Обсуждение пользователя:Джон Бротон

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Технические новости: 2019-02

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18:15, 28 января 2019 (UTC)

Технические новости: 2019-06

17:12, 4 февраля 2019 (UTC)

Технические новости: 2019-07

18:45, 11 февраля 2019 (UTC)

Обновления команды роста №5

Добро пожаловать в пятый информационный бюллетень для новой команды Growth!  

Целью команды по развитию является работа над изменениями в программном обеспечении, которые помогут удержать новых участников в средних по размеру проектах Wikimedia.

Новые проекты для обсуждения

Мы начали проект «Персонализированный первый день» с приветственного опроса, чтобы собрать информацию о том, чего пытаются достичь новички. Следующий шаг — использовать эту информацию для создания опыта, который поможет новичкам достичь своей цели — фактически персонализировать свой первый день. Мы попросили сообщество высказать свои мысли в предыдущей рассылке, и после обсуждения с членами сообщества и нашей командой мы теперь планируем два проекта в качестве следующих шагов: «электронные письма для вовлечения» и «домашняя страница новичка».

  • Письма с вопросами о вовлеченности: этот проект впервые был положительно обсужден членами сообщества здесь еще в сентябре 2018 года, и у команды есть пропускная способность, чтобы заняться им. Идея заключается в том, что новички, которые покидают вики, не поощряются возвращаться в вики и редактировать. Мы можем вовлекать их с помощью писем, которые отправляют им конкретную информацию, необходимую для успеха, например, контакт с наставником, влияние их правок или рекомендации по задачам. Пожалуйста, прочитайте страницу проекта и прокомментируйте на странице обсуждения любые идеи, вопросы или опасения. Как вы думаете, это хорошая идея? Где мы можем ошибиться?
  • Домашняя страница новичка: мы разработали идею этого проекта после анализа данных из приветственного опроса и наборов данных EditorJourney. Мы увидели, что многие новички, похоже, ищут место для начала работы — место, где будут собраны их прошлые работы, варианты будущей работы и способы узнать больше. Мы можем создать это место, и оно может быть связано с электронными письмами о вовлечении. Содержание обоих может быть основано на том, что новички говорят о своих потребностях во время приветственного опроса, и содержать такие вещи, как контакт с наставником, влияние их правок или рекомендации по задачам. Пожалуйста, прочитайте страницу проекта и прокомментируйте ее страницу обсуждения с любыми идеями, вопросами или проблемами. Как вы думаете, это хорошая идея? Где мы можем ошибиться?

Первые отчеты об активности новичков

Мы опубликовали первоначальные отчеты по каждому из первых двух проектов команды. Эти отчеты содержат основные цифры по каждому проекту, и есть еще много вопросов, на которые мы продолжим отвечать в будущих отчетах. Мы взволнованы этими первоначальными результатами. Они уже помогли нам определить и спроектировать части наших будущих проектов.

  • Приветственный опрос : первоначальный отчет об ответах на приветственный опрос доступен здесь. Некоторые из основных выводов:
    • Большинство пользователей принимают участие в опросе, что обеспечивает высокий уровень ответов: 67% и 62% в чешской и корейской Википедиях соответственно.
    • Опрос не снижает вероятность редактирования новичками.
    • Наиболее распространенной причиной создания учетной записи в корейской Википедии является чтение статей, а не редактирование, — так ответили 29% корейских пользователей.
    • Большое количество респондентов заявили, что они заинтересованы в том, чтобы с ними связались для получения помощи в редактировании: 36% на чешском языке и 53% на корейском языке.
  • Понимание первого дня : первоначальный отчет о том, что делают новички в свой первый день, доступен здесь. Некоторые из основных выводов:
    • Большое количество пользователей просматривают страницы справки или политики в первый день: 42% на чешском языке и 28% на корейском языке.
    • Большое количество пользователей просматривают свою собственную страницу пользователя или страницу обсуждения пользователя в первый день: 34% на чешском языке и 39% на корейском языке.
    • Большинство новых пользователей открывают редактор в свой первый день, но около четверти из них не сохраняют правки в течение этого времени.

Развертывание панели помощи

Панель помощи была развернута в чешской и корейской Википедиях 10 января. За последние четыре недели:

  • Около 400 новичков в каждой вики увидели кнопку панели помощи.
  • Около 20% из них открывают панель справки.
  • Около 50% тех, кто его открывает, нажимают на одну из ссылок.
  • Около 5% чешских пользователей задают вопросы, и около 1% корейских пользователей задают вопросы.

Мы считаем, что 20% открытий и 50% кликов — это сильные цифры, показывающие, что многие люди ищут помощь, и многие хотят помочь себе, просматривая страницы помощи. Несколько меньшее количество задаваемых вопросов (особенно в корейской Википедии) заставило нас рассмотреть новые функции, которые позволят людям помогать себе самим. Далее мы собираемся добавить строку поиска на панель помощи, что позволит пользователям вводить поиск, который ищет только страницы в пространствах имен Help и Wikipedia.

Как создать хорошую страницу отзывов?

Как создать хорошую страницу помощи? Что мешает вам при написании страницы помощи? Ваши ответы помогут создать лучший контент помощи для новичков, который будет использоваться на панели помощи.

Информационный бюллетень команды Growth, подготовленный командой Growth и опубликованный ботом в 14:15, 13 февраля 2019 г. (UTC) • Оставьте отзыв • Подпишитесь или отпишитесь.

Сегодняшний Википедист 10 лет назад

Потрясающий
Десять лет!

-- Герда Арендт ( обсуждение ) 07:56, 18 февраля 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Технические новости: 2019-08

23:13, 18 февраля 2019 (UTC)

Поговорите с нами о разговоре

Trizek (WMF) 15:08, 21 февраля 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

В связи с этим я упоминал вашу книгу на mw:Talk pages consultation 2019/Discussion tools в прошлом. Пожалуйста, будьте смелыми и исправьте любые ошибки и упущения, которые вы видите, или зайдите на страницу обсуждения и расскажите истории о том, какой была Википедия в свое время. ;-) Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk ) 17:40, 22 февраля 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Технические новости: 2019-09

21:16, 25 февраля 2019 (UTC)

Книги и байты, выпуск 32

Библиотека Википедии

Books & Bytes
Выпуск 32, Январь – Февраль 2019

  • #1Lib1Ref
  • Новые и расширенные партнеры
  • Обновление группы пользователей Wikimedia и библиотек
  • Обновление глобальных филиалов
  • Кратко о байтах

Французская версия Books & Bytes теперь доступна на meta!

Прочитать полную версию бюллетеня

Отправлено службой доставки сообщений MediaWiki от имени команды библиотеки Википедии -- Служба доставки сообщений MediaWiki ( обсуждение ) 03:29, 26 февраля 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Указательный столб: 28 февраля 2019 г.

Технические новости: 2019-10

16:38, 4 марта 2019 (UTC)

Технические новости: 2019-11

19:29, 11 марта 2019 (UTC)

Информационный бюллетень NPR №17

Привет, Джон Бротон,

Новости
  • WMF объявила, что Google Translate теперь доступен для перевода статей через инструмент перевода контента . Это может привести к увеличению количества статей с машинным переводом в ленте новых страниц. Не стесняйтесь использовать тег {{ rough translation }} и вежливо напоминать (или информировать) редакторов, что переводы с других языковых страниц Википедии по-прежнему требуют указания авторства согласно WP:TFOLWP .
Обсуждения по интересам
  • Два элемента CSD G6 были разделены на собственные критерии: R4 для перенаправлений в пространстве имен «Файл:» с тем же именем, что и у файла или перенаправления на Wikimedia Commons ( Обсуждение ), и G14 для страниц устранения неоднозначности, которые устраняют неоднозначность нулевого количества страниц или содержат «(disambiguation)» в заголовке, но устраняют неоднозначность одной страницы ( Обсуждение ).
  • {{ db-blankdraft }} был объединен с G13 ( Обсуждение )
  • Недавно завершилась дискуссия , в ходе которой не удалось прийти к единому мнению относительно целесообразности создания руководства по значимости театральных постановок, ориентированного на определенную тематику .
  • Продолжается обсуждение предложения о создании тематических руководств по значимости таксонов химических веществ и организмов .
Напоминания
  • NPR не является бинарным процессом сохранения / удаления . Во многих случаях перенаправление может быть уместным. Политика удаления и связанное с ней руководство четко подчеркивают, что не все неподходящие статьи должны быть удалены. Перенаправления не являются спорными. Смотрите классический пример шаблонов для использования. Дополнительные шаблоны перечислены в индексе шаблонов R. Рецензенты, которые не знают, пожалуйста, примите это во внимание перед PROD, CSD и особенно AfD, потому что даже не все администраторы знают о таких политиках, и многие NAC не имеют о них полного представления.
Отчет по инструментам NPP
  • Суперссылки — позволяют вам проверять историю статьи, журналы, страницу обсуждения, блок-схему NPP (на неконтролируемых страницах) и многое другое, не покидая саму статью.
  • copyvio-check – автоматически проверяет процент copyvio новых страниц в фоновом режиме и отображает эту информацию со ссылкой на отчет на панели «Информация» панели инструментов курирования страниц.
  • Блок -схема АЭС теперь имеет кликабельные гиперссылки.

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-- Доставка сообщений MediaWiki ( обсуждение ) 23:18, 15 марта 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Обновления команды роста #6

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Технические новости: 2019-12

19:43, 18 марта 2019 (UTC)

Технические новости: 2019-13

18:04, 25 марта 2019 (UTC)

Судебная служба

По моему опыту, нормой является ссылка на «судебную службу»; у нас есть буквально тысячи статей с заголовками, посвященными судебной службе или конкретно государственной судебной службе и федеральной судебной службе. bd2412 T 01:58, 26 марта 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

@ BD2412 : Я положусь на вашу экспертность, хотя я рад видеть, что вы не считаете нужным повторять слово «служба» в заголовках подразделов. (Мое большее недовольство вызывают предложения, которые гласят, например, «Она служила в должности заместителя такого-то с [дата] ...», когда можно было бы просто сказать «Она была заместителем такого-то с [дата] ...»). -- Джон Бротон (♫♫) 02:42, 26 марта 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]
Меня это устраивает. Спасибо. bd2412 T 02:46, 26 марта 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Указательный столб: 31 марта 2019 г.

Технические новости: 2019-14

16:29, 1 апреля 2019 (UTC)

Технические новости: 2019-15

18:24, 8 апреля 2019 (UTC)

Технические новости: 2019-16

23:00, 15 апреля 2019 (UTC)

Технические новости: 2019-17

19:08, 23 апреля 2019 (UTC)

Обновления команды роста #7

16:18, 29 апреля 2019 (UTC)

Технические новости: 2019-18

22:27, 29 апреля 2019 (UTC)

Джей Шетти

Только что отправил новый черновик Jay Shetty на рассмотрение. Спасибо за сообщение, и я надеюсь, что вы взглянете. Спасибо.

Добавлен новый источник в черновик Джея Шетти - надеюсь, вы посмотрите. Спасибо!-- Marysairplane ( обсуждение ) 02:59, 15 июля 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Я отменил недавнее изменение этой страницы из-за отсутствия источника. Я сделал это правильно? -- Marysairplane ( обсуждение ) 00:05, 24 июля 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Marysairplane - да. Это была не особенно плохая правка, но она не была полезной, так что удалить ее было хорошей идеей.
Если бы это был зарегистрированный редактор, а не IP-адрес (анонимный пользователь), делающий редактирование, я бы проверил, разместили ли вы комментарий на странице обсуждения пользователя, дав пользователю знать, почему вы сделали откат. Но обычно не стоит делать этого для редактора IP, поскольку вероятность того, что пользователь впоследствии увидит ваш комментарий (не говоря уже о том, чтобы серьезно его рассмотреть), очень мала. -- Джон Бротон (♫♫) 03:49, 24 июля 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Спасибо за указания. Просто проверяю — другой анонимный пользователь оставил правку с тегом «заметный?» вверху страницы, и я не уверен, что делать дальше. Нужен совет. -- Marysairplane ( обсуждение ) 01:59, 26 июля 2019 (UTC) [ ответ ]

Marysairplane - Я отменил правки, связанные с шаблоном/тегом. Шаблон был размещен анонимным редактором IP, и на странице обсуждения статьи не было объяснений, почему он/она посчитал(а), что тема не заслуживает внимания. Учитывая источник правки (редактор IP без истории других правок), отсутствие подробностей как в сводке правок, так и на странице обсуждения, а также количество источников, фактически цитируемых в статье, размещение шаблона не заслуживает доверия. Поэтому я удалил его с приглашением в сводке правок обсудить этот вопрос подробнее на странице обсуждения статьи. -- Джон Бротон (♫♫) 02:41, 26 июля 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Джон — эта страница была несколько раз осквернена анонимными пользователями за последние 24 часа. Как вы думаете, это заслуживает защиты? — Marysairplane ( обсуждение ) 09:54, 21 августа 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Marysairplane -- Я не думаю, что количество или тип вандализма достигли уровня, когда полузащита (не давая анонимным редакторам редактировать) оправдана, хотя это субъективно. Политика находится на WP:PREEMPTIVE , если вы еще не смотрели.
Самый настойчивый из редакторов был заблокирован (на 31 час), и я добавил сообщение на его страницу обсуждения, чтобы попытаться объяснить политику Википедии: они пытаются добавлять контент, а не портить его как таковой , хотя неподтвержденный негативный контент по-прежнему неприемлем.
Но если вы хотите попросить полузащиту , я, конечно, не буду возражать. Или вы можете подождать день или два и посмотреть, сохранится ли проблема. -- Джон Бротон (♫♫) 22:58, 21 августа 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Спасибо за совет. Проблема сохранялась в течение нескольких дней, поэтому я пошел дальше и запросил полузащиту. — Marysairplane ( обсуждение ) 23:17, 26 августа 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Эта страница снова подвергается вандализму, и мне нужна помощь. Вчера я отменил некоторые правки из-за отсутствия независимых и надежных источников, и пользователь заменил их. Один из них — самостоятельно опубликованный источник . Я бы хотел получить вторую пару глаз на это, если вы можете взглянуть. Может быть, нам стоит снова рассмотреть возможность запроса защиты. — Marysairplane ( обсуждение ) 00:32, 18 октября 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Marysairplane -- Я внес некоторые изменения в статью и разместил их на Talk:Jay Shetty . Этот разговор следует продолжить на этой странице, если вы считаете, что информация, которая сейчас есть в статье Википедии, неприемлема. -- Джон Бротон (♫♫) 02:18, 18 октября 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Технические новости: 2019-19

16:27, 6 мая 2019 (UTC)

Технические новости: 2019-20

00:48, 14 мая 2019 (UTC)

Приглашаем подать заявку на участие в разделе «Развитие сообщества» на Wikimania 2019

Добро пожаловать на специальный информационный бюллетень от команды Growth! Этот специальный информационный бюллетень не о проектах команды Wikimedia Foundation Growth. Вместо этого, это призыв подавать заявки для пространства Community Growth на Wikimania 2019. Мы думаем, что многие люди, которые получат этот информационный бюллетень, могут внести что-то ценное в это пространство на Wikimania. Мы не переводили информационный бюллетень, потому что языком Wikimania является английский.

