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This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2021)

Cooked pork chops

Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is:

Pork chop

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Fishing industry • Edible

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).

Administrator changes

Hammersoft

Andres • Brion VIBBER • Rkitko • Thatcher

CheckUser changes

Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek • Primefac

Oversight changes

Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek

Joe Roe

Guideline and policy news

Speedy deletion criterion T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment.

Technical news

You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.

Arbitration

By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:08, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

UTRS #39085

Hi,

Could you please take a look at this appeal number on UTRS? You are the blocking administrator and I'd really appreciate some input from you before I decide whether or not to restore TPA.

I hope 2021 is a better year for you :)-- 5 albert square (talk) 01:17, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@5 albert square: Given the length of time that it's been (and since I'm guessing they're just a young'un who didn't have the maturity then but is willing to learn and grow up now), I'm fine with restoring TP access or even unblocking, whichever fits your judgement. Best wishes, —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 03:21, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Have a very happy adminship anniversary on your special day!

Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 09:45, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2021)

Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is:

Lumbersexual

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Pork chop • Fishing industry

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Tech News: 2021-02

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

You can choose to be reminded when you have not added an edit summary. This can be done in your preferences. This could conflict with the CAPTCHA. This has now been fixed. [1]
You can link to specific log entries. You can get these links for example by clicking the timestamps in the log. Until now, such links to private log entries showed no entry even if you had permission to view private log entries. The links now show the entry. [2]
Admins can use the abuse filter tool to automatically prevent bad edits. Three changes happened last week:
- The filter editing interface now shows syntax errors while you type. This is similar to JavaScript pages. It also shows a warning for regular expressions that match the empty string. New warnings will be added later. [3]
- Oversighters can now hide multiple filter log entries at once using checkboxes on Special:AbuseLog. This is how the usual revision deletion works. [4]
- When a filter matches too many actions after it has been changed it is "throttled". The most powerful actions are disabled. This is to avoid many editors getting blocked when an administrator made a mistake. The administrator will now get a notification about this "throttle".
There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback. [5]
Bots using the API no longer watch pages automatically based on account preferences. Setting the watchlist to watch will still work. This is to reduce the size of the watchlist data in the database. [6]
Scribunto's file metadata now includes length. [7]
CSS and JavaScript code pages now have link anchors to line numbers. You can use wikilinks like w:en:MediaWiki:Common.js#L-50. [8]
There was a new version of MediaWiki last week. You can read a detailed log of all 763 changes. Most of them are very small and will not affect you.

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 January. It will be on all wikis from 14 January (calendar).

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15:41, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

User:Global rename script

... got deleted under CSD U2 ... thought you should know. Graham87 07:50, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, my dear silly Primefac :P —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 13:49, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2021)

Sani Pass in Mokhotlong, Lesotho is an example of a mountain pass.

Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is:

Mountain pass

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Lumbersexual • Pork chop

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Tech News: 2021-03

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 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all wikis from 21 January (calendar).

Future changes

The Growth team plans to add features to get more visitors to edit to more Wikipedias. You can help translating the interface.
You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). [9]
MassMessage posts could be automatically timestamped in the future. This is because MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more difficult to sign. If there are times when a MassMessage post should not be timestamped you can let the developers know.

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16:09, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Editing news 2021 #1

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Reply tool

The Reply tool is available at most other Wikipedias.

The Reply tool has been deployed as an opt-out preference to all editors at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
It is also available as a Beta Feature at almost all Wikipedias except for the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias. If it is not available at your wiki, you can request it by following these simple instructions.

Research notes:

As of January 2021, more than 3,500 editors have used the Reply tool to post about 70,000 comments.
There is preliminary data from the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedia on the Reply tool. Junior Contributors who use the Reply tool are more likely to publish the comments that they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.[10]
The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month.[11] Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
A large A/B test will start soon.[12] This is part of the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone. During this test, half of all editors at 24 Wikipedias (not including the English Wikipedia) will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. Editors at those Wikipeedias can still turn it on or off for their own accounts in Special:Preferences.

New discussion tool

The new tool for starting new discussions (new sections) will join the Discussion tools in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures at the end of January. You can try the tool for yourself.[13] You can leave feedback in this thread or on the talk page.

Next: Notifications

During Talk pages consultation 2019, editors said that it should be easier to know about new activity in conversations they are interested in. The Notifications project is just beginning. What would help you become aware of new comments? What's working with the current system? Which pages at your wiki should the team look at? Please post your advice at mw:Talk:Talk pages project/Notifications.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 01:02, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

False claim of administrator rights

@K6ka: The top user box at the user page User:JzG identifies him as an administrator on the English Wikipedia, and contains a hyperlink to verify. However, when I click that link, it displays user rights not for JzG, but for K6ka. This is very confusing, and may lead unwary users to mistakenly conclude that JzG is indeed, as he falsely claims, an administrator. Please, what is going on here? NedFausa (talk) 17:17, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello NedFausa.

There are two key points in explaining this puzzle:

JzG is a former administrator, as his user rights log confirms. He voluntarily requested desysop in November 2020 (source). I am guessing he forgot to remove references to adminship on his user page.
The reason why my name is listed when you select "Verify" is because the log displays users starting at the given name. For example, if you entered "Jimbo Wales", it would give you the list starting at Jimbo Wales, and then every matching username after that in alphabetical order. In this case, JzG was the last admin whose username started with the letter "J", with "Jwrosenzweig" coming before him. As JzG is no longer an admin, "Jwrosenzweig" is now the last admin whose username starts with the letter "J". "Jw" comes before "Jz", so the list does not show him; as such, it goes on to the letter "K". I am the first admin whose username starts with the letter "K", so it starts with me.
You can see this when viewing a longer list. The "verify" link can sometimes be misleading because it only shows one list entry. If the target user is an admin, then it works and everything is hunky dory; if the target user isn't, it will show the username of the next admin on the list, rather than an error message (as would normally be expected).

Hopefully that makes sense! —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 17:30, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@K6ka: Thanks for your prompt explanation. I will report this false claim at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. NedFausa (talk) 17:35, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

That's honestly going way too far. Just let JzG know he still has the userbox. It's innocent. -- ferret (talk) 19:21, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2021)

Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is:

Viral phenomenon

Please be bold and help improve it!

Previous selections: Mountain pass • Lumbersexual

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Tech News: 2021-04

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC). You will not be able to read or edit Wikitech for a short time on 28 January at 09:00 (UTC). [14][15]

Changes later this week

Bracket matching will be added to the CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [16]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar).

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18:29, 25 January 2021 (UTC)