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Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)

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Find video game sources with Delsort script

Hi Enterprisey, would it be possible to have the Delsort script automatically modify the AfD's {{Find sources}} template into {{Find video game sources}} when the video game delsort cat is chosen? It would save the separate scripts and edits to roll it into the delsort, which is technically when someone determines that the set of VG source search additions may be useful to the AfD. (Also see discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games#Updated Find video game sources search template.) czar 17:11, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

If not, that's okay, but just let me know so I can figure out how to proceed? czar 08:40, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Czar, sorry for the late response! I was very busy IRL. Anyway, I made an update to the delsort script that accomplishes this. I didn't want to turn this on for everybody (might as well keep the delsort script's purpose narrow), but here's some code that you can add to the bottom of your Special:MyPage/common.js that'll turn it on:

window.delsortDoneHook = function () {
    var SUMMARY = "Swapping the regular find sources template for the video game-specific one";
    var VG_DELSORT_PAGE = "Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Video games";

    $.getJSON(
        mw.util.wikiScript('api'),
        {
            format: 'json',
            action: 'query',
            prop: 'revisions',
            rvprop: 'content',
            rvlimit: 1,
            titles: mw.config.get( 'wgPageName' )
        }
    ).done( function (data) {
        try {
            var pageId = Object.keys(data.query.pages)[0];
            wikitext = data.query.pages[pageId].revisions[0]['*'];

            // Check if page has been delsorted into the video games list
            if( wikitext.indexOf( VG_DELSORT_PAGE ) >= 0 ) {

                // Swap find sources template with the VG-specific one
                wikitext = wikitext.replace( "{{Find sources AFD|", "{{Find video game sources|" );

                // Save page
                $.ajax( {
                    url: mw.util.wikiScript( 'api' ),
                    type: 'POST',
                    dataType: 'json',
                    data: {
                        format: 'json',
                        action: 'edit',
                        title: mw.config.get( 'wgPageName' ),
                        summary: SUMMARY,
                        token: mw.user.tokens.get( 'editToken' ),
                        text: wikitext
                    }
                } ).done ( function ( data ) {
                    if ( data && data.edit && data.edit.result && data.edit.result == 'Success' ) {
                        mw.notify( "Find sources template swapped!" );
                    } else {
                        mw.notify( "Error swapping find sources template!" );
                    }
                } )
            }
        } catch ( e ) {
            mw.notify( "Error swapping find sources template!" );
            console.log( "post-DELSORT content request error: " + e.message );
            console.log( "post-DELSORT content request response: " + JSON.stringify( data ) );
        }
    } );
};

Should pop up a little notification when it's done. I did test this myself, but let me know if there are any errors. Enterprisey (talk!) 20:34, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks so much! It worked on my test (though I don't recall whether there was a notif). I've notified the project here

czar 16:44, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

BOTREQ bot issues?

I just noticed that User:EnterpriseyBot/BOTREQ status hasn't been updated since 3 April (and so quite a few discussions aren't in there). Issues with the bot, or are there just too many discussions? Primefac (talk) 17:07, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

There was an issue with the bot, but I could've sworn I fixed it. Upon further investigation, I wrote the code but forgot to push it to tool labs! Should be working fine now, and I just forced an update. Enterprisey (talk!) 04:08, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, April 2017

Bots Newsletter, April 2017

Greetings!

The BAG Newsletter is now the Bots Newsletter, per discussion. As such, we've subscribed all bot operators to the newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

Arbcom

Magioladitis ARBCOM case has closed. The remedies of the case include:

Community encouraged to review common fixes
Community encouraged to review policy on cosmetic edits
Developers encouraged to improve AWB interface
Bot approvals group encouraged to carefully review BRFA scope
Reminders/Restrictions specific to Magioladitis

BRFAs

We currently have 27 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!

Discussions

There are multiple ongoing discussions surrounding bot-related matters. In particular:

RFC on COSMETICBOT
Efforts at WP:CHECKWIKI to identify cosmetic fixes
Requested move for the Bot Owners' Noticeboard
A phabricator ticket T162685 has been made to have a "bots" tag, so issues related to bot frameworks can be tracked

New things

Several new things are around:

A BAG Guide has been created (WP:BAGG, discussion).
Users now have the option to hide AWB from their watchlists via a script (WP:HIDEAWB, discussion)
The guidance on how to deal with bot issues has been overhauled (WP:BOTISSUE, discussion)
The bot policy has been updated to clarify that bot operators are required to register accounts. (WP:BOTACCOUNT, discussion)

Wikimania

Wikimania 2017 is happening in Montreal, during 9–13 August. If you plan to attend, or give a talk, let us know!

Thank you! edited by:Headbomb 11:35, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

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ORCP helper script bug

Your latest edit to User:Enterprisey/orcp-helper.js caused 3 comments added using that script to appear at the top of WP:ORCP; in revisions 762892344, 762892370, and 775184810. Can you please try to fix this bug? Also, please replace the link to User:APerson/orcp-helper (old username) in the "ADVERTISEMENT" summary with a link to User:Enterprisey/orcp-helper (new username). GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 16:18, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing! Fixed. Enterprisey (talk!) 20:13, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

April 19: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday April 19, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.

We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

Wednesday April 19 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com).

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 137 West 14th Street

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 18:30, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics

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Please comment on Help talk:Citation Style 1

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ORCP Script

Hello! Could you please bold the numerical rating for ORCP ratings in the ORCP helper script? Right now, instead of, say, 5/10, it just says 5/10. Thanks! RileyBugz ^{Yell at me} | _Edits 19:49, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

Sure! Updated the script. It's funny - if you look at the ORCP archives, nobody bolds their ratings until a little bit in archive 4 (and then everyone starts doing it in archive 5). Enterprisey (talk!) 20:48, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

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AfD Stats suggestion...

Hey, Enterprisey! I notice that while AfD Stats picks up AfD !votes that are "Draftify", it misses votes that are "Move to draft space" – you may want to get it to pick up "Move to draft space" (and "Move to user space") !votes under Userfy/Draftify as well. Just a thought! --IJBall (contribs • talk) 16:40, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Template talk:Infobox religious text

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2017

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

Administrator changes

Karanacs • Berean Hunter • GoldenRing • Dlohcierekim

Gdr • Tyrenius • JYolkowski • Longhair • Master Thief Garrett • Aaron Brenneman • Laser brain • JzG • Dragons flight

Guideline and policy news

An RfC has clarified that user categories should be emptied upon deletion, but redlinked user categories should not be removed if re-added by the user.
Discussions are ongoing regarding proposed changes to the COI policy. Changes so far have included clarification that adding a link on a Wikipedia forum to a job posting is not a violation of the harassment policy.

