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Tech News: 2018-24

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

  • In the Wikipedia app for Android or iOS users can create reading lists. The reading lists can be seen on different devices if you are logged in to your account. There is now a browser extension so you can add pages to your reading list from a web browser. At the moment it works with Firefox and Chrome. [1]
  • Advanced item There is a new version of Pywikibot. Pywikibot is a tool to automate tasks on MediaWiki wikis. [2]

Problems

  • The MonoBook skin was changed to make it work better for mobile users. This caused some problems. The change was rolled back to fix them. The new version is now back on the wikis. MonoBook users can opt out from the new responsive design. [3]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 June. It will be on all wikis from 14 June (calendar).

Meetings

  • You can join the Readers Web team IRC office hour. There you can discuss tools to contribute on the mobile web for the existing MediaWiki skins. The meeting will be on 18 June at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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21:55, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Historic families of Ghana

@ power~enwiki: Opposed to deletion of article - I'm honestly baffled that you say the article offers nothing in value in relation to its topic. The well-referenced article is about intellectual families that made pioneering contributions to the socioeconomic development of Ghana.You may check the books referenced if you have time. This article is analogous to the articles on Boston Brahmin and Old Philadelphians. I've removed any unsourced family names. If you want to discuss, please let me know.Kandymotownie (π, ν) 12:17, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

Missing person cases in Chile

Hi, I now see why that you want to delete missing persons cases it Chile, which is fine with me as I did not format or name the page the right way. Davidgoodheart (talk) 04:51, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, it was a procedural nomination after seeing the page on the new pages feed. I noticed you created the category afterwards, and assumed the first one was a mistake. power~enwiki (π, ν) 04:52, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

NEED Act

Greetings. Strange that you believe that initiatives by Dennis Kucinich get little notice on the United States (at least). Why would you say that? He's a US Senator with wide coverage in the media, on account of his populist and "anti-establishment" ideas and actions. I'm not here as a "fan" of the person but strictly as a Wiki editor. Take care. -The Gnome (talk) 04:13, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

P.S. Since I'm here, may I ask what are those "discretionary sanctions" to which you refer at the top? I have no idea. -The Gnome (talk) 04:13, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

@The Gnome: He's a former member of the US House of Representatives, not a Senator. And one known for promoting fringe views. Discretionary sanctions are special rules for editing certain areas (such as American Politics): it's easier for admins to place restrictions such as a one revert rule, extended-confirmed protection, or to topic-ban/block users for disruptive behavior. power~enwiki (π, ν) 04:15, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the information. Mea culpa abt DK's being a senator. Still, his views, as I gather from sources, have been and often still are notable, on account of them going against the so-called mainstream. He was far from an unknown politician; even got traction with presidential bids. And thanks for the info on sanctions here; understood. -The Gnome (talk) 04:21, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

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  • Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 06:57, 16 June 2018 (UTC)


Why did you remove my section without a reason.

Trolls gonna troll power~enwiki (π, ν) 21:58, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

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Please provide a reason for the blanket removal of the section I posted at An/I and the very odd wikispeak thing. 91.110.126.210 (talk) 21:42, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

@91.110.126.210: in short: IP editors who are pushing POVs on controversial articles have almost no recourse against tough-but-fair language. I'd recommend you register an account. If you know what "Wikispeak" is, you're not a new editor, and should understand this. power~enwiki (π, ν) 21:46, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
I simply do not have a clue what you are talking about in regard to "pushing POVs on controversial articles". It would help if the article in question registered users would actually engage in a discussion when one is started. 91.110.126.210 (talk) 21:51, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

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Preserving content

Hi I had only just realized you rarely use {{replyto}}. If I am not mistaken you have flagged the page Legato (framework) for deletion. I am wondering if there is a way of preserving the content in the case the content becomes more significant or notable in the future. Thanks. Tet325 (talk) 17:30, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

@Tet325: First, you did the ping wrong so I didn't see it; it is: @{{Reply to|power~enwiki}} not @[[Reply to|power~enwiki]]. Second, if you insist I can remove the PROD tag and nominate the article for deletion instead; that will likely result in the article being deleted in 1-2 weeks and make it harder to be re-created in the future. Third, I can move the article to your userspace (i.e. User:Tet325/Legato; if the product/company becomes more notable in the future you can move it to mainspace; I would recommend using the articles for creation process for that. power~enwiki (π, ν) 21:49, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
@Power~enwiki: Thanks, I think it would be better to move it to my userspace. I will take your recommendation and also take another look at the Wikipedia:Your first article page to help prevent any inconvenience for other editors in the future. Tet325 (talk) 02:41, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

UK politics fact check

You might want to correct 2010 is the year that Theresa May defeated Gordon Brown in a general election since Theresa May wasn't leader then. '2010 Labour defeat' is probably the best description since the Conservatives didn't manage a majority. However this debate is almost entirely within the left / centre-left of British politics and has its roots in New Labour and the Iraq war. 2001:630:E4:1402:2B93:119C:9895:5A25 (talk) 10:20, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Radical Party Afd

Hey, Power~enwiki, thanks for your contribution to the Radical Party AfD. You mentioned something which, as it happens, I thought about creating many many many years ago, namely a notability policy for political parties. I haven't looked at it for many a moon but for reference it is here = User:Doktorbuk/pp. I would love to work with other editors on finally coming up with a guideline for political party notability, maybe it's something we could look at before sending it to a wider audience? doktorb wordsdeeds 19:37, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

I think that's far too complicated. Political parties fall under WP:ORG, but I don't think they are subject to the more stringent rules of WP:CORPDEPTH. It may be worth a section if WP:NPOL (notability of politicians) is expanded to its own page. power~enwiki (π, ν) 19:39, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
Yeah, reading it back after all these years, I really was making quite the administrative nightmare there wasn't I! I may look at asking at NPOL if something could be drawn up for political parties. Thanks for the reply, I may be back to ask you for some ideas later :) doktorb wordsdeeds 19:57, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-25

