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So there must be a better way than I imagine

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Hi. So I'm working on making my reference format checking script toggle on and off at User:Lingzhi2/reviewsourcecheck-test.js. (Yes I know the script is ugly and it sucks. Yes I know it should probably use more functions but doesn't. I just don't have the energy to do a total tear down/rewrite). But setting aside its ugliness... well now it half works. It makes a blue link that says "Chk ref fmt". The default is no checking, and if you press the link it checks and spits out warnings. Good. But pressing it again (and again) just repeats the warnings as many times as you press it. So the only thing I can think of is keep a list or array (what does javascript call them?) of all the warnings, keep a counter variable, increment the counter each time, and if the counter is even then go through each line and replace each warning with an empty string. I think that would work but it's ugly. So there must be a better way than I imagine... Lingzhi2 ♦ (talk) 14:37, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Ack! And now to make things worse the live-in-the-wild-version, User:Lingzhi2/reviewsourcecheck.js, which I have not edited, no longer displays sort errors -- which worked as recently as yeserday or so... Is it possible it's only on my computer, a cache thing, or...is it because it was moved from one userspace to another.. or...? Lingzhi2 ♦ (talk) 15:22, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

@Lingzhi2: The better way would be to just generate the checks once, and to use a custom class, e.g. reviewsourcecheck, for everything generated. Then it is just a matter of hiding/showing the elements with that class when the link is clicked. This is quite easy with jQuery (which the MediaWiki software already loads, so is always available): $('.reviewsourcecheck').hide(); and $('.reviewsourcecheck').show();

To make things easier, you can have two links, one for hiding the checks and one for showing them, with only one displayed to the user at a time:

After clicking the 'show' link, you show the checks and the 'hide' link, and make the 'show' link hidden
After clicking the 'hide' link, you hide the checks and the 'hide' link, and make the 'show' link visible.

See User:Mr.Z-man/hideClosedAFD.js for a simple example of this.

You can go a step further by remembering the user's state using localStorage, which persists between page loads and between the browser closing and reopening (unless cleared by the user).

I'm not really sure what's up with the sort errors. If you think it's a cache issue, you should be able to temporarily disable caching using your browser's developer tools. - Evad37 [talk] 02:56, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Ambiguity squared

Latest comment: 5 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

Say, there's a script to create a page, simply upon clicking on a redlink. It creates the page and then puts it in preview mode waiting to be saved. If saved, the script will go on to do other things to other pages. (This implies that some kind of memory, such as localStorage, has to be implemented at this point to be ready for the save. So, in addition to being in preview mode, the program's status is recorded, so the program can pick up where it left off after the save button is clicked and the resulting page is loaded, which starts the script over again, upon which time the program checks localStorage for the program's status and acts accordingly.)

If the editor doesn't want to save the page (like if it had empty sections), he just goes about his merry way, and browses elsewhere leaving it to hang.

My question is... If the editor opts not to save, and views an unrelated page, how can the script be made to know not to do those other things?

I look forward to your reply. — The Transhumanist 01:14, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

P.S.: Can other actions be attached to the save operation?

P.P.S.: I wish to avoid creating an auxiliary save menu item.

@The Transhumanist: If the editor opts not to save, and views an unrelated page, how can the script be made to know not to do those other things?
As well as storing the state in localStorage, the script should also save the page title and date-timestamp. That way the script can check if that particular page is loaded, and if it is within a reasonable time since the date-timestamp (say a few minutes, to allow for slow internet connections). The script should also be able to detect if the page was just saved or not using wgPageName from mw:mw.config#Page-specific (apparently requires a dependency on the mediawiki.action.view.postEdit module)

Can other actions be attached to the save operation?
You would probably have to make your own custom Save button, which would allow you to submit the edit through the API and then do whatever else you want if the edit was successful.

I wish to avoid creating an auxiliary save menu item.
That makes it a bit harder, but you could hide/remove the original save button and replace it with your own version. - Evad37 [talk] 03:05, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Wow. So, the save button would look the same but activate other things too. Nice. That could be incredibly useful in multi-page processing scripts.

What about using the script in several tabs at the same time? Would they collide (using localStorage)? — The Transhumanist 06:29, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

As long as its different pages in the tabs, I think it should be alright, as long as you set up the localStorage keys to unique to each page (you just then have to make sure you clean up and remove old data) - Evad37 [talk] 06:35, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #026, 20 Jan 2019

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Well, here's the first issue of the new year. Enjoy...

New participants

A hearty welcome to new arrivals to the portals department:

Harvesting categories tool prototype

DannyS712 has created a user script prototype, User:DannyS712/Cat links, that can pull members from a category, a functionality we've been after since the project's revamp last Spring. Now, it's a matter of applying this technique to scripts that will place the items where needed, such as in a section starter script and/or portal builder script.

New portals since last issue

What else is going on

There have been some discussions at Wikipedia talk:Portal guidelines.

DreamyJazz is working on a bot to place links to portals on root articles, category pages, and navigation footer templates.

Portal bugs are getting dealt with soon after they are reported.

Lots of wikignome activity (using Hotcat, etc.).

Keep up the good work. — The Transhumanist 08:15, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

Technology Report

Latest comment: 5 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

Hi. Please let me know if this is out of line, but can I suggest that, in the tech report you're writing, 1) add your recent proposal to the "in brief section," and 2) cut down the list of scripts. Some of them are fairly simple, or have a small audience, and I don't think that such a long list is needed, or the disclaimer that one of them is (Pretty buggy). Also, why do you have almost all of the scripts mentioned in the form of a user script template, that allows easy installation, except for reFill and the short-desc helper? I understand that this might come off as a bit wp:OWNy, and if it does I'm sorry, but my thinking was that my newsletter could supplement the signpost, which recently hasn't been sharing much about user scripts, and I'd rather not just release the same content that you do... --DannyS712 (talk) 04:35, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi Danny. First off, feel free to make bold edits to the tech report draft – it is still a wiki page, so if there's any disagreements we can revert and discuss

. Re (1): I was just going to wait a day or so to see what the initial reactions were, in case there's some "red flag" I haven't thought of. As for (2), yeah, I suppose it could be trimmed down if you want. What I had been doing up until now was just copy/pasting from diffs to WP:US/L, but I guess not every little script is really newsworthy (in the context of the Signpost). The lack of an install link for short-desc helper is an oversight and should be added; but for refill is because it is a labs tool, and does not need js installed to work – you can use a bookmarklet or just navigate to the https://tools.wmflabs.org/refill/ url directly. - Evad37 [talk] 05:39, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

@Evad37: For 2, I was referring to User:Zhaofeng Li/reFill#Toolbox link, but I guess its not really needed. Not every script is Signpost-worth, but each one will have a link in scriptnews, so if you want help culling the list I'm free. Otherwise, I look forward to reading it --DannyS712 (talk) 05:53, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

@DannyS712: Sure, can you go through and trim it? (otherwise I'll have a look tomorrow) - Evad37 [talk] 05:56, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

Template parser script

Latest comment: 5 years ago5 comments2 people in discussion

Hey, I somehow stumbled upon User:Evad37/hotport.js. I see that you've marked a TODO for a template parser. Perhaps take a look at User:SD0001/parseTemplate.js? The API doesn't exactly match your specification, but can be easily tweaked. I wrote that function so that script developers like you need not work it out from scratch every time. The concept of reusability of code is so much absent when it comes WP script development! Cheers, SD0001 (talk) 16:45, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know, SD0001. Looks interesting, and I'll have a closer look later, but a couple of things that stand out to me are:

You are using the deprecated XML format in the API request, and don't specify a user-agent
It would be nicer to return a Promise, resolved with the result or rejected with an error message, rather than requiring a callback

Modular userscript code would be nice, but it's a bit hard to do within the current constraints of the MediaWiki software. Things like code review (or at least basic safety checks), version-control and ability to use specifc versions (so that script-modules can be updated with breaking changes as long as they bump the major version number), dependency-specification, unit tests, etc. are harder to do within the MediaWiki environment. - Evad37 [talk] 00:59, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. I'll make the changes shortly. SD0001 (talk) 08:10, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

@SD0001: I've got a draft proposal User:Evad37/Script modules that would make modular scripts easier to write and use (please leave any feedback on the talk page) - Evad37 [talk] 03:12, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

I've created User:SD0001/parseAllTemplates.js for parsing all templates from the given wikitext. It's efficient and well-tested. Parses the 580 templates on the 340,000-byte Barack Obama article in ~1 second. I tried different approaches to doing certain things and used the more efficient ones. In the spirit of sharing, the regex test if (/^(<!--|<nowiki ?>)/.test(wikitext.slice(i, i + 9))) is some 40 times more efficient than the non-regex way if (wikitext.indexOf('<!--', i) === 0 || wikitext.indexOf('<nowiki>', i) === 0) ! Similarly the method replacing a character in a string string.slice(0,index) + new_char + string.slice(index + 1) is 30x faster than var a=string.split(''); a[index]=new_char; string = a.join() ! SD0001 (talk) 17:07, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

