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RFA2024 update: Discussion-only period now open for review

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Hi there! The trial of the RfA discussion-only period passed at WP:RFA2024 has concluded, and after open discussion, the RfC is now considering whether to retain, modify, or discontinue it. You are invited to participate at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase II/Discussion-only period. Cheers, and happy editing! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:38, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Glad to see you after a long time.

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Hi. It's been a long time and it's nice to meet you again. I'm temporarily back for a while and noticed that Jishnu Raghavan still don't have an article. I have created a draft myself, but only an admin can move it to the mainspace. The subject easily passes GNG, but continuos socking made it into the present state. Do you know any admins who is very active at AFC reviewing so that they can take a look at this. Thilsebatti (talk) 15:50, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Hi Thilsebatti, allow me ping @Asilvering ;) Vanderwaalforces (talk) 16:29, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm happy to be pinged for an unprotect at any time if it gets accepted at AfC. I don't see WP:GNG in these sources yet, though. I didn't spot-check every one, but picked the four I thought were the most likely, and all of them were by "our correspondent", wire stories, etc. -- asilvering (talk) 18:11, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
wrong 112.201.182.104 (talk) 05:10, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Thilsebatti, It's great to have you back. I am sorry to hear that your draft has been rejected. Why not take some time to explore other topics? You can always come back to this draft later. If there is anything else I can help you with, please let me know. – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:43, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-40

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:59, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DCWC closing update

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The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest has come to a close! After a thrilling finish to the event with a slew of submissions on the final day, we have our winners. With 608 points, Bronze Belt Buckle – 3rd place Thebiguglyalien (submissions) comes in third with his series of Kiribati and Botswanan submissions; Silver Belt Buckle – 2nd place Tuvalu BeanieFan11 (submissions) flies into second place at the last second with 771 points after a string of good articles about sportspersons; and after leading for much of contest's three months, Gold Belt Buckle – 1st place Generalissima (submissions) finishes with a whopping 798 points to take home the Gold Belt Buckle. Congratulations to our winners!

In addition to his spot in the top three, Tuvalu BeanieFan11 (submissions) also wins the special awards for submitting under the most countries (44 countries) and for writing the most articles about women (15 Did you know? nominations)! India Magentic Manifestations (submissions), after making 16 submissions under the Indian flag—15 of them good articles—receives the awards for most submissions for a single country and most featured or good articles promoted. For their submission of one FAC review, five FLC reviews, and 20 GAN reviews, Simongraham (submissions) wins for most article reviews.

The results of the contest have far exceeded any expectations the coordinators had for it at the beginning: among the submissions to the event were 3 FAs, 10 FLs, 88 GAs, dozens of article reviews of every kind, and more Did you know? submissions than we can count! Regardless of your level of participation, every contestant can be proud to have contributed towards a major step in countering the systemic bias on Wikipedia. Every year, millions of readers and editors around the globe use Wikipedia to educate themselves and communicate with others about parts of the world that often receive less attention than they deserve. Thank you for participating with us in the contest and contributing to this effort. The DCWC will return next year and we look forward to seeing you contribute again! However, before that...

We need your feedback! Join the conversation on the talk page to discuss your reflections on the contest (even if you didn't participate!) and help us make it better.

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or ask one of the coordinators: Ixtal (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 19:02, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Notification of administrators without tools

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Greetings, DreamRimmer. You are receiving this notification because you've agreed to consider endorsing prospective admin candidates identified by the process outlined at Administrators without tools. Recently, the following editor(s) received this distinction and the associated endearing title:
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TolBot (talk) 21:00, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

lang-?? templates

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The {{lang-??}} templates are being merged, per the TfD. Please use the correct template.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 13:56, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Trappist the monk, I am doing this as requested here. Could you please let me know which template is the correct one? I will make the necessary adjustments. You can check the edits here. Just pinging Primefac since they requested this. – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:05, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The TfD closure says: "The result of the discussion was merge to Template:Langx." It did not say delete; I know, ultimately these templates will be deleted after the merge, but for such a large scale process, I'd rather keep to the letter of the law. So, I've been replacing the TfD notices with this:
<noinclude>{{Being merged|spacetype=template|discuss=Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2024_September_27#Replace_and_delete_lang-??_templates|target=Template:Langx|nocat=yes}}</noinclude>
—Trappist the monk (talk) 14:13, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I stopped because you are already handling it. – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:39, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Will you redo the templates that you touched, please?
—Trappist the monk (talk) 14:45, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sure – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:46, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you.
—Trappist the monk (talk) 14:47, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Trappist the monk, Done – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:57, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you.
—Trappist the monk (talk) 14:59, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Trappist the monk, you've been doing this for long enough - {{being deleted}} is the template that is used regardless of the outcome of the TFD. I'm not necessarily opposed to doing it another way, or even modifying the template to indicate a merge, but please don't make it sound like DR was doing something wrong. Primefac (talk) 17:02, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Moved to User talk:Trappist the monk § lang-?? templates

