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The Signpost: 18 November 2024

News and notes: Open letter to WMF about court case breaks one thousand signatures, big arb case declined, U4C begins accepting cases

In the media: Summons issued for Wikipedia editors by Indian court, "Gaza genocide" RfC close in news, old admin Gwern now big AI guy, and a "spectrum of reluctance" over Australian place names

Recent research: SPINACH: AI help for asking Wikidata "challenging real-world questions"

News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Endowment audit reports: FY 2023–2024

Traffic report: Well, let us share with you our knowledge, about the electoral college

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Question from Rakhesh yadav (17:29, 25 November 2024)

Hi --Rakhesh yadav (talk) 17:29, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from Triplets thebes (10:47, 24 November 2024)

Hello how are you How do I create page,how do I edit and ect --Triplets thebes (talk) 10:47, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

I left a message on your talk page with some links that can help you with this. GrayStorm^{(Complaints Dept.|My Contribs.)} 18:29, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from Oxygenhealth (03:37, 26 November 2024)

Hi --Oxygenhealth (talk) 03:37, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from Jim Gucciardo (10:31, 27 November 2024)

How do I edit or make my page? --Jim Gucciardo (talk) 10:31, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

Hello. I left a message on your talk page with some links that can help you with this. Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any more questions. Happy editing! GrayStorm^{(Complaints Dept.|My Contribs.)} 16:41, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).

Administrator changes

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

CheckUser changes

Guideline and policy news

Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

Technical news

Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

Arbitration

The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.

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Question from Jim Gucciardo (05:57, 28 November 2024)

Hello, how do I build out my own page? --Jim Gucciardo (talk) 05:57, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

Hello! You can use the article wizard to help you build an article. GrayStorm^{(Complaints Dept.|My Contribs.)} 16:28, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Hansh007 (22:15, 2 December 2024)

How do I start an article? --Hansh007 (talk) 22:15, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Hello! You can use the article wizard to help you build an article. GrayStorm^{(Complaints Dept.|My Contribs.)} 16:28, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from HKWDIOT26 (12:10, 9 December 2024)

it is here < your mentor´s tack page > but could I start it for a final mention or purpose all depending on me or is just some further knowledge cases to introduce the world from eGYPtian patience .? --HKWDIOT26 (talk) 12:10, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

Feedback request: Maths, science, and technology request for comment

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The Signpost: 12 December 2024

News and notes: Arbitrator election concludes

Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel articles 5

Disinformation report: Sex, power, and money revisited

Op-ed: On the backrooms by Tamzin

In focus: Are Wikipedia articles representative of Western or world knowledge?

In the media: Like the BBC, often useful but not impartial

Traffic report: Something Wicked for almost everybody

Opinion: Worm That Turned's reconfirmation RfA debriefing

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Question from CeoBash (19:41, 14 December 2024)

How do create a new wiki page? --CeoBash (talk) 19:41, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

Hello, you can use the article wizard to create a new page. GrayStorm^{(Complaints Dept.|My Contribs.)} 18:46, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Voonderbar (22:00, 23 December 2024)

Thanks GrayStorm, will do! 😊 --Voonderbar (talk) 22:00, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 December 2024

News and notes: Responsibilities and liabilities as a "Very Large Online Platform"

Op-ed: Beeblebrox on Wikipediocracy, the Committee, and everything

Opinion: Graham87 on being the first-ever administrator recall subject

In the media: Delhi High Court considers Caravan and Ken for evaluating the ANI vs. WMF case

From the archives: Where to draw the line in reporting?

Recent research: "Wikipedia editors are quite prosocial", but those motivated by "social image" may put quantity over quality

Humour: Backlash over Santa Claus' Wikipedia article intensifies

Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols

Traffic report: Was a long and dark December

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 26

Hello everyone, and welcome to the 26th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 August 2024. At press time, over 94% of the world has legally fallen prey to the merry celebrations of "Christmas", and so shall you soon. It's been a quiet 4 months, and we hope to see you with way more new scripts next year. Happy holidays! Aaron Liu (talk) 05:06, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Featured script

Very useful for changelist patrollers, DiffUndo, by Nardog, is this edition's featured script. Taking inspiration from WP:AutoWikiBrowser's double-click-to-undo feature, it adds an undo button to every line of every diff from "show changes", optimizing partial reverts with your favorite magic spell and nearly fulfilling m:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Partial revert undo.

