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New Page Reviewer - RfC
[edit]Hi Waggers. You are invited to comment at a further discussion on the implementation of this user right to patrol and review new pages that is taking place at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/RfC on patrolling without user right. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 13:28, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
The Signpost: 4 November 2016
[edit]- News and notes: Arbitration Committee elections commence
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What's new?
A decision has been made about how the Recent Changes filtering scheme will affect current ORES beta feature users. When this new filtering system rolls out as part of the beta, it will replace the current ORES display on the Recent Changes page. That means the automatic color coding, the red “r” symbol and the “hide probably good edits” filter will go away, to be replaced by the new, more nuanced set of filters and user-defined color coding. All other pages that have ORES features, like Watchlist and Related Changes, will remain as they are now for ORES beta users. We think those pages could also benefit from the new filtering system. But we'll wait to see how users react to the beta test—and make any necessary changes—before we start spreading the new UI around. That's the plan as it currently stands. As always, please let us know if you have any thoughts, in any language.
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Recent changes
The Filters for Special:RecentChanges description page is now finished and ready for translation.
- On wikis that use ORES, new colors have been chosen for damaging changes displayed on a list of changes. [1]
Notifications [More information • Help pages]
Problems
- Sometimes, after marking an important number of cross-wiki notifications as read, the counter remained at 1. This is now fixed. [2]
Flow [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- Due to a bug, it was not possible to activate Flow on user talk pages as a Beta feature. This is possible again for wikis that have that feature. [3]
- Flow boards can be moved without constraints. However, this requires the move-Flow-board right. [4]
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[edit]- Year in review: Looking back on 2016
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Extended confirmed protection policy RfC
[edit]You are receiving this notification because you participated in a past RfC related to the use of extended confirmed protection levels. There is currently a discussion ongoing about two specific use cases of extended confirmed protection. You are invited to participate. ~ Rob13Talk (sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:31, 22 December 2016 (UTC))
Through my inattention, I've managed to respond to a long-closed peer review request, here [6]. In the event that you do take the article to FAC, you may still find the comments helpful. Regards. KJP1 (talk) 17:22, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
- Fabulous, thank you so much KJP1, some really useful comments in there. Thanks especially for the suggestions for rewording. I'm keen to move this article on to the next stage and have been struggling to get some feedback on it for some time, so I'm really grateful to you for taking the time to review it. WaggersTALK 08:15, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 17 January 2017
[edit]- From the editor: Next steps for the Signpost
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- Revert notifications were not received on Wikidata. This is now fixed. [7]
Flow [More information • Help pages]
- We plan to change Flow's URLs to make them more human readable. Your feedback is welcome.
- Communities which have allowed Flow trials with manual enabling (Hebrew Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Arabic Wikipedia) will be asked if they want to switch to Beta feature activation. [8]
- A small maintenance on Flow database will happen during week 4. No impact is expected. [9]
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Help
[edit]Hi Waggers. I wrote a wiki article "Haditha Al-Khraisha" and translated it into Arabic. I have cup and pasted the translation into the Arabic article حديثه الخريشا. I am unable to find the text I have pasted so I can then add the references. may I ask for your help please? Many thanks. LTHK76LTHK76 (talk) 16:05, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
- Hi LTHK76, did you create your new article on the Arabic version of Wikipedia? If you created it here on the English-language version, it has most likely been deleted. You can find the Arabic Wikipedia at https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/. WaggersTALK 11:54, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter - February 2017
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- A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
- Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
- Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.
- When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
- Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
- The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.
- The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.
- JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.
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Notifications [More information • Help pages]
- Mentions were not recognized when more than one section is added during the same edit or when an new section was added and a change (new message or deletion) was done in another section. This is now solved. [11]
Flow [More information • Help pages]
- Rich text mode is now the default in Flow replies. Some inconsistencies used to exist. Now the preference between visual mode and wikitext mode is updated when a content change is made in the selected editor, literally when it is typed in, not when it is saved or when the editor is switched. [12]
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2017
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- A recent RfC has redefined how articles on schools are evaluated at AfD. Specifically, secondary schools are not presumed to be notable simply because they exist.
- AfDs that receive little participation should now be closed like an expired proposed deletion, following a deletion process RfC.
- Defender, HakanIST, Matiia and Sjoerddebruin are our newest stewards, following the 2017 steward elections.
- The 2017 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Góngora, Krd, Lankiveil, Richwales and Vogone. They will serve for approximately 1 year.
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The Collaboration team is delighted to publish its first newsletter! Your feedback is welcome.