Technical news

You can now see a list of all autoblocks at Special:AutoblockList.
There is a new tool for adding archives to dead links. Administrators are able to restrict other user's ability to use the tool, and have additional permissions when changing URL and domain data.
Administrators, bureaucrats and stewards can now set an expiry date when granting user rights. (discuss, permalink)

Miscellaneous

Following an RfC, the editing restrictions page is now split into a list of active restrictions and an archive of those that are old or on inactive accounts. Make sure to check both pages if searching for a restriction.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:19, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Template talk:Medical resources

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JavaScript RegExp problem

I noticed you have experience in JavaScript. I'm hoping you can help me with a problem I've run into writing a userscript.

Please see my post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject JavaScript#Nested RegExp.

Thank you. The Transhumanist 12:16, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Big Brother Canada (season 5)

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Songs

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Editing News #1—2017

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Did you know?

Did you know that you can review your changes visually?

When you are finished editing the page, type your edit summary and then choose "Review your changes".

In visual mode, you will see additions, removals, new links, and formatting highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.

Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.

The wikitext diff is the same diff tool that is used in the wikitext editors and in the page history. You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and adding the new visual diff tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes

A new wikitext editing mode is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The 2017 wikitext editor has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go to Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures to enable the ⧼Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label⧽.
A new visual diff tool is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components. [1]
The team have added multi-column support for lists of footnotes. The <references /> block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [2]
You can now use your web browser's function to switch typing direction in the new wikitext mode. This is particularly helpful for RTL language users like Urdu or Hebrew who have to write JavaScript or CSS. You can use Command+Shift+X or Control+Shift+X to trigger this. [3]
The way to switch between the visual editing mode and the wikitext editing mode is now consistent. There is a drop-down menu that shows the two options. This is now the same in desktop and mobile web editing, and inside things that embed editing, such as Flow. [4]
The Categories item has been moved to the top of the Page options menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access. [5] There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there. [6]
You can now create <chem> tags (sometimes used as <ce>) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor. [7]
Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed. [8]
The Special character menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) . The team thanks the volunteer developer, Tpt. [9]
A bug caused some section edit conflicts to blank the rest of the page. This has been fixed. The team are sorry for the disruption. [10]
There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations: Control+Shift+K on a PC, or Command+Shift+K on a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which is Control+K or Command+K respectively. [11]

Future changes

The team is working on a syntax highlighting tool. It will highlight matching pairs of <ref> tags and other types of wikitext syntax. You will be able to turn it on and off. It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017. [12]
The kind of button used to Show preview, Show changes, and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will use OOjs UI. The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read. The labels will remain the same. You can test the new button by editing a page and adding &ooui=1 to the end of the URL, like this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes. [13]
The outdated 2006 wikitext editor will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors. See a list of editing tools on mediawiki.org if you are uncertain which one you use. [14]
If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF)

17:59, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

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Sunday May 21: Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon + global online challenge

Sunday May 21, 10:30 am - 4:30pm: Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon: Met Open Access Initiative is the Metropolitan Museum of Art's first edit-a-thon, being hosted on Sunday May 21, 2017 in Thomas J. Watson Library at The Met Fifth Avenue in New York City.

The Met is excited to make available over 375,000 images of public domain artworks for contribution to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons from the museum’s collection spanning 5,000 years of art. The event is an opportunity for Wikimedia communities to engage The Met's diverse collection onsite and remotely. The event is a key marker too of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's first Wikimedian-in-Residence program, with resident Richard Knipel (User:Pharos), along with Wikimedia NYC. We invite you to help enhance Wikimedia communities and platforms with open access images from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The event requires pre-registration. To register, 1) please sign-up with Eventbrite via The Met's website and 2) add your Wikipedia username to the #Participants on the wikimeetup page. Please check-in with museum staff when you arrive at the Thomas J. Watson Library within the museum.

We also welcome remote participation for the global Met Open Access Artworks Challenge (15 May - 30 June, 2017), you can sign up there at Met Open Access Artworks Challenge/Participants. --Pharos (talk) 16:23, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

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May 24: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday May 24, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

Topics this month include the TED wikiproject, the Met wikiproject, and encouraging free video on Wikimedia Commons!

We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.

We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

Wednesday May 24 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com).

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 137 West 14th Street

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 19:31, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

P.S. bonus event this weekend:

Action=History: Sunday Hackathon @ Ace Hotel Sunday May 28, 2017

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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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The future of NPP and AfC/Work group

Hi Enterprisey,

In view of the huge and sudden backlog at Special:NewPagesFeed since mid 2016, the WMF has begun a dialogue in a quest to examine the situation and possible solutions. Please consider commenting there if you have not already done so. It is highly recommended to read it all before it becomes too long to follow. The project is at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Analysis and proposal, and its talk page.

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Thursday June 22: Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon @ MoMA

Thursday June 22, 6-8:30pm: Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon @ MoMA

Join us for an evening of social Wikipedia editing at the Museum of Modern Art Library's third annual Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon, during which we will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to LGBT art, culture and history.

All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required.

Themes for this event include art related to HIV/AIDS activism and on LGBTQ artists of the African Diaspora as part of the Black Lunch Table project.

Experienced Wikipedians will be on-hand to assist throughout the day. Please bring your laptop and power cord; we will have library resources, WiFi, and a list of suggested topics on hand.

Thursday June 22 Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon @ MoMA (Participants have to bring their own laptops and power cords).

Time: 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Location: Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Education and Research Building at MoMA, 4 West 54 Street - between 5th/6th Ave, New York, NY 10019

Please note that this entrance is one block north of the main 53rd Street entrance, closer to 5th Avenue.

Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 21:40, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

P.S. Stay tuned / sign up early for our Sunday June 25 Hackathon @ Ace Hotel, the Sunday July 9 Wiknic on Governors Island, and other upcoming events.

