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I've undone this edit to madam bot's exclude list. Sites now need to be licensed under CC-BY-SA (and optionally GFDL as well) and GFDL by itself is no longer enough. See Wikipedia:Licensing update#Content restrictions - I'm sure this has been documented somewhere better but as per usual tying to find it is difficult (Wikipedia's help/information system is atrocious and must be a nightmare for new users but that's a discussion for another day). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dpmuk (talk • contribs) 21:37, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Support request with team editing experiment projectEdit
Dear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Wikipedia about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_team_editing), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Wikipedia community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my project noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Wikipedia everywhere) Regards from User:Micru on meta. —Preceding undated comment added 09:32, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
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TFA botEdit
Is the TFA bot bot down? Operation Cobra wasn't protected and recieved a ton of vandalism, it looks like Osbert Lancaster is going that way too. Aza24 (talk) 06:49, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
- @Aza24: To quote from the bot's user page, it
... applies move protection to upcoming WP:TFAs
. The vandalism you refer to is ordinary editing which cannot be prevented by a move prot; moreover, TFAs are not normally edit-protected. It's extremely rare that a TFA does not experience some kind of vandalism for a couple of days - merely being linked from the main page makes it a vandalism magnet. See WP:PROT#Guidance for administrators and WP:TFAP. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 07:59, 27 July 2020 (UTC)- @Redrose64: You'll have to excuse my ignorance – my assumption that the protection was edit based was such that I didn't even look at the actual description. Thanks for the clarification. Aza24 (talk) 08:04, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
- If you're interested, the protection logs are available for Operation Cobra and Osbert Lancaster. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 08:15, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
- @Redrose64: You'll have to excuse my ignorance – my assumption that the protection was edit based was such that I didn't even look at the actual description. Thanks for the clarification. Aza24 (talk) 08:04, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-31Edit
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- The Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this. [1]
- The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck Use Legacy Vector in your local or global preferences in section Skin preferences. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
On multiple wikis, a UTCLiveClock gadget is available. For wikis that import the gadget directly from mediawiki.org, end users can now choose a different timezone to show instead of UTC.
Problems
- The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week. [2][3]
- Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed. [4]
- Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed. [5]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 29. It will be on all wikis from JUly 30 (calendar).
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13:52, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2020Edit
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).
Administrator changes
Oversight changes
Guideline and policy news
- There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
- Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
- Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
- There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.
User:Legobot edit maintenance revert errorEdit
Hi User:Legoktm, I believe your user bot wrongly reverted my WP:GAN for the Alpine Learning Group. Can you please fix it? Thanks. ATC . Talk 21:07, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
- (talk page watcher) Please provide a diff of the edit concerned. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:30, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
- The bot acted correctly; it has total control over that page, and rewrites it every 20 minutes according to what has been properly nominated for GAN. ATC failed to follow the procedure for nominating (described at WP:GANI), which involves the article's talk page; editors should not be directly editing WP:GAN. Legobot was working as designed. (ATC subsequently did the correct procedure, and the nomination now appears at WP:GAN.) BlueMoonset (talk) 15:29, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 2 August 2020Edit
- Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?
- COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money
- News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin
- In the media: Dog days gone bad
- Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy
- Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom
- Traffic report: Now for something completely different
- News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users
- Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil
Tech News: 2020-32Edit
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- All queries to the Wikidata Query Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period. [6]
- Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks. This problem was also mentioned in Tech News two weeks ago. The problem is now fixed. [7]
- There is a problem with the global preferences for the "Use Legacy Vector" option. Developers are working on fixing it. [8]
- A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed. [9]
Changes later this week
- The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The old player will be removed. [10]
- Users'
global.jsandglobal.csspages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin. [11] - In the MonoBook skin, the
searchGoButtonidentifier is nowsearchButton. This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953. This was previously mentioned in issue 27. - Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses
counterto prevent large archives was changed. [12] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 5. It will be on all wikis from August 6 (calendar).
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