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Administrators' newsletter – June 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2017).

Administrator changes

Doug Bell • Dennis Brown • Clpo13 • ONUnicorn

ThaddeusB • Yandman • Bjarki S • OldakQuill • Shyam • Jondel • Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC proposing an off-wiki LTA database has been closed. The proposal was broadly supported, with further discussion required regarding what to do with the existing LTA database and defining access requirements. Such a tool/database formed part of the Community health initiative's successful grant proposal.
• Some clarifications have been made to the community banning and unblocking policies that effectively sync them with current practice. Specifically, the community has reached a consensus that when blocking a user at WP:AN or WP:ANI, it is considered a "community sanction", and administrators cannot unblock unilaterally if the user has not successfully appealed the sanction to the community.
• An RfC regarding the bot policy has closed with changes to the section describing restrictions on cosmetic changes.

Technical news

• Users will soon be able to blacklist specific users from sending them notifications.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2017 elections, the new members of the Board of Trustees include Raystorm, Pundit and Doc James. They will serve three-year terms.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:40, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you

Many thanks for your swift response to my proposal at Wikipedia: Village Pump. I did wonder why this page was blank, and you have explained why now, so many thanks for that. Vorbee (talk) 19:36, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

Asking for help; Teahouse "Header 2"

Greetings TheDB, Thanks for your recent help with cleanup of Wikipedia:Teahouse/Header 2 prior to our "going live" with the new TH header. There has been feedback about the blue "Ask a question" button not being centered under the page titles. Wondering if you could fix that? Before writing to you here, I have tried many different wikicode updates without any luck. Or is this something that maybe Village Pump-Technical should look at? Regards, — JoeHebda • (talk) 07:24, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

@JoeHebda: sorry, i've not had time to look at it again since, I'll try to help asap, but I can't make promises. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 08:16, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Template:Collapsed infobox section begin

Hi TheDJ. Would you mind modifying the edit you made at said template? mw-collapsible is aesthetically displeasing IMHO. Thanks.--Nevé–selbert 17:54, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

What does that mean ? —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 08:14, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

The [Expand] link should be smaller and blue, so instead it would appear as [show]; please see example at Hidden begin.--Nevé–selbert 13:09, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

The color problem is a temporary issue, which should be fixed later this week. It's a bug in the software.. The size we can change of course.. It's 95% vs. 90% font-size. Personally I don't care too much, though I think small sized text is a bad thing for readability (esp. for older people etc). —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 13:29, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

The 95% is absolutely godawful and ruins the alignment of the text in the template. Hopefully it gets sorted it out, otherwise I'll enquire further.--Nevé–selbert 19:02, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	mALADIEC YRA KATINAS

MP3 patrol discussion

Hey TheDJ, I saw you unsubscribed from the phab task about discussing MP3s on Commons. I know there are thousands of reasons to unsubscribe from tasks, but I'm worried I did something wrong. I hope it wasn't because I was pushing things too much in that conversation. I don't want my intervention to demotivate folks, quite the opposite. :) If I somehow got in the way as a staff member or in some other way bugged you, please let me know. CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 14:29, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

@CKoerner (WMF): Nope, you did nothing wrong, I think you read the overall situation correctly. I just don't personally feel like participating in another months long discussion with Commons people is a good use of my time, attention and focus. Someone wake we when we get to the next phase. :) —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 14:40, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Undo automatic edit summaries

Hi there, noticed your edit to MediaWiki:Common.js. It's obviously been around for a while, going by the old phab ticket number, but that seems like a not-a-bug to me. Undo with only the auto-summary really should prompt to enter detail (for those who choose to get those prompts), as it's an unexplained revert with only the auto summary. Just my 2d / 2p / 2c on it. Murph9000 (talk) 14:29, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

I hear you, i'm also not entirely sure about it, but it won't particularly hurt either. We had in there for 8'ish years and accidentally removed it. And there is some merit, as the warning says: "or your edit will be saved without one", which isn't really correct. If anything, this will inspire some possible discussion again, helping us to figure it out once and for all. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 14:51, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

greatly appreciated

	Thank you...
	...for this edit. I am not a coder in any sense of the word & always appreciate my questions & concerns about WP's underpinnings & inner-workings being treated with respect. Cheers, Shearonink (talk) 15:42, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Unsupported media requiring review

Template:Unsupported media requiring review has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 05:20, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Popups gadget: link to Special:CentralAuth

Hi. Would you consider the ability to have a localised (relative) link to the wiki's Special:CentralAuth in the user dropdown? Or is it possible for one to edit the list of links in the user dropdown so one can have that for themself? For the crosswiki work that I do, it would be a boon to be able to have that (especially as I load the gadget through my global.js file). Some wikis do have a CentralAuth link at their Special:Contributions , however, many (most?) do not, so it becomes a painful navigation exercise when trying to follow. Thanks for your thoughts. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:26, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

I've decided several years ago, that I would not personally do feature development for this gadget, being as outdated as it is. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 15:36, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Category:Articles with contributors link has been nominated for discussion

Category:Articles with contributors link, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 15:04, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks

I just wanted to thank you for all your recent edits to my vector.js page. I'll keep checking and let you know about standard items, such as the edit window toolbar, not loading. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 21:12, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2017).