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Your access to AWB may be temporarily removed

Hello EnterpriseyAWB! This message is to inform you that due to editing inactivity, your access to AutoWikiBrowser may be temporarily removed. If you do not resume editing within the next week, your username will be removed from the CheckPage. This is purely for routine maintenance and is not indicative of wrongdoing on your part. You may regain access at any time by simply requesting it at WP:PERM/AWB. Thank you! — MusikBot II ^talk 20:22, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

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Suggestion for the Afd script stats

Hi Enterprisey, hope you're well. I had a suggestion with respect to the stats generated by the Afd script. Currently, the percentage score of an editor is shown as follows:

Number of AfD's where vote matched result (green cells): 93 (93%)

Number of AfD's where vote didn't match result (red cells): 2 (2%)

Number of AfD's where result was "No Consensus" (yellow cells): 5 (5%)

Would it be possible to have an additional information which shows the percentage if the "no consensus" results were disregarded. For example, as noted below:

Number of AfD's where vote matched result (green cells): 93 (93%) (97.89% without considering "no consensus" results)

Number of AfD's where vote didn't match result (red cells): 2 (2%) (2.10% without considering "no consensus" results)

Number of AfD's where result was "No Consensus" (yellow cells): 5 (5%)

This would help editors assess the clear result percentages too. Do tell me if this sounds sensible. Thanks. Lourdes 12:35, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Lourdes, done! Let me know how it looks. Enterprisey (talk!) 05:53, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Looks brilliant (I like the way you have consolidated the additional results in the succeeding line). Thanks for taking out the time for this. Warmly. Lourdes 09:14, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

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YABBR and list-defined references

The YABBR edits at Diebold Nixdorf replaced one error with a different one, as the reference definitions inside the reflist were reduced to <ref name=Something/>. Was that a one-off slip by the editor (who I'm deliberately not pinging here), or does the tool need to be changed in some way? -- John of Reading (talk) 20:14, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing that! The tool should definitely be changed. For now, I'm disabling the editing of list-defined references, but a future fix would likely make changing only the refs inside the reflist impossible. Enterprisey (talk!) 21:18, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Sunday July 9: WikNYC Picnic @ Governors Island

Sunday July 9, 1-6pm: WikNYC Picnic

You are invited to join us the "picnic anyone can edit" on New York City's green and historic Governors Island, as part of the Great American Wiknic celebrations being held across the USA. Remember it's a wiki-picnic, which means potluck.

Sunday July 9 WikNYC Picnic (RSVP) (also on meetup.com)

1–6pm - come by any time! Our reserved picnicking area is Grill #5 by Nolan Park in the northern part of Governors Island.

Look for us by the Wikipedia / Wikimedia NYC banner!

We hope to see you there! --Pharos (talk) 11:03, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

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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.

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

July 19: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday July 19, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.

We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

Wednesday July 19 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com).

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street

(note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location)

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 02:37, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

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Bots Newsletter, July 2017

Bots Newsletter, July 2017

Greetings!

Here is the 4th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

BAG

BU Rob13 and Cyberpower678 are now members of the BAG (see RfBAG/BU Rob13 and RfBAG/Cyberpower678 3). BU Rob13 and Cyberpower678 are both administrators; the former operates BU RoBOT which does a plethora of tasks, while the latter operates Cyberbot I (which replaces old bots), Cyberbot II (which does many different things), and InternetArchiveBot which combats link rot. Welcome to the BAG!

BRFAs

We currently have 12 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!

Discussions

Efforts at WP:CHECKWIKI to identify cosmetic fixes are still ongoing.
The RFC on COSMETICBOT has concluded with "a clear consensus exists to adopt the proposed language". The new wording is now live.
The venue for bot appeals and reexaminations has been changed from WP:BRFA to WP:BOTN (see discussion)
The Wikipedia:Bot owner's noticeboard is now the Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard (see discussion).

New things

A historical correction was made to WP:BOTPOL (see discussion).
WP:HIDEBOTS now mentions how to hide all bots from your watchlist, not only specific bots.
The phabricator ticket T162685 is now closed, and we now have "#Bots-Framework" tag, so issues related to bot frameworks can be tracked.
Wikibits.js has been removed (see discussion).
21 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion).
WP:BOTISSUE has been updated to mention that BAG members can act as neutral mediators in bot-related disputes.
WP:INTERWIKIBOT has been updated to reflect the post-February 2013 practice of putting interwiki links on Wikidata, rather than on Wikipedia (see discussion).

Upcoming

HTML Tidy will be phased out in June 2018, or possibly earlier. This may affect some bots (see FAQ).

Wikimania

Wikimania 2017 is happening in Montreal, during 9–13 August. If you plan to attend, or give a talk, let us know!

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Sunday July 30: Action=History Wiki-Hackathon @ Ace Hotel

On the last Sunday of every month, the Boardroom at Ace Hotel New York hosts Action Equals History — a unique opportunity for New Yorkers to learn hands-on in a technology training/workshop session about the mechanics, practices and benefits of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. This is an opportunity for all to gather, share and work collectively towards a more robust account of history.

For this month, we'll focus on Wikipedia casual editing, ways to use and develop Wikidata, building better edit-a-thon tools for a variety of different thematic campaigns, and user-testing them with the community. Towards a goal of advancing these tools for wider use with diverse local groups.

Action=History Wiki-Hackathon @ Ace Hotel

Date: Sunday July 30
Time: 2:00 am - 6:00 pm
Location: Ace Hotel New York. 20 West 29th Street, Manhattan.
RSVP: on Meetup.com or on Wikipedia

Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 14:21, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

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APersonBot error on DYK notice for Marvel Music (imprint)

APersonBot erroneously notified Iftekharahmed96 as an editor who ".. created or to which you significantly contributed..." to Marvel Music (imprint). Iftekharahmed96 just split the information off from another article. Spshu (talk) 14:06, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

Spshu, the bot follows what the DYK nominator says; in this case, ViperSnake151 listed Iftekharahmed96 as a coauthor in the DYK nomination. Enterprisey (talk!) 06:46, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

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User:EnterpriseyBot/AFCRHS.js

Hi, I notice that this scripts is not declaring it's dependency on mediawiki.util, nor is it using mw.config.get yet to retrieve the site configuration variables. Since this script is in use by people, can you please update it ? —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:19, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

User:Enterprisey/orcp-helper.js

The script User:Enterprisey/orcp-helper.js does not declare it's dependency on mediawiki.util. It also does not wait for the dom to be ready before it starts reading and/or modifying the DOM. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 09:46, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

TheDJ Fixed - could you take a look, please? Enterprisey (talk!) 16:04, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

@Enterprisey: Seems ok. I made some minor changes to show you a slightly more efficient way to do the load phase. As this script is only needed on a single page, we can only load it on that one page (pagename is part of the config, which can be checked outside of document.ready). We can also load the CSS already before the page is done, which decreases the chance that the styling will be applied after the user has already seen the page, because the CSS was slow to download.—TheDJ (talk • contribs) 19:01, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2017

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

Administrator changes

Anarchyte • GeneralizationsAreBad • Cullen328 ^{(first RfA to reach WP:300)}

Cprompt • Rockpocket • Rambo's Revenge • Animum • TexasAndroid • Chuck SMITH • MikeLynch • Crazytales • Ad Orientem

Guideline and policy news

Following a series of discussions around new pages patrol, the WMF is helping implement a controlled autoconfirmed article creation trial as a research experiment, similar to the one proposed in 2011. You can learn more about the research plan at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial. The exact start date of the experiment has yet to be determined.
A new speedy deletion criterion, regarding articles created as a result undisclosed paid editing, is currently being discussed (permalink).
An RfC (permalink) is currently open that proposes expanding WP:G13 to include all drafts, even if they weren't submitted through Articles for Creation.

