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Administrators' newsletter – December 2019

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.

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Tech News: 2019-49

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

• Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work. [1]
• The {{REVISIONID}} magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns "" (empty string). When you read a page it returns "-" (dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces. [2]

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16:58, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

My page

Thank you for the feedback and the message on the page I am working on adding to Wikipedia. I am indeed the subject and I am working to create the article in a factual manner.

Could you proofread the page and give me your feedback and thoughts before I submit it? Thank you very much again for your time and effort! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nickhuber11 (talk • contribs) 19:47, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Nickhuber11, Wikipedia does not have pages, it has articles, just an FYI. I am a bad person to ask for review, submit it, a reviewer will, well, review it and assist. MoonyTheDwarf (Braden N.) (talk) 19:50, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-50

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

• Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language. [3]
• There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article. [4]

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16:38, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

Untitled Section

Hi Moonythedwarf, I hope I'm responding in the right fashion and please forgive if I've got this wrong. Thank you for your advice about the article I intend to write on the Cyberjustice Laboratory. I do believe I have good sources to back up the article, and like I initially mentioned it is not promotional in the least. Do you think it might be alright to try publishing it as a standalone article, and if that fails then to see if I could add it under the Universite de Montreal article? Thanks again so much for your advice, I truly appreciate it!Saritmizrahi (talk) 15:23, 11 December 2019 (UTC)SaritMizrahi

Saritmizrahi, Not a problem. I was simply warning you in advance it might not go through (As writing an article is very difficult). MoonyTheDwarf (Braden N.) (talk) 15:24, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Thank you so much Moonythedwarf, I will try writing something that isn't too long and see what editors think. I'll be posting it shortly, if you don't mind telling me what you think I'd greatly appreciate it! Have a wonderful day.Saritmizrahi (talk) 15:28, 11 December 2019 (UTC)SaritMizrahi

Saritmizrahi, Will do. MoonyTheDwarf (Braden N.) (talk) 15:29, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

"Bullard community library" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Bullard community library. Since you had some involvement with the Bullard community library redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 19:22, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

I need help to create the article

I am trying to create the article in a neutral way, just mentioning what the company does, its history, offices and I only mention the products. As you can see in the references, OmniPayments contributes to the payment industry and I wish it could be consulted by any user in the community, as well as ACI Base24 that has several articles with you. However, I only receive rejections immediately and I don't know how to do it better. You have been the only person who has not responded in a hostile way. Could you help me? This is my first time here. (JanethMKT (talk) 21:24, 12 December 2019 (UTC))

JanethMKT, COI is very very very discouraged on wikipedia. And sadly, you're asking the wrong person, i'm not a very good editor. I recommend you ask in WP:HD or WP:TH (Do not do both). I left a welcome message on your page, I strongly recommend you read policy carefully before trying anything further. People can be rather hostile against COI (including me if you're blatantly advertising.), so I recommend being careful.

Sadly, even if we wish it, wikipedia isn't always the nicest.

Oh, final note: Read WP:PAID very carefully. It is not just Wikipedia policy, but also part of the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of service. MoonyTheDwarf (Braden N.) (talk) 21:27, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by JanethMKT (talk • contribs) 21:20, 12 December 2019 (UTC) 

Tech News: 2019-51

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

• The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again. [5]
• Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem. [6]

Changes later this week

• You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki. [7]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now. [8]

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00:16, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-52

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

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.

Recent changes

• All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "advanced mode".

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Future changes

• You can use setlang in the URL to change the user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if Javascript is not working in your browser. [9]

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20:06, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

"88100" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect 88100. Since you had some involvement with the 88100 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 22:24, 30 December 2019 (UTC)