Ниже приведено сообщение от организаторов пространства Community Growth на Wikimania.

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Wikimania 2019 организована в 19 «пространств», которые принимают заявки на сессии. Это сообщение исходит от команды, организующей пространство Community Growth.

Поскольку вы заинтересованы в проектах команды роста и потенциально вовлечены в приветствие инициатив новичков на вашей вики, мы хотели бы пригласить вас подать предложение в область роста сообщества из-за действий, которые вы предприняли в отношении новичков на вики. Крайний срок подачи заявок — 1 июня . Ниже приведены темы и форматы сессий для подачи заявок на рост сообщества. Темы и сессии должны быть на английском языке.

В пространстве «Развитие сообщества» мы соберемся вместе для дискуссий, презентаций и семинаров, посвященных следующим вопросам:

  • Что способствует привлечению и удержанию новичков, а что нет?
  • Как должна развиваться деятельность Викимедиа, чтобы помогать сообществам расти и процветать?
  • Как должны развиваться наши технологии и культура, чтобы помочь новым группам населения выйти в Интернет, участвовать и стать членами сообщества?

Рекомендуемые темы: пожалуйста, посмотрите эту ссылку для списка рекомендуемых тем. Если вы не планируете подавать предложение, вы также можете предложить дополнительные темы здесь. Если ваша тема не вписывается в наше пространство, помните, что есть 18 других пространств, которые могли бы приветствовать вас, чтобы поделиться своими знаниями и точками зрения.

Типы сессий. Мы предпочитаем сессии, которые предполагают участие, интерактивны, способствуют диалогу и дают голос тем частям нашего движения, которые слышны реже. Пожалуйста, перейдите по этой ссылке, чтобы ознакомиться со списком рекомендуемых форматов сессий.

Постеры. Постеры также являются хорошим способом представить тему или показать некоторые результаты действия. Пожалуйста, рассмотрите возможность отправки одного!

Более подробную информацию о пространстве Community Growth, темах и форматах подачи заявок можно найти на странице предложений.

Пожалуйста, отправьте свое предложение. Обзоры пройдут в начале июня.

Если у вас есть вопросы о Викимании в целом, задайте их на вики-сайте Викимании.

От имени руководящей группы Community Growth, Trizek (WMF) , 11:44, 16 мая 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

TheWikiWizard - май 2019 г.

Привет, Джон Бротон! Вот выпуск TheWikiWizard за май 2019 года .

Надеюсь, вам понравился выпуск этого месяца! Если вы хотите обсудить этот выпуск, перейдите на страницу обсуждения этого выпуска . Приятного чтения! --Thegooduser Жизнь начинается с улыбки :) 🍁 23:51, 16 мая 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Информационный бюллетень NPR №18

Привет, Джон Бротон,

WMF работает над усовершенствованием АЭС

Нихарика Кохли , менеджер по продукту в команде роста, объявила , что ведется работа по внедрению улучшений в New Page Patrol в рамках списка пожеланий сообщества 2019 года, и предлагает всем заинтересованным посмотреть страницу проекта на meta. Два запрошенных улучшения уже выполнены. Это:

  • Разрешить фильтрацию по отсутствию ссылок при курировании страниц
  • CSD и PROD не будут автоматически помечаться как проверенные, что отражает текущий консенсус среди рецензентов и текущую функциональность Twinkle.
Надежные источники для АЭС

Rosguill составляет список надежных источников по странам и отраслям, которые могут использоваться новыми патрульными страницами, чтобы помочь оценить, является ли тема статьи значимой или нет. На этом этапе необходимо дальнейшее обсуждение того, следует ли использовать этот список и как. Пожалуйста, рассмотрите возможность присоединиться к обсуждению того, как следует разрабатывать и использовать этот потенциально ценный ресурс.

Скоро начнется сбор отставания

Информацию о предстоящем бэклог-драйве смотрите в нашем следующем информационном бюллетене. Если вы хотите помочь спланировать этот драйв, присоединяйтесь к обсуждению на странице обсуждения New Page Patrol .

Новости
Обсуждения по интересам

Данные очереди за шесть месяцев: сегодня – 7242, минимум – 2393, максимум – 7250


Будьте в курсе еще большего количества новостей — подпишитесь на The Signpost .
Перейдите сюда, чтобы удалить свое имя, если вы хотите отказаться от будущих рассылок.
Доставлено MediaWiki message delivery ( talk ) от имени DannyS712 ( talk ) в 19:17, 17 мая 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Технические новости: 2019-21

13:03, 20 мая 2019 (UTC)

Книги и байты, выпуск 33

Библиотека Википедии

Books & Bytes
Выпуск 33, март – апрель 2019 г.

  • #1Lib1Ref
  • Обновление группы пользователей Wikimedia и библиотек
  • Обновление глобальных филиалов
  • Кратко о байтах

Прочитать полную версию бюллетеня

Отправлено службой доставки сообщений MediaWiki от имени команды библиотеки Википедии -- Служба доставки сообщений MediaWiki ( обсуждение ) 06:41, 21 мая 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Технические новости: 2019-22

15:33, 27 мая 2019 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard - Обновление

Дорогой читатель,

Спасибо за подписку на TheWikiWizard. Это специальное сообщение, сообщающее вам, что выпуски TheWikiWizard за июнь/июль/август могут быть задержаны из-за отсутствия User:Thegooduser. Thegooduser и другие редакторы TWW сделают все возможное, чтобы доставить вам эти выпуски. Спасибо за чтение TWW, и мы надеемся увидеть вас снова в сентябре 2019 года. Спасибо за ваше терпение и понимание, и наслаждайтесь летом! :-) Приносим извинения за любые неудобства, которые это могло вызвать. Приятного редактирования!

Доставлено службой доставки сообщений MediaWiki ( обсуждение ) в 00:04, 31 мая 2019 (UTC) от имени DannyS712 ( обсуждение ) [ ответить ]

Указательный столб: 31 мая 2019 г.

Информационный бюллетень Scripts++ – выпуск 6

Технические новости: 2019-23

15:24, 3 июня 2019 (UTC)

Технические новости: 2019-24

17:06, 10 июня 2019 (UTC)

Обновления команды роста #8

09:02, 13 июня 2019 (UTC)

Технические новости: 2019-25

20:37, 17 июня 2019 (UTC)

Технические новости: 2019-26

17:29, 24 июня 2019 (UTC)

Рассылка New Page Review за июль-август 2019 г.

Привет, Джон Бротон,

WMF работает над усовершенствованием АЭС

В ленту добавляются новые функции, включая важное красное оповещение для ранее удаленных страниц. Это будет работать только в том случае, если оно выбрано в ваших фильтрах. Лучше всего выбрать «выбрать все». Уделите немного времени, чтобы ознакомиться со всеми новыми функциями, если вы еще этого не сделали. Если что-то работает не так, как должно, сообщите нам об этом в NPR . Теперь в ленте новых страниц также есть живая очередь представлений AfC . Не стесняйтесь просматривать AfC, но помните, что NPP — это официальный процесс и политика, и это важнее.

КАЧЕСТВО РЕЦЕНЗИРОВАНИЯ

Статьи все еще не всегда проверяются достаточно тщательно. Если вы не уверены, что делать, оставьте статью более опытному рецензенту. Пожалуйста, будьте бдительны в отношении любых несоответствий в патрулировании и помогайте своим коллегам, где это возможно; сообщайте о патрулирующих и создателях автоматически патрулируемых статей, которые якобы являются незаявленными оплачиваемыми редакторами. Отображаемые оповещения ORES предлагают более «краткий» обзор, но новые проблемы с обнаружением нежелательного нового контента и некачественного рецензирования не обязательно облегчают патрулирование, тем не менее, работа может иметь фактор возобновленного интереса другого рода. Активное сообщество рецензентов всегда готово помочь в NPR .

Отставание

Отставание все еще слишком велико и составляет от 7000 до 8000. Из примерно 700 владельцев прав пользователей 80% рецензирования выполняется всего ДВУМЯ пользователями. В свете все более скрытой рекламы и необъявленного платного редактирования, рецензирование новых страниц становится более важным, чем когда-либо.

Перейти к черновику

NPR — это сортировка , а не клиника очистки. Эта функция перемещения не ограничивается биографиями, поэтому вам, возможно, придется немного перередактировать текст в шаблоне, прежде чем вы сохраните перемещение. Все, что не подходит для mainspace, но что может быть многообещающим, может быть черновиком — особенно очень плохой английский и машинный перевод, а также другие переводы низкого качества.

Уведомление пользователей

Не забудьте использовать функцию сообщения, если вы просто помечаете статью для обслуживания, а не для удаления. В противном случае статьи, скорее всего, останутся с постоянным тегом. Многие создатели являются SPA и не собираются возвращаться в Википедию. Используйте эту функцию также, чтобы оставить дружескую заметку автору первой статьи, которую вы сочли хорошо сделанной или интересной. Многие говорили нам, что находят такие комментарии особенно приятными и вдохновляющими.

ПЕРМЬ

Администраторы теперь пользуются новой функцией ограниченных по времени прав пользователя. Если вам недавно предоставили NPR, проверьте свои права пользователя, чтобы узнать, касается ли это вас. В зависимости от настроек вашей учетной записи вы можете получать автоматические уведомления об изменении своих прав. Запросы на разрешения не являются мини-RfA. Полезные комментарии приветствуются, если это абсолютно необходимо , но бот делает большую часть работы, и окончательное решение остается за администраторами, которые в любом случае проводят тщательное исследование.

Другие новости

Скоро в разных уголках западного мира начнутся школьные и академические каникулы. Будьте начеку из-за обычного увеличения количества страниц с мистификациями, атаками и прочим мусором.

В следующем выпуске нашего информационного бюллетеня, возможно, будут объявлены подробности возможных выборов координаторов NPR. Если вы считаете, что у вас есть все необходимое для микроменеджмента NPR, взгляните на New Page Review Coordinators — это работа, требующая много времени и самоотверженности.


Оставайтесь в курсе еще большего количества новостей — подпишитесь на The Signpost .
Перейдите сюда, чтобы удалить свое имя, если вы хотите отказаться от будущих рассылок.

Доставка сообщений MediaWiki ( обсуждение ) 04:38, 30 июня 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Информационный бюллетень Scripts++ – выпуск 7

Запрос от MasterClass

Привет, Джон Бротон. Я работаю в MasterClass , онлайн-портале для обучения новым навыкам (кулинария, написание сценариев и т. д.). Текущий раздел «Прием» на странице о нас совсем не сбалансирован — просто 100% негативный — тогда как большинство отзывов о нас более сбалансированы. Я попробовал более сбалансированную версию здесь и поделился ею на странице обсуждения, но никто не взглянул.

Я знаю, что компании неловко писать свой собственный раздел отзывов, но не уверен, что еще можно сделать. Текущее положение дел настолько откровенно несправедливо. Мне было интересно, могли бы вы просмотреть и опубликовать свои мысли на странице обсуждения статьи. BethMasterClass ( обсуждение ) 18:24, 1 июля 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Технические новости: 2019-27

21:22, 1 июля 2019 (UTC)

Технические новости: 2019-28

20:12, 8 июля 2019 (UTC)

Books & Bytes Выпуск 34, май – июнь 2019 г.

Библиотека Википедии

Books & Bytes
Выпуск 34, май – июнь 2019 г.

