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284 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Liberty Korea Party (talk) Expand
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31 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Start Wrecking amendment (talk) Unencyclopaedic
1,722 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: B National identification number (talk) Unencyclopaedic
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5 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Seo Ki-Seog (talk) Stub
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Books & Bytes, Issue 32

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2019).

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  • A new tool is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.

Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN or WP:SPI).
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Miscellaneous

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The Bugle: Issue CLV, March 2019

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WikiCup 2019 March newsletter

And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2. With 56 contestants qualifying, each group in Round 2 contains seven contestants, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for Round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining contestants.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:

  • United States L293D, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with ten good articles on submarines for a total of 357 points.
  • Adam Cuerden, a WikiCup veteran, came next with 274 points, mostly from eight featured pictures, restorations of artwork.
  • Denmark MPJ-DK, a wrestling enthusiast, was in third place with 263 points, garnered from a featured list, five good articles, two DYKs and four GARs.
  • United States Usernameunique came next at 243, with a featured article and a good article, both on ancient helmets.
  • Squeamish Ossifrage was in joint fifth place with 224 points, mostly garnered from bringing the 1937 Fox vault fire to featured article status.
  • Ohio Ed! was also on 224, with an amazing number of good article reviews (56 actually).

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews on 143 good articles, one hundred more than the number of good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Well done all!

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews.

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118 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Pohang (talk) Cleanup
56 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Korean Air Flight 803 (talk) Cleanup
131 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: GA Hwang Kyo-ahn (talk) Expand
88 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B 2016–17 South Korean protests (talk) Expand
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Bukpyeong-myeon, Jeongseon County (talk) Expand
13 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Start Pyo Chang-won (talk) Unencyclopaedic
105 Quality: High, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: GA The Perfect Red Velvet (talk) Unencyclopaedic
825 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: C Hanja (talk) Unencyclopaedic
30 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Pashtun name (talk) Merge
298 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: C Apple (symbolism) (talk) Merge
7,587 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: B Jacob Rees-Mogg (talk) Merge
4 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Stub Kim Kiyoung (talk) Wikify
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Stub Lee Youngjin (talk) Wikify
26 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Tasty Life (talk) Wikify
2 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: C Kim Hanjung (talk) Orphan
2 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Start Kim Cheon-heung (talk) Orphan
4 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Start Baegot (talk) Orphan
6 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Future Hope Alliance (talk) Stub
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3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Stub Lee Jongseok (talk) Stub
6 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Stub Lee Eunae (talk) Stub
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Hey, the bot seems to have gone down and has been down for a few months. Can you fix it please? (It is the snitchbot) Thanks! LakesideMinersMy Talk Page 15:01, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

I am aware it is dead, I just don't have enough time to work on it. Will (work on) get it done this week. — regards, Revi 23:35, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
The instance should be up again. If it is missing from some channel, please let me know (the channel name and the bot name). — regards, Revi 07:41, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

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  • Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
  • As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.
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The Bugle: Issue CLVI, April 2019

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Happy Birthday!

  — Jeff G. ツ 07:31, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, Jeff! Wish you a happy day as well! — regards, Revi 08:30, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Have a very happy birthday on your special day!
Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 21:33, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
Hey Captain Raju, thank you! (Sorry for the late response, I somehow skipped your message!) — regards, Revi 14:38, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

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179 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Wikiversity (talk) Cleanup
621 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Kim Min-jung (actress) (talk) Cleanup
74 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Megalia (talk) Expand
3 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: C South Gyeonggi Province (talk) Expand
4 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (talk) Expand
75 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Bundang-gu (talk) Unencyclopaedic
2,432 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Dell (talk) Unencyclopaedic
921 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: C Websites blocked in India (talk) Unencyclopaedic
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Juan Aurich (1922–1992) (talk) Merge
145 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: C Screen time (talk) Merge
123 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: C Timeline of early HIV/AIDS cases (talk) Merge
52 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Driving license in South Korea (talk) Wikify
119 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: B Ilbe Storehouse (talk) Wikify
7 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: C, Predicted class: C Dokdo Volunteer Garrison (talk) Wikify
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Ahn Dae-hee (talk) Orphan
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Min Yeong-chan (talk) Orphan
3 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: C Daehanjiji (talk) Orphan
21 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Kakao T (talk) Stub
18 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Ministry of Education (South Korea) (talk) Stub
112 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Free Joseon (talk) Stub
9 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Yi Sang-ryong (talk) Stub
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WikiCup 2019 May newsletter

