User talk:K6ka/Archives/2022/December

Administrators' newsletter – December 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).

Administrator changes

• Eddie891
• Euryalus
• TheresNoTime

• Alex.muller
• Excirial
• RedWordSmith
• Ron Ritzman
• TheresNoTime
• Stephen

Interface administrator changes

TheresNoTime

TheresNoTime

CheckUser changes

TheresNoTime

Oversight changes

TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus has been found in an RfC to automatically place RfAs on hold after one week.
• The article creation at scale RfC has been closed.
• An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.

Technical news

• A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449)

Arbitration

• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
• The proposed decision for the 2021-22 review of the discretionary sanctions system is open.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has been closed.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
• A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop.

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add /64 to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.

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This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2022)

Reconstruction of Lucy, the first Australopithecus afarensis skeleton found Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Human history Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Medjed • Culinary arts Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 5 December 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

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69		Genya Ravan (talk)	Add sources
6,204		Louis XIV (talk)	Add sources
1,690		Karen O (talk)	Add sources
13		Madayi (talk)	Add sources
321		Zero-based budgeting (talk)	Add sources
1,911		Epiphany (holiday) (talk)	Add sources
905		KRISS Vector (talk)	Cleanup
41		Wendy Waldman (talk)	Cleanup
3,859		The Doctor (Doctor Who) (talk)	Cleanup
3,653		Adobe Photoshop (talk)	Expand
185		Public holidays in Australia (talk)	Expand
292		Adobe Acrobat version history (talk)	Expand
70		Music information retrieval (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
35		Chasys Draw IES (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
35		Prewrath rapture (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
642		Lit (band) (talk)	Merge
2,583		Galápagos Islands (talk)	Merge
3,326		Prohibition in the United States (talk)	Merge
106		Sajjangad (talk)	Wikify
1,133		The Voice (franchise) (talk)	Wikify
7		Rock the Garden (talk)	Wikify
16		Didier William (talk)	Orphan
6		AI aftermath scenarios (talk)	Orphan
4		Jesse Mockrin (talk)	Orphan
455		Pratapgad (talk)	Stub
8		Life's What You Make It (Hannah Montana song) (talk)	Stub
35		Energy and environmental engineering (talk)	Stub
235		Thomas Knoll (talk)	Stub
23		Karbi Anglong Plateau (talk)	Stub
2		Bonny Pierce Lhotka (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2022-49

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

• The Wikisources use a tool called ProofreadPage. ProofreadPage uses OpenSeadragon which is an open source tool. The OpenSeadragon JavaScript API has been significantly re-written to support dynamically loading images. The functionality provided by the older version of the API should still work but it is no longer supported. User scripts and gadgets should migrate over to the newer version of the API. The functionality provided by the newer version of the API is documented on MediaWiki. [1][2]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar).

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:39, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Six years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:01, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2022)

Cross section of telephone cable of 1,800 twisted pairs. Year 1922 Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Telephone line Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Human history • Medjed Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 12 December 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

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230		Tallboy (bomb) (talk)	Add sources
3,913		Emily Osment (talk)	Add sources
486		Ruth Handler (talk)	Add sources
41		Dora I (talk)	Add sources
180		Minister of Human Resources (Malaysia) (talk)	Add sources
61		Destructive device (talk)	Add sources
10		Erich Raeder pre grand admiral (talk)	Cleanup
433		Jessie (Toy Story) (talk)	Cleanup
558		Cosmopolitanism (talk)	Cleanup
148		Thornhill, Ontario (talk)	Expand
120		Future generations (talk)	Expand
87		Uno (video game) (talk)	Expand
122		Battle of annihilation (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
407		Markham, Ontario (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
18		Farmington River (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,773		Kalki (talk)	Merge
121		Overconsumption (economics) (talk)	Merge
518		Selection bias (talk)	Merge
9		Wedding Bells (Jonas Brothers song) (talk)	Wikify
65		Global justice (talk)	Wikify
104		Zairil Khir Johari (talk)	Wikify
2		Michael Hofmann (sumi-e) (talk)	Orphan
3		Wesley Tongson (talk)	Orphan
27		Hsu Yung Chin (talk)	Orphan
22		Betty Blue (model) (talk)	Stub
5		April Bey (talk)	Stub
4		Catastrophe: Risk and Response (talk)	Stub
3		Da-Hong Seetoo (talk)	Stub
3		Helmut Burk (talk)	Stub
82		Adobe Voco (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2022-50

