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Participation in a signpost interview for WikiProject Redirect

Hi Wugapodes, hope that you're well. I was wondering if you'd be able to participate in a Signpost interview in your capacity as a contributor to WikiProject Redirect? I am enthusiastic about these interviews because they help remind other Wikipedians about the passionate and diverse group of volunteers that edit Wikipedia, and into the many discussions and editors that inhabit our space, nooks and crannies. If you had time to even answer a few questions here (User:Tom (LT)/sandbox/WikiProject redirects interview draft) I'd be very grateful :). Tom (LT) (talk) 04:44, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-37

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

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 September. It will be on all wikis from 16 September (calendar).
  • Starting this week, Wikipedia in Italian will receive weekly software updates on Wednesdays. It used to receive the updates on Thursdays. Due to this change, bugs will be noticed and fixed sooner. [3]
  • You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet. [4]
  • The syntax highlight tool marks up code with different colours. It now can highlight 23 new code languages. Additionally, golang can now be used as an alias for the Go programming language, and a special output mode has been added to show a program's output. [5][6]

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15:32, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Message regarding Capricorn from Zetana

Hi Wugapodes, could you add Template:R to product name to Capricorn under the category "Related information, To"? I created Dashlane, Inc. to redirect to Dashlane but I didn't see that category when Capricorn opened. Thanks for creating the tool, I've found it very helpful. Zetana (talk) 06:02, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

@Zetana: Thanks for letting me know,  Done — Wug·a·po·des​ 19:19, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
Thanks! Zetana (talk) 00:14, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Article of potential interest

Hi Wugapodes! Given your interest in postmodern literature, I thought you might be interested in this article I recently came across if you haven't seen it before: The Iraq War: A Historiography of Wikipedia Changelogs. Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} talk 21:38, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

@Sdkb: Coming soon, my 1078-volume magnum opus on the nature of human suffering: Pit of vipers: all 1,211,822 revisions to the Administrators' Noticeboard, Incidents, compiled chronologically, typeset, printed, and bound by hand on acid-washed paper unsuitable for library archival alongside, at your option, a copy of the GNU Free Documentation License printed from my laptop onto computer paper.
In all seriousness though, it does look like a very interesting work particularly as a commentary on what constitutes the historical record. Never knew I could turn my time browsing old page histories into art though... — Wug·a·po·des​ 22:54, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

New Page Review queue September 2021

Hello Wugapodes,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.

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Tech News: 2021-38

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

  • Growth features are now deployed to almost all Wikipedias. For the majority of small Wikipedias, the features are only available for experienced users, to test the features and configure them. Features will be available for newcomers starting on 20 September 2021.
  • MediaWiki had a feature that would highlight local links to short articles in a different style. Each user could pick the size at which "stubs" would be highlighted. This feature was very bad for performance, and following a consultation, has been removed. [7]
  • A technical change was made to the MonoBook skin to allow for easier maintenance and upkeep. This has resulted in some minor changes to HTML that make MonoBook's HTML consistent with other skins. Efforts have been made to minimize the impact on editors, but please ping Jon (WMF) on wiki or in phabricator if any problems are reported.

Problems

  • There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of an accidental restart of the search servers. [8]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 September. It will be on all wikis from 23 September (calendar).
  • Advanced item The meta=proofreadpage API has changed. The piprop parameter has been renamed to prpiprop. API users should update their code to avoid unrecognized parameter warnings. Pywikibot users should upgrade to 6.6.0. [9]

Future changes

  • The Reply tool will be deployed to the remaining wikis in the coming weeks. It is currently part of "Discussion tools" in Beta features at most wikis. You will be able to turn it off in Editing Preferences. [10]
  • Advanced item The previously announced change to how you obtain tokens from the API has been delayed to September 21 because of an incompatibility with Pywikibot. Bot operators using Pywikibot can follow T291202 for progress on a fix, and should plan to upgrade to 6.6.1 when it is released.

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18:30, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

GAN Report oddity

Wugapodes, in the section on the Reports page listing nominations by editor, there's one oddity that isn't being formatted correctly. One of the editor's names appears to be in some sort of Arabic script, which runs right to left rather than the usual left to write, and because of this the number of articles, which should be a "(4)" after the username, appears partially before and partially after the name, with one of the parens reversed.

