User talk:Ed6767/archive/7
Administrators' newsletter – January 2021
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).
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Guideline and policy news
- Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.
Technical news
- You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.
Arbitration
- By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized
for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes)
. The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason). - Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.
- By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized
copy of RW config
editThis was the content prior to the db tag, which also blanked the page.
/*
This is your RedWarn configuration file. It is recommended that you don't edit this yourself and use RedWarn preferences instead.
It is writen in JSON formatting and is excecuted every time RedWarn loads.
If somebody has asked you to add code to this page, DO NOT do so as it may comprimise your account and will be reverted as soon as any configuration value changes.
!!! Do not edit below this line unless you understand the risks! If rw.config isn't defined, this file will be reset. !!!
*/
rw.config = {"lastVersion":"16","neopolitan":"I turn my head up to the sky, I focus one thought at a time."}; //
Redwarn permissions source
editHello. Yeah, I kind of played around with the software, and I tried to see if I could install the tool without perms, because I have used it in the past, but I don't have autoconfirm perms yet. I have removed it now, and I promise that I would not touch the source again. Sorry. ThatIPEditor (talk) 22:58, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
- If you want, I could also send you what I changed in the code. ThatIPEditor (talk) 22:58, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Oh one last thing, yeah, the detection system worked properly, so if you can close the discussion for undeletion that would be amazing. ThatIPEditor (talk) 22:59, 13 January 2021 (UTC)Nevermind, it's already undeleted. Again, sorry about that. ThatIPEditor (talk) 23:01, 13 January 2021 (UTC)- Talking about improvements, you could just bypass it by only removing the checks at init, and the places where it asks for it, so, instead of running a check, it immediately sets the var we are trying to change to what would have happened if the check is passed. Also, the tamperProtection.js isn't obfuscated. But, I'm not gonna bypass permission checking for redwarn again. I recommend the software to check hashes to do the tamper protection (both ways), in addition to actually obfuscating the code. Im terribly sorry. ThatIPEditor (talk) 23:08, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
- ThatIPEditor, no worries, thanks for explaining the situation. We weren't planning to take action against you as RedWarn is open source and you haven't abused it. The code is mainly used to monitor potential socks or abuse by new accounts but we just wanted to make sure the bot had worked correctly and hadn't misfired as I couldn't see in time (hence the undeletion request). If there's a bug, some users might freak out which we don't want. Re the code, it is obfuscated inside of RedWarn and not actually included in the build (see build.php), but I can't tell you the location of it for obvious reasons. There's an improved algorithm that actually takes account for those suggestions but I haven't pushed it yet as I've been a bit busy with work. Feel free to use RedWarn once you're autoconfirmed and ping me if you ever need help with RedWarn, or anything else here! And if you want to make improvements feel free to make a pull request on GitLab. Thanks ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 00:05, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
- Turns out, I was just like, 2 hours away from autoconfirmed, and I got it now. Thank you so much! ThatIPEditor (talk) 00:26, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
- ThatIPEditor, no worries, thanks for explaining the situation. We weren't planning to take action against you as RedWarn is open source and you haven't abused it. The code is mainly used to monitor potential socks or abuse by new accounts but we just wanted to make sure the bot had worked correctly and hadn't misfired as I couldn't see in time (hence the undeletion request). If there's a bug, some users might freak out which we don't want. Re the code, it is obfuscated inside of RedWarn and not actually included in the build (see build.php), but I can't tell you the location of it for obvious reasons. There's an improved algorithm that actually takes account for those suggestions but I haven't pushed it yet as I've been a bit busy with work. Feel free to use RedWarn once you're autoconfirmed and ping me if you ever need help with RedWarn, or anything else here! And if you want to make improvements feel free to make a pull request on GitLab. Thanks ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 00:05, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
- Talking about improvements, you could just bypass it by only removing the checks at init, and the places where it asks for it, so, instead of running a check, it immediately sets the var we are trying to change to what would have happened if the check is passed. Also, the tamperProtection.js isn't obfuscated. But, I'm not gonna bypass permission checking for redwarn again. I recommend the software to check hashes to do the tamper protection (both ways), in addition to actually obfuscating the code. Im terribly sorry. ThatIPEditor (talk) 23:08, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Also, I just came back for something, because I messed up really badly because of the incident, I would like to know if it would be OK if I just change the templating a bit, because I want to use my own warnings, and it is kind of difficult having to go to the "warn user" to see what warnings are already on their userpage, and then apply my own template through the "quick template" feature. Would you be OK with this? ThatIPEditor (talk) 00:53, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
