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Administrators' newsletter – April 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).
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Guideline and policy news
- There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.
Technical news
- There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
Arbitration
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a
Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment
. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a
Miscellaneous
- The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.
Happy Birthday!
Have a very happy birthday on your special day!
Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 00:49, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
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
- There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [1]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April (calendar).
Future changes
- MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user
Maintenance script. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to. [2]
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19:03, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
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
- You can now use the
articletopicsearch word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic. [3] - You can see wiki tools in the new Tools Gallery. [4]
- You can see edits from the Wikimedia Cloud Services in a new dashboard.
- When you use filters on a history page you sometimes don't see any edits. There is a text explaining this now. Before it was just empty. [5]
- There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog. [6]
Problems
- There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest. [7][8][9]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 15. It will be on all wikis from April 16 (calendar).
Future changes
- Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed. [10]
- The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
- For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated
<source>tag, as well as the use of the deprecatedencloseparameter, will add tracking categories.
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15:31, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools
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The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.
The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.
- On 31 March 2020, the new reply tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
- The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page. The team will test features such as:
- an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
- a rich-text visual editing option, and
- other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.
To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch 
these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.
– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:45, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
- The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.
Recent changes
The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills. [11]- Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed.
div#contentis now.mw-body.div.portalis now.portal.div#footeris now#footer. This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them. [12]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
- Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011. [13]
- The font in the diffs will change. [14]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar).
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18:45, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Global Rename Request? (AdidasZRO)
Hi there, AdidasZRO here! I had noted a comment left on my talk page, noting that you could help change my username to be more inline with the rules? Here's a new one: "FlexaGram" - I'm not sure if that's taken, or if that could meet the standards. Again, appreciate your help with selecting something else! -Thanks! AdidasZRO (talk) 02:20, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
- @AdidasZRO: That has me slightly leery as "FlexaGram" appears to be the name of a song. Could you potentially pick something else that is either more generic or unique? --TheSandDoctor Talk 04:21, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
- Hi there AdidasZRO here!
- Sorry I had left this issue for awhile -- would you be OK helping to change the name perhaps to SUSPENCEZRO...don't know if there are policies on 'all caps' - no problem to do SuspenceZRO instead.
- Thanks!
Edward Kosner
In the future when you revert someone, it might be best to check the talk page first. I utilized the talk page and posted sources that more than satisfied BLP concerns. In addition, the author of the article himself commented, that's worthy enough for inclusion, ala Streisand Effect. We don't take orders or censor Wikipedia, especially when they threaten to withhold WMF funding, as Kosner did, or as he said he did in the article. Thanks. Sir Joseph (talk) 00:36, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
- Please review WP:ONUS. Reviewing the talk page prior to reverting anything other than blatant and obvious vandalism is good practice. I was fully aware of the talk page discussion at the time that I reverted your edit. One editor is not consensus. --TheSandDoctor Talk 01:37, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
- +Levivich makes 2, but whatever, it's on the talk page now there is clear consensus, so we'll see how Coffee reacts. Sir Joseph (talk) 01:45, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
- Consensus discussions with only three participants (as it stood with your copied comment of Levivich and mine) and without unanimity are almost never considered consensus, let alone a clear consensus. It is possible your discussion will lead to a consensus, but let's not put the cart before the horse. — Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 02:14, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
- +Levivich makes 2, but whatever, it's on the talk page now there is clear consensus, so we'll see how Coffee reacts. Sir Joseph (talk) 01:45, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
Recreating page (Eddie Zajdel) that you removed 2 years ago.
Hi,
Hope you are well and staying safe. I was scrolling through wikipedia today, the first time in a year or so. I was wondering if these articles below would be suggificant enough to un-delete the page (Eddie Zajdel). Let me know what you think. My goal is to help contribute to Wiki and hoping to create my first Wiki page without being deleted.
-Matt
http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/4659828
https://rvntv.tv/bridging-the-gap-17/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10069558/
https://www.amazon.com/Zajdel-Grand-Vision-Eddie/dp/B085LSRWFH/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11469436/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by MatthewFayer (talk • contribs) 15:15, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
- @MatthewFayer: Unfortunately, imdb is generally not a reliable source, nor is amazon. His own website is considered a primary source and thus does not help to demonstrate notability. DigitalJournal's entry is just a press release, as indicated at the top, and is thus also a primary source; this is also the issue with nashvillenewsupdates.com. London-tv is the closest thing yet, but unfortunately it is just an interview, which don't contribute to demonstrating notability but can be great for sourcing "straightforward, descriptive statements of facts that can be verified by any educated person with access to the primary source but without further, specialized knowledge.". rvntv appears to also fall into this category.
- I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but none of these sources you mention appear to help demonstrate notability at this time. Not much appears to have changed. However, if you would like the article userified so that you may work on it in case these improve, please let me know. --TheSandDoctor Talk 16:10, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Ruby Mazur
Hello! Your submission of Ruby Mazur at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 17:44, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
DYK nomination for Alvin Clark
Hi. You reviewed my DYK nomination a few days ago, and stated that it met DYK criteria. I just want to ask; why has it not been promoted? Lettler (talk) 00:54, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
- @Lettler: A DYK volunteer will come along to promote it at some point. --TheSandDoctor Talk 02:23, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
Oh, okay. Thank you. Lettler (talk) 02:25, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
DYK for Ruby Mazur
On 30 April 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ruby Mazur, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ruby Mazur, who designed the cover for the Rolling Stones' "Tumbling Dice", once sold a painting to a Saudi Arabian prince before the paint had even dried? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ruby Mazur. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ruby Mazur), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.