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

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Some old web browsers will not be able to read the Wikimedia wikis. This is because they use an insecure way to connect to them. This means that we get less security for everyone else too. This affects about 0.08% of all traffic to the Wikimedia wikis. This affects for example those who read Wikipedia on a PlayStation 3. [7][8]
  • The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. Because there is no new MediaWiki version this week it will happen on 25 June for most wikis. For the rest it will happen in early July. [9][10]
  • Advanced item All wikis that have not already done so will switch to use the Remex parsing library on 5 July. This is to replace Tidy. You can help fix remaining errors. [11]

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21:47, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

"delete and redirect"

Hi, in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of national capitals in alphabetical order and I think perhaps some other recent AFDs where we have crossed paths, you "!voted" "delete and redirect". Hey, I object, I think it is not helpful and maybe you are not getting across what you actually would want. It is like you are calling for wp:TNT, which I personally object to, as covered in counter-essay wp:TNTTNT. Whether or not you mean to invoke the TNT essay, you are literally asking for a page to be completely deleted, then to have a new redirect created at the page, but why? Suppose that is done, but then further sources become available, say, and an article gets recreated at the redirect, then there has probably been a violation of Wikipedia's Gnu Public License contract with editors. And there are other reasons against deletion of the edit history.

If, on the other hand, you want the article not to be in mainspace, but to have a redirect in its place, then you should just vote "Redirect". Allow the edit history to be there. I think the edit history rarely does any harm, by the way; even if there is an editor who wants to go against consensus, the availability does not really help them. The edit history in fact can be helpful to keep something killed, because we can see the history of bad edits/POV-pushing/COI editors/whatever and can point to that succinctly if the topic resurrects, not have to go through it all again without memory of past bad stuff.

Maybe this is just semantics, that you are saying "Delete and redirect" when you mean what I would call a "Redirect" vote. Or maybe I am missing something. Could you please comment? sincerely, --Doncram (talk) 01:07, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Meh, this was a bad place for that vote. In a situation like Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Baristas, delete-and-redirect is appropriate because the new redirect is unrelated to the existing page. power~enwiki (π, ν) 01:18, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
Okay, thanks for your reply. About that other case, I think that the edit history about the company "Baristas" is better kept in, so that there is record of who was POV-pushing about it, and that can be pointed out easily. Rather than giving some PR firm a blank slate to start in again, in six months or a year, on this or similar-named versions of an article about the firm. The edit history is like having a wooden stake (I think, i am not sure of the current best vampire-killing tools). :) --Doncram (talk) 01:48, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

On Ujjawal Krishnam

I strongly believe that article satisfies the minimum criteria of notability and should not be abruptly deleted. Instead, an improvement is needed. Please do take part in AfD. AchaksurvisayaUdvejin (talk) 18:36, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

re: Donald Trump's family separation policy

@Volunteer Marek and Atsme: - you are both contributing far more heat than light at this time in the discussion on the family separation policy. I politely ask both of you to refrain from any further comment in that RFC for the next few days. power~enwiki (π, ν) 17:06, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Please refrain from making further "polite" but false allegations about my participation in an important discussion. If you were actually paying close attention to the exchanges - and I don't understand why you have chosen to focus on me when there are far more disruptive exchanges taking place at those articles - you will see that VM has been badgering/baiting me after nearly every comment I've made - and yes, I've been keeping track of the diffs. Atsme📞📧 17:31, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
The biggest problem is the back-and-forth, which both of you are responsible for, regardless of whose behavior is worse. I do disagree with the "Obama started it in 2014" view you give in [12] (and several other diffs) being relevant for the inclusion of some content on this policy on the Trump article. While you're welcome to give your position, repeating it too many times serves only to disrupt the discussion. power~enwiki (π, ν) 17:50, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
It's not back and forth - he asks questions or comments after nearly every comment I make (and also to a few others whose views differ from his) and I try to answer him politely. That is called discussion with a hostile editor - not discussion between 2 hostile editors. It's when he doesn't like my responses that he turns to bludgeoning and PAs - he turns up the heat on me - and I imagine this recent rash is because of this revert, which is now proving to be a good revert based on the responses to his ridiculous actions and allegations as evidenced in the following diffs:
  • [13] - he had a temper tantrum and added a NPOV tag to the article after I reverted his edit;
  • [14] - he said my rationale for removal was even more ridiculous, and accused me of blatant WP:GAMING the "no consensus" restriction, the latter of which coupled with all the other PAs and bludgeoning should get him TB for relentless incivility at Trump-related articles...and yes, several editors can provide the necessary diffs - but that isn't the goal as far as I'm concerned. He can be a productive contributor if he'll stop wearing his emotions on his sleeve, and stop attacking editors with his snarky attacks and aspersions simply because they don't agree with his perspective, which is obviously skewed at times. None of us are perfect. Atsme📞📧 18:38, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
I have no idea what Marek was thinking with [15] this addition. power~enwiki (π, ν) 18:42, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
The one-sidedness of it or the fact it was added to the lead? It probably belongs in the Trump Foundation article, and maybe a bit of mention in the body of the DJT article but in a balanced summary form (all views) and not at the level of detail it was presented by VM. The way things are unfolding now with the Strzok issue and the hearings by the House Oversight Committee with Horowitz & Wray...we're only seeing the tip of the iceberg...wait until OIG submits his report on the Russia investigation. Anyone who wants to see what election interference and a real conspiracy looks like, look no further than our own FBI. Jiminy Cricket!!!! Atsme📞📧 23:41, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