I'm not at all sure whether it's worth your time to figure out how to get the number back so it's to the right of the name, but I thought you'd want to know about it, if only for the bemusement factor. Hope all is well! The Reports page continues to be quite useful. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:32, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

@BlueMoonset: What an interesting result! When I looked I didn't see the formatting you described. It might be a difference in how your web browser handles right-to-left text, but on Firefox I see "(4)" preceding the Arabic username. I'm happily surprised that the bot handled RTL text so gracefully. The format can be fit into the others by adding a left-to-right mark following the username, but I think I'd rather leave the output as is. This would require adding an additional character to every entry where it won't make a difference in most cases, though I might be able to be smarter about it if I added some check for RTL languages. I'm not sure how to do that, but if I find a simple test for RTL scripts, I can implement the LTR mark for those specificially.
I'm doing well, and hope the same for you! I've been at work on MediaWiki mostly, working on getting Extension:ChessBrowser up to production standards. TheDJ has been helping a lot recently, and I've been trying to document the VisualEditor integration process so that it is easier for developers to add VisualEditor support into more of our tools. Lots of work, but I've learned a lot about WikiMedia's infrastructure to support technical development. I think it will come in handy in the near future as we rework the process and the DYK bots. — Wug·a·po·des​ 21:22, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
I'm doing well here. My browser is Safari (still at 13.1.2; I need to upgrade at some point), so that may be the reason behind the different display. The MediaWiki work sounds interesting; glad you're enjoying it and learning a lot. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:48, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 September 2021

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Tech News: 2021-39

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

  • iOS 15 has a new function called Private Relay (Apple website). This can hide the user's IP when they use Safari browser. This is like using a VPN in that we see another IP address instead. It is opt-in and only for those who pay extra for iCloud. It will come to Safari users on OSX later. There is a technical discussion about what this means for the Wikimedia wikis.

Problems

  • Advanced item Some gadgets and user-scripts add items to the portlets (article tools) part of the skin. A recent change to the HTML may have made those links a different font-size. This can be fixed by adding the CSS class .vector-menu-dropdown-noicon. [11]

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 September. It will be on all wikis from 30 September (calendar).
  • The GettingStarted extension was built in 2013, and provides an onboarding process for new account holders in a few versions of Wikipedia. However, the recently developed Growth features provide a better onboarding experience. Since the vast majority of Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features, GettingStarted will be deactivated starting on 4 October. [12]
  • A small number of users will not be able to connect to the Wikimedia wikis after 30 September. This is because an old root certificate will no longer work. They will also have problems with many other websites. Users who have updated their software in the last five years are unlikely to have problems. Users in Europe, Africa and Asia are less likely to have immediate problems even if their software is too old. You can read more.
  • You can receive notifications when someone leaves a comment on user talk page or mentions you in a talk page comment. Clicking the notification link will now bring you to the comment and highlight it. Previously, doing so brought you to the top of the section that contained the comment. You can find more information in T282029.

Future changes

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22:21, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Question from Abarrahman (21:56, 27 September 2021)

write an article --Abarrahman (talk) 21:56, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi Abarrahman, are you asking how to write an article? You can find instructions at the help page on writing your first article. Let me know if you have other questions! — Wug·a·po·des​ 22:29, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Question from Abarrahman on User:Abarrahman (23:57, 27 September 2021)

How long will it take to publish my page ? --Abarrahman (talk) 23:57, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Revolving IP ban

Hi, you previously helped out with a revolving IP block that continues to vandalize certain pages. The latest block (3 months) literally just expired and they are immediately at it again. Hope you can help out again.

