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Administrators' newsletter – July 2022

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2022

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

Administrator changes

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  • An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
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  • The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
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  • The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

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EL use in List of schools in Christchurch

Hi Beetsra. What do you think of the external link use in List of schools in Christchurch. There are lots of embedded links in the various tables and it seems as if (at least to me) they're not really needed. It looks like a single link to the NZ MOE website could replace all of the MOE links in the tables since reader could search for a school on their own. The offical website links also seem unnecessary. Since you tend to have lots of experience with this type things, I wanted to see how you felt about this. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:20, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

@Marchjuly The website column should go (it should be on the own page, we are not the yellow pages, schools are by definition notable?), and the MOE column could go to a note/reference (it signifies legitimate existence of the item). Dirk Beetstra T C 04:16, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for looking at this. I pretty much agree with your assessment, but wanted to make sure it wasn't just an opinion particular to myself. One possible argument which might be made for the website column is that not all of the schools currently have stand-alone articles; so, the list article is currently the only place for those links. I don't necessarily agree with such a thing bascially for the reasons you gave above, but I have seen others make it before. As for the MOE links, that's what I thought as well. Some editors for some reason think having 100+ citations in "References" section of an article is excessive, but seem to have no issues with 100+ embedded links (embedded citations) throughout the body of the article. For some, the extra click needed to access the source seems to justify embedding the link. Perhaps that was the case way back in the day, but I don't believe it's acceptable practice these days. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:43, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
@Marchjuly there is no reason to put a statement on top ‘all schools listed here must be accredited by organisation.<ref to list>. Then blue/redlink every school, official website should be on the page. Dirk Beetstra T C 13:37, 9 August 2022 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious
Eight years!

... and thank you for the clarity above --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:07, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! Dirk Beetstra T C 03:58, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2022

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  • A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
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  • An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2022

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  • The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

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Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls

Hi, I marked some of the duplicate |domain= in Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/b23.tv which look like they result from improperly closed nested templates. The page is very large as well, appearing in Category:Pages where post-expand include size is exceeded. I don't know if anything can be done about these two issues. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:26, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

@Plastikspork nope, they are not duplicates, and your edit broke functionality. Something is wrong with detecting duplicate parameters, maybe it is improperly detecting nested templates.
Regarding the large size, lets just wipe the ‘additions’ section. COIBot will regenerate if s.o. is interested. Dirk Beetstra T C 18:52, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
Thanks, they were definitely duplicates or the page wouldn't appear in Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls. You can see one of the nested problems if you pull out the line that the I marked and count the the open and closing braces. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 13:05, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

@Plasticspork:: ah, you are right, but the problem is different, there are faulty closing brackets in a parameter. That is caused by mediawiki wrongly parsing an added link: https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:%E6%97%A5%E5%BF%97&type=spamblacklist&logid=11355292 (mediawiki says that someone added the link 'b23.tv/lEqnpq |accessdate=2020-06-03}} */ 调整格式、排版,将参考来源移动到正文中'), which gets misinterpreted/wrongly parsed) by LiWa3/COIBot's parsing, resulting in also a 'broken record' in 'my' database. I'm unsure how mediawiki included stuff after a space as part of the link ... may be worth a ticket. --Dirk Beetstra T C 04:17, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, now Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/docdro.id is in Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls, which could be the same problem? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 01:19, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
Since I didn't hear back from you, I have rolled back the last edit to that page. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 13:59, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
Sorry, I am very limited in time. With these it is just fine to blank the whole additions section (put a message it is blanked), leaving the rest. Same goes for those which turn out to be massive pages. No need to ask for my permission next time. Dirk Beetstra T C 17:39, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

COIBot on vacation

Hi Beetstra, just wanted to let you know that COIBot hasn't edited since 10 Oct, and it's also not on IRC. Maybe it hiccuped during some of the cloud maintenance WMF's been doing? GeneralNotability (talk) 02:46, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

No clue what the reason, but both XLinkBot and COIBot (who share a VM) were missing in action. As I changed laptop, and the bastion changed location I was totally locked out of the system. Still missing things, but at least I have access to the two VMs (LiWa3 and COIBot/XLinkBot), and have started the latter two again. Dirk Beetstra T C 17:41, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2022

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Happy New Year, Beetstra!