I'm not here to rehash this; rather, I sincerely would like to know which of my comments provoked the following: though some of Atsme's comments are equally problematic. I am simply not aware of why you would consider my comments problematic - it certainly wasn't my intention - but I cannot fix the problem if I don't know it exists. Does that make sense? Atsme📞📧 15:03, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Consensus required

Just to let you know that I have no issue with what you're doing now that I understand the process you'll be using. Also good call on moving the discussion somewhere else. --NeilN talk to me 19:38, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Vacation

I'll be online sporadically (and will respond to talk page posts) through Thursday, then away entirely for the next week or so. power~enwiki (π, ν) 00:00, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: List of Combate Americas Events

Hello Power~enwiki. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of List of Combate Americas Events, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: if the franchise is notable, the list of their events is at least significant enough to pass A7. Thank you. SoWhy 07:58, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Redirecting to Combate America is probably a better option than deletion. power~enwiki (π, ν) 00:01, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Barnstar!

The stalker's barnstar
Thank you for your very efficient handling of an issue on my talk page while I was out of town! MelanieN (talk) 03:16, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-26

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

Problems

  • When a link text was in italics or had other formatting you could sometimes not edit it in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [16][17]

Changes later this week

  • Content translation users who translate between any two of Arabic, English, French, Japanese and Russian will be asked to be part of a research project. This is to create better tools for translating articles. [18]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 June. It will be on all wikis from 28 June (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 June at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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23:10, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Anthony Kennedy

Editors who are interested in the WP:ITNC debate regarding Anthony Kennedy's retirement can find it themselves.

I'm considering attempting to make this Good Article quality, so it will be eligible for a DYK at some point during the coming months. I would be more than happy if some other editor did this instead, possibly one frustrated with the editing situation at Donald Trump or other current-event pages.

At a quick glance, the major issues with the article include limited coverage of the 1975-1988 tenure on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, excessive coverage of some cases (the section on Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders seems unnecessary), and a bunch of bad writing. power~enwiki (π, ν) 04:56, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-27

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

  • The database for tags will be changed. This will happen on 2 July on French Wikipedia and 9 July on all other wikis. Please report if recent changes get slower or you can't save edits. This could especially affect editors who use the database on ToolForge. [19]

Problems

  • Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back. This was because of a database problem. [20]

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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00:46, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

I don't approve of not pinging, generally.

So somewhat belatedly, FYI. —SerialNumber54129 paranoia /cheap sh*t room 12:41, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-28

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

  • WebM video files have smaller file size but still be of the same quality. Creating WebM files will take longer time. [21]
  • The new filters for edit review tools and interface for watchlists will leave beta. This was supposed to already have happened but was delayed. For most wikis this will happen on 9 July. For the rest it will happen on 16 July. [22]
  • Advanced item All wikis now use the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy. This could cause errors. You can help fix the errors. [23]

Problems

  • When you rolled back an edit it could get both the Rollback and Undo tags. This has been fixed. [24]
  • Rollbacks from autopatrolled users were not marked as patrolled. This has been fixed. [25]

Changes later this week

  • When you edit a link in the visual editor there will be two separate buttons to change which page the link goes to (target) or its text (label). [26][27]
  • On the mobile version you can find a link to an editor's contributions from their user page. Now this will work even if they haven't created a user page. [28]
  • When you edit a discussion on the mobile version you sometimes get your signature automatically added. This will now not happen if you have already added a signature manually. This is to avoid double signatures. [29]
  • Structured discussions toolbars will have more style options. [30]
  • Advanced item When you look at Wikimedia code in Gerrit there will be a new interface. It is on by default for new users. This is also true for developers. This is to make it easier to understand what is happening. [31]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 July. It will be on all wikis from 12 July (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 10 July at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 11 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Today all administrators can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. There will be a new user group for editing CSS and JavaScript. Administrators will no longer automatically be able to do this. This is because it is a security risk when all administrator accounts can edit JavaScript even if they never plan to or do not know how it works. You can read more. [32]
  • Page previews will be on by default for new accounts. [33]

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23:09, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

Regarding WP:AE

Hi Power~enwiki, this is in regarding the comment you made [34] where you mentioned me and said that I may need some sanctions and warning. I am a little confused since I explained my actions here [35] and further in the filed WP:AE. I am happy to answer any more questions or concerns you might have about that edit or other edits. Unfortunately, I could retort all the points raised since I was offline for 48-72 hours (mentioned) and the AE was closed with no action in my absence. Sorry, I did not reply to your questions there since I do not want to get involved in that conflict or have anything of note to say there. Also, this was not to hound you but I simply wanted some clarity regarding your concerns WRT to me. Thanks. Adamgerber80 (talk) 18:09, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Garfi (cat)

I added some references to Garfi (cat). You may want to revisit Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Garfi (cat). Eastmain (talk • contribs) 03:50, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

Talkback

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Tech News: 2018-29

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

Changes later this week

  • Your watchlist will show changes from the last seven days instead of three. If you have already set a length preference it will not change. [39]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 18. It will be on all wikis from July 19 (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on July 17 at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on July 18 at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

  • Some articles have messages to readers about problems with the article. For example that it does not cite sources or might not be neutral. Readers do not see these messages on the mobile version. The developers now want to show them. You can read more and leave feedback.
  • You can use <inputbox> to create search boxes for specific pages. For example to search the archives of a community discussion page. Instead of prefix:Page name you will see a text that explains which pages are being searched. You can read more and leave feedback.