  • Партнерства
  • #1Lib1Ref
  • Обновление группы пользователей Wikimedia и библиотек
  • Обновление глобальных филиалов
  • Кратко о байтах

Французская версия Books & Bytes теперь доступна на meta!
Прочитайте полную версию рассылки

Отправлено службой доставки сообщений MediaWiki от имени команды библиотеки Википедии -- Служба доставки сообщений MediaWiki ( обсуждение ) 14:21, 12 июля 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Технические новости: 2019-29

15:29, 15 июля 2019 (UTC)

Классное, справедливое редактирование/дополнение

На страницу Патрика Пиццеллы — идеально, фактично, беспристрастно относительно Абрамоффа. Вокруг Casino Jack были мошеннические дела и мошеннические парни, но Пиццелла 14 лет проработал на государственной службе до того, как начал работать в Preston Gates, и с тех пор три президента обеих партий назначали Пиццеллу, по-видимому, без инцидентов или сожалений. — GaryWMaloney ( обсуждение ) 16:49, 15 июля 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Гэри — Я не уверен, что Пиццелла придерживается двухпартийной позиции, но спасибо за комплимент по поводу редактирования.
Я не убежден, потому что уверен, что Обама выдвинул Пиццеллу в качестве представителя меньшинства (республиканца на тот момент) в FLRA. (Вот требование для раздельного членства в FLRA.) Это, конечно, означает, что Пиццелла был терпим для Обамы, но обычно такие выдвижения подразумевают политические переговоры или, по крайней мере, соображения и сигналы, а не действительно позитивные чувства.
Ничего из этого нет в статье Википедии, потому что я не нашел никаких источников для этого, и учитывая, что членство в FLRA (судя по всему) не считается особо заслуживающим освещения в печати, я не думаю, что буду это делать — особенно потому, что я не готов тратить много времени на поиски. — Джон Бротон (♫♫) 17:48, 15 июля 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Редактирование новостей №1 — июль 2019 г.

Прочитайте это на другом языке • Список подписчиков на эту многоязычную рассылку

Вы знали?

Знаете ли вы, что визуальный редактор можно использовать на мобильном устройстве?

В верхней части каждой статьи есть значок карандаша. Нажмите на значок карандаша.чтобы начать редактирование.

Редактировать карты

Панель инструментов с открытым меню

Вот как выглядят новые Edit Cards для редактирования ссылок в мобильном визуальном редакторе. Вы можете попробовать прототип здесь: 📲 Попробуйте Edit Cards.

Добро пожаловать обратно в редакционную рассылку.

С момента последнего информационного бюллетеня команда выпустила две новые функции для мобильного визуального редактора и начала разработку еще трех. Вся эта работа является частью цели команды сделать редактирование в мобильном вебе проще.

Прежде чем рассказать о последних релизах команды, у нас есть к вам вопрос:

Готовы ли вы попробовать новый способ добавления и изменения ссылок?

Если вам интересно, мы будем признательны за ваш вклад! Вы можете попробовать этот новый инструмент ссылок в мобильном визуальном редакторе на отдельной вики.

Следуйте этим инструкциям и поделитесь своим опытом:

📲 Попробуйте редактировать карточки.

Последние релизы

Мобильный визуальный редактор — это более простой инструмент редактирования для смартфонов и планшетов, использующих мобильный сайт. Команда редактирования недавно запустила две новые функции для улучшения мобильного визуального редактора:

  1. Редактирование раздела
    • Цель — помочь авторам сосредоточиться на своих редактировании.
    • Команда изучила это с помощью теста A/B. Этот тест показал, что авторы, которые могли использовать редактирование разделов, на 1% чаще публиковали начатые ими правки, чем люди, которые могли редактировать только всю страницу.
  2. Загрузка оверлея
    • Цель — сгладить переход от чтения к редактированию.

Редактирование разделов и новый загрузочный оверлей теперь доступны всем, кто использует мобильный визуальный редактор.

Новые и активные проекты

Это список наших самых активных проектов. Просматривайте эти страницы, чтобы узнать об обновлениях проектов и поделиться своим мнением о новых проектах, прототипах и результатах исследований.

  • Редактировать карточки: Это более понятный способ добавлять и редактировать ссылки, цитаты, изображения, шаблоны и т. д. в статьях. Вы можете попробовать эту функцию сейчас. Перейдите сюда, чтобы узнать, как: 📲Попробуйте редактировать карточки .
  • Обновление мобильной панели инструментов: этот проект позволит узнать, добиваются ли авторы большего успеха, когда инструменты редактирования становятся более узнаваемыми.
  • Доступность мобильного визуального редактора: Этот A/B-тест спрашивает: Становятся ли новые участники более успешными, если они используют мобильный визуальный редактор? Мы сотрудничаем с 20 Википедиями, чтобы ответить на этот вопрос.
  • Улучшения удобства использования: этот проект сделает мобильный визуальный редактор более простым в использовании. Цель состоит в том, чтобы позволить участникам сосредоточиться на редактировании и чувствовать себя более уверенно в инструментах редактирования.

Взгляд вперед

  • Wikimania: Несколько членов команды редактирования посетят Wikimania в августе 2019 года. Они проведут сессию о мобильном редактировании в пространстве Community Growth. Поговорите с ними о том, как можно улучшить редактирование.
  • Страницы обсуждений: в ближайшие месяцы команда редакторов начнет улучшать страницы обсуждений и общение на вики.

Узнать больше

VisualEditor на мобильном устройстве — хорошее место, чтобы узнать больше о проектах, над которыми мы работаем. Команда хочет поговорить с вами обо всем, что связано с редактированием. Если у вас есть что сказать или спросить, пожалуйста, оставьте сообщение в Talk:VisualEditor на мобильном устройстве.

PPelberg (WMF) (обсуждение) и Whatamidoing (WMF) ( обсуждение ) 21:25, 15 июля 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Технические новости: 2019-30

13:07, 22 июля 2019 (UTC)

Обновления команды роста #9

14:26, 23 июля 2019 (UTC)

Технические новости: 2019-31

21:42, 29 июля 2019 (UTC)

Информационный бюллетень Scripts++ – выпуск 8

Технические новости: 2019-32

13:24, 5 августа 2019 (UTC)

Технические новости: 2019-33

18:19, 12 августа 2019 (UTC)

Технические новости: 2019-34

15:21, 19 августа 2019 (UTC)

Указательный столб: 30 августа 2019 г.

Re: "Ценности Вики"

Спасибо. То, как я использовал фразу «ценности вики», немного похоже на жаргон. Тем не менее, я думал, что упоминание «ценностей» делает фразу более сложной для неправильного толкования, потому что ценности обычно не ассоциируются с вики как технологической платформой. Тем не менее, я действительно апеллирую к «ценностям Википедии», поэтому я изменю формулировку по вашему предложению, чтобы сделать ее более ясной. GregorB ( обсуждение ) 19:04, 31 августа 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

@ GregorB : Спасибо! Я думал внести изменения сам, потому что был уверен, что вы имели в виду именно это. Но поскольку страница была личным мнением, а не новостной статьей Signpost , я не чувствовал, что имею право редактировать ее напрямую. -- Джон Бротон (♫♫) 22:08, 31 августа 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Технические новости: 2019-36

09:07, 4 сентября 2019 (UTC)

Рассылка New Page Review за сентябрь-октябрь 2019 г.

Привет, Джон Бротон,

Отставание

Вместо того, чтобы достичь магических 300 , как это было в прошлом году, отставание, приближающееся к 6000, все еще слишком велико. Также необходимо приложить усилия, чтобы гарантировать, что старые неподходящие старые страницы в конце очереди не будут автоматически индексироваться для Google.

Координатор

Здесь рассматривается предложение утвердить назначенного пользователя в качестве координатора NPR.

Курс повышения квалификации в этом месяце

Почему я ненавижу Speedy Deleters , эссе 2008 года давно вышедшего на пенсию Ballonman, по-прежнему актуально и сегодня. Те из нас, кто патрулирует большое количество новых страниц, могут быть прощены за то, что делают случайные ошибки, в то время как другие могут учиться на своих «новичковых» ошибках. Стоит прочитать.

Удаление тегов

Имейте в виду, что статьи в ленте, показывающие значок корзины (для этого вам нужно будет включить опцию «Номинировано на удаление» в ваших фильтрах), могли быть помечены неопытными или не имеющими прав NPR пользователями Twinkle. Они требуют вашей дальнейшей проверки.

Платное редактирование

Пожалуйста, обязательно ищите явные признаки нераскрытого платного редактирования. Свяжитесь с создателем, если это уместно , и отправьте вопрос в WP:COIN, если необходимо. Политика WMF требует, чтобы платные редакторы подключались к своим объявлениям.

«Руководство по значимости для конкретных субъектов» (SNG). Альтернативы удалению
  • Рецензентам предлагается еще раз ознакомиться с правилами предоставления упоминаний организациям и компаниям .
  • Blank-and-Redirect — это решение, закрепленное в политике. Пожалуйста, рассмотрите эту альтернативу перед PRODing или CSD. Однако учтите, что пользователи часто будут возвращать или узурпировать перенаправления, чтобы заново создать удаленные статьи. Регулярно проверяйте перенаправления в ленте.
Не английский
  • Распространенная проблема: страницы не на английском языке или плохие, неатрибутивные машинные переводы не должны находиться в основном пространстве, даже если они являются заглушками. Убедитесь, что вы знакомы с WP:NPPNE . Проверьте в Google язык и содержание, и если у них есть потенциал, пометьте как требуется, затем переместите в черновик. Измените текст шаблона соответствующим образом перед его отправкой.
Инструменты

Регулярные рецензенты оценят последние улучшения в ленте новых страниц и функции инструмента курирования, и это еще не все. Из-за обилия информации, которую теперь отображает ORES, рецензентам настоятельно рекомендуется использовать эту систему вместо Twinkle; она также будет правильно заполнять журналы.

Сортировка заглушек, от SD0001: доступен новый скрипт для добавления/удаления тегов заглушек. См. User:SD0001/StubSorter.js , он включает простое динамическое поле поиска в стиле HotCat. Многие из рецензентов, которые его используют, считают его улучшением по сравнению с другими доступными инструментами.

Оценка: Скрипт на User:Evad37/rater делает добавление шаблонов Wikiproject чрезвычайно простым. Новые создатели страниц редко делают это. Рецензенты не обязаны вносить эти правки, но они занимают всего несколько секунд. Они могут использовать систему сообщений Curation, чтобы сообщить создателю, что они сделали.

Бот DannyS712 III теперь патрулирует определенные категории непротиворечивых перенаправлений. Любопытно? Проверьте его журнал патрулирования.

Перейдите по этой ссылке , чтобы удалить свое имя, если вы хотите отказаться от будущих рассылок.

Доставка сообщений MediaWiki ( обсуждение ) 22:15, 11 сентября 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

TheWikiWizard - Сентябрь 2019 г.

Привет, Джон Бротон! Перед вами выпуск TheWikiWizard за сентябрь 2019 года .

Надеемся, вам понравился выпуск этого месяца! Если вы хотите обсудить этот выпуск, перейдите на страницу обсуждения этого выпуска. Приятного чтения! Thegooduser Жизнь начинается с улыбки :) 🍁 21:44, 14 сентября 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Books & Bytes – выпуск 35, июль – август 2019 г.

Библиотека Википедии

Books & Bytes
Выпуск 35, июль – август 2019 г.

  • Викимания
  • Мы создаем что-то великое, но...
  • Обновление группы пользователей Wikimedia и библиотек
  • История Викибрайца
  • Кратко о байтах

Прочитать полную версию бюллетеня

От имени команды библиотеки Википедии — доставка сообщений MediaWiki ( обсуждение ) 06:58, 27 сентября 2019 (UTC) [ ответить ]

Технические новости: 2019-40

16:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Growth team updates #10

18:49, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 9

Tech News: 2019-41

15:35, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-42

23:55, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

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.
  • On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
  • There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
  • Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.

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)[reply]

Tech News: 2019-43

14:34, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard - October 2019

Hello, John Broughton! Here is the September 2019 issue of TheWikiWizard.

We hope you like this month's issue! If you'd like to discuss this issue, please go to this issue's talk page. Happy Reading! --Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 01:43, 23 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Tech News: 2019-44

16:15, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter November 2019

Hello John Broughton,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.

Getting the queue to 0

There are now 805 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox.
Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.

Coordinator

Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.

This month's refresher course

Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.

Tools
  • It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
  • It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
Reviewer Feedback

Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.

Second set of eyes
  • Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
  • Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
Arbitration Committee

The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.

Community Wish list

There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.


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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:33, 3 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Query regarding rating on Shahrbanu

Hi. I just wanted to thank you for rating an article I had written, Shahrbanu, about 20 minutes ago. Unfortunately, at the time you had given your rating, the article had been experiencing some disruptive edits in the "Historicity" section. I was wondering whether any problematic content you noticed in that section had effected your rating? Thank you.
Alivardi (talk) 01:15, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Alivardi - No, the rating (assessment) was based on the number and type of sources cited, and the amount of text in the article, not on a a close reading of the content.
One could argue, I suppose, that the article deserves a higher rating (specifically, "B" class), but that requires (in my mind) a much closer examination of content. Since the article was had no assessment at all, I thought that I'd start the process with"C" class. But if someone else (you?) wants to give the article a "B" class rating, I doubt very much that I'd be concerned enough to do the work necessary to knowledgeably agree or disagree. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 04:53, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Don't worry, I wouldn't expect you to provide another assessment without good cause. But thank you for explaining the process to me, I really appreciate it.
Alivardi (talk) 11:12, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2019-45

16:47, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 10

Tech News: 2019-46

22:03, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Growth team updates #11

15:02, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-47

20:17, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

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Books & Bytes – Issue 36

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 36, September – October 2019

  • #1Lib1Ref January 2020
  • #1Lib1Ref 2019 stories and learnings

Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:21, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2019-48

16:52, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 11

Special Notice for TheWikiWizard

Dear Reader, You may have noticed that you did not receive a mailing for the November 2019 Issue, this is due to thegooduser being very busy with schoolwork and other important life issues. We do apologize that you have not received the November issue, and we will continue to work very hard to deliver to you the December Special Issue for 2019. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. If you like hearing about Wikipedia News and events, don't forget that The Signpost (our rival paper) does cover such events, in case we do not publish an issue on time. Thank you for subscribing and we will work very hard to deliever the December Issue. Best, --Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 02:39, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Tech News: 2019-49

16:58, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-50

16:38, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

Best practices for help pages

Do you happen to know of any good research on how to write end-user documentation? This is in the context of mw:Growth/Communities/How to create help contents. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:49, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Whatamidoing (WMF): No, I don't. I do have a 2007 author's guide for the Missing Manual series; books in that series are essentially 100% end-user documentation. I'd be happy to share that (or, more accurately, selected pages; some of the material is relevant only to how books in that series are laid out, and to specific technology used for that series). -- John Broughton (♫♫) 00:23, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, that's a good idea. Do you want to leave a note on the mw page directly? Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:35, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2019-51

00:16, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Conflict of interests review

Hi John. I got your name from WikiProject Cooperation. I work for Sitel. Currently the page about us (a multi-billion dollar company) is about 1.5 paragraphs long and has no Wikipedia-compliant citations. I proposed a much more complete draft replacement that got very positive feedback. However, my understanding is that another editor should ideally be the one to implement the draft? I was wondering if you could take a look and see if you approve or have any other feedback. DanSlavov (talk) 19:08, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@DanSlavov: Yes, WP:COI should make it clear that it's considered very bad form for an employee of a company to edit an article about that company. Thank you for following Wikipedia rules by asking other editors to help with changes.
I've gone ahead and put your version into "mainspace", as a live article. However, I do have doubts about one thing (without looking at your sources, admittedly) - I find it hard to believe a company with 18 employees, in 1985, could have $100 million in revenues. And I also find it hard to believe that whoever owned that company would sell it for $165,000. If the revenues were, say, $1 million, that would make sense. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 20:46, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy holidays

New Page Review newsletter December 2019

A graph showing the number of articles in the page curation feed from 12/21/18 - 12/20/19

Reviewer of the Year

This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.

Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days
RankUsernameNum reviewsLog
1Rosguill (talk)47,395Patrol Page Curation
2Onel5969 (talk)41,883Patrol Page Curation
3JTtheOG (talk)11,493Patrol Page Curation
4Arthistorian1977 (talk)5,562Patrol Page Curation
5DannyS712 (talk)4,866Patrol Page Curation
6CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk)3,995Patrol Page Curation
7DragonflySixtyseven (talk)3,812Patrol Page Curation
8Boleyn (talk)3,655Patrol Page Curation
9Ymblanter (talk)3,553Patrol Page Curation
10Cwmhiraeth (talk)3,522Patrol Page Curation

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

Redirect autopatrol

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.

Source Guide Discussion

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.

This month's refresher course

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.

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Tech News: 2019-52

20:06, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Can you help me find info about Provelt?

Hi John. You helped me a couple of years ago with a problem. I hope you can point me in the right direction with a new problem. Something called Provelt edited a page I am working on (Marshall B. Clinard) on. Here is the diff. There are things in Provelt's edit which I want to retain, but I don't want the references collapsed (I don't want hard carriage returns removed from the references). I am happy to figure out what I need to do to retain the things Provelt did which I want to retain. Now my questions! Is there a way to block Provelt from working on this article, and a few other articles, where I and the other editors want the references left as they are? More generally, can you point me to a talk page for Provelt where I can ask this myself (or point me to Provelt documention which might tell me how to block Provelt, or block specific actions by Provelt)? CWBoast (talk) 15:19, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@CWBoast: Thanks for the diff; that made things much easier for me to analyze.
ProveIt is a gadget (a tool); you'll find documentation here: Wikipedia:ProveIt. To answer one of your questions, no, you can't prevent other editors from using it, and you can't (if you're not the one using it) modify its actions. But if you really think it's doing things wrong, you could raise that issue on the related Talk page.
What you probably want to do (first) is have a discussion with the editor (User:~riley), who, I note, is fairly experienced. You might approach him/her with a question, on his/her talk page ("I don't understand why you're doing X," or "You're not doing Y the same way that I am; am I wrong?") rather than with a conclusion ("You're doing X and you shouldn't be") or a demand ("Please stop editing this page"). Also, see WP:OWN). -- John Broughton (♫♫) 17:35, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
CWBoast, sorry for any inconvenience. I understand the frustration that will present itself when an article you have written gets changed by a random person. While I can undo the my edit and the tool's removal of the hard carriages for the references, they will likely be removed again by another tool whether that be AWB or a bot. Inline references can significantly bloat the wikitext in the edit window and can become difficult and confusing. Add hard carriages to that and it is even harder to edit the document. I hope this makes sense for why those changes were made. ~riley (talk) 17:58, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
~riley, thanks for your reply, especially your words "Inline references can significantly bloat the wikitext ...". I had noticed that some articles put only <ref name="a-name"/> in the main body and put all the actual reference information in the section titled == References == but I had never thought about how great that approach is. My goal with all the hard carriage returns was to make it easier to find the end of a reference in the wikitext, and <ref name="a-name"/> does that much better than the hard carriage returns! I'm going to redo the Marshall B. Clinard article with that referencing strategy. And, for other articles on which I have worked extensively I may do likewise, after proposing to do so on the article Talk page. Thanks again for your reply, and for all 7 of your edits to Marshall B. Clinard. CWBoast (talk) 11:43, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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TheWikiWizard - January 2020

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Tech News: 2020-05

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Books & Bytes – Issue 37

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 37, November – December 2019

  • #1Lib1Ref
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Growth team updates #12

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 12

Tech News: 2020-07

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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

Hello John Broughton,

Source Guide Discussion

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.

Redirects

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Discussions and Resources
Refresher

Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.

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 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Blank Wikipedia: The Missing Manual pages. * Pppery * it has begun... 19:27, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 13

Tech News: 2020-10

00:36, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-11

17:14, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Proposed rewrite

Dear John. I am the Communications Manager at Covanta. The current page on our company only covers the controversies and only from one side of the debate. I shared a proposed rewrite that is more balanced with encyclopedic, historical information and covers controversies from multiple perspectives. Guy Macon was going to review the proposed draft, but I didn’t want to bother him given he is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Guy_Macon#message_from_guy's_wife recovering from a heart attack]. I was wondering if you would be willing to review the proposed draft and provide any feedback. NKR2009 (talk) 15:19, 12 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@NKR2009: I'm not going to be able to get to this immediately, but I've put it on my "to do" list for next week. If you've not seen any evidence of my looking at the draft, please feel free to ping me again in a week or so. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 03:27, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No rush, but giving you a ping as requested. NKR2009 (talk) 20:46, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@NKR2009: I was glad to hear that you found someone else to review your rewrite. (Thanks for following Wikipedia guidelines regarding conflicts of interest.) I did have time to do a quick copyedit, a few minutes ago, of the article. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 04:23, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

TheWikiWizard/Workshop/Issues/Feburary/March 2020

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Tech News: 2020-12

21:16, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-13

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The Signpost: 29 March 2020

Tech News: 2020-14

17:25, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 14

Tech News: 2020-15

19:02, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Editor’s Index

I see you created the about page for the index, among other things. I was recently review a single section of the index and cleaning out the dead links related to WikiProjects. I had encountered the dead and dying while reviving a project myself. Anyway, Thanks for the work you did. I am going to take a run at cleanup over parts of the index where I believe I understand the subjects linked. —¿philoserf? (talk) 19:56, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Philoserf: - The index certainly could use a lot of cleaning up, so thank you for whatever you do. I will note that if a WikiProject is defunct (most are), but still has a page, I think it's worth linking to it, because (a) there could be useful information from the past, and (b) it could encourage an editor to try to revive the project. That's why, for example, the index has entries for a lot of failed proposals - because there is still something that can be learned.
What I think most needs to be done, when cleaning up the index, is to (1) remove redlinks (these are not obvious if the link is to a page outside of en.wikipedia.org), (2) fix links that have become redirects (the link should be changed to go directly to a page; if that page is already listed, deleting what would otherwise be a duplicate entry), and (3) change index entries where the name of the page has changed. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 20:18, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
John Broughton, So far i cleaned up links to dead bots, mainly. —¿philoserf? (talk) 20:20, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Philoserf: - Interesting. That's a grey area for me. If there are a bunch of bots that do/did roughly the same thing, then yes, removing links to dead ones is a good idea. By contrast, if there was only one, really useful bot for something, which no longer runs, my preference would be to put something like "(dead)" or "(not functioning)" or similar at the end of the entry. The thought is that someone might go to the index to see if there is already a bot that does something, and discover there was, or someone might say to themselves "that sounds like a useful bot; maybe I can help create something similar". -- John Broughton (♫♫) 20:32, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
There were none dead that hadn’t been dead since 2007/8. I will be updating the WikiProject bot space where ever I find it. It was hard to navigate with all the unmarked dead stuff when I started. I agree about marking the dead but useful and not yet replaced. I left links to bots I didn’t comprehend alone too. —¿philoserf? (talk) 20:41, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Philoserf: - Thanks again for taking the time to work on the index. If you look at its history, you'll find that perhaps 90% of the entries are from 2007/2008, so it's not surprising that dead bots go back that far. In any case, it's very valuable to mark entries for dead bots to show that they are dead; for those looking for an active solution, this saves them at least a click. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 20:55, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2020-16

15:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools

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Screenshot showing what the Reply tool looks like
This early version of the Reply tool automatically signs and indents comments.

The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.

Reply tool improved with edit tool buttons
In a future update, the team plans to test a tool for easily linking to another user's name, a rich-text editing option, and other tools.

The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.

  • On 31 March 2020, the new reply tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias: Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian. If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
  • The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page. The team will test features such as:
    • an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
    • a rich-text visual editing option, and
    • other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved" section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:45, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Follow up - proposed rewrite

Just checking in on whether you still had time to review the proposed rewrite of the Covanta Energy page. NKR2009 (talk) 17:05, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Just letting you know Guy Macon reviewed and implemented the draft. NKR2009 (talk) 17:11, 17 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

TheWikiWizard - April 2020

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Tech News: 2020-17

18:45, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Issue 38, January – April 2020

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 38, January – April 2020

  • New partnership
  • Global roundup

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On behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --15:57, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Carole Baskin

Hello. I noticed this edit. One thing to keep in mind is that Ms Baskin married Howard Baskin in November 2004, so before November 2004, her name was not Baskin. You changed the article to say "Baskin moved in with Michael Murdock" around 1978, but she would not become "Baskin" until about 25 years after that happened, so I don't think it is appropriate to refer to her as "Baskin" when describing events before 2004. —BarrelProof (talk) 17:32, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 15

Tech News: 2020-19

16:59, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-20

20:41, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Growth team newsletter #13

14:29, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-21

17:18, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard - May 2020

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Tech News: 2020-22

14:18, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 May 2020

Tech News: 2020-23

22:31, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-24

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Books & Bytes – Issue 39, May – June 2020

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Books & Bytes
Issue 39, May – June 2020

  • Library Card Platform
  • New partnerships
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    • Springer Nature
    • BioOne
    • CEEOL
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  • Bytes in brief

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Editing news 2020 #2 – Quick updates

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The new features include a toolbar. What do you think should be in the toolbar?

This edition of the Editing newsletter includes information the Wikipedia:Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. The central project page is on MediaWiki.org.

  • Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing @. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
  • New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
  • New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
  • Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:11, 15 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2020-25

21:38, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard/Issues/Summer 2020

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New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020

Hello John Broughton,

Your help can make a difference

NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference.

Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate

In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.

Discussions and Resources
  • A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
  • Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
  • A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
  • Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.

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Tech News: 2020-26

18:48, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-27

16:30, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 16

Editing news 2020 #3

On 16 March 2020, the 50 millionth edit was made using the visual editor on desktop.

Seven years ago this week, the Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:

  • The 50 millionth edit using the visual editor on desktop was made this year. More than 10 million edits have been made here at the English Wikipedia.
  • More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
  • Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
  • The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has been increasing every year.
  • Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.
  • On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor.
  • In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers, and half of their first edits, were made using the visual editor. This percentage has been increasing every year since the tool became available.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:06, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2020-28

20:18, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-29

16:30, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-30

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Tech News: 2020-31

13:52, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-32

15:43, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-33

16:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-34

20:40, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-35

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Editing news 2020 #4

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Reply tool

The number of comments posted with the Reply Tool from March through June 2020. People used the Reply Tool to post over 7,400 comments with the tool.

The Reply tool has been available as a Beta Feature at the Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias since 31 March 2020. The first analysis showed positive results.

  • More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
  • Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
  • Comments from Wikipedia editors are positive. One said, أعتقد أن الأداة تقدم فائدة ملحوظة؛ فهي تختصر الوقت لتقديم رد بدلًا من التنقل بالفأرة إلى وصلة تعديل القسم أو الصفحة، التي تكون بعيدة عن التعليق الأخير في الغالب، ويصل المساهم لصندوق التعديل بسرعة باستخدام الأداة. ("I think the tool has a significant impact; it saves time to reply while the classic way is to move with a mouse to the Edit link to edit the section or the page which is generally far away from the comment. And the user reaches to the edit box so quickly to use the Reply tool.")[274]

The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).

The Reply tool is still in active development. Per request from the Dutch Wikipedia and other editors, you will be able to customize the edit summary. (The default edit summary is "Reply".) A "ping" feature is available in the Reply tool's visual editing mode. This feature searches for usernames. Per request from the Arabic Wikipedia, each wiki will be able to set its own preferred symbol for pinging editors. Per request from editors at the Japanese and Hungarian Wikipedias, each wiki can define a preferred signature prefix in the page MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix. For example, some languages omit spaces before signatures. Other communities want to add a dash or a non-breaking space.

New requirements for user signatures

  • The new requirements for custom user signatures began on 6 July 2020. If you try to create a custom signature that does not meet the requirements, you will get an error message.
  • Existing custom signatures that do not meet the new requirements will be unaffected temporarily. Eventually, all custom signatures will need to meet the new requirements. You can check your signature and see lists of active editors whose custom signatures need to be corrected. Volunteers have been contacting editors who need to change their custom signatures. If you need to change your custom signature, then please read the help page.