September 2024 NPP backlog drive – Points award

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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
This award is given in recognition to DreamRimmer for accumulating at least 25 points during the September 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions helped play a part in the 19,000+ articles and 35,000+ redirects reviewed (for a total of 26,884.6 points) completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 15:28, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you :) – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:29, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-41

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  • Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [4]

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  • Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [7]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:38, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator Elections: Call for Candidates

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Administrator Elections | Call for Candidates

The administrator elections process has officially started! Interested editors are encouraged to self-nominate or arrange to be nominated by reviewing the instructions at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2024/Call for candidates.

Here is the schedule:

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Signature

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Hello! Please add class="skin-invert" to the <b> tag of your signature; it is invisible in Vector dark mode. Thanks, Charlotte (Queen of Hearts • talk) 20:42, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done, thanks! – DreamRimmer (talk) 11:32, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DR bot

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Thanks for the new bot, it seems to be working very well. This file seems to need a User: prefix though. Cheers! Wikishovel (talk) 15:24, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikishovel, thanks for the heads-up. It was created in error. I was testing in the bot's user space but forgot to add the prefix. – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:46, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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The Technical Barnstar
I only recently noticed how many technical aspects of Wikipedia you're involved in. I encourage you to run for the administrator elections if there's still time when you read this because I think you'd probably pass. Zippybonzo | talk | contribs (they/them) 17:26, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the encouragement, Zippy. I currently don't have any plans for RfA. – DreamRimmer (talk) 01:00, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2024-42

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  • WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [15]
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Your guidance required

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I hope you're doing great. I wanted to let you know that I completed the NPP assignment on September 15th. Could you kindly inform me about the next steps or the upcoming task? Your guidance on what I should focus on next would be greatly appreciated. Looking forward to your response. -Charlie (talk) 14:39, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

CharlieMehta,sorry for the delay in getting back to you about your training. You are almost done. I will add 5-6 more pages for you to assess, and after you finish those, I will share my final statement. – DreamRimmer (talk) 14:52, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

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The Admin Elections barnstar
Thank you for all your help creating pages and other help you've provided to WP:AELECT within the last 24 hours. I really appreciate us all working as a team to take care of all the nitty gritty tasks that people don't think about. –Novem Linguae (talk) 21:37, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the barnstar :) – DreamRimmer (talk) 23:59, 17 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 19 October 2024

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WikiProject Unreferenced articles November 2024 backlog drive

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WikiProject Unreferenced articles | November 2024 Backlog Drive

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:06, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

October thanks

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story · music · places

Thank you for improving articles on October! - My story today is a cantata 300 years old, based on a hymn 200 years old when the cantata was composed, based on a psalm some thousand years old, - so said the 2015 DYK hook. I had forgotten the discussion on the talk. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:38, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question

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First time seeing this "This user has more than 100,000 edits. Please confirm that you are sure that you want to rename this user and that a system administrator is available to monitor this rename. " Do I need to make an appointment with a "system administrator" ? or just do it Wikipedia:Changing_username/Simple#Wolverine XI → Wolverine X-eye. - FlightTime (open channel) 16:45, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@FlightTime, I am also seeing this type of request for the first time. It might be a good idea to ask on the mailing list since the high number of edits could cause the rename to get stuck. It's probably best to handle this with care. Just so you know, I tried to reach out to the sysadmins, but they are unavailable at the moment. – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:03, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanx. I need to do some stuff for awhile, so I'll leave it for someone else, but I'm very interested how to work these types of request. BBL. - FlightTime (open channel) 17:06, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There is nothing different about this request, but due to the high number of edits, the rename could get stuck, so if there are system administrators available, they can run a maintenance script to fix it. Since you are busy, I'll take care of it. – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:19, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Done. – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:22, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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