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16:01, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Equivalence number method

Hi, I added a reference to the article, but as it is a German textbook on business economics, the better solution would be to wait until a native speaker with a degree in economics, specialised in joint production and the assessment of co-products, will recommend an English textbook as a reference. Please let's have a deletion discussion at the talk page of the article. I admit that I may not have found the proper English term, and "equivalent number method" is only the literal translation of "Äquivalenzziffermethode". So, if you have a better idea for the lemma (method to allocate input costs based on the rule of proportion calculated by equivalent numbers), please let me know. --Gunnar (talk) 11:30, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-30

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Recent changes

  • When you log in to your account you can choose to keep being logged in. This checkbox now works better than before on the mobile version for users without JavaScript. [40]
  • Wikis that use Citoid can automatically generate citations for Swedish news sites. This only works in the visual editor. This now works for Swedish public service radio. More will come. Others could use this to add news sites in other languages in the future. [41]
  • Editors can do max 90 edits per minute. This is new since last month. This does not affect bots or administrators. [42]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 July. It will be on all wikis from 26 July (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 25 July at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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09:44, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Similar AFD to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of foods by calorie

You have participated at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of foods by calorie. Therefore, you might be interested in the following AFD involving lists of food Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of breakfast drinks (2nd nomination) --Tyw7  (🗣️ Talk • ✍️ Contributions) Please ping me if you had replied 11:49, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chiyo Miyako

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Hi, I explicitly requested that this be allowed to run for the full 7 days and you still SNOW close this (and a non-admin closure at that)??? Please self-revert ASAP. Thanks. --Randykitty (talk) 08:24, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

As I said on your talk page, I don't plan to revert myself, but have no objections to your doing so if you insist. power~enwiki (π, ν) 15:59, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
I'm sorry, but you made the mess, you clean it up. --Randykitty (talk) 17:33, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
Fine. power~enwiki (π, ν) 18:54, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Discussion at Talk:Illinois gubernatorial election, 2018#Stop Adding Third Parties to infobox

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Illinois gubernatorial election, 2018#Stop Adding Third Parties to infobox.

I appreciated your comments and actions on the Ohio gubernatorial talk page, and think your assistance would make some difference in a similar situation on the Illinois side. Thanks in advance, Nevermore27 (talk) 02:09, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. (Purge)

Hello 力, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

New technology, new rules
  • New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
  • Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
  • Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.
Editathons
  • Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.
The Signpost
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  • The design on Special:Log has changed. It will change again soon. Developers are working on fixing problems. [43]

Problems

  • Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.13 has been partially delayed. All deployments have been resumed and successfully done after bug fixes. [44][45]
  • Deployment of 1.32.0-wmf.14 has been partially delayed. [46][47]

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14:05, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

1945/politicians?

Hey need a hand? I can take a continent or two off your hands if you want. pbp 22:44, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Feel free to do so, particularly Europe or Asia (I'll start with the Americas). power~enwiki (π, ν) 22:46, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
K I'll try to knock out Europe soon. pbp 23:41, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
I've finished Europe and will do Asia within the next few days. pbp 04:06, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

Why my page is nominated for deletion? can you please elaborate.

Hi, I get it that the article has some buzzwords but those are the services offered by Locus. Can you please elaborate why my page is nominated for deletion? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus.sh

(talk page stalker) I recommend you to see WP:CORPDEPTH and WP:NCORP . Kpgjhpjm 12:30, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Nirapad Sarak Chai

Hello Power~enwiki. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Nirapad Sarak Chai, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: redirecting to the actor's article per WP:ATD-R is possible and viable. Thank you. SoWhy 07:54, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

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  • The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [49][50]

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19:39, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Castleman Disease Collaborative Network Page Deletion

Hi, thank you for reviewing the CDCN page I had created, I was hoping to get more information on why it was deleted and whether or not I could revise the page so that it would be suitable. I understand that I have a conflict of interest in drafting the page, but I believe that there were enough references in appropriate sources to justify a page. Do you feel it is not appropriate to have a page for this subject? If so I will not rewrite the article. I would be happy to remove sections from the article that were not adequately supported by references. Thanks! CDK55 (talk) 13:55, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

Notification of RFC of stub articles about Norwegian mountain

I would like to inform you (if you haven't already been informed by the ping that was sent from the RFD page) that an an RFC has been opened to discuss what should be done with the stubs of Norwegian mountains. I am posting this notice since you had participated in the AFD for the mountains. Therefore, if you or any interested page stalkers / editors would like to chime in, please make your way to the RFC now. --Tyw7 (🗣️ Talk) — If (reply) then (ping me) 01:18, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Onel5969. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Annual event, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

Onel5969 TT me 03:20, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! power~enwiki (π, ν) 03:20, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

Annual event

Isn't it rather a Wiktionary subject?
You don't quote reliable sources.

Xx236 (talk) 09:49, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

A page you started (Annual event) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Annual event, Power~enwiki!

Wikipedia editor Animalparty just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

Why???

To reply, leave a comment on Animalparty's talk page.

Learn more about page curation.

--Animalparty! (talk) 20:20, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/German war effort closed

An arbitration case regarding German war effort articles has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:

  1. For engaging in harassment of other users, LargelyRecyclable is indefinitely banned from the English Wikipedia under any account.
  2. Cinderella157 is topic banned from the history of Germany from 1932 to 1945, broadly construed. This topic ban may be appealed after six months have elapsed and every six months thereafter.
  3. Auntieruth55 is reminded that project coordinators have no special roles in a content dispute, and that featured articles are not immune to sourcing problems.
  4. Editors are reminded that consensus-building is key to the purpose and development of Wikipedia. The most reliable sources should be used instead of questionable sourcing whenever possible, especially when dealing with sensitive topics. Long-term disagreement over local consensus in a topic area should be resolved through soliciting comments from the wider community, instead of being re-litigated persistently at the local level.
  5. While certain specific user-conduct issues have been identified in this decision, for the most part the underlying issue is a content dispute as to how, for example, the military records of World War II-era German military officers can be presented to the same extent as military records of officers from other periods, while placing their records and actions in the appropriate overall historical context. For better or worse, the Arbitration Committee is neither authorized nor qualified to resolve this content dispute, beyond enforcing general precepts such as those requiring reliable sourcing, due weighting, and avoidance of personal attacks. Nor does Wikipedia have any other editorial body authorized to dictate precisely how the articles should read outside the ordinary editing process. Knowledgeable editors who have not previously been involved in these disputes are urged to participate in helping to resolve them. Further instances of uncollegial behavior in this topic-area will not be tolerated and, if this occurs, may result in this Committee's accepting a request for clarification and amendment to consider imposition of further remedies, including topic-bans or discretionary sanctions.

