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I didn't understand that it was due to a template, I learnt that 24 hours after thanks to an explanation given to me at the talk page of the article. Either someone is entirely banned of wiki for a certain time, either they are not; or why they are just not allowed to add any comment on a talk page. A refusal of editing (when there was no problem when editing on those articles) goes against freedom of speech. Iennes ( talk) 07:19, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
New year, new scripts. Welcome to the 23rd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering around 39% of our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. That’s right, we haven’t published in two years! Can you believe it? Did you miss us?
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Due to budget and procrastination limitations, we've only had time to review the first ~39% of the scripts since last issue. Help us out here! Aaron Liu ( talk) 13:24, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
I spoke to you about this a couple of weeks ago. See User talk:Irtapil # Notice of Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard discussion. That thing is resolved, but I want to avoid getting in trouble in future, while also not getting paranoid in ways that make editing more difficult unnecessarily.
The way the person who complained about me was counting the reverts seemed unfair.
I had made a few saves while editing the page, refining my own previous edits. As far as I could tell, nobody was undoing my work in between. To me this seems like it should count as just one revert? The revert thing is supposed to stop edit wars, so modifying my own previous stuff doesn't seem relevant?
But the person who complained pointed to different steps of my edit and called them separate "reverts" (in at least one of those cases the resemblance was coincidental matching to a version I had never seen, but we already covered that not counting).
The way this comes up is, on a couple of pages I'm working on, it looks like a lot of content has been removed, and I think some should be restored.
Without the revert rule, the sensible careful way to do that, which would cause the least problems to other editors, would be to re-add the missing stuff carefully a tiny bit at a time. Checking as I go to make sure the references are good enough, checking the other pages that it links to are right, etc.
It would be easiest to save as I go, for each sentence or table row or other unit of content that seems worthy of restoring. But by the definition the complainant used, this is numerous separate "reverts" and thus forbidden? But this doesn't seem like the point of that role?
I could copy the articles to my user space, carefully re-add things there, and then copy paste my user space version over the live version as one giant mega revert. But for a page that's fairly active, that would mean having to carefully avoid over-writing edits that happened while I was working on it in my user space. Re-integrating the versions seems like creating an extra headache, which might not even be needed if the complainant counting my "save as you go" edits as separate reverts was not the way the rule is supposed to work?
You seemed to have fair and balanced stance on it, so you seemed like a good person to ask.
Irtapil ( talk) 04:57, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
A series of consecutively saved reverting edits by one user, with no intervening edits by another user, counts as one revert.(at WP:3RR), which makes sense. But if there are intervening edits, how would you distinguish someone making one revert split across multiple edits, or making multiple reverts? The point of WP:3RR or WP:1RR is to be an easy to enforce bright-line rule, so the definition of revert has to be as clear as possible. Galobtter ( talk) 18:53, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
Please don't revert the comments of the minority opposition in an RFA. I have reverted your action there. Lightburst ( talk) 03:01, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
What happened to " pingó mió"? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 09:17, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
This link is the same as the DOI already linked in the citation (minus the tracking token). WhatamIdoing ( talk) 04:26, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
For all journals included in SharedIt, on the webpages of research articles to which your organisation has subscription access, logged-in individuals will see a ‘Share’ or ‘Share article’ option..., so not sure which organization belongs to that tracking ID inside that URL Link to that document, and I'm not sure if's belongs to WikiMedia foundation, otherwise that would probably be freeloading from another organization without their permission. --- Cat12zu3 ( talk) 03:13, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
I've changed my settings, please unblock me, thank you. Kanashimi ( talk) 21:40, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
Galobtter: are you willing to have a look at Draft Art Venegas and guide me on what has been classified as unreliable sources? OLYMPICHAMMER ( talk) 02:27, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi. Per your close of Talk:Israel–Hamas war#Requested move 12 January 2024, I've moved all other pages bearing the title "2023 Israel–Hamas war" to "Israel–Hamas war" except for this one, since it's move-protected. Can you please move it to List of engagements during the Israel–Hamas war? You can delete the temporary redirect I created there. Thanks. InfiniteNexus ( talk) 23:30, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
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February 21: WikiWednesday Salon @ Prime Produce | |
WikiWednesday is back this month! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, with an online-based participation option also available. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person, you should be vaccinated and be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Meeting info:
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-- Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 14:14, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
What is the status of Salandarianflag's topic ban? If it's still active, this edit looks like a topic ban violation. Maybe they need another reminder. Sean.hoyland ( talk) 11:30, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi. Me being curious: the Palestinians have had a state declared twice, once by the PLO from Tunisia in the 80s, I believe, and once recently, by the PA, with many, many countries recognising it, but not those who arguably matter most, Israel (the occupier), the US + UK + France (UN SC veto), Germany and most if not all of the EU states. That means: no matter what one wishes for, a State of Palestine doesn't exist, not de facto, and arguably de jure either. Claiming they have one can be somewhere between a joke in poor taste & counterproductive: so what's then the struggle all about.?