Next: New discussion tool

Next, the team will be working on a tool for quickly and easily starting a new discussion section to a talk page. To follow the development of this new tool, please put the New Discussion Tool project page on your watchlist.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:48, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 17

Tech News: 2020-36

20:08, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Growth team newsletter 14

09:33, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-37

15:59, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 40

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 40, July – August 2020

  • New partnerships
    • Al Manhal
    • Ancestry
    • RILM
  • #1Lib1Ref May 2020 report
  • AfLIA hires a Wikipedian-in-Residence

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Tech News: 2020-38

16:18, 14 September 2020 (UTC)


TheWikiWizard/Issues/September 2020

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Tech News: 2020-39

21:25, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-40

21:23, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-41

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Tech News: 2020-42

15:23, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-43

16:29, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Request for help updating my page

Hi John. My name is Prerna Gupta. I would like to add an infobox and more information to the page about me. I shared a draft at Draft:Prerna Gupta. After trying BLPN, a Wikiproject, and the page’s original author, I haven’t been able to find anyone available to look at the draft. You came recommended as someone who might be willing to put some impartial eye-balls on the proposed draft. If you are available to take a look, I would greatly appreciate your time! Best regards. Prernagupta1 (talk) 22:10, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Prernagupta1: - the draft is problematical because several of the sources are things that you wrote yourself. That absolutely fails the requirements for reliable secondary sources. Specifically, source 8 (and 16, which is the same) is unusable, so any text that is supported by this source needs to be either removed, or an acceptable source found to support it. Similarly, sources 17 through 23 are essentially self-published information, or otherwise fail WP:RS, and so the related text should be removed from the (draft) article.
I realize that many of these sources are, in fact, in the published Wikipedia article. That doesn't make them acceptable, it just means that no Wikipedia editor has been interested enough to spend the time to edit the article to remove them. (One editor did, however, note the problem on the article's Talk page.)
If you're willing to remove the unacceptable sources, and related text, from the draft article (or find acceptable sources that do support the text - I suspect there are none), then yes, I'd be willing to look at using the draft article to update/expand the Prerna Gupta article. Otherwise, I'm afraid you're going to have to look for someone else to help.
I realize that Wikipedia's insistence on secondary sources for information probably seems odd. It's partly, of course, there is doubt that self-published information, even in as prestigious a place as the New York Times, is true. But it's more that Wikipedia's philosophy is that self-published information hasn't proved itself to be important - to be, if you will, worth including in an encyclopedia. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 00:00, 23 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks John. I really appreciate your response and offer to help! I removed the offending self-authored citations and associated content from the draft. Let me know if there's anything else I need to do to comply with Wikipedia's standards, and thanks again for your time helping out a newbie. Best regards. Prernagupta1 (talk) 15:55, 23 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Prernagupta1: Okay, done. If I've made a mistake, or you see the opportunity to improve, or you want to update the article, the best way to do that is to post to Talk:Prerna Gupta, saying exactly what you want changed (add, delete, whatever), and, if not obvious, why you want the change. And if you mention me - {{replyto|John Broughton}} - in what you post, then you don't need to post anything on my user talk page - I'll be alerted by the Talk page posting, and - more importantly - so will other editors interested in that page. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 01:26, 10 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks so much John! I really appreciate it. I'm going to work on getting a properly licensed headshot image for the page. I had another request for you in the meantime, if you're up for it. I know it's a lot to ask after you just reviewed the Prerna Gupta page, but I also shared a draft at Talk:Hooked (app) (an app my company created) about a month ago if you have any interest in looking at that one too. I'm happy to bother someone else if you're all tapped out. Prernagupta1 (talk) 20:52, 11 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Prernagupta1: I've added a template to your Talk:Hooked (app) posting, which - in theory - should attract other editors to take a look at your draft. However, there is a backlog on doing this (too few interested editors, given the demand). If no one has commented on or helped with your draft in two weeks or so from now, please feel free to drop me a note and I'll see what I can do. Or, if someone does comment or act, and - after discussion(s) with that editor - you're not happy with the result, please feel free to let me know. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 00:37, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi John. I added a headshot of myself here if you don't mind adding it to Prerna Gupta. I just emailed the Declaration of Consent to OTRS.

Regarding the Hooked app page, an editor from Request Edit showed up, but it seemed like they were expecting an individual correction, rather than a re-write/expansion. He said the draft looks good, but would prefer a shorter Features section, so I shortened it here. Prernagupta1 (talk) 17:50, 18 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Prernagupta1: I've added the image to the article. However, I rarely work with images or infoboxes, so it wouldn't surprise me if another editor decides to get involved here - clipping the photo and/or reducing the display size. And if no one else does, I may take some time to learn more about what's the norm, and make adjustments myself. But at least I've started the process. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 18:26, 18 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for doing that so quickly, John! Sounds good regarding photo resizing etc. As for the Hooked app page, how would you suggest I proceed, given the response I received from the editor who saw my edit request? Prernagupta1 (talk) 20:51, 18 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Prernagupta1: The norm (or, at least, the preferred approach, from an editor's viewpoint), anyway, is that you say [as separate, bulleted items], "change A to B, delete C, change D to E, delete F", and so on. It's more work (or, at least, more thinking) to look at two different versions and decide what to keep, what to discard, and what to merge/combine, on a sentence-by-sentence basis.
It's pretty clear that the editor who responded is looking for that sentence-by-sentence approach. Your choices are (a) to wait to see if someone else jumps in who is willing to use what you have already provided [unlikely, but possible], or (b) for you to do the extra work to break out, sentence by sentence, what you want changed. (You don't have to say anything when there is a sentence to be left as is.)
If you go with (a), there is a good chance that I'll get involved in a week or two, and that will get closure, but (b) would be faster and more guaranteed to happen. You could also split the difference - pick part of the existing article that you most want changed, and spell out in detail, on the article's talk page, what you want changed. (Editors really like additions that come with a good citation; another approach would be to suggest changes that result in missing sources being added to the article.) -- John Broughton (♫♫) 22:29, 18 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks John. I don’t think it’s sensible to go through the proposed draft sentence by sentence and there’s no urgency. Thus, I’ll patiently wait for your review, when you get around to it. Prernagupta1 (talk) 00:26, 3 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Also, I just realized there’s an error on the Prerna Gupta page! I was born in 1981 (December 12, 1981), not 1980. Would it be possible to specify the correct date, or else remove it entirely? Prernagupta1 (talk) 16:12, 3 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2020-44

17:37, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard-October 2020

Hello, John Broughton! Here is the October 2020 issue of TheWikiWizard.

To change your subscription, or to subscribe click Here.We hope you like this month's issue! If you'd like to discuss this issue, please go to this issue's talk page. Happy Reading & stay safe! --Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 23:27, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Growth team updates #15

10:09, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-45

16:07, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-46

15:49, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-47

15:36, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 41

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 41, September – October 2020

  • New partnership: Taxmann
  • WikiCite
  • 1Lib1Ref 2021

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TheWikiWizard-November 2020

Hello, John Broughton! Here is the November 2020 issue of TheWikiWizard.

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Tech News: 2020-48

17:17, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2020-49

17:43, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 18

Growth team updates #16

14:22, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-50

16:14, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

New Page Patrol December Newsletter

Hello John Broughton,

A chart of the 2020 New Page Patrol Queue

Year in review

It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.

RankUsernameNum reviewsLog
1DannyS712 bot III (talk)67,552Patrol Page Curation
2Rosguill (talk)63,821Patrol Page Curation
3John B123 (talk)21,697Patrol Page Curation
4Onel5969 (talk)19,879Patrol Page Curation
5JTtheOG (talk)12,901Patrol Page Curation
6Mcampany (talk)9,103Patrol Page Curation
7DragonflySixtyseven (talk)6,401Patrol Page Curation
8Mccapra (talk)4,918Patrol Page Curation
9Hughesdarren (talk)4,520Patrol Page Curation
10Utopes (talk)3,958Patrol Page Curation
Reviewer of the Year

John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.

NPP Technical Achievement Award

As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271

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Tech News: 2020-51

21:33, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 19

Tech News: 2020-52

20:53, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard-December 2020

Hello, John Broughton! Here is the December 2020 issue of TheWikiWizard.Pilot Project, trying a smaller and different style newsletter

  • Here are the events of December 2020

Wikipedia News

  • On the French Wikipedia, the new vector skin design has already been rolled out! Check it out here!
  • Wikipedia will soon celebrate it's 20th Birthday very soon! Go back to 2001 by visiting nostalgia.wikipedia.org !
  • EN Wikipedia has more than 6,200,000 Articles!

Humor

  • Santa is watching you.... Don't vandalise Wikipedia, or he will reward you a block and no presents this year if you do so. (Seriously don't vandalise Wikipedia, even if santa isn't watching)
  • More turkey on Christmas

Notes

  • We are trying out this pilot style newspaper, making it easier for you, and our editors to use. Please let me know what you think about this new 'style' of newspaper!
  • The Wikipedia Ads section will be omitted, to make the flow of this newsletter easier. Discuss this issue here

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article 2006 Ohio's 2nd congressional district election, to which you have significantly contributed, is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or if it should be deleted.

The discussion will take place at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2006 Ohio's 2nd congressional district election until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

To customise your preferences for automated AfD notifications for articles to which you've significantly contributed (or to opt-out entirely), please visit the configuration page. Delivered by SDZeroBot (talk) 01:05, 3 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

David Perdue article

Take out "without evidence" on your David Purdue page. This is wikipedia not your personal leftist blog. If you need me to explain the difference between fact and opinion let me know. There is nothing more dangerous to the American People than liars like you pretending to be "news" or "scholars". You're nothing but a leftist hack. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.49.107.112 (talk) 04:05, 6 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@50.49.107.112: Well, one fact is that you've misspelled the last name of David Perdue. Another is that the wording "without evidence" wasn't added by me to the David Perdue article. A third fact is that it's not "my" article; in fact, I'm almost certainly not even one of the main editors of that article. So yes, I'm pretty sure I don't need you to help with facts. And finally, I can think of lots of things that are more dangerous to the American people than what's in a (footnoted) Wikipedia article. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 04:53, 6 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2021-02

15:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Andrew Giuliani for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Andrew Giuliani, to which you have significantly contributed, is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or if it should be deleted.

The discussion will take place at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrew Giuliani until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

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Tech News: 2021-03

16:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Editing news 2021 #1

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Reply tool

Graph of Reply tool and full-page wikitext edit completion rates
Completion rates for comments made with the Reply tool and full-page wikitext editing. Details and limitations are in this report.

The Reply tool is available at most other Wikipedias.

  • The Reply tool has been deployed as an opt-out preference to all editors at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
  • It is also available as a Beta Feature at almost all Wikipedias except for the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias. If it is not available at your wiki, you can request it by following these simple instructions.

Research notes:

  • As of January 2021, more than 3,500 editors have used the Reply tool to post about 70,000 comments.
  • There is preliminary data from the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedia on the Reply tool. Junior Contributors who use the Reply tool are more likely to publish the comments that they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.[344]
  • The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month.[345] Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
  • A large A/B test will start soon.[346] This is part of the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone. During this test, half of all editors at 24 Wikipedias (not including the English Wikipedia) will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. Editors at those Wikipeedias can still turn it on or off for their own accounts in Special:Preferences.

New discussion tool

Screenshot of version 1.0 of the New Discussion Tool prototype.

The new tool for starting new discussions (new sections) will join the Discussion tools in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures at the end of January. You can try the tool for yourself.[347] You can leave feedback in this thread or on the talk page.

Next: Notifications

During Talk pages consultation 2019, editors said that it should be easier to know about new activity in conversations they are interested in. The Notifications project is just beginning. What would help you become aware of new comments? What's working with the current system? Which pages at your wiki should the team look at? Please post your advice at mw:Talk:Talk pages project/Notifications.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 01:02, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

TheWikiWizard-January 2021

Hello, John Broughton! Here is the January 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard.Pilot Project, trying a smaller and different style newsletter

  • Here are the events of January!!

Wikipedia News

  • Wikipedia is now 20 years old!! Notice a different logo?
  • There is now more than 1 billion edits on Wikipedia!
  • The Simple English Wikipedia now has more than 180,000 Articles! So close to 200,000!

Humor

  • Did you realize that the word "Humour" has been spelt wrong? I didn't until now! ;)
  • I hope you didn't edit Wikipedia straight on and Missed Christmas...

Notes

  • We are trying out this pilot style newspaper, making it easier for you, and our editors to use. Please let me know what you think about this new 'style' of newspaper!
  • The Wikipedia Ads section will be omitted, to make the flow of this newsletter easier. Discuss this issue here

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Books & Bytes - Issue 42

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 42, November – December 2020

  • New EBSCO collections now available
  • 1Lib1Ref 2021 underway
  • Library Card input requested
  • Libraries love Wikimedia, too!

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Tech News: 2021-04

18:29, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Prerna Gupta for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Prerna Gupta, to which you have significantly contributed, is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or if it should be deleted.

The discussion will take place at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Prerna Gupta until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

To customise your preferences for automated AfD notifications for articles to which you've significantly contributed (or to opt-out entirely), please visit the configuration page. Delivered by SDZeroBot (talk) 01:03, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2021-05

22:38, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article 2006 West Virginia's 2nd congressional district election, to which you have significantly contributed, is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or if it should be deleted.