This quarter the team will focus on improving Special:RecentChanges and create a ReviewStream, a new feed designed to improve the edit-review process. Both are part of the new Edit Review Improvements project.
Notifications [ More information · Help pages ]
Recent changes
For developers, how to create a new Notification type has been updated. [14]
- Tools owners will be notified when OAuth app changes state. [15]
- When you edit text and mention a new username they are notified if you add your signature. Before this only happened under certain conditions. [16]
- Users are notified if they are mentioned in a section where you add your own signature even if you edit more than one section. Before, users were not notified if you edited more than one section in one edit. [17]
- Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. Now you can get a notification when you successfully send out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This is an opt-in option in your preferences. [18][19]
- On Notifications, the badge is colored if you have some notifications. If you see these notifications, the badge will turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one. [20]
Problems
- For some users, cross-wiki notifications haven't been working properly. The count has been wrong when only cross-wiki notifications were present. The cross-wiki bundle has been showing only the names of wikis and not the actual notifications. It has been fixed. [21][22]
- When a title was created with some wikitext inside of it, Notifications were not linking that title when they were mentioned. This is now fixed. [23]
{{GENDER:}}. This is now fixed. [24]
Future changes
- On Special:Notifications, pages and counts related to disabled notification types will not be shown anymore. [25]
Flow [ More information · Help pages ]
Recent changes
- Flow is available as a Beta feature on Greek Wikipedia. [26]
- A satisfaction survey was conducted concerning Flow in September 2016. Results will be published in December 2016. [27]
- Wikitext interface for Flow is now using a monospaced font. [28]
- It is now possible to moderate a Flow topic that have been resolved without re-opening it. [29]
- It is now possible to watch and unwatch topics directly from the Notification panel. [30]
Problems
- It is not possible to enable or disable Flow as a Beta feature on wikis where that option is available. This is under investigation. [31]
{{GENDER:}}. This is now fixed. [32]
Future changes
- Communities that have Flow enabled manually on user talk pages will be asked to move on to a Beta feature activation to simplify the process. [33]
- Notifications related to Flow will be grouped on your Notifications preferences. It will be easier to choose which Notifications you want to have from Flow. [34]
Edit Review Improvements [ More information ]
Recent changes
Future changes
- Some improvements will be done to Special:RecentChanges, by adding new filters based on ORES.
- Some tests are done with users to refine the design of those filters. You can volunteer for such tests. [36]
- Communities that already have ORES
goodfaithanddamagingfilters enabled will be contacted to try that change as a Beta feature. [37]
Miscellaneous
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We have focused all our efforts on the New filters for edit review. You will discover these filters on your wiki soon (see below).
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Recent changes
Future changes
- We will release the ⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽ beta option on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias March 28. This beta option adds powerful filtering and other tools as well as an improved filtering interface to the Recent Changes page (and Recent Changes Linked). To try out these new tools on these two wikis, go to the Beta tab of the Preferences page (after the 28th) and select ⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽.
- In the weeks following the initial release to Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias, the New Filters for Edit Review beta will go out to the following list of Wikipedias in waves (schedule to be done):
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Recent changes
<math><hiero><score><syntax><source><ref>shortcuts are now working on Flow visual editing mode. Type a shortcut in the visual editing mode will open the control panel for the chosen option. [41]- Concerning
<ref>, footnotes will be automatically included at the end of the message, unless if they are displayed elsewhere in the message by the appropriate template.
- Concerning
- Flow has been removed from Metawiki. [42]
Future changes
- The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It will be a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view. [43]
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Ian D Demspey
[edit]Hi, Ian has been trying to have Michael changed for years. This was discussed on his radio show this morning. He said his middle name begins with D and is not Michael. He is aware of the new edit and is happy with it. Please see his twitter account for verification under Tweets and Replies regarding the change to D. Joy.R.G. (talk) 13:27, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
TO WAGGER
[edit]HELLO WAGGER THOSE EDITS ARE CONSTRUCTIVE TRY TO SOLVE 10 EXAMPLES RELATED TO ITY THANKS — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.199.23.167 (talk) 14:37, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2017
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2017).
- Following a discussion on the backlog of unpatrolled files, consensus was found to create a new user right for autopatrolling file uploads. Implementation progress can be tracked on Phabricator.
- The BLPPROD grandfather clause, which stated that unreferenced biographies of living persons were only eligible for proposed deletion if they were created after March 18, 2010, has been removed following an RfC.
- An RfC has closed with consensus to allow proposed deletion of files. The implementation process is ongoing.
- After an unsuccessful proposal to automatically grant IP block exemption, consensus was found to relax the criteria for granting the user right from needing it to wanting it.
