User talk:Tails Wx

Help on getting a Wikipedia page reviewed

Hi Tails,

Thanks for sharing your feedback on the Wikipedia page: Draft:Azure Event Hubs - Wikipedia

I just need some help in understanding how we can get the updated content reviewed again. I submitted my changes several months ago and it is still in the pending status. Anything I need to do to it from my side.

Thanks in advance for your help and contribution to Wikipedia. Kasunindrasiri (talk) 16:51, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Kasunindrasiri! The updated content can be reviewed again by another reviewer no later than 2 months (my estimate,) but it's because there's Category:Pending AfC submissions ~4,500+ other drafts waiting for review, which is probably why it's taking a very long time. Thanks for your patience! And if you want me to review and see if it satisfies WP:NCORP, feel free to ask! Tails Wx 16:57, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi Tails,

I really appreciate, your quick response. I'll be great if you review the updated content and share any feedback on it. Thanks in advance. Kasunindrasiri (talk) 22:12, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

Alright, will do! I'll start reviewing and will give feedback when the review concludes! Tails Wx 23:29, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, Tails. I really appreciate your help. Please let me know if you any new feedback on the updated article. Kasunindrasiri (talk) 17:14, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Sorry about the delay, I’m on the last portions of the draft. Thanks for your patience, feedback will be given no later than the fourth of June! Tails Wx 01:11, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Well, a reviewer declined it before I would give my feedback, but I concur; some sources have passing or even no mention of the platform, and a few paragraphs have no reliable sources. You could also check the reviewer’s comment as well! Tails Wx 15:32, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, Tails. I'm working on updating the draft with the new feedback. Kasunindrasiri (talk) 13:07, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

May thanks

May songs

my story today

Thank you for improving articles in May. - I had a good story on coronation day: the Te Deum we sang that day. And the following day we sang it for the composer ;)

I nominated Soňa Červená for GA just to give her a bit more exposure, and I took some pics of bright scenery - click on songs. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:43, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

Gerda Arendt, nice pictures and GA nomination! I think Soňa Červená is a solid article, and also, thanks for your help on Maria Mies! Tails Wx 20:03, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

I did a bit for the latter, but it was SusunW who turned the unusual article into a Wikipedia article ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:05, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

Yeah-though I must credit and thank you two for expanding, referencing, and fixing the article! Tails Wx 20:15, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

She did much more than I did - I took pictures outside, also new memory and music, and ten years ago I had a DYK for my most serious article --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:22, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Nice! Another ITN–thanks to you and SusunW for you help in promoting the article to ITN! Tails Wx 18:30, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! - Pentecost was full of music, and my story today is that 300 years ago today, Bach became Thomaskantor, with BWV 75, writing music history. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:34, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Ooh, Bach became Thomaskantor? I never knew that, I’ve played his music for some time! Tails Wx 01:13, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-22

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• Citations can once again be added automatically from ISBNs, thanks to Zotero's ISBN searches. The current data sources are the Library of Congress (United States), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (French National Library), and K10plus ISBN (German repository). Additional data source searches can be proposed to Zotero. The ISBN labels in the VisualEditor Automatic tab will reappear later this week. [1]
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Tech News: 2023-23

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• The RealMe extension allows you to mark URLs on your user page as verified for Mastodon and similar software.
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Problems

• For a few days last week, some tools and bots returned outdated information due to database replication problems, and may have been down entirely while it was being fixed. These issues have now been fixed. [7]

Changes later this week

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• Bots will no longer be prevented from making edits because of URLs that match the spam blacklist. [8]

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Question from Cassalee (22:59, 7 June 2023)

Hello!! I'm confused. I love rainbows 🌈 I am a 60s flowerchild 4ever!! --Cassalee (talk) 22:59, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

Some sushi for you!

	Some sushi for you!
	Heard you've been busy lately. Anyways, nice work defending Wikipedia against that sock that wont give up.. Here, have some sushi! 🛧Layah50♪🛪 ( 話す? 一緒に飛ぼう！) 13:36, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Layah50, and thanks for the sushi! Delicious! :) Anyway, yeah, I’ve been quite busy lately, as with most summers for me, such as camps (AI, NLP, tennis, and others!) vacations (Michigan today!) and daily life. Oh, and I’ll be on the lookout for any suspicious activity! Tails Wx 16:13, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-24

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• The content attribution tools Who Wrote That?, XTools Authorship, and XTools Blame now support the Dutch, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias. This was the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [9]
• The Search Preview panel has been deployed on four Wikipedias (Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian and Norwegian). The panel will show an image related to the article (if existing), the top sections of the article, related images (coming from MediaSearch on Commons), and eventually the sister projects associated with the article. [10]
• The RealMe extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software. [11]
• The default project license has been officially upgraded to CC BY-SA 4.0. The software interface messages have been updated. Communities should feel free to start updating any mentions of the old CC BY-SA 3.0 licensing within policies and related documentation pages. [12]

