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Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
• Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
• Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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13:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Confirming

Hi Reedy. This message is to confirm the request I made over IRC regarding my account's security.

Thanks for helping out with this. — PinkAmpers&^{(Je vous invite à me parler)} 17:48, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Extension:OAuthAuthentication

Hi, I saw you created phabricator:T161248 but I don't understand what you said the need to use/run composer to get mediawiki/oauthclient. How do I run a composer ? Which one ? Thank you. PS: I found mediawiki-oauthclient-php but I don't know where and how to install is. CreativeC38 (talk) 18:19, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Edit : I installed oathclient library in vendit/mediawiki and I added it in composer.json but it still doesn't work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CreativeC38 (talk • contribs) 13:09, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

How did you install it? You can't just dump the library there and expect it to work. Have you tried reading mw:Composer? You can either run composer update in the extensions directly, or if you setup the root composer.json to crawl extensions, just run it there. Reedy (talk) 04:13, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Survey Invite

I'm working on a study of political motivations and how they effect editing. I'd like to ask you to take a survey. The survey should take 5 minutes. Your survey responses will be kept private. Our project is documented at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_%2B_Politics.

Survey Link: http://uchicago.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_80J3UDCpLnKyWTH?Q_DL=1R1zIzg92FHco4d_80J3UDCpLnKyWTH_MLRP_brXRE12EaPvj5Jz&Q_CHL=gl

I am asking you to participate in this study because you are a frequent editor of pages on Wikipedia that are of political interest. We would like to learn about your experiences in dealing with editors of different political orientations.

Sincere thanks for your help! Porteclefs (talk) 16:59, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Question

Hi Reedy! I asked Magioladitis already, but he seems to be busy at the moment. Is there a way to read exif/metadata from photographs on Commons? Thanks for keeping AWB up and running! --Hedwig in Washington ^(TALK) 11:57, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to Admin confidence survey

Hello,

Beginning in September 2017, the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-harassment tool team will be conducting a survey to gauge how well tools, training, and information exists to assist English Wikipedia administrators in recognizing and mitigating things like sockpuppetry, vandalism, and harassment.

The survey should only take 5 minutes, and your individual response will not be made public. This survey will be integral for our team to determine how to better support administrators.

To take the survey sign up here and we will send you a link to the form.

We really appreciate your input!

Please let us know if you wish to opt-out of all massmessage mailings from the Anti-harassment tools team.

For the Anti-harassment tools team, SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative (talk) 19:52, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

DynamicPageList latest commit removed the main file

Hi Reedy,

Just to let you know that it your latest commit on the DynamicPageList extension, removed not only the symlink but also the main php file (DynamicPageList.php). The installation instruction doesn't works anymore. I had to 'git checkout HEAD~1' to make it work.

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rEAND14389cfa7a7bd36c850563117917fd58109b19a8

Thanks FonkyMoustache (talk) 10:27, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

I know, I did it purposely. Hence why when someone else CR'd it and merged it. The PHP entry points are deprecated. If you look at the contents of DynamicPageList.php you'll see it's effectively just

wfLoadExtension( 'intersection' );

, see mw:Manual:Extension_registration. The page uses rather old and non standard documentation. Fixed up in [1] Reedy (talk) 14:27, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Request

Hi, Long time ago I requested this. could you please take a look & add that? --Aftabuzzaman (talk) 17:23, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Thank you :) Aftabuzzaman (talk) 20:12, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

ArbCom 2017 election voter message

Hello, Reedy. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible 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.

If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Seasons' Greetings

...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 15:40, 24 December 2017 (UTC)