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Wikidata weekly summary #472

20:25, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2021)

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Alida Morberg

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Wikidata weekly summary #473

15:48, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: June 2021

This Month in Education

Volume 10 • Issue 6 • June 2021


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Editing news 2021 #2

14:12, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 June 2021

This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2021)

A Finnish Christmas ham
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Christmas ham

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Wikidata weekly summary #474

16:31, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).

Guideline and policy news

  • Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
  • An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

Technical news

  • IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

Arbitration


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This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2021)

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Organized religion

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Wikidata weekly summary #475

17:31, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2021





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This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2021)

Participant countries of the 2019 International Army Games.
  Participants
  First time participants
  Previous games participants, but not this time
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International Army Games

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Wikidata weekly summary #476

This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2021)

The Hittite version of the Treaty of Kadesh, among the earliest extant examples of an international agreement
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International law

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Wikidata weekly summary #478

The Signpost: 25 July 2021

This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2021)

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Episode

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Wikidata weekly summary #479

21:09, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 45

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 45, May – June 2021

  • Library design improvements continue
  • New partnerships
  • 1Lib1Ref update

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

Technical news

  • Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. ( T287380)

Arbitration

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This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2021)

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Organ (anatomy)

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Wikidata weekly summary #480

20:45, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: July 2021

This Month in Education

Volume 10 • Issue 7 • July 2021


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About This Month in Education · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · For the team: Romaine 19:31, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2021)

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Act (drama)

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Wikidata weekly summary #477

16:18, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2021





Headlines
  • Albania report: Collaboration with the New Vision Organization in Tirana; Summer of Wikivoyage Campaign 2021
  • Australia report: Representation and erasure: opportunities and risks that Wikipedia presents for First Nations knowledges
  • Brazil report: A wikicontest to celebrate and make visible the state of Bahia
  • India report: Rabimas proofread contest ends on Bengali Wikisource
  • New Zealand report: New Zealand holds its second Wikimedia conference, and a performing arts Wikiproject gathers steam
  • Serbia report: New chances for GLAM success
  • Sweden report: Photos of Childrens theatre
  • UK report: A Thousand Images of Islam, British Library Updates
  • USA report: Smithsonian Wiki Focus: Black Women in Food History; San Diego 73; Black Lunch Table Black artists
  • WMF GLAM report: A conversation about depicts and Structured Data on Commons
  • Calendar: August's GLAM events
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This Month in GLAM: July 2021





Headlines
  • Albania report: Collaboration with the New Vision Organization in Tirana; Summer of Wikivoyage Campaign 2021
  • Australia report: Representation and erasure: opportunities and risks that Wikipedia presents for First Nations knowledges
  • Brazil report: A wikicontest to celebrate and make visible the state of Bahia
  • India report: Rabimas proofread contest ends on Bengali Wikisource
  • New Zealand report: New Zealand holds its second Wikimedia conference, and a performing arts Wikiproject gathers steam
  • Serbia report: New chances for GLAM success
  • Sweden report: Photos of Childrens theatre
  • UK report: A Thousand Images of Islam, British Library Updates
  • USA report: Smithsonian Wiki Focus: Black Women in Food History; San Diego 73; Black Lunch Table Black artists
  • WMF GLAM report: A conversation about depicts and Structured Data on Commons
  • Calendar: August's GLAM events
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This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2021)

Crème brûlée a dessert consisting of a rich custard base topped with a layer of hardened caramelized sugar.
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This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2021)

Crème brûlée a dessert consisting of a rich custard base topped with a layer of hardened caramelized sugar.
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Crème brûlée

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Wikidata weekly summary #481

19:25, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2021)

An employee and customer at a grocery store in The Netherlands, April 1, 1955
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Grocery store

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Wikidata weekly summary #482

21:57, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Read-only reminder

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20:33, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: August 2021

This Month in Education

Volume 10 • Issue 8 • August 2021


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The Signpost: 29 August 2021

This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2021)

Mona Sahlin is a Swedish politician who was leader of the opposition and leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 2007 to 2011. Pictured is Sahlin in 2010.
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Mona Sahlin

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Wikidata weekly summary #483

15:59, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).

Administrator changes

readded Jake Wartenberg
removed EmperorViridian Bovary
renamed Ashleyyoursmile Viridian Bovary

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


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This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2021)

The past is the set of all events that occurred before a given point in time. Pictured is the oil on canvas painting Everything is in the past, painted by Vassily Maximov in 1889.
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Past

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Wikidata weekly summary #484

15:19, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: August 2021





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This week's article for improvement (week 37, 2021)

The history of art focuses on objects made by humans in visual form for aesthetic purposes. Pictured ia a dun horse from the Lascaux cave paintings.
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History of art

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Wikidata weekly summary #485

15:31, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

New Page Review queue September 2021

Hello KGirlTrucker81/Signpost,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.

Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.


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This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2021)

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Student exchange program

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Wikidata weekly summary #486

18:30, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 46

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 46, July – August 2021

  • Library design improvements deployed
  • New collections available in English and German
  • Wikimania presentation

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This Month in Education: September 2021

This Month in Education

Volume 10 • Issue 9 • September 2021


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The Signpost: 26 September 2021

This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2021)

Hello, KGirlTrucker81. The article for improvement of the week is:

No such thing as a stupid question

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Wikidata weekly summary #487

22:20, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
  • Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
  • The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

Miscellaneous

  • Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
  • The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.

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This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2021)

A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. Pictured is The Geographer (1668-69), by Johannes Vermeer.
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Geographer

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Wikidata weekly summary #488

This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2021)

Fish sauce is a liquid condiment made from fish or krill that have been coated in salt and fermented for up to two years. Pictured is Cambodian sweet fish sauce mixed with chopped chili peppers and slices of garlic.
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Fish sauce

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Wikidata weekly summary #489

This Month in GLAM: September 2021





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About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 22:33, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2021)

The Big Five personality traits is a suggested taxonomy, or grouping, for personality traits.
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Personality

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Wikidata weekly summary #490

20:52, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 43, 2021)

The Portland Building (1982) in Portland, Oregon by architect Michael Graves is an example of Postmodern architecture.
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November 2021 backlog drive

New Page Patrol | November 2021 Backlog Drive
  • On November 1, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin.
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Wikidata weekly summary #491

20:07, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: October 2021

This Month in Education

Volume 10 • Issue 10 • October 2021


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The Signpost: 31 October 2021

This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2021)

Isabel Adrian is a Swedish television personality, producer, author and model. Pictured is Adrian in 2013.
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Wikidata weekly summary #492

Administrators' newsletter – November 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).

Guideline and policy news

  • Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


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This week's article for improvement (week 45, 2021)

Hang gliding is an example of an air sport.
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Air sports

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Wikidata weekly summary #493

20:35, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 47

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 47, September – October 2021

  • On-wiki Wikipedia Library notification rolling out
  • Search tool deployed
  • New My Library design improvements

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This Month in GLAM: October 2021





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This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2021)

Dettifoss, located in northeast Iceland, is the largest waterfall in Europe in terms of volume discharge, with an average water flow of 200 m3/s.
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Geography of Iceland

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Wikidata weekly summary #494

22:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: November 2021

This Month in Education

Volume 10 • Issue 11 • November 2021


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This Month in Education: November 2021

This Month in Education

Volume 10 • Issue 11 • November 2021


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This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2021)

Wholesaling or distributing is the sale of goods or merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional or other professional business users; or to other wholesalers (wholesale businesses) and related subordinated services. Pictured is the Birmingham Wholesale Markets at 4:00 AM.
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Wikidata weekly summary #495

20:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2021)

Proposed Lazarev Sea name (at top-middle of image) as part of the Southern Ocean
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Lazarev Sea

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The Signpost: 29 November 2021

Wikidata weekly summary #496

21:13, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2021)

Bushtits eating suet, which is usable as a bird food, from a bird feeder
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Bird food

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Wikidata weekly summary #497

21:57, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).

Administrator changes

removed A TrainBerean HunterEpbr123GermanJoeSanchomMysid

Technical news

  • Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. ( T284642)
  • The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. ( T293866)

Arbitration



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This Month in GLAM: November 2021





Headlines
  • From the team: Migration from Outreach to Meta: your opinion is needed
  • France report: Study day on open content; Open content GLAM report
  • India report: Second proofread competition ended on Bengali Wikisource in collaboration with the British Library
  • Italy report: Traing course and conference in November
  • Serbia report: GLAMorous November
  • Sweden report: Art, design and history from the museums of Göteborg; Maps in the National Archives of Sweden
  • UK report: Khalili Collections
  • Ukraine report: Aricle contest for librarians «Local cultural heritage and prominent people»
  • USA report: Smithsonian demos new Wiki API Connector tool and other meetups
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Bots Newsletter, December 2021

Bots Newsletter, December 2021
BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

Our last issue was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots.

Overall

  • Between September and December 2019, there were 33 BRFAs. Of these, Green checkmarkY 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful (Dark red X symbolN2 3 denied, Blue question mark? 3 withdrawn, and Expired 2 expired).

