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Contents
- 1 Happy New Year, Numbermaniac
- 2 Collaboration products newsletter: 2018-02
- 3 Collaboration products newsletter: 2018-03
- 4 New Page Review Newsletter No.10
- 5 NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018
- 6 Disambiguation link notification for June 3
- 7 NPP Backlog Elimination Drive
- 8 NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018
- 9 Latest message for Collaboration team newsletter; Growth team's newsletter invite
- 10 NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018
- 11 WikiProjects Apps: help on new article (Draft:Bobo Explores Light)
- 12 NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018
- 13 1729 (number)
- 14 WikiProjects Apps: help on new article (Draft:Back in Time)
- 15 Feedback
- 16 NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018
Happy New Year, Numbermaniac[edit]
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Collaboration products newsletter: 2018-02[edit]
Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Map improvements 2018, Notifications, Structured discussions and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
What's new?
- Collaboration and Language are now going their way separately. Updates about Content Translation are not included in this newsletter anymore. Please refer to the Language report.
- Collaboration has a new project: Map improvements 2018.
- The team’s engagement with maps is based on 2017 Community Wishlist proposal Kartographer Improvements, though the work won’t be restricted to items named there.
- The project is currently in its very early research and planning stages.
- It has a limited term that’s scheduled to conclude at the end of June 2018.
Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- es.wikipedia, es.wikibooks, sv.wikipedia, and simple.wikipedia get ORES predictions on Recent Changes (and on Watchlist through "⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽" Beta feature). [1][2][3][4]
Problems
- The explanation of the abbreviations on the recent changes page could overlap with the list of changes. This has been fixed. [5][6]
- On Related changes it was not possible to use Saved filters for several articles. It has been fixed. [7]
- Transclude special:relatedchanges on a subpage removed #contentSub. This is now fixed. [8]
Notifications [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- The wording when you send a thanks message has changed. Instead of
YesorNoit saysThankandCancel. It is also now easier to understand that all thanks are public. [9] - A notification is now sent to account owner on multiple unsuccessful login attempts. [10]
Problems
- Between week 7 and 20 February, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed. [11]
- Long page titles on Special:Notifications were not truncated. This is now fixed. [12]
Structured discussions [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- You can now press CTRL + ENTER to post a new message. [13]
- It wasn't possible to create a description of a Structured discussions board. This has been fixed. [14]
Problems
- On wikis using the Beta feature, it is not possible to enable or disable Structured discussion from the Beta page. However, admins can create and move the pages.
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11:29, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
Collaboration products newsletter: 2018-03[edit]
Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Map improvements 2018, Notifications, Structured discussions and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
What's new?
The Collaboration team has announced the start of a new project: In-Context Help and Onboarding. The idea is to improve retention of new wiki editors by giving them short tutorials and other training experiences related to, and triggered by, their current activities on the wikis (that’s the “in context” part). The project follows from the conclusions of the New Editor Experiences research. The work is in its very early stages, but we’d like to hear from people with ideas on the subject—particularly if you have experience supporting or training new contributors.
Map improvements 2018 [More information]
- Maps using Maplink and Mapframe functions now include an extra zoom level (level 19). This is part of the Kartographer Improvements, the number one request of the 2017 Community Wishlist survey. [15]
Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]
- Number of edit to show in recent changes information text was incorrect in Special:Preferences. It has been rephrased. [16]
Notifications [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. That new feature has been documented. [17]
- Preferences panel on Special:Notifications was overlapping other elements. This has been fixed. [18]
Future changes
- An important work is under progress to allow thanks of log entry. This is done by the Community Tech team. [19]
Structured discussions [More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
- Structured Discussions extension has been uninstalled from wikis not using it. However, it is still possible for a community to request a trial of Structured discussions. [20]
Problems
- It was not possible to opt-in and opt-out Structured discussions on wikis using it as a Beta feature. It is now fixed. [21]
Future changes
- The visual editor and 2017 wikitext editor interface is going to change for consistency. The toolbar, dialogs and menus will appear slightly bigger; some icons will look different. Content or functionality will not change. That change will apply to Structured Discussions as well. [22]
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12:25, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
New Page Review Newsletter No.10[edit]
| Notability |
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| Subject-specific guidelines |
| See also |
ACTRIAL:
- ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.
