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Administrators' newsletter – March 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018).
Administrator changes
Lourdes†
AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V- † Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.
Guideline and policy news
- The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
- Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
- A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
- A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.
Technical news
- CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
- The edit filter has a new feature
contains_allthat edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.
Miscellaneous
- Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards: -revi, Green Giant, Rxy, There'sNoTime, علاء.
Obituaries
- Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller split
Hi, I edited the Phil Lord and Chris Miller page, splitting it into two pages, as has been repeatedly suggested on the talk page. The content is the same. You made a mistake by deleting my edit.
This has been discussed at length on the article talk page. There seems to be a concensus. Who would you like me to discuss this with? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Montrealguy123 (talk • contribs) 02:12, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
- @Montrealguy123: You did it improperly, however. C.Fred also undid your split. theinstantmatrix (talk) 02:14, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
- Apologies. I am just trying to help. What is the proper way to do it? The content of my suggested edits would be helpful in creating a new page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Montrealguy123 (talk • contribs) 02:16, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
- You should see this. However, in my opinion, I highly doubt there's going to be a split, considering that article is about like 25.3 KB in total. theinstantmatrix (talk) 02:24, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
- I think, the main obstacle here that led to your splitting being reverted by me and C.Fred would be their early lives, alongside the small size of an article. The "Early life" section is way too small for a split to be even done, and it only covers what they've done together, not by themselves. If a split really happens, there should be sources documenting the early lives of only Phil Lord, and Christopher Miller, respectively, and each must follow WP:BLP, especially a rule that says "Any unsourced or poorly sourced content, especially controversial, must be removed immediately". theinstantmatrix (talk) 03:04, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
- You should see this. However, in my opinion, I highly doubt there's going to be a split, considering that article is about like 25.3 KB in total. theinstantmatrix (talk) 02:24, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
- Apologies. I am just trying to help. What is the proper way to do it? The content of my suggested edits would be helpful in creating a new page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Montrealguy123 (talk • contribs) 02:16, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Alison Haislip photo and usage rights
Hi, thanks for your help on sorting out the issues with the photo I uploaded. The photographer has sent in the auto-generated release email from his professional account. Will the deletion notice for that photo be removed/updated once that email has been reviewed? Thx. Erzeszut (talk) 17:02, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2018)
 Medieval world religions
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Green bean • SWOT analysis Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 5 March 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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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 now make longer edit summaries. [1]
Changes later this week
- You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. [2]
- On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options. [3][4]
Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it. [5]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 6 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- In the future you will be able to use global preferences. This means you could change a preference for all wikis instead of having to change it every time for each wiki. You can now test global preferences and give feedback.
- You can now read about planned works on maps during 2018. This will be done by June. You can give feedback on the planned maps work.
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17:12, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
Wikimedia Commons
Hello, thank you for the alert but these pictures are not copied. They were snapped into my computer called Screenshot. All pictures added on May 10, 2018 were made by hand. Seed this world I have: 5610840569350845797 for 1.12.2. You will understand that I did it. --ARychlik (talk) 16:04, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
- Hi ARychlik. Sorry to say this, but unfortunately you've been blocked on Wikimedia Commons for 2 weeks, because you've kept uploading copyrighted images after someone else issued you a final warning 9 days ago. The game, Minecraft, is still under copyright by Mojang, so your images are not suitable for a free-use-only media repository such as Commons, as they don't accept fair use. Even if you use the in-game screenshot function (F2), they would be considered derivative works of non-free content, and is therefore not allowed. According to Wikidata, it would appear that your home Wikipedia (Slovak Wikipedia) does not appear to have a policy that allows restricted use of copyrighted content under fair use, unlike our English Wikipedia, in which they do allow it. If this is the case, then I'm sorry to say that the only option you have now would be to contribute to the Minecraft page of your language without the images. Although I believe you're trying to upload and add the images in good faith, you have to keep in mind of the Licensing policy on Commons, and its relevant policies. theinstantmatrix (talk) 16:41, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2018)
Hello, Theinstantmatrix.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: History of religions • Green bean Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 12 March 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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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
- 3D models can now be uploaded to Commons. [6]
- Page Previews has been updated to use HTML for previews. This has fixed many issues. An A/B test was done on English and German Wikipedia to measure how it is used. Other changes were also made. [7]
- Some edits have to be checked against too many conditions before they can trigger an abuse filter. If that is the reason no filter is triggered the edit will be tagged for review. [8]
- Auto-saving has been added to the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. Right now it is meant to help if your browser crashes or if you accidentally close a tab. [9]
Problems
- The abuse filter did not tag all edits that should have been tagged after last week's MediaWiki version had come to the wikis. It was fixed on 9 March (UTC). [10]
Changes later this week
- You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. This was originally planned to happen last week. [11]
- It is now possible to specify the block parameters for each filter in Special:AbuseFilter. The parameters include block duration and if the user should be blocked from editing their own talk page. The block duration is separate for anonymous and registered users. [12][13]
- A hundred Wikimedia wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 13 and 14 March. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018. [14][15][16]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 March. It will be on all wikis from 15 March (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 13 March at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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19:44, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2018)
 A composite satellite image of the contiguous United States and surrounding areas
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Environment of the United States Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Ted Gärdestad • History of religions Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 19 March 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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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
- On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [17]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 March. It will be on all wikis from 22 March (calendar).
Meetings
- There is no Editing team meeting this week.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [18][19]
- In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.
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15:03, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2018)
 The Grand Bazaar, held in Istanbul, is one of the oldest existing examples of a bazaar.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Environment of the United States • Ted Gärdestad Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 26 March 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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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
- Some of the interface icons and text sizes will change slightly, as part of the updates for improved accessibility and consistency. These icons are used in many features, including Notifications, Recent Changes, Beta Features, Visual Editor, 2017 Wikitext Editor, Code Editor, and others. While editor toolbars, dialogs, and menus will appear slightly bigger; elements on special pages will be slightly smaller. Functionality will not change. [20] [21]
- The deprecated #toc and #toctitle CSS ids have been removed. If your wiki was still using these for fake Tables of Content (ToC) then these might lose their styling. They can be replaced with .toc and .toctitle classes where appropriate. [22]
- TemplateStyles will be deployed to the Wikivoyages on 28 March 2018. [23]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 March. It will be on all wikis from 29 March (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 27 March at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be one hour earlier than usual on 28 March at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- From 9 April, the sort order of categories will be distorted for a short time. We are upgrading versions of an internationalisation library (ICU) and using a maintenance script to update existing database entries. This will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days, depending on wiki size. Read more details. [24]
- Changes are coming to search for Serbian projects. Cyrillic and Latin variants of a word and different grammatical forms of a word will be able to find each other. Read more on MediaWiki in Serbian or English.
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20:04, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
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