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This Month in GLAM: November 2017



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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2017).

Administrator changes

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  • Over the last few months, several users have reported backlogs that require administrator attention at WP:ANI, with the most common backlogs showing up on WP:SPI, WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. It is requested that all administrators take some time during this month to help clear backlogs wherever possible. It should be noted that AIV reports are not always valid; however, they still need to be cleared, which may include needing to remind users on what qualifies as vandalism.
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Wikidata weekly summary #290

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Tech News: 2017-50

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17:58, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you

I apologise if this is a form of canvassing but it is in my mind more like counselling. I eppreciate the support you have given to date and so I'm now crying on your shoulder about the current rash of AfDs targeting my bios. As is quite obvious my area of interest is a school and its alumni and staff. I have no commercial interest in the subject and even if my entries are of borderline notability they are not trivial or even controversial. I'm very tired of the attack by one suspicious contributor who has done this all before in 2007 under a different guise. What really distresses me is the following that person has of two or three editors who seem to delight in tearing me down. In one case, where the subject is the long dead head of another school, it all comes down to this erroneous belief that a headmaster has no notibilty on Wikipedia. As for the hatred of mayors, public servants, all national instructions, and Australian and Imperial honours I dispair. Sorry to bother you but I'm feeling battered, bruised and sorry for myself. On a practical level what can be done to at least have these deletion discussions listed in the right category. Thanks again. Castlemate (talk) 22:05, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

@Castlemate: To answer your last question first; see Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting. I'm sure this must be frustrating for you, and I do sympathise. Still, it seems likely that many of the articles will be kept. Any that are deleted can always be restyored, if and when new material, reinforcing their notability, comes to light. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:12, 7 December 2017 (UTC)


@Pigsonthewing: I really appreciate your clearheaded support as I am rattled. As of the latest comment on Aubrey Murphy (mayor) I now see 'more notable' has become a requirement. With Sandy Phillips we are now being asked to delete based on my arguments for delete. Castlemate (talk) 20:01, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

  • Having posted a photo of Murphy and the Queen today he has been deleted. I suppose the rationale for that will be "every MBE and mayor hangs out with the monarch". Now Sandy Phillips has gone. The administrator who has listed them in incorrect categories is the person who has closed them. Given the extraordinary personal attacks and institutional attacks I give up! Castlemate (talk) 07:18, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for your support but I give up. The comments of the last few days suggest I am in the wrong community. I can't be bothered any more to deal with the attitude inherent in this attack. CheersCastlemate (talk) 18:48, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter

Hello Pigsonthewing, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update:

  • The new page backlog is currently at 12713 pages. Please consider reviewing even just a few pages each day! If everyone helps out, it will really put a dent in the backlog.
  • Currently the backlog stretches back to March and some pages in the backlog have passed the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing some of them!

Outreach and Invitations:

  • If you know other editors with a good understanding of Wikipedia policy, invite them to join NPP by dropping the invitation template on their talk page with: {{subst:NPR invite}}. Adding more qualified reviewers will help with keeping the backlog manageable.

New Year New Page Review Drive

  • A backlog drive is planned for the start of the year, beginning on January 1st and running until the end of the month. Unique prizes will be given in tiers for both the total number of reviews made, as well as the longest 'streak' maintained.
  • Note: quality reviewing is extremely important, please do not sacrifice quality for quantity.

General project update:

  • ACTRIAL has resulted in a significant increase in the quality of new submissions, with noticeably fewer CSD, PROD, and BLPPROD candidates in the new page feed. However, the majority of the backlog still dates back to before ACTRIAL started, so consider reviewing articles from the middle or back of the backlog.
  • The NPP Browser can help you quickly find articles with topics that you prefer to review from within the backlog.
  • To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

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Books and Bytes - Issue 25

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Tech News: 2017-51

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 8 January 2018.

Problems

  • When you import a page from another wiki the usernames of the users who edited the article on the wiki you imported it from are shown in the article history. This should link to the users on the original wiki. A script to fix this caused problems for Wikidata and German Wikipedia. It also created a large number of SUL accounts on wikis where editors had never edited. [6]
  • Some bot owners got email about their bots logging in from a new computer. If this is from one or a couple of wikis, you can turn these messages off in your preferences on those wikis until the problem has been solved. If not, you can report more about the problem in Phabricator.

Changes later this week

  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week. There will be no new MediaWiki version next week either.

