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Some stroopwafels for you!

Congratulations on becoming Wikipedia's newest administrator! Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 20:41, 23 December 2016 (UTC)


Congratulations on your successful RFA!
My Christmas gifts to you are the words of wisdom I received from the puppy after my RFA passed –
almost ten long, sordid, I-really-really-should-have-found-a-better-hobby years ago:
  1. Remember you will always protect the wrong version. (I got nothing here. It's inevitable.)
  2. Remember you must always follow the rules, except for when you ignore them. Without exception, you will pick the wrong one to do. (See #5.)
  3. Remember to assume good faith and not bite. Remember that when you are applying these principles most diligently, you are probably dealing with a troll. (You'll attract many more of those now, because mop. They must like to drink the dirty water in the bucket.)
  4. Use the block ability sparingly. Enjoy the insults you receive when you do block, because really, what else is there to live for?
  5. Remember that when you make these errors, someone will be more than happy to point them out to you in dazzling clarity and descriptive terminology. It will not be a personal attack because we are admins and, therefore, we are all rouge anyway.
  6. Finally, remember to contact me if you ever need assistance, and I will do what I am able.


Katietalk 20:50, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
DISCLAIMER: This humor does not reflect the official humor of Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation, or Jimbo Wales, because if it did, it would be much, much better.
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Getting the mop

Last year, both User:Nakon and User:SilkTork suggested nominating you as an admin (User talk:Boson/Archive 4#RFA Nomination and User talk:Boson/Archive 4#Potential admin). You've edited with no breaks in activity since 2006, with 100% edit summaries, no blocks, 15,000 edits, and just over 1/2 your edits to article space. Your edits in the area of the European Union are extensive. You make detailed and reasoned contributions to AfD and to featured article reviews. User:EEng called you a "miracle of diplomacy". We need more admins and your mix of experience, content development and diplomacy is the right skill set. Let's turn Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Boson blue. Fences&Windows 13:14, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

The point being, I gather, that if grumpy old EEng gives his approval, he (or she) must be good? EEng 22:31, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
Thank you, Fences and windows, for your confidence. Please feel free to nominate me. --Boson (talk) 17:15, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
Don't fall for it, Boson! It's a trap! EEng 17:25, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

Fences&Windows 21:15, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

It's live. Good luck! Fences&Windows 20:11, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
That went pretty well! Congratulations. Let me know if you ever want to duscuss adminning. Fences&Windows 21:46, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
Thanks, I will! --Boson (talk) 21:56, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
And thanks, again, for the nomination!--Boson (talk) 21:59, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

FYI

I'm not voting in your RfA because (a) I never do, and if I start now everyone will be clamoring for my endorsement – you know how it is when you're a celebrity; (b) you don't need my vote anyway. EEng 09:56, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

It's the thought that counts! (1, 2, 3, ...) --Boson (talk) 01:38, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
[FBDB]Honestly, you should take all the money you're obviously wasting on bribing people to Support you, and spend it on ending cancer or world hunger. Clearly with your budget you could put Bill & Melinda Gates to shame. EEng 04:30, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks

I would like to thank all those who participated in my RfA. Thanks to the supporters for your trust and encouragement, and thanks to all for your time and effort. Thanks to all who offered advice. Thanks for not deleting me. Thanks, too, for the humorous accompaniment from visiting celebrities! And thanks for the T-shirt! In the words of Henry Crun: Thank you for your support! I will always wear it.

I would also like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas (and/or whatever else you may celebrate) and a Happy New Year. --Boson (talk) 21:06, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

I will always wear it -- Always? Yecch! EEng 22:08, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
By "humorous accompaniment from visiting celebrities", do you mean this celebrity? - Anyway, congratulations! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:21, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
Ahem. He said humorous. EEng 22:49, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

A cheeseburger for you!

Congrats on your successful admin request. May god be with you on Christmas EurovisionNim (talk to me)(see my edits) 05:31, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Hello Boson: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 19:35, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message
Also, congratulations on your successful RFA! Thank you for your interest in serving Wikipedia in this capacity; though some people may not appreciate your work, always know that your work is crucial to keeping the encyclopedia humming along smoothly! —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 19:35, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

Successful RfA

Congrats..The admins' T-shirt for you. CAPTAIN RAJU (✉) 20:14, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Boson!

Happy New Year!

Boson,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Donner60 (talk) 09:24, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

Some baklava for you!