YGM from Amorymeltzer

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No rush ~ Amory (u • t • c) 11:43, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

Yess, I am ready to Support. SD0001 (talk) 17:25, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

Strong support fully qualified, etc, etc --DannyS712 (talk) 17:37, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 2

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (January 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the second issue of the new Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

User:Enterprisey's Easy BRFA

BrandonXLF: Floating side menu • Mobile View link • Global Preferences link • Green Redirects • To Top • To Bottom

Danski454: code-link • cat-next

DannyS712: 12Hour time • Draft no cat

Enterprisey: script-installer • hover-edit-section

FR30799386's copyvio-check • Abelmoschus Esculentus's Source Assess Table Generator

Galobtter's Short description helper (now in version 3) • FR30799386's mobileUndo (released from beta)

Evad37's XFDcloser (now detects the age of discussions) • DannyS712's Cat Links (now in version 3)

Enterprisey's reply-link (now compatible with Comments in Local Time)

Following a discussion, User:Ucucha/duplinks has been redirected to Evad37's fork (User:Evad37/duplinks-alt)

Flooded with them hundreds temporarily retired from Wikipedia; DannyS712 is now maintaining their scripts:

Page Mover Closure, Section Remover, and Section Mover

Open tasks

There is an ongoing discussion about promoting Galobtter's Short description helper to a gadget.
Evad37 has proposed that a pseudo-namespace be created for script modules. Find out more and discuss here

Pending requests

Anyone knows Galician? Their wikipedia has asked for some help
A request has been made for a tool to detect duplicated references
Want to help code a gadget? Lend a hand here
...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Miscellaneous

There was a recent village pump thread about either Enterprisey's or Equazcion's "Script Installer" tool becoming a gadget. It wasn't officially closed, and so far neither has become a gadget. Stay tuned for updates.

Lets keep up the good work! --DannyS712 (talk) 03:09, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #027, 28 Jan 2019

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Portal styles

For a visually intensive portal, see Portal:Hummingbirds.

If you find any other portals that stand out, please send me the links so I can include them in the next issue. Thank you.

Conversion continues

There are about 1100 portals left in the old style, with subpages and static excerpts. As those are very labor intensive to maintain (because their maintenance is manual), all those except the ones with active maintainers (about 100) are slated for upgrade = approximately 1000. We started with 1500, and so over a quarter of them have been processed so far. That's good, but at this rate, conversion will take another 3 years. So, some automation (AWB?) is in order. We just need to keep at it, and push down on the gas pedal a bit harder.

You can find the old-style portals with an insource search of "box portal skeleton".

Flagship portals: the portals on the Main Page

Speaking of upgrades...

The following portals are listed in the header at the top of Wikipedia's Main Page, and get far more traffic than all other portals:

Of those, all but one have been revamped to an automated self-updating single-page design.

The remaining one, Portal:Mathematics has manual maintainers, and has been partially upgraded.

As these are our flagship fleet, they need to be kept in top-notch condition.

Check 'em out, and improve them if you can.

And be sure they are on your watchlist.

New portals since last issue

Keep 'em coming!

Deorphanizing the new portals

As you know, thousands of the new portals are orphans, that is, having no links to them from article space. For all practical purposes, that means they are not part of the encyclopedia yet, and readers will be unlikely to find them.

What is needed are links to these portals from the See also sections of the corresponding root articles.

Dreamy Jazz to the rescue...

Dreamy Jazz has created a bot to place the corresponding category link to the end of each portal (if it is missing), and place a link to each portal in the See also section of the corresponding root articles.

That bot, named User:Dreamy Jazz Bot, is currently in its trial period performing the above described edits!

To take a look at the edits it has made so far, see Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz_Bot.

It shouldn't be long before the bot is processing the entire set of new portals.

Good news indeed.

Way to go, Dreamy Jazz!

And, that's a wrap

That's all I have to report this time around.

No doubt there will be more to tell soon.

Until then, — The Transhumanist 13:11, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Barnstar

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		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		For the profound effect your work on scripts such as User:Evad37/duplinks-alt has, when multiplied by the number of grateful users. Worldbruce (talk) 02:38, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #028, 04 Feb 2019

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Here's a quicky status report:

Old-style portals: 1,018

Single-page portals: 4,367

Total portals: 5,385

But of course, there has been more going on than just that...

Dreamy Jazz Bot is up and running!

Dreamy Jazz Bot has been approved and is now up and running.

What it does is places missing links to orphaned portals. It places a link in the See also section of the corresponding root article, and it puts one at the top of the corresponding category page.

We have thousands of new portals that have yet to be added to the encyclopedia proper, just waiting to go live.

When they do go live, over the coming days or weeks, due to Dreamy Jazz Bot, it will be like an explosion of new portals on the scene. We should expect an increase in awareness and interest in the portals project. Perhaps even new participants.

Get ready...

Get set...

Go!

Another sockpuppet infiltrator has been discovered

User:Emoteplump, a recent contributor to the portals project, was discovered to be a sockpuppet account of an indefinitely blocked user.

When that happens, admins endeavor to eradicate everything the editor contributed. This aftermath has left a wake of destruction throughout the portals department, again.

The following portals which have been speedy deleted, are in the process of being re-created. Please feel free to help to turn these blue again:

And the corresponding talk pages:

New portals since the last issue

Keep up the great work

Until next time, — The Transhumanist 09:00, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #029, 13 Feb 2019

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Where we are at:

Single-page portals: 4,704

Total portals: 5,705

The Ref desks survived the proposal to shut them down

You might be familiar with the Ref desks, by their link on every new portal. They are a place you can go to ask volunteers almost any knowledge-related question, and have been a feature of Wikipedia since August of 2005 (or perhaps earlier). They were linked to from portals in an effort to improve their visibility, and to provide a bridge from the encyclopedia proper to project space (the Wikipedia community).

Well, somebody proposed that we get rid of them, and the community decided that that was not going to happen. Thank you for defending the Ref desks!

Here's a link to the dramatic discussion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Indefinitely_semiprotecting_the_refdesk#Proposal_II:_Shut_down_the_Ref_Desks

The cleanup after sockpuppet Emoteplump continues...

The wake of disruption left by Emoteplump and the admins who reverted many (but not all) of his/her edits is still undergoing cleanup. We could use all the help we can get on this task...

Almost all of the speedy deleted portals have been rebuilt from scratch.

For the portals he/she restarted (many of which were done mistakenly, overwriting restarts and further development that had already been done), and/or tagged as the maintainer, see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Emoteplump&oldid=881568794#Additional_Portals_under_my_watch

10,000 portals, here we come...

We're at 5,705 portals and counting.

New portals since issue #28

Prior to 2018, for the previous 14 years, portal creation was at about 80 portals per year on average. We did over 3 times that in just the past 9 days. At this rate, we'll hit the 10,000 portal mark in 5 months. But, I'm sure we can do it sooner than that.

What's next for portal pages?

There are 5 drives for portal development:

Create new portals
Expand existing portals, such as with new sections like Recognized content
Convert or restart old-style portals into automated single-page portals
Link to new portals from the encyclopedia
Pageless portals

Let's take a closer look at these...

1: Creating new portals

Portal creation, for subjects that happen to have the necessary support structures already in place, is down to about a minute per portal. The creation part, which is automated, takes about 10 seconds. The other 50 seconds is taken up by manual activities, such as finding candidate subjects, inspecting generated portals, and selecting the portal creation template to be used according to the resources available. Tools are under development to automate these activities as much as possible, to pare portal creation time down even more. Ten seconds each is the goal.

Eventually, we are going to run out of navigation templates to base portals off of. Though there are still thousands to go. But, when they do run out, we'll need an easy way to create more. A nav footer creation script.

Meanwhile, other resources are being explored and developed, such as categories, and methods to harvest the links they contain.

2: Expanding existing portals

The portal collection is growing, not only by the addition of new portals, but by further developing the ones we already have, by...

Improving and/or adding search parameters to better power the Did you know and In the news sections.
Adding more selected content sections, like Selected biographies.
Adding and maintaining Recognized content sections, via JL-Bot.
Adding pictures to the image slideshow.
Adding panoramic pics.
Categorizing portals.

More features will be added as we dream them up and design them. So, don't be shy, make a wish.

3: Converting old portals

By far the hardest and most time-consuming task we have been working on is updating the old portals, the very reason we revamped this WikiProject in the first place.

There are two approaches here:

A) Restart a portal from scratch, using our automated tools. For basic no-frills portals, that works find. But, for more elaborate portals, as that tends to lose content and features, the following approach is being tried...

B) Upgrade a portal section by section, so little to nothing is lost in the process.

4: Linking to new portals

Or "portal deorphanization"...

Dreamy Jazz Bot is purring along.

And a tool in the form of a script is under development for linking to portals at the time they are created, or shortly thereafter.

5...

See below...

New WikiProject for the post-saved-portal phase of operations...

Saved portals, are portals with a saved page.