Technical news

LoginNotify should soon be deployed to the English Wikipedia. This will notify users when there are suspicious login attempts on their account.
The new version of XTools is nearing an official release. This suite of tools includes administrator statistics, an improved edit counter, among other tools that may benefit administrators. You can report issues on Phabricator and provide general feedback at mw:Talk:XTools.

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Task 10

Hi, how often does Task 10 run? I looked through the bot's edit history and it doesn't look like any talk pages have been edited in a while (since February?) I was curious whether this was an issue of too few articles to correct or a bot error. czar 23:15, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Czar, I don't have it automatically scheduled at the moment, and I'm not sure why. Maybe some concern came up? It's definitely not due to a technical issue, since the bot was operating fine. I can put it back on automatic with a reduced number of pages per day, and we'll see how that goes. Enterprisey (talk!) 05:54, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Sounds good/checking back in—will the automatic rounds go live soon? I have at least a dozen redirected articles whose talk page banners need updating czar 09:04, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Czar, oops - looks like the bot ran fine, once, but then ran into a nasty Unicode error. I put in a fix and it should hopefully be editing soon. Enterprisey (talk!) 06:31, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Hey, checking back in. I've been keeping a list of talk pages that the bot will eventually crawl (to remove their project ratings), and it's been over a month for some of them. Don't want to bother you, but not sure how to set my expectations. How frequently should the bot crawl all articles, in your estimation? Surely no longer than a week, no? czar 19:23, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

I see the task has been running for a few days, but it appears to only remove "class=redirect". Will it also remove other classes ("class=stub") when the associated mainspace page is a redirect? (E.g., Talk:RNC 8 is one of the pages I was waiting for the bot to change since mid-June.) How long should it take to crawl all articles? czar 13:52, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
Czar, just to test that, I ran the bot specifically on the talk page you mentioned, and it worked fine. It might just take a while for it to get to that page. The order the bot goes in is determined by the (alphabetical) order of redirect categories in Category:All redirect categories; today it's on Category:All Grown Up! episode redirects to lists. At this rate, it may indeed take a super long time; I'd definitely be okay with increasing the number of pages processed per day, but I'd have to go back and review the bot's contributions so far. Enterprisey (talk!) 18:07, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

The edits I checked from the bot's history looked good. Increasing the pages processed per day would be great! I still have several dozen waiting to be processed (those are only the ones I saved for spot checks). Appreciate your work on this czar 18:22, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

I checked a big chunk of the bot's recent edits and couldn't find anything wrong as well, so I'm going to bump it up to 6 a day - if that doesn't produce any errors, I can probably increase it further in the future! Enterprisey (talk!) 04:34, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

If it's going well, perhaps you can bump it up again? Still hasn't hit the batch from two months ago—likely because most of the redirects are in the "Redirects from ..." and "Redirects to ..." categories, which are a ways down from six/day. czar 19:52, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

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COI - of a different kind

Hi Enterprisey. Because it involves New Page and AfC reviewers along with other maintenance workers (SPI, COIN), an informal chat has begun on some aspects of paid editing. See Conflict of Interest - of a different kind. Please add your thoughts there. It is not a debate or RfC.
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August 30: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday August 30, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.

We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

Wednesday August 30 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com).

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street

(note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location)

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 12:03, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2017

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

Administrator changes

Nakon • Scott

Sverdrup • Thespian • Elockid • James086 • Ffirehorse • Celestianpower • Boing! said Zebedee

Guideline and policy news

ACTRIAL, a research experiment that restricts article creation to autoconfirmed users, will begin on September 7. It will run for six months. You can learn more about the research specifics at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial, while Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed article creation trial is probably the best venue for general discussion.
Following an RfC, WP:G13 speedy deletion criterion now applies to any page in the draftspace that has not been edited in six months. There is a bot-generated report, updated daily, to help identify potentially qualifying drafts that have not been submitted through articles for creation.

Technical news

You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device that has logged into your account before, you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can also set in your preferences to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address, which may be encouraged for admins and accounts with sensitive permissions.
Syntax highlighting is now available as a beta feature (more info). This may assist administrators and template editors when dealing with intricate syntax of high-risk templates and system messages.
In your notification preferences, you can now block specific users from pinging you. This functionality will soon be available for Special:EmailUser as well.

Arbitration

Applications for CheckUser and Oversight are being accepted by the Arbitration Committee until September 12. Community discussion of the candidates will begin on September 18.

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Tool idea: Deletion analyzer

Hi there. Since you are quite good with creating tools, I wonder if you would be able/willing to create a new tool for me (and the rest of the project of course). Based on some discussions I had recently, I was wondering whether it would be possible to create a tool that analyzes an admin's deletions and displays them sorted by different categories, i.e. CSD, PROD/BLPPROD, XFD and others and also broken down by speedy criteria and XFD processes (and ideally presented in nice pie charts). Would you be interested in creating such a tool? Regards So Why 13:17, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Heads up, I also proposed this at mw:Talk:XTools. Regards So Why 07:12, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

SoWhy, It's definitely possible in at least two ways: by reading the summary left by the admin, or by inspecting the content of the deleted page. The one is easier to code for me, a non-admin, but the other might be more accurate. This could work as either a tool written by me or XTools; I'm gonna be busy for a few weeks starting nowish, but if the XTools devs haven't picked this up by then I can definitely start in on this. Enterprisey (talk!) 07:16, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Since almost all admins use summaries when deleting pages and those are quite standardized (either in the deletion dropbox or using tools, for example, speedy deletions almost always contain the code [[WP:CSD#<Criterion>]] or [[WP:<Criterion>]]), reading the deletion log should be sufficient. I tried with my limited PHP skills and was able to analyze a thousand of my deletions almost all correctly by checking whether the log entry contained either the XFD text or the CSD link but unfortunately I lack basic skills to implement this in any useful way (for example, I have no idea how to determine when to stop parsing the log, seeing as there is an API limit and thus you have to query multiple times). I'd be happy if either you or XTools could have a look at it but there is no hurry. Regards So Why 07:23, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Short update: I created a tool to analyze AFD closes and I think I can adapt the code to create the deletion analyzer myself, so if you have not started on it yet, you can hold off and let me try myself

Regards So Why 07:02, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

In case you are interested, I completed a first alpha version. Feedback is welcome.

