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Administrators' newsletter – May 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).

Administrator changes

Gnangarra • Kaisershatner • Malcolmxl5

CheckUser changes

Callanecc

Oversight changes

HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news

• Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
• Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
• A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
• A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.

Technical news

• The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
• Enterprisey created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.

Miscellaneous

• A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:19, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Why'd that edit work

Regarding your fix for the formWizard re: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women writers#Join project button, it's not immediately obvious to me where that's being used. Curious what I'm missing. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 10:37, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Amorymeltzer, When making an edit MediaWiki:Gadget-formWizard-core.js grabs a token through mw.user.tokens.get('csrfToken'), and user.options is the ResourceLoader module for user.tokens - see mw:ResourceLoader/Migration_guide_(users)#MediaWiki_1.35. Galobtter (pingó mió) 16:19, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

I suspected it was related to that! I followed the issue, but I just could never trigger any difference. That is, I get that user.tokens shouldn't be loaded, but when is user.options not available? Besides, I thought doing mw.user.tokens.get('csrfToken') was supposed to load when run? ~ Amory (u • t • c) 19:20, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Amorymeltzer, hmm I couldn't actually figure that out. Both mw.user.tokens and mw.user.options are created by JavaScript in the HTML head and so by the time you'd click the join project button it should definitely exist. So not sure why that didn't (presumably) exist for Vanamonde unless there was some weird script blocking going on. I also feel like I've seen people have intermittent issues with formWizard before so I'm not sure any issues necessarily have to do with the recent merge of the modules. Galobtter (pingó mió) 22:19, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Okay so it's not just me! 😄 In this case, since it's an IIFE and there are no mw.loader.usings, I guess the gadget could have loaded before the base? ~ Amory (u • t • c) 09:42, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Even if MediaWiki:Gadget-formWizard-core.js loaded before the tokens did, the tokens are only queried in the modifyWikiPage/createWikiPage functions which are called at the last stage of the form - by that time certainly the tokens would have been set. Galobtter (pingó mió) 00:24, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Stale report

If you get a chance, could you please update User:Galobot/report/Articles by Lint Errors? Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:03, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Jonesey95, updated. I'd noticed it wasn't updating but hoped it would fix itself since it seemed related to the query timing out due to toolforge issues. It looks like the part of query that gave the number of errors by type was slowing it down quite a bit and so I nixed that and that seems to have fixed the issue. Might be able to add back errors by type using the API to query each page. Galobtter (pingó mió) 00:08, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

VPTECH thread on SHORTDESC gadget's metadata output

FYI

 – Pointer to relevant discussion elsewhere.

Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Short description metadata issues.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  20:28, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

EE complaint

I complained as requested. Why is it deleted? I am on the smartphone, dome errors in the complaint are possible, but should not be decisive. Please return my complaint back.Čeha (razgovor) 06:39, 21 May 2020 (UTC)