What is the next stage in the evolutionary progression?

Quantum portals.

What are quantum portals?

Portals that come into existence when you click on the portal button, and which disappear when you leave the page.

Or, as Pbsouthwood put it:

...portals that exist only as a probability function (algorithm) until you collapse the wave form by observing through the portal button (run the script), and disappear again after use...

Introducing...

Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals (see it's talk page).

Keep on keepin' on

...'til next time, — The Transhumanist 10:21, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Question

Latest comment: 5 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Is the following statement about JS true?

If you assign a value to a variable that does not exist, it will be created automatically and will have global scope. For user scripts used on Wikipedia, having global scope means it may affect other scripts that are running, as they are technically part of the same program, being called via import from a .js page (.js pages are programs).

I look forward to your reply. — The Transhumanist 20:14, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

@The Transhumanist: Yes, but only for variables created outside of a function. Some scripts use this to allow user customisation, by instructing users to add variables to their common.js, which then affect how the script runs (e.g. User:Evad37/ToDoLister). Any variable created inside a function, including callbacks from waiting for dependencies or page-ready, will be scoped to that function. - Evad37 [talk] 22:53, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

I've change it to

If you assign a value to a variable that does not exist, the variable will be created automatically. If it is created outside of a function, it will have global scope. For user scripts used on Wikipedia, having a variable of global scope means the variable may affect other scripts that are running, as the scripts are technically part of the same program, being called via import from a .js page (.js pages are programs).

Thank you. — The Transhumanist 23:37, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Hotport

Latest comment: 5 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Wow, you're fast. That's a lot of source code!

Does it do anything yet?

I installed it (the sandbox version), but couldn't tell what I should be looking for. — The Transhumanist 07:13, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

It actually doesn't do anything yet – code to parse a page, and to save/preview changes, is yet to be written. Will let you know when it's ready to try out - Evad37 [talk] 09:05, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Cool. The tool will be instrumental in bringing new portals live as they are created. Essential to keeping key supporters happy. Getting way out in front with a couple or so thousand orphaned portals has strained their patience. So, it is important we don't add to that backlog. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with. Keep up the good work. — The Transhumanist 07:30, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

How can I know exactly who's using my script?

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Hey I finally took your advice from three weeks or so ago and made my script toggle (actually, a test version currently toggles; the live version doesn't). If I may bother you, how can I find out exactly who is using my script? I assume there are only half a dozen or so, so I'd like to drop a line on their talk when I make it go live... then add the info to the description on the "list of scripts: page... tks! ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 10:50, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Try this search: User:Lingzhi/reviewsourcecheck.js contentmodel:javascript - Evad37 [talk] 11:31, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you again. After the addition of a toggle option in the tab atop the page, one editor requested a revised version in which the toggle link appears in the "Tools" section of the page's left sidebar. So now there are two versions of this tool. If you prefer the links in the Toolbar section on the side, the slightly altered script is named User:Lingzhi2/reviewsourcecheck-sb.js (just add "-sb" before the ".js"). Finally, both versions should now also store the page state (whether reference errors/warnings are "hidden" or "shown"). The state persists between page loads and between the browser closing and reopening (unless cleared by the user, for example by deleting data in your browser's cache etc.). Huge thanks to User:Evad37 for much coding help. If you have any questions or problems, please drop me a line. Thanks again. ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 08:34, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

New portals in the category

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Hello Evad37. The Portal:U.S. roads and Portal:Genetic engineering have appeared in the Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates. I am hoping (when you have the time) that you can deal with them as you did with the one mentioned on Redrose64's talk page last week. Thanks for your time.MarnetteD|Talk 03:35, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

Yeah, I'll take a look later. This is usually a symptom of something else going wrong in one of the portal's sections. - Evad37 [talk] 05:25, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks - no hurry - I am trying to leave my O/C about clearing the category behind :-) The Genetic eng. one has dropped out since I posted the above but the US Roads has been there for four or five days. Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 05:30, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

@MarnetteD: I haven't done anything, but the Portal:U.S. roads is no longer in that category, and has stayed out despite several purges. - Evad37 [talk] 23:35, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for checking and for the update E. Much appreciated. MarnetteD|Talk 00:06, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

any thoughts?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Java_geography_stubs - I tried to populate the Yogyakarta geo stubs just then, and it defaults to just Java rather than create its own subset of Yogyakarta - is there any easy solve for that?

I used the stub template to add to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karta_Palace and it has the stub designation at Yogyakarta, but the actual category defaults to the much larger entity.. JarrahTree 00:31, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

@JarrahTree: The documentation at Template:Yogyakarta-geo-stub says it populates that Java geo stub category. Some stub templates populate broader categories to avoid having WP:SMALLCATs. - Evad37 [talk] 02:05, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

Thank you!

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So I just used User:Evad37/XFDcloser for the first time... HOLY CRAP!!! What an awesome script!!! Thanks a million for creating it! --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 22:01, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

You're welcome! If you ever have any issues/bugs/suggestions you can leave a message on the script talk page (WT:XFDC). - Evad37 [talk] 22:23, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

So I actually do have a suggestion/request. One thing that would be great is to be able to use this in the Holding cell. What I mean by that is that when a template that is currently listed in one of the holding sections is ready to be deleted, it would be great to be able to just click a button and have the entry moved to the bottom and to have the template in question updated as ready for deletion. Food for thought... --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 00:24, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Does that make any sense? Not sure if I did a great job explaining it... --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 19:32, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Yeah, something like this should be possible. I'll move this thread to WT:XFDC so this suggestion doesn't get lost in my talk page archives. - Evad37 [talk] 02:20, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

Moved to WT:XFDC § Holding cell suggestion

Disabling nostubs

Latest comment: 5 years ago8 comments2 people in discussion

For Template:Transclude list item excerpts as random slideshow, nostubs=no doesn't turn off the stub stripping feature.

How do I disable it? — The Transhumanist 23:21, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Fixed in the module:

The default is still to exclude stubs
But if every article is a stub, then the module automatically overrides this and will display the stub articles
You can also manually override it using |nostubs=false (or no, declined, etc) to show both non-stubs and stubs, instead of only non-stubs

- Evad37 [talk] 10:22, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Ping @The Transhumanist: - Evad37 [talk] 12:39, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Thank you.

By the way, I noticied "nostubs" in Module:Excerpt. What does nostubs do in there? — The Transhumanist 19:03, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

@The Transhumanist: It's how Module:Excerpt slideshow tells Module:Excerpt to exclude stubs. So functionally, it's exactly the same except that the default is |nostubs=false. - Evad37 [talk] 22:58, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Feature request: show stubs with a picture in the lead

Can an exception be made for stubs with a picture? That is, have the default be to filter out stubs except those that have a picture in the lead?

After all, a picture is worth a thousand words.

I look forward to your reply. — The Transhumanist 19:24, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

This might be getting a bit too computationally expensive, given the limited Lua time pages are allowed. - Evad37 [talk] 22:58, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

It will be on pages that have already been accessed for something else, and so the processing time added should be minimal, don't you think? — The Transhumanist 02:29, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard#IAdmin request (Evad37)

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You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard#IAdmin request (Evad37). - Evad37 [talk] 00:28, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

w00t ~ Amory (u • t • c) 15:33, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

Authority control + sister project links + portals

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Can I interest you and your portal-interested talk page watchers in a Lua adventure? I have long pined for a single instance template that would, in a unified, horizontal navbox, automatically display relevant links to (1) WM sister projects connected via Wikidata, (2) authority files, and (3) portals. In my mind, it'd be modeled after eswp's Authority control—see es:Módulo:Control de autoridades. Ideally such a template would require no parameters and just pull the relevant entries from Wikidata and deduce the relevant portals by subject/category taxonomies. Besides being much easier for editors to apply, it would have the added benefit of sharing relevant portals without needing to raise an army. Would you be interested or know someone who might be? czar 02:13, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

@Czar: #1 and #2 should be relatively straight-forward, but #3 is going to be tricky – deducing is easy for humans to do, but harder for computer programs which have to follow algorithms. Only a few wikidata items (relatively speaking) have a topic's main Wikimedia portal (P1151) linking to a portal. So we would need an algorithm with rules like if the item has country (P17), add Portal:name of country (if it exists). Other properties this approach could work for would be located in the administrative territorial entity (P131), subclass of (P279) and instance of (P31). And we would also need some logic to prevent or minimise portal duplication – i.e. if something has Portal:Perth, it probably doesn't also need Portal:Western Australia, Portal:Australia, and Portal:Oceania (nor Portal:Earth, Portal:Solar System, etc). Plus given that all Lua usage on a page has a hard time limit, we have to be careful not to do too many expensive operations (like loading multiple wikidata entities). - Evad37 [talk] 10:14, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Gotcha. I think that even starting with the broad base "country (P17) + Portal:name of country (if it exists)" would be worlds better than our current manual system and puts the onus on grooming Wikidata's ontology rather than committing single template fixes to WP and cluttering the edit history. czar 14:41, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

