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Administrators' newsletter – November 2023

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

Administrator changes

added 0xDeadbeef
readded Tamzin
removed Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

added Pppery
removed

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
  • Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
  • Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
  • Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
  • Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
  • Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
  • An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:23, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Neko-chan

Page: SIA_Engineering_Company

Diff: Special:Diff/1182826099

Comment/question: Even though this is from last week and isn't specifically relevant, I don't think the bot should trigger on articles with in use/under construction templates. That and it seems to be triggering on the first edit after it was born that includes a bad cite, not actually on edits that actively add the bad cite (see my other edit, Special:Diff//1182864508).

~ฅ(ↀωↀ=)neko-channyan 18:43, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

@Neko-chan, it's best to err on the side of saftey (i.e. notify just in case). It does leave a delay of 15 minutes.
Regarding the latter edit, the reference was initially malformed (see here) and fixing it made the error appear. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:59, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker

Page: Flor_Contemplacion

Diff: Special:Diff/1184149187

Comment/question:

No errors on this page from me, perhaps there are existing errors that were never corrected ? I am in the process of improving the article

WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker (talk) 08:12, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

@WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker, you added
<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 May 1991|url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19910506-1.2.5|newspaper=The Straits Times}}</ref>

which is missing |title=. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:08, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
yes you are correct and i have fixed it, sorry ! WorldTravleerAndPhotoTaker (talk) 17:20, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Fico Puricelli (16:31, 12 November 2023)

Hello. Today I have doubts. What's the difference between adding plot summary into a TV show article, and a comic book, because not all of my drafts and articles accept my plots. Some users say we can't include summaries about fictional works, but some articles are accepted, while others aren't. What do I do? Because there is a lot of confusion. Thank you. --Fico Puricelli (talk) 16:31, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

@Fico Puricelli, I may be misunderstanding the situation, but I believe the issue is wp:notability. The drafts have to either pass WP:GNG or WP:SNG, and just a plot summary is insufficient.
If you can provide more context I might be able to help you more. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:39, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #602

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
    • Open request for adminship: S8321414 (RfP scheduled to end after 13 November 2023 14:50 UTC)
    • New requests for permissions/Bot:
      • DiFoolBot 2 (Task: import VIAF ID based on Union List of Artist Names ID)
      • KizuleBot (Task: Adding sitelinks to Serbian Wikipedia for maintenance categories (see contributions of account) based on items for English Wikipedia's ones)
      • KormiSKbot (Task: Linking newly created pages on SKWiki to the appropriate Wikidata items.)
  • Tool of the week
    • OpenFlights.org is now getting some of its airline data from Wikidata. It is a free open-source tool that allows you to log, map, calculate, and share your flights and trips.
  • Development
    • Wikibase REST API: We continued working on the new endpoints for POST /entities/items/{item_id}/aliases/{language_code} (phab:T335842) and DELETE /entities/items/{item_id}/descriptions/{lang_code} (phab:T342986)
    • EntitySchemas: We are continuing the work on the new data type for linking to EntitySchemas, working on overcoming architectural issues.
    • Language codes: We continued work towards allowing many more languages by default for Wikibase Lexeme and monolingual text statements. This will remove the need for a lot of requests for new language codes to be added. (phab:T341409)

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.


Tech News: 2023-46

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

Problems

  • Last week, users who previously visited Meta-Wiki or Wikimedia Commons and then became logged out on those wikis could not log in again. The problem is now resolved. [5]
  • Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong font size. The problem is now resolved. [6]

Changes later this week

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar).

Future changes

  • Reference Previews are coming to many wikis as a default feature. They are popups for references, similar to the PagePreviews feature. You can opt out of seeing them. If you are using the gadgets Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews. Deployment is planned for November 22, 2023.
  • Canary (also known as heartbeat) events will be produced into Wikimedia event streams from December 11. Streams users are advised to filter out these events, by discarding all events where meta.domain == "canary". Updates to Pywikibot or wikimedia-streams will discard these events by default. [7]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:50, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Prevent the bot from leaving messages on my talk page

Hello! How can I prevent the bot from leaving messages on my talk page [[8]]? Please help. Thank you in advance! Maxim Masiutin (talk) 00:38, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

@Maxim Masiutin, as it says on User:Qwerfjkl (bot), add {{bots|optout=cs1-errors}}— Qwerfjkltalk 18:47, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
Thank you very much! Maxim Masiutin (talk) 18:49, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diligence
You're useful! Tulip0333 (talk) 18:10, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from IaincampbellUNSW (08:23, 16 November 2023)