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2023

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  • Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Sbl-log

Template:Sbl-log has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:11, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2023

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Good article reassessment for Persistent carbene

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COIBot

Hi Beetstra, for the past weeks most COIBot reports show no additions (or just additions from past years) even though there was recent xwiki spam (example: [1]). Could you take a look at this? Thanks! :) Johannnes89 (talk) 17:04, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2023

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  • Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
  • As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

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  • Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

Arbitration

  • The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023

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  • Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

Administrators' newsletter – August 2023

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free chicken

107.138.209.194 (talk) 22:05, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

Looks like a vegan dinner to me. :) --Hammersoft (talk) 22:10, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
Thanks! Dirk Beetstra T C 04:38, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious
Nine years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:17, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt Thanks! Dirk Beetstra T C 04:08, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:WiredForBooks

Template:WiredForBooks has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:01, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

Suspected long term author advocacy activity

This unexplained edit to my watched article raised suspicion where a academia.edu journal article by John Paull was inserted Special:Diff/1172292612 After further investigation, I found a long term trend of various articles authored by the author being inserted into multiple articles by anonymous editors that do not seem to fall within reasonable editing process. After locating John Paull sources in articles, it was found that same IPs from Australia or UK tended to insert John Paull with each IP exhibiting a pattern of different John Paull sources into different articles. As you specialize in spam, I was hoping you had a useful feedback. These are a few examples I tracked down:

  1. Special:Contributions/86.161.250.120 July 2011 SPA
  2. Special:Contributions/203.45.17.190 2016-2020 Australia
  3. Special:Contributions/110.142.48.21 April 18, 2018 Tasmania, AUS
  4. Special:Contributions/203.53.100.186, 2021 Australia
  5. Special:Contributions/65.181.3.220, one article. March 15, 2023 Sydney, AUS
  6. Special:Contributions/59.167.200.223,three articles in 2017-2018 Tasmania, Australia

Graywalls (talk) 07:16, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

@Graywalls::
I asked COIBot for some reports. Some stuff may be before that, but lets see. It may however show you certain links that are added, and a search for those links may show up more. I think I would suggest to submit this to WP:COIN. Edits like diff (first paragraph) is very strong a coatrack .. Dirk Beetstra T C 13:47, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
I could do that, but should I? If it was a specific URL, it's easy to handle it. I am wondering if it's technically feasible to do anything about it in something like this with case the current site software in which the only constant is the specific author being inserted, but by numerous IPs. Graywalls (talk) 15:58, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
@Graywalls: We could first just report and discuss, it gives more eyes to see what is happening.
Then if it is deemed disruptive and we have some attempt to contact the person doing this (which is rather futile I agree, but a message on their last used IP and an attempt to do that on the next used IP as soon as possible should be attemped). It is easy to generate an edit filter triggering on additions of "Paull, John" in monitoring mode, and some IPs seem to be used for a longer time so they may return and see messages to them. A sufficiently long block on the last IP is also an option (for not-too-bad spammers that edit once a month I just start with a 3 month block, knowing that they are likely to come back within that time so it enforces their attention).
Later steps could be warning or blocking filters or blacklisting (even pre-emptively) all their specific material. The edit I referenced above is rather bad, it is really a sentence that should be referenced to a proper source, but it is a coatrack for (what I expect) their own source. Dirk Beetstra T C 06:36, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

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  • Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
  • A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that [s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

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  • The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

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  • Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

Narratively.com, Substack.com

Should they join the media wiki block like HubPages and their sister site? I'm currently trying to locate their editorial policy, but they look essentially the same in what they do. Graywalls (talk) 19:46, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

Could be, they are similar in nature. It would however need community consensus that they should not be used, as we are not blacklisting on spam reasons (I presume). Dirk Beetstra T C 04:18, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

bot poke

So the inquiries I submitted to BOT poke still doesn't work after days of waiting and I believe I am on the authorized list. Why is it not working? Graywalls (talk) 01:46, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

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  • An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

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  • Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)

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Category update needed on CSS page

