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Administrators' newsletter – November 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017).
Administrator changes
Longhair • Megalibrarygirl • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93
Allen3 • Eluchil404 • Arthur Rubin • Bencherlite
Technical news
- The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team is creating an "Interaction Timeline" tool that intends to assist administrators in resolving user conduct disputes. Feedback on the concept may be posted on the talk page.
- A new function is now available to edit filter managers that will make it easier to look for multiple strings containing spoofed text.
Arbitration
- Eligible editors will be invited to submit candidate statements for the 2017 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 12 until November 21. Voting will begin on November 27 and last until December 10.
- Following a request for comment, Ritchie333, Yunshui and Ymblanter will serve as the Electoral Commission for the 2017 ArbCom Elections.
Obituaries
- The Wikipedia community has recently learned that Allen3 (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as JohnCD. Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.
Orphaned non-free image File:Kygo Kids in Love album cover.jpg
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This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2017)
 "Pay no more than Ceiling Prices", WWII U.S. poster
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Sorry but..
So I heard this from my science teacher and ( I'm in high school ) and I asked if everything I said was true and she said " yes " and I give a big point of view. If you deni that then may I please join wiki cause there are thing I knew — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.255.115.249 (talk) 22:08, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
- Wikipedia does not accept original thought, nor your point of view. Hence this is why your edits to Goby have been removed. theinstantmatrix (talk) 22:18, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
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Thanks
Sorry about all the Nae Nae vandalism. Here's a cookie! SuperTurboChampionshipEdition (talk) 01:41, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
You're welcome! By the way, thanks for the cookie! theinstantmatrix (talk) 01:48, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
A message from PunGuyMcGee
Thank you for not banning me. I am still new to editing and last time I corrected something that account was banned without a set time. PunGuyMcGee (talk) 15:34, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
Block of Oof^2
Hi. I think you were overly harsh with Oof^2, who test edited the article Eagle Valley High School. He made three test edits in just a few minutes and he got blocked. You didn't exhaust the test warning templates, didn't give him a chance to read the warnings and didn't even welcome him to Wikipedia. From Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers, "Remember Hanlon's Razor. Behavior that appears malicious might be from ignorance of our expectations and rules. Even if you are 100% sure that someone is a worthless, no-good Internet troll, vandal, or worse, conduct yourself as if they are not. Remember that the apparent test editors have the potential to be tomorrow's editors." And from the policy Wikipedia:Vandalism, editing tests by experimenting users are not considered vandalism unless "a user continues to make test edits despite receiving numerous warnings", but, again, the three test warnings series was not even exhausted, so I don't think he received numerous or fair warnings. Give some lov to new editors. Thinker78 (talk) 21:53, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
- Thinker78, I don't see how these three edits Oof^2 has made are "test edits". They are obviously not test edits, and the user also made misleading edit summaries stating that he "changed school website link to the real one", while in reality, just simply changed the already official link to the school website to an image hosted on gamebanana.com, and also "Added School Mascot". I did give him warnings, yet he seemed to refuse to read it and just continued to vandalize the article. As for the "
didn't even welcome him to Wikipedia
" part and the mentioned WP:BITE, that was a guideline, not a policy; this user caused deliberate damage to the article to the point where I ignored WP:BITE, and just flat out give him warnings until I had enough and reported the user to ANV as a vandalism-only account. This user possibly knows too much for an everyday new user, such as vandalism a minute after he migrated to the English Wikipedia. Including the block and the warnings, that wasn't done to bite a user; it was to prevent further disruption to the project itself. Regards, theinstantmatrix (talk) 23:59, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2017)
 An optical illusion. Square A is exactly the same shade of grey as Square B. (See Checker shadow illusion.)
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Oružjem protivu otmičara (1995)
Greetings, Theinstantmatrix!