Paid editing
- Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary.
Subject-specific notability guidelines
- The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
- Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies. A further discussion is currently taking place at: Can a subject specific guideline invalidate the General Notability Guideline?
Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled
- While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE.
News
- The next issue Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it, including ACTRIAL wrap-up that will be of special interest to New Page Reviewers. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. The Signpost is one of the best ways to stay up date with news and new developments - please consider subscribing to it. All editors of Wikipedia and associated projects are welcome to submit articles on any topic for consideration by the The Signpost's editorial team for the next issue.
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NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018[edit]
| Notability |
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| Subject-specific guidelines |
| See also |
ACTRIAL:
- WP:ACREQ has been implemented. The flow at the feed has dropped back to the levels during the trial. However, the backlog is on the rise again so please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day; a backlog approaching 5,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.
Deletion tags
- Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders. They require your further verification.
Backlog drive:
- A backlog drive will take place from 10 through 20 June. Check out our talk page at WT:NPR for more details. NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.
Editathons
- There will be a large increase in the number of editathons in June. 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.
Paid editing - new policy
- Now that ACTRIAL is ACREQ, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. There is a new global WMF policy that requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.
Subject-specific notability guidelines
- The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
- Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
Not English
- A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, tag as required, then move to draft if they do have potential.
News
- Development is underway by the WMF on upgrades to the New Pages Feed, in particular ORES features that will help to identify COPYVIOs, and more granular options for selecting articles to review.
- The next issue of The Signpost has been published. The newspaper is one of the best ways to stay up to date with news and new developments. between our newsletters.
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Disambiguation link notification for June 3[edit]
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NPP Backlog Elimination Drive[edit]
Hello Numbermaniac, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.
Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!
- As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
- Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar:
. Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards:
,
,
,
. - Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.
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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018[edit]
![]() Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. () |
Hello Numbermaniac, 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
- The next issue of the monthly magazine will be out soon. The newspaper is an excellent way to stay up to date with news and new developments between our newsletters. If you have special messages to be published, or if you would like to submit an article (one about NPR perhaps?), don't hesitate to contact the editorial team here.
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Latest message for Collaboration team newsletter; Growth team's newsletter invite[edit]
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The Collaboration team doesn't longer exists. That team was working on building features that encourage collaboration. This is the latest message for that newsletter.
The Growth Team, formed in July 2018, supports some former Collaboration projects. The Growth Team's main objective is to ease new editors' first steps on wikis, through software changes. You can discover all objectives and missions of the Growth team on its page.
If you wish to be informed about Growth team's updates about easing new users first steps, you can subscribe to the new list to get updates. The first message from Growth –with a call for feedback on a new project– will be posted in a few days!
If you have questions or you want to share experiences made on your wiki about new users' first steps, please post them on the team talk page, in any language.
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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018[edit]
Hello Numbermaniac, 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
- The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.
- 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.
- There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination#Coordinator tasks for more info to see if you can help out.
- Other
- A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.
- 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 |
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WikiProjects Apps: help on new article (Draft:Bobo Explores Light)[edit]
Hi Numbermaniac,
Sorry to pop like this but I've recently joined the WikiProject Apps, and since you are in this WikiProject as well, I hope you don't mind if ask you some questions...
1- What is the proper way to upload Icons and screenshots of apps? I realized that these images are copyrighted. I read that one can use low res images for app icons and screenshots for editorial purposes, is this true? or do I absolutely need to get permission from the owners of the app?
2- For my first wikipage I've started with a topic of mid-importance. Shall I propose a classification of the article myself or shall I leave that to the reviewer?
3- Is there a specific template to follow when writing about apps? Or shall I just try to mimic the work of others?