The discussion will take place at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2006 West Virginia's 2nd congressional district election until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

To customise your preferences for automated AfD notifications for articles to which you've significantly contributed (or to opt-out entirely), please visit the configuration page. Delivered by SDZeroBot (talk) 01:03, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 20

Tech News: 2021-06

17:40, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-07

17:54, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard-February 2021

Hello, John Broughton! Here is the February 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard.Pilot Project, trying a smaller and different style newsletter

Wikipedia News

  • A New Code of Conduct is being made by Wikipedia/The WMF more info here
  • Meta Wiki has Steward Elections open! see this page for more information

Humour

THESE STATEMENTS ARE NOT TRUE/NOT GOOD ADVICE. ALWAYS FOLLOW THE POLICIES THAT WIKIPEDIA HAS. EVERYTHING LISTED HERE IN THIS SECTION IS SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF HUMOUR

  • If you have a COI, and you don't want to declare it, don't! (For all we know, a dog could be writing [or rather typing] this statement ;) )

Notes

  • We have a new editor on our team! Berrely will be joining the TWW team as a proofreader starting from the next issue onwards! (No more typos now...)
  • The Wikipedia Ads section will be omitted, to make the flow of this newsletter easier. Discuss this issue here

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Tech News: 2021-08


00:16, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-09


19:06, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Growth team newsletter #17

16:02, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article 2006 Michigan's 8th congressional district election, to which you have significantly contributed, is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or if it should be deleted.

The discussion will take place at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2006 Michigan's 8th congressional district election until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

To customise your preferences for automated AfD notifications for articles to which you've significantly contributed (or to opt-out entirely), please visit the configuration page. Delivered by SDZeroBot (talk) 01:04, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2021-10

17:50, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-11

23:21, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard-March 2021

Hello, John Broughton! Here is the March 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard.

Wikipedia News

  • I came across an interesting article about Wikipedia.
  • TJMSmith had a successful RFA, Congrats!

Humour

This section was written by User:Canadian Otaku, I hope you enjoy it as much as I (Tsugaru) did!

  • If you edit Wikipedia around 1-5 AM, beware, as any admin could block you for being up too late!
  • It's really easy to break Wikipedia, just click here.
  • Ignore people telling you to stop putting "Hrrnngg,,,beans" on the article Bean (film), they don't know what good edits are.
  • Jimbo is god, and can do anything he wants to!

Notes

  • There are 2 new editors now, one of them Berrely, and CanadianOtaku. As mentioned Berrely is our new proofreader (typos beware) and Canadian Otaku is now going to be writing our Humor sections, I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks for joining us, and remember, if you want to join, just let me know!


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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article 2006 California's 4th congressional district election, to which you have significantly contributed, is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or if it should be deleted.

The discussion will take place at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2006 California's 4th congressional district election until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

To customise your preferences for automated AfD notifications for articles to which you've significantly contributed (or to opt-out entirely), please visit the configuration page. Delivered by SDZeroBot (talk) 01:02, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 42

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 42, January – February 2021

  • New partnerships: PNAS, De Gruyter, Nomos
  • 1Lib1Ref
  • Library Card

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Tech News: 2021-12

16:51, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-13

17:29, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-14

19:38, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard-April 2021

Hello, John Broughton! Here is the April 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard.

Wikipedia News

  • MediaWiki has a new logo. Looks great, doesn't it?
  • Did you get to see the April Fools DYK for the Main Page? If not, catch them here (Under April 1)
  • In the Beta Features, try out "Discussion tools" it is a very useful feature for replying to talkpage messages. You will need an account to do so!

Memorials

  • Pi zero has passed away. Our condolences go out for Pi zero and anyone who knew him. Thank you Pi zero for your service here at Wikimedia. We are very sorry to hear this. We will never forget your valuable contributions to Wikipedia and it's sister projects.

Humour

Tsugaru's Humour Section

  • April Showers can't Bring May Flowers, if the Flowers ran away to June!
  • You can't get in trouble, if you don't cause trouble!
  • The May Flowers can't be flowers if they are roses!

Please find CanadianOtaku's Humour Section below

  • Sadly, there was no edit war of 2021, maybe next year.
  • This joke space is up for rent!
  • You too can be a hacker by removing everything in an article!
  • Error 410: I dropped this joke and I can't find it.

Editor's Notes

  • Just a reminder that TWW is delivered between the 16th to the 20th of each month


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Tech News: 2021-16

16:47, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 April 2021

Tech News: 2021-17

21:23, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-18

15:42, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 43

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 43, March – April 2021

  • New Library Card designs
  • 1Lib1Ref May

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Tech News: 2021-19

15:08, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-20

13:48, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Growth Newsletter #18

15:23, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-21

17:05, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard-May 2021

Hello, John Broughton! Here is the May 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard.

Wikipedia News

  • The Simple English Wikipedia was mentioned in a article online very recently, you can read the article here.
  • Meta is looking for Board Election Volunteers you can read up more by following that link.
  • The English Wikipedia, has just passed 6,300,000 articles!

Tip of the Month

This tip is one of the many ways to combat spam on Wikipedia:

  • On Wikipedia, articles either meet the General Notability Guideline or not. When you come across a new article, it is extremely important to determine if it is a real article, or just a spam article. Start with a search on Google, for reliable sources, if you get none in return, then look at the article for non-NPOV content, also scan the references section in the article to see what sources it uses, and check the 'other languages' section and Wikidata to see if it is on other Wikipedias. If other Wikipedias have the same content and/or a CSD or AfD tag (WP:AFD) it is likely spam or not notable, so you can then nominate it for deletion to get input, remember that CSD criterion does not always apply to these articles depending on the content/contex. Also remember to check for copyright violations via earwig's

Memorials

  • SlimVirgin has sadly passed away this month, you can read more about SlimVirgin's passing here
  • Moroboshi also sadly passed away earlier this month.
Our condolences go out to the editors and their families, thank you for your work on Wikimedia projects.

Humour

  • This section was made by CanadianOtaku, please note it contains some emojis, so you might just see a box if your browser doesn't support them. -つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁
  • Got blocked on the English Wikipedia because of your epic hacking skills? Start hacking other Wikimedia projects, they ca- This user account is currently locked across all Wikimedia projects.
  • This joke is a work in progress, so I might drop some hammers.


  • This joke is 2 spaces away, so a🔨n- woah that was close!

Editor's Notes

  • If you want to join TWW, please leave us a message!


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Tech News: 2021-22

17:04, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 21

Tech News: 2021-23

20:01, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-24

20:25, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Editing news 2021 #2

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Junior contributors comment completion rate across all participating Wikipedias
When newcomers had the Reply tool and tried to post on a talk page, they were more successful at posting a comment. (Source)

Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:

  • Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
  • The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

00:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Requesting your support

Hi John. I wanted to ask if you’d be willing to participate over here on a page about customer service software, where I have a COI. I posted a message a couple months ago and followed up with a couple editors but the page doesn’t seem to hold a lot of interest. Tskillin (talk) 20:09, 17 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Tskillin: I'm not sure that I have much time for this, but I am impressed by the amount of work you've put into the draft, based (quite correctly) on reliable sources. So, two comments:
  • I'm not convinced that separating corporate history from product history is ideal. Was that based on what you saw in other Wikipedia articles, and, if so, could I get a pointer or two?
  • The RP template is quite useful for book-length publications, but should be used for every citation. You've put page numbers (17-18) in the first use of the citation, but should not have, because that means that those pages (17-18) show up in every use of the core citation. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 01:38, 18 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I'm glad you like the proposed draft. A lot of work went into being neutral and researching good sources. Based on your feedback I consolidated product and corporate history under the "History" section and removed the page number citations. The revised draft is located at the same link. Please let me know if you have any additional feedback. Tskillin (talk) 20:08, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi John. Just checking in on this. Thanks very much. Tskillin (talk) 22:33, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2021-25

15:48, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard-Special Notice

Hello. Thanks for subscribing to TheWikiWizard, as you may know, the next issue of TheWikiWizard, was supposed to be ready and delivered to your talkpage (or the page you subscribed to receive the newsletter) on the 20th. However, due to Tsugaru (User:つがる) being busy with exams, and having some problems logging into his Wikipedia account, the next Issue of TWW has been delayed. The next issue should be ready in around one weeks time. Thanks for your patience and understanding, and we hope you will enjoy the next issue! -- つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 02:45, 24 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2021-26

16:31, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard-June 2021

Hello, John Broughton! Here is the June 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard.

Wikipedia News

  • The IRC channels used for Wikipedia have changed, you can read more on it here. While TWW was aware of this in the last issue, we decided to wait and publish this in this issue, when the issue is not as new any more, and more information has been developed.
  • There was quick interruption in editing on Wikipedia, that was to test server switching should an emergency happen, more details can be found here.

Humour

This section was written by CanadianOtaku --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁
  • Internet Explorer still thinks freenode is the best IRC service!
  • It has been proven that editing the article Cheese while eating Cheese is considered a WP:COI.
  • This joke has been donated to us from aliens, hopefully they learned UTF-8: £

Editor's Notes

  • Thanks for your patience as we experienced delays in publishing this issue.


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Tech News: 2021-29

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Tech News: 2021-30

21:09, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 45

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 45, May – June 2021

  • Library design improvements continue
  • New partnerships
  • 1Lib1Ref update

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Tech News: 2021-31

20:45, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-32

16:18, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-33

19:25, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-34

21:57, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Read-only reminder

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TheWikiWizard-Summer 2021

Hello, John Broughton! Here is the Summer 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard.

Wikipedia News

  • There is an election that is taking place, for the Wikikmedia Foundation, to read more about it click here
  • The Wikipedia Library, has made some updates to their terms of use. You can read more here
  • Wikimania took place this month!
  • There are a few new admins who have joined the Admin Team, congrats to them! Remember, if you see a use who you believe meets the criteria for adminship here, or on other projects (Please check that Wikipedia/Wikimedia Project's Adminship Criteria page, as they vary by project), you can give it a try and nominate them for adminship if they are okay with it!

Humour

Editors notes

  • I have been really busy with school so I was unable to write this issue for a long time. Thanks for your patience. :)
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The Signpost: 29 August 2021

Tech News: 2021-35

15:59, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Simon Brett

Hi, I have expanded the Simon Brett page to list all of his works after seeing your message on the Talk: page you left about 10 years ago, if you have some time could you please take a look at my edit and see if it is alright? Thanks in Advance, Urere ◉ ◉ (talk) 00:54, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Urere: Thank you for improving the article. I'm glad to hear that my ten-year-old suggestion did eventually bear fruit.
In hindsight, I should have suggested two categories, "Other novels", and "Non-fiction", rather than one ("Other"). And I note that according to https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/simon-brett/ , it looks like there is a fifth detective series, Decluttering, with two books so far. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 02:47, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2021-36

15:19, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-37

15:31, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

New Page Review queue September 2021

Hello John Broughton,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.

Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.


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Tech News: 2021-38

18:30, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 46

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 46, July – August 2021

  • Library design improvements deployed
  • New collections available in English and German
  • Wikimania presentation

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --11:14, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2021-39

22:20, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Requesting Review/Feedback

Hi John. I was hoping you might have a minute to look at the "Issues" section on the Foxit Reader page (I work for Foxit). It is cited to forums, Github, a personal blog, etc. This source for example is extremely positive ("It is a small, fast, feature-rich & multilingual PDF tool") but is only cited for criticisms.

A lot of this content was added in response to my Talk page comments asking to trim poor sources in the original “Issues” section. I thought it would be really obvious that making half the page an "Issues" section using these sources was inappropriate, but the editor that responded said they were all fine. I tried to get a second opinion at RSN twice with no response. I was hoping you might take a look and tell me if I'm wrong. Alisafetic (talk) 16:04, 1 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting your support

I was hoping you might have a minute to review the “Software and services” section here I proposed for the Zendesk page with a disclosed COI about a month ago. The editor that approved most of my proposed changes said they were too busy with grad school. Tskillin (talk) 21:26, 1 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2021-40

16:28, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-41

15:29, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-42

20:52, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

November 2021 backlog drive

New Page Patrol | November 2021 Backlog Drive
  • On November 1, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin.
  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled.
  • Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive.
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Tech News: 2021-43

20:07, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard- October 2021

Hi, John Broughton! Here is the October 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard!

Wikipedia News

  • Wikimedia Asian Month is beginning once again!
  • Check out the 2021 Community Wishlist's results!
  • For those interested, check out the "Wikimedia CEE Online Meeting 2021" (Click on link for more details and to find out if you can register!)
  • Check out this new feature for The Wikipedia Library!

Humour

Editor's Notes

  • Thank you for your patience, I was busy, and still am, so issues of TWW may be delayed.
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Growth Newsletter #19

18:36, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-44

20:26, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-45

20:35, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 47

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 47, September – October 2021

  • On-wiki Wikipedia Library notification rolling out
  • Search tool deployed
  • New My Library design improvements

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --16:58, 10 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2021-46

22:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Proposed New Draft for Jon Baker Page

About 5 weeks ago I shared a proposed draft to rework the Jon Baker page to remove promotionalism (addressing the advert tags) and make the page more up-to-date. I haven’t been able to find any editors willing to review the draft for consideration and was hoping you might be willing to take a look. Kindest. Daizypeach (talk) 09:07, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2021-47

20:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2021-48

21:13, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-49

21:57, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard- December 2021

Hi, John Broughton! Here is the December 2021 issue of TheWikiWizard!