Regards So Why 11:55, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Feature request for RfX !vote history tool

Hi there. Based on this discussion at WT:RFA, do you think it would be possible to add more information about !voters to the vote history tool? Specifically it would be useful to output user groups, registration date and edit count. Regards So Why 09:25, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Yes, very useful! bd2412 T 23:53, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

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September 27: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting

Wednesday September 27, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

This month will also feature on our agenda, upcoming editathons, the organization's Annual Meeting, and Chapter board elections.

We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.

We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

Wednesday September 27 WikiWednesday Salon / Wikimedia NYC Annual Meeting (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com).

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street

(note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location)

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 00:42, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

P.S. On the weekend before the annual meeting, you can join: Action=History @ Ace Hotel (Sunday, September 24, 2017)

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A barnstar for you!

The Technical Barnstar

Thanks for building a maintaining data on the AfC pending category! We've made some hypotheses about how that will develop during the forthcoming ACTRIAL (hypotheses 16 and 17 on our research page), so your tool is immensely helpful for figuring that out. Would love to get access to the data behind the graph, if possible (if not, I can copy the table you have?) Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 22:57, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Why thank you!

The data lives on the server as a simple text file, which I have made available as a CSV file at https://tools.wmflabs.org/apersonbot/afc-pending/csv.py. Let me know if there's any other formatting or processing you'd like! Enterprisey (talk!) 06:09, 14 September 2017 (UTC) (and a ping: Nettrom Enterprisey (talk!) 06:09, 14 September 2017 (UTC))

A CSV is easy to work with, thanks so much for making that available so quickly! Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 00:53, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

recently-active hung?

Hi Enterprisey , could you check if toollabs:apersonbot/recently-active is OK? — xaosflux ^Talk 12:10, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, it was brought to my attention two days ago during the API outages, so I put in a fix - but apparently the fix stopped working. Let me take a look at it. Enterprisey (talk!) 00:21, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Should be fixed now! Enterprisey (talk!) 00:32, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Link failed for User:EnterpriseyBot/BOTREQ status

Hi. I find that the link in User:EnterpriseyBot/BOTREQ status failed on Request to replace |pushpin_map= with |map_type=. Do you know it's a bug of mediawiki or are there any workarounds? --Kanashimi (talk) 12:16, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

It was a bug in my code! Sorry about that. (Apparently MediaWiki doesn't want you to encode "_" in links.) It should be fixed now. Enterprisey (talk!) 00:23, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

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Your AfC tool

If your AfC tool had information more recent than 38 hours ago, it would be more useful. It's already kind of useful as is, but maybe you can get it to automatically update every time the page is refreshed? -- I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message (talk to me) (My edits) @ 07:55, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

It's pretty much at the mercy of Earwig's bot keeping WP:AFC/S updated. I could make my own bot that duplicated the work that the existing one does, but I'm not sure if it's worth the effort: the existing one doesn't have that much downtime, besides the recent issues. Enterprisey (talk!) 01:32, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

@Enterprisey: Okay, thanks for explaining. -- I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message (talk to me) (My edits) @ 04:17, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

I dream of horses, try it now! Should be updating much more frequently. I ended up going with the above solution: making my own bot that creates a list of submissions. This way, I can control how often the bot updates the list. Enterprisey (talk!) 07:37, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

It works. I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message (talk to me) (My edits) @ 07:44, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

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CSD log?

I'm looking through the code for https://tools.wmflabs.org/apersonbot/aadminscore/ and can't figure out what a CSD log is supposed to be. Can you elucidate? --GRuban (talk) 16:05, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

It's a subpage of your user page that some automated tools use to record which pages you've nominated for speedy deletion. Twinkle's documentation is at WP:TW/DOC#CSD (speedy deletion). The tool calculates what percent of pages you nominate are deleted by admins: high percentages result in higher scores for the CSD component of the score. If you run the tool on someone with a log, the "Data" entry for the "CSD log" component will link to their CSD log, so you can see what one looks like. Hope this helped! Enterprisey (talk!) 20:49, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2017

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

Administrator changes

Boing! said Zebedee • Ansh666 • Ad Orientem

Tonywalton • AmiDaniel • Silence • BanyanTree • Magioladitis • Vanamonde93 • Mr.Z-man • Jdavidb • Jakec • Ram-Man • Yelyos • Kurt Shaped Box

Guideline and policy news

Following a successful proposal to create it, a new user right called "edit filter helper" is now assignable and revocable by administrators. The right allows non-administrators to view the details of private edit filters, but not to edit them.
Following a discussion about mass-application of ECP and how the need for logging and other details of an evolving consensus may have been missed by some administrators, a rough guide to extended confirmed protection has been written. This information page describes how the extended-confirmed aspects of the protection policy are currently being applied by administrators.

Technical news

You can now search for IP ranges at Special:Contributions. Some log pages and Special:DeletedContributions are not yet supported. Wildcards (e.g. 192.168.0.*) are also not supported, but the popular contribsrange gadget will continue to work.

Arbitration

Community consultation on the 2017 candidates for CheckUser and Oversight has concluded. The Arbitration Committee will appoint successful candidates by October 11.
A request for comment is open regarding the structure, rules, and procedures of the December 2017 Arbitration Committee election, and how to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

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Florence Mary Bird - I created This page and it has been deleted and sent to DRAFT status

Dear Enterprisey - I'm at a loss as to what my next steps should be regarding the deletion of the page Florence Mary Bird - a resident of Wisconsin who is a well-know regional artist from Prairie du Chien. I cited all of the news coverage of her work (granted, it is limited) but the fact remains there is news coverage. I feel I have wrongly been accused of violating the COI policies which ironically are based in PURE SPECULATION -- something Wikipedia always espouses people should never do. This is purely a case of a friend of mine who knows Florence if I could create a Wiki page for her - no compensation whatsoever. It is a FACT that she does exist, has created numerous works of high-value sculptures that are housed in "PUBLIC" venues such as STATE PARKS. The fact that not much NEWS COVERAGE exists should NOT preclude this amazing artist from being denied a place on Wiki and we would hope that, as a resident of Wisconsin who focuses much of her work on the history of the state, that you would lobby for her inclusion.

I am NOT a Wiki expert. In fact, this was my first attempt at creating a page. I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND the need for guidelines and protocol but I honestly believe that whomever the powers that be at Wiki really need to examine their guidelines and protocols. What started out as a place for the world to see and use has turned into a mind boggling site for of endless pages of rules, protocols, coded language that many will never master, and a community that makes assumptions and accusations that are not true (for example, "that the author is a close friend or family member, there is no legitimate news coverage, etc."