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

• An A/B test has begun at 15 Wikipedias for DiscussionTools on mobile. Half of the editors on the mobile web site will have access to the Reply tool and other features. [3]
• The character = cannot be used in new usernames, to make usernames work better with templates. Existing usernames are not affected. [4]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 December. It will be on all wikis from 15 December (calendar).
• The HTML markup used by DiscussionTools to show discussion metadata below section headings will be inserted after these headings, not inside of them. This change improves the accessibility of discussion pages for screen reader software. [5]

Events

• The fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award will happen online on Friday 16 December 2022 at 17:00 UTC! The event will be live-streamed on YouTube in the MediaWiki channel and added to Commons afterwards.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:32, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

Regarding the AIV noticeboard

Hi K6ka, thanks for putting in the block. I apologize for reverting my own report (after noticing that account was already locked), though I didn’t realize the autoblock here would still apply. Thankfully another individual also reported it. Tropicalkitty (talk) 21:15, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

@Tropicalkitty: (I assume you're referring to Hao binh) I actually blocked because in the past, another admin had suggested I go ahead and block them anyway, just in case they for some reason get unlocked (it wasn't for a community-banned editor either). An additional block doesn't hurt anybody! —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 12:23, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2022)

Zenica is the largest city in the Central Bosnia subregion Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Central Bosnia Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Telephone line • Human history Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 19 December 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

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23		National revival (talk)	Add sources
218		Lego Harry Potter (talk)	Add sources
72		Minister of Works (Malaysia) (talk)	Add sources
10		Yeshivat Sha'alvim (talk)	Add sources
7		Nancy Rappaport (talk)	Add sources
101		Shia view of Ali (talk)	Cleanup
30		Education NGOs (talk)	Cleanup
83		Christianity in Afghanistan (talk)	Cleanup
26		Jawatha Mosque (talk)	Expand
17		Photography in Norway (talk)	Expand
205		The Bunny Game (talk)	Expand
43		Risk–return spectrum (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
461		Ethnocacerism (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
26		Capital District Transportation Authority (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
193		CMY color model (talk)	Merge
1,221		CMYK color model (talk)	Merge
20		Ethnic interest group (talk)	Merge
72		David Bottrill (talk)	Wikify
4		Yolanda González (talk)	Wikify
110		New Nationalism (Theodore Roosevelt) (talk)	Wikify
5		Jimmy Maymann (talk)	Orphan
5		Sandy Rodriguez (talk)	Orphan
10		Jeff Harmening (talk)	Orphan
350		Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques (talk)	Stub
5		Yuri Morozov (musician) (talk)	Stub
5		Norbert Klatt (talk)	Stub
31		Danielle Crittenden (talk)	Stub
8		Roy Sekoff (talk)	Stub
21		Trina Shoemaker (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2022-51

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

Tech News

• Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 9 January 2023.

Recent changes

• On a user's contributions page, you can filter it for edits with a tag like 'reverted'. Now, you can also filter for all edits that are not tagged like that. This was part of a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [6]
• A new function has been used for gadget developers to add content underneath the title on article pages. This is considered a stable API that should work across all skins. Documentation is available. [7]
• One of our test wikis is now being served from a new infrastructure powered by Kubernetes (read more). More Wikis will switch to this new infrastructure in early 2023. Please test and let us know of any issues. [8]

Problems

• Last week, all wikis had no edit access for 9 minutes. This was caused by a database problem. [9]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
• The word "Reply" is very short in some languages, such as Arabic ("ردّ"). This makes the Discussion tools button on talk pages difficult to use. An arrow icon will be added to those languages. This will only be visible to editors who have the Beta Feature turned on. [10] [11]

Future changes

• Edits can be automatically "tagged" by the system software or the Edit filter configuration system. Those tags link to a help page about the tags. Soon they will also link to Recent Changes to let you see other edits tagged this way. This was a Community Wishlist 2022 request. [12]
• The Trust & Safety tools team have shared new plans for building the Private Incident Reporting System. The system will make it easier for editors to ask for help if they are harassed or abused.
• Realtime Preview for Wikitext is coming out of beta as an enabled feature for every user of the 2010 Wikitext editor in the week of January 9, 2023. It will be available to use via the toolbar in the 2010 Wikitext editor. The feature was the 4th most popular wish of the Community Wishlist Survey 2021.