The second round of the 2019 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to scored 32 points to advance into round 3. Our top four scorers in round 2 all scored over 400 points and were:

  • Scotland Cas Liber (1210), our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three DYKs. He also made good use of the bonus points available, more than doubling his score by choosing appropriate articles to work on.
  • Wales Kosack (750), last year's runner up, with an FA, a GA, two FLs, and five DYKs.
  • Adam Cuerden (480), a WikiCup veteran, with 16 featured pictures, mostly restorations.
  • Kingdom of Prussia Zwerg Nase (461), a seasoned competitor, with a FA, a GA and an ITN item.

Other notable performances were put in by Chicago Barkeep49 with six GAs, United States Ceranthor, England Lee Vilenski, and Saskatchewan Canada Hky, each with seven GARs, and Denmark MPJ-DK with a seven item GT.

So far contestants have achieved nine featured articles between them and a splendid 80 good articles. Commendably, 227 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2019 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. The judges are pleased with the thorough GARs that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

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  • XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

Arbitration

  • In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
  • Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.

Miscellaneous

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Idea: Korean translation of Wikimedia Community User Group Hong Kong page?

Hi, Revi! I am wondering if you know someone interested in making and/or maintaining a Korean-language translation (from English) of the page meta:Wikimedia Community User Group Hong Kong? As a community strategy liaison of the group I would like to get the Korean expatriate communities in Hong Kong and Guangdong involved, and believe a Korean-language page would be very useful for them. The Hong Kong community also would like to see continued maintenance and updates for such a translation, so I would also very much appreciate it if a user is willing to do this.

Thank you, WhisperToMe (talk) 08:39, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

I can take time to translate stuff but I usually don't monitor translation update so it might take time to update. — regards, Revi 12:01, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
Thank you! The Korean version of the page is being unlocked for translation and you may get further messages. My understanding is the HK group will give notices on when updates are needed. WhisperToMe (talk) 01:36, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLVII, May 2019

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Ayfrom

Ayfrom (talk · contribs · count) is  Confirmed to Manda 1993 (talk · contribs · count). Please globally lock. Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:46, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

Done. — regards, Revi 06:10, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
Thanks a lot.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:00, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

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198 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Radia tapes controversy (talk) Cleanup
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1,445 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B Natural law (talk) Unencyclopaedic
24 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: Start Southern Cross Route (talk) Unencyclopaedic
361 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Big-box store (talk) Unencyclopaedic
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45 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C Telekom Albania (talk) Merge
62 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Start Oberthur Technologies (talk) Merge
97 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: B, Predicted class: B History of Eastern role-playing video games (talk) Wikify
41 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Start, Predicted class: C ESCO Group (talk) Wikify
4 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Stub Slovakian Airlines (talk) Wikify
8 Quality: Low, Assessed class: NA, Predicted class: Start Biocompatibles (talk) Orphan
6 Quality: Medium, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: C Guillaume Cailleau (talk) Orphan
3 Quality: Low, Assessed class: Stub, Predicted class: Start Laurence Danon (talk) Orphan
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Books & Bytes, Issue 33

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Books & Bytes
Issue 33, March – April 2019

  • #1Lib1Ref
  • Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
  • Global branches update
  • Bytes in brief

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Korean for the Hong Kong user group has been unlocked

Hi, revi! The Korean translation for the Hong Kong user group has been unlocked. When it's convenient, feel free to make a Korean version at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Hong_Kong

Thank you, WhisperToMe (talk) 11:46, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Duly noted! — regards, Revi 13:48, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019).

Administrator changes

removed Andonic • Consumed Crustacean • Enigmaman • Euryalus • EWS23 • HereToHelp • Nv8200pa • Peripitus • StringTheory11 • Vejvančický

CheckUser changes

removed Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
  • An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
  • An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.

Technical news

  • The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion. You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
  • Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution! The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.

Miscellaneous

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The Bugle: Issue CLVIII, June 2019

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019).