- ThatIPEditor, RedWarn is open source, absolutely feel free! Working on a feature like that for the next version of RW but you should be able to just edit rules.js and add your new rules there (make sure you use the same format and group categories together) ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 01:00, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
- Sounds great! Also, one last thing, is there any way I can host the scripts so I do not have to keep it running on my computer? ThatIPEditor (talk) 01:02, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
- ThatIPEditor, yes, run
php build.php > redwarn.jsthen you can either host that code on a web server or copy and paste it into a userscript. ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 14:14, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
- ThatIPEditor, yes, run
- Sounds great! Also, one last thing, is there any way I can host the scripts so I do not have to keep it running on my computer? ThatIPEditor (talk) 01:02, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
Autowarn in RedWarn
editI think if the rollback automatically warned and/or reported the user it would be a lot more useful and quick. Also maybe there could be an "Rc patrol" mode that automatically advanced RedWarn to the next edit. Aasim (talk) 00:20, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
- RE Rc patrol, we're working on it - and rollback automation will probably be coming soon too. Thanks for your feedback :) ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 03:16, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
- Also Ed, is it okay if I move your talk page note to the proper "editnotice" part of your userspace? Aasim (talk) 00:22, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
- Awesome Aasim, feel free. ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 03:16, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
- Done, good day! Aasim (talk) 05:37, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
- Awesome Aasim, feel free. ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 03:16, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
A kitten for you!
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Thank you for your explanation at the Teahouse of how the Wayback Machine could be used to estimate when a web page first appeared, and thus evaluate the risk that a very similar Wikipedia article could have been duplicated from that page.
Back in the business of making scripts again
editThis time, a tool that allows for faster creation of redirects. User:Awesome Aasim/redirectcreator The only thing I am concerned about is the possibility that someone might decide to make a ton of pointless redirects in which case I would then have to restrict the tool. Aasim (talk) 02:38, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
- Awesome Aasim, cool! Added :) ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 02:42, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
- I am also thinking about making a better category manager than hotcat. Aasim (talk) 06:53, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
- If it sounds interesting to you, the code will be at User:Awesome Aasim/CatMan.js. Nya nya! Aasim (talk) 09:59, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
- Awesome Aasim, nice idea! You should definitely make a proper GitHub repository for your projects in future, along with using an IDE such as VSCode in future (if you don't already). It makes life SO much easier. Let me know if you'd like help setting it up. ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 19:13, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
- Ed6767 - CatMan is finally here. Check it out at CatMan. It's a cat, but it's also a man. Sorry terrible pun. I hope to add a "category search" function like HotCat has and internationalization, but at least at the moment it is better than nothing! Aasim (talk) 01:02, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
- Awesome Aasim, nice idea! You should definitely make a proper GitHub repository for your projects in future, along with using an IDE such as VSCode in future (if you don't already). It makes life SO much easier. Let me know if you'd like help setting it up. ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 19:13, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
- If it sounds interesting to you, the code will be at User:Awesome Aasim/CatMan.js. Nya nya! Aasim (talk) 09:59, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
- I am also thinking about making a better category manager than hotcat. Aasim (talk) 06:53, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2021
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).
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Arbitration
- The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover
post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people
, replacing the 1932 cutoff.
- The standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion to cover
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2021 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2021, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2021, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- Wikipedia has now been around for 20 years, and recently saw its billionth edit!