- After a recent RfC, moved pages will soon be featured in a queue similar to Special:NewPagesFeed and require patrolling. Moves by administrators, page movers, and autopatrolled editors will be automatically marked as patrolled.
- Cookie blocks have been deployed. This extends the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user if they switch accounts, even under a new IP.
Sinah, Hayling Island
[edit]Just to let you know I went WP:BOLD and move'd the Ferrypoint, Hampshire stub to this. Very convinced right thing to do ... but I may have caused a couple of ripples. When I realised Ferrypoint, England pointed there and wikidata got its fingers into it and propagate to Poland. Hope to get a couple of citations in in a couple of days. Was really about to a Hayling Ferry (currently in draft) article but had a desire to write a little about the Ferryboat Inn which really is becoming more in scope of the Ferrypoint article ... but realised that article would never stand long term alone and 'Sinah' (which was missing) is the underlying settlement article. Apologies if going about it wrong way.
Djm-leighpark (talk) 08:01, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
Hello,
Page you deleted a few minutes ago has been re-created. Regards, Eagleash (talk) 11:58, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
Bill Turnbull and Louise Minchin
[edit]I didn't realise that they were real people with articles. I just thought that they were a couple who had decided to edit with one account. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 22:02, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
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Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
What's new?
The fourth fiscal quarter began the first of this month, and Collaboration Team has begun work on our new quarterly goals. In the coming months, we'll be working to release the New Filters for Edit Review beta on all wikis and then to improve the beta as much as possible based on user feedback. On that score, we're planning a round of user interviews on the new tools in May to get detailed information about usability and usefulness. If you've tried the new features and have thoughts, please share them with us in any language.
Our other focus right now is to look at what changes will be needed to spread the new filtering interface to other review pages, especially Watchlist. We're also exploring how to incorporate the tools we didn't include in the new interface in this round, like the Tag Filters, time-frame selector and Namespace filter.
Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- New Filters for Edit review are now available on Polish, Portuguese, Persian, Russian and Turkish Wikipedias as a Beta feature. French Wikipedia and Mediawikiwiki have the filters as a Beta feature too, but without the quality and intent filters. [44]
- Special:RecentChangesLinked now displays a message when no results are found for a given combination of filters. [45]
Problems
- Polish Wikipedia is experiencing an issue with predictions (quality and intent filters using ORES). The different predictions are in conflict. An edit can be considered as "good" and "bad" at the same time, and the filter levels are somewhat redundant. We have formulated a plan to address this and are working on a fix, which is deployed progressively on Polish Wikipedia. [46]
- The issue on Polish Wikipedia is shared by a few other wikis: Dutch, Czech and Hebrew, and Wikidata. The deployment for those wikis has been postponed to Tuesday, May 9. Wikis without this predictions problem have been deployed or will be deployed with no change on the schedule. [47]
- Interestingly, the "problem" with those wikis is that they perform better than we anticipated. Once the fix is in place, the tools will work with particular simplicity on these wikis.
Future changes
- English Wikipedia and all wikis without ORES prediction services will get the New Filters for Edit review on Monday, April 24. [48]
- All remaining wikis will get the New Filters for Edit review on Tuesday, May 9. [49]
- Wikidata edits will be added as a type of change on New Filters for Edit review. [50]
Notifications [More information • Help pages]
- Notifications badges were overlapping other tabs on Internet Explorer 11 and Firefox 3.6, using MonoBook skin. This is now fixed. [51]
Flow [More information • Help pages]
- Flow is now available as a Beta feature on French Wikiversity. [52]
- All Flow documentation is now available on one page gathering all information, to help users to search for an information.
- Flow's AbuseFilter integration now allows blocking a particular user from participating on a talk page, or any topic within it. [53]
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2017
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2017).
- An RfC has clarified that user categories should be emptied upon deletion, but redlinked user categories should not be removed if re-added by the user.
- Discussions are ongoing regarding proposed changes to the COI policy. Changes so far have included clarification that adding a link on a Wikipedia forum to a job posting is not a violation of the harassment policy.
- You can now see a list of all autoblocks at Special:AutoblockList.
- There is a new tool for adding archives to dead links. Administrators are able to restrict other user's ability to use the tool, and have additional permissions when changing URL and domain data.
- Administrators, bureaucrats and stewards can now set an expiry date when granting user rights. (discuss, permalink)
- Following an RfC, the editing restrictions page is now split into a list of active restrictions and an archive of those that are old or on inactive accounts. Make sure to check both pages if searching for a restriction.