Special:Contributions/2603:9000:9907:1100:0:0:0:0/64

--HankScorpio1519 (talk) 22:28, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

@HankScorpio1519: Blocked for a year, let me know if you see it happening from any other IPs. — Wug·a·po·des​ 23:54, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
Will do, thank you! HankScorpio1519 (talk) 02:07, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

Question from Abarrahman on User:Abarrahman (10:10, 29 September 2021)

Can I publish this on Wikipedia ? --Abarrahman (talk) 10:10, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
  • Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
  • The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

Miscellaneous

  • Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
  • The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.
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Tech News: 2021-40

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

  • A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them has been enabled for the following 10 wikis: mediawiki.org, the Italian, Catalan, Hebrew and Vietnamese Wikipedias, French Wikisource, and English Wikivoygage, Wikibooks, Wiktionary and Wikinews. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist on those wikis you can let the developers know.

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 October. It will be on all wikis from 7 October (calendar).
  • Advanced item Some gadgets and bots that use the API to read the AbuseFilter log might break. The hidden property will no longer say an entry is implicit for unsuppressed log entries about suppressed edits. If your bot needs to know this, do a separate revision query. Additionally, the property will have the value false for visible entries; previously, it wasn't included in the response. [14]
  • A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia wikis that show them will be enabled for all production wikis. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent changes or your watchlist you can let the developers know.

Future changes

  • You can soon get cross-wiki notifications in the iOS Wikipedia app. You can also get notifications as push notifications. More notification updates will follow in later versions. [15]
  • Advanced item The JavaScript variables wgExtraSignatureNamespaces, wgLegalTitleChars, and wgIllegalFileChars will soon be removed from mw.config. These are not part of the "stable" variables available for use in wiki JavaScript. [16]
  • Advanced item The JavaScript variables wgCookiePrefix, wgCookieDomain, wgCookiePath, and wgCookieExpiration will soon be removed from mw.config. Scripts should instead use mw.cookie from the "mediawiki.cookie" module. [17]

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16:29, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Wugapodes for ARBCOM!

[18] Seriously, I'd love to see you on the committee, please run. Vanamonde (Talk) 21:56, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Time and well-being permitting, of course! Vanamonde (Talk) 21:56, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
@Vanamonde93: I appreciate the vote of confidence, and for what it's worth the confidence of others is the main thing driving my consideration. I spent a while trying to draft a reply, but the common theme is that I'm not really interested in being on ArbCom. On the list of wiki-chores I want to do over the next year, ArbCom wouldn't be my first choice, but if I'm needed, I'll do it. Wish I could say there was some big mental struggle between pros and cons, but having talked to ArbCom members and read the job description, it's hard to muster up a reaction other than ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ — Wug·a·po·des​ 00:48, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

Continuing conduct from Marek

Right after User:Volunteer Marek rejected your warning, Marek posted at a deletion discussion accusing another user (User:Niki 24) of behaving like a banned user.--Erin Vaxx (talk) 05:45, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

What??? I don’t even know who User:Niki 24 is!!! What in the world are you talking about? This is an absurd accusation which is pulled from some alternative reality. This is really too much, and sorry, Wugapodes, you are partly to blame for this for encouraging and enabling this kind of behavior. Volunteer Marek 05:54, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
@Erin Vaxx: I suggest you find something else to do before you wind up blocked. — Wug·a·po·des​ 05:59, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

Re: WP:AN#E-960 TBAN — Request for the lifting of sanctions

Thanks for shutting whatever was going on there down.

Cheers. François Robere (talk) 17:33, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

Feedback request: All RFCs request for comment

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RfA 2021 review update

Thanks so much for participating in Phase 1 of the RfA 2021 review. 8 out of the 21 issues discussed were found to have consensus. Thanks to our closers of Phase 1, Primefac and Wugapodes.

The following had consensus support of participating editors:

  1. Corrosive RfA atmosphere
    The atmosphere at RfA is deeply unpleasant. This makes it so fewer candidates wish to run and also means that some members of our community don't comment/vote.
  2. Level of scrutiny
    Many editors believe it would be unpleasant to have so much attention focused on them. This includes being indirectly a part of watchlists and editors going through your edit history with the chance that some event, possibly a relatively trivial event, becomes the focus of editor discussion for up to a week.
  3. Standards needed to pass keep rising
    It used to be far easier to pass RfA however the standards necessary to pass have continued to rise such that only "perfect" candidates will pass now.
  4. Too few candidates
    There are too few candidates. This not only limits the number of new admin we get but also makes it harder to identify other RfA issues because we have such a small sample size.
  5. "No need for the tools" is a poor reason as we can find work for new admins