Administrator changes

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1Floquenbeam's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.
2Fram's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

Guideline and policy news

  • In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.

Technical news

  • The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.

Miscellaneous

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Zawl

Hi Revi, can you please globally lock KoopaLoopa (talk · contribs · count)? Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:58, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Gone. — regards, Revi 13:59, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
Thank you.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:08, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 July newsletter

The third round of the 2019 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round needed to score at least 68 points, which is substantially lower than last year's 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

  • Norfolk Island Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with 500 points derived mainly from a featured article and two GAs on natural history topics
  • South Carolina Adam Cuerden, with 480 points, a tally built on 16 featured pictures, the result of meticulous restoration work
  • Cascadia (independence movement) SounderBruce, a finalist in the last two years, with 306 points from a variety of submissions, mostly related to sport or the State of Washington
  • United States Usernameunique, with 305 points derived from a featured article and two GAs on archaeology and related topics

Contestants managed 4 (5) featured articles, 4 featured lists, 18 featured pictures, 29 good articles, 50 DYK entries, 9 ITN entries, and 39 good article reviews. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them, and it is imperative to claim them in the correct round; one FA claim had to be rejected because it was incorrectly submitted (claimed in Round 3 when it qualified for Round 2), so be warned! When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:12, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes Issue 34, May – June 2019

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Books & Bytes
Issue 34, May – June 2019

  • Partnerships
  • #1Lib1Ref
  • Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
  • Global branches update
  • Bytes in brief

French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
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The Bugle: Issue CLIX, July 2019

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Editing News #1—July 2019

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?

Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon to start editing.

Edit Cards

Toolbar with menu opened

This is what the new Edit Cards for editing links in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here: 📲 Try Edit Cards.

Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.

Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.

Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:

Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?

If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.

Follow these instructions and share your experience:

📲 Try Edit Cards.

Recent releases

The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team has recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:

  1. Section editing
    • The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
    • The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were 1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
  2. Loading overlay
    • The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.

Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.

New and active projects

This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.

  • Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now. Go here to see how: 📲Try Edit Cards.
  • Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
  • Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks: Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor? We are collaborating with 20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
  • Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use.  The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.

Looking ahead

  • Wikimania: Several members of the Editing Team will be attending Wikimania in August 2019. They will lead a session about mobile editing in the Community Growth space. Talk to them about how editing can be improved.
  • Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.

Learning more

The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Following a research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page.
  • The new page reviewer right is bundled with the admin tool set. Many admins regularly help out at Special:NewPagesFeed, but they may not be aware of improvements, changes, and new tools for the Curation system. Stay up to date by subscribing here to the NPP newsletter that appears every two months, and/or putting the reviewers' talk page on your watchlist.

    Since the introduction of temporary user rights, it is becoming more usual to accord the New Page Reviewer right on a probationary period of 3 to 6 months in the first instance. This avoids rights removal for inactivity at a later stage and enables a review of their work before according the right on a permanent basis.

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Bots Newsletter, August 2019

Bots Newsletter, August 2019

Greetings!

Here is the 7th issue of the Bots Newsletter, a lot happened since last year's newsletter! You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

ARBCOM
  • Nothing of note happened. Just like we like it.
BAG

BAG members are expected to be active on Wikipedia to have their finger on the pulse of the community. After two years without any bot-related activity (such as posting on bot-related pages, posting on a bot's talk page, or operating a bot), BAG members will be retired from BAG following a one-week notice. Retired members can re-apply for BAG membership as normal if they wish to rejoin the BAG.

We thank former members for their service and wish Madman a happy retirement. We note that Madman and BU Rob13 were not inactive and could resume their BAG positions if they so wished, should their retirements happens to be temporary.

BOTDICT

Two new entries feature in the bots dictionary

BOTPOL
  • Activity requirements: BAG members now have an activity requirement. The requirements are very light, one only needs to be involved in a bot-related area at some point within the last two years. For purpose of meeting these requirements, discussing a bot-related matter anywhere on Wikipedia counts, as does operating a bot (RFC).
  • Copyvio flag: Bot accounts may be additionally marked by a bureaucrat upon BAG request as being in the "copyviobot" user group on Wikipedia. This flag allows using the API to add metadata to edits for use in the New pages feed (discussion). There is currently 1 bot using this functionality.
  • Mass creation: The restriction on mass-creation (semi-automated or automated) was extended from articles, to all content-pages. There are subtleties, but content here broadly means whatever a reader could land on when browsing the mainspace in normal circumstances (e.g. Mainspace, Books, most Categories, Portals, ...). There is also a warning that WP:MEATBOT still applies in other areas (e.g. Redirects, Wikipedia namespace, Help, maintenance categories, ...) not explicitely covered by WP:MASSCREATION.
BOTREQs and BRFAs

As of writing, we have...

