User talk:Matthewrb/Archive/2020/May

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
109	Yo Gotti discography (talk)	Add sources
453	Lisbon Airport (talk)	Add sources
16	Delhi Public School, Chandigarh (talk)	Add sources
7,801	Megan Thee Stallion (talk)	Add sources
882	Lawsuit (talk)	Add sources
679	Babybel (talk)	Add sources
51,238	2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdom (talk)	Cleanup
42	Bumba Meu Boi (talk)	Cleanup
3,591	Hell's Kitchen (American TV series) (talk)	Cleanup
10,456	2020 coronavirus pandemic in South Korea (talk)	Expand
10,935	2020 coronavirus pandemic in Romania (talk)	Expand
74	Revilo P. Oliver (talk)	Expand
18	Te Tai Tonga (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
115	Cable transport (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
239	Tamil units of measurement (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
2,826	Mike Lindell (talk)	Merge
42	Procession of the Holy Blood (talk)	Merge
439	2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida (talk)	Merge
41	New Men (Marvel Comics) (talk)	Wikify
156	Veronica Ferres (talk)	Wikify
800	Dedicado a Max (talk)	Wikify
2	Abraham S. Kay (talk)	Orphan
10	Artrix, Bromsgrove (talk)	Orphan
4	Alexander Abanov (talk)	Orphan
1,828	2020 coronavirus pandemic in the Maldives (talk)	Stub
16	Gerald Folland (talk)	Stub
554	2020 coronavirus pandemic in East Timor (talk)	Stub
4	Donga Science (talk)	Stub
8	Northumberland Rugby Football Union (talk)	Stub
10	Fierza (reservoir) (talk)	Stub

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WikiCup 2020 May newsletter

The second round of the 2020 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 75 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top ten contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 186 good articles achieved in total by contestants, and the 355 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in round 2 were:

Epicgenius, with 2333 points from one featured article, forty-five good articles, fourteen DYKs and plenty of bonus points
Gog the Mild, with 1784 points from three featured articles, eight good articles, a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews and lots of bonus points
The Rambling Man, with 1262 points from two featured articles, eight good articles and a hundred good article reviews
Harrias, with 1141 points from two featured articles, three featured lists, ten good articles, nine DYKs and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews
Lee Vilenski with 869 points, Hog Farm with 801, Kingsif with 719, SounderBruce with 710, Dunkleosteus77 with 608 and MX with 515.

The rules for featured article reviews have been adjusted; reviews may cover three aspects of the article, content, images and sources, and contestants may receive points for each of these three types of review. Please also remember the requirement to mention the WikiCup when undertaking an FAR for which you intend to claim points. Remember also that DYKs cannot be claimed until they have appeared on the main page. As we enter the third round, any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed now, and anything you forgot to claim in round 2 cannot! Remember too, that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth. - MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:44, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2020

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

Administrator changes

Gnangarra • Kaisershatner • Malcolmxl5

CheckUser changes

Callanecc

Oversight changes

HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news

Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.

Technical news

The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
Enterprisey created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.

Miscellaneous

A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Tech News: 2020-19

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

Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 5 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [1]
Some wikis will be on read-only for a few minutes on 7 May. This will also affect CentralAuth. This can for example affect global renames, password changes, changing or confirming your email address and logging in to new wikis. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [2]

Changes later this week

You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can soon turn these notifications off for individual pages. [3]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 May. It will be on all wikis from 7 May (calendar).

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16:59, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
1,058	International recognition of Kosovo (talk)	Add sources
192	Correlation function (talk)	Add sources
1,654	Coat of arms (talk)	Add sources
49	Monserrate & DJ Urba (talk)	Add sources
137	Yuen Kwok-yung (talk)	Add sources
17,818	Tedros Adhanom (talk)	Add sources
34	Ani-Men (talk)	Cleanup
90	Sayyida Nafisa (talk)	Cleanup
654	Future discography (talk)	Cleanup
56	Elections in Croatia (talk)	Expand
233	Oakland University (talk)	Expand
69	Guan Yi (talk)	Expand
76	Absolute scale (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
11,316	2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
9	Paleo Trikeri (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
489	NHS COVID-19 critical care hospitals (talk)	Merge
3,486	COVID-19 apps (talk)	Merge
79	Crux simplex (talk)	Merge
44	Sentry (Kree) (talk)	Wikify
368	The Highwomen (album) (talk)	Wikify
191	Anerood Jugnauth (talk)	Wikify
166	Telugu years (talk)	Orphan
2	Abol Hussein Tanhai (talk)	Orphan
2	Abdullah Al-Oraimi (talk)	Orphan
16	Goljak (talk)	Stub
48	Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang (talk)	Stub
403	Scientific Reports (talk)	Stub
7	Bete Grise (talk)	Stub
30	The Servile State (talk)	Stub
16	Ranilug (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2020-20

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

Everyone can now import photos from Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr. [4]

Problems

Commons will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [5]
Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [6][7]

Changes later this week

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

Future changes

JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer check multiple keys at once via mw.config.exists() or mw.user.tokens.exists(). You can use exists() or get() to check one at a time instead. [8]