Please update Category:WikiProject Chemicals members from "members" to "participants" in User:Beetstra/userpage.css per Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_October_1#Category:WikiProject_X_members. – Fayenatic London 08:02, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Never mind – page has been blanked by user:Izno. – Fayenatic London 14:26, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2023

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  • Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
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  • Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
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Nomination for deletion of Template:RSourceSummary

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Clarifying tone

I wrote this edit summary, meant as reproaching myself, and then realized after saving that it could come off as referring to you. I don't want to make a dummy edit on an MW-namespace page, so I'm just posting here to clarify that the mistake originated with me. Feel free to email if you have questions. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe|she) 05:56, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for email. Replied. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe|she) 04:58, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

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some escaping

Hi. Hope your well. In the spam (black|white)list, there is no requirement to escape a forward slash in an url, according to the information on the extension, so the use of backslash there is redundant. I have removed those specific backslashes in the recent whitelist additions. — billinghurst sDrewth 23:13, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

I know, but I am a regex purist. Dirk Beetstra T C 18:11, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

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  • An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

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  • Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

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  • Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
  • Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

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  • The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Reactionbox Name

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes

readded Graham Beards
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Bureaucrat changes

removed

Oversight changes

removed Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

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Whitelist

Hi, are you able to take a look at my whitelist request? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Riverguider (talkcontribs) 17:04, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

readded Isabelle Belato
removed

Interface administrator changes

readded Izno

CheckUser changes

removed Barkeep49

Technical news

  • Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
  • Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration


Always precious

Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. - Special day for me, see trory ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:48, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

SPAM removal

Hello Dirk - Is there a method, such as a script or bot request, for mass-removing an unreliable source that is cited across multiple pages?Saqib (talk I contribs) 17:16, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

removed Pppery

Interface administrator changes

removed Pppery

Oversighter changes

removed Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

removed

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

Administrator changes

added
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CheckUser changes

readded
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Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Curlie/DMOZ

en:User talk:Beetstra says: Add an appropriate linkfarm like {{dmoz}} but it was recently TfD-ed Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2024_September_20#Template:Curlie. Polygnotus (talk) 13:50, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

That is why it says 'like' :-D. I guess it should be removed, bit out of time by now. Dirk Beetstra T C 15:46, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
I now have a program that uses the eventstream to check when new links get added and filters those edits that (a) are on wiki.riteme.site (b) are not done by a bot (c) are added by someone who made less than 500 edits (d) are not to the top 10.000 most referenced domains on Wikipedia. Did I miss anything? Any other checks I should add? Should I make the program post on Discord/IRC? Polygnotus (talk) 16:23, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
Hi, it looks you are doing the same as what m:User:LiWa3 does globally. You may want to look on IRC at it’s stream and it’s friends, COIBot and XLinkBot. Dirk Beetstra T C 20:14, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

What happened with XLinkBot?

It doesn't seem to have been active for over 2 years. There was a recent discussion to de-list a site from the blacklist, and I felt that moving it to XLinkBot would be a great next step, but someone pointed out that it hasn't been working in a while. Any chance of resurrecting it? ~Anachronist (talk) 16:00, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi, would you respond, or point me to where I can learn some history? ~Anachronist (talk) 19:51, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
Hi, sorry. I have been very inactive for a long time, and most of my bots had a hard time as well. I have resurrected the bot a month ago, seems to be doing fine, even collecting the usual complaints :-). Dirk Beetstra T C 20:12, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
That's great to know. XLinkBot is a useful tool for sites that need attention but may not necessarily warrant blacklisting. ~Anachronist (talk) 23:31, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Chembot help?

hey mate, the page for sulfuric acid has a cross symbol for the chembox validation, but i dont understand how to fix it.. what must be done? I also noticed the same for the pages of methanol and acetic acid.. i believe the bot marks the page with an x if any extra text is added to the chembox..

Thanks 120.19.149.247 (talk) 06:23, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

We should consider to disable all those marks. It was turned out cumbersome to keep track of, and then there was also the integration with WikiData. I think it is better to remove the parameters. Dirk Beetstra T C 14:34, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

The redirect Diamondina has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 October 15 § Diamondina until a consensus is reached. Mdewman6 (talk) 01:18, 15 October 2024 (UTC)