Administrator changes

Happyme22 • Dragons flight

Zad68

Guideline and policy news

• The RFC discussion regarding WP:OUTING and WMF essay about paid editing and outing (see more at the ArbCom noticeboard archives) is now archived. Milieus #3 and #4 received support; so did concrete proposal #1.

Technical news

• Fuzzy search will soon be added to Special:Undelete, allowing administrators to search for deleted page titles with results similar to the search query. You can test this by adding ?fuzzy=1 to the URL, as with Special:Undelete?fuzzy=1. Currently the search only finds pages that exactly match the search term.
• A new bot will automatically revision delete unused file versions from files in Category:Non-free files with orphaned versions more than 7 days old.

Miscellaneous

• A newly revamped database report can help identify users who may be eligible to be autopatrolled.
• A potentially compromised account from 2001–2002 attempted to request resysop. Please practice appropriate account security by using a unique password for Wikipedia, and consider enabling two-factor authentication. Currently around 17% of admins have enabled 2FA, up from 16% in February 2017.
• Did you know: On 29 June 2017, there were 1,261 administrators on the English Wikipedia – the exact number of administrators as there were ten years ago on 29 June 2007. Since that time, the English Wikipedia has grown from 1.85 million articles to over 5.43 million.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:59, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

template:reflist

Hi TheDJ, can you explain what you're doing with this edit? On my browser, this template now behaves completely inconsistently from one page to the next, e.g. Maria Friesenhausen has a single col list of nine references, while Dendroctonus micans has three columns for four references. Has this change been discussed/agreed anywhere? The Rambling Man (talk) 12:48, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

@The Rambling Man: Yes, you can find it on it's talk page —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 12:56, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

So can you explain what I'm seeing in those two articles please? The Rambling Man (talk) 13:04, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

I'm investigating that Maria Friesenhausen article, that's not right. There's a nbsp somewhere in there that should not be there. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 13:05, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Aha, a carriage return in the template? Can that be fixed or are we going to have to hand-fix all instances of this? The Rambling Man (talk) 13:10, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

@The Rambling Man: As far as I can tell, this also happened before my change, but fixed now. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 13:32, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 2 – 13 July 2017

Facto Post – Issue 2 – 13 July 2017 Editorial: Core models and topics Wikimedians interest themselves in everything under the sun — and then some. Discussion on "core topics" may, oddly, be a fringe activity, and was popular here a decade ago. The situation on Wikidata today does resemble the halcyon days of 2006 of the English Wikipedia. The growth is there, and the reliability and stylistic issues are not yet pressing in on the project. Its Berlin conference at the end of October will have five years of achievement to celebrate. Think Wikimania Frankfurt 2005. Progress must be made, however, on referencing "core facts". This has two parts: replacing "imported from Wikipedia" in referencing by external authorities; and picking out statements, such as dates and family relationships, that must not only be reliable but be seen to be reliable. In addition, there are many properties on Wikidata lacking a clear data model. An emerging consensus may push to the front key sourcing and biomedical properties as requiring urgent attention. Wikidata's "manual of style" is currently distributed over thousands of discussions. To make it coalesce, work on such a core is needed. Links WikiFactMine project pages on Wikidata, including a SPARQL library (in development). Fatameh tool for adding items on scientific papers to Wikidata, by User: T Arrow. It has made a big recent impact. Offline for maintenance as we go to press, it is expected back soon. As of July 2017, Zotero has a Wikidata translator. A personal Zotero library acts as an intermediary in managing and storing citation metadata. GLAM Newsletter June 2017, Wikidata report. This is a good monthly round-up to follow, and welcomes contributions. Exciting and Impressive! The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) was launched in April: Infodocket on the first three months. Olivia Solon in San Francisco, Why the net neutrality protest matters, opinion piece in The Guardian on 11 July. Editor Charles Matthews. Please leave feedback for him. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Opted-out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

Request to make AndyZ/peerreviewer.js work outside the mainspace

Hi TheDJ . I've been using User:AndyZ/peerreviewer.js to good effect for many years. I've often wanted to use it for userspace drafts and especially for pages in the draft namespace but no link to invoke it is presented (at least for me) except when editing mainspace articles. AndyZ's been inactive since 2011, and I see you've made many tweaks to the script so I thought I'd ask you if you could and would be willing to make whatever change is needed to the script to allow it to work in other namespaces. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:22, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

Tweaking my interface

Thanks for the offer! This is basically what I had before the recent interface changes and would like back. I want everything very compact, useless stuff I don't need removed, and a tweak to the order (some of which is the way it used to be a few years back).

Order:

1. edit window
2. edit summary field
3. This is a minor edit Watch this page
4. buttons: Save changes / show preview /show changes
5. Preview of edit summary:
6. insert

Get rid of these lines:

• Edit summary (Briefly describe your changes) (in Vector I think this just says "Summary:"
• By saving changes, you agree to the Terms of Use, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the CC BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.

There should be less wasted space between the elements, and ideally the edit summary field would be narrower, without so much whitespace above and below the text you type. Thanks!--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:51, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

User:Fuhghettaboutit hope this is close enough to what you wanted. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 23:54, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

Ah, that's very nice, thanks. Close to perfect. I can't really imagine why any experienced user would not want a similar change. Is there no way to make the edit summary field narrower?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:48, 23 July 2017 (UTC)