  • 20 active BOTREQs, please help if you can!
  • 14 open BRFAs and 1 BRFA in need of BAG attention (see live status).
  • In 2018, 96 bot task were approved. An AWB search shows approximately 29 were withdrawn/expired, and 6 were denied.
  • Since the start of 2019, 97 bot task were approved. Logs show 15 were withdrawn/expired, and 15 were denied.
  • 10 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion). 5 other bots have been deflagged per operator requests or similar (see discussion).
New things
Other discussions

These are some of the discussions that happened / are still happening since the last Bots Newsletter. Many are stale, but some are still active.

See also the latest discussions at the bot noticeboard.

Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 17:24, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CLX, August 2019

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On a holiday

{{Vacation}}

I'm on a trip to Wikimania 2019. Will be away for about 2 weeks. — regards, Revi 06:36, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2019 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 454 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with over 400 points being eliminated, and all but two of the finalists having achieved an FA during the round. Casliber, our 2016 winner, was the highest point-scorer, followed by Enwebb and Lee Vilenski, who are both new to the competition. In fourth place was SounderBruce, a finalist last year. But all those points are swept away as we start afresh for the final round.

Round 4 saw the achievement of 11 featured articles. In addition, Adam Cuerden scored with 18 FPs, Lee Vilenski led the GA score with 8 GAs while Kosack performed 15 GA reviews. There were around 40 DYKs, 40 GARs and 31 GAs overall during round 4. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.

As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).

If you are concerned that your nomination, whether it be for a good article, a featured process, or anything else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:44, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).

Administrator changes

added Bradv • Chetsford • Izno
readded Floquenbeam • Lectonar
removed DESiegel • Jake Wartenberg • Rjanag • Topbanana

CheckUser changes

removed Callanecc • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Oversight changes

removed Callanecc • Fox • HJ Mitchell • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Technical news

  • Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
  • The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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The Bugle: Issue CLXI, September 2019

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Books & Bytes – Issue 35, July – August 2019

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Books & Bytes
Issue 35, July – August 2019

  • Wikimania
  • We're building something great, but..
  • Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
  • A Wikibrarian's story
  • Bytes in brief

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

Technical news

  • As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.
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Help me

Hi I'm Sourav from Bangladesh.I need your help with the commons.Because of some of my mistakes.Blocking me from the commons I'm sorry with the humble reason I don't want to make the same mistakes I was blocked a second time.I request you to open the block with one last chance.You give me credit for this opportunity.Sincerely request you to open my block. Skh sourav halder 08:07, 4 October 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skh sourav halder (talk • contribs)

Thanks for your work in Wikipedia. 
Ericgyuminchoi (talk) 13:21, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Kang Woo Kyu

Hi revi, I'm not sure if you have seen BlueMoonset's request to finalise this nomination within a week. I have read the article again, and made some edits to make it easier for English readers (I hope), eg changing Pyeongan-do to Pyeongan Province, Joseon to Kingdom of Great Joseon, and adding links to articles about places where they exist (eg Tonghua County and Wonsan). Please let me know, or just change them, if you see problems with any of them.
I have also edited the para about his exile as I suggested in the DYK nomination discussion. I think it is clearer to English readers now, and I hope that it is also correct. If you are able to check in the National Library, and find through your research that anything is incorrect, please edit it again!

Would you like to suggest an ALT hook about his failed assassination attempt? There are enough sources for that section now that it would be fine to have a hook about it. (Another editor added some English language sources, and I just found and added one too.)