Hello. I would like to make a page for habitats around the world and their bird assemblages. How do I start with a new page --IaincampbellUNSW (talk) 08:23, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

@IaincampbellUNSW, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing six million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! — Qwerfjkltalk 07:40, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Ginandtang (00:59, 17 November 2023)

high --Ginandtang (talk) 00:59, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

@Ginandtang, do you have a question? — Qwerfjkltalk 07:40, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Article Minestone

Minestone looks to me like another term for Coal refuse or, when sifting through online dictionaries, a term for generic mine waste. I am not confident in creating a redirect myself and would greatly appreciate you having a look at it (sidenote: the reason I am posting this to you specifically is because it is linked in your User:Qwerfjkl/lcSD page). CapnJackDaniels (talk) 19:02, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

@CapnJackDaniels, I'm not sure I'm familiar enough with the topic to comment on the merits of merging. I would suggest following one of the options at Wikipedia:Merging - perhaps pinging editors who have edited either of the articles if you don't feel confident enough to do it yourself. (User:Qwerfjkl/lcSD was a page for tracking articles with a short description starting with a lowercase letter, hence this edit on Minestone.) — Qwerfjkltalk 20:25, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 November 2023

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Wikidata weekly summary #603

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Upcoming:
      • Data Modelling Days, from November 30th to December 2nd: 3 days of online events to address data modelling challenges, discuss how to improve the way we structure data together, and discover the point of view of external reusers. Feel free to have a look at the program (under construction) and to sign up as a participant.
      • Wikidata Lab XXXIX: Structuring the Wikimedia Ecosystem presented by Wiki Movimento Brasil. November 21 at 2:00 PM CEST. The presentation will be held in English by the wikimedian Mike Peel.
      • Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Working Hour November 20th, 2023: Over the summer and into the fall the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group will be offering a series of Wikidata Working Hours to give folks an opportunity to try out various Wikidata-related skills and tools by assembling a data set of diverse library and information science (LIS) materials (articles, conference proceedings, books) and adding it to Wikidata. Wikidata Working Hours provide hands-on Wikidata experience in a supportive space. We hope you will join us if you are interested in learning more about Wikidata, exploring LIS literature, and have been looking for a fun Wikidata project to contribute to. The seventh Wikidata Working Hour will cover the Author Disambiguator tool, which helps users assign authors to articles.During the session we will demonstrate how to use the tool on an author who was created during a previous working hour, and another who doesn't exist in Wikidata yet. After the demonstration, participants are encouraged to try the tool themselves during the rest of the working hour. This session will build on the work done in previous Working Hours by connecting authors to the articles they have written. This session will be recorded and the recording shared on the event page
      • Wikibase for art and cultural data (German) - #9 of kuwiki tips & tools, taking place Thursday, 23 November 2023, 19-20.30
    • Ongoing:
    • Past:
      • ItWikiCon '23 (Italian) was hosted in Bari, Italy between the 17th - 19th November. Check the Programme for details on sessions and check for recordings or slidedecks of presentations.
      • GLAM Wiki 2023 took place in Montevideo, Uruguay. There were several Wikidata-related sessions some of which are linked in the Videos section.
  • Tool of the week
    • User-level gender statistics for Wikipedia - a tool that computes the number of articles created by gender has been repaired after some months of unavailability. It relies on xtools and P21 property.
    • Luthor - tool for finding usage examples from Wikisource and adding them to lexemes on Wikidata.
  • Development
    • We are taking steps towards making many more languages available in Lexemes and monolingual text statement values. (phab:T341409)
    • Nikki fixed a bug where the CSS class for a statement rank wasn't updated after a rank change (phab:T209138)
    • We are continuing the work on improving EntitySchemas by making it possible to link to them in statements.
    • We are migrating several tools from the Wikit design system to the Codex design system to be able to deprecate Wikit in the future.

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.