For the Arbitration Committee,

-Cameron11598(Talk) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:32, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Gg cannabis

There are plenty other cannabis strains on wikipedia. Why did you have to create a bias against gorilla glue (gg) which had adequate sources, it almost seems like u are working for the gorilla glue glue company Bacardi379 (talk) 02:54, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

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  • CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [51]

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  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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  • The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [52]

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17:53, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Corbyn

I've declined protection for the minute. The two major players in the current dispute are Snowded and Clivel 0 - the former meets 30/500, the latter doesn't. Extend-protecting the article would therefore hand control to one of the two participants, which doesn't seem fair. We could block them both, but then they can't discuss their differences. I think, for now, we let the talk page discussion play out a bit longer and then suggest dispute resolution if it breaks down. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:13, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Accident

I accidentally reverted your edit to WP:BOTREQ (my finger slipped), all sorted now.--Commander Keane (talk) 04:37, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

No problem, it happens. power~enwiki (π, ν) 04:37, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

Collaboration

Hi Power~enwiki, I've seen your comment here [53], I agree with you that the article needs rework, if you wish I could help to find appropriate sources to do it (I can search in English, Georgian and Russian). To begin with, I will need the basic topics to search for.--Ⴂ. ႡႠႪႠႾႠႻႤ★ 09:36, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

Merge discussion of Myth and Mythology

There is discussion regarding whether the pages Myth and Mythology should be merged, and what the title of a merged page should be, occurring at Talk:Myth. Interested editors should comment on that talk page. power~enwiki (π, ν) 16:15, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

History of beliefs about the human body

this is an essay that should be turned into a redirect to History of anatomy; I don't think any of the content is worth saving in this form there is potential for AfD, of course... —PaleoNeonate – 09:59, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Relational database management system listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Relational database management system. Since you had some involvement with the Relational database management system redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Thryduulf (talk) 10:25, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

EAI Downgrading - Undelete discussion

Hi Power~enwiki, Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:EAI-Downgrading and see if you find it worthy.

Thanks. AjayDAta 18:17, 19 August 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ajaydata (talk • contribs)

@Ajaydata: - you will need to post at requests for undeletion to get the page restored (or hope a friendly admin sees this and does it for you); I am technically unable to do so. power~enwiki (π, ν) 18:19, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
Due to possible conflicts of interest with user Ajaydata and possible promotional content in the deleted page, I am unwilling to endorse the undeletion, even as a procedural measure. power~enwiki (π, ν) 18:22, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Soul Folk

The Soul Folk page was under requested articles... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shanzatiwa (talk • contribs) 19:31, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

You're missing the point. Is there any content other than the (obvious) definition that "Soul Folk" (or "Folk Soul") is a mix of folk music and soul music? I find no reference for "Solk" or anything other than the existence of Folk Soul Revival (a group described as country music). If not, I will have to propose the article for deletion. power~enwiki (π, ν) 20:01, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Request to stop the deletion process

Hi power~enwiki (π, Please read the article in Kiko Laxa Ferrer , It's clearly indicated there that the pictures on the books are models that the published choose for the books as a literary manager he was the one in charge for the two books pictured. Again he isn't the author of the books pictured becaused his books are still in wattpad, He is a notable literary manager and DJ, If you don't live in the Philippines you might not know him. please have it handle by filipino wikipedians for the article still being assessted. I am also a fan of his works and works that he as a literary manager he worked on , I will gladly send you a copy of the book if you wanted to.Franz710 Kixzer (talk) 23:40, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

It's very obviously not "clearly indicated". And the claim that he chose the pictures (apart from being fairly trivial) doesn't appear to be supported by any references. Please note Wikipedia's policies regarding content being verifiable. power~enwiki (π, ν) 23:45, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

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16:46, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Locus.sh

Hi

Can I kindly request you to share your email id or any other contact details for me to speak to you about the recent deletion of Locus page. I am in extreme embarrassment after what has happened. Please understand I am just flabbergasted with the consequences of this deletion. We indeed celebrated the fact the Locus has received a seat on Wikipedia after 4 years of successful operations and achievements. This sudden deletion has left us in a huge dilemma. Please I am pleading here to help me.

Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.151.202.234 (talk) 08:41, 22 August 2018 (UTC)


Note that per this discussion on my talk page, I have restored the Locus.sh article and relisted its deletion discussion. North America1000 12:36, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Talk:Disappearance of Mollie Tibbetts

Thanks for your speedy action on this talk page, however I am embarrassed to say that I accidentally did almost the same thing I complained about, that is, I hit the wrong button and added a speedy delete tag to Talk:Disappearance of Mollie Tibbetts instead of User talk:NTK/Test.