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 20
editNews and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (January 2021).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 20th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
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Open tasks
- As a reminder, the legacy javascript globals (like accessing
wgPageNamewithout first assigning it a value or usingmw.config.get('wgPageName')instead) are deprecated. If your user scripts make use of the globals, please update them to usemw.configinstead. Some global interface editors or local interface administrators may edit your user script to make these changes if you don't. See phab:T72470 for more.
Miscellaneous
- For people interested in creating user scripts or gadgets using TypeScript, a types-mediawiki package (GitHub, NPM) is now available that provides type definitions for the MediaWiki JS interface and the API.
- A GitHub organization has been created for hosting codebases of gadgets. Users who maintain gadgets using GitHub may choose to move their repos to this organization, to ensure continued maintenance by others even if the original maintainer becomes inactive.
Pending requests
- A script to ease reviewing Good Article nominations
- A script to help manage Z number templates
- ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests
As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, including nominating a featured script, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy new year! --DannyS712 (talk) 01:17, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
February 2021
editAutomatic bug report
editError during closeDialog callback. TypeError: rw.rollback.clickHandlers[elID] is not a function
at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:RedWarn/.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript:3506:52 at HTMLDialogElement.<anonymous> (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:RedWarn/.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript:1076:43) at HTMLDialogElement.dispatch (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery&skin=vector&version=tqh7e:69:742) at HTMLDialogElement.elemData.handle (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery&skin=vector&version=tqh7e:66:388)
Sisuvia (talk) 17:01, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Hi Sisuvia, thanks for reporting this bug. Do you mind if I ask did it occur and on which page? Thanks, ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 17:05, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Ed6767 Hey! I'm sorry, but I think I was just a bit confused because this is my first time using RedWarn. I was trying to do a quick rollback while I was on the old revision of a page (which I was trying to rollback to). Sisuvia (talk) 17:09, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Sisuvia, no worries! If you encounter the issue again you may want to try resetting your RedWarn configuration. You can do this by clicking the More Options button > RedWarn preferences > then scroll down to the very bottom and click "RESET REDWARN" ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 17:12, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- Ed6767 Hey! I'm sorry, but I think I was just a bit confused because this is my first time using RedWarn. I was trying to do a quick rollback while I was on the old revision of a page (which I was trying to rollback to). Sisuvia (talk) 17:09, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2021
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
- A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
- A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the
delete-redirectuserright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect. - A request for comment asks if sysops may
place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions
? - There is a discussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes protection.
Technical news
- When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
- When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
- There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).
Arbitration
- By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions
authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.
Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions. - The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for
the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed
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- By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions
Miscellaneous
- Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.
- Hi @Pangolinz, my mistake! Seeing the "X killed John Lennon" made me think it was vandalism. Feel free to restore your edits. ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 02:57, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
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WikiLoop 2020 Year in Review
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Dear editors, developers and friends:
Thank you for supporting Project WikiLoop! The year 2020 was an unprecedented one. It was unusual for almost everyone. In spite of this, Project WikiLoop continued the hard work and made some progress that we are proud to share with you. We also wanted to extend a big thank you for your support, advice, contributions and love that make all this possible.
Head over to our project page on Meta Wikimedia to read a brief 2020 Year in Review for WikiLoop.
Thank you for taking the time to review Wikipedia using WikiLoop DoubleCheck. Your work is important and it matters to everyone. We look forward to continuing our collaboration through 2021!
María Cruz
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:35, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
MfD nomination of User:RedWarn/.js
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User:RedWarn/.js, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:RedWarn/.js and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:RedWarn/.js during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you.[April Fools!] クロッド (読んで) 02:19, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2021
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).
Administrator changes
Alexandria • Happyme22 • RexxS
Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
- Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the
delete-redirectuserright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.
Technical news
- When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
- Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)
Arbitration
- A community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure is open until April 25.
Administrators' newsletter – May 2021
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
- The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.
Technical news
- The user group
oversightwill be renamed tosuppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.
- The user group
Arbitration
- The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.
