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Administrators' newsletter – September 2022

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

Administrator changes

DanCherek • DatGuy • Femke • Z1720

Aldux • Graham Beards • Nyttend

Interface administrator changes

Mr. Stradivarius

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
• An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news

• The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
• The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
• The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
• Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.

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This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2022)

Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Gender studies Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Cartoonist • Kyushu Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 5 September 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

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5		Tamy Ben-Tor (talk)	Wikify
187		Emperor Yang of Sui (talk)	Wikify
4		Mayor of Dodoma (talk)	Orphan
4		Antariksh (Indian band) (talk)	Orphan
2		Bajrak of Oštrozub (talk)	Orphan
14		Kalle Boman (talk)	Stub
2		Foreign relations of Zanzibar (talk)	Stub
13		Inzone (talk)	Stub
7		Japan Policy Research Institute (talk)	Stub
4		The Last Dog in Rwanda (talk)	Stub
7		Arkansas Department of Health (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2022-36

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 6 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 September. It will be on all wikis from 8 September (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 6 September at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 8 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• On Special pages that only have one tab, the tab-bar's row will be hidden in the Vector-2022 skin to save space. The row will still show if Gadgets use it. Gadgets that currently append directly to the CSS id of #p-namespaces should be updated to use the mw.util.addPortletLink function instead. Gadgets that style this id should consider also targeting #p-associated-pages, the new id for this row. Examples are available. [1][2]

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23:19, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2022)

Quercus geminata, commonly called sand live oak, is an evergreen oak tree native to the coastal regions of the subtropical southeastern United States, along the Atlantic Coast from southern Florida northward to southeastern Virginia and along the Gulf Coast westward to southern Mississippi, on seacoast dunes and on white sands in evergreen oak scrubs. Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Evergreen Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Gender studies • Cartoonist Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 12 September 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

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36		Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (talk)	Add sources
320		Cortes Generales (talk)	Add sources
19		Spanish missions in the Carolinas (talk)	Add sources
551		Astrid Lindgren (talk)	Add sources
362		Prothom Alo (talk)	Cleanup
222		Steve Daines (talk)	Cleanup
183		Cedar Falls, Iowa (talk)	Cleanup
29		Mitchellville, Iowa (talk)	Expand
904		Second impeachment of Donald Trump (talk)	Expand
11,049		2022 monkeypox outbreak (talk)	Expand
3,564		Unification Church (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
724		Anti-Russian sentiment (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
25		Chasys Draw IES (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
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9		Chappell of Bond Street (talk)	Merge
117		Culture of South Korea (talk)	Wikify
12		Shinichiro Kurimoto (talk)	Wikify
15		Mendel Polar Station (talk)	Wikify
4		Desmalvinización (talk)	Orphan
4		Vincent Versace (talk)	Orphan
4		Jesper Waldersten (talk)	Orphan
10		John Thurston (politician) (talk)	Stub
16		Nara Medical University (talk)	Stub
26		Google.by (talk)	Stub
6		Elena Novikova (talk)	Stub
227		Juridical person (talk)	Stub
3		Reynier Casamayor Griñán (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2022-37

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 search servers have been upgraded to a new major version. If you notice any issues with searching, please report them on Phabricator. [3]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 September. It will be on all wikis from 15 September (calendar).
• Syntax highlighting is now tracked as an expensive parser function. Only 500 expensive function calls can be used on a single page. Pages that exceed the limit are added to a tracking category. [4]

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01:48, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2022)

Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Heather Dubrow Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Evergreen • Gender studies Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 19 September 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

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113		Adobe Captivate (talk)	Cleanup
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4		State Service for Combatting Economic Crimes (talk)	Orphan
56		Pickaboo.com (talk)	Orphan
905		Pansexual flag (talk)	Stub
54		Kanzhongguo (talk)	Stub
8		RTA School of Media (talk)	Stub
19		Young King (magazine) (talk)	Stub
35		Anvato (talk)	Stub
8		Vitali Kanevsky (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2022-38

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

• Two database fields in the templatelinks table are now being dropped: tl_namespace and tl_title. Any queries that rely on these fields need to be changed to use the new normalization field called tl_target_id. See T299417 for more information. This is part of normalization of links tables. [5][6]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar).
• In Kartographer maps, you can use icons on markers for common points of interest. On Tuesday, the previous icon set will be updated to version maki 7.2. That means, around 100 new icons will be available. Additionally, all existing icons were updated for clarity and to make them work better in international contexts. [7][8]

Future changes

• In a group discussion at Wikimania, more than 30 people talked about how to make content partnership software in the Wikimedia movement more sustainable. What kind of support is acceptable for volunteer developers? Read the summary and leave your feedback.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:14, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Growth team newsletter #22

Welcome to the twenty-second newsletter from the Growth team!

Newcomers tasks reach the 500,000 edits milestone — more data publicly available

As of the last week of June 2022, the newcomers of the world have completed over 500,000 newcomer tasks. In other words, newcomers have made over half a million Wikipedia edits via Growth’s “Suggested Edits” module.

• About 30% of those edits were completed on mobile devices.
• Usage continues to increase; in June 2022 almost 50,000 newcomer tasks were completed.

We have added some new data to Grafana. You can now check the number of edits and reverts by task types, or the number of questions asked to mentors. You can filter the data by wiki.

If you have any questions, or there is more data you want access to, please let us know.

Ongoing projects and explorations

The new impact module is part of the Positive Reinforcement project. The image displays the mockup for mobile we used for user testing.

We are continuing our work on our new project, Positive Reinforcement. User testing of initial Positive Reinforcement designs was just completed. Interviews were conducted in Arabic, English, and Spanish. The outcome has been published on the Positive Reinforcement page. We are now utilizing user testing feedback along with prior community feedback to iterate and improve designs.