I've reverted this, but it would have the side effect of blocking a move back if that decision were made, which was not my intent. Can you delete Talk:Disappearance of Mollie Tibbetts again and add the redirect? Sorry. 😳 NTK (talk) 16:03, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

You (or anyone else) definitely should not be moving that page without consensus; and a WP:ROUNDROBIN page move will work without doing anything there. power~enwiki (π, ν) 16:06, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
I have moved the page back to its original location, per the following rationale - "While the rationale of "Disappearance" no longer being accurate is correct, no move should have taken place without the completion of this discussion to which NTK referred in their previous edit summary. You can't suggest a consensus discussion, but unilaterally make a decision on your own to move to one of the options being discussed within that conversation." I have already noted my support of the suggested title ("Death of...") in the discussion on the Talk page StrikerforceTalk 18:10, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for the pointer but WP:ROUNDROBIN without suppressredirect rights (normal users) using the "Classic Sequence" requires admin intervention twice in series to delete created redirects. So I don't think that's a better solution for moving onto edited redirect pages than Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests which only needs a single admin intervention and doesn't break anything while waiting on a admin for the delete between steps 2 and 3. NTK (talk) 21:07, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Abuso

Pode ir na wp-pt e dizer para o sysop se foi válido o meu bloqueio? 179.154.60.118 (talk) 03:58, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

You can go to wp-pt and tell sysop if my lock was valid 179.154.60.118 (talk) 03:58, 24 August 2018 (UTC)


sysop User talk:EVinente ‎, 179.154.60.118 (talk) 03:59, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Não vejo vandalismo. só [55]; nao 31 de fevereiro. power~enwiki (π, ν) 04:07, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Articles by Rafreyna

I respectfully ask you to stop flagging my articles for deletion. Many of my articles involve major technologies used by the US Department of Defense and other agencies, so I'm unsure why you're flagging them for notability. I would be happy to speak with you directly about how my articles can be improved, but will need more details on where they are lacking. Rafreyna (talk) 13:23, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

A Barnstar for you!

The New Page Patroller's Barnstar

Thanks for your recent work patrolling new articles, I reviewed some of your recent work and it looks well done. Keep up the good work! Cheers, — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 04:04, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
Thanks. Some of the Asian games articles (such as Pencak silat at the 2018 Asian Games – Women's ganda) weren't perfect (as they're on events about to happen), but those will get cleaned up during the event and there's no point leaving them in the queue. power~enwiki (π, ν) 04:06, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
I agree. The 'events waiting to happen' ones are a bit annoying, but there isn't much point leaving them in the queue. I just dropped a few tags on it in case the original editor fails to come back and fill it in (unlikely but for completeness sake), they can feel free to remove the tags once the info is filled in. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 04:09, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Lucha Libre Elite

Hello Power~enwiki. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Lucha Libre Elite, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: competing in notable events indicates significance. Thank you. SoWhy 07:17, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

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  • Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [57]

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  • Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [58]

Changes later this week

  • The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [59]
  • AWB will stop adding using AWB in the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that says AWB. [60]
  • Advanced item Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title. [61]
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16:16, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hi, Power! Thank you so much for reviewing many of the Iowa political articles I have created. Only a very few such as yourself have done so, so I very truly do appreciate it, and hope to see you around! Thanks again! --Southern Iowan (talk) 21:21, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

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  • There is a new user right for users who can edit CSS and JavaScript for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called interface administrators. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages. [63][64]
  • There will be an A/B test on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks. [65][66]
  • You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of TemplateStyles. [67]
  • wp10 in ORES is now called articlequality. [68]
  • When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed. [69]

Problems

  • UploadWizard had problems with campaigns. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed. [70]
  • You can get a notification when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week. [71]

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16:47, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Too many cooks...

... end up edit-conflicting trying to improve an article. Whoops! Primefac (talk) 16:56, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Yup. I figured it was best to do a clean revert (as the edit was obviously promotional and from obvious autoconfirmed gaming) and restore whatever changes were relevant. Your change about the mention of battery in the lead was reverted by Lepricavark; it's probably worth discussing that on the talk page. I don't see how a variety of (likely-paid) "30 under 30" awards (really just blurbs in slideshow-style infotainment) can possibly be relevant; if you disagree that should be on the talk page as well. power~enwiki (π, ν) 16:59, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Removal of Ces Cru album Catastrophic Event Specialists

Hi

It seems that you've removed the page I created for the album Catastrophic Event Specialists (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Catastrophic_Event_Specialists&redirect=no) I'm not entirely sure why, since the only information on the page was basic info like release date, track list and credits. These are all info that are found in the official CD booklet, and I even found an online source that documents that the info was correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fayzenith (talk • contribs) 13:42, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Arcataroger

Hello Power~enwiki,

Thanks for the ping. I was working IRL and could not look into it promptly. By the time I could, the problem had already been resolved by one of our capable colleagues. I do appreciate it, though. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 03:59, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

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  • When you added or edited a template with the visual editor the input boxes were very big. This has been fixed. The input boxes will now be smaller until you click on them. Then they will change size to fit the text. [73]

Problems

  • Some diffs showed lines in the wrong order. This was fixed last week. [74]
  • Marking a cross-wiki notification as read didn't work every time. The other wiki was not updated. This has now been fixed. [75]
  • <maplink> did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed. [76]
  • {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected. [77]
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22:35, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Changes needed for the sub-section "Restructuring state enterprises" on the Wiki concept "Business"

Hi!

The text about BPM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business) under the sub-section called "Restructuring state enterprises" sounds like it's coming from a BPM salesman. BPM is much more relevant to business process improvement than to restructuring state (or corporate) enterprises. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restructuring and https://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/creating-value-through-corporate-restructuring-how-to-make-restructuring-work-for-your-company

So if we want to use relevant information for the section "Restructuring state enterprises", than we should remove BPM entirely. Maybe have a new section under Business called "Business Process Modeling" and then refer to this instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process_management.

Btw sorry about the change to the text itself, I just forgot that I can use this forum instead.

