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Wikidata weekly summary #310

Administrators' newsletter – May 2018

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

Administrator changes

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removed ChochopkCoffeeGryffindorJimpKnowledge SeekerLankiveilPeridonRjd0060

Guideline and policy news

  • The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
  • A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

  • AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
  • When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
  • The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
  • There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

Obituaries

  • Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

This Month in Education: April 2018

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Volume 7 | Issue 4 | April 2018

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Wikimedia at the Open Educational Resources Conference 2018

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Global perspectives from Western Norway

Togh's WikiClub: Wikipedia is the 8th wonder of the world!

Aboriginal Volunteers in Taiwan Shared Experience about Incubating Minority Language Wikipedia in Education Magazine

Workshops with Wiki Clubs members in the Republic of Macedonia

Celebrating Book's Day in the University of the Basque Country: is Wikipedia the largest Basque language book?

Txikipedia is born and you'll love it

Students Write Wiktionary

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Presenting the Wikipedia Education Program at the Open Education Global Conference

Thank you, Mike!

The Purple Barnstar
For your exceptional hard work and dedication in trying to get Wikipedia out of the stone age, while having to face so much pressure along the way. Thank you! Rehman 03:46, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

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Move request

Good day to you. Thank you for performing the Aldwych bus bombing move. There is another article that also needs a renaming (should be non-controversial): Earls Court Exhibition Centre > Earl's Court Exhibition Centre. The official name is Earl's with an apostrophe. The latter redirects to the current article name. Are you able to move this please? --Gateshead001 (talk) 17:49, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

@Gateshead001:  Done. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:23, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
You know that the "official website" at http://www.eco.co.uk/ refers to it as "Earls Court" as do most of the Google hits? I would have recommended WP:RM. --RexxS (talk) 19:31, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
It looks like @Evangp: moved it back. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:18, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
Apologies, it does seem indeed that "Earls Court" is the correct name. I thought an apostrophe was missing as the area name has it, and just thought it was a small error hence why I thought it was not controversial. Confusingly, the article has both the names with and without apostrophes mentioned. --Gateshead001 (talk) 22:29, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #313

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Wikidata weekly summary #314

Administrators' newsletter – June 2018

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

Administrator changes

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removed Al Ameer sonAliveFreeHappyCenariumLupoMichaelBillington

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in June. This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
  • The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page.
  • There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
  • It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.

Arbitration

  • A recent technical issue with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.

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