Meetings

  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 19 December at 19:30 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:27, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #291

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Additional languages for monolingual values got approved by the language committee: ami (Amis), bnn (Bunun), fos (Siraya), ppu (Papora / Hoanya), pwn (Paiwan), pyu (Puyuma), ssf (Thao), trv (Seediq / Taroko), uun (Pazeh) (see gerrit:374052, phab:T144272)
    • More work on caching constraint results so we can enable the constraints checks for all logged-in users by default
    • Fixed a bug when edit links showed up in diff views (phabricator:T181807)
    • Final step towards being able to store statements on Forms of a Lexeme
    • Disabled RDF support for Lexemes as the mapping isn't defined yet (phabricator:T182660)
    • Adding some more smart tracking for Lua usage so we better know which properties from an item are used on a Wikipedia article even when the whole item is loaded (phabricator:T179923)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

Project Life

Maybe we should start "WP:Project Life" so that we can add a flower onto the Talk page of every new article that doesn't involve any deaths? It all looks a bit juvenile, doesn't it? Martinevans123 (talk) 12:23, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

I'm concentrating now more on WP:Project Billy-no-mates, for dead decapitees (especially Argentine pirates, of course). Martinevans123 (talk) 23:08, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
Precious
Five years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:11, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Martin, nice to see that the very day I picked a flower per month for a 2018 calender. friendly vision. - Andy, it's five years that you helped me, making me understand and joining me in missing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:11, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Coords precision

Six decimal positions is far too precise for this case, per WP:COORDPREC. Please self-revert. ―Mandruss ☎ 20:41, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Six DP is fine. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:49, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Berg operas

Template:Berg operas has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Frietjes (talk) 18:45, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #292

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Due to the Christmas and New Year's Eve holidays, no deployment will happen before January 3rd.
    • Monolingual language codes for Old French (fro) and Middle French (frm) added (phabricator:T181823)
    • Finishing touches on storing statements on Forms
    • No longer checking constraints on the property example statements (phabricator:T183267)
    • More work on caching constraint check results so we can roll out constraint checking for all logged in users

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Adam Chowaniec

I have taken care of this AfC move for you. Let me know how well I did and if I am missing any other important information about this subject, like what other WikiProjects it belongs to or what other categories can be included. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk • contribs) 03:01, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for supporting the Sustainability Initiative!

Hi Andy, thank you for supporting the Sustainability Initiative! It really helps in our discussions with WMF staff to be able to show that many community members support this – so I'd really appreciate it if you could motivate some of your Wikifriends to sign as well :-) Thanks again, --Gnom (talk) 11:58, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

New Years new page backlog drive

Hello Pigsonthewing, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Announcing the NPP New Year Backlog Drive!

We have done amazing work so far in December to reduce the New Pages Feed backlog by over 3000 articles! Now is the time to capitalise on our momentum and help eliminate the backlog!

The backlog drive will begin on January 1st and run until January 29th. Prize tiers and other info can be found HERE.

Awards will be given in tiers in two categories:

  • The total number of reviews completed for the month.
  • The minimum weekly total maintained for all four weeks of the backlog drive.

NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

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AfD for Windy Corner, Isle of Man

Re: your suggestion, I did advise the admin who closed the original RfD. Perhaps PP is next? Atsme📞📧 00:03, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

It is requested that the page history of Draft:Christ Episcopal School be merged into the history

Information icon Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Draft:Christ Episcopal School a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Christ Episcopal School. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge. Thank you. John.sterling (talk) 17:59, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

I very much appreciate the help.

@John.sterling: I presume you left this here in error. What did you mean to say? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:48, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Invoke Malaysia

Please remember to do a copyright violation check when reviewing at AfC; indeed, it's the first thing you should check (Quick-fail criterion 1). You just accepted Invoke Malaysia, which copied from 14 different online sources. (Also, some of the language—"The ones that we’ll be referring to", "But does that mean things are looking good for BN? Maybe, but this survey also showed something that may worry BN", "Rafizi Ramli had collected a whopping RM1,585,014.49", "A former aide to US president Barack Obama has been roped in"—was inappropriate for a Wikipedia article, but that's a secondary concern.) You can use Earwig's Copyvio Detector to look for text matches or browse CopyPatrol to see if the draft is listed as an open case. Those tools don't always catch all the violations (although Earwig's tool did catch 13 of the 14 in Invoke Malaysia), so make sure to supplement with random Google searches, and use archive.org to check whether the text existed elsewhere before it was added to Wikipedia. /wiae /tlk 20:53, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

If it's "the first thing you should check", I suggest you direct your comments to the two AfC regulars who reviewed the article before I did. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:58, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
I'm more than happy to follow up with them too, but the point stands. Please remember to do a copyright check on all articles you review. Thanks. /wiae /tlk 21:00, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
whoosh. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:01, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
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