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Tech News: 2018-13

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Tech News: 2018-14

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
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• MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week. [6][7][8]
• The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed. [9]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
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ANI

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is BrillLyle. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:34, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

April 2018

Hi. I see you state on ANI that you were "bewildered and shocked" to see the redirect Andy Mabbett, which you "stumbled upon" when you were looking at Andy Mabbett's "very long block log". I believe you about the stumbling, but I'm quite unimpressed by your listing of the redirect at RFD, which does look like retaliation to me. Your dragging AM's block log into the discussion at ANI is unimpressive too. His mention there of your very recent block at Wikidata, by contrast, seems relevant to his complaint, with its suggestion that you listed the redirect in retaliation for the Wikidata block. What does his block log have to do with price of tea in China? Is it relevant to the redirect, or to the article? I can't see it. This is a warning. Don't use Wikipedia's boards, such as RFD, to express grudges, especially not grudges imported from other projects. Also please don't take irrelevant potshots about block logs. Bishonen | talk 19:19, 7 April 2018 (UTC).

Hi @Bishonen: I've thought a lot about what you said here. It is very odd, actually, because everything you describe is what Andy Mabbett is currently doing to me. I am not the one with the long history of aggressive and unpleasant behavior with an almost omnipresent focus on the boards, resulting in multiple blocks, bad feelings, and general mayhem. Mabbett is only empowered by fellow editors such as yourself to continue in this way. For example, I question the motivation in writing this here on my talk page, in support of his actions and misbehavior. The effect of what you are doing is re-echoing the harassment he is working upon me. I think this might be something you would benefit from examining. Personally, I spend the majority of my time editing, and hope to not be on the boards going forward if at all possible. -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 18:56, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigation

Hi. An editor has opened an investigation into sockpuppetry by you. Sockpuppetry is the use of more than one Wikipedia account in a manner that contravenes community policy. The investigation is being held at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/BrillLyle, where the editor who opened the investigation has presented their evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to investigations, and then feel free to offer your own evidence or to submit comments that you wish to be considered by the Wikipedia administrator who decides the result of the investigation. If you have been using multiple accounts (in a manner contrary to Wikipedia policy), please go to the investigation page and verify that now. Leniency is usually shown to those who promise not to do so again, or who did so unwittingly, but the abuse of multiple accounts is taken very seriously by the Wikipedia community.

Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:25, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Floyd stuff

If you're interested in writing Floyd articles, I put a draft proposal at Wikipedia talk:Featured topic questions#Pink Floyd some time back to make Pink Floyd a good topic ie: a collection of articles on a subject that are all at least good article standard or above. A lot of the albums are GA / FA already, but there are still a few holes. I have a bunch of book sources here to tackle most of them; just I'm working through a similar project on Genesis at the moment, and I don't want to have too many fingers in pies. How does that grab you? Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 18:39, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi @Ritchie333: Thanks for writing! Unfortunately neither Pink Floyd nor Genesis is my wheelhouse as far as music interest goes. And I don't really believe in the whole Good Article / Featured Article, etc. thing on Wikipedia. Which is another discussion probably. It's not my focus. Personally, I like to do BLPs that are either rescues or scrubs, and I try to focus on entries about women, people of color, and folks from diverse backgrounds. If I do entries related to music I typically only do music that I am currently a bit obsessed by and listening to at the moment. It tends to be singer-songwriter with a country tinge, folks that are on independent labels and are struggling a bit, so can use every bit of good factual info out there are possible. :-) It sounds like you are doing some great work! All the best to you. -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 18:47, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

I personally use the GA process because I'm not really confident of my prose-writing skills too much and prefer somebody to take a thorough look at my work after I've finished. Also, having the projects is a good way to stay focused on writing and not get distracted by all the dramah and silliness that goes on elsewhere.

I do try and help out writing articles about women and ethnic minorities when I can (I'm particularly happy to have rescued Annie Yellowe Palma from deletion); it's something my other half is interested in writing but I think she's finally given up on WP as being too hostile now. I'm just not particularly good at writing BLPs of women though and do it mainly because I feel tackling systemic bias is important. It manifests itself in other ways; for example Line the Label (biggest claim to fame is supplying clothing to Meghan Markle) isn't an article that the stereotypical Wikipedian is likely to be interested in, plus I'm still annoyed at The Mariposa Trust (a charity that helps people cope with the aftermath of miscarriages, something I am grateful never to have suffered myself) being deleted, despite a serious attempt at DRV to overturn it. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 18:59, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

I'm sorry to hear that your wife doesn't want to brave the WikiVerse. I don't blame her. It is no picnic, especially if you are trying to add content or are significantly working to improve articles. I too have tried as much as possible to focus on the editing. I have a graduate degree in library science and hoped to be able to use those skills here, which is why I am obsessed with citations and authority control. I have also worked as a word processor (on speed as it were) here in NYC for over 16 years, so I like the formatting and organizing of information. I hope I can remain an editor, but like your wife, the hostility -- especially to content like you describe in the AfD above -- is overwhelming. I am not sure if it has anything to do with my gender or not, but the fact that the majority of the editors who are either mentally ill or just plain unpleasant coalition with each other and act in bad faith are typically white men doesn't make it any easier. I'm just whinging and moaning at this point, but I truly do love to edit Wikipedia, and hope that maybe your wife might reconsider. We need a diverse background of editors here, and retention is at an all time low. But it's not a healthy thing to do, to edit Wikipedia. It has been very disruptive in my life. I am not sure how long I can continue, especially given the current situations. :-( -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 19:08, 8 April 2018 (UTC)