So, that being said: how does it make sense to place the illegal Israeli settlement of Beit El in "Country: Palestine", with a nice little flag and all? 'Cause making sense should matter. I'm not talking about stopping or blocking disruptive microstate fans who mistake Wiki for their own private sandbox. I mean making sense and informing the user - the only justification we're sticking around here for.
We have several options: Palestinian territories, Israeli-occupied territories, just West Bank, Area B (or ist it C?) come to mind. I'm certainly not the type to suggest Judea and Samaria, except for indicating the de facto, illegal, Israeli admin. district actually taking care of their needs (the occupation has its territorial tools).
Thank you for clarifying this big question, which never stopped stunning me. It's a 100% honest question. So thanks and keep up the good work! Arminden ( talk) 23:45, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
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-- Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 06:30, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello Galobtter,
You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Conflict of interest management. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Conflict of interest management/Evidence. Please add your evidence by March 20, 2024, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Conflict of interest management/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration.
For the Arbitration Committee,
~ ToBeFree (
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March 16: Queens Name Explorer @ QPL Tech Lab | |
You are also invited to the Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Queens Name Explorer edit-a-thon at the Queens Public Library Tech Lab in Long Island City, which will be hosted in collaboration OpenStreetMap US, Urban Archive and the Queens Memory Project. This is an opportunity for the tech savvy to learn about Queens history and for the history savvy to hone their open data skills – plus, there will be refreshments and prizes for everyone! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person, you should be vaccinated and be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate. Meeting info:
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-- Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 22:59, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:
To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron ( talk • she/her), via:
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 10:53, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) § AI for WP guidelines/ policies. ExclusiveEditor Notify Me! 09:47, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
@ Galobtter, I noticed that you granted perms to a user named Otuọcha on March 4th, 2024.
I have decided to reach out anonymously due to the controversial aspect of this request, but I am asking that you seriously reconsider and investigate this user.
Their edit history indicates that they have made over 4,700 edits in the span of two months, and further the edits show classic signs of gaming Wikipedia's edit system.
1. This "new user" immediately demonstrated knowledge of how to use tools on wikipedia as well as policies. For instance using XFD Closer, Draft moving, and ONE DAY after creating his account, he voted in an AfD with a diff that reads "The page in question clearly did not show any sign of notability. No notable alumni or any significant achievement as a school. Simple put that it fails WP: ORG." This "new user" is not new to Wikipedia at all.
2. The user engages in frequent draftification, tagging, and deletion nominations-- activities that experienced editors typically engage in..
3. This user's edit history indicate frequent periods of a rapid successions of edits. From early edits up until recent, the user has engaged in segmented editing to increase number of edits per subject.
I am also going to tag DanCherek who pointed out edits that were made to game the system on the users talk page.
There is also an SPI that was submitted against the user: /info/en/?search=Wikipedia_talk:Sockpuppet_investigations/Otu%E1%BB%8Dcha 172.58.231.31 ( talk) 04:23, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
Ramkripalyadvg Can you create a page and add it to Wikipedia You can get the material from here Draft:Ramkripalyadavge Muskang375 ( talk) 03:52, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).
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April 11: City Tech Library LGBTQIA edit-a-thon | |
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-- Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 06:13, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello, hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend. Messaging you to see if there was any chance your "articles/pages by lint count" bot reports could ignore the new "night-mode-unaware-background-color" non-lint tracking "category" like you did (I assume) for the similar non-lint tracking annoyance category, "Large Tables"? Articles by lint has gotten a bit too fluffy with all top 1000 pages reporting a solid 22+ errors, when they actually only have at most, 2 missing end tags, or are any fresh catches of the day with other errors/more than 2 errors. Same with pages by lint count, but those were still a healthy 42+ errors, so those displaying here are still easy to know which need addressing. Thanks for considering,
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/info/en/?search=Special:LintErrors?titlesearch=User_talk::Master_of_Puppets/Talk/Archive/Archive20&exactmatch=1
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:LintErrors&wpNamespaceRestrictions=3&titlesearch=Master+of+Puppets%2FTalk%2FArchive%2FArchive20&exactmatch=1
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