Congratulations on becoming an administrator! Sorry this is so late. Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 19:15, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

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Judgment (law)

  • Thanks, Boson, for maintaining the integrity of Judgment (law), most of which was improved on by a former student. In your edit summary, you said "Undid revision 761771980," which seems like good practice. I was wondering where one sees this unique ID. LexLife (talk) 22:44, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
(moved this here for clarity) --Boson (talk) 12:00, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
If you click on "View history", you get a list of recent edits; if you then click on "prev" before the edit in question, you are shown a "diff" for the edit, with a URL like this:
Here the "diff" parameter in the URL indicates the revision ID. Clicking on "undo" above the right column of the diff display generates an edit summary with the ID. Similarly, if you click on the timestamp (for instance in the column heading of the diff display or in the history list), the revision ID is shown as "oldid" in the URL, as here
Boson (talk) 12:00, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
Thank you; I see that now! LexLife (talk) 15:30, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
You are very welcome. Feel free to ask if you have any other questions. --Boson (talk) 15:38, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

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Notifications [More information • Help pages]

  • Flow notifications category in the Notification Preferences page will be changed from (in English) "Flow" to "Flow Discussion". Messages that have to be updated on TranslateWiki are echo-category-title-flow-discussion and echo-pref-tooltip-flow-discussion. [4]
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  • Rich text mode is now the default in Flow replies. Some inconsistencies used to exist. Now the preference between visual mode and wikitext mode is updated when a content change is made in the selected editor, literally when it is typed in, not when it is saved or when the editor is switched. [6]
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2017).

Administrator changes

Amortias • Deckiller • BU Rob13
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Guideline and policy news

Technical news

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Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-03

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

We have focused all our efforts on the New filters for edit review. You will discover these filters on your wiki soon (see below).

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

Future changes

  • We will release the ⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽ beta option on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias March 28. This beta option adds powerful filtering and other tools as well as an improved filtering interface to the Recent Changes page (and Recent Changes Linked). To try out these new tools on these two wikis, go to the Beta tab of the Preferences page (after the 28th) and select ⧼eri-rcfilters-beta-label⧽.
  • In the weeks following the initial release to Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias, the New Filters for Edit Review beta will go out to the following list of Wikipedias in waves (schedule to be done):
    • Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech Wikipedias and Wikidata. [7]
    • English Wikipedia. [8]
    • All other wikis. [9]

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Recent changes

  • <math> <hiero> <score> <syntax> <source> <ref> shortcuts are now working on Flow visual editing mode. Type a shortcut in the visual editing mode will open the control panel for the chosen option. [10]
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  • Flow has been removed from Metawiki. [11]

Future changes

  • The way you switch between wikitext and the visual editors in the desktop view has changed. It will be a drop-down menu. This is the same as in the mobile view. [12]

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2017).

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

  • Following a discussion on the backlog of unpatrolled files, consensus was found to create a new user right for autopatrolling file uploads. Implementation progress can be tracked on Phabricator.
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  • An RfC has closed with consensus to allow proposed deletion of files. The implementation process is ongoing.
  • After an unsuccessful proposal to automatically grant IP block exemption, consensus was found to relax the criteria for granting the user right from needing it to wanting it.

Technical news

  • After a recent RfC, moved pages will soon be featured in a queue similar to Special:NewPagesFeed and require patrolling. Moves by administrators, page movers, and autopatrolled editors will be automatically marked as patrolled.
  • Cookie blocks have been deployed. This extends the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user if they switch accounts, even under a new IP.
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Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

The fourth fiscal quarter began the first of this month, and Collaboration Team has begun work on our new quarterly goals. In the coming months, we'll be working to release the New Filters for Edit Review beta on all wikis and then to improve the beta as much as possible based on user feedback. On that score, we're planning a round of user interviews on the new tools in May to get detailed information about usability and usefulness. If you've tried the new features and have thoughts, please share them with us in any language.

Our other focus right now is to look at what changes will be needed to spread the new filtering interface to other review pages, especially Watchlist. We're also exploring how to incorporate the tools we didn't include in the new interface in this round, like the Tag Filters, time-frame selector and Namespace filter.

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

  • New Filters for Edit review are now available on Polish, Portuguese, Persian, Russian and Turkish Wikipedias as a Beta feature. French Wikipedia and Mediawikiwiki have the filters as a Beta feature too, but without the quality and intent filters. [13]
  • Special:RecentChangesLinked now displays a message when no results are found for a given combination of filters. [14]

Problems

  • Polish Wikipedia is experiencing an issue with predictions (quality and intent filters using ORES). The different predictions are in conflict. An edit can be considered as "good" and "bad" at the same time, and the filter levels are somewhat redundant. We have formulated a plan to address this and are working on a fix, which is deployed progressively on Polish Wikipedia. [15]
  • The issue on Polish Wikipedia is shared by a few other wikis: Dutch, Czech and Hebrew, and Wikidata. The deployment for those wikis has been postponed to Tuesday, May 9. Wikis without this predictions problem have been deployed or will be deployed with no change on the schedule. [16]
  • Interestingly, the "problem" with those wikis is that they perform better than we anticipated. Once the fix is in place, the tools will work with particular simplicity on these wikis.

