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The Signpost: 1 January 2023

Happy New Year, GeneralNotability!

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Moops T 22:42, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023

Hello GeneralNotability/Archives/2023,

New Page Review queue December 2022
Backlog

The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.

2022 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!

Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)

New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js to User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js

Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.

Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.

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Sock Puppet Suspicion

During last couple of days, there have been multiple attempts to delete the content added with citation to reliable source in the Wikipedia Page on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. A registered user was unblocked per WP:ROPE, seems to be more inclined on deleting the content rather than modifying/improving it. However, just a few days back, on 16 Dec 2022, another IP address user which you have blocked in June 2022 has also deleted a major portion of article. These cases are highlighted in the article talk page.

Going through the history of article page vis-à-vis user talk/contrib and coming across a pattern, it gives rise to suspicion of Socking. Is there any way to confirm this?

This editor has deleted critical views, warning comments and notices from other users on his/her user talk page. This user seems to be a repeat offender. Does this behavior of deletion and violation of WP:PRESERVE warrant any further action? Anand2202 (talk) 06:07, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

Anand2202, I don't think it currently merits action. Assuming the IP was UserBk12 (and I don't know if it was), we could AGF that this was, for example, an edit accidentally made while logged out rather than intentional evasion of scrutiny. I see long-term edit-warring here, but not sockpuppetry. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:07, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
Long-term edit-warring, but not sockpuppetry.
Fair enough! Thanks. Anand2202 (talk) 02:43, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).

Administrator changes

added
readded Stephen
removed

Interface administrator changes

removed Nihiltres

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
  • Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.

Merry Christmas!

The Bugle: Issue 201, January 2023

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Wikidata weekly summary #554

Tech News: 2023-02

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A goat for you!

Because goats.

Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 14:02, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, I think? :) GeneralNotability (talk) 01:21, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

Thank you

...for handling my request for a block exemption. AndyJones (talk) 08:28, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

Happy to be of service. GeneralNotability (talk) 13:59, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 January 2023

Tech News: 2023-03

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Contentious topics procedure now in effect

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In December, the Arbitration Committee adopted the contentious topics procedure, which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period.

The drafting arbitrators warmly thank all those who have worked to implement the new procedure during this implementation period and beyond. KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 19:44, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard § Contentious topics procedure now in effect

Template for you :)

Hi GeneralNotability! I made a template for you, just wanted to know if you were ok with it and if you wanted to make any changes. Thanks!

Here it is: Template:User likes GeneralNotability MasterMatt12💬Contributions 03:50, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

MasterMatt12, I'm flattered - thank you! SubjectiveNotability a GN franchise (talk to the boss) 17:37, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
No problem! MasterMatt12💬Contributions 18:09, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

User talk:Right Great Wrongs

If you remember anything from this check, maybe you can have a look at User:Kgeguchadze; I think it's likely. Thanks! Drmies (talk) 02:27, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

Drmies, I'm not really convinced they're the same person. Will keep an eye on them, though. GeneralNotability (talk) 03:02, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-04

MediaWiki message delivery 23:44, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #557

Tech News: 2023-05

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