--Divide-by-Zero-or-3 (talk) 18:20, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

New vital articles politicians and leaders spreadsheet is ready

If you e-mail me using the "e-mail this user" function, I'll get you a copy. pbp 01:53, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

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  • The Wikimedia Commons mobile app has a new version. Images uploaded using Nearby are now automatically added to the associated Wikidata item. You can browse other images on Commons. You can see your achievements and your upload statistics. It has also fixed some bugs. [79]
  • Advanced item MediaWiki web requests now have a time limit of 60 seconds for GET requests and 200 seconds for POST requests. [80]

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  • You could not see the menu on the notifications page on the mobile version. This has now been fixed. [81]

Changes later this week

  • Special:AncientPages can hide disambiguation pages. [82]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 September. It will be on all wikis from 20 September (calendar).

Meetings

Future changes

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21:58, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello 力, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news
As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.
Other
Moving to Draft and Page Mover
  • Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
  • If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
  • Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
  • The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
  • The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.
List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

  • Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget.
  • In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions.
  • MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues.
  • User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page)
  • User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50).
  • User:Primefac/revdel.js(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you.
  • User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js(info): Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link.
  • User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion.
  • User:Evad37/rater.js(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

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

Changes later this week

  • The preferences form will change to use the standard look. If you see any problems please report them on Phabricator. [83]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 September. It will be on all wikis from 27 September (calendar).

Meetings

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15:22, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-40

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

  • Ordinary pages can no longer be loaded as javascript. You could do this using ?action=raw&ctype=text/javascript in the URL. Only fully protected pages in the MediaWiki: namespace or user javascript subpages can be loaded as javascript now. This is for better security. [84][85]

Problems

  • New and updated translations from translatewiki.net will not reach the wikis for a while. You can still translate messages on translatewiki.net. The Wikimedia wikis will be updated with the new translations later. This is because of work on the translation system. [86][87]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 October. It will be on all wikis from 4 October (calendar).

Meetings

  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
  • You can join the meeting with the Wikimedia Foundation Search Platform team. The meeting will be on 3 October at 15:00 UTC. See how to join if you want to know how the search function works or have questions.

Future changes

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.

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17:34, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Possible socks?

Hi Power~enwiki. Because you commented at Talk:Western State Colorado University, I figured I would ask you. What's your thoughts on Rjtoney, Peternoon, TaylorHall1910 all being socks of one another with Agray47 being the master (first account created, asked for name change at Requests for permission)? I'm suspecting the IPs as well, who along with the accounts listed above have only edited WSCU... Thoughts? Corky 19:40, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

I doubt they're all the same person; there's a fairly good chance they're all affiliated with the university's publicity department in some way though. power~enwiki (π, ν) 21:46, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
That's a good point. Though it is still a concern (in my opinion). Thanks for the quick reply! Corky 22:29, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

IP on History of the Catholic Church

Hi power enwiki,
Did you read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ad_Orientem ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.208.204.252 (talk) 04:50, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-41

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

Problems

  • There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now been fixed. [89]

Changes later this week

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
  • Because of the data centre test there will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will come next week instead.

Meetings

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23:38, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Merge proposal: Lock and key

I have proposed a merge of Lock (security device) and Key (lock). You can discuss this merge at Talk:Lock (security device)#Merge_with_Key_(lock). power~enwiki (π, ν) 03:29, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Industry, Business, Company, Investment, oh my!

All of these articles have glaring issues; they also all average over 1000 page-views per day. power~enwiki (π, ν) 03:58, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

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

Problems

  • Some pages, edits and users disappeared for a short while after the server switch. Missing content and users was fixed within a day. Some preferences and other things might take a few more days to fix. [90]
  • Wikis are updated with new and updated translations from translatewiki.net again. This will happen once a week. The developers are working on fixing the problem so we can have translation updates more often again. [91]

Changes later this week

  • When you create an abuse filter that prevents edits you can now write a specific error message for it. Before this all abuse filters that prevented edits had the same error message. [92]
  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 October. It will be on all wikis from 18 October (calendar).

Meetings

  • There will be no more meetings with the Editing team. This is because not enough Wikimedians were interested. To tell developers which bugs you think are the most important you can use Phabricator as normal. [93]
  • Recurrent item Advanced item You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 17 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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22:40, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Paul Allen

On 16 October 2018, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Paul Allen, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. DannyS712 (talk) 03:34, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Poems

Hi you recently removed the text of the poem The Horse (poem). As the owners of the copyright explicitly allow it to be reproduced for free I thought that it would be ok to add it as is a short poem. Could you point me to the policy or guidelines that explains what is needed to be able to reproduce it as I'm a bit a newbie in terms of copyright. Dom from Paris (talk) 05:05, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

I'm not an expert either. From Wikipedia:Copyrights: In other words, you may only import text that is (a) single-licensed under terms compatible with the CC BY-SA license or (b) dual-licensed with the GFDL and another license with terms compatible with the CC BY-SA license. I am not sure the license terms on [94] are compatible. Separately, per WP:NOTMIRROR, it's probably better for the full text of the poem to be on Wikisource than Wikipedia. power~enwiki (π, ν) 15:21, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the tip about using Twinkle. It’s changed my whole life! Mccapra (talk) 05:44, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Hmm

I figured I'd catch up with you at lunch but I think we missed one another. GMGtalk 16:52, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello 力, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Backlog

As of 21 October 2018, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.

Community Wishlist Proposal
Project updates
  • ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
  • There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.
New scripts

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RfC on which you !voted, has been amended

In response to objections, I struck the two year moratorium thing at Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(people)#RfC:_Amendment_for_BIO_to_address_systemic_bias_in_the_base_of_sources. I'm notifying everybody who !voted. Jytdog (talk) 14:06, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Fuerdai vandal

Hey, so I'm trying to find the username of the Fuerdai vandal for a {sockpuppet} template for the Fuerdai vandal sock you got blocked recently - can you point me in the right direction? Kudos, Kirbanzo (talk) 20:55, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/BMX On WheeIs is probably the best page. One of several "on wheels" vandals; WP:RBI is basically all there is to do here. power~enwiki (π, ν) 20:56, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Lion Air Flight 610

On 29 October 2018, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Lion Air Flight 610, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. SamHolt6 (talk) 14:11, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Opinion on article

Hello,

I was just wondering if you can take a quick look at the talk page at The Washington Times about ongoing lead issues. There has been a lot of news spamming and unencyclopedic content pushed lately, and it would be nice to have someone more level headed look at it.