Future changes

  • English Wikipedia and all wikis without ORES prediction services will get the New Filters for Edit review on Monday, April 24. [17]
  • All remaining wikis will get the New Filters for Edit review on Tuesday, May 9. [18]
  • Wikidata edits will be added as a type of change on New Filters for Edit review. [19]

Notifications [More information • Help pages]

  • Notifications badges were overlapping other tabs on Internet Explorer 11 and Firefox 3.6, using MonoBook skin. This is now fixed. [20]

Flow [More information • Help pages]

  • Flow is now available as a Beta feature on French Wikiversity. [21]
  • All Flow documentation is now available on one page gathering all information, to help users to search for an information.
  • Flow's AbuseFilter integration now allows blocking a particular user from participating on a talk page, or any topic within it. [22]

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2017).

Administrator changes

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removed Gdr • Tyrenius • JYolkowski • Longhair • Master Thief Garrett • Aaron Brenneman • Laser brain • JzG • Dragons flight

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Miscellaneous

  • Following an RfC, the editing restrictions page is now split into a list of active restrictions and an archive of those that are old or on inactive accounts. Make sure to check both pages if searching for a restriction.
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Brixit listed at Redirects for discussion

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Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-05

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

  • “New Filters for Edit Review” beta released: As of May 9, the New Filters for Edit Review beta has been released to all wikis. The beta lets users review edits on Recent Changes using an easier and more powerful interface and many new tools, including user-defined highlighting and, on some wikis, predictive filters powered by ORES, a machine-learning program. You must opt in to the beta to try it out.
  • More features coming soon: The New Filters are still very much in development. In addition to fixing bugs and making adjustments (here’s our current to-do list), we’re actively adding new features, many at users’ request. A few notable additions you can look for this month: A cool tool for saving filter settings; a “Watchlisted pages” filter; a “Flagged Revisions” filter (for some wikis only); a “Last revision” filter.
  • Tell us your ideas—but don’t wait: The team is focused right now in making changes to the New Filters beta. But in a few months, we’ll be moving on to other projects. So now is the time to give the new tools a try and then tell us what you think. What works well? What could make things better for you?
  • In the medium-term: By the end of summer, we plan to complete a suite of improvements that will, among other things: incorporate all the remaining Recent Changes tools into the new filtering interface; create new ways for reviewers to move back and forth through the filter queue; implement a “Reverted” filter; and, finally, bring the New Filters UI and tools to Watchlist.
  • Have time for a talk? We're looking for people we can interview about their experiences with the new beta. If you’re a regular user of Recent Changes and have tried the new features—and if you can spare an hour to chat in English with our design researcher—please email dchen@wikimedia.org with the subject line “user interview.” Let us know how to get in touch with you and what time zone (city, country...) you’re in.
  • Wish you had ORES on your wiki? Some of the more interesting New Filters for Edit Review features are dependent on the machine-learning service ORES, which is available only on a small but growing list of wikis. For ORES to work on a wiki, volunteers from that wiki must train it by scoring some thousands of sample edits. Here’s a link that explains how the process works and how you can get it started on your wiki.

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

  • Many Recent Changes pages have on top a list of links. We plan to integrate those links in a collapsible menu. You are invited to comment the 3 proposals we have drafted on Phabricator.
  • On wikis where Flagged Revisions are used, an edit highlighted as bad by ORES will not be highlighted anymore when the edit is reviewed by someone. [23]
  • You can highlight pages that are in your Watchlist in Recent Changes. 3 different filters are available: in watchlist, not in watchlist, new changes in watchlist. [24]
  • Wikidata, Dutch, Czech, Hebrew, Estonian and Finnish Wikipedia now have the new filters available as a Beta feature, and ORES is enabled by default on those wikis. [25]
  • All wikis now have the Recent changes Filters as a Beta feature. [26]
  • Users are invited to opt in to the Recent changes Filters beta when they visit the Recent Changes page. [27]
  • On wikis that have ORES predictions enabled by default, it is now possible to choose how to display the predictions in watchlist and recent changes pages. [28]

Future changes

  • It will be possible soon to save and retreive your favorite filters combinations. [29]
  • We are working on adding filter groups for last revisions, edits from Wikidata and reverted edits. [30][31][32]

Notifications [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

  • When an article you have created is linked to a Wikidata item, you can receive a notification. Wikidata and all the Wikivoyages have it since May 9th, other wikis will follow. [33]
  • Special:Notifications tabs is now set to "Unread" if there are any unread messages. [34]

Flow [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

  • You can enable Flow as a Beta feature on your talk page on Arabic Wikipedia and Catalan Wikiquote. [35][36]
  • When you send more than 50 mentions on one Flow post, you are now warned you have hit the limit. [37]

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2017).

