Comment As a small part of this I'd like to thank you for providing me with the name of the Mega journal, it's already made my afternoon and
provided an absurd web design gaffe: the image on the page you linked gives a 404 error with a link url of megasociety.org/file/C_/Documents%20and%20Settings/chris/Local%20Settings/program%20files/qualcomm/eudora/attach/Garble_%20copy.jpg
Contained on the same page, a paragraph of "wisdom" that states that discussion of climate change is a victory for al-qaeda, and a poem which reads like a would-be academic's take on millenarianist dogma that makes me question whether the site is parody or an elaborate bit on Dunning-Kruger
Finally, the journal is currently hosted on a site which proudly displays articles which include in their abstracts things like Notably, FE gains [...] sometimes reverse, as seen in several developed nations. These reversals point to the saturation and decline of positive factors, coupled with the influence of negative causes such as dysgenic fertility, FE being the flynn effect. Note the eugenicist language and sentiment, further echoed in its opening paragraph which praises the authors of The Bell Curve for being a large part of the effect's study and notoriety. Touches on basically every eugenicist trope including our favourite, skull size. To quote one of its counterarguments to the Flynn effect's existence, As mentioned in the background section, one of the most obvious ways to appreciate that the FE is hollow is to consider the magnitude of changes that have been reported in various nations. Over relatively short spans of time the FE gains have been outrageously large, suggesting that past generations were at the level of retardation as compared to present populations. Nothing we have seen in real world behavior is consistent with such a massive change in intelligence., arguing that intelligence gains are simply happening too quickly to be real; based on "if they were, we'd surely notice."
So, what we have witnessed is people related to an organisation who publish on a website that largely discusses eugenicism and other pseudoscientific and conspiratorial beliefs, that has been on the 'climate change doesn't exist' bandwagon for probably a few decades, use sockpuppets and ips to edit wikipedia in order to ensure the organisation's presence on the site. They all also seem to write as if it doesn't come normally to them, something about it is just so jarring.
Finally, the title of another piece from the "journal" or "wordpress blog" that they contribute to: Ask A Genius 1099: “Woke,” I Wokeism, Wokeness, Wokeology
There is a lot of warring going on on the 808s & Heartbreak pag over the genres, synthpop is not sourced, can you please add the following genres to the article as it is protected:
Hello. There's recent discussion about her birthplace. The talk page also mentioned that the birth certificate at the last comment. I appreciate your time and review. Thank you in advance. 183.171.122.121 (talk) 09:56, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Bearcat: (Excellent name btw) And what tool do you use to find articles that contain categories and subcategories of those categories (where you use the editsummary duplicate categorization; already in subcats)? Polygnotus (talk) 08:01, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately there's no special tool for that, and the only reliable way to find that sort of thing is to notice it in the regular editing or browsing processes. What you're seeing right now is that I happened to catch an absolute minefield of hundreds and hundreds US elections being catted as "year in particular state" and "decade in particular state" and "year in United States" and "decade in United States" and "year in North America" and "decade in North America" and "year in world" and "decade in world" all at the same time — but there's no tool that tipped me off to that, I unfortunately just happened to stumble across it. Bearcat (talk) 08:09, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Bearcat: Hm, I checked >5k pages that contain Category: in the draft namespace according to PetScan and only a handful actually contained cats that they weren't supposed to have.
There were a bunch between <nowiki> tags and <pre> tags and wrapped in {{Draft categories}} (and the various redirects to that) and between <!-- and -->.
There were ~100 articles in mainspace that contained the template {{Draft article}}, those do not get automatically listed in a category so it would probably be wise to use the same trick that {{Draft categories}} is using.
Dannybot does not catch all uncategorized drafts across the board. It only looks at Category:AfC submissions with categories, which only contains drafts that have categories alongside AfC submission templates, and doesn't catch any drafts that don't have an AFC submission template on them. So if an inappropriately categorized draft doesn't have an AFC submission template on it, then it will not be added to that maintenance category, and thus Dannybot will never come along and the page will just keep sitting in categories until a human finds it.
Dannybot is also designed for drafts and never catches userspace pages with mainspace categories on them, which always have to be found by a human editor.