(Hi, I stopped by to check on another thread, and noticed this one). I don't like the idea of grouping internal (within WP) portal links with external links. Being internal links, portal links belong in the See also section, while external links do not. Wikidata could still be used to generate the portal links, but that would take a separate template. Compare with User:Dreamy Jazz Bot, which is being built to place portal links matching corresponding root article titles. This sounds like it will be redundant with that effort. Thoughts? — The Transhumanist 06:10, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

P.S.: @Dreamy Jazz: (ping)

@The Transhumanist, it's already common to add {{authority control}} + {{sister project links}} + {{portal bar}} (or their variants) concurrently. The idea is making their activation simpler than adding three separate templates manually. At the very least, even without the automated portal proposal, it would be nice to have a single horizontal template (à la eswp's "Control de autoridades" template layout) to accomplish what I just described. But it's looking increasingly likely that this will end with me learning Lua czar 16:37, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

@Czar: I've made a start at Module:Sandbox/Evad37/Auto footer links (it doesn't do anything yet, but I have started the coding). @The Transhumanist and Dreamy Jazz: The template would likely have a parameter so users can choose what to display, like how {{subject bar}} can show everything all together, or just one or two rows – so it would be up to editors/bot/consensus as to how it is used. Keeping stuff up-to-date with wikidata seems like a good idea, rather than having to maintain everything in wikitext (either by hand or with a bot) - Evad37 [talk] 02:56, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

any chance

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of adding people, heritage, biota and natural features to the sub-part - realising railway is very limiting... JarrahTree 10:26, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Yeah, but let's sort out the naming first (Template talk:Wheatbelt Project#"the Western Australian Wheatbelt Project / Railways") - Evad37 [talk] 11:18, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

@JarrahTree: Now that its sorted out, if you let me know once you've created new project subpages (e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Western Australian Wheatbelt/People, and similarly for "/Biota" etc), I'll add them to the {{Wheatbelt Project}} banner. (The pages need to be created first to prevent redlinks showing up in the banner.) - Evad37 [talk] 12:23, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for that. JarrahTree 13:09, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 3

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (February 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the third issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Bradv's Superlinks

Abelmoschus Esculentus: Discussion Closer • Edit Filter False Positives Response Helper

PrimeHunter's Search sorter • Reinischmax's Internet Archive Books

Erutuon's Charinsert-names • DannyS712's De-Stub • Evad37's Timeless New Message Highlighter

RhinosF1's Status Changer • Suffusion of Yellow's Filter Highlighter

Timotheus Canens's SPI Helper (now in 1.6.8)

Open tasks

Evad37 has raised the idea for a pseudo-namespace be created for "script modules". Find out more and discuss here
Cyberpower678 has proposed adding a "Read Now" feature for book references; a working demo is available.
FR30799386 has also suggested making their mobileUndo script into a gadget

Miscellaneous

Following a discussion, a new process for reviewing code for user-scripts and gadgets has been created.

See Wikipedia:Code review for more.

This month we welcomed three new interface administrators: Evad37, Galobtter, and Enterprisey.
On a sadder note, just this morning we said goodbye to Abelmoschus Esculentus, a prolific script writer.

We are three months in to this newsletter and everything is going great–keep on creating amazing new scripts!
Who knows–maybe the scripts will take over one day... --DannyS712 (talk) 17:59, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Pending requests WikiProject Portals is looking for some help making scripts...

to help build navboxes
to simplify adding links to portals
and even to make creating the portals easier
other open requests are available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Administrators' newsletter – March 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2019).

Administrator changes

Evad37

There'sNoTime

Alex Shih • Brian • Mushroom • Nakon • Oscarthecat • PeruvianLlama • Ragib • Reaper Eternal • Rossami • Tom

Interface administrator changes

Evad37 • Galobtter

Ritchie333

CheckUser changes

There'sNoTime

Keegan • Ks0stm

Oversight changes

There'sNoTime

Ks0stm • Sphilbrick

Guideline and policy news

The RfC on administrator activity requirements failed to reach consensus for any proposal.
Following discussions at the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and Wikipedia talk:Administrators, an earlier change to the restoration of adminship policy was reverted. If requested, bureaucrats will not restore administrator permissions removed due to inactivity if there have been five years without a logged administrator action; this "five year rule" does not apply to permissions removed voluntarily.

Technical news

A new tool is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN or WP:SPI).
- paid-en-wp wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private evidence related to abusive paid editing.
- checkuser-en-wp wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private requests for CheckUser. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to this address instead of the functionaries-en list.

Miscellaneous

Following the 2019 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Base, Einsbor, Jon Kolbert, Schniggendiller, and Wim b.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:12, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

RFA

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Your RfA

Hi Evad37 -- I've asked you a question at your application; I'd also like to clarify something here -- you mention some areas you intend/not to work -- would editing the main page be one of the areas you would consider? Cheers, Espresso Addict (talk) 01:21, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

@Espresso Addict: No, at least not in the short-to-medium term. As I said in my answer to Q1, I would want to get familiar in a non-administrative capacity first before taking any admin actions (for example, editing DYK prep areas). - Evad37 [talk] 03:38, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

@Evad37: I was going to click the thank button for this 02:51, 14 February 2019 (UTC) edit of yours but that doesn't seem sufficient. I think the clarity of your Question 12 response was exemplary, meeting a standard few can reach. As I said at the Rfa, I doubt we'll have cause to regret giving Evad37 the tools and I'm moved to congratulate you a day or two early. – Athaenara ✉ 21:52, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks Athaenara

- Evad37 [talk] 00:54, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

RfA

Congrats on the bit. Please see this page for next steps. Again, congrats. -DannyS712 (talk) 00:53, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

wow

you survived that :( , now for the mop... congratulations JarrahTree 00:54, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Successful RFA

Congratulations Evad37! Your RfA was successful. You are now an administrator on the English Wikipedia. I hope you have just as happy a time editing in the future as you did before your RfA. You may want to look at the admin guide to read up on any tools you are unfamiliar with.

Congratulations!

It is my great pleasure to inform you that your Request for Adminship has closed successfully and you are now an administrator!

Useful Links:	Administrators' guide • Administrators' reading list • Administrator tools • Administrator's Noticeboard • Administrator's Noticeboard for Incidents • Administrator's Noticeboard for edit warring • IRC admin channel (#wikipedia-en-admins ^connect)
Your admin logs:	blocks • deletions • moves • protects • uploads

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Useight (talk • contribs) 01:04, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Successful RfA

Congratulations for adminship !! CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 01:10, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Congrats..The admins' T-shirt for you. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 01:10, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Felicitations on your successful RfA and welcome to the team. If you have any questions feel free to ask for help. Almost all of us are approachable. A single word of advice... go slowly at first in any areas you are not familiar with. There were some editors (myself among them) who expressed some reservations over your resume. But I'm sure you will be fine. Enjoy the moment. -Ad Orientem (talk) 01:34, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
Well done Evad, I know you'll be a great benefit to the admin team. Certes (talk) 01:36, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
Congrats! --SQL ^{Query me!} 01:38, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
Congrats! --rogerd (talk) 01:52, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
Congratulations and best wishes. Donner60 (talk) 02:09, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
Congratulations bro. Xain36 (talk) 05:12, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
Congratulations. Conlinp (talk) 05:41, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
Welcome to the mop. Use it when and where you feel comfortable with it. IAdmin shuld be just a formality now. Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 05:44, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
Finally! Welcome to the mop corps! Regards So Why 08:06, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
I'm a bit late, obviously, but I really want to congratulate you too! You're gonna be a great admin! ♦AcoriSage 19:04, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
I thought you were one already. Congrats! — The Transhumanist 23:36, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

File:Successful requests for adminship 2019.png

With 212 supporters, Evad37's request for adminship is the third to succeed in 2019.

Congratulations! Linguist111^{my talk page} 08:35, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
Congrats indeed! Prove me wrong! Seriously, good luck and happy adminning (if that's a word). Yintan 23:09, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
'Grats bro! — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)}_{(click me!)} 00:51, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
Further congratulations. I only realised you had been to RFA when I read the Administrator Newsletter that says you were accepted. If I had noticed the application, I would have piled on to the support section too. Welcome. --Scott Davis ^Talk 00:09, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

YAY!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!! You passed, as well you should have. Don't change who you are, and always remember that who you are now is why the WP community voted for you. ❤️ ^{Atsme✍🏻📧} 01:38, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for volunteering your time to improve Wikipedia, and felicitations on your successful adminship run. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 11:31, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Thank you

... for all the congratulations. And thanks to everyone who took the time to evaluate my RfA, especially those who left thoughtful/insightful comments (whichever section your !vote ended up in). Cheers from the newest admin on the block, - Evad37 [talk] 09:27, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

A little suggest, please update the top icon and once again congrats. Happy Edits, Xain36 (talk) 15:48, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Hey

Congratulations on becoming an administrator! Foxnpichu (talk) 20:49, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

YGM

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Hello, Evad37. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

–MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 16:05, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.17

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Hello Evad37,

News

The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the {{rough translation}} tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.