Thanks!

Marquis de Faux (talk) 00:39, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm not going to comment on that article; you may want to try the neutral POV noticeboard to get more opinions. power~enwiki (π, ν) 00:51, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
@Drmies: may be interested in the canvassing; I'm not going to comment on the talk page either. power~enwiki (π, ν) 00:54, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks power~enwiki--did I read this correctly? This marquis thinks YOU are more level-headed than ME? Das cray. Anyway, feel free to weigh in; good opinions there are good. Marquis de Faux, I think you aren't canvassing yet in terms of who you are writing to, but your language, this stuff about news spamming and "more level headed" is decidedly non-neutral, besides kind of insulting. Drmies (talk) 00:59, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
Hi @Drmies:, I did not mean to refer to you personally in regards to the "level-headed" comment, rather one other specific editor that I shall not name. I retract and apologize for that statement. Thank you power~enwiki for sending me the noticeboard, I will keep that in mind for next time. I sent it to a few editors who are engaged in news-publication type articles, I did not mean it to be canvassing, but I will certainly avoid this in the future. Thanks, and I apologize for my Wikipedia ineptitude. Marquis de Faux (talk) 17:02, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
OK then. Thanks. Drmies (talk) 18:30, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Michigan Gubernatorial Election, 2018

You're excluding a major party candidate. Wikipedia supposedly has standards for 5% in polls to list a candidate in the info box but this is a bad policy. I don't know that it's a hard policy anyway. The better method is to give info box rights by party status given to party's by the state. This is an unbiased and manipulated method. Polls can be pushed, pulled, exclusionary while major and minor party status is regulated by law. You are excluding a major party candidate on the Michigan Gubernatorial Election, 2018 page and that is blatantly unfair. The candidate is categorized as a major party candidate, was on the same primary ballot as the other two major party's, had to mechanically do EVERYTHING the other two major party candidates did and as a result should be treated the exact same. Anything else is a blatant black ball of a major party candidate. The minor party candidates should not have info box access and I think that is reasonable. I think any policy relying on polling data is a bad one and if anyone is reasonable they'd also agree. I'm not sure what "consensus" is in Wiki land but there is no consensus and I've now been blocked from undoing a single users edit who came in late in the game to edit out a candidate I suspect they don't want to be listed. All major party candidates should be listed and it is not a fair practice to list 2 our of the 3. Those policy's suppresses the truth that Michigan has three major party's. I can't stress the detriment of these actions enough. Please consider my argument and restore the page fairly representing all the major party's Michigan voters now have the option to elect (and minor one's should they so choose). Thank you Wolfsden3 (talk) 18:30, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

The hard policy is that *after* the election, only candidates with >5% are listed. Before the election there's no clear site-wide policy. That said, I don't think that the state's "major party" designation is a useful way to make this determination; if that's your only argument to include this photo in the infobox there is unlikely to be consensus to include it. power~enwiki (π, ν) 18:39, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Move review for Nanjing Massacre

An editor has asked for a Move review of Nanjing Massacre. Because you were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the move review. STSC (talk) 19:17, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

I responded

205.189.94.17 (talk) 21:21, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for this: yes, your instinct was correct. ——SerialNumber54129 15:20, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

VA5

You quipped, "I don't feel a need to participate in entry-by-entry votes at this time." If you don't mind me asking, what's up? pbp 01:02, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

If nobody wants to bother to vote on some of the removals I've proposed of some ridiculous inclusions of biographies, there's not enough interest to justify voting. As a result, I'm planning to ignore the Biography section of that list for the foreseeable future. If there's a burst of interest in a few months I'll take another look. power~enwiki (π, ν) 01:04, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
I have added suggestions which are irrelevant to people. I have adde suggestions related with: cities, physical geography and philosphy and religion. If you want you can add comment I hope we will have more active users. Dawid2009 (talk) 21:12, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

The Alberts, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, The Temperance Seven

When you say "clearly ineligible for prod" what do you mean by that? What makes it obviously ineligible? Thank you for responding.
Vmavanti (talk)

Per WP:PROD, articles that have previously been nominated for PROD cannot be nominated again. Two editors (Andrew Davidson and Stephen) have removed PRODs from that article. power~enwiki (π, ν) 00:33, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Aelita Andre

Re Aelita Andre, I'm surprised but please that the AfD resulted in delete. Do you have any ideas on what policies or policy would have to change to prevent such articles in future?ThatMontrealIP (talk) 07:28, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Stan Lee

On 12 November 2018, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Stan Lee, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 19:44, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Canon Media Awards

Hi. I'm not sure why you removed my page on the 2017 Canon Media Awards. It was there because it is part of a series of pages showing the winners of these annual awards. If you have a problem with the content of the page perhaps you could talk to me about it or suggest improvements rather than just removing it? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DrThneed (talk • contribs) 17:56, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Infield fly rule

Great question. Once you understand the infield fly rule, the rest of the universe starts to make sense. —kelapstick(bainuu) 00:28, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

Honestly, all arbs should be able to explain the infield fly rule, offsides, and lbw, but Isarra's running on a baseball-focused platform so I felt only one of those was relevant. power~enwiki (π, ν) 00:39, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

A detailed explanation can be found in this law review article. Newyorkbrad (talk) 02:27, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

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