Jump to content

User talk:Mike Peel/Archive 49

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Archive 45Archive 47Archive 48Archive 49Archive 50Archive 51Archive 55

Administrators' newsletter – October 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

Technical news

  • As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.

Wikidata weekly summary #385

This Month in GLAM: September 2019





Headlines
  • Colombia report: The GLAM team from Wikimedia Colombia in OpenConLatAm
  • Finland report: Photographs and events
  • France report: European Heritage Days
  • Indonesia report: Image donation by Indonesian Air Force
  • Italy report: Wikimedia Italia Summer School
  • Sweden report: Open cultural heritage; More libraries in Africa on Wikidata; Global MIL Week 2019 Feature Conference; Kulturhistoria som gymnasiearbete; Wiki Loves Monuments
  • UK report: Oxford, Khalili Collections and Endangered Archives
  • USA report: Hispanic Heritage and Disability Awareness Month
  • Special story: Help the Movement Learn about Content Campaigns & Supporting newcomers in Wikidata training courses!
  • Wikidata report: Tie a knot in your handkerchief
  • WMF GLAM report: GLAM Manager Role Announced!
  • Calendar: October's GLAM events
Read this edition in fullSingle-page

To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Wikidata weekly summary #386

{{commonscat}}

Great work on migrating pages to the correct sub pages, however if the wikipedia and wikimedia page names match, it is better to not add the page name as an argument - aside from being shorter, should the page ever be renamed, it automatically updates the link, which then triggers an alert that the two pages no longer have matching names, in case a page mover forgets to move both pages. - NiD.29 (talk) 00:00, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

@NiD.29: The template uses Wikidata to provide/confirm the correct links to Commons. I'd much prefer to not set the page name as a parameter in the template in general, so that it just uses the sitelink from Wikidata (which automatically updates when Commons categories are moved), but there isn't a consensus on that yet. In most cases I'm using a manually-operated Python script to update the link (a derivative of the script that User:Pi bot automatically runs), so it's easy enough to add the new link, although that may then have to be updated again in the future. When I'm not using the script to correct the link, though, I tend to leave off the parameter. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 16:50, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #387

Wikidata weekly summary #388 & Wikidata Birthday

The Signpost: 31 October 2019

Administrators' newsletter – November 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Guideline and policy news

  • A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

Arbitration


Wikidata weekly summary #389

Wikidata weekly summary #390

This Month in GLAM: October 2019





Headlines
Read this edition in fullSingle-page

To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.