So for Category:Living people, which has over a million articles in it and thus would take days and days to manually search, doing an incat search on it is literally the only way to catch inappropriately categorized pages at all. So yes, it is a thing that has to be done, because Dannybot only catches some categorized drafts rather than all categorized drafts and never catches userspace pages at all. Bearcat (talk) 15:28, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Dannybot is also designed for drafts and never catches userspace pages with mainspace categories on them Maybe I don't understand something, but it looks to me like task 11 catches userspace pages with mainspace categories. [1][2]
If Dannybot was catching all uncategorized drafts across the board, then Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories (2) would always be empty, and if Dannybot was routinely catching userspace pages with categories on them then Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories would always be empty, but neither of them ever are. The bot catches enough categorized drafts that the draft report stays relatively manageable in size, but the bot isn't catching all categorized drafts across the board — but the user report just endlessly grows and grows into the hundreds or thousands if I don't personally stay on top of cleaning it up every time it runs: I let it slide for several weeks earlier this year, and the first time I went back to it I found dozens of categories that had user content filed in them for months without the bot ever having touched it at all. The bot's helpful, but it simply isn't catching everything, because the reports are never empty the way they would be if the bot were actually catching everything. Bearcat (talk) 17:00, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
After reviewing your request, I have added your account to the rollback group. Keep in mind these things when using rollback:
Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
Users should be informed (or warned) after their edits have been reverted. If warnings repeatedly don't help, WP:ANI is the default place to go. In cases of very clear ongoing intentional damage to the encyclopedia, WP:AIV can be used.
Reverting someone's edits may confuse or upset them. Whenever other users message you on your talk page, please take the time to respond to their concerns; accountability is important. For most users who message you, the tone and quality of your answer will permanently influence their opinion about Wikipedia in general.
Because the plain default rollback link does not provide any explanatory edit summary, it must not be used to revert good faith contributions, even if these contributions are disruptive. Take the time to write a proper summary whenever you're dealing with a lack of neutrality or verifiability; a short explanation like "[[WP:NPOV|not neutral]]" or "[[WP:INTREF|Please provide a citation]]" is helpful.
Rollback may never be used to edit war, which you'll notice to be surprisingly tempting in genuine content disputes. Please especially keep the three-revert rule in mind. If you see others edit warring, please file a report at WP:ANEW. The most helpful essay I've ever seen is WP:DISCFAIL; it is especially important for those who review content regularly.
If you encounter private information or threats of physical harm during your patrols, please quickly use Special:EmailUser/Oversight or Special:EmailUser/Emergency; ideally bookmark these pages now. See WP:OS and WP:EMERGENCY for details. If you're regularly patrolling recent changes, you will need both contacts sooner or later, and you'll be happy about the bookmarks.
To try rollback for the first time, you may like to make an edit to WP:Sandbox, and another one, and another one, and then revert the row with one click. I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into trouble or have any questions about rollback. Thank you for your time and work in cleaning up Wikipedia. Happy editing!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new #wikimedia-techdocs IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team.
Updates for editors
Layout change for the Edit Check feature
Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear while they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide. [6]
The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements. [7]
The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, archiveUrl and archiveDate, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates. [8]
Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing. [10]
View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases. [11][12]
Updates for technical contributors
Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library. [13]
Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase system.
The 2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page.
Updates for editors
Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history.
Users of the Android Wikipedia App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.
The global reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page for more information.
The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the Android Wikipedia App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.
Updates for technical contributors
There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January. [15]
Hello Polygnotus, warm wishes to you and your family throughout the holiday season. May your heart and home be filled with all of the joys the festive season brings. Here is a toast to a Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year!.
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 26th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 August 2024. At press time, over 94% of the world has legally fallen prey to the merry celebrations of "Christmas", and so shall you soon. It's been a quiet 4 months, and we hope to see you with way more new scripts next year. Happy holidays! Aaron Liu (talk) 05:06, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Very useful for changelist patrollers, DiffUndo, by Nardog, is this edition's featured script. Taking inspiration from WP:AutoWikiBrowser's double-click-to-undo feature, it adds an undo button to every line of every diff from "show changes", optimizing partial reverts with your favorite magic spell and nearly fulfilling m:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Partial revert undo.
Doğu/Adiutor, a recent WP:Twinkle/WP:RedWarn-like userscript that follows modern WMF UI design, is now an extension. However, its sole maintainer has left the project, which still awaits WMF mw:code stewardship (among some audits) to be installed on your favorite WMF wikis.
DannyS712, our former chief editor, has ascended to MediaWiki and the greener purpley pastures of PHP with commits creating Special:NamespaceInfo and the __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ magic word to exclude a template from Special:UnusedTemplates! I wonder if Wikipedia has a templaters' newsletter...
BilledMammal/Move+ needs updating to order list of pages handle lists of pages to move correctly regardless of the discussion's page, so that we may avoid repeating fiasco history.
Andrybak/Unsigned helper forks Anomie/unsignedhelper to add support for binary search, automatic edit summaries after generating the {{unsigned}} template, support for {{undated}}, and support for generating while syntax highlighting is on.
Polygnotus/Move+ updates BilledMammal's classic Move+ to add automattic watchlisting of all pages—except the target page(s)—changed while processing a move.
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View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases. [11][12]
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