4- This is the link to the wikipage draft I've wrote (Draft:Bobo_Explores_Light). Could you please take a look at it and let me know what do you think? … I would like to have some feedback before I start creating other pages.
Thank you in advance, --Coel Jo (talk) 22:26, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
- No worries, welcome to the project! To answer your questions:
- 1 - On the left panel, click "Upload file", and once you start the wizard you can then select the option that your file is "non-free but Fair Use". From there, simply follow the prompts, and at one point you'll get a dropdown box that allows you to select that the icon or screenshot is a software screenshot. You don't need to ask permission from the app's creators, but it needs to be low-res, which usually means under 100,000 pixels (width × height). As an example, you can see how app icons and screenshots are used in Tiny Tower. Wikipedia:Software screenshots has detailed information if you're interested.
- 2 - Since a reviewer will have to come along and approve the Draft, you can let them assess the article. If they don't do so when publishing it, then you can assess it yourself.
- 3 - Other than the infobox (which I can see you've used), there's no specific template - you can just follow the structure used in other articles.
- 4 - So far, it looks pretty good! I've made a couple of minor edits, but overall the article looks pretty well sourced and has a good chance of being accepted.
- I hope that helps. Welcome to the project! – numbermaniac 01:30, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks! I'll try to submit a few more. BTW, on the WikiProjects apps you've wrote that you were tagging articles with the banner. What is that? Is one supposed to add the WikiProjects App banner to new articles about apps? Cheers, Coel Jo (talk) 18:29, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
- You may have noticed that the talk pages of most articles have banners that say "this article is within the scope of WikiProject <Name>". For this WikiProject, you can see that banner at Template:WikiProject Apps. Back when I joined the project, many articles about apps were missing the banner (as it was a relatively new project), hence why I stated that as one of the tasks I would do. When your article is published, you can add that banner to the article's talk page. – numbermaniac 02:51, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks! I'll try to submit a few more. BTW, on the WikiProjects apps you've wrote that you were tagging articles with the banner. What is that? Is one supposed to add the WikiProjects App banner to new articles about apps? Cheers, Coel Jo (talk) 18:29, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018[edit]
![]() Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. |
Hello Numbermaniac, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
- Backlog
As of 21 October 2018[update], there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.
- Community Wishlist Proposal
- There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding the drafting of a Community Wishlist Proposal for the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
- Please join the conversation as we only have until 29 October to draft this 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
- User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js(info) — A new script created for quickly placing {{copyvio-revdel}} on a page.
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1729 (number)[edit]
In general, changing between HTML display equations and < math> display equations is frowned upon, where the HTML equations are legible. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 02:08, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
- Interesting, was not aware of that. Thanks for letting me know! – numbermaniac 07:22, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
WikiProjects Apps: help on new article (Draft:Back in Time)[edit]
Hi again!
I've just finished my second wikipage for the WikiPage Apps: Draft:Back in Time (iOS App) Now that it's ready, could you please let me know how do I submit it for review? I've taken the chance to experiment with new stuff like tables. It would be great if you could take a quick look just to check if there are any errors? Thanks, Coel Jo (talk) 23:43, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
- @Coel Jo: Looks pretty good! I'd probably recommend making the "Universe / Life / Humankind" labels horizontal rather than vertical so that it's easier to read. Overall, it's quite good and well referenced! I've put the proper template for review submissions at the top of the page - hit the submit button whenever you're ready! – numbermaniac 04:22, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
Feedback[edit]
Hey, I see that you are a member of WikiProject Apps. I am sort of on the fence with Draft:Back in Time (iOS App) so do you think it's acceptable for inclusion on this site?? Thank you.JC7V (talk) 02:31, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
- @JC7V: Overall, to me it looks fairly well referenced and appears to be written like an encyclopedia article. What issues did you see in the article that put you on the fence about it? – numbermaniac 12:41, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018[edit]
![]() Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. |
Hello Numbermaniac,
- Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW
- Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.
- If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.
- We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.
- With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.
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