Administrator changes

added Doug Bell • Dennis Brown • Clpo13 • ONUnicorn
removed ThaddeusB • Yandman • Bjarki S • OldakQuill • Shyam • Jondel • Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Miscellaneous

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Precious three years!

Precious
Three years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:12, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

Collaboration products newsletter: 2017-06

Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Notifications, Flow and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

What's new?

Integrated Filters

  • The team is moving full speed ahead on a follow-up project to the New Filters for Edit Review beta dubbed "Integrated Filters." The name refers to the fact that we are integrating the Recent Changes tools that currently remain in the old user interface (like Namespace and Tag filters), along with some tools and capabilities from Watchlist and elsewhere, into the new Recent Changes interface.
  • You can get an overview of the Integrated Filters projects, and the general release strategy, on the description page of the project Phabricator board. Among the more interesting new capabilities:
    • Category filters: We'll be adding the ability to filter by category. This is a little tricky, since wiki categories often work in a somewhat counter-intuitive way, with the broadest categories returning the fewest results—because categories like "Science" or "Art" tend to contain not articles but other categories. So we're exploring solutions where a category search will crawl at least a layer or two down the category treat to, hopefully, bring back more useful results. [38]
    • User filters: We're adding the ability to filter by any username, similar to what's available already on the the User Contributions page. [39]
    • Live update: Users will have the ability to look at a more or less continuous flow of changes. This is a much requested feature that we expect will open up new possibilities for Recent Changes, especially for patrollers who want to see vandalism or other changes as they happen. While the updates won't truly be "live," the page updates will be frequent, similar to the way real-time tools (like RTRC or LiveRC) works. [40]

Edit Review Improvements [More information • Help pages]

Have time for a talk?

  • We're looking for people we can interview about their experiences with the new beta. If you’re a regular user of Recent Changes and have tried the new features—and if you can spare an hour to chat in English with our design researcher—please email dchen@wikimedia.org with the subject line “user interview.” Let us know how to get in touch with you and what time zone (city, country...) you’re in.

Recent changes

  • It is now possible to save your favorite filters sets by using bookmarks. [41]
  • It is possible to filter only the last edits done on a page on the Recent Changes page. [42]
  • ORES review tool has been deployed to French Wikipedia. This wiki can use predictions filters. To have the predictions filters on your wiki, you need to work on the labeling campaign for your wiki or request it. [43]
  • There were some issues with loading highlighted results when the URL was copied and pasted. This is now fixed. [44]
  • A "Watchlisted pages" filter group now lets reviewers use Recent Changes, and all its tools, to patrol changes to pages they've Watchlisted. If you have any feedback about how useful this is nor isn't—especially given that we plan to add the new filtering interface to the Watchlist page — let us know.
  • There were issues with the tools still in the older filtering UI — like the Namespace filter and the number of results selectors. These have been fixed. [45]

Future changes

  • Integration of new features on recent changes pages is planned. They will include menus to filter users, tagged edits, categories and namespaces. See the "What's new" section above for more information.
  • Now that users can save filter settings, and declare any settings they want as the Recent Changes page default, we'll be reviewing the RC page Preferences with an eye to getting rid of as many as we can. For instance, if you want to hide minor edits or Category changes by default, you can now do that right on the RC page, instead of having to go to a separate page to manage defaults.
  • On many Recent Changes Pages, the community has defined a large number of links that are displayed directly under the page name (example on Polish Wikipedia). Many of these links are unrelated or only peripherally related to Recent Changes, add informational complexity of the RC page. Research shows that they are used only rarely or never. We want to clarify RecentChanges page functionality, so we plan to put the links into a collapsible panel.
    • Should the panel default to open or closed? That is, should the default state (which users can change with one click) show the links as hidden or displayed? Let us know what you think.
    • The most used links are shortcuts to certain type of edits, (Mobile, Newcomers...). Users can already save their favorite filter settings to the Saved Settings menu, which should make some of the existing links redundant. We plan to provide default bookmarks for the most used filters combinations. [46]

Notifications [More information • Help pages]

Future changes

  • Wikimedia Deutschland have scheduled the notifications of Wikibase notifications to Wikimedia projects: all the Wikivoyages on May 3; all the Wikipedias except en, fr, de on May 30; all other projects on June 13 and Wikipedias en, fr, de on September 5. [47]
  • It will be possible to restrict who can send you notifications. [48]

Flow [More information • Help pages]

Recent changes

  • Flow has been activated on all talk pages on Catalan Wikiquote. [49]

Future changes

  • On the Beta feature page, the activation message has been review to emphase the fact that the unstructured wikitext page will be archived. [50]

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