Humour

  • Christmas is here again, time to bug people to get you the stuff you really, really want! (Anyone going to get me some butter cookies, or that giant Costco teddy bear?)
  • If you don't like turkey, there's always the rotisserie chicken!
  • If you ate too much turkey and regret it, then you should have read the above message ;)

Wikipedia News

We don't have much to report this month, but we do have the following...
  • The Simple English Wikipedia has almost reached 200,000 articles!
  • Wikipedia Asian Month which took place in November, has finished. Now, all the articles are judged and then it is determined who gets the postcards, even if you don't get one, or didn't participate, there is always next year, and we thank you for everything you have done!
  • Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021 took place earlier this month, for elegible editors. (At the time of this writing it was still taking place, but I assumed by the time this issue was sent, it would have been finished - It is set to finish at December 6 2021 at 23:59 UTC )

Editor's Notes

  • I haven't forgotten about TWW ;) Don't worry.
  • TWW is in the process of getting a new main page, if you have any ideas, or would like to help, please shoot a message on the TWW talk page.
  • That's it for this issue! This is the last issue for 2021. See you all in 2022! Have a safe and happy holiday season!
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Tech News: 2021-50

22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-51

22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22

Tech News: 2022-02

01:22, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-03

19:53, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-04

21:37, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-05

17:41, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 48

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 48, November – December 2021

  • 1Lib1Ref 2022
  • Wikipedia Library notifications deployed

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Tech News: 2022-06

21:14, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard- Jan/Feb 2022

Hi, John Broughton! Here is the first issue of 2022 for the TheWikiWizard!

Humor

  • Since it's/was Lunar New Year, you can bug your boss at work for that extra fifty dollar bill ;)
  • New Year, New world, Same TWW :P
  • Did you work off that turkey? Don't worry, editing Wikipedia burns calories... I am pretty sure...

Wiki(p/m)edia News

  • Check out The "Education/Eduwiki Week 2022"!
  • Modussiccandi had a successful RFA!
  • The 2022 Steward Elections are open to editors who meet the criterion.

Editor's Notes

  • We are combining two months' issues into one, to try out a new format. This is the first issue of 2022. Happy New Year!
  • That's it for this time, see you in the next issue!
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19:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-08

19:10, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 February 2022

Tech News: 2022-09

22:58, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-10

21:15, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-11

22:06, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Growth Newsletter #20

17:12, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-12

15:59, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 49

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 49, January – February 2022

  • New library collections
  • Blog post published detailing technical improvements

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The Signpost: 27 March 2022

Tech News: 2022-13

19:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Changes to Axos Financial

My name is Aubree and I work for Axos Financial. My predecessor Gfrostaxos has been trying to request changes to the Axos page since last November. He has gotten some responses, but few directly addressing the changes actually requested. He requested a smaller change here as requested to no avail. I was wondering if you would be willing to review that requested change and approve/decline or otherwise provide feedback. Anthompson44 (talk) 18:27, 4 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2022-14

21:00, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-15

19:43, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard - April 2022

Hi, John Broughton! Here is the April 2022 issue for the TheWikiWizard!

Humour

  • April 1 isn't April fools day if you say it isn't...
  • April Showers should bring May Money flowers! I'd be rich!
  • It's Spring again, Spring out of bed!

Wiki(p/m)edia News

  • The final voter results in regards of the Universal Code of Conduct were released
  • On the English Wikipedia we have had several successful RFAs! Some include, Colin M's RFA, and Sdrqaz's RFA!
  • Check out this event! It's about a conversation that you can join!

Editor's Notes

  • Sorry for missing the last issue!
  • Have a suggestion or want to help us? Let us know!
  • We wish all those in Ukraine and those affected by the war safety and peace :-)
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Tech News: 2022-16

23:10, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 24 April 2022

Tech News: 2022-17

22:54, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-18

19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-19

15:21, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-20

18:57, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022

New Page Review queue March 2022

Hello John Broughton,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 805 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 852 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.

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Tech News: 2022-21

00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard - May 2022

Hey, John Broughton! Here is the May 2022 issue for the TheWikiWizard!

Humor

  • What do May Showers bring?
  • May the 4th be with you doesn't work anymore, but I can say it again in less than a year!
  • If you love Wikipedia, and are editing it, is it a conflict of interest?

Wiki(P/M)edia News

  • A discussion took place in regards to the desktop design for certain Wikis. You can find more information here.
  • Tamzin, has had a successful RFA! Congrats!
  • Check out this Conversation that will be hosted by the team "Community Resilience and Sustainability"! You can find out more details about the meeting by clicking on the link.

Editor's Notes

  • We have a IRC Channel! Come by and say Hi! You can find us on Libra.Chat under the channel name #TheWikiWizard connect


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Tech News: 2022-22

20:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Editing newsletter 2022 – #1

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New editors were more successful with this new tool.

The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at most WMF-hosted wikis. You can join the discussion about this tool for the English Wikipedia is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Enabling the New Topic Tool by default. You will be able to turn it off in the tool or at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

The Editing team plans to change the appearance of talk pages. These are separate from the changes made by the mw:Desktop improvements project and will appear in both Vector 2010 and Vector 2022. The goal is to add some information and make discussions look visibly different from encyclopedia articles. You can see some ideas at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project#Prototype Ready for Feedback.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

23:14, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 50

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 50, March – April 2022

  • New library partner - SPIE
  • 1Lib1Ref May 2022 underway

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Tech News: 2022-23

02:45, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-24

16:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-25

20:17, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022

New Page Review queue June 2022

Hello John Broughton,

Backlog status

At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000[a] at the end of May.

Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.[b]

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

Backlog drive

A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. Barnstars will be awarded.

TIP – New school articles

Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.

Misc

There is a new template available, {{NPP backlog}}, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:

Very high unreviewed pages backlog: 12165 articles, as of 18:00, 11 November 2024 (UTC), according to DatBot

There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.

Reminders
  • Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
  • If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.
  • If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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Notes
  1. ^ not including another ~6,000 redirects
  2. ^ The number of weekly reviews reported in the NPP feed includes redirects, which are not included in the backlog we primarily track.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:02, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2022-26

20:01, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!

New Page Patrol | July 2022 Backlog Drive
  • On 1 July, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin.
  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled.
  • Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive.
  • Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive.
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(t · c) buidhe 20:25, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2022-27

19:30, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Growth team newsletter #21

13:03, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-28

19:23, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard - July 2022

Hey, John Broughton! Here is the July 2022 issue for the TheWikiWizard!

Humour

  • It's less than 6 months till Christmas (I think...)
  • Start making the Christmas list! Never too early, or late for those who think Dec 26 is Dec 25 haha
  • If I had a dollar for every word I typed, the world would run out of money ;)

Wiki(p/m)edia News

  • The Japanese Wikipedia now uses the new vector skin! For those who speak Japanese or just want to take a look, check it out!
  • There is a conversation event that you can check out. More details on the link.
  • A meeting had taken place in regards to Interface of MediaWiki. More information of that meeting can be found here.

Editor's Notes

  • Please note that due to me being busy/at times not much to report on Wiki(p/m)edia some issues of this newsletter may be skipped. Don't worry I haven't forgotten about it!
  • Sometimes during the delivery of the issue, the mass message extension sends it twice for some reason. Please note I only send them once and not twice. I apologise for the inconvenience this causes.
  • Remember that the Wikimedia Foundation also hosts other wikis too! So if you want to see what other wikis there are, give it a try! You might find something you like!


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Tech News: 2022-29

22:58, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-30

19:26, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 51

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 51, May – June 2022

  • New library partners
    • SAGE Journals
    • Elsevier ScienceDirect
    • University of Chicago Press
    • Information Processing Society of Japan
  • Feedback requested on this newsletter
  • 1Lib1Ref May 2022

Read the full newsletter

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Tech News: 2022-31

21:20, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022

New Page Review queue August 2022

Hello John Broughton,

Backlog status

After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.

Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.

Coordination
MB and Novem Linguae have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. MPGuy2824 will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.
Open letter to the WMF
The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.
TIP - Reviewing by subject
Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated sorted topic list.
New reviewers
The NPP School is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here.
Reminders
  • Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
  • If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.
  • If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
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Tech News: 2022-33

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NPP message

Hi John Broughton,

Invitation

For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated.

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Tech News: 2022-34

00:10, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Editing news 2022 #2

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Graph showing 90-minute response time without the new tool and 39-minute response time with the tool
The [subscribe] button shortens response times.

The new [subscribe] button notifies people when someone replies to their comments. It helps newcomers get answers to their questions. People reply sooner. You can read the report. The Editing team is turning this tool on for everyone. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:35, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2022-35

23:03, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 August 2022

Board of Trustees election

Thank you for supporting the NPP initiative to improve WMF support of the Page Curation tools. Another way you can help is by voting in the Board of Trustees election. The next Board composition might be giving attention to software development. The election closes on 6 September at 23:59 UTC. View candidate statement videos and Vote Here. MB 03:49, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2022-36

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Declared paid editors for hire

Hi! No idea if you're still maintaining this list, but if so I'd like to be added. Thank you! Mary Gaulke (talk) 20:37, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2022-38

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Growth team newsletter #22

17:18, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive

New Page Patrol | October 2022 backlog drive
  • On 1 October, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin.
  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled and for maintaining a streak throughout the drive.
  • Barnstars will also be awarded for re-reviewing articles.
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Tech News: 2022-39

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Books & Bytes – Issue 52

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 52, July – August 2022

  • New instant-access collections:
    • SpringerLink and Springer Nature
    • Project MUSE
    • Taylor & Francis
    • ASHA
    • Loeb
  • Feedback requested on this newsletter

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TheWikiWizard- September 2022

Hey, John Broughton! Here is the September 2022 Issue for the TheWikiWizard in October! We apologize for the delay.

Humor

  • It's time for Christmas, summer is coming to an end
  • What are you giving Santa for Chirstmas? (He told me to for you to leave more cookies and the Halloween Candy)
  • Halloween, give out money instead :P

Wiki(p/m)edia News

  • A discussion in regards to the new vector skin on EN Wikipedia had taken place, you can find it here
  • The Foundation Elections occurred learn more here
  • Quite a few successful RFA's took place, some include Z1720, and Dan Cherek! Congrats to all the successful RFA's!

Editor's Notes

  • Thanks for your patience as we are late with issues, you can join us if you want to help out!
  • Please note that sometimes the system may deliver this twice to you, but I only send it once
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Tech News: 2022-40

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Tech News: 2022-41

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New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022

Hello John Broughton,

Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.

Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also.

Software news: Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved.

NPP backlog May – October 15, 2022

Suggestions:

  • There is much enthusiasm over the low backlog, but remember that the "quality and depth of patrolling are more important than speed".
  • Reminder: an article should not be tagged for any kind of deletion for a minimum of 15 minutes after creation and it is often appropriate to wait an hour or more. (from the NPP tutorial)
  • Reviewers should focus their effort where it can do the most good, reviewing articles. Other clean-up tasks that don't require advanced permissions can be left to other editors that routinely improve articles in these ways (creating Talk Pages, specifying projects and ratings, adding categories, etc.) Let's rely on others when it makes the most sense. On the other hand, if you enjoy doing these tasks while reviewing and it keeps you engaged with NPP (or are guiding a newcomer), then by all means continue.
  • This user script puts a link to the feed in your top toolbar.

Backlog:

Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!

Reminders
  • Newsletter feedback - please take this short poll about the newsletter.
  • If you're interested in instant messaging and chat rooms, please join us on the New Page Patrol Discord, where you can ask for help and live chat with other patrollers.
  • Please add the project discussion page to your watchlist.
  • If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be a reviewer, please ask any admin to remove you from the group. If you want the tools back again, just ask at PERM.
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Tech News: 2022-43

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The Signpost: 31 October 2022

Tech News: 2022-44

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Tech News: 2022-45

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Tech News: 2022-46

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Books & Bytes – Issue 53

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 53, September – October 2022

  • New collections:
    • Edward Elgar
    • E-Yearbook
    • Corriere della Serra
    • Wikilala
  • Collections moved to Library Bundle:
    • Ancestry
  • New feature: Outage notification
  • Spotlight: Collections indexed in EDS

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Tech News: 2022-47

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Tech News: 2022-48

MediaWiki message delivery 20:01, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom 2022 Elections voter message

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Growth team newsletter #23

20:57, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-49

MediaWiki message delivery 00:39, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

TheWikiWizard - December 2022

Hey, John Broughton! Here is the December 2022 issue for the TheWikiWizard! We've been dormant for a few months!

Humor

  • How many times will you write 2022 in 2023??
  • Don't write Christmas Cards/do gift shopping in December, do it in the summer!

Wiki(p/m)edia News

Not much to report this issue, but we do have these to report!

  • Quite a few RFAs took place since the last issue of this newsletter. You can view more here!
  • The Voting for a sound logo is taking place on Wikimedia Commons, head over to that link to find out more!
  • The Arbitration Committee Elections is happening on the English Wikipedia. (The elections may have finished by the time you see this message, please check the page for the date and time of the election deadline)

Editor's Notes

  • Have a great holiday and new years! We'll see you in 2023.


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Tech News: 2022-51

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The Signpost: 1 January 2023

New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023

Hello John Broughton,

New Page Review queue December 2022
Backlog

The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.

2022 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!

Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)

New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js to User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js

Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.

Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.

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Tech News: 2023-02

MediaWiki message delivery 01:06, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Help with redundant and copyrighted edits

Hi. I am Prerna Gupta. A couple years ago I proposed some improvements to the page about me following COI policy and you chipped in here. An anonymous IP address recently added some content I think is redundant, promotional, and copy/paste of copyrighted content. I was hoping you would be willing to chip-in again at the discussion I started here. 138.118.80.34 (talk) 16:46, 14 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 16 January 2023

Tech News: 2023-03

MediaWiki message delivery 01:08, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 54

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 54, November – December 2022

  • New collections:
    • British Newspaper Archive
    • Findmypast
    • University of Michigan Press
    • ACLS
    • Duke University Press
  • 1Lib1Ref 2023
  • Spotlight: EDS Refine Results

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Tech News: 2023-04

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Tech News: 2023-05

MediaWiki message delivery 00:03, 31 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Growth team newsletter #24

14:44, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 February 2023

Tech News: 2023-06

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Tech News: 2023-07

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The Signpost: 20 February 2023

Tech News: 2023-08

MediaWiki message delivery 01:56, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Editing news 2023 #1

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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:

  1. The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
  2. They are beginning a new project, Edit check.

Talk pages project

Screenshot showing the talk page design changes that are currently available as beta features at all Wikimedia wikis. These features include information about the number of people and comments within each discussion.
Some of the upcoming changes

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for Discussion tools.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "Add topic" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.