Miscellaneous

Doğu/Adiutor, a recent WP:Twinkle/WP:RedWarn-like userscript that follows modern WMF UI design, is now an extension. However, its sole maintainer has left the project, which still awaits WMF mw:code stewardship (among some audits) to be installed on your favorite WMF wikis.
DannyS712, our former chief editor, has ascended to MediaWiki and the ~~greener~~ purpley pastures of PHP with commits creating Special:NamespaceInfo and the __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ magic word to exclude a template from Special:UnusedTemplates! I wonder if Wikipedia has a templaters' newsletter...

Improve a script

Many of our favorite scripts such as Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts, and Bradv/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
Elominius/media timer and PrimeHunter/Search sort work, yet have alien user interface design. Someone could improve them...
BilledMammal/Move+ needs updating to order list of pages handle lists of pages to move correctly regardless of the discussion's page, so that we may avoid repeating fiasco history.

Requested scripts

We need scripts that...

allow you to edit {{sfn}} references graphically a la Ingenuity/ReferenceEditor
copy specific named references from other pages to help with splitting and whatnot
make adding icons/links to the top toolbar (or other portlets) much easier
graphically generate a {{source assess table}}
award a Four Award
...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests. Thanks to the editors at US/R—including Nardog, User:Novem Linguae, User:Jeeputer, and many more!—for their work in processing userscript requests this past year.

Updated scripts

Andrybak/Unsigned helper forks Anomie/unsignedhelper to add support for binary search, automatic edit summaries after generating the {{unsigned}} template, support for {{undated}}, and support for generating while syntax highlighting is on.
Pour one out: DreamRimmer/User not around forks Andrybak/Not around to allow configuration precise to a number of days (from the original precision of years).
Red-tailed hawk/cv revdel forks Enterprisey/cv-revdel to automatically add CopyPatrol reports.
Polygnotus/Move+ updates BilledMammal's classic Move+ to add automattic watchlisting of all pages—except the target page(s)—changed while processing a move.

Newly maintained scripts

Administrators only! Novem Linguae/UnblockReview forks the now-broken Enterprisey/unblock-review to review unblock requests with a graphical interface.

New scripts

1AmNobody24: Find Link provides a shortcut to its namesake tool, Edward/Find link, which helps de-WP:ORPHAN articles.
Andrybak: Contribs ranger (pictured) generates links to a limited range of user contributions, log items, or page history. You see, it's not just contribs!
CanonNi/VoteVisualizer is a rewrite of Pythoncoder/voteSymbols that makes everything saner to configure.
When viewing Category:Articles missing coordinates with coordinates on Wikidata, Jeeputer/coordInserter adds links to automatically insert coordinates into the article selected.
To satiate archaeology and curiosity (the same thing, perhaps?), JJPMaster/AfC time logger logs the time it takes for a user to review each submission to Wikipedia:Articles for creation.
Natdog/InsertAnyChar adds a searchable list of all Unicode characters to the 2010 source editor.

Question from Jordanbien (23:28, 27 December 2024)

How can i write an article on wikipedia? --Jordanbien (talk) 23:28, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Kontaxis77 (10:27, 29 December 2024)

Hello. How can I start a new publication entry? --Kontaxis77 (talk) 10:27, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Godfrey omokhogie Joseph (07:02, 30 December 2024)

How can I start editing --Godfrey omokhogie Joseph (talk) 07:02, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Donnellymjjd (15:18, 30 December 2024)

hello, michael donnelly hamilton, nj i am not that good and my ancient HP laptop is mot bad but I don't have offrice 135 at all although i have a wonderful old mainstay called MICROSOFT WORKS [ONE OF THE FINEWST PIECES OF SOFTWARE EVER RELEASED] I AM 88 AND GREW UP IN TRHE 50S WITH OLD HARDWARE. THANKS FOR YOUR OFFER OF HELP BUT I AM PRETTY SLOW SO DON'T WASTE YOURSELF ON MY ACCOUNT. I LIVE WITHOUT A VEHICLE AND A DRIVER WIFE WHO IS WONDERFUL IN EVERTY WAY. WIKIPEDIA IS A GREAT RESOURCE BUT MY BANK IS A LITTLE ABOVE POOR GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR NEW YEAR TO START VERY SOON --Donnellymjjd (talk) 15:18, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).