Discussions of interest

Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
{{db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 (Discussion)
A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.

Reminders

NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.

NPP Tools Report

Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828
Looking for inspiration? There are approximately 1000 female biographies to review.
Stay up to date with even more news – subscribe to The Signpost.

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings.

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:18, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #030, 17 Mar 2019

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Previous issue:

Single-page portals: 4,704

Total portals: 5,705

This issue:

Single-page portals: 4,562

Total portals: 5,578

The collection of portals has shrunk

All Portals closed at WP:MfD during 2019

Grouped Nominations total 127 Portals:

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/US County Portals Deleted 64 portals
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Districts of India Portals Deleted 30 Portals
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portals for Portland, Oregon neighborhoods Deleted 23 Portals
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Allen Park, Michigan Deleted 6 Portals
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cryptocurrency Deleted 2 Portals
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:North Pole Deleted 2 Portals

Individual Nominations:

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Circles Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Fruits Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:E (mathematical constant) Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Burger King Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cotingas Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Prostitution in Canada Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Agoura Hills, California Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Urinary system Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:You Am I Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cannabis (2nd nomination) Reverted to non-Automated version
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Intermodal containers Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Adventure travel Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Adam Ant Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Benito Juárez, Mexico City Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Spaghetti Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Wikiatlas Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Greek alphabet Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Accounting Deleted G7
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Lents, Portland, Oregon Deleted P2
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ankaran Deleted
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Jiu-jitsu Deleted G8
Portal:University of Nebraska Speedy Deleted P1/A10 exactly the same as Portal:University of Nebraska–Lincoln also created by the TTH

Related WikiProject:

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals Demoted

(Attribution: Copied from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Portal MfD Results)

WikiProject Quantum portals

This was a spin-off from WikiProject Portals, for the purpose of developing zero-page portals (portals generated on-the-screen at the push of a button, with no stored pages).

It has been merged back into WikiProject Portals. In the MfD the vote was "demote". See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals.

Hiatus on mass creation of Portals

At WP:VPR, mass creation of Portals using semi-automated tools has been put on hold until clearer community consensus is established.

See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Hiatus on mass creation of Portals.

The Transhumanist banned from creating new portals for 3 months

See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Proposal 1: Interim Topic-Ban on New Portals.

Until next issue...

Keep on keepin' on. — The Transhumanist 02:45, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

highlight to add {{cn span}}/{{clarify span}}

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Dear gadgetmaster, do you know of a script that lets editors highlight article text to add common "span" templates, e.g., {{cn span}}/{{clarify span}} (bonus: and specify |reason=)? I'm really surprised I couldn't find something like this, as it would be so useful... czar 22:54, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

This sounds like something that the TemplateWizard ought to be able to do, as there are plenty of other inline templates that one might want to wrap around existing text. - Evad37 [talk] 00:09, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 4

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (March 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the fourth issue of the new Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Joeytje50's JWB

PAC2: Chouette • Just A Click Away

DannyS712: FPC voter • Easy-link

Zackmann08's unwatch deleted • Begoon's addUploadsLink

Pythoncoder's voteSymbols (now in release 3.0.3) • Evad37's rater (now in release 1.2.0)

Abelmoschus Esculentus retired from Wikipedia; DannyS712 is now maintaining their scripts:

Ajax Rollback • Ajax Rollback with summary • Contributions Search • Tags Manager
Teahouse Talkback • Mass Category Modifying Helper • EFFP Response Helper
Skip to bottom • Source Assess Table Generator • Userspace • RandomAfC
Mass Message Sender • Discussion Closer

FR30799386 was blocked from Wikipedia; DannyS712 is now maintaining their scripts:

communicator • copyvio-check • Undo • Quick-undo • Readonly • Redirectify • Section-strike

Pending requests

A request for helping with help requests
Hyphenating ISBNs
...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Miscellaneous

The Wikimedia Foundation has requested help with the testing of and feedback on a new tool for "Automated article section recommendations" for stub articles. See the village pump notice for more.
mw.loader.getScript has been added to mw.loader, closing a feature request from 2010. It allows users to load a script via URL (like mw.loader.load()) and specify a callback function (like mw.loader.using()). See mw:ResourceLoader/Core modules#mw.loader.getScript for more.

Enjoy your April Fool's, --DannyS712 (talk) 18:43, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Template:Signpost draft/sandbox

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How long would it take to update your scripts to support this version instead? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 14:24, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Going to @DannyS712: here too, since they're involved with some scripts as well. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 18:27, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

@Headbomb: My contributions to the signpost publishing script are limited to adding the function to automatically request a watchlist notice. I have no idea how the rest works - the javascript is way over my head. --DannyS712 (talk) 19:12, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Separately, Evad37, do you want me to work on automatically resetting the newsroom? --DannyS712 (talk) 00:40, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

@DannyS712: If you want to -- but you need to make sure articles marked as postponed, or that otherwise weren't ready for the published issue, have the checklist and any comments retained. - Evad37 [talk] 01:21, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

@Evad37: okay. --DannyS712 (talk) 01:22, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

@Headbomb: As long as in the draft articles, the new parameters are placed after |title= and |blurb=, I shouldn't need to make any changes to support the new version of the template. (Though I probably will be making some changes in the code that deals with this while fixing User talk:Evad37/SPS.js#Publishing script error) - Evad37 [talk] 23:31, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Alright, then I'll update the main draft template. Keep an eye on it to make sure things don't get screwed up by accident. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 23:33, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

TfD closer

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Moved to User talk:Evad37/XFDcloser.js

– section § [UX] Default TFD options - Evad37 [talk] 16:39, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

Administrator changes

Reaper Eternal • ThaddeusB

Bogdangiusca • Christopher Parham • Necrothesp • Schneelocke • Siroxo • Sarah

Mentifisto → Lofty abyss

Interface administrator changes

Mr. Stradivarius

Bureaucrat changes

DeltaQuad

Kingturtle

Technical news

In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
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. Please see meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019 to provide your input on this idea.

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee clarified that the General 1RR prohibition for Palestine-Israel articles may only be enforced on pages with the {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} edit notice.

Miscellaneous

Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:57, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Category:Historical Portal pages has been nominated for discussion

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Category:Historical Portal pages, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Legacypac (talk) 21:46, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

added

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[1] just a start... JarrahTree 01:41, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Is there a bot that...?

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Hi I'm taking a wild shot here but dunno who else to ask. Is there a bot that could find and rank pagesize (maybe via drpda's readable prose stats) of all current FA articles, and far more importantly, generate graphs of mean pagesize of FAs promoted in each period through time (e.g, in Jan. 2017 the mean size was xxx, or perhaps in Jan-Apr, or whatever time range seems reasonable/practical). Ideally the bot would find pagesize at time of promotion (there's a link to the promoted version on article talk), but since FAs usually don't change much, maybe current size would do. But a graph through time is the key point here. Tks! ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 06:56, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

This should be possible for a bot to do. All it really needs to do is the calculations, since graphs can be made with templates like {{Graph:Chart}}. You can request a bot/task at WP:BOTREQ. - Evad37 [talk] 05:24, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

JS question

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How can you disable a MediaWiki hotkey for the current page only? I look forward to your reply. — The Transhumanist 05:21, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

@The Transhumanist: If you mean WP:Keyboard shortcuts, they are set in the accesskey property of <a> elements – just remove that attribute to disable the keyboard shortcut. - Evad37 [talk] 02:50, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

I didn't realize the hotkeys were on each page. That helps a lot. Thanks. — The Transhumanist 04:27, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 5

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (April 2019). Hello everyone and welcome to the 5th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

The Evil IP address' Heading Editor

Newslinger's Notifier • Suffusion of Yellow's View Source

BrandonXLF: To Top Button • Restorer • Easy Summary • Subpage Mover

Evad37: Xunlink (v2.0.0, handles portals) • XFDcloser (v3.13.0, upgrades at TfD and removal of backlinks, minor tweaks and fixes)

Twinkle (commit 26305a2, major updates to csd, xfd, and tag menus, additional improvements to other smaller features)

DannyS712 is now maintaining Visual editing, a fork of Flooded with them hundreds' VisualEditist script

Pending requests

Twinkle for mobile
Working with "psuedo-headings"
...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Until next month, --DannyS712 (talk) 00:22, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #031, 01 May 2019

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Back to the drawing board

Implementation of the new portal design has been culled back almost completely, and the cull is still ongoing. The cull has also affected portals that existed before the development of the automated design.

Some of the reasons for the purge are:

Portals receive insufficient traffic, making it a waste of editor resources to maintain them, especially for narrow-scope or "micro" portals
The default {{bpsp}} portals are redundant with the corresponding articles, being based primarily on the corresponding navigation footer displayed on each of those articles, and therefore not worth separate pages to do so
They were mass created

Most of the deletions have been made without prejudice to recreation of curated portals, so that approval does not need to be sought at Deletion Review in those cases.