A kitten for you!
edit I just wanted to express my appreciation for RedWarn. I encountered something on-wiki that made me want to file a report to T&S. In my almost 17 years here I've never had need to do something like that, and I had no idea where to start. It was nice to be able to do it in a couple clicks instead of having to comb through help pages. Thanks!
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 21
editNews and updates associated with user scripts from the past four months (February through May 2021).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 21st issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
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My apologies for this long-overdue issue, and if I missed any scripts.
Hopefully going forward we can go back to monthly releases - any help would be appreciated. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 13:04, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2021
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).
Administrator changes
Ashleyyoursmile • Less Unless- Husond • MattWade • MJCdetroit • Carioca • Vague Rant • Kingboyk • Thunderboltz • Gwen Gale • AniMate • SlimVirgin (deceased)
Guideline and policy news
- Consensus was reached to deprecate Wikipedia:Editor assistance.
- Following a Request for Comment the Book namespace was deprecated.
Technical news
- Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.
Arbitration
- After a Clarification request, the Arbitration Committee modified Remedy 5 of the Antisemitism in Poland case. This means sourcing expectations are a discretionary sanction instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the Reliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss disputed sources.
June 2021
editAutomatic bug report
edit!!! Replace this text with any further information you wish to provide that will help us fix this bug. !!! — 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 ☎ 22:56, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
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Automatic bug report
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Editing news 2021 #2
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Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.
The key results were:
- Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
- The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.
These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.
Looking ahead
The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.
You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.
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Quick Question
editHello! I made the recent edits to David Aaron Greenberg's Wikipedia page. I thought that my citations - including one to the National Gallery of Art - were sufficient. Which of my edits need a reliable citation?
Many thanks, IAG26
added citations to reliable citations including — Preceding unsigned comment added by IAG26 (talk • contribs) 19:30, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – July 2021
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).
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Guideline and policy news
- Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
- An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.
Technical news
- IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.
Arbitration
- The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.
Administrators' newsletter – July 2021
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).
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Guideline and policy news
- An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.
Technical news
- Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)
Arbitration
- Following an amendment request, the committee has clarified that the Talk page exception to the 500/30 rule in remedy 5 of the Palestine-Israel articles 4 case does not apply to requested move discussions.
Miscellaneous
- You can vote for candidates in the 2021 Board of Trustees elections from 4 August to 17 August. Four community elected seats are up for election.
Award for Excellent Work helping to stop Vandalism
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August 2021
editAutomatic bug report
edit!!! Replace this text with any further information you wish to provide that will help us fix this bug. !!! Fizz fam (talk) 08:21, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
- @Fizz fam, please don't report bugs after editing your RedWarn Config yourself. ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 08:37, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
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September 2021
editAutomatic bug report
editi was changing the quick templete pack Fizz fam (talk) 06:40, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
- Fizz fam, how many times do I have to say that you're not meant to edit your redwarnConfig.js by yourself, then report a bug? RedWarn is handling these issues correctly. Please **DO NOT** report another bug when you edit your own config. Thanks.
Administrators' newsletter – September 2021
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- Feedback is requested on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement draft by the Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee.
- A RfC is open on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection on high-risk templates.
- A discussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
- A RfC on the next steps after the trial of pending changes on TFAs has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.
Technical news
- The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.
Arbitration
- A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.
Miscellaneous
- The 2021 RfA review is now open for comments.
Reply-link officially superseded by DiscussionTools
editHi! Reply-link has officially been superseded by mw:DiscussionTools, which you can install using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. DiscussionTools, developed by the WMF's Editing Team, is faster and has more features than reply-link, and it wouldn't make sense for me to keep developing reply-link. I think the Editing Team is doing amazing work, and look forward to what they can do in the future. Thank you for using reply-link over the years! Enterprisey (talk!) 06:11, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – October 2021
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, extended confirmed protection may be used preemptively on certain high-risk templates.
- Following a discussion at the Village Pump, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.
Technical news
- DiscussionTools has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features.
Arbitration
- A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
- Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
- The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.
Miscellaneous
- Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
- The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.
