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Welcome to the 2020 WikiCup!

Happy New Year, Happy New Decade and Happy New WikiCup! The competition begins today and all article creators, expanders and improvers are welcome to take part. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page. We are relaxing the rule that only content on which you have completed significant work during 2020 will count; now to be eligible for points in the competition, you must have completed significant work on the content at some time! Any questions on the rules or on anything else connected to the Cup should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will move on to round 2. Good luck! The judges for the WikiCup are Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Godot13 (talk · contribs · email), Vanamonde93 (talk · contribs · email) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:43, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

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4		Mutya ng Pilipinas 2008 (talk)	Expand
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304		HP ProBook (talk)	Expand
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1,817		Secular state (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
4		Military sexual assault (talk)	Merge
221		Space capsule (talk)	Merge
34		STec, Inc. (talk)	Merge
24		G. Sudhakaran (talk)	Wikify
174		Zilog (talk)	Wikify
229		Montjuïc (talk)	Wikify
5		HP Business Service Automation (talk)	Orphan
7		Race-based traumatic stress (talk)	Orphan
5		Miss La Union (talk)	Orphan
8		Coronado High School (Colorado) (talk)	Stub
12		Eugen Bejinariu (talk)	Stub
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

Administrator changes

Dreamy Jazz • Newslinger • Rosguill

Deor • Spartaz • Xeno

Angusmclellan • clpo13 • Edgar181 • Matthewedwards • NCurse

CheckUser changes

Bradv • Casliber • David Fuchs • Maxim • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy • Xeno

Oversight changes

Bradv • Casliber • DGG • David Fuchs • Maxim • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy • Xeno

Someguy1221

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
• A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
• Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.

Arbitration

• The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
• Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Bradv, Casliber, David Fuchs, DGG, KrakatoaKatie, Maxim, Newyorkbrad, SoWhy, Worm That Turned, Xeno.

Miscellaneous

• This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!

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Tech News: 2020-02

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Changes later this week

• When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [1]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 January. It will be on all wikis from 9 January (calendar).

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21:21, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

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290		Romanian Armed Forces (talk)	Cleanup
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4		2015 in Romanian politics (talk)	Expand
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5		Kudassanad (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
69		Camarilla (talk)	Merge
394		Illumina, Inc. (talk)	Merge
1,550		United States involvement in regime change (talk)	Merge
79		Zuni language (talk)	Wikify
78		ProCurve (talk)	Wikify
94		Economy of Honduras (talk)	Wikify
2		Andreas Maercker (talk)	Orphan
4		Center for Child and Family Health (talk)	Orphan
9		OmniCube (talk)	Orphan
44		Parul Shah (talk)	Stub
9		Monica Iacob Ridzi (talk)	Stub
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Tech News: 2020-03

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade attacks. Since 9 December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can read the browser recommendations. [2]
• Special:LinkSearch has been moved from the "Redirecting special pages" section on Special:SpecialPages to the "Lists of pages" section. [3]

Changes later this week

• Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are Require autoconfirmed or confirmed access and Require administrator access. If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see. [4]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be on all wikis from 16 January (calendar).

Future changes

• Deepcat and Catgraph will stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can now use the normal search function instead. [5]
• You can use <ref follow="…"> to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad <ref> was shown outside the <references /> list. This will change and you will see an error message instead. [6]

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Phab vs GitHub?

@MusikAnimal and Samwilson: I see you three are the maintainers of XTools. I notice you use GitHub instead of Phab/diffusion for source control. I'm just starting to work on some WMF-related code, and trying to settle on which one to use. Might I enquire as to your thoughts on why you picked the one you did? -- RoySmith (talk) 18:54, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

@RoySmith: I think we chose GitHub simply because it's familiar to more people, and hence more welcoming to new contributors. It's also just got a lot more features. If you're not bothered by using proprietary software, you might enjoy GitHub more. We actually have our GitHub mirrored on Diffusion, this way Phab tasks will surface any commits that mention the task number. I'm not sure how to set this up, though. I think you need a Phab admin. — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:41, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

@RoySmith and MusikAnimal: I think repo hosting in Phabricator is deprecated, and those repos are just mirrors (or unmigrated); everything else is in Gerrit. I can't find the documentation about this though; it dates from the idea that Gerrit would be deprecated and things moved to Phab, and the reverse decision was made. But yeah, the same issues applies to Gerrit vs Github in most ways. Other than MediaWiki extensions, it's usually easier to get things going on Github, especially now with Actions being a thing. Sometimes, Gerrit-hosted code can get more Wikimedia eyeballs, if that's important (e.g. you can get LibraryUpgrader and things like that). —Sam Wilson 23:55, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

I tried out my latest project on diffusion, mostly because the kubernetes quick-start instructions walk you through that. It sounded like there was some close integration that was important, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

One thing I discovered that I really dislike about diffusion is that it's slow to expose newly pushed changes. The first time I did a push and it didn't show up, I assumed I had done something wrong. What I didn't realize was that diffusion just polls the underlying git repo on a schedule. On Github, things update instantaneously.