Daily edit completion rate by test group: DiscussionTools (test group) and MobileFrontend overlay (control group)

An A/B test for Discussion tools on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with Discussion tools. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "Publish changes". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:19, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

TheWikiWizard - February 2023

Hey, John Broughton! Here is the February 2023 issue for the TheWikiWizard!

Humor

  • Have you finished raking up those leaves from fall?
  • Are you making your list yet for next Christmas? Only 10ish more months to go! It's never too early ;-)

Wiki(P/M)edia News

  • Wikipedia (EN) has a new look! Remember, if you prefer the old look and are logged in, you can go to preferences to change back to the old vector skin!
  • WMF (Wikimedia Foundation) is going to update it's terms of use, you can find out more here
  • There is a planned test that will take place with the servers, and it may affect your ability to make changes for a period of time, more information can be found here
  • We've got some new RFA's (Requests for Adminship) on EN Wikipedia that took place since the last issue!

Editor's Notes

  • Happy 2023! This is the first issue of the year!
  • If you ever want to help out with TWW please let us know! Please note TWW issues may be delayed, but we haven't forgotten about TWW!
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Tech News: 2023-09

MediaWiki message delivery 23:45, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Pure Storage page edits

Hi John. My name is Zac and I work for a flash storage company called Pure Storage. I disclosed a COI and requested some changes here including correcting that the Purity operating system is used in most, but not all, of the company's products, and correcting/updating the list of major product families.

You'll see there that there's been some back and forth already with other editors and I have addressed all the feedback received. However, it's not clear what the next step is in terms of getting corrections/updates actually implemented. Do you have time to chip in? If there's something else I need to do or some other feedback I need to address, please let me know. ZacBond (talk) 18:03, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-10

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Tech News: 2023-11

MediaWiki message delivery 23:18, 13 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 55

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 55, January – February 2023

  • New bundle partners:
    • Newspapers.com
    • Fold3
  • 1Lib1Ref January report
  • Spotlight: EDS SmartText Searching

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Tech News: 2023-12

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Tech News: 2023-13

MediaWiki message delivery 01:11, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Growth team newsletter #25

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Tech News: 2023-14

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Tech News: 2023-15

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Lenovo IdeaPad Edits

Hi John Broughton. I work for Lenovo. I disclosed a COI and started a conversation at Talk:IdeaPad#Potential_Revisions_to_Page about a year ago about the page being flooded with out-dated technical specs of individual products. I shared a table similar to what's on ThinkPad#Current_model_lines that would bring it up-to-date and make the page less unwieldly. It seems like editors generally support incorporating the table, but nobody has actually made any edits. I understand that I'm not supposed to make edits myself. My hope is that you might be willing to chime in and make whatever edits you deem best for Wikipedia? StuartGill (talk) 15:08, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-16

MediaWiki message delivery 01:52, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

New Page Patrol – May 2023 Backlog Drive

New Page Patrol | May 2023 Backlog Drive
  • On 1 May, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin.
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Tech News: 2023-17

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Tech News: 2023-18

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Tech News: 2023-19

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Tech News: 2023-20

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Tech News: 2023-21

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Books & Bytes – Issue 56

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 56, March – April 2023

  • New partner:
    • Perlego
  • Library access tips and tricks
  • Spotlight: EveryBookItsReader

Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --10:03, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

TheWikiWizard - May 2023

Hey, John Broughton! Here is the May 2023 edition for the TheWikiWizard!

Humor

  • Now is the time to start writing those Christmas cards and do the Christmas shopping! Come December, you can sit back and edit Wikipedia! ;)
  • When it snows in December/Winter, stock up the snow in your freezer, so when it gets hot you can do a snowball fight in the summer!

Wiki(P/M)edia News

  • A conversation with trustees event took place on the 18th of May. You can read more details on the event here!
  • On the English Wikipedia some RFAs which took place the past few months. You can see the full details at the RFA main page.
  • There is a event (Conference) that is taking place in city of Belgrade. More details on the event can be found by clicking on the link!

Editor's Notes

  • I apologies for the delay in the issues, however I can guarantee you that I am always thinking of TWW and haven't forgotten about it :) School's so busy!
  • If you want to help out TWW, let me know!
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Growth team newsletter #26

15:14, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-22

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Tech News: 2023-23

MediaWiki message delivery 22:50, 5 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Great minds think alike—we saw and used the same source to update the article, and had the same reaction to the positioning of the section. I went ahead and overwrote your fixed-up version with my own more extensively fixed-up version. So I think I owe you an apology, and you may want to check for any stupid typos I made. Yngvadottir (talk) 02:03, 8 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Yngvadottir: I like your version more than mine - I was just passing through, making minimal edits, plus adding a citation. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 15:19, 8 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2023-24

MediaWiki message delivery 14:48, 12 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

Hello John Broughton,

New Page Review queue April to June 2023

Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.

Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.

You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.

Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).

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Books & Bytes – Issue 57

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IP Block - Appeal

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

John Broughton (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribsdeleted contribs • filter log • creation logchange block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))


Request reason:

I'm blocked from editing because I'm connecting from IP address 173.222.3.121 . I'm using a Verizon hotspot (borrowed from a library) to connect to the internet, and so the IP address is in no way a personal one. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 21:45, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Accept reason:

I'm marking you as WP:IPBE for a year. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 22:10, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Books & Bytes – Issue 58

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:45, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I have reverted an edit of yours on this article, and would like to remind you about WP:BRD. When your Bold edit has been Reverted by another editor, the recommended next step, if you continue to think the edit is necessary, is to Discuss the dispute on the article talk page with other editors, but not to re-revert it, which is the first step to edit warring, a disruptive activity which is not allowed. Discussion on the talk page is the only way we have of reaching consensus, which is central to resolving editing disputes in an amicable and collegial manner, which is why communicating your concerns to your fellow editors is essential. While the discussion is going on, the article generally should remain in the status quo ante until the consensus as to what to do is reached (see WP:STATUSQUO).

Please remember that as the person attempting to make a change to the article, the WP:ONUS is on you to justify the change, and to get a consensus if it is disputed; and again, please do not edit war. Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:53, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Beyond My Ken: I was hoping that you'd actually explain the reasons for your revert; apparently you're reluctant to do that. So I'll post something on the article talk page, as you request, in the hopes that you'll actually explain your objections. Also, FYI, (1) WP:BRD is an essay, not a guideline or policy, and (2) WP:ONUS doesn't have anything to do with this discussion (please follow the link). -- John Broughton (♫♫) 01:06, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I reverted because you removed pertinent and sourced information from the article without a consensus to do so, and your explanation for the removal was not relevant.
And yeah, I've been here 18 years with over 300,000 edits, I know BRD is an essay. I also know that the vast majority of Wikipedia editors follow it, including almost all admins. Did you known that removing sourced material without a consensus to do so is considered by those admins to be WP:Disruptive editing? Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:12, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Beyond My Ken: No, I didn't know that removing sourced material without a consensus was considered disruptive editing. (Removing "pertinent" information seems disruptive to me, but of course "pertinent" is a subjective criteria, while "sourced" is not.) Would you mind pointing out the specific wording in WP:Disruptive editing to which you're referring? (I can't find that.) -- John Broughton (♫♫) 19:32, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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TheWikiWizard - September 2023

Hello, John Broughton! Here is the September 2023 for the TheWikiWizard!

Wiki(p/m)edia News

  • On the EN Wikipedia, there were 4 successful RFAs between the period of July and September! Congrats to the candidates! Also on Simple English Wikipedia, they had 1 successful RFA in August!
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November Articles for creation backlog drive

Hello John Broughton:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 59

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Issue 59, September – October 2023

  • Spotlight: Introducing a repository of anti-disinformation projects
  • Tech tip: Library access methods

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:10, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment of Rashmika Mandanna

Can you please assess the class rating of the article of Rashmika Mandanna as I have essentially redone the entirety of it. Thank you! Iknowthingsaboutstuff1 (talk) 20:08, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Iknowthingsaboutstuff1: Sure, done. Thank you for all the work you did to improve the article. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 20:38, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you so much! Iknowthingsaboutstuff1 (talk) 21:40, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 23

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Books & Bytes – Issue 60

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 60, November – December 2023

  • Three new partners
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TheWikiWizard - February 2024

Humour

  • Does editing Wikipedia burn calories? If it does, does it count as exercise? ;)
  • TWW is back from being long dormant. It was a nice "Hibernation" lol.

Wiki(P/M)edia news

  • Voting regarding the Universal Code of Conduct is taking place on Meta Wiki. More information can be found via the link
  • EN Wikipedia has a few new Administrators following their successful RFA!
  • Information on the upcoming Steward Election on Meta can be found here
  • A new feature called Reference Previews has been created. More information: here

Editor's Notes

  • I apologise for the delay, I was not able to edit until recently.
  • I hope to have TWW published more frequently from this issue onwards. Ideally at least every 2 months. Since its near the end of the month, I decided to name this issue February.
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Welcome to the drive!

Welcome, welcome, welcome John Broughton! I'm glad that you are joining the drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:20, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reassessment of Maya Ali

Can you please assess the class rating of the article of Maya Ali as I have essentially redone the entirety of it. Thank you Iknowthingsaboutstuff1 (talk) 18:50, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Iknowthingsaboutstuff1: Done. You might want to revise this sentence:
According to Maya Ali, her father was against her working in the entertainment industry and did not talk to her for six years and According to Maya Ali, his father was died in 2016 and she was in very gulit why she choose showbiz industry
-- John Broughton (♫♫) 19:04, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oh my, I'm so sorry, I evidently didn't check clearly enough. I've altered the sentence. What do I have to do to get the article to B-Class? Iknowthingsaboutstuff1 (talk) 19:40, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Iknowthingsaboutstuff1: I've created a page - Talk:Maya Ali/B Class Discussion - with comments about wording and other issues. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 22:52, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you so much for taking time to make this! I’ve made all possible corrections but the resources available for Pakistani actors is very limited so I was unable to find anything more on Ali’s degree, but otherwise everything has been completed. Iknowthingsaboutstuff1 (talk) 00:56, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 24

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Books & Bytes – Issue 61

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 61, January – February 2024

  • Bristol University Press and British Online Archives now available
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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

Hello John Broughton,

New Page Review queue January to March 2024

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

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Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.

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New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive

New Page Patrol | May 2024 Articles Backlog Drive
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:14, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reassessment of Rashmika Mandanna to GA Class

Hi, I was wondering if you could please reassess the article for Rashmika Mandanna as I have made alterations that I believe allow it to qualify for GA-Class, if these are not enough, could you please provide notes as to where I can make further improvements? Thanks. 19Arham (talk) 20:06, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@19Arham: I'm not a GA reviewer, so I can't help you directly. But there is a standard process for getting an article assessed as GA-class - see Wikipedia:Good article nominations. I recommend that you post something there. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 21:46, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, okay, thank you anyway 19Arham (talk) 06:54, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Books & Bytes – Issue 62

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 62, March – April 2024

  • IEEE and Haaretz now available
  • Let's Connect Clinics about The Wikipedia Library
  • Spotlight and Wikipedia Library tips

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Books & Bytes – Issue 63

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 63, May – June 2024

  • One new partner
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 25

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New pages patrol September 2024 Backlog drive

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin August Issue 2

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Upcoming and current events and conversationsTalking: 2024 continues

  • Language Community meeting (August 30 at 15:00 UTC).
  • Cross-Regional Grantee Partner Learning Conversation Part 1 (August 31 at 07:00 UTC, in English, French, and Chinese Mandarin).
  • The Wikimedia+Libraries Convention 2025 will take place in Mexico City from January 15-17, 2025. The scholarship application deadline is August 31.
  • ESEAP Community Call (September 8 at 07:00 UTC).

Annual Goals Progress on InfrastructureSee also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

  • Highlights of the Product & Technology department's recent work in improving the user experience.
  • Editor tools related to references & categories and more tech updates on the latest Tech News.
  • Outreachy (a paid, remote three-month internship to support underrepresented groups in tech) is open. Mentors should submit projects before September 11 at 16:00 UTC (more info).
  • The Campaign Events extension is now available on Meta-Wiki, Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested in other language wikis.
  • The Campaigns teams would like to learn more about how your communities do online collaboration such as WikiProjects, please take this Google Form survey or share examples of successful collaborations on Meta Wiki.
  • Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.
  • Applications for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) are still open until September 16.

Annual Goals Progress on EquitySee also a list of all movement events: on Meta

  • Central Asian community members share their thoughts on Wikimania 2024.
  • Take a look at updates on new feature developments and improvements in various language-related technical projects in the July 2024 edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter.
  • The Conference and Events Fund is open for submission until September 2.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & IntegritySee also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

  • Meet the Wikimedia Foundation Global Advocacy Team.

Board and Board committee updatesSee Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

  • Some next steps on a movement charter: A message from Wikimedia Foundation CEO, Maryana Iskander, Chair of Board of Trustees, Nataliia Tymkiv, and Chair of Governance Committee, Dariusz Jemielniak.
  • Elections for four community-and-affiliate elected seats on the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation will be held from September 3 to September 17. To learn more about the candidates, watch this short "Meet the Candidates" presentations.

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Issue 64, July – August 2024

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Future Audiences call

Hey, I tried to ping users who had signed up to be involved in the Future Audiences work at m:Talk:Future Audiences#The next monthly Future Audiences video call: September 26, 15:00 UTC, but a typo meant I never pinged you. Making sure you're aware of this call, in case you want to participate or look at it later. Johan (WMF) (talk) 21:15, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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