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Administrators' newsletter – January 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).

Administrator changes

Stephen

Interface administrator changes

Nihiltres

CheckUser changes

Moneytrees

Oversighter changes

Guideline and policy news

Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.

Arbitration

Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, SilkTork.
The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.

Miscellaneous

Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:09, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #554

Extended content

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
  - Bean49Bot 2. Task/s: Adding statements to plwikisource items with no statements.
  - RPI2026F1Bot 4. Task/s: Reconstruct npm dependencies.
- Closed request for permissions/Bot:
  - RKBot (approved). Task/s: Create Wikidata items for "Kulturdenkmal in Hamburg" (heritage monument in Hamburg - Q28661501) from the official list "Denkmalliste Hamburg" (P1822 is the identifier for this list) published as http://static.hamburg.de/fhh/opendata/kb/DenkmallisteHamburg.xml.
  - Andriy.vBot (approved). Task/s: I need to connect a lot of pages (more than 10 thousand) about russian villages that were created with interwiki links in ukwiki.

Events
- Upcoming
  - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call January 10, 2023: Egon Willighagen will be introducing us to SARS-CoV-2 queries, a well-documented series of Wikidata queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the pandemic. This work contributes to Wikiproject COVID-19 and documentation is currently available in Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese. Agenda
  - Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—January 11, 2023. Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
  - The full version of View it! Tool is out! The new user script uses structured data to display related media in any Wikimedia content pages—including Wikidata items—in an on-wiki image panel or gallery view. Please join the public launch and demo of the full version of this new tool on Thursday, January 12th, 5:00 UTC via Zoom (Meeting ID: 160 454 5329) to learn more and discuss forthcoming editing features.
  - The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th January 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  - About 2 months left to register for the first digital@IANLS workshop: Learn the basics of Wikidata and how to use it in your Neo-Latin research. Event is online, free, and open to all. More info on event and registration.
- Ongoing
  - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #75, Tools

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Videos
  - Editor uses Wikidata to find new uses for existing drugs and speed up approval process for new treatments.
  - Early Demo of Wikibase Export by Renat Shigapov and Professional Wiki
- Papers
  - "Is GPT-3 a Good Data Annotator?" with experiments based on Wikidata - guided generation of labeled data.
- Slides
  - Elena Simperl's keynote summary on Wikidata and knowledge engineering research.

Tool of the week
- Web Hub allows users to navigate between origin and destination on the web using information from Wikidata, primarily on Wikimedia sites.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Digital Dictionary of the German Language completed their first iteration of Lexicographical data donation to Wikidata. The number of German lexemes increased accordingly by 185000.

Did you know?

Development
- REST API: Preparing the first release to test.wikidata.org on January 17th and to Wikidata on January 24th
- Entity Schemas: Continuing to investigate and prototype technical approaches for version 2
- Mismatch Finder: Working on giving mismatch providers access to the reviews of the mismatches they uploaded (phab:T304794)
- Investigated how to best do language switching for the Query Builder and Mismatch Finder. So far they only support it by specifying the language via a URL parameter and not yet via the UI (phab:T324653)
- Query Service:
  - Lexeme IDs now have tooltips so you can see the Lemma in the SPARQL code, similar as for Items and Properties (phab:T255245)
  - Fixed a bug where the y-axis label on a graph were misaligned and hard to read (phab:T325808)
- Lexicographical data:
  - Statements linking to a Sense now also show the language of the Lexeme to make it easier to see for example which language a translation statement refers to (phab:T207392)
  - Fixed a bug in the language dropdown on Special:NewLexeme (phab:T324743)
  - The Lemma of a Lexeme is now shown in the title of the revision history of the Lexeme as well (phab:T312660)
- Vector 2022 theme: worked on making the search on Wikidata work in this new theme. You can test it on test.wikidata.org now and next week on Wikidata. (phab:T316093)
- mul language code:
  - Continued investigation around how to handle language fallbacks on mobile, which is a blocker for adding this language code (phab:T323098)
  - Preventing the addition of descriptions for mul (phab:T313027)
- Constraint violations: Working on also showing them to non-logged in users (phab:T272132)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:34, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Dynamic IP still changing citation titles.