In addition to new portals being deleted, most of the portals that were converted to an automated design have been reverted.

Which puts us back to portals with manually selected content, that need to be maintained by hand, for the most part, for the time being, and back facing some of the same problems we had when we were at this crossroads before:

Manually maintained portals are not scalable (they are labor intensive, and there aren't very many editors available to maintain them)
The builders/maintainers tend to eventually abandon them
Untended handcrafted portals go stale and fall into disrepair over time

These and other concepts require further discussion. See you at WT:POG.

However, after the purge/reversion is completed, some of the single-page portals might be left, due to having acceptable characteristics (their design varied some). If so, then those could possibly be used as a model to convert and/or build more, after the discussions on portal creation and design guidelines have reached a community consensus on what is and is not acceptable for a portal.

See you at WT:POG.

Curation

A major theme in the deletion discussions was the need for portals to be curated, that is, each one having a dedicated maintainer.

There are currently around 100 curated portals. Based on the predominant reasoning at MfD, it seems likely that all the other portals may be subject to deletion.

See you at WT:POG.

Traffic

An observation and argument that arose again and again during the WP:ENDPORTALS RfC and the ongoing deletion drive of {{bpsp}} default portals, was that portals simply do not get much traffic. Typically, they get a tiny fraction of what the corresponding like-titled articles get.

And while this isn't generally considered a good rationale for creation or deletion of articles, portals are not articles, and portal critics insist that traffic is a key factor in the utility of portals.

The implication is that portals won't be seen much, so wouldn't it be better to develop pages that are?

And since such development isn't limited to editing, almost anything is possible. If we can't bring readers to portals, we could bring portal features, or even better features, to the readers (i.e., to articles)...

Some potential future directions of development

Quantum portals?

An approach that has received some brainstorming is "quantum portals", meaning portals generated on-the-fly and presented directly on the view screen without any saved portal pages. This could be done by script or as a MediaWiki program feature, but would initially be done by script. The main benefits of this is that it would be opt-in (only those who wanted it would install it), and the resultant generated pages wouldn't be saved, so that there wouldn't be anything to maintain except the script itself.

Non-portal integrated components

Another approach would be to focus on implementing specific features independently, and provide them somewhere highly visible in a non-portal presentation context (that is, on a page that wasn't a portal that has lots of traffic, i.e., articles). Such as inserted directly into an article's HTML, as a pop-up there, or as a temporary page. There are scripts that use these approaches (providing unrelated features), and so these approaches have been proven to be feasible.

What kind of features could this be done with?

The various components of the automated portal design are transcluded excerpts, news, did you know, image slideshows, excerpt slideshows, and so on.

Some of the features, such as navigation footers and links to sister projects are already included on article pages. And some already have interface counterparts (such as image slideshows). Some of the rest may be able to be integrated directly via script, but may need further development before they are perfected. Fortunately, scripts are used on an opt-in basis, and therefore wouldn't affect readers-in-general and editors-at-large during the development process (except for those who wanted to be beta testers and installed the scripts).

The development of such scripts falls under the scope of the Javascript-WikiProject/Userscript-department, and will likely be listed on Wikipedia:User scripts/List when completed enough for beta-testing. Be sure to watchlist that page.

Where would that leave curated portals?

Being curated. At least for the time being.

New encyclopedia program features will likely eventually render most portals obsolete. For example, the pop-up feature of MediaWiki provides much the same functionality as excerpts in portals already, and there is also a slideshow feature to view all the images on the current page (just click on any image, and that activates the slideshow). Future features could also overlap portal features, until there is nothing that portals provide that isn't provided elsewhere or as part of Wikipedia's interface.

But, that may be a ways off. Perhaps months or years. It depends on how rapidly programmers develop them.

Keep on keepin' on

The features of Wikipedia and its articles will continue to evolve, even if Portals go by the wayside. Most, if not all of portals' functionality, or functions very similar, will likely be made available in some form or other.

And who knows what else?

No worries.

Until next issue... — The Transhumanist 00:21, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 special circular

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Administrators must secure their accounts

The Arbitration Committee may require a new RfA if your account is compromised.

Use strong, unique passwords for your Wikipedia account and associated email
Change your password now if your Wikipedia account password or email password is reused on another website, exposed, or weak
Enable two-factor authentication now for improved security

View additional information

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:58, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

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ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).

Administrator changes

HickoryOughtShirt?4 • RexxS

Necrothesp

Bratsche • Kyle Barbour • Kzollman • Madman

Interface administrator changes

Pharos

Bureaucrat changes

Primefac

CheckUser changes

Reaper Eternal

Guideline and policy news

A request for comment concluded that creating pages in the portal namespace should be restricted to autoconfirmed users.
Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Technical news

XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

Arbitration

In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.

Miscellaneous

A request for comment is currently open to amend the community sanctions procedure to exclude non XfD or CSD deletions.
A proposal to remove pre-2009 indefinite IP blocks is currently open for discussion.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:37, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

MoveToDraft feature request

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A very minor feature request - can you make it so that users can specify different custom summaries for the rational and edit summary? Currently, you have

'rationale':	window.m2d_rationale || 'Undersourced, incubate in draftspace',
'editsummary':	window.m2d_rationale || '[[WP:AFC|AFC]] draft',

Using m2d_rational I can make these custom, but then they are the same - I'd like to customize each separately. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 19:01, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Done - Evad37 [talk] 02:34, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Timeless Newsletter • Issue 4

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Newsletter • April 2019

Welcome to the fourth issue of the Timeless newsletter, with a cat! Or maybe not.

Un chat qui miaule???

It's true! The angry cat, a fundamental part of Timeless, has resulted in confusion and bug reports all across the projects and phabricator. And now it shall be immortalised forever in the new, shiny Timeless logo.

Updates:

After putting off the project for three months because I got hit in the head with a flight of stairs, and then putting off the project for another two months while working out what the status of the grant was, I have now put off the project even more in order to focus on my other project for a bit. So progress lately has been a bit whims-based as a result:

The project now has a logo. For some reason.
The angry cat in the background is now customisable! Behold: not a cat. What would you like to replace it with on your project?
I broke, unbroke, and then sort of sideways broke all the form styles. Help.

Radar:

The French Wiktionary voted to set Timeless as their default skin, with results possibly as you might expect: I ran away and hid, and the WMF said no. A bit of discussion later and we largely agreed that all else aside, this is a bit of a branding issue, but we love the enthusiasm! Also the bug reports that inevitably come out of such a discussion. I'm still working on properly going through those.
Theme support is still stuck in limbo, but now we have another skinning RfC. tl;dr, we wanna replace the entire skinning system, and Skizzerz'll write a prototype later.

I will be fully resuming work on Timeless next week, or maybe the week after, depending on what madness (or illness) comes out of the Hackathon in Prague. Please come talk to me there to discuss strategy!

-— Isarra ༆ 16:51, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.18

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Hello Evad37,

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.

Backlog drive coming soon

Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the New Page Patrol talk page.

News

Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Discussions of interest

A request for bot approval for a bot to patrol two kinds of redirects
There has been a lot discussion about Notability of Academics
What, if anything, would a SNG for Softball look like

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7242 Low – 2393 High – 7250

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Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of DannyS712 (talk) at 19:17, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

Toolbar highlight duplicate links

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When you have time, could you please adjust the visuals on the highlight of Evad37/duplinks-alt.js ? It used to be highlighted better, but now it's an extremely thin red box and almost-invisible dotted box. Probably fine for editors who are under the age of 30 and have perfect vision. This is very difficult to see, even with an enlarged screen and a magnifying glass. Can you adjust it, please? — Maile (talk) 13:02, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

I've written a guide for using Rater, and I'd like you to read the draft

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I've used Rater on thousands of articles and it is a fantastic tool. I am working on a revamp of Wikiproject:Biology and I plan to make Rater an integral part of our assessment strategy moving forward. It will help us to standardize our efforts and work quickly. In fact, I think your tool is so good that it deserves to be a gadget listed in preferences. I think it's a more impressive tool than HotCat, honestly.

To that end I've written a detailed guide. I have posted it as a userspace draft here. I actually didn't know how to do that until today so I've been writing it off-wiki. Please forgive the formatting issues--I plan to do significant work on this before using it. I would appreciate you reading over it and telling me your thoughts--I'm not asking you to do basic copy-editing, but to address the broader aspects of the guide. Please let me know if I'm leaving anything out or giving too much detail.

Guides like this seem to be uncommon on Wikipedia and I don't really know where I would consider publishing this, if anywhere outside my subpages. I have thought about Essay or Help, but I am very unfamiliar with both of those namespaces and what they entail. Either might require a significant change to the guide. Anyway, please let me know what you think. Thank you for maintaining and improving this tool! Prometheus720 (talk) 18:00, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

Just checking for The Signpost

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Will you be doing the Featured content article?

There's something about differences in the deadline boxes on different pages. Yes, I've cleared the caches. I doesn't matter for this issue though. I'll be going by the box on the Newsroom talk page.