September 2019

Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, IT'S ALIVE!
  • Green checkmarkY Monkbot 16, DannyS712 bot 60, Ahechtbot 6, PearBOT 3, Qbugbot 3 · Dark red X symbolN2 DannyS712 bot 5, PkbwcgsBot 24 · Blue question mark? DannyS712 bot 61, TheSandBot 4
  • TParis goes away, UTRSBot goes kaput: Beeblebrox noted that the bot for maintaining on-wiki records of UTRS appeals stopped working a while ago. TParis, the semi-retired user who had previously run it, said they were "unlikely to return to actively editing Wikipedia", and the bot had been vanquished by trolls submitting bogus UTRS requests on behalf of real blocked users. While OAuth was a potential fix, neither maintainer had time to implement it. TParis offered to access to the UTRS WMFLabs account to any admin identified with the WMF: "I miss you guys a whole lot [...] but I've also moved on with my life. Good luck, let me know how I can help". Ultimately, SQL ended up in charge. Some progress was made, and the bot continued to work another couple months — but as of press time, UTRSBot has not edited since November 2019.
  • Article-measuring contest resumed: The list of Wikipedians by article count, which had lain dead for several years, was triumphantly resurrected by GreenC following a bot request.

October 2019

November 2019

Now you're thinking with portals.

December 2019

In the next issue of Bots Newsletter:
What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?

  • What happens when two bots want to clerk the same page?
  • What happens when an adminbot goes hog wild?
  • Will reFill ever get fixed?
  • What's up with ListeriaBot, anyway?
  • Python 3.4 deprecation? In my PyWikiBot? (It's more likely than you think!)

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the January 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... jp× g 04:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC)


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People experiencing an adventure (close-up view)
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Goat meat being roasted as part of an asado
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Diagram of a prawn, with the carapace highlighted in red
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This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2022)

A man playing the didgeridoo, an indigenous instrument of Australia that was developed at least 1,500 years ago. This is one of the myriad topics within the history of music.
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).

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  • Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.

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  • The functionaries email list (functionaries-en@lists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.

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Reader Rabbit

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This Month in GLAM: December 2021





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This Month in GLAM: December 2021





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A NeXTstation graphics workstation from 1990
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This Month in Education: January 2022

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Social equality

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17:41, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, January 2022

Bots Newsletter, January 2022
BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever.

Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost two years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020.

Overall
In the first half of 2020, there were 71 BRFAs. Of these, Green checkmarkY 59 were approved, and 12 were unsuccessful (with Dark red X symbolN2 8 denied, Blue question mark? 2 withdrawn, and Expired 2 expired).

January 2020

A python
A python
A python
0.4 pythons
Yeah, you're not gonna be able to get away with this anymore.

February 2020

Speaking of WikiProject Molecular Biology, Listeria went wild in February

March 2020

April 2020

Listeria being examined

Issues and enquiries are typically expected to be handled on the English Wikipedia. Pages reachable via unified login, like a talk page at Commons or at Italian Wikipedia could also be acceptable [...] External sites like Phabricator or GitHub (which require separate registration or do not allow for IP comments) and email (which can compromise anonymity) can supplement on-wiki communication, but do not replace it.

May 2020

We heard you like bots, so we made a bot that reports the status of your bots, so now you can use bots while you use bots

June 2020

A partial block averted at the eleventh hour for the robot that makes Legos

Conclusion

  • What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?
  • Will Citation bot ever be set free to roam the project?
  • What's the deal with all those book links that InternetArchiveBot is adding to articles?
  • Should we keep using Gerrit for MediaWiki?
  • What if we had a day for bots to make cosmetic edits?

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the February 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... jp× g 23:22, 31 January 2022 (UTC)


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Books & Bytes – Issue 48

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 48, November – December 2021

  • 1Lib1Ref 2022
  • Wikipedia Library notifications deployed

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022

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

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The user group oversight will be renamed suppress in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
  • The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


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Joseph Lelyveld

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Cult of personality

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Isabella I of Castile in the Rimado de la Conquista de Granada, by Pedro Marcuello
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The Signpost: 27 February 2022

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Google's corporate headquarters is named Googleplex, and is also the headquarters of its parent company, Alphabet Inc.
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This Month in Education: February 2022

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2022

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First Sudanese Civil War

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This Month in GLAM: February 2022





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This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2022)

A letter is a segmental symbol of a phonemic writing system. Pictured are uppercase and lowercase Z with stroke letters.
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Letter (alphabet)

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Tomba is a drink of Sikkimese cuisine made from fermented millet: warm water is added to the millet and the liquid is consumed.
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Books & Bytes – Issue 49

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 49, January – February 2022

  • New library collections
  • Blog post published detailing technical improvements

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This Month in Education: March 2022

The Signpost: 27 March 2022

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Pumpkin pie is a dessert pie with a spiced, pumpkin-based custard filling.
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Paddle ball is a one-person game played with a paddle and an attached ball.
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2022

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

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  • Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. ( T301928)
  • When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. ( T284114)

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This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2022)

In telecommunications, broadband is wide bandwidth data transmission which transports multiple signals at a wide range of frequencies and Internet traffic types, that enables messages to be sent simultaneously, used in fast internet connections. Pictured is a chart of global bandwidth concentration: 3 countries have almost 50% between them; 10 countries almost 75%.
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