I also discovered something nice on Github today that I didn't know about. I cloned my diffusion repos into Github, and got a warning that I was using a version of django with a known security flaw. It even auto-built me a pull request with the required fix. So, that's pretty cool.

Anyway thanks for the input. I'll stick with Github. I was kind of leaning that way already, but good to have confirmation. I can see the desire to be entirely self-sufficient for official WMF projects, but Github just seems like the better tool. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:41, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

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5		Sidewinder Arcas (talk)	Merge
160		SegWit (talk)	Merge
8		Alexandru Lapedatu (talk)	Wikify
573		Carol II of Romania (talk)	Wikify
13		2015 Romanian protests (talk)	Wikify
11		Anxiety buffer disruption theory (talk)	Orphan
29		Ulysses syndrome (talk)	Orphan
7		Maryam Elisha (talk)	Orphan
10		Josephine Tan (talk)	Stub
6		Alpine, Colorado (ghost town) (talk)	Stub
3		Dexter Cabin (talk)	Stub
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Tech News: 2020-04

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 January. It will be on all wikis from 23 January (calendar).

Future changes

• There is a new suggestion for what to show when someone edits without registering an account. This is to give unregistered editors better privacy and make some anti-vandalism work go faster. You can give feedback.
• Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will no longer support Python 2. Use the python2 tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so. [7]
• The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The timing for this cut may change. You can discuss in Phabricator if this affects you. [8]
• You can read about coming technical events and mentoring interns.

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19:41, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

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29		Kamiak High School (talk)	Cleanup
326		Cypress Semiconductor (talk)	Cleanup
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130		Hopi language (talk)	Expand
86		Miss Malaysia (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
29		Prospect High School (Saratoga, California) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
94		Native cloud application (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
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465		Geography of Fiji (talk)	Merge
8		Battle of Ruff's Station (talk)	Merge
6		Thalia Thin (talk)	Wikify
60		Engine Yard (talk)	Wikify
788		Economy of Taiwan (talk)	Wikify
5		Posttraumatic stress disorder and substance use disorders (talk)	Orphan
2		Parayakad, Alappuzha (talk)	Orphan
2		Assean River (Manitoba) (talk)	Orphan
22		Constantin Dăscălescu (talk)	Stub
4		Vicksburg, Colorado (talk)	Stub
48		Compaq Portable series (talk)	Stub
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The Signpost: 27 January 2020

• From the editor: Reaching six million articles is great, but we need a moratorium

• News and notes: Six million articles on the English language Wikipedia

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• From the archives: A decade of The Signpost, 2005-2015

• On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Japan: a wikiProject Report

• Humour: Predicting the 6,000,000th article

• Obituary: Remembering Wikipedia contributor Brian Boulton

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Tech News: 2020-05

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• Some mobile diffs have problems. A couple of buttons are not shown. Structured data diffs on Commons are confusing. The developers are working on fixing it. [9][10]
• Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions can't move discussion pages. This is a bug. The developers are working on fixing it. [11]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• There is JavaScript code on Special:Undelete for administrators that makes it possible to automatically select multiple checkboxes by holding the "Shift" key and clicking. This code is also loaded by accident on other special pages and on articles. This makes pages slower to load. This will be fixed. If you know of other special pages where this is useful please tell the developers at phab:T232688.

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18:53, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

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124		Economy of Mozambique (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
161		Economy of Panama (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
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6		M-Tag (talk)	Merge
32		2.0 (score) (talk)	Merge
124		HP Cloud (talk)	Wikify
293		Manufacturing in the United States (talk)	Wikify
215		Chief learning officer (talk)	Wikify
5		Akshaya Alshi (talk)	Orphan
12		Overgeneral autobiographical memory (talk)	Orphan
4		Ambav (talk)	Orphan
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8		Compaq C series (talk)	Stub
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