If this is the way Wiki works, once I complete this effort (if that is even possible), it will likely be my last attempt at contributing.

As I have stated before, I understand and respect the guidelines and protocols - but this has become an insane exercise in futility and frustration - all for the price of trying to help a Wisconsin artist who CLEARLY deserves to be on Wiki.

Anything you can do to help right this wrong would be appreciated. Bob — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bob Schiers (talk • contribs) 19:53, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

Bob Schiers, for what it's worth, your work hasn't been deleted, it's been converted to a draft (see Draft:Florence Mary Bird). I believe this was done in order for you to have an opportunity to further improve the page. Primefac (talk) 21:56, 8 October 2017 (UTC) (talk page stalker)

AFD tool

Hi there. I don't seem to be able to look up my AFD stats. When I put in my username it comes up with an error message saying no AFDs found, User:Pawnkingthree may not exist. --Pawnkingthree (talk) 23:10, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

Pawnkingthree, you don't need to put in the User: prefix. here are your results as they show up for me. Primefac (talk) 00:54, 9 October 2017 (UTC) (talk page stalker)

Thanks for the link, I can see that ok. I actually didn't put in the User: prefix. Maybe you can't look up your own results?! --Pawnkingthree (talk) 01:10, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Nope, mine show up perfectly fine. Maybe it was a hiccup in the system. Primefac (talk) 01:17, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Pawnkingthree, it was, sadly, a hiccup in the system, my apologies. I was testing some new code related to the error in an above section ("Minor bug in AfD stat tool", for posterity), and apparently that made the tool unable to find any votes. Sorry! Enterprisey (talk!) 02:24, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

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Sunday October 15: Wikipedia @ Open House New York / Weekend Photo Competition

This event is the concluding "upload party" to the Wikipedia @ Open House New York Weekend photo scavenger hunt, and an accompanying Wikimedia Commons tutorial and multimedia hackathon,

Learn how to work with your photos to illustrate New York City articles!

Note that this is part of the larger Open House New York Weekend activities on Saturday and Sunday, when sites normally closed to the public are open for public visits and photography.

If you can, bring your camera/photos to the event, and a laptop if you'd like to engage in adding photos to articles. But this is not necessary.

For photos from last year's event, see the OHNY campaign 2016 on Wikimedia Commons.

Wikipedia @ Open House New York / Weekend Photo Competition

Date: Sunday October 15
Time: 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Ace Hotel New York. 20 West 29th Street, Manhattan.

Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 15:33, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

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October 18: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

Wednesday October 18, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan.

We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.

We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

Wednesday October 18 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com).

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Babycastles gallery, 145 West 14th Street

(note the new address, a couple of doors down from the former Babycastles location)

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 13:21, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

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Issue with RFAP script

When I try to use the script, it gives this response: While getting the wikitext, there was an error. Is that a bug? KGirl ^{(Wanna chat?)} 15:31, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

Yup. Recent changes to the script must've moved stuff around. I fixed it. Thanks for pointing this out! Enterprisey (talk!) 04:02, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

The issue is still not fixed, just displays an error again. I've temporarily uninstalled this script until issue is fixed. KGirl ^{(Wanna chat?)} 14:05, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

KGirlTrucker81, that's weird, since I just tested it again on a bunch of browsers and it works on my end. Do you think you could post what the error was? Enterprisey (talk!) 19:33, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

It give no error information while it's says getting the wikitext, possibly the script doesn't work in Microsoft Edge on a xbox one console. Sometimes, it's a pain and awful to edit WP on a video game console. KGirl ^{(Wanna chat?)} 23:56, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

It does work on chrome and many browsers, but doesn't work in Edge. KGirl ^{(Wanna chat?)} 17:47, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

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Idea for AfC tool

Could it be possible to have a checkmark for drafts in the "very old" category? -- I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message (talk to me) (My edits) @ 01:12, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

I asked for clarification on IRC, IDoH is referring to [15]. Primefac (talk) 01:55, 5 October 2017 (UTC) (talk page stalker)

I dream of horses,

Done! Enterprisey (talk!) 04:36, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

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AFCH idea

I try to keep an eye on edits that people make to my approved AfC drafts, to see if I missed something or if AFCH could be improved. One I noticed was if there is more than a certain number of WikiProjects on the talk page, a banner shell is added. It would be nice if there were two or more WikiProjects selected, a shell is automatically created to wrap them. Thoughts? Kees08 (Talk) 20:55, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, that's a good idea and it's being tracked at https://github.com/WPAFC/afch-rewrite/issues/73. It shouldn't be that hard to code, but we don't have many maintainers for the AFCH script

Enterprisey (talk!) 20:40, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

WiR CSD report

Hey, thanks for that. Now, you can tell when an idea's good when people ask for enhancements to it! So.....

Firstly, it would be nice to sort the CSD candidates by type. If you look at Category:Candidates for speedy deletion#Subcategories, you can see the various sub-categories for each class of CSD. For example, probably the most common types of speedies of interest to WiR are Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as importance or significance not asserted for A7 and Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as spam for G11. There are other categories that would be nice to iterate over, such as Category:Expired proposed deletions and Category:BLP articles proposed for deletion.

Secondly, I notice the current report seems to print all articles with a positive score. While it's a good idea to print as much as possible to avoid anything getting missed, I think it would be worthwhile highlighting anything that gets above the threshold score (as defined by the top entry in User:AlexNewArtBot/[rule]).

How often are you planning to run it? When I said "every five minutes" that was more metaphorical; the thing about speedies is they can disappear at any time (the clue's in the name) so we need some compromise between over-taxing the bot and making sure it picks up articles under the immediate threat of deletion quicky enough. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 10:19, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Ritchie333, for goodness sake! Learn the difference between pointing to a cat and putting a page in a cat!! — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 10:54, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Well, when I point to a cat it tends to come over, purr a bit and try and curl up on my lap. Putting paper in a cat is a bad idea though, they'll just throw it up again. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 10:57, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Alright, the report has reasons now, bolds scores above the threshold, and runs every 3 hours. I can also highlight A7's, if that would help? Enterprisey (talk!) 21:31, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

Well the one I just speedily moved to draft was a G4, but I don't see the harm in highlighting A7s with a positive score. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 14:21, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Just had a look now. Astrid Joosten was tagged A7, which I declined because being a presenter on a national TV network is an indication of importance. However, it scored 0 on the report; the only clue that it might be relevant to WiR is the name. This kind of makes sense if you think about it, since if we're trying to write about something from a neutral and gender-agnostic point of view, and being a woman isn't directly relevant to her job, it probably won't hit any of the "trigger" words. Meanwhile, Kondho has a high score because there is a picture of a female Kondho in the infobox, and Heather Starlet has a positive score because of the word "she" (it also has "Lesbian psycho drama" but I don't think that's what WiR is really about). Also paging Rosiestep who's interested in the report's accuracy. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 09:59, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, I've been looking at some of the recent reports and I don't think the current AlexNewArtBot-based rules are doing a good job at all. If an article is in the women writers category, for instance, like Astrid Joosten, it should be guaranteed to appear on the list, no questions asked. I don't have much free time for the next couple of days but I should be able to get an improved algorithm going after that. Enterprisey (talk!) 20:37, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

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Halloween cheer!