Problems

• For three days last month, some Wikipedia pages edited with VisualEditor or DiscussionTools had an unintended __TOC__ (or its localized form) added during an edit. There is a listing of affected pages sorted by wiki, that may still need to be fixed. [13]
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Question from MorgansGirl (10:45, 14 June 2023)

Hi Tails, hope you’re doing well! Back in February I was trying to get a website whitelisted (www.gareththomas-actor.com) as a legit external resource for the entry on Gareth Thomas (1945-2016). I can’t seem to find out if it was ever resolved, or even what the response was, but the link isn’t in the article, so I’m assuming it wasn’t sorted. Are you able to help by any chance? Thank you! MorgansGirl --MorgansGirl (talk) 10:45, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi again, MorgansGirl! I did enter in a request, but there was no response, and was archived, unfortunately. I might enter in a new request or even ask an admin for assistance on the whitelisting in the next few days. Hope you’re doing well! Tails Wx 21:07, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

That would be great, thanks so much! Cheers, MorgansGirl MorgansGirl (talk) 08:25, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Robert Holmes Bell

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Hello tails!

Would you like to be my 2 tailed fox friend? GoAnimator Matthew (talk) 01:13, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

You know, I really don’t have any friends!

Can you be my two tailed friend? GoAnimator Matthew (talk) 01:17, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

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So Tails, are you in Grand Rapids Michigan?

Because that is where I am going in a month! GoAnimator Matthew (talk) 13:13, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	You Deserve This For Your Hard Work To Stop Vandalism, Sock Puppets, Harassment, Etc! :) GoAnimator Matthew (talk) 01:49, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

Hello Tails Wx,

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.

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Tech News: 2023-25

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Recent changes

• Flame graphs are now available in WikimediaDebug. [17][18]

Changes later this week

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• There is now a toolbar search popup in the visual editor. You can trigger it by typing \ or pressing ctrl + shift + p. It can help you quickly access most tools in the editor. [19][20]

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June thanks

June songs

my story today

Thank you for improving articles in June! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:33, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! And I’d like to thank you on your incredible job working on Gabriele Schnaut! Tails Wx 13:10, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Gabriele Schnaut

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Hi

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Tech News: 2023-26

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Recent changes

• The Action API modules and Special:LinkSearch will now add a trailing / to all prop=extlinks responses for bare domains. This is part of the work to remove duplication in the externallinks database table. [21]

Problems

• Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours. [22][23]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on all wikis from 29 June (calendar).
• The Minerva skin now applies more predefined styles to the .mbox-text CSS class. This enables support for mbox templates that use divs instead of tables. Please make sure that the new styles won't affect other templates in your wiki. [24][25]
• Gadgets will now load on both desktop and mobile by default. Previously, gadgets loaded only on desktop by default. Changing this default using the |targets= parameter is also deprecated and should not be used. You should make gadgets work on mobile or disable them based on the skin (with the |skins= parameter in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition) rather than whether the user uses the mobile or the desktop website. Popular gadgets that create errors on mobile will be disabled by developers on the Minerva skin as a temporary solution. [26]
• All namespace tabs now have the same browser access key by default. Previously, custom and extension-defined namespaces would have to have their access keys set manually on-wiki, but that is no longer necessary. [27]
• The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the standardized user interface components. [28]

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Study Invitation

Hey @Tails Wx, thanks for your support in the Discord channel and on my talk page. I wonder if you are still interested in our ongoing study for patrollers. The study aims to evaluate AI models that power recent change filters, Huggle, SWViewer, and many other anti-vandal tools. Your feedback can be really helpful! If you're interested, please check out our recruitment page for more information. Thank you for your consideration! Tzusheng (talk) 02:53, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Could you assess Tornado outbreak of February 12, 1945

Hey Tails Wx! I wanted to ask if you could assess Tornado outbreak of February 12, 1945 to see if it qualifies as a B class article. I don’t feel comfortable rating the article since I did most of the edits on it. Thank you in advance! The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 21:11, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

It looks fine! Just one thing—is there any other information for the 5 remaining tornadoes on the list? Tails Wx 22:11, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

I checked just about everything I could. I can’t even find other sources about any of the tornadoes. A passing mention here and there for the Montgomery one, but the others are sourced out. I think B class is about as high as the article could go sadly since there isn’t any other information out there. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 04:04, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023

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Guideline and policy news

• Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.

Technical news

• Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.

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• Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

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