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Earth Day 2022 Edit-a-thon - April 22nd - 2PM EST
[edit]| You're invited! NYC Earth Day 2022 Edit-a-thon! April 22nd! | |
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 Sure We Can and the Environment of New York City Task Force invite you to join us for:
This Edit-a-Thon is part of a larger Earth Day celebration, hosted by Brooklyn based recycling and community center Sure We Can, that runs from 1PM-7PM and is open to the public! See this flyer for more information: https://www.instagram.com/p/CcGr4FyuqEa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link | |
-- Environment of New York City Task Force
How adverse is DYK...
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Proxy blocking
[edit]You blocked a proxy at Special:Contributions/148.252.159.73 after it was used for block evasion by banned User:Brettandelle. The same person used Special:Contributions/148.252.159.110 soon afterward, quite likely another proxy. Perhaps these come from a range of proxies that can be blocked, maybe as wide as the /16.
Cheers! Binksternet (talk) 20:14, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
No comment with respect to IP address(es) RoySmith (talk) 20:58, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2024
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).
- Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
- Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.
- Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068
- RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
- The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.
- An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
Tech News: 2024-45
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts. [1]
- Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled can now use the Collaboration List feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
- The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode. [2]
- View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.
Updates for technical contributors
- XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. [3]
In depth
- Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.
Meetings and events
- MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.
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The Signpost: 6 November 2024
[edit]- From the editors: Editing Wikipedia should not be a crime
- In the media: An old scrimmage, politics and purported libel
- Special report: Wikipedia editors face litigation, censorship
- Traffic report: Twisted tricks or tempting treats?
Happy First Edit Day!
[edit] | Happy First Edit Day! Hi RoySmith! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 03:48, 7 November 2024 (UTC) |  |
November 22 + 26: Free Culture Friday and Wikicurious photo event!
[edit]| November 22: Free Culture Friday | |
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 You are invited to Foundation and Friends' Free Culture Friday at Prime Produce on Friday, November 22. This event will feature a reception with Wikimedia Foundation staff in the afternoon, followed by a more informal salon and game night, utilizing Prime Produce's vast collection of board games. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!
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| November 26: Wikicurious: Capturing the Moment | |
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Looking for more wallpaper images of Tad's
[edit]Greetings and thank you for considering this! Here is the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tad%27s_Steaks I am looking to recreated the (in)famous Tad's Steak interior wallpaper as an anniversary gift for my wife. Might you have any more images of the wallpaper that I could use as a template?
Thank you, 2603:7000:E601:471E:153A:9817:C22A:3218 (talk) 17:28, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- Hi. Thanks for your interest in the article I wrote, but I'm afraid that image is the only one I was able to find. RoySmith (talk) 17:35, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks so much for your lightning-fast response! 2603:7000:E601:471E:153A:9817:C22A:3218 (talk) 19:09, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-46
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, users will notice that the FuzzyBot will now automatically create translated versions of categories used on translated pages. [4]
- View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the submitted task to use the SecurePoll extension for English Wikipedia's special administrator election was resolved on time. [5]
Updates for technical contributors
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1.44.0-wmf-2, the logic of Wikibase functiongetAllStatementschanged to behave likegetBestStatements. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable. [6]- Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The impacted endpoints include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket.
In depth
- Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page for more information about this work. [7]
Meetings and events
- 21 November 2024 (8:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC) - Community call with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.
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Query
[edit]Hello, Roy,
Well, I bit the bullet and submitted my statement for the ARBCOM election. Unfortunately though, I've had to redo all of my pages so I seem to be having trouble with the templates. Could you double-check my entry and fix anything I got wrong? If so, I'm very grateful. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 01:08, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Liz, I'm very glad to see your name on the list. In this area, I'm serving mostly as cheerleader and candidate wrangler, so I'm pinging some friendly arbcom clerks Amortias and Dreamy Jazz who certainly know more about the details of nomination formats than I do; hopefully one of them will be able to spot any problems. RoySmith (talk) 01:27, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks, I think I fixed the problems by looking at Arbitration election candidates in previous elections. Formatting the questions involved wiki code I have never used in 11 years here but it's kind of similar to HTML. We'll see how I fare. But thanks for issuing the call for help! Liz Read! Talk! 05:32, 14 November 2024 (UTC)
- Good to hear you resolved the issues. Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 10:53, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks, I think I fixed the problems by looking at Arbitration election candidates in previous elections. Formatting the questions involved wiki code I have never used in 11 years here but it's kind of similar to HTML. We'll see how I fare. But thanks for issuing the call for help! Liz Read! Talk! 05:32, 14 November 2024 (UTC)
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