Happy Halloween!

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Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!
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AFCH request

Per this post, would you mind removing the "blank this draft" option from the "decline as cv" setup? Or is this something that should properly be discussed? Primefac (talk) 13:45, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Primefac, do you want me to uncheck it by default or kill the option altogether? I'm leaning towards the first one myself. (And I thought we had a discussion already that supported the removal of the option, unless I remember wrong?) Enterprisey (talk!) 22:06, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

I think removing it entirely is fine. Drafts aren't indexed, and while {{afc cleared}} does mention copyright violations, the hassle of having to view the old version (based on the other conversation) is just more work than having a temporarily-visible copyright violation. Primefac (talk) 11:47, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Done, and let me know if any issues come up! Enterprisey (talk!) 02:51, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Issues with XfD tool script

Hi, I've noticed that CfD and MfD votes don't show up on the "xfd-stats" tool. Could you look into that, please? Thanks! ToThAc (talk) 21:29, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

ToThAc, I checked on both my username and your username, and I can find CfD and MfD votes. Which ones are missing? Enterprisey (talk!) 22:05, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

Maybe it's the operating system that's the problem... I tried it on Windows 10 and Linux. ToThAc (talk) 20:30, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Did any errors show up in the console? Enterprisey (talk!) 21:32, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

WP:CLEAN


	Hello Enterprisey: You are invited to join WikiProject Cleanup, a WikiProject and resource for Wikipedia cleanup listings, information and discussion. To join the project, just add your name to the member list. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:29, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Sure. Thanks for the invite! Enterprisey (talk!) 02:52, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

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ArbCom voters script

Can you do me a quick favour? As part of my new and exciting^{[dubious – discuss]} role as ArbCom Election Council dogsbody, I've cobbled together a script to work out voters for the upcoming ArbCom elections, and put it in User:Ritchie333/aceusers.py. Can you check and see if there are any mistakes or improvements - in particularly, pulling down a list of contributions just to count them is a waste. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 10:29, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Sure! According to the source code of site.allusers, the dictionary you get for each user has an editcount property. Quickly checking with this property would probably save you some time for most users, and then you could do the more in-depth check for users with 100 to 200 edits, because the official one might be wrong (because of caching). I don't think there's anything wrong with using site.usercontribs, but you may want to add total=150 to not get any more mainspace edits than the 150 you need. Otherwise, it looks good, if you want to stick to the current "for-loop with included if statements" structure.

If instead you were open to changing the code's structure, making a function that took a user dictionary and returned a boolean (true if allowed, false if not), and then using itertools.ifilter on the generator you get from site.allusers might bring some performance improvements. It isn't necessary, though, especially if you don't plan to run this script that much. Enterprisey (talk!) 05:55, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. I've tweaked the code a little bit, so it's possible to run multiple iterations in parallel. It seems the bottleneck is just pulling down all the user details; there's no way of filtering off edit count. I don't see the point of itertools.ifilter here - obviously it can make nicer code to abstract the iteration from the inclusion algorithm, but as it stands there's not much code.

The other possible solution is to get a database tarball and query it directly, which might end up being faster to get the results. The script has been running for 24 hours and got up to "Ba"; at this rate it will take a fortnight to finish! However, I can put it on a few other machines, starting at different points, so it can be done in parallel. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 22:14, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Ritchie333: Take a look at the changes I made. auwitheditsonly makes it query for users with edits. I also removed the ucprops but I don't know if that makes it any faster. I think Legoktm can get the list quicker than any of us. (See the bottom of this section.) — JJMC89 (T·C) 06:27, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

That's sped it up a bit. I assumed site._generator() was a restricted function that you couldn't call; obviously if you can streamline the output to just the data you need and nothing else, that'll provide optimum output. I'm running the script on a couple of separate machines now, so I'll see how far it gets by the end of the day. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 10:48, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, using the API is going to be pretty slow, it'll probably be much faster to run a database query against the Toolforge replica databases and have that spit out a list. If you need help I could assist with that. Legoktm (talk) 19:53, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

@Legoktm: Yup, I've just finished the entire list (the last account is User:🤖 and the last account eligible to vote is User:😂) and all in all it took 48 hours, and that's just one iteration. Can I just go onto https://quarry.wmflabs.org and type select user_name from user where user_editcount >= 150 and user_registration <= 20171028000000; (which will get me most of the way there; the query also needs to do an aggregate of mainspace contributions) - a quick count shows that will currently return 172,196 users. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont)

Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon (Nov 19) and global online Wikipedia Asian Art Month (Nov 1-30)

Sunday November 19, 10:30 am - 4:00pm: Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon

The Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ The Met will be the Metropolitan Museum of Art's second edit-a-thon, hosted on Sunday November 19, 2017 in the Bonnie Sacerdote Classroom, Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education (81st Street entrance) at The Met Fifth Avenue in New York City.

Following the first Met edit-a-thon in May 2017, the museum is excited to work with Wikipedia Asian Month for the potential to seed new articles about Asian artworks, artwork types, and art traditions, from any part of Asia. These can be illustrated with thousands of its recently-released images of public domain artworks available for Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons from the museum’s collection spanning 5,000 years of art. The event is an opportunity for Wikimedia communities to engage The Met's diverse Asian collections onsite and remotely.

Sunday November 19 Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ The Met (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com).

10:30 am - 4:00 pm in Bonnie Sacerdote Classroom, Uris Center for Education

81st Street entrance, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue

Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords. Light snacks, drinks and cake will be provided.

We also welcome remote participation for the global online Wikipedia Asian Art Month, running November 1-30.