We are exploring the idea of a Copy Edit structured task. We have tested copy edits in Wikipedia articles for arwiki, bnwiki, cswiki, eswiki (Growth pilot-wikis) and enwiki with two different methods: LanguageTool and Hunspell. We will share more details here and on the associated Copy Edit page once the evaluation is complete.

Add an image was utilized at GLAM events in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile. For an overview of what was learned from these events, read: #1Pic1Article I: how Latin American heritage experts added images to Wikipedia (in English).

Experiments analysis

Add a Link Experiment Analysis has been published. The most important points are:

• Newcomers who get the Add a Link structured task are more likely to be activated (i.e. make a constructive first article edit).
• They are also more likely to be retained (i.e. come back and make another constructive article edit on a different day).
• The feature also increases edit volume (i.e. the number of constructive edits made across the first couple weeks), while at the same time improving edit quality (i.e. the likelihood that the newcomer's edits aren't reverted).

Newcomer task edit type analysis has been published.

• Communities had expressed concern that newcomers whose initial edits were structured tasks wouldn’t go on to learn how to complete more difficult tasks. The Growth team data scientist conducted a Newcomer task edit type analysis to see if this was indeed the case.
• Results from analysis indicate that this likely isn’t a significant concern. More than 70% of users who start with the easy task "Add a link" also make another task type. Read the full analysis and methodology here.

News for mentors

A new system for the mentors list

The configuration of the mentors list will change over the next weeks. In the future, mentors will sign up, edit their mentor description and quit using Special:MentorDashboard. This new system will make the development of new features for mentors much easier.

At the moment, the mentor list is a simple page anyone can edit, unless it’s protected. With the new page, mentors will be able to edit only their own description, while administrators will be able to edit the entire mentors' list if needed.

The deployment will happen first at the pilot wikis, then at all wikis. Existing lists of mentors will be automatically converted, no action will be needed from the mentors. [9][10]

Mentors will be informed about the next steps soon, by a message posted on the talk page of existing Mentor lists.

Learn more about this new structured page on mediawiki.org.

A tip for mentors

Did you know that mentors can filter their mentees' changes at Special:MentorDashboard (and star the ones that require attention)? This feature helps to keep an eye on newcomers' edits, helping mentors to fix minor details, and encourage them if necessary.

And did you know that mentors have special filters to highlight their mentees' edits at Special:RecentChanges? Look for the following filters in RecentChanges: Your starred mentees, Your unstarred mentees.

Other improvements

Some improvements will be made to the mentor dashboard in the coming weeks:

• While we now offer some options for mentors to take a break, the option to quit mentoring was not easy to find. This will be improved. [11]
• Mentors at wikis using FlaggedRevisions will have a way to discover their mentees' pending edits. [12]
• Dashboard discovery for new mentors will be improved. [13]

Recent changes and fixed bugs

• We moved to a new Image Suggestions API. This new API will allow us to deploy Add an Image to more wikis. [14]
• Starting September 19, a few more wikis now offer Add an image to newcomers. These wikis are Greek Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia. [15]
• Add an image has been disabled for a few days due to technical issue. "Add an image" added a blank line instead of an image. This has been fixed. [16]
• In order to know if Special:EditGrowthConfig is used by communities, we now instrument page loads and saves of configuration. [17]

Have a question? A suggestion?

Please let us know! You can also read our FAQ page.

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17:18, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2022)

An early view of the convent in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Convent Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Heather Dubrow • Evergreen Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 26 September 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

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701		Mandiant (talk)	Add sources
409		Amy Gutmann (talk)	Add sources
16		Rosa Barba (talk)	Add sources
1,329		Jordan Ladd (talk)	Add sources
5		Sofia Kawawa (talk)	Add sources
6		Janette Toral (talk)	Add sources
1,536		Rakuten (talk)	Cleanup
626		Iowa City, Iowa (talk)	Cleanup
56		Bo Widerberg (talk)	Cleanup
6,584		Tanzania (talk)	Expand
66		Option ROM (talk)	Expand
91		Maumoon Abdul Gayoom (talk)	Expand
136		Exposure Notification (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
14		Motorola MPx200 (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,182		Digital camera (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
66		Search engine manipulation effect (talk)	Merge
10		Kinder Foundation (talk)	Merge
754		Future FIFA Club World Cup (China) (talk)	Merge
1,189		Second American Civil War (talk)	Wikify
282		Principal Financial Group (talk)	Wikify
27		Gitchie Manitou State Preserve (talk)	Wikify
5		Peter Krogh (photographer) (talk)	Orphan
3		Susana Noriega (talk)	Orphan
3		South Bond Building (talk)	Orphan
6		Killing the Chickens, to Scare the Monkeys (talk)	Stub
8		Mohamed Said (actor) (talk)	Stub
5		Mapenzi Ya Mungu (talk)	Stub
80		Eva Röse (talk)	Stub
29		PostRank (talk)	Stub
6		Satoshi Ninoyu (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2022-39

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

• Parsoid clients should be updated to allow for space-separated multi-values in the rel attribute of links. Further details are in T315209.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 September. It will be on all wikis from 29 September (calendar).
• Visual diffs will become available to all users, except at the Wiktionaries and Wikipedias. [18]
• Talk pages on the mobile site will change at the Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Korean, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. They should be easier to use and provide more information. [19] [20]
• In the Module namespace, pages ending with .json will be treated as JSON, just like they already are in the User and MediaWiki namespaces. [21]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:28, 27 September 2022 (UTC)