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Administrators' newsletter – November 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
  • A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
  • The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.

Arbitration

  • Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
  • The Arbitration Committee's email address has changed to arbcom-en@wikimedia.org. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.

West Africa Ebola virus epidemic

Hi this is to inform you that West African Ebola virus epidemic which you edited will be submitted for WikiJournal of Medicine...The objective of this message is to invite the contributors to collaboratively submit the article for review through Wiki.J.Med, and if possible, to help in further betterment of the article in accordance to the suggestions of the reviewers. Wikipedia articles are collaboratively authored. So, it is very important to make the authors aware of such a process that the article is currently undergoing[1] thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:39, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

17:28, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Air stripline

Hi Josve05a,

I'm confused by your edit summary here where you said "despite other formatting in rest of article". Citation templates are not used anywhere on the page. In fact, the only place the word "cite" appears anywhere on the page is in your own hidden comment. Whatever did you mean? SpinningSpark 07:59, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

I'm sorry, that was my mistake. I meant to write something else, but as I started to write "adding note" in the ES, it autocompleted (or rather was in that auto-complete drop-down list) to that. I don't remember having written that before though in an ES, but I didn't take much note about it until I had already saved the page. My bad. (tJosve05a (c) 08:35, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Sorry for the inconvenience, but nice to see you sending patches again. ;) Meanwhile, I wonder how I can better express Wikimedia practices on the handling of public domain materials in presence of contradictory, misleading or approximate statements (e.g. PD-Art and PD-Gov). It seems I don't manage to get the message across. Or is it really policy around here to apply stricter standards for links than we would for uploads? Some directions would be appreciated. Nemo 17:09, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

I'll answer today over email. (tJosve05a (c) 08:33, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
Seems it drifted my mind. Well, for starters, Commons has much more restictive rules. Uplaods needs to be both free for reuse, and froma. verfied source/own work. 'Publically visable' documents is not the same as 'public domain'. As an example: Just because a movie can be found on the internet, it doesn't mean they have the rights to dispaly it in that manner. Wikipedia rules (based on international laws) go a bit further than not just not accepting you to upload that video found elsewhere, but you are not even allowed to link to that streaming website from Wikipedia. In this case, the document host may not have the rights to distribute the documents, and therefore you are not allowed to link to them. The website in question is doubios and may be licnese laundering. (tJosve05a (c) 00:03, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

19:21, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

ArbCom 2018 election voter message

Hello, Josve05a. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

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23:28, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Why are you removing the names of publishers and URLs from references in this article? Please explain your rationale on Talk:White nationalism, and do not make any additional edits on this kind until you have explained and received a consensus for this kind of edit. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:37, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Citevar

It's almost a religion that the one to begin an article defines the citation style. I have been reverted many times when I tried to change to a more editor-friendly style, and came to think that there are more important topics. Not that I'll ever understand, though, why using citation templates, and moving references in a separate section for better reading of text and easier changing of refs, would be reverted. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:45, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, so annoying, but I'll comply. (tJosve05a (c) 13:02, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
And, Tim riley, sorry for editwarring. I'm editing based on a dynamic list, and did not notice I'd already edited that page (and gotten reverted). Will do better. (tJosve05a (c) 13:08, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
No apology needed. An honest mistake while doing admirable Wiki-gnoming. More power to your elbow! Tim riley talk 21:39, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
@Tim riley: If not using {{cite book}}, is there any way to make use of {{doi}} in that article instead of linking to doi.org (since that is...unstable)? --(tJosve05a (c) 21:47, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Precious

gnome with a gnome bot

Thank you for gnomish help, including a bot to help with tedious tasks, for redirects, dealing with articles for creation, improving references, disambiguations, header syntax, for making connections to the Swedish Wikipedia, for admitting human errors, for images, - Jonatan, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:19, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

22:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Dheeraj Sharma (professor)

Hi there. About Dheeraj Sharma (professor): I cannot check the url that matches for the copyvio [16] [17] because it is blocked here in China. However, so much of the article is a match, and none of the article that I can see was added in a lump, but rather built bit by bit, that I suspect a reverse copyvio. Thoughts?

Oh, and I've soft blocked the editor claiming to be the subject. If someone reappears with the same behaviour, it's likely him. If that happens, a hard block may be in order.

Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 11:26, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

Azad (upcoming film) listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Azad (upcoming film). Since you had some involvement with the Azad (upcoming film) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 (talk) 19:43, 28 November 2018 (UTC)