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Invitation to participate in a research
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The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a survey of Wikipedians to better understand what draws administrators to contribute to Wikipedia, and what affects administrator retention. We will use this research to improve experiences for Wikipedians, and address common problems and needs. We have identified you as a good candidate for this research, and would greatly appreciate your participation in thisanonymous survey.
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2024
[edit]News and updates for administratorsfrom the past month (October 2024).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following adiscussion,thediscussion-only periodproposal that went for a trial to refine therequests for adminship(RfA) process has been discontinued.
- Following arequest for comment,Administrator recallis adopted as a policy.
Technical news
- Mass deletions done with theNuketool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier.T366068
Arbitration
- RoySmith,Barkeep49andCyberpower678have been appointed to theElectoral Commissionfor the2024 Arbitration Committee Elections.ThadeusOfNazerethandDr vulpesare reserve commissioners.
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
- The Arbitration Committee isseeking volunteersfor roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.
Miscellaneous
- Anunreferenced articles backlog driveis happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with{{Unreferenced}}.You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles.Sign up to participate!
Tech News: 2024-45
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Updates for editors
- Stewards can now makeglobal account blockscause globalautoblocks.This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for theTemporary Accountsproject. You can read more about theprogress on key features for temporary accounts.[1]
- Wikis that have theCampaignEvents extension enabledcan now use theCollaboration Listfeature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part ofthe 2024/25 annual plan.If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you canfollow these stepsor you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
- The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode.[2]
- View all 32 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.For example, on multilingual wikis, userscan nowhide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.
Updates for technical contributors
- XMLdata dumpshave been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated.[3]
In depth
- Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team forthis work,you can read aboutthe deployment plans.Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled onseven other projects.If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out toUser:Udehb-WMFfor assistance.
- The latest quarterlyLanguage and Internationalization newsletteris available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.
Meetings and events
- MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.
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The Signpost:6 November 2024
[edit]- From the editors:Editing Wikipedia should not be a crime
- In the media:An old scrimmage, politics and purported libel
- Special report:Wikipedia editors face litigation, censorship
- Traffic report:Twisted tricks or tempting treats?
Tech News: 2024-46
[edit]Latesttech newsfrom the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translationsare available.
Updates for editors
- On wikis with theTranslate extensionenabled, users will notice that the FuzzyBot will now automatically create translated versions of categories used on translated pages.[4]
- View all 29 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.For example, the submitted task to use theSecurePoll extensionfor English Wikipedia's specialadministrator electionwas resolved on time.[5]
Updates for technical contributors
In1.44.0-wmf-2,the logic of Wikibase functiongetAllStatementschanged to behave likegetBestStatements.Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable.[6]- Wikimedia REST APIusers, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newerMediaWiki REST APIendpoints. Theimpacted endpointsinclude getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the relatedPhabricator ticket.
In depth
- Admins and users of the Wikimedia projectswhere Automoderator is enabledcan now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions.This Superset dashboardcalculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visitthe documentation pagefor more information about this work.[7]
Meetings and events
- 21 November 2024 (8:00 UTC&16:00 UTC) -Community callwith Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.
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Books & Bytes – Issue 65
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The Wikipedia Library:Books & Bytes
Issue 65, September – October 2024
- Hindu Tamil Thisai joins The Wikipedia Library
- Frankfurt Book Fair 2024 report
- Tech tip: Mass downloads
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Reminder to participate in Wikipedia research
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I recently invited you to take a survey about administration on Wikipedia. If you haven’t yet had a chance, there is still time to participate– we’d truly appreciate your feedback. The survey is anonymous and should take about 10-15 minutes to complete. You may read more about the study on itsMeta pageand view itsprivacy statement.
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Tech News: 2024-47
[edit]Latesttech newsfrom the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translationsare available.
Updates for editors
- Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create aredirectto a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects.[8]
- View all 42 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.For example,Pywikibot,which automates work on MediaWiki sites, was upgraded to 9.5.0 on Toolforge.[9]
Updates for technical contributors
- On wikis that use theFlaggedRevs extension,pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this.[10][11]
In depth
- There is a newDiff postabout Temporary Accounts, available in more than 15 languages. Read it to learn about what Temporary Accounts are, their impact on different groups of users, and the plan to introduce the change on all wikis.
Meetings and events
- Technical volunteers can now register for the2025 Wikimedia Hackathon,which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey.Application for travel and accommodation scholarshipsis open fromNovember 12 to December 10 2024.The registration for the event will close in mid-April 2025. The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual gathering that unites the global technical community to collaborate on existing projects and explore new ideas.
- Join theWikimedia Commons community callsthis week to help prioritize support for Commons which will be planned for 2025–2026. The theme will be how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. This is an opportunity for volunteers who work on different things to come together and talk about what matters for the future of the project. The calls will take placeNovember 21, 2024,8:00 UTCand16:00 UTC.
- ALanguage community meetingwill take placeNovember 29, 16:00 UTCto discuss updates and technical problem-solving.
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MediaWiki message delivery01:57, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-48
[edit]Latesttech newsfrom the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translationsare available.
Updates for editors
A new version of the standard wikitext editor-modesyntax highlighterwill be available as abeta featurelater this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support,template folding,autocompletion,and an improved search panel. You can learn more on thehelp page.- The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such
Ctrl+Bfor bold andCtrl+Ifor italics. A fulllist of all six shortcutsis available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement.[12] - Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis:bswiki,elwiki,euwiki,fawiki,fiwiki,frwikiquote,frwikisource,frwikiversity,frwikivoyage,idwiki,lvwiki,plwiki,ptwiki,urwiki,viwikisource,zhwikisource.This is done as part ofStructuredDiscussions deprecation work.If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contactTrizek (WMF).
- View all 25 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected"if it includes a protected variable.
Updates for technical contributors
- TheCodeEditor,which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages,now offerslive autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing
Ctrl+,and un-selecting "Live Autocompletion". - Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can checkthis dashboardand the list in the Description of thetask T350592to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April.[13]
- TheNew PreProcessor parser performance reporthas been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities.[14]
Meetings and events
- ALanguage community meetingwill take place November 29 at16:00 UTC.There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Wikipedia, the language support track atWiki Indaba,and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.
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