The following issues had a rough consensus of support from editors:

  1. Lifetime tenure (high stakes atmosphere)
    Because RfA carries with it lifetime tenure, granting any given editor sysop feels incredibly important. This creates a risk adverse and high stakes atmosphere.
  2. Admin permissions and unbundling
    There is a large gap between the permissions an editor can obtain and the admin toolset. This brings increased scrutiny for RFA candidates, as editors evaluate their feasibility in lots of areas.
  3. RfA should not be the only road to adminship
    Right now, RfA is the only way we can get new admins, but it doesn't have to be.

Please consider joining the brainstorming which will last for the next 1-2 weeks. This will be followed by Phase 2, a 30 day discussion to consider solutions to the problems identified in Phase 1.

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Thank you for closing Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2021 review/Issues. That was a LOT of feedback to read, digest and summarize. Liz Read! Talk! 00:29, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
My thanks to yourself and Primefac as well. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 10:39, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2021-41

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Changes later this week

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

Meetings

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15:29, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Question from Antarctican2606 (00:18, 12 October 2021)

Hi, So I was looking at the article about Rachmaninoff's 3rd piano concerto and I found a really good analysis of it online: https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/bitstream/handle/2346/8487/31295001139194.pdf?sequence=1

What do I do in order to get that analysis onto the article? Do I have to paraphrase it fully or can I copy some? --Antarctican2606 (talk) 00:18, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi Antarctican2606 thanks for the question! You may not copy any of the text. You should summarize the points the author makes in your own words and provide an inline citation. Be careful of close paraphrasing as it may be considered plagiarism, but if you summarize the points in your own words it should. We have advice on how to summarize sources appropriately. You may also find our advice on adding citations helpful. Let me know if you have other questions! — Wug·a·po·des​ 00:39, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2021-42

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

  • Toolhub is a catalogue to make it easier to find software tools that can be used for working on the Wikimedia projects. You can read more.

Changes later this week

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 October. It will be on all wikis from 21 October (calendar).

Future changes

  • The developers of the Wikipedia Android app are working on communication in the app. You can now answer questions in survey to help the development.
  • 3–5% of editors may be blocked in the next few months. This is because of a new service in Safari, which is similar to a proxy or a VPN. It is called iCloud Private Relay. There is a discussion about this on Meta. The goal is to learn what iCloud Private Relay could mean for the communities.
  • Wikimedia Enterprise is a new API for those who use a lot of information from the Wikimedia projects on other sites. It is a way to get big commercial users to pay for the data. There will soon be a copy of the Wikimedia Enterprise dataset. You can read more. You can also ask the team questions on Zoom on 22 October 15:00 UTC.

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20:52, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Capricorn

Could make the edit automatically submit (around here)? ― Qwerfjkltalk 11:58, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

Question from Vincent O Neill Castlehaven (19:32, 23 October 2021)

Where can I vote --Vincent O Neill Castlehaven (talk) 19:32, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi Vincent O Neill Castlehaven, in what election are you trying to vote? — Wug·a·po·des​ 20:47, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

November 2021 backlog drive

New Page Patrol | November 2021 Backlog Drive
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Tech News: 2021-43

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

  • Recurrent item The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 October. It will be on all wikis from 28 October (calendar).

Future changes

  • Diff pages will have an improved copy and pasting experience. The changes will allow the text in the diff for before and after to be treated as separate columns and will remove any unwanted syntax. [19]
  • The version of the Liberation fonts used in SVG files will be upgraded. Only new thumbnails will be affected. Liberation Sans Narrow will not change. [20]

Meetings

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20:07, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Growth Newsletter #19

Welcome to the nineteenth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in Wikimedia projects.