Smallbones_(smalltalk) 16:03, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 6

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (May 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 6th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

userRightsManager

Opencooper's domainRedirect • Danski454's hotcat-summary • Guywan's 12HourFormat • DannyS712's Subcategories

Twinkle (commit 53b6bf4)

Pending requests

Help with helping
List annotator
...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Enjoy your summer, --DannyS712 (talk) 23:44, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019).

Administrator changes

Andonic • Consumed Crustacean • Enigmaman • Euryalus • EWS23 • HereToHelp • Nv8200pa • Peripitus • StringTheory11 • Vejvančický

CheckUser changes

Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news

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.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:48, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

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Hello Evad37,

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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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:38, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 7

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (June 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 7th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Evad37's MoveToDraft

MJL's textDisallow • Opencooper's talkCount • Guywan's List Entry Annotator

SD0001: DYK-helper • find-archived-section • draft-sort-burst • UnassessedArticleLinks • StubSorter

DannyS712: Subcategories • Examine edits • ExpandHistory • Global watchlist

DannyS712's DiscussionCloser

Open tasks

FR30799386's mobileUndo (maintained on enwiki by DannyS712) is currently a proposed gadget. Join the discussion at the village pump
Interstellarity has requested help with forking Joshua Scott's pending changes script to add a feature

Miscellaneous

After an MfD, DannyS712's MMS was deleted. It was originally created by Abelmoschus Esculentus. If you import either of these scripts, you may want to uninstall them, as they no longer exist.

Having published 6 issues of this newsletter, I decided it was time to move it out from my user space. It is now located at Wikipedia:Scripts++. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 11:45, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost#Page size estimates

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BTW, your script still keeps the size commented. That should probably be updated. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 09:29, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

Done, thanks for the reminder - Evad37 [talk] 03:56, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

Still commented in Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost, btw. I'd take care of it myself, but I'd rather deal with you than have anything to do with The Signpost at this point. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 04:00, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

It will be fixed for the next issue, when the script next runs. There was an error during the last run, and the main page had to be manually edited, so the values currently there likely aren't accurate anyway. - Evad37 [talk] 04:04, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

Cool beans. I'll note that when you uncomment the sizes in the current version of Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost, the "From the editors" size displays differently than the others. That's because there's a missing | when you have a blurbless entry. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 04:20, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

Or rather, because [2]. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 04:25, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

It concerns me that we're putting effort into features we don't need while the dry-run fails at "preparing articles". Chris Troutman (talk) 14:07, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Having investigated, the problem was that the script expected each article to have a header template {{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-article-header-v2}}, but "From the archives" didn't – it instead used an old template {{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start}}. I've now adjusted the script to account for this possibility. - Evad37 [talk] 03:48, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	The Technical Barnstar
	For your assistance with technical tools and processes for The Signpost -- Pine (✉) 06:10, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2019

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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.

Bureaucrat changes

28bytes • WJBscribe • Wizardman

Interface administrator changes

MSGJ • TheDJ

CheckUser changes

Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD

Oversight changes

Beeblebrox • BU Rob13 • DoRD • GB fan

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.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:19, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

i know i know

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real life can be a real hindrance - and yes i know - but there is just one small problem

Islands wiki project on the project page - is active - but the damned project tag claims otherwise... I am truly hoping you have a brief window of time - to help re-activate the damned project tag... if at all possible, please, - or feel free to point a way from your hard working self... trust all is well and that there is an opportunity - otherwise - keep at it! its all worth it! JarrahTree 08:54, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 8

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (July 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 8th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Jackmcbarn's editProtectedHelper

Galobtter's WatchlistLinksNewTab • SD0001's Watchlist title updater • Yair rand's UserBlind

Anne drew Andrew and Drew's ScritSorter • Masumrezarock100's mobilemorelinks

Enterprisey: edit section on hover • Search shortcuts • superjump

ZLEA: EditRequestLinks.js • MMSLink.js

DannyS712's Global watchlist • SD0001's StubSorter

After a discussion, User:Sam Sailor/Scripts/Sagittarius+.js has been redirected to

User:Wugapodes/Capricorn.js, and Wugapodes is maintaining it.

Pending requests

A script to fill in {{Template:Infobox journal}}
A tool to simplify merging articles
...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Hope everyone is having a good winter (or summer, for those in the northern hemisphere). Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 02:40, 1 August 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).

Administrator changes

Johnuniq • Kosack • Valereee

Ad Orientem • Ched • Gadfium • Jonathunder • Nick • Yelyos

Bald Zebra • Beetstra • Doug Bell • Journalist • Ruud Koot • Splash • Voice of Clam

Interface administrator changes

Dinoguy1000

CheckUser changes

RickinBaltimore

Oversight changes

Beeblebrox

RickinBaltimore

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.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:23, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of File:Xfdcloser example quickclose.png

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IAdmin flag

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Hello Evad37, per the interface administrator policy the interface-admin flag is being removed from your account per provision 1, made no edits using the permission for at least 6 months. Should you require this access again in the future you may request again at WP:BN, following the directions at Wikipedia:Interface_administrators#Process_for_requesting. Note, this change as no impact on your "administrator" flag. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 01:49, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

Timeless Newsletter • Issue 5

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Newsletter • August 2019

Welcome to the fifth and final issue of the Timeless newsletter!

Progress was made. True story.

I am happy to announce that after about a year, this delightful project in which absolutely nothing has gone according to plan is coming to a close. Or at least, the grant-funded portion is. Which means we will now be resuming our regular schedule of random whims-based development, you probably won't notice any difference whatsoever unless you use MonoBook, and there's a report.

What's new from the past two months:

A lot less than we'd hoped, frankly. We:

Fixed various bugs, some of which even weren't for stuff I'd just broken two patches previously.
Resolved sundry compatibility issues for other extensions, templates onwiki, whatever, largely by removing dumb crap from the css.
Implemented some shiny new features you'll probably hate or just never use or actually see, like click-toggled dropdowns, icons everywhere, and options to select a default layout or set an image for the site header wordmark.
Brought the total number of open tasks on the Timeless workboard down to 70.

We also wound up with:

Patches resulting in RelatedArticles working in MonoBook, and FlaggedRevisions showing up in Minerva, unless someone actually managed to turn that off as well. (Blame T181242.) It's possible we went a little overboard with the whole 'let's close all the tasks!' sprint.
An unfortunate repeated discovery that themes (the Night/Winter variants I keep insisting will happen at some point) are still pretty far off on the horizon. Um.
Possibly a quite a few more bugs coming your way. This month, and especially the past week, have been a bit of a mess, development-wise. While hopefully none of the worse issues make it to production, please keep the reports coming for whatever you do find and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can. Y'all've been amazing about this, and it's really appreciated.

And I guess that's that. I'm really bad at reporting, and this is a report. For the purposes of the grant, this was a requirement, but do you want me to keep trying to send these out?

-— Isarra ༆ 18:08, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2019

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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

Callanecc • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

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.

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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

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Hello Evad37,

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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Precious anniversary

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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:12, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

Administrator changes

Barkeep49

Beetstra • KillerChihuahua • Kusma

Arcadian • Extraordinary Machine • Xeno

JamesBWatson → JBW

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

CheckUser changes

Courcelles • SilkTork • Timotheus Canens

Oversight changes

Courcelles • SilkTork • Timotheus Canens

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.

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.

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check the edit history

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Evad has commitments in real life, and has regularly had to have breaks. Patience please, he will return. I have recently seen him in real life, he is ok, just dont expect anything - he did leave a tag above busy, please respect that, thanks. JarrahTree 13:58, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 9

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (August and September, 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 9th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Enterprisey's links-in-logs

Tokenzero's infoboxJournal • SD0001's RFUD-helper • Danski454's code edit window size

BrandonXLF: FloatHead • ShowRevisionID • EditorFirst

Þjarkur: NeverUseMobileVersion • CleanDiffURLs

Galobtter's admin highlighter • ZLEA's Dashboard • Cobaltcigs's DisableDragDrop

SD0001's archived section finder

Miscellaneous

MJL's Archer was used to break a Wikipedia record. See the edit in question & the updated records page for more.