Hi, 201.188.152.4 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) was warned, then given a 31 hour block by you) for changing citation titles. Now 201.188.147.99 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) is doing it. Repeatedly warned. Could you please help? I've left a talk message at Talk:Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore about that and other issues, but had to revert the page to an earlier revision before too many subsequent edits piled up, at the risk of a 3RR. Many thanks, Esowteric + Talk + Breadcrumbs 18:10, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

@Esowteric More of the same I see. I've rangeblocked the account for two weeks from editing any of the three Fantastic Beast film articles. Let me know if the range changes or it continues after the block. Nthep (talk) 18:45, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Many thanks, Nthep. Esowteric + Talk + Breadcrumbs 18:49, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi again. The IP is back (another Chile address, changing citation titles, inaccurate edit summary; etc): 191.113.207.80 (talk · contribs · WHOIS). Sorry to bother you again. Esowteric + Talk + Breadcrumbs 20:39, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

I'm wondering if s/he is on the spectrum? Esowteric + Talk + Breadcrumbs 20:43, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Blocked for two weeks for block evasion. I'm not going to carry on playing whack-a-mole and will consider semi-protection of the three articles if there is any more of this. Nthep (talk) 20:50, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Many thanks again. Esowteric + Talk + Breadcrumbs 20:50, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Manly Template

Hi! I was hoping I might get a comment here: Template talk:Manly Warringah Sea Eagles current squad. Doctorhawkes (talk) 08:48, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #555

Extended content

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
  - RenmBot 2. Task/s: The bot adds/edits labels/descriptions of Wikidata items in Ukrainian. At the beginning, the bot will correct "проект" to "проєкт" in descriptions. These changes are caused by Ukrainian orthography of 2019 (Q56368731) (see en:Ukrainian orthography of 2019#Major changes to the 1993 orthography).
  - Bean49Bot 3. Task/s: Add parent astronomical body to asteroid belt asteroids, required by multiple constraints.
  - JhsBot 7. Task/s: Change stress markings on Norwegian Bokmål lexeme IPA transcription (P898) statements.
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: Heinmabot. Task/s: Add GOV ids to Polish places. (approved)
- Closed request for comments: Adopt Help:SitelinksToRedirects as policy (implemented)

Events
- Upcoming
  - The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours will take place on Wednesday, 17:00 UTC on Wednesday, 18th January 2023 (18:00 Berlin time) in the Wikidata Telegram group. The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the development team presents what they have been working on over the past quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.
  - Wikimedia Research Showcase on January 18. Featuring a presentation of the paper Learning to Predict the Departure Dynamics of Wikidata Editors.
  - Next LD4 Wikibase Working Hour on Tuesday 17th January: Update on wikibase.cloud by Evelien Zandbergen, product manager for Wikibase.cloud at Wikimedia Deutschland.
- Ongoing
  - Weekly Lexemes Challenge #76, Wikipedia
- Past
  - LD4-Wikidata Group Call: Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic, 10th January.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - Wikimedia Israel and the Israel Film Archive bring Short films from Israel’s History to Wikidata
  - Deploying Wikidata to different graph databases and what works best: Blazegraph, QLever, QEndpoint, Amazon Neptune
- Papers
  - Gender equality in library science and book history Italian journals: a focus on boards, authors and peer-reviewers
- Videos/Audios
  - Mémoires minoritaires, mémoires LGBTI (French): Documenting Queer (LGBTIQ+) history on Wikipedia and Wikidata (Radio/Podcast) (source)
  - LIVE Wikidata editing #102 - YouTube
  - Wikispore, Wikidata, and Small Wikis with Sam Wilson - YouTube
  - Introduction to Wikidata with Alex Lum (2022) - YouTube
  - iPres 2022 - Long Paper 153: A Digital Preservation Wikibase - YouTube