Structured tasks

"Add an image" prototype, showing suggested image for the article
  • "Add a link" is the team's first structured task. It uses machine-learning to suggest wikilinks as easy edits for newcomers. It was deployed in May 2021 on four Wikipedias and then in July on eight more Wikipedias after we evaluated the initial results. So far, we've seen a high level of engagement from newcomers. Communities that have the feature suggested valuable ideas for improvement. We'll work on improvements and then contact more communities to deploy it.
  • "Add an image" is the team's second structured task, currently in development. It is an editing task that suggests Commons images for unillustrated Wikipedia articles. We have conducted many community discussions and tests. Then, we've decided to build a first prototype. We'll first deploy it only to our pilot Wikipedias, to learn whether newcomers can be successful with the task. The project page contains links to interactive prototypes. We are very interested to hear your thoughts on this idea as we build and test the early versions. These prototypes have already been tested by newcomers, in English and Spanish.

News for mentors

  • The Mentor dashboard is available at our pilot wikis: Arabic, Czech, and Bengali Wikipedias. It will soon be available at a few more volunteering wikis, as a test. [21]
  • At wikis where the mentor dashboard is deployed, a new filter is available for mentors. Mentors can monitor their mentees' activity in Watchlist and RecentChanges, so they can help support their mentees' work. For privacy reasons, this filter can't be accessed by someone else than the mentor itself. This filter only filters mentees assigned to the mentor. This filter is not visible for people who are not listed as mentors [22]

Community configuration

  • Communities now have the ability to configure how Growth features behave on their own wikis. At Special:EditGrowthConfig, community members can add a list of volunteer mentors, alter the templates used for suggested edits, update help links, and more. This special page is editable by administrators and interface admins.

Scaling

  • We are proud to announce that all Wikipedias now have the Growth features! Thank you to all the community members who helped the team build the features and bring them to their wikis. The only exception is Chinese Wikipedia (zh), for technical reasons. [23]
  • The wikis that have Growth features deployed have been part of A/B testing since deployment, in which some newcomers did not receive the new features. Now, all of the newcomers on 280 of the smallest of those Wikipedias have the features. [24][25]
  • A test is undergoing at English Wikipedia: 25% of newcomers receive the Growth features. The results from this test will be part of a discussion of how to proceed on that wiki.
  • Now that Growth features are available at Wikipedia, the Growth team considers to extend them to other projects. Some Wikisource users have expressed some interest in getting Growth features. There is currently a discussion about implementing them on Wikisource.

News for communities

  • Do you have questions about the Growth features? This translatable FAQ contains answers to the most common questions about the Growth team work.
  • The Growth features were recently used in a test amongst Latin American donors to give donors the opportunity to learn to edit. You can see the results here.
  • Interface translations are important for newcomers. Please help for your language, by translating or copyediting interface translations for the Growth features.
  • Help:GettingStarted was a feature developed in 2013, which directed newcomers to articles that needed editing. We recently removed this feature from all wikis, because it has been replaced by the Growth features.

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WikiCup 2021 November newsletter

The WikiCup is over for another year and the finalists can relax! Our Champion this year is Botswana The Rambling Man (submissions), who amassed over 5000 points in the final round, achieving 8 featured articles and almost 500 reviews. It was a very competitive round; seven of the finalists achieved over 1000 points in the round (enough to win the 2019 contest), and three scored over 3000 (enough to win the 2020 event). Our 2021 finalists and their scores were:

  1. Botswana The Rambling Man (submissions) with 5072 points
  2. England Lee Vilenski (submissions) with 3276 points
  3. Rwanda Amakuru (submissions) with 3197 points
  4. New York (state) Epicgenius (submissions) with 1611 points
  5. Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1571 points
  6. Zulu (International Code of Signals) BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 1420 points
  7. Hog Farm (submissions) with 1043 points
  8. Republic of Venice Bloom6132 (submissions) with 528 points

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Revolving IP ban

Hi, you helped me out with a revolving IP ban on 9/28/2021 (Special:Contributions/2603:9000:9907:1100:0:0:0:0/64). Same pattern from this user now: Special:Contributions/96.58.171.137

Hope you can help again. HankScorpio1519 (talk) 16:52, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

@HankScorpio1519: I blocked the range 96.58.171.0/34 for two weeks. Thanks for letting me know and be in touch if you see other problems. — Wug·a·po·des​ 22:39, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
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