Tech News: 2023-47

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

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [9][10]
  • Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Quechua Wikipedia, Romansh Wikipedia, Romani Wikipedia, Rundi Wikipedia, Aromanian Wikipedia, Tarandíne Wikipedia, Rusyn Wikipedia, Kinyarwanda Wikipedia, Sanskrit Wikipedia, Sakha Wikipedia, Santali Wikipedia, Sardinian Wikipedia, Sicilian Wikipedia, Scots Wikipedia, Sindhi Wikipedia, Northern Sami Wikipedia, Sango Wikipedia, Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia, Sinhala Wikipedia, Slovak Wikipedia, Slovenian Wikipedia, Samoan Wikipedia, Somali Wikipedia, Albanian Wikipedia, Serbian Wikipedia, Sranan Tongo Wikipedia, Swati Wikipedia, Southern Sotho Wikipedia, Saterland Frisian Wikipedia, Sundanese Wikipedia, Silesian Wikipedia, Tamil Wikipedia, Tulu Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tetum Wikipedia, Tajik Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkmen Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia, Tswana Wikipedia, Tongan Wikipedia, Tok Pisin Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Tsonga Wikipedia, Tatar Wikipedia, Twi Wikipedia, Tahitian Wikipedia, Tuvinian Wikipedia, Udmurt Wikipedia, Uyghur Wikipedia, Uzbek Wikipedia, Venda Wikipedia, Venetian Wikipedia, Veps Wikipedia, West Flemish Wikipedia, Volapük Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [11][12][13]
  • The Vector 2022 skin will have some minor visual changes to drop-down menus, column widths, and more. These changes were added to four Wikipedias last week. If no issues are found, these changes will proceed to all wikis this week. These changes will make it possible to add new menus for readability and dark mode. Learn more. [14]

Future changes

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:53, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

Talk:Luke Oz'Neil

Hey, Qwerfjkl,

I'm not sure why you created this orphaned talk page as there is no article to accompany it. I deleted it but I just thought I'd inquire in case you meant to create a talk page for a differently spelled article. Thanks, I hope you are having a good week. Liz Read! Talk! 22:36, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Liz, I wondered why my code wasn't working. Thanks, that was a typo. — Qwerfjkltalk 14:59, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

years in Yugoslavia category renames

Hey, I noticed [15] and similar edits, but there's no bot change to actually rename, what gives? TIA --Joy (talk) 08:32, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

@Joy, I listed it at WT:CFDW for an admin to process. (Actually I didn't mean to remove the CfD tag, but it doesn't make much difference so I decided to just leave it.) — Qwerfjkltalk 16:42, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – SheilaD1234

Page: Benedict_Rattigan

Diff: Special:Diff/1186659965

Comment/question:

SheilaD1234 (talk) 18:50, 24 November 2023 (UTC) Sorry, I'm new at this (never edited before) and I don't know how to make it conform to Wikipedia practices. All I know is the contents of the article are correct and verifiable. It was hopelessly out of date (the subject stopped being a TV producer almost 20 years ago, and he has since published articles and books etc, and hosted a conference at the British Museum).

@SheilaD1234, the problem was with this reference:
<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.routledge.com/The-Language-of-Symmetry/Rattigan-Noble-Hatta/p/book/9781032303949}}</ref>

which is missing |title=.
This isn't a big problem, it just contributes to link rot, so please try to add a title to references. — Qwerfjkltalk 19:30, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
Thank you. I hope it's okay now, but please do let me know if it needs amending. SheilaD1234 (talk) 19:46, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #604

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Tool of the week
    • Harvest Templates - is a tool that helps transfer data from Wikimedia projects to Wikidata.
    • User:MichaelSchoenitzer/Updown - is a userscript used for faster navigation. If there are a lot of values for one property it will add arrows that allow you to jump to the first/last value.
  • Development
    • We are preparing for the Data Modelling Days happening later this week
    • Language codes:
    • EntitySchemas: We are experimenting with how to work around some technical blockers for the new datatype
    • Wikibase REST API: We've been working on the ability to remove an Item's label in a specific language and modify the descriptions on a Property (phab:T342981, phab:T342981)

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.

Tech News: 2023-48

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

  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [16][17]
  • MediaWiki's JavaScript system will now allow async/await syntax in gadgets and user scripts. Gadget authors should remember that users' browsers may not support it, so it should be used appropriately. [18]
  • The deployment of "Add a link" announced last week was postponed. It will resume this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:06, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

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To know

Hii, i want to know much abaut wikipedia for how ican use this.

Please tell me — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vyizigiro kelly chance (talk • contribs) 12:19, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Vyizigiro kelly chance, please can you clarify your question. What are you trying to do? — Qwerfjkltalk 16:42, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Task 21

Please run task 21, thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:04, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

MSGJ, I have been running it, but apparently it's made no edits. There's probably some bug in the code, I'll try to fix it. — Qwerfjkltalk 19:06, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
MSGJ, okay, it seems to be working now. Please let me know if there are any errors. I've set it to run every hour. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:45, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
Great, seems to be working — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:13, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
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