Tool of the week
- Auhority Control data to Wikidata item - helps to create Wikidata Items based on authority control records.
- A new Wikidata distributed game that populates instance of statements using a neural network.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: does not use: item or concept not used by the subject but that could have been expected, member of Roman tribe: Roman tribe in which one was inscribed
  - External identifiers: Infopédia entry, 1001Tracklists track ID, 1001Tracklists DJ ID, 1001Tracklists source ID, MyAnimeList company ID, MQWW work ID, Biblissima Authority File, Kitsu manga ID, Kitsu anime ID, CiNii Research ID, Digital Library of Mathematical Functions ID, United States House of Representatives ID, ComicWalker content ID, The Numbers franchise ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: heir or beneficiary: people or organizations that received, or will receive, (all or part of) the subject's property or title, disinherited: someone who received or will receive no or little the subject's property or title even if otherwise eligible, (partially) the opposite of Wikidata:Property proposal/heir or beneficiary, Northstar Travel’s 10-Tier Classification System: [none], 神奇宝贝百科页面标识符: article name on 52Poké Wiki, a Pokémon encyclopedia, value contains sense: qualifier to indicate the sense of a lexeme part of a monolingual text value, form applies to sense: this form is only or mainly applicable this sense, clan: [none]
  - External identifiers: Landgate Object ID, IRIS Trentino-South Tyrol IDs, IRIS Venice IDs, Sinta affiliation ID, Knowledge portal ID, Fréjus et Toulon ID, MangaSeek IDs, Dicionário Priberam ID, Michaelis ID, Dicionário Aulete ID, Dicionário Aberto ID, Léxico ID, Dicio ID, GamesRadar+ ID, Bosworth-Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online ID, Online Etymology Dictionary ID, norsk fangeregister soningsinstitusjon ID, Dictionary of the Russian Language (Ozhegov) ID, Great Encyclopedic Dictionary ID, AllMovie genre ID, Artlog person ID, Artlog institution ID
- Query examples:

Development
- Vector 2020 skin: the search that works properly with Wikidata has been deployed
- Entity Schemas: Making progress on the proof of concept that will help us figure out the technical way forward
- REST API: getting ready to deploy the first version to test.wikidata.org on February 17th
- Lexicographical data: When linking to a Sense in a statement the language of the Lexeme for that Sense is now also shown. This makes it easier to understand translation statements for example (phab:T207392)
- Constraints: Constraint violations are now also shown to logged out users (phab:T272132)
- Fixing a regression where Wikipedia and co are no longer notified about a disconnected sitelink when the Item that contains the sitelink is deleted (phab:T326082)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:36, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 54

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 54, November – December 2022

New collections:
- British Newspaper Archive
- Findmypast
- University of Michigan Press
- ACLS
- Duke University Press
1Lib1Ref 2023
Spotlight: EDS Refine Results

Read the full newsletter

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --14:14, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #556

Extended content

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events
- Past
  - Wikidata+Wikibase office hour session log: Telegram office hour 2023-01-18
- Upcoming
  - Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call January 24, 2023: We will be discussing plans for 2023, and requesting feedback and ideas for future programming. Based on a previous recommendation to host a discussion on advocacy for Wikidata within libraries, we will introduce and provide time to complete a short survey to foster conversation in a future Group Call. Please come ready to share your thoughts Agenda
  - Introductions to Wikidata, online meetings organized by Wikimedia Australia on January 25, 26 and 31

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - Is there something better than Blazegraph for Wikidata?
- Videos
  - [Wikimedia Research Showcase] Featuring a presentation of the paper Learning to Predict the Departure Dynamics of Wikidata Editors.
- Podcasts
  - Civic Hacker Podcast: Using Wikidata to Connect Constituents With Their Government

Tool of the week
- Romain de Bossoreille has generated a map named Space Industry around the World using data from The Space Devs, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- [WMDE Survey for Wikidata data Reusers] Help us Improve Wikidata by Sharing Your Experience on Ontology Issues and Data Reuse Impact.
- Second round of Research Fund proposals are under review. They include Wikidata related proposals. Your input is welcome!
- Wikimedia Foundation's Community Survey: The proposals submission and discussion phase is open until February 6th.