As I'm not sure whether you'll read a message in Serbian, I shall type this one in English. I'm a newbie to Wikipedia and I wanted to create a page dedicated to the first album by the power-pop band Oružjem protivu otmičara (eng. Oruzjem protivu otmicara). However, it seems that you reported two of the photographs that I added to the page as violating copyright laws. Considering that I do other things in life and can't possibly be bothered with reading zounds of Wikipedia pages regarding copyright, I've come to you, asking "What have I done wrong?". There certainly is a catch as to how one should upload album covers to Wikipedia, and it would mean a lot to me if you were to show me this catch. Please know that it was never my intention to violate any copyright laws, and it most certainly wasn't my intention to take anything away from a band that I so truly admire.
Please get back in touch soon.
Yours faithfully, Apples3.14
Apples3.14 (talk) 16:11, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
| For your work today reverting the vandal bots. Chris Troutman (talk) 07:33, 19 November 2017 (UTC) |
This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2017)
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Some baklava for you!
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Thank you very much.[1] Ber31 (talk) 05:26, 19 November 2017 (UTC) |
- @Ber31: You're welcome! This is part of some kind of long-term abuse where this user uses proxy IPs to revert mostly good-faith contributions and issue bogus warnings. The editors and admins are currently working to rollback the proxy reverts and block those IPs, but he just simply switches to a new IP to evade those blocks. It's getting late in the night here (Eastern Standard Time, at this time of post it's 1:44 AM), so I stopped rollbacking and let another editor do the rest. theinstantmatrix (talk) 06:44, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
- Just a note here, this similar thing also happened back on the very beginning of October. theinstantmatrix (talk) 07:34, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
Infobox settlement - Thank you!
You were reverted, but the intention was to revert IP 114. Thank you! Also to User:Mr. Guye. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ounkazi&action=history
There are ca 12 000 articles still calling the uppercase variant and missing the namespace in the comment. 400 000 other calls are OK already. The most recent article using uppercase call is from 2012. But only few after June 2009 (date of infobox renaming) do so, mostly created by User:Dr. Blofeld. 80.171.244.112 (talk) 06:11, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
- See response above. Can't ping IPs... theinstantmatrix (talk) 06:44, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
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This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2017)
 A student performing schoolwork
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Recent changes
- You can now test the new advanced search function beta feature on mediawiki.org. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It will come to German and Arabic Wikipedia this week. It will come to more wikis later. [2]
- You can now upload large files with the Internet Archive upload tool. Previously you could not upload files larger than 100 MB. [3]
- You can now use the Timeless skin on all wikis. You can choose skins in Special:Preferences#Appearance. [4]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar).
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20:30, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
Stuventiger
Hey, why did you delete the user profile I wrote? What was wrong with it?! I thought I was supposed to put some information about myself into the user profile to let people know that I'm someone who's trying to help with constructive input and not just one of those jerk that clog up the internet with their prattle. But maybe I got that wrong, so please let me know what earned this new user such a harsh welcome. My spare time is limited, so I can't keep writing user profiles and other things just for the wastebin. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stuventiger (talk • contribs) 13:56, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
- Your user page at Commons are not deleted. I have already removed the speedy deletion notice and also here from your pages as a false positive. Sorry about that. Should keep reminding myself that rushing through my job is never going to work. theinstantmatrix (talk) 15:57, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
- It was deleted, but sorry for bothering you with this. Since I saved what I put in there, I'll just put it online again. And thanks for doing your best to protect us from the jerks I was referring to in the above entry. :)
- Ah, and now I got a message about what I'm supposed to do differently. All right. Sorry again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stuventiger (talk • contribs) 20:59, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
A message from Moochooroo
Hi Theinstantmatrix. Thanks for spotting the possible copyright violation of the online screening screenshot on the draft page for Stefan Dollinger. I have contacted the Today Show and asked for transfer or licensing of the non-commercial rights to this screenshot. Please stay tuned. Moochooroo. Moochooroo (talk) 23:56, 30 November 2017 (UTC)