New Wikipedia Guideline Proposed which you might be interested in.
editHello. I am letting editors know who participated in the recent discussions that decided whether the Killing of David Amess should be called "killing, murder, or assassination", about a new Wikipedia essay being proposed for a new guideline. The essay, Wikipedia:Assassination, explains how the common definition of "assassination" does not determine an article's title. Only reliable sources can determine whether it is murder/killing or assassination. Since you participated in those recent discussions, I wanted to drop a message to you about this new proposal. If you want to leave your opinion about it, you can do so in this discussion. Have a good day and keep up the good editing! Elijahandskip (talk) 01:43, 25 October 2021 (UTC) ia's policies and guidelines]]. Kent2121 (talk) 13:34, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2021
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).
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Guideline and policy news
- Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.
Technical news
- Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.
Arbitration
- GeneralNotability, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections. Ivanvector and John M Wolfson are reserve commissioners.
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves to stand in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections from 07 November 2021 until 16 November 2021.
Miscellaneous
- The 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.
ArbCom 2021 Elections voter message
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editUsing too many abbreviations is not needed in wiki pages, it only unnecessarily lengths articles. So plz don't make issues out of such non-issues Ishan87 (talk) 02:33, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
- Hi @Ishan87, I agree, but in this case I was referring to MOS:ERA which details era abbreviations - I'm on the side that due to the use of two calendars and other reasons, CE should be left in for clarity, so you should probably seek consensus prior to making the change. Apologies for templating you. ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 02:41, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – December 2021
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).
Administrator changes
Technical news
- Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
- The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)
Arbitration
- Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
- The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.
Thoughts?
editAny helpful thoughts on this discussion?[1] On whether the use of RedWarn rollback is subject to the rollback (and similar redwarn) comments on proper usage? --2603:7000:2143:8500:A8DD:1194:1F88:AF62 (talk) 22:20, 9 December 2021 (UTC) Many thanks!--2603:7000:2143:8500:9BA:CAD9:B5C2:B1D7 (talk) 00:50, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22
editHello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
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New scripts
- Ahecht:
- draft-sorter sorts AfC drafts by adding WikiProject banners to their talk pages. It supersedes User:Enterprisey/draft-sorter, adding a few features and fixing some bugs.
- massmove, a modified User:Plastikspork/massmove.js that adds a link to the left column, allows adding and removing both prefixes and suffixes.
- watchlistcleaner removes missing pages (redlinks), redirects, pages you haven't edited recently, and/or pages you've never edited from your watchlist.
- Awesome Aasim:
- Infiniscroll adds infinite scrolling to user contributions, page histories, and log pages.
- Quick create allows for the fast creation of red-linked pages with two clicks.
- Caburum:
- UTCclock adds a clock displaying the current UTC time.
- Chlod:
- CopiedTemplateEditor, mainly for CCI case handlers, allows graphically editing a talk page's {{copied}} templates.
- DaxServer:
- BooksToSfn adds a portlet link in Visual Editor's source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one
{{cite book}}inside a<ref>...</ref>tag block into an{{Sfn}}.
- BooksToSfn adds a portlet link in Visual Editor's source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one
- FlightTime:
- OneClickArchiver is a custom version of User:Technical_13/Scripts/OneClickArchiver which doesn't prepend {{Clear}} to the top of each section on the archive page.
- Jon Harald Søby:
- diffedit enables editing directly from viewing a diff "when, for instance, you notice a tiny mistake deep into an article, and don't want to edit the entire article and re-find that one line to fix that tiny mistake".
- warnOnLargeFile warns you if you're about to open a very large file (width/height >10,000px or file size >100 MB) from a file page.
- JPxG:
- PressPass adds a collection of tools for Newspapers.com including configurable automatic citation generation in five different formats.
- CurrentSwitcher gives you links on the contribs page to hide duplicate entries, current revisions, rollbacks, huggles, twinkles, and redwarns.
- TrackSum lets you automatically sum the lengths of tracks in templates like {{track listing}} and get total runtimes.