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: none
  - External identifiers: Jeju's culture and language ID, J-STAGE journal ID, Film.ru serial ID, IRIS UNITN author ID, IRIS FBK author ID, IRIS-OpenPub author ID, Muse Open Archive author ID, ARCA author ID, Air Iuav author ID, Intercontinental Dictionary Series unit ID, Hungarian Football Federation player ID, Knowledge portal ID, MangaSeek work ID, MangaSeek magazine ID, MangaSeek award ID, Oroklini Library ID, elexiko ID, Neologismenwörterbuch ID, Deutsches Fremdwörterbuch ID, Sprichwörterbuch ID, Kommunikationsverben ID, Kleines Wörterbuch der Verlaufsformen im Deutschen ID, PR TIMES company ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: attracts (organisms attracted by this taxon), salary level (level of someone's salary), change of (property this process changes), database contains records about (indicate the types of items that the database has records about)
  - External identifiers: Plant Finder ID (Chicago Botanic Garden), Norwegian prisoner register detentioncamps ID, Glitchwave franchise ID, Glitchwave game company ID, Glitchwave game ID, Ushakov Dictionary ID, Jiddisch-Nederlands Woordenboek ID, Glitchwave character ID, WW1 fallen/missing soldier ID (MHA), Glitchwave platform ID, Spotify user ID (Jan 2023), Livres Hebdo author ID, Livres Hebdo award ID, Livres Hebdo tag ID, Dictionary of Archives Terminology ID, TikTok place ID, Magazine Pocket series ID, identifiant SFMTA, International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database character ID, Online Aboriginal Language Dictionary ID, Tribal Council number, Aragonario ID (6th version), Rate Your Music venue ID, Rate Your Music concert ID, Dicionário inFormal ID, Qobuz artist numeric ID, TOOI identifier, Fonts In Use ID, Rate Your Music film ID, Rate Your Music film genre ID, NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms entry, Spreaker show ID, Sjøfolk Ship ID, NCI Dictionary of Genetics Terms entry
- Query examples:
  - Map of places that places in Rennes are named after (source)
  - Map of places named after a place in Rennes, color coded by distance of the place from Rennes (source)

Development
- Wikibase REST API: The new API is now available for testing on Test.Wikidata
- Ontology issues: We finalized and published the survey to better understand which types of ontology issues are most problematic for reusers of our data.
- Wikipedia and co: Fixing a regression where there is no entry in recent changes and watchlist when an Item is deleted that was connected to an article on that wiki (phab:T326082)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:34, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #557

Extended content

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events
- A citation hunt program was organized for secondary school students at IIS School in Dubai as part of the 74th Republic Day celebration of India. 16 students participated, with different mother tongues and from different states of India living as expatriates in Dubai. The goal was to increase references for Wikidata statements based on research. The students were introduced to the importance of protecting India's history on the internet, and were taught how to edit Wikipedia and Wikidata. They were given a special event page on Wikidata with instructions and a list of Wikidata items to add citations to, and they searched for references in their textbooks and search engines to add to the Wikidata items.More details are given here.
- Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour January 30, 2023: The #1Lib1Ref campaign is afoot, so we will be working on adding references to Wikidata statements. We'll have some data for you to work with, but you're welcome to bring your own. We'll be mainly working with adding webpages as sources, but if you want to get experience using books or articles as sources, we recommend bringing some to the session to use as references for Wikidata items you have identified. You are, as always, welcome to bring your own project to work on Event page

Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs
  - Building a Life Sciences Knowledge Graph with a Data Lake (uses Wikidata as a main source)
- Papers
  - Systematic review of Wikidata in Digital Humanities projects
- Videos
  - Interoperable Europe: First workshop on Wikidata and Wikibase

Tool of the week
- theyrule.net is a website that helps to explore the boardroom connections of the largest US companies.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- AfLIA's online course Wikidata is open. Participation is free for all librarians, museums, archives and other information professionals in Africa. Call is open until 7th February 2023 (12 midnight GMT).
- LetsQuiz is a new website generating quizzes using data from Wikidata.
- from WMF Wishathon: The Autosuggest linking Wikidata item after creating an article Wish is complete and the work merged. It is available for testing in Beta, and will be deployed to users with the first train of 2023 scheduled for this week. Learn more about the gadget created at meta
- Building cool apps and services on top of Wikidata's data but running into ontology issues? We'd love to hear from you in this survey to make things better for you.
- Status update on the 2022 Wikidata and Wikibase development plan
- Development plan and activities for 2023 for Wikidata as a platform and the Wikibase ecosystem