Events

• You can now register for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023, taking place on May 19–21 in Athens, Greece. You can also apply for a scholarship until January 14th.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:58, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, whether it's Christmas or some other festival, I hope you and those close to you have a happy, restful time! Have fun, Donner60 (talk) 00:16, 23 December 2022 (UTC)}}

Donner60 (talk) 00:09, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

Protect and Revdel edits on Talk:Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry like Christmas

I saw you protected and revdel the main page - please do the same for Talk:Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry like Christmas. Thank you -- Harobouri • 🎢 • 🏗️ (he/him • WP:APARKS) 03:25, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Don't eat yellow snow!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:Flaming/MC2008}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 17:14, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

Hello K6ka: 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, TheSandDoctor ^Talk 18:12, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

From my family to yours: Merry Christmas! TheSandDoctor ^Talk 18:12, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2022)

The Summer Palace of Peter the Great as seen from across the Fontanka River from a small Prachechniy ("Laundry") Bridge in August 2007 Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Summer Palace of Peter the Great Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Central Bosnia • Telephone line Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 26 December 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

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136		Ganges Basin (talk)	Add sources
2		Belda Kaufman Lindenbaum (talk)	Add sources
15		General Lucius D. Clay National Guard Center (talk)	Add sources
7		Esti Rosenberg (talk)	Add sources
6		Mathis Airport (talk)	Add sources
13		News propaganda (talk)	Add sources
23		Grace Preparatory Academy (talk)	Cleanup
132		Pan-nationalism (talk)	Cleanup
86		Transnationalism (talk)	Cleanup
21		Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois (talk)	Expand
6		Wisconsin Highway 47 (talk)	Expand
565		Taya Valkyrie (talk)	Expand
1,396		Mia Yim (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,704		Rapping (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
81		Ethnic violence (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
320		Soviet space dogs (talk)	Merge
44		Color solid (talk)	Merge
1,569		Luhansk People's Republic (talk)	Merge
10		Glenunga International High School (talk)	Wikify
123		Malaysian New Economic Policy (talk)	Wikify
42		Stonebriar Centre (talk)	Wikify
3		Pacific Northern Academy (talk)	Orphan
23		Bagrrys India Limited (talk)	Orphan
4		Fatima Sharafeddine (talk)	Orphan
3		Mount Royal Academy (New Hampshire) (talk)	Stub
5		Jewish Party (Czechoslovakia) (talk)	Stub
37		Nancy Cooper (talk)	Stub
18		SoftBank Capital (talk)	Stub
4		Holy Family Academy (New Hampshire) (talk)	Stub
1		Holy Angels Academy (Louisville, Kentucky) (talk)	Stub

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Impersonation?

Someone just tried to create a clone of your user page with a name along the lines of yours. Is this some sort of impersonation attempt? TheManInTheBlackHat (Talk) 17:42, 26 December 2022 (UTC)

@TheManInTheBlackHat: Indeed, it is. They were blocked a minute after your message too. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 19:05, 26 December 2022 (UTC)

Scrubbing Copyright Revision

Do you mind deleting this revision from the page history? It's copyrighted content sourced from [13]. TheManInTheBlackHat (Talk) 16:37, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

@TheManInTheBlackHat: Sure,  Done. In the future, you can use the {{copyvio-revdel}} template on the page to request copyvio revdel. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 16:44, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

2A00:A040:1A0:A731:0:0:0:1002 / Liv Morgan

Hi K6ka, are you sure that semi-protection and a BLP violation block can prevent what everyone except the IP editor did? ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:33, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

@ToBeFree: I looked at the page protection log for Liv Morgan and saw the previous protection was for unsourced content, so I must've mixed the block and protection rationales up. They shouldn't be for adding unsourced content, as there was no unsourced content being added by the IP. Apologies for the mixup. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 18:58, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

ah, no worries, I was just confused. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:11, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

K6ka,
Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and a Happy New Year to you and yours! CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 23:03, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

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