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20:41, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
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1,797	Zhong Nanshan (talk)	Add sources
17	William Longespée the Younger (talk)	Add sources
3	Wallsend RUFC (talk)	Add sources
188	History of professional wrestling (talk)	Add sources
21	Batlava Lake (talk)	Add sources
5,726	COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore (talk)	Cleanup
11,958	Tom Brady (talk)	Cleanup
183	Motorized scooter (talk)	Cleanup
528	Shincheonji Church of Jesus (talk)	Expand
68	Future developments in Singapore (talk)	Expand
2,416	A Boogie wit da Hoodie (talk)	Expand
280	Chris Collins (American politician) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
6,459	COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
11	Coalition of People's Accord (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
129	Achievement (heraldry) (talk)	Merge
440	COVID-19 pandemic in South Asia (talk)	Merge
2,521	COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand (talk)	Merge
18	Sabbas the Goth (talk)	Wikify
5,761	Kali Yuga (talk)	Wikify
25	Football at the 2018 Asian Games – Men's team squads (talk)	Wikify
3	St Hilda's East Community Centre (talk)	Orphan
5	Wat Pa Ban Tat (talk)	Orphan
6	Sabine Rollberg (talk)	Orphan
320	Fang Fang (talk)	Stub
2,438	Godspeed (character) (talk)	Stub
248	Chen Shih-chung (talk)	Stub
5	Bernhausen (talk)	Stub
27	Skopska Crna Gora (talk)	Stub
561	Tay Keith (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2020-21

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

If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You can choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This is a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. This is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. [9][10]

Problems

There is a bug that creates problems for iPhone users with iOS 13 and Safari. If you use an iPhone to read or edit Wikipedia and see bugs on the mobile site you can report them. [11]
Several wikis including Wikidata will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [12][13]

Changes later this week

The Wikipedia app for Android can let users add depicts on Commons. The beta version used computer-aided tagging. This was removed to get more specific depicts. [14]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

Graphs will be rendered in the reader's browser. This will use Javascript. Graphs will hopefully work better for everyone who uses Javascript. It will not work for users who don't use Javascript. This will not affect diagrams in image files. [15]
Some CSS for the skins has been simplified. This affects div#p-personal, div#p-navigation, div#p-interaction, div#p-tb, div#p-lang, div#p-namespaces, div#p-variants and div#footer. They will have to remove div. You will have to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. This is so we can use HTML5. [16]
Some CSS for the Vector skin has been changed. This affects #p-variants, #p-namespaces, #p-personal, #p-views and #p-cactions. They can no longer use > ul. You might need to update your gadgets, scripts or user styles. See how.

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17:19, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Title	Tagged with…
4	South Carolina Highway 174 (talk)	Add sources
40	Rock Sound (talk)	Add sources
5,556	Cock and ball torture (talk)	Add sources
310	Lion (heraldry) (talk)	Add sources
929	XXXTentacion discography (talk)	Add sources
73	Seville Airport (talk)	Add sources
447	CuriosityStream (talk)	Cleanup
17	71st Cavalry Regiment (talk)	Cleanup
3,118	Joyner Lucas (talk)	Cleanup
12	Hashem Aghajari (talk)	Expand
190	Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (talk)	Expand
6	Redcar Rugby Union Football Club (talk)	Expand
13	Frano Supilo (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
11	Hojjatieh (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
46	Route of the Lincoln Highway (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,292	Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic (talk)	Merge
62	COVID-19 pandemic in Nonthaburi Province (talk)	Merge
138	COVID-19 hospitals in the United Kingdom (talk)	Merge
58	Sociology of terrorism (talk)	Wikify
92	Personal narrative (talk)	Wikify
225	Iridium Communications (talk)	Wikify
6	BURS (talk)	Orphan
2	Aurelius Dwight Parker (talk)	Orphan
3	Aslinger Branch (talk)	Orphan
1,054	COVID-19 pandemic in the Maldives (talk)	Stub
104	MCID (talk)	Stub
19	Palacio de los Deportes Virgilio Travieso Soto (talk)	Stub
7	John Todd (British biologist) (talk)	Stub
70	Xie Linka (talk)	Stub
8	Medicals RFC (talk)	Stub

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Tech News: 2020-22

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Changes later this week

The visual editor will now work in the Modern skin. The changes that needed to happen for this to work could cause problems for some scripts or gadgets. [17]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 26. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 27. It will be on all wikis from May 28 (calendar).

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14:18, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Articles for Creation: List of reviewers by subject notice

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2,790	Theresa Tam (talk)	Add sources
3,036	COVID-19 pandemic in Qatar (talk)	Add sources
40	Ko Panyi (talk)	Add sources
143	Lúthien and Beren (talk)	Add sources
6	Rosario Ustáriz Borra (talk)	Add sources
34	Up-Front Group (talk)	Add sources
4	Extension transference (talk)	Cleanup
53	Matthew Koma discography (talk)	Cleanup
16,087	COVID-19 pandemic in Uttar Pradesh (talk)	Cleanup
7	Forward Operating Base Iskandariyah (talk)	Expand
1,695	Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (talk)	Expand
909	COVID-19 pandemic in Oceania (talk)	Expand
3,415	Rio de Janeiro (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
106	Alicante–Elche Airport (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
4,021	COVID-19 pandemic in Iran (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
5,091	Coronavirus recession (talk)	Merge
13,255	COVID-19 pandemic in Maharashtra (talk)	Merge
418	Development of the Christian biblical canon (talk)	Merge
73	1st Raider/Paratrooper Brigade (Greece) (talk)	Wikify
3	Association House High School (talk)	Wikify
341	Islam and other religions (talk)	Wikify
2	Puerto Rican heraldry (talk)	Orphan
7	Affad 23 (talk)	Orphan
2	Albert Tye (talk)	Orphan
6	Mike Hennigan (talk)	Stub
8	Ajaan Suwat Suvaco (talk)	Stub
12	Erenik (talk)	Stub
562	COVID-19 pandemic in East Timor (talk)	Stub
149	Still Flexin, Still Steppin (talk)	Stub
3	Gilbert Carson (politician) (talk)	Stub

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