Did you know?
- Newest properties:
  - General datatypes: applies to use with property (qualifier that specifies that the statement refers to usage with the property)
  - External identifiers: Dicionário Priberam ID, NPB umpire ID, Magazine Pocket series ID, addons.mozilla.org user, Packagist username, Hackage username, RubyGems username, PyPI username, Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan ID, Ushakov Dictionary ID, Glitchwave franchise ID, Glitchwave game company ID, Glitchwave game ID, Glitchwave platform ID, Glitchwave character ID, Artlog artist ID, pixiv comic work ID, pixiv comic product ID, British Music Collection composer ID
- New property proposals to review:
  - General datatypes: place of resident registration at death (the place or administrative unit where the deceased person was registered as having his or her residence at the time of their death), has instance (thing(s) which this subject describes or encompasses, inverse property of P31), Norwegian media rating (In short, the Norwegian version of Denmark's Medierådet rating (P5970), an age rating system for motion pictures, video, internet and tv content), iconically alludes to (item that is iconically represented in the execution of this lexeme), credits URL (URL of an official webpage with a list of credits and roles attributed to various people, organizations or applications that contribute(d) to this item's existence), alternate universe counterpart (this fictional character/entity is an alternate universe counterpart of the subject), number of penalty kicks scored, precedes/follows various things (this lexeme form appears only when preceding another lexeme form with this phonological feature)
  - External identifiers: NCI Drug Dictionary entry, Professional shogi player number, Women's professional shogi player number, LPSA professional shogi player number, esid, Real Academia de Doctores de España ID, authors.gr ID, GLANSIS ID, literatura.lv ID, Fallout Wiki ID, Base de Dados de Livros de Fotografia profile ID, Vintage Fashion Guild Labels, Enciclopedia dell'Italiano ID, Soprintendenza di Salerno e Avellino place ID, World Loanword Database word ID, numéro d'une installation sportive en France, Waddi Punjabi Lughat entry, Pāia-sadda-mahaṇṇavo entry, VMI Historical Rosters Database ID, Podbay show ID, Walt Disney movie ID, The Counted person ID, Panjab Digital Library ID, eTK ID, eVK2 ID, Russiancinema.ru person ID, World Sailing sailor ID, Internet Game Database franchise ID, Mosfilm IDs, Warsaw Uprising insurgent ID, DOSBox Compatibility ID, HAA member ID, Sindhi English Dictionary ID
- Query examples:
  - Modern descendants of the Achaemenes (Achaemenid dynasty of rulers of Persia, 7th century BCE)

Development
- Wikibase REST API: The first version of the new API is released on Wikidata now \o/ We'd love to hear your feedback on what to improve next in the API.
- Property Suggester: We updated the data for the Property Suggester so suggestions for new statements to add to an Item should be more in line with current Property usage on other similar Items again.
- Fixed an issue with Item deletions not showing up on Wikipedia and co if they affect an article on that wiki (phab:T326082)
- Vector 2022: Made it possible to add a new sitelink on Wikipedia and co in the new Vector 2022 language selector (phab:T310259)
- Lua: Working on two new Lua functions, getDescriptionByLang (phab:T230839) and getBadges (phab:T305378)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 19:13, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - February 2023

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19:05, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for your work in Indus Hospital and Health Network

I have found a further copyvio in the wretched thing, removed it by rewriting, and requested a further revdel. I just wanted to offer my apologies to you for my not completing the task well enough the other day. It does not invalidate your work, but it does extend it. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 19:10, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

I've dealt with the other revisions. Nthep (talk) 21:00, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

I'm never quite sure what is involved, not having the rights. I've always suspected it to be a bit of a slog, but I hope it isn't. Thank you once again. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 21:18, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

The actual process is quick, the only slog bit is double checking the claim that it is a copyvio. With people like yourself who I know by experience are diligent and thorough it's comparatively easy but there are times when it is more difficult. Nthep (talk) 21:41, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

It is a huge slog finding the start and end of a copyvio. I bet that is why folk let them run for too long.

I should have realised those who rev del have to check! And even those of us with half a clue can make errors. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 21:45, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

I've been caught out e.g. not spotting that a source was cc-by-sa-3.0. Fortunately the process is as easily undone as it is to do in the first place. Nthep (talk) 22:01, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

Administrator changes

Gimmetrow

CheckUser changes

Oversighter changes

Guideline and policy news

Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.

Technical news

The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

Arbitration

The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.

Miscellaneous

Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:38, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

About the Unblock Request

I'm very sorry about my last few edits being strange, I'm just new at this. Please forgive me and I'll try to make my edits less strange next time. Sundropie (talk) 20:37, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

replied at your talk page. Nthep (talk) 20:46, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Rescaled image

Dear Nthep, Could you possibly restore the original size version of File:Jahres-Bericht über die Leistungen der chemischen Technologie cover, 1855.jpg so that I can transfer it to Commons and crop it to remove the watermark? The underlying work is clearly in the public domain. Many thanks! Felix QW (talk) 16:06, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

@Felix QW done. Nthep (talk) 16:11, 4 February 2023 (UTC)