Sorry for falling behind a bit. Please let me know if I missed any new scripts. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 01:55, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Pending requests

A script to simplify merging
A script to tweak rollback links
...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

User script issues

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Howdy hello! Per two conversations at WP:VPT, it seems that some of the user scripts you maintain have broken, or been broken by a change in behind the scenes Wiki-code. The scripts at issue are User:Evad37/XFDcloser.js and User:Evad37/rater.js. Captain Eek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!}⚓ 19:09, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Those two have now been fixed, along with User:Evad37/MoveToDraft. Will check the rest of my scripts later today - Evad37 [talk] 23:17, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter November 2019

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Hello Evad37,

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 816 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

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Administrator changes

GermanJoe • Girth Summit • Kees08 • Nosebagbear

DESiegel • GB fan • MSGJ • Voice of Clam • WilyD

DeltaQuad • Fang Aili • Pakaran

Bureaucrat changes

DeltaQuad • Pakaran

Interface administrator changes

MSGJ

CheckUser changes

L235 • Mz7 • SQL • ST47

Ivanvector

DeltaQuad

Oversight changes

L235 • Mz7 • ST47 • Stwalkerster • The Blade of the Northern Lights • Xaosflux

DeltaQuad • DGG • Julia W

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.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:15, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Upload of duplicate file

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Hi Evad, it seems you have uploaded a duplicate file (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ghadhban_Obama_(cropped).jpg) I would like to propose a deletion in favour of using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thamir_Ghadhban.jpg. PascalsCalculatingHamster (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:13, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

@PascalsCalculatingHamster: Not uploaded by me, check the file history on those pages. But both will shortly be deleted unless adequate copyright and licensing information is added. - Evad37 [talk] 23:33, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 10

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (October 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 10th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Ahecht's page swap

MoonyTheDwarf's wikimap

SD0001: hide-reverted-edits • T-Watch • W-Ping • easy-merge

Enterprisey: diff-permalink • search-links • section-redir-note • fancy-diffs • EditWarChecker

Pending requests

Inline editor for cleanup tags

Script to remove empty parameters

...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Have a great November, --DannyS712 (talk) 22:18, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

Workshop for the creation of new Portal Guidelines

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Hello Evad37. There is currently a workshop going on about the creation of a new Portal Guideline: User talk:Scottywong/Portal guideline workspace. Your insights and ideas would be appreciated. --Hecato (talk) 16:41, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Quick question

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Hope you're well Evad. Not sure if this is the place to raise the issue (such as it is), and apologies if it's not. What it is, I was closing some AfDs earlier, and of course, saw the bubble about your script being turned into a gadget, so I uninstalled the script and activated the gadget. But—it seemed to have an adverse effect on some other scripts I use. Examples (apologies, I can't remember their actual names!), the admin highlighter, the editor rights/tenure, and the contribs and stats tabs (possibly others which I didn't notice at the time); when I unchecked the gadget and reinstalled the script, the other scrpts all came back! It was bizarre. Did you know about this, and if so, is there something I'm doing wrong? Any advice will be gratefully received! Cheers, ——SN 54129 18:14, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

@Serial Number 54129: Looking at the diff of your common.js edit [3], you somehow added a left-right arrow symbol on the first line when you removed the XFDcloser userscript. That would be why none of the other scripts worked until you reverted the edit. - Evad37 [talk] 01:16, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Incredible! I wouldn't even know where to find that symbol if I had to look for it :) thanks for that—it seems to have done the trick. Cheers! ——SN 54129 14:10, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 election voter message

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Hello! Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 on Monday, 2 December 2019. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

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Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!

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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) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Adaptive image sizes

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Hi Evad37,

I have a question about Module:Random slideshow. How does the adaptive image sizing work? I was wondering about experimenting with adaptive image sizes in some boxes of Portal:Germany but wanted to avoid the "slideshow" feature, as it is rather resource heavy and does not work well on mobile. Is there some template / module / CSS hack that only implements adaptive image sizing? And are you the right person to ask about this? Best wishes, —Kusma (t·c) 21:09, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

@Kusma: I think {{Portal dynamic image}} may do what you need:

Left column

File:File:Foo.jpg

Image that expands to container width

Right column Placeholder content:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

- Evad37 [talk] 23:50, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Wow, that's pretty nice and easy, thanks! Do you know of any reason why nobody uses this template (other than that nobody knows about it)? —Kusma (t·c) 09:36, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

I'm not exactly sure. It may have only been used by portals that are now deleted. But most likely, the attention back in mid-late 2018 was on the slideshow-based templates, and this one got overlooked. - Evad37 [talk] 09:59, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

sure is different

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thanks for letting know JarrahTree 08:57, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

somewhere inside between things there is a add paramter :) JarrahTree 09:00, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

in the older version you could grab the 'pane' whatever you call it, to move it away from something you want to view/ check in the article... in the new one there is no way to be able to negotiate it away from the info underneath (or am i missing something?) JarrahTree 09:28, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

@JarrahTree: You should be able to grab the title bar (near where is says "Rater") to move it around. If you hover over the bar with your mouse, it should look something like

- Evad37 [talk] 09:33, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Ta for that. about to be off for a while, will check later - very interesting changes :) JarrahTree

nope not working - the cursor shows up in the top bar - but there is no 'grab' or move happening...

running from imac os 10.15 catalina inside firefox 70.0.1 - JarrahTree 10:01, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

default filling of incomplete parts is great - love the insert visual indicator :) JarrahTree 23:47, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

so far so good - the sight of paramter is the only obvious issue so far... JarrahTree 01:37, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Fixed the typo (and some other stuff, see the thread on WT:RATER). Not sure why the dragging wouldn't be working... do you get any red errors in the browser console (see WP:JSERROR#6)? - Evad37 [talk] 09:27, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

@JarrahTree: I've changed the way dragging is implemented, if you want to try again. - Evad37 [talk] 17:24, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

@JarrahTree: Can you confirm if the dragging is working for you? Because that update broke it for someone else - Evad37 [talk] 06:37, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

not working - still inert

JarrahTree 06:48, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

@JarrahTree: I've tried another fix, any difference now? - Evad37 [talk] 12:59, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

brilliantissimo ! gracias! it works , great, thank you for the effort... JarrahTree 13:15, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

One very important aspect of the new format is the functionality in cleaning up category tagging, the way it is designed it is much easier to review and correct tags on multiple project items to achieve consistency for the tagging, in some cases even cleaning up earlier tagging that I had done which did not allocate appropriate tags relevant - now as clear as day and very helpful format for fixing things! very good JarrahTree 08:53, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

I know that banners/stars/compliments probably are meant to be more easier to put on a trophy table, I just wanna be different. As far as I can tell rater is just so much quicker and easier and stable to use, the only complaint is the horrible blobbish default table and image thungoes that arise in the oz project (by default?) - ugh yik yuk. Maybe I misunderstand them in my keyboard senility, but they are annoying. I know I am probably not getting it, but are they killable before they appear, or are they built in? JarrahTree 05:59, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

This was due to the templatedata on Template:WikiProject Australia/doc defining them as suggested parameters. Fixed with this edit (but it may take up to a day before you see the change due to caching) - Evad37 [talk] 06:41, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for that - appreciate your effort on such a magnificent piece of marchinery (as I think of it as) JarrahTree 07:03, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 11

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News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (November 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 11th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Enterprisey's reply-link

Evad37's Thanky • SuperHamster's CiteUnseen • Mattflaschen's Compare link.js

Enterprisey: diff-context • fancy-diffs • offset-history-link

BrandonXLF: NoRedirect • WatchDoc • HotDefaultSort • TodoList

Twinkle has received multiple updates

Evad37's rater is now at version 2; see the announcement here

Open tasks

For those who haven't noticed, per phabricator:T234576, using editToken instead of csrfToken no longer works

Miscellaneous

Following a discussion, XFDcloser is now available as a gadget
Evad37's extra.js collection of helper functions is now available as MediaWiki:Gadget-libExtraUtil.js
Twinkle's morebits is now a gadget, and is easier to use in as a dependency in other scripts (see here for more)
Last month's issue misidentified the creator of the new EditWarChecker script; it was created by Evad37

Pending requests

A button to mark templates in the TfD holding cell as ready for deletion
...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Enjoy your thanksgiving --DannyS712 (talk) 08:22, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

XfDCloser gadget

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I just noticed this (haven't been hanging around XfD in the past while due to time constraints). Congratulations! That's awesome. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 16:15, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2019

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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

Beeblebrox

Deskana

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

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.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:47, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

weirdness

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have changed a redirect into an article Perth Road Board... seen how easy it is to confused the perth road board with the perth city - articles so far do not a good job delineating the two, needs work... JarrahTree 07:03, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

Cheers

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Damon Runyon's short story "Dancing Dan's Christmas" is a fun read if you have the time. Right from the start it extols the virtues of the hot Tom and Jerry

This hot Tom and Jerry is an old-time drink that is once used by one and all in this country to celebrate Christmas with, and in fact it is once so popular that many people think Christmas is invented only to furnish an excuse for hot Tom and Jerry, although of course this is by no means true.

No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well E. MarnetteD|Talk 21:07, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

over the last few days

Latest comment: 4 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

rater has loaded but refused entries, too much christmas drinks?

It works in some ways but in others doesnt - could be my system - hard to tell have a safe christmas JarrahTree 00:10, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

@JarrahTree: Do you mean like WT:RATER § Error: "Add a wikiproject" not working (at all), or something else? - Evad37 [talk] 00:19, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

yes - also will not accept a click on a new component - add parameter - doesnt 'stick' just dies... JarrahTree 00:25, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

@JarrahTree: Should work now. I forgot to redirect the beta version when I took rater out of beta, so you were using an older version. - Evad37 [talk] 00:34, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter December 2019

Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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.

Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days
Rank	Username	Num reviews	Log
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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