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The Signpost: 26 June 2022

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Tech News: 2022-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Wikimedia Enterprise API service now has self-service accounts with free on-demand requests and monthly snapshots (API documentation). Community access via database dumps & Wikimedia Cloud Services continues.
• All Wikimedia wikis can now use Wikidata Lexemes in Lua after creating local modules and templates. Discussions are welcome on the project talk page.

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all wikis from 30 June (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 28 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [1]
• Some global and cross-wiki services will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 30 June at 06:00 UTC. This will impact ContentTranslation, Echo, StructuredDiscussions, Growth experiments and a few more services. [2]
• Users will be able to sort columns within sortable tables in the mobile skin. [3]

Future meetings

• The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (28 June). The following meetings will take place on 12 July and 26 July.

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20:01, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

Copyright for a pop song

Hello, I left a question about a possible copyright violation on Talk:A Hundred Years from Today. I don’t know how things work in this wiki, I saw that you contribute to the pop music portal and are an admin. Can you help, please? Huñvreüs (talk) 15:38, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

@Huñvreüs:

I have replied at Talk:A Hundred Years from Today.

North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:52, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Draft:Project X-Traction

Hello, Northamerica1000,

If you restore a page at WP:REFUND that was deleted for being an expired draft, you need to make a minor edit to the page or it immediately will be eligible again for CSD G13 deletion again which is what happened with this page. If you use the script, User:SD0001/RFUD-helper, to restore pages, it will make this edit for you. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:09, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi Liz: Thanks very much for the heads up. I restored the draft using the script. I've never encountered this problem before, and there's virtually no information anywhere about manually resetting the draft timestamp. The Template:Draft article has zero information about resetting the time stamp that I could find. Am I missing something? There's a note at Template:Db-g13, stating "Bot" edits do not affect the G13 timer." However, that template was not in place when I restored the draft. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:21, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2022)

These flaming cocktails illustrate that some liquors can readily catch fire and burn. Hello, Northamerica1000. The article for improvement of the week is: Liquor Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Pork tenderloin • Bulletproofing Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 27 June 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Deletion review for Alberger process

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Alberger process. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:12, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

Deep fried egg

NA1000, I really don't get it. You are going for something that's not there. There's nothing inherently more special about deep frying eggs, and, more importantly, your source didn't say the things you wanted it to say. This is really silly and I strongly urge you not to pursue this. And "Give me time to actually finish my work on the article, before reverting instantly"--come on now. That's nonsense and you know it. Drmies (talk) 00:58, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

In your edit summary, you stated, "No. p. 286 of that book says NOTHING like "quite dangerous" (diff). The verification is here, on page 287, not on page 286. I have since updated the page numbers for this source in the article as "pages=286-287" (diff). Also, here it states that adding the eggs directly into the hot oil "can be rather dangerous". I used the word "quite" to naturally avoid close paraphrasing. I have since added the direct "rather dangerous" quote, because for this dish, it can truly be "rather dangerous" to prepare. Also, while you may not like this topic, it is quite difficult to expand a brand new article when someone comes along erasing content while it is still being worked on. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:12, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

The problem isn't that I don't like it (whatever "it" may be--but nice try), the problem is that you like it too much--and by "it" I mean turning little things into huge things. You've been doing "brand new articles" like this for years now. Are you pretending that deep-frying an egg is somehow more dangerous than making french fries? Why not explain in every single relevant article that boiling things in water is dangerous? Boiling water is much more dangerous than hot oil, you know. Drmies (talk) 01:22, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

The article is based upon what reliable sources state about the topic. This is not included in the article, but posting here: "The water content of eggs is relatively constant (on average 74%); egg white contains more (about 88%), whilst egg yolk contains less (about 49%)." North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:49, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

Eggs contain significant amounts of water, but perhaps not enough to eject a plume of fire to the ceiling when added
to deep hot oil. Regardless, the water content can cause hot oil to significantly erupt and splatter.

• 
  Oil is heated strongly
• 
  eventually reaching ignition point
• 
  Pouring a very small amount of water into the fire ejects a plume of fire
• 
  which rises and spreads against the ceiling

References

This Is It (Jack Ingram album)

Find me one GA-class or FA-class article that has the singles charts within the article itself. I was unable to find any. Most album articles don't include the singles charts at all, so there's a very strong consensus not to include them. Does 1989 (Taylor Swift album) have the singles charts? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 01:34, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

@TenPoundHammer: I did miss that the singles were in the infobox in the This Is It (Jack Ingram album) article. That said, your mass removals of content from articles is coming across as vandalism at this time. You have been removing Singles information from articles per your own subjective opinion that they're somehow not needed, using ambiguous and even oblique edit summaries simply stating "no" and "no singles". You are making up your own rules here for their removal, stating there's "...consensus not to include them".

However, the Singles section has been in place in the article for over a decade, since 5 July 2011 (UTC) (diff), so actually, the longstanding implied consensus is for the Singles information to be present there, not omitted. In an edit summary you left for this article, you stated, "WP:MOSALBUM says nothing about adding singles tables" (diff), but this is a straw man, because 1) WP:MOSALBUM also says nothing about omitting singles information and 2) WP:MOSALBUM is an opinion essay; it is not a policy or guideline.

At the present Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Conduct in deletion-related editing/Evidence page, several users have questioned your motives lately in matters regarding deletion as well as blanking and redirecting content (example link), and your removal of singles content is a similar behavior; you're erasing content that you subjectively don't like, for whatever reasons. If you don't want singles information in articles, then you should start an RfC about it and obtain community input, rather than unilaterally and arbitrarily erasing it from articles. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 05:12, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

• The edit history shows [4] TenPoundHammer has removed the content four times in a row. So this does count as edit warring. Dream Focus 12:44, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

@Dream Focus: Yeah, I noticed that before, but the reversions did not all occur within 24 hours. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 19:15, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

• @TenPoundHammer: A total of three editors (Donaldd23, Dream Focus and myself) have now reverted you erasure of singles content at This Is It (Jack Ingram album). The latest reversion of your erasure performed by Donaldd23, came with an edit summary stating, "Chart positions aren't in the inbox. MSALBUM says NOTHING about singles being listed in the album article" (diff).

It is clear at this time that the consensus for this article is for the singles content, including the chart positions, to stay in place. Please stop unilaterally erasing content that you don't like from Wikipedia articles. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 19:19, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

There are still thousands of other articles that do not have it, so the consensus is clearly in my favor. Should we file an RFC on this? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 20:24, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

• @TenPoundHammer: I find your logic to be a rather backwards in terms of Wikipedia's purpose to provide complete, comprehensive information to the public, and also regarding the building an encyclopedia; essentially a syllogism of sorts. Some articles are incomplete and need to be expanded. However, that does not mean that the consensus is for more developed articles to be dumbed down based upon the condition of inferior articles. For example, there are thousands of film articles that lack a Reception section. According to your logic, then the Reception sections in film articles that have one should therefore be removed from those articles, because thousands don't. It seems that all you're really interested in 99% of the time is erasing other people's work. See also: WP:NOTHERE.

So, you don't like singles content in articles. Well, how about the Featured list Rihanna singles discography article? The entire article is about singles, and it represents some of Wikipedia's very best content.

You still haven't provided any reasons to qualify singles content being removed from articles, other than stating in edit summaries, "no singles". I strongly recommend that you initiate a full Request for comment from the community regarding your stance of "no singles" sections in articles. That would a good way to move forward for an actual consensus to be formed. Otherwise, your content removals simply come across as subjective WP:IDONTLIKEIT actions, "While some editors may dislike certain kinds of information, that alone