators' newsletter – October 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which
applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories
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- Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which
Technical news
- As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.
Arbitration
- The 2019 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place October 4th to 10th.
- The arbitration case regarding Fram was closed. While there will be a local RfC
focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future
, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.
Miscellaneous
- The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.
November 2019 at Women in Red
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The Signpost: 31 October 2019
- In the media: How to use or abuse Wikipedia for fun or profit
- Special report: “Catch and Kill” on Wikipedia: Paid editing and the suppression of material on alleged sexual abuse
- Interview: Carl Miller on Wikipedia Wars
- Community view: Observations from the mainland
- Arbitration report: October actions
- Gallery: Wiki Loves Broadcast
- Recent research: Research at Wikimania 2019: More communication doesn't make editors more productive; Tor users doing good work; harmful content rare on English Wikipedia
- News from the WMF: Welcome to Wikipedia! Here's what we're doing to help you stick around
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
New Page Review newsletter November 2019
Hello SkyGazer 512,
This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.
- Getting the queue to 0
There are now 808 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox.
Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.
- Coordinator
Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.
- This month's refresher course
Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.
- Tools
- It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
- It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
- Reviewer Feedback
Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.
- Second set of eyes
- Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
- Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
- Arbitration Committee
The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.
- Community Wish list
There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.
To opt-out of future mailings, you can remove yourself here
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).
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Guideline and policy news
- An RfC was closed with the consensus that the resysop criteria should be made stricter.
- The follow-up RfC to develop that change is now open at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2019 Resysop Criteria (2).
- A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.
Arbitration
- Eligible editors may now nominate themselves as candidates for the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections. The self-nomination period will close November 12, with voting running from November 19 through December 2.
ArbCom 2019 election voter message
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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 2019 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add |
Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
Hello,
Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.
I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!
From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.
If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.
Thank you!
--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:59, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
December events with WIR
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The Signpost: 29 November 2019
- From the editor: Put on your birthday best
- News and notes: How soon for the next million articles?
- In the media: You say you want a revolution
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Arbitration report: Two requests for arbitration cases
- Traffic report: The queen and the princess meet the king and the joker
- Technology report: Reference things, sister things, stranger things
- Gallery: Winter and holidays
- Recent research: Bot census; discussions differ on Spanish and English Wikipedia; how nature's seasons affect pageviews
- Essay: Adminitis
- From the archives: WikiProject Spam, revisited
Administrators' newsletter – December 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).
Administrator changes
- EvergreenFir • ToBeFree
- Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂
CheckUser changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
- Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.
Technical news
- Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. (T219126)
Arbitration
- Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.
Miscellaneous
- The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF
will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive
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- The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF
New Page Review newsletter December 2019
- Reviewer of the Year
This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.
Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.
Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.
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| 1 | Rosguill (talk) | 47,395 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 2 | Onel5969 (talk) | 41,883 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 3 | JTtheOG (talk) | 11,493 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 4 | Arthistorian1977 (talk) | 5,562 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 5 | DannyS712 (talk) | 4,866 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 6 | CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk) | 3,995 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 7 | DragonflySixtyseven (talk) | 3,812 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 8 | Boleyn (talk) | 3,655 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 9 | Ymblanter (talk) | 3,553 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 10 | Cwmhiraeth (talk) | 3,522 | Patrol Page Curation |
(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)
- Redirect autopatrol
A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.
- Source Guide Discussion
Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
- This month's refresher course
While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.
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January 2020 at Women in Red
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The Signpost: 27 December 2019
- From the editors: Caught with their hands in the cookie jar, again
- News and notes: What's up (and down) with administrators, articles and languages
- In the media: "The fulfillment of the dream of humanity" or a nightmare of PR whitewashing on behalf of one-percenters?
- Discussion report: December discussions around the wiki
- Arbitration report: Announcement of 2020 Arbitration Committee
- Traffic report: Queens and aliens, exactly alike, once upon a December
- Technology report: User scripts and more
- Gallery: Holiday wishes
- Recent research: Acoustics and Wikipedia; Wiki Workshop 2019 summary
- From the archives: The 2002 Spanish fork and ads revisited (re-revisited?)
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- WikiProject report: Wikiproject Tree of Life: A Wikiproject report
Happy New Year SkyGazer 512!
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).
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Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
- A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
- Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.
Arbitration
- The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being
the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted
rather thanreasonably construed
. - Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Bradv, Casliber, David Fuchs, DGG, KrakatoaKatie, Maxim, Newyorkbrad, SoWhy, Worm That Turned, Xeno.
- The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being
Miscellaneous
- This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!
The Signpost: 27 January 2020
- From the editor: Reaching six million articles is great, but we need a moratorium
- News and notes: Six million articles on the English language Wikipedia
- Special report: The limits of volunteerism and the gatekeepers of Team Encarta
- Arbitration report: Three cases at ArbCom
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2019
- News from the WMF: Capacity Building: Top 5 Themes from Community Conversations
- Community view: Our most important new article since November 1, 2015
- From the archives: A decade of The Signpost, 2005-2015
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Japan: a wikiProject Report
February with Women in Red
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
- The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with
wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input
. No proposed process received consensus.
Technical news
- Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
- When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [4]
Arbitration
- Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators
that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.
- Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- The English Wikipedia has reached six million articles. Thank you everyone for your contributions!
New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020
Hello SkyGazer 512,
- Source Guide Discussion
The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.
- Redirects
New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.
- Discussions and Resources
- There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
- A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
- A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
- A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.
- Refresher
Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.
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March 2020 at Women in Red
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Order of the Crown (Italy)
A tag has been placed on Category:Order of the Crown (Italy) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian (talk) 02:47, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 March 2020
- From the editor: The ball is in your court
- News and notes: Alexa ranking down to 13th worldwide
- Special report: More participation, more conversation, more pageviews
- Discussion report: Do you prefer M or P?
- Arbitration report: Two prominent administrators removed
- Community view: The Incredible Invisible Woman
- In focus: History of The Signpost, 2015–2019
- From the archives: Is Wikipedia for sale?
- Traffic report: February articles, floating in the dark
- Gallery: Feel the love
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Opinion: Wikipedia is another country
- Humour: The Wilhelm scream
Administrators' newsletter – March 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops
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. - A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.
- Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops
Technical news
- Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.
Miscellaneous
- Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
- The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.
April 2020 at Women in Red
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--Rosiestep (talk) 15:00, 23 March 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
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@SkyGazer 512: Hello! I am seeking help from researchers and writers from the Wikipedia community. The IWG plc article is incomplete and lacking a lot of information for a company with sites in 120 countries. Moreover, it has a low quality grade (C-Class) and has not as yet received a rating on the project's importance scale. Could you help support improve quality and completeness? Thanks for reading and feel free to ping me back with any questions. Kate
The Signpost: 29 March 2020
- From the editors: The bad and the good
- News and notes: 2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked
- WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report
- Special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters
- In the media: Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story
- Discussion report: Rethinking draft space
- Arbitration report: Unfinished business
- In focus: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …"
- Community view: Wikimedia community responds to COVID-19
- From the archives: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own
- Traffic report: The only thing that matters in the world
- Gallery: Visible Women on Wikipedia
- News from the WMF: Amid COVID-19, Wikimedia Foundation offers full pay for reduced hours, mobilizes all staff to work remote, and waives sick time
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
Administrators' newsletter – April 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).
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Guideline and policy news
- There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.
Technical news
- There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
Arbitration
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a
Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment
. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a
Miscellaneous
- The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.
Happy Easter
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or: the resurrection of loving-kindness --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:53, 12 April 2020 (UTC)