Thanks, and hope to see you at the museum, and/or as part of the online Wikipedia Asian Month contest!--Pharos (talk) 16:36, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

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Arbitration

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Minor bug in AfD stat tool

Hi - I voted delete for an article, in bold, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/RIMS Risk Maturity Model and commented that I was trying to find a keep and regretted that I couldn't. The tool took that word keep and marked my vote as a keep. Is there a way to change the code to just count the first occurrence of keep, delete, redirect or merge? TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 23:10, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Working on a bug fix now. Should be coming out in a few days when I finish it. Thanks for noticing! Enterprisey (talk!) 22:14, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Seems to be fixed! Enterprisey (talk!) 02:39, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

AfD Stats

In my AfD stats, it says that I voted keep for Starrcade (2017), when I nominated it for deletion. What happened here? JTP ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:29, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

You responded to a vote missing a timestamp; since your response had a timestamp, the tool assumed the entire chunk of text (Fmm134's vote and your comment) was one whole vote. The tool also goes with the last vote whenever a user has multiple votes; since a nomination counts as one deletion vote, the tool ignored it in favor of the erroneous "keep".

I've seen this behavior in the past but never got around to fixing it. There's some code online that I was testing, but couldn't get to work; I'll look at it some more tonight to see if I can finally fix this issue. Enterprisey (talk!) 01:11, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Seems to be fixed. Enterprisey (talk!) 02:40, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

November 15: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC @ NYU ITP

Wednesday November 15, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC @ NYU ITP

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at NYU ITP Tisch School of the Arts (4th floor) at 721 Broadway in Manhattan.

We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants.

We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.

We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects.

After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!

Wednesday November 15 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (RSVP on-wiki or at meetup.com).

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at NYU ITP Tisch School of the Arts (4th floor), 721 Broadway

(note that we are not at Babycastles this month)

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) ~~~~~

P.S. You are also invited to Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sunday November 19!

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AfD stats mixing closes in with votes

Hi Enterprisey. The AfD stats appears to be mixing closures in with the votes. For example, if you look at my stats, many of the AfDs listed are ones I closed, not ones I voted in. Mz7 (talk) 21:59, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

I'll be looking into that. Thanks for bringing it up! Enterprisey (talk!) 22:42, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Fixed. Enterprisey (talk!) 23:00, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Wow, that was fast.

Thanks! Mz7 (talk) 01:46, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

Task 10 cont'd

Old thread: User talk:Enterprisey/Archive 7#Task 10

Hi Enterprisey, sorry to bother you again, but would it be possible to increase the intake rate on Task 10? Still waiting for the bot to hit articles that I redirected in June, and I'd like to take the task off my plate czar 19:47, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

Yup. Bumped it up to 15. Enterprisey (talk!) 04:03, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

The bot still hasn't gotten to some of my redirects from June (when I started tracking). My understanding is that the bot goes through Rcat categories, say 15 a day. There are some categories/templates that are more active than others, for example, I think of {{R to related topic}}, {{R from subtopic}}, {{R to list entry}}, and {{R to section}}. Would it be possible to have the bot hit those every day in addition to the 15 other redirect cats? czar 19:01, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

Could I trouble you for a reply to this? I understood the bot's spec to necessitate crawling much faster, such that a newly redirected page has its talk page banners updated a week later (or, latest, an additional week or two), but it looks like it's taking months (if it ever gets there—the aforementioned redirects tracked from June haven't been crawled). Could you take a look so we can put this to bed? Appreciate your time, czar 21:56, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

It has now been bumped up to 50. Enterprisey (talk!) 04:09, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Delsort script

I have a thought or two about making this a little nicer for small form factor:

Make the category list a dropdown rather than radio buttons.
If you make it a dropdown, you can probably stack the two columns instead of having two columns. If you don't make it a dropdown, it might be nice if the two columns had a column-width associated and were able to fall below the other.

Just some thoughts. Definitely an improvement over FWDS. --Izno (talk) 14:11, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

In response to the first bullet point, I sort of want to reduce the number of clicks it takes to categorize something as much as possible, but if it's an inconvenience, I can definitely change it. And the second bullet point is a good idea that I should implement soon. Enterprisey (talk!) 22:07, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

Not an inconvenience per se, but Chrome on Android doesn't handle it great. No worries if you don't chase the first one. The second one would be much improved for mobile. --Izno (talk) 12:17, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Should have some time for this soon. Enterprisey (talk!) 09:25, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

AFCH request

Hi, I don't know if there's a better place for this but I hope this is a good place to discuss a modification to the AFCH tool I had in mind. Currently, when I am typing up a comment to a draft, I occasionally misspell, as happens to everyone. My normal behaviour is to double click the mis-spelt word, delete it and retype. However, the current behaviour when I double click in the AFCH box is to load up the edit source window, losing the custom feedback I had spent considerable time typing up, which gets quite annoying to the point that sometimes rather than retyping up my comments I just leave it and move on. Is it possible to implement a feature similar to that when you try and close a tab you have made changes to i.e. a "are you sure you want to leave this site" alert (similar to what happens when you try and close an article you're editing without saving in Wikipedia). Thanks, and apologies again if this query is misplaced. I'm using Chrome as my browser in Windows 10, if that helps. jcc (tea and biscuits) 15:02, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

(just in case you missed this?) jcc (tea and biscuits) 23:07, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Oh yeah. I wasn't able to reproduce this issue. Maybe some other script is trying to load the edit source window? But I'm able to attach a popup window to the tab closing, so expect that soon. Enterprisey (talk!) 07:51, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

AfD stats

Thanks for the Afdstats tool! I'm not sure who writes the code for it, but if you are the correct person I have a suggestion. The code that parses the user name could be written to throw away leading and trailng spaces, which are not allowed in user names but are sometimes picked up when copy/pasting a user name into the username form. Thanks again!198.58.171.47 (talk) 08:43, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Good idea! I've added that code. Enterprisey (talk!) 09:41, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2017

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Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

Following a request for comment, a new section has been added to the username policy which disallows usernames containing emoji, emoticons or otherwise "decorative" usernames, and usernames that use any non-language symbols. Administrators should discuss issues related to these types of usernames before blocking.

Technical news

Wikimedians are now invited to vote on the proposals in the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey on Meta Wiki until 10 December 2017. In particular, there is a section of the survey regarding new tools for administrators and for anti-harassment.
A new function is available to edit filter managers which can be used to store matches from regular expressions.

Arbitration

Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is open until Sunday 23:59, 10 December 2017 (UTC). There are 12 candidates running for 8 vacant seats.

Miscellaneous

Over the last few months, several users have reported backlogs that require administrator attention at WP:ANI, with the most common backlogs showing up on WP:SPI, WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. It is requested that all administrators take some time during this month to help clear backlogs wherever possible. It should be noted that AIV reports are not always valid; however, they still need to be cleared, which may include needing to remind users on what qualifies as vandalism.
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