I don't think the article will need more editing before it's ready for DYK - the question about Khabarovsk, for example, is not urgent. It has a source, so I will AGF that it's correct. cheers, RebeccaGreen (talk) 08:36, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

Saw the pings on email but I'm currently on Wikipedia offline meetup. Will check tomorrow. — regards, Revi 08:39, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
For now I have no idea what should be the new ALT... only thing I could think of — for past few days — that could be interesting was the line He hid the grenade from Japanese police by wearing it between his legs like a diaper. — regards, Revi 03:44, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi revi, thanks for getting back to me! Yes, that method of smuggling the grenade in to the country could make an interesting hook. Even just that he tried to assassinate a Japanese governor of Korea, as that isn't widely known to English readers, I think. Cheers, RebeccaGreen (talk) 03:57, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
Proposed alt. — regards, Revi 09:25, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXII, October 2019

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Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages – October 2019

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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.

Help

What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!

Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team would value your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.

Talk Pages

The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.

The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.

Mobile visual editor

The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.

Edit Cards

What happens when you click on a link. The new Edit Card is bigger and has more options for editing links.

Toolbar

The editing toolbar is changing in the mobile visual editor. The old system had two different toolbars. Now, all the buttons are together. Tell the team what you think about the new toolbar.
  • In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
    • One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
    • New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
    • Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
  • Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.

Wikimania

The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.

Looking ahead

  • Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
  • Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
  • Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: The Editing team hopes to share results in November. This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:51, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2019 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year! Our Champion this year is Better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly Adam Cuerden (submissions), who over the course of the competition has amassed 91 featured pictures, including 32 in the final round. Our finalists this year were:

  1. Better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly Adam Cuerden (submissions) with 964 points
  2. England Lee Vilenski (submissions) with 899 points
  3. Norfolk Island Casliber (submissions) with 817 points
  4. Wales Kosack (submissions) with 691 points
  5. Washington (state) SounderBruce (submissions) with 388 points
  6. Antarctica Enwebb (submissions) with 146 points
  7. United States Usernameunique (submissions) with 145 points
  8. Indonesia HaEr48 (submissions) with 74 points

All those who reached the final will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field. Awards will be handed out in the coming weeks. Please be patient!

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have achieved much this year. Thanks to all who have taken part and helped out with the competition, not forgetting User:Jarry1250, who runs the scoring bot.

We have opened a scoring discussion on whether the rules and scoring need adjustment. Please have your say. Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2020 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth 14:18, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Guideline and policy news

  • A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

Arbitration

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The Bugle: Issue CLXIII, November 2019

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A survey to improve the community consultation outreach process

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Please fill out this short survey to help us improve our community consultation process for the future. It should only take about three minutes.

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Thank you for your participation, Kbrown (WMF) 10:44, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

@KBrown (WMF): Are you sure? :-o — regards, Revi 00:06, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
@Kbrown (WMF): ^ — regards, Revi 00:06, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
...Huh. Yeah, something clearly went wrong with the auto-generated list of non-participants on this one. Sorry about that! Feel free to not do the survey :) Kbrown (WMF) (talk) 11:56, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

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Books & Bytes – Issue 36

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Books & Bytes
Issue 36, September – October 2019

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Unblock me

You blocked me from editing for no reason. Why? Char1ene16 (talk) 21:55, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Because he's mean. TonyBallioni (talk) 03:46, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
— regards, Revi 03:52, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).

Administrator changes

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The Bugle: Issue CLXIV, December 2019

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Merry Christmas, revi!

Hello -revi: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, TheSandDoctor Talk 08:29, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

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From my family to yours, I hope that you have a wonderful Christmas holiday and a Happy New Year! --TheSandDoctor Talk 08:29, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
Hey hey, hope you had (or have — Christmas is over in my TZ) a wonderful holiday! — regards, Revi 19:09, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
When you wrote that was only 11:09am 25 December hehe. Thank you! I hope that you had a great Christmas, regardless of timezone. . --TheSandDoctor Talk 00:16, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 December 2019

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Welcome to the 2020 WikiCup!

Happy New Year, Happy New Decade and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders and improvers are welcome to take part. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. We are relaxing the rule that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2020 will count; now to be eligible for points in the competition, you must have completed significant work on the content at some time! Any questions on the rules or on anything else connected to the Cup should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:43, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

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The Bugle: Issue CLXV, January 2020

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The Signpost: 27 January 2020

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Books & Bytes – Issue 37

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Issue 37, November – December 2019

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