- Nardog:
- CopySectLink adds a button to copy the unencoded page title or section path next to each heading.
- IPAInput allows you to type in IPA symbols by directly looking at an IPA key like Help:IPA/English and clicking on the symbols.
- TemplatePreviewGuard warns when you try to use "Preview page with this template" with a page that doesn't transclude the template.
- NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh:
- ContribsTabVector adds "Contributions" and "Statistics" tabs to user and user talk pages on the Vector skin.
- CopyvioChecker adds a "CopyvioCheck" tab to all pages, except Special (Vector skin only).
- LiveDiffLink is a version of Equazcion's LiveDiffLink which shows a wikilink instead of a URL.
- QuickDiff (by OneTwoThreeFall at Fandom) lets you quickly view any diff link on a wiki, whether on Recent Changes, contribs pages, history pages, the diff view itself, or elsewhere. For more information, view its page on Fandom.
- Novem Linguae:
- DetectSNG scans a list of 1,600 SNG keywords and displays them at the top of the article.
- NotSoFast highlights recently created articles in the new pages feed, to discourage patrolling them too quickly.
- UserRightsDiff concisely displays what perm was added or removed when viewing Special:UserRights.
- VoteCounter displays a rough count of keeps and deletes at XFDs, RFCs, etc.
- WatchlistAFD automatically watchlists the AFDs of any pages you AFC accept or NPP patrol, to help you calibrate your reviewing.
- P.T.Đ:
- TwinkleMobile enables Twinkle on mobile view (Minerva skin).
- Qwerfjkl:
- editRedirect adds a → link after redirects to edit them.
- RegExTypoFix, a script for fixing typos, is a wrapper for User:Joeytje50/RETF.js.
- talkback creates links after user talk page links like this: |C|TB (with the first linking to the user's contributions, and the latter giving the option of sending a {{talkback}} notice). It also adds a [copy] link next to section headers.
- Rublov:
- diff-link shows "copy" links on history and contributions pages that copy an internal link to the diff (e.g., Special:Diff/1026402230) to your clipboard when clicked.
- Rummskartoffel:
- auto-watchlist-expiry automatically watchlists every page you edit for a user-definable duration (you can still pick a different time using the dropdown, though).
- generate pings generates the wikitext needed to ping all members of a category, up to 50 editors (the limit defined by MediaWiki).
- share ExpandTemplates url allows for easy sharing of your inputs to Special:ExpandTemplates. It adds a button that, when clicked, copies a shareable URL to your exact invocation of the page, like this. Other editors do not need to have this script installed in order to access the URL generated.
- show tag names shows the real names of tags next to their display names in places such as page revision histories or the watchlist.
- Tol:
- VisualEditor Citation Needed adds a button (under "Insert") in VisualEditor to add a {{citation needed}} tag.
- Venkat TL:
- ColourContrib color-codes the user contributions page so that pages you've edited last are sharply distinguished from pages where another editor was the last to edit the page.
- Vukky:
- StatusChanger is a fork of Enterprisey's Status Changer, which adds a UI to the script. (using Morebits, so you'll need to have Twinkle enabled to use it).
All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp×g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp×g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2022
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.
- Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of an administrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions.
Arbitration
- Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Cabayi, Donald Albury, Enterprisey, Izno, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, Wugapodes.
Miscellaneous
- The functionaries email list (functionaries-en
lists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.
Centerpoint High School
editHey, could you possibly handle the edits being made by ChattyKathy01234? They seem to have a new editor that doesn't know about editing, and I've used up my reverts per 3-revert policy. TheGEICOgecko (talk) 06:33, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
- @TheGEICOgecko, will do, FYI my message was written a while back and before I got this, take it as a general tip re newcomers instead ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 06:36, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
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:B hehe /:D Imurmate I'ma editor2022 (talk) 16:47, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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| Hi, if you saw my message already, then you should know it was a joke (i'm not a sockpuppeteer). And, also, you did nothing wrong. I was just bored.>:D Imurmate I'ma editor2022 (talk) 16:51, 17 January 2022 (UTC) |