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This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2021)

Thai comics are comics written and produced in Thailand.

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Thai comics

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Previous selections: Recreation room • Mixed climbing

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This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2021)

A street performer in New York wearing a do-rag

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Do-rag

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Previous selections: Thai comics • Recreation room

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This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2021)

Hello, Spurb. The article for improvement of the week is: Huizhou Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Do-rag • Thai comics Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot ^talk 03:05, 26 April 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2021)

Watches are one type of fashion accessory.

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Fashion accessory

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Previous selections: Huizhou • Do-rag

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2021

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

Administrator changes

Enchanter • Carlossuarez46

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.

Technical news

The user group oversight will be renamed to suppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.

Arbitration

The community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:52, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2021)

Tattooing among women of the Koita people of Papua New Guinea traditionally began at age five and was added to each year. The V-shaped marks on the chest, with certain others, indicate that the woman is marriageable. Photo taken in 1912.

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Tattoo

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Previous selections: Fashion accessory • Huizhou

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Books & Bytes – Issue 43

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 43, March – April 2021

New Library Card designs
1Lib1Ref May

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This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2021)

A computer lab equipped with desktop computers

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Desktop computer

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Previous selections: Tattoo • Fashion accessory

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This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2021)

Cooked pork chops on a plate

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Pork chop

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Previous selections: Desktop computer • Tattoo

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This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2021)

A trench digger being used in Baku, Azerbaijan

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Trench

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Previous selections: Pork chop • Desktop computer

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 21

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past four months (February through May 2021).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 21st issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

New scripts

Alexander Davronov's HistoryHelper helps to copy diff links from the history display of a page
Aseleste's Purger makes it easier to purge or null edit a page
Awesome Aasim:
- CatMan adds a category manager to simplify interactions for adding and removing the categories of a page
- redirectcreator allows for easy creation of multiple redirects
Bop34's EasyDesc adds a link to the top navigation bar which allows you to add a short description without opening the edit menu
BrandonXLF's NullEdit adds a portlet link to perform a null edit on a page
Chlod:
- FoldArchives collapses archived talk page threads in order to reduce screen space
- GoToTitle converts the page title into an input field for navigating to other pages
- UserHighlighter adds highlighting to links to the userpages, talk pages, and contributions of administrators and other user groups as well as tooltips to indicate which groups a user is in
GhostInTheMachine:
- NoEditSummary adds a warning if an edit will be saved without an edit summary
- SortWhatLinksHere sorts the links shows on Special:WhatLinksHere
- WatchlistTidy moves the "new updates found" timestamp block from the bottom of the filter block to the top of the filter area on the watchlist
GorillaWarfare's curlies simplifies converting curly quotes to straight quotes while in the source editing mode
Nardog:
- AutoSectionLink corrects the /* section link */ every time you hit "Show changes"
- AutoTestcases autofills "Preview page with this template/module" with the most relevant /testcases page that exists
- SortCentralAuthByEditCount sorts the list of local accounts on CentralAuth by edit count
Novem Linguae:
- CiteHighlighter highlights 1800 sources green, yellow, or red depending on reliability.
- NPPLinks adds WP:BEFORE Google search links, copyvio check, duplicate article check, and other links to the left menu.
Ritenerek's goce_nav adds a link to Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors to the navigation menu
Suffusion of Yellow:
- filterDiff: Adds a "Show changes" button to the filter editor.
- filterNotes: Parses filter notes as wikitext (so links are clickable), and signs and dates new comments for you.
- filterTest: Adds a "Test changes" button. Opens Special:AbuseFilter/test with what's currently in the edit form, not with what's saved in the database, so you don't have to copy-paste your changes.
Terasail's COI Request Tool allows users to reply to, close or remove conflict of interest edit requests

Updated scripts

Twinkle has a number of improvements, including that most watchlist defaults now make use of the new temporary watchlist feature. Other changes include rollbacks treating consecutive IPv6 editors in the same /64 range as the same user, adding a preview for shared IP tagging, a preference for watching users after CSD notification, and for sysops, the ability to block the /64 and link to a WP:RfPP request, and new copyright blocks default to indefinite.
Wikipedia:Shortdesc helper now v3.4.17, changes include minor fixes and preventing edits that don't change the description.
BrandonXLF's CitationStyleMarker now recognizes WP:CSLSA and WP:CSVAN styles, in addition to WP:CS1 and WP:CS2
Joeytje50's JWB now version 4.1.0, includes the ability to generate page lists from the search tool, major updates to the handling of regular expressions, the storing of user settings, the addition of upload protection, and an option to skip pages that belong to a specific category, among other changes. See User:Joeytje50/JWB/Changelog for a full list of recent changes.
User:SD0001/deleted-metadata-link.js – updated to include a link to snippet of deleted content, instead of just metadata.

Miscellaneous

Wikipedia:User scripts/List has been revamped to make it easier to find scripts suited for your needs. If you know of a cool script that is missing on the list, or a script on the list that is no longer working, please edit the list or let us know on the talk page.

Pending requests

A request for a script to help admins posting "recent death" items to Template:In the news
A request for a script to warn users about syntax and template errors
...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

My apologies for this long-overdue issue, and if I missed any scripts.
Hopefully going forward we can go back to monthly releases - any help would be appreciated. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 13:04, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2021)

200th Anniversary of Berlin Academy, 1900

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Learned society

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Previous selections: Trench • Pork chop

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2021

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

Administrator changes

Ashleyyoursmile • Less Unless

Husond • MattWade • MJCdetroit • Carioca • Vague Rant • Kingboyk • Thunderboltz • Gwen Gale • AniMate • SlimVirgin (deceased)

Guideline and policy news

Consensus was reached to deprecate Wikipedia:Editor assistance.
Following a Request for Comment the Book namespace was deprecated.

Technical news

Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.

Arbitration

After a Clarification request, the Arbitration Committee modified Remedy 5 of the Antisemitism in Poland case. This means sourcing expectations are a discretionary sanction instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the Reliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss disputed sources.

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This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2021)

Hello, Spurb. The article for improvement of the week is: Savoriness Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Learned society • Trench Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot ^talk 00:05, 14 June 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

Editing news 2021 #2

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Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:

Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

00:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2021)

Hello, Spurb. The article for improvement of the week is: Alida Morberg Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Savoriness • Learned society Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot ^talk 00:05, 21 June 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2021)

A Finnish Christmas ham

Hello, Spurb. The article for improvement of the week is:

Christmas ham

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Previous selections: Alida Morberg • Savoriness

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

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

Administrator changes

Trialpears

AGK • Eliz81 • Mulad • ThaddeusB • Vianello • Who

Lacrimosus → Ikuzaf

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

CheckUser changes

AGK • DGG

Oversighter changes

AGK

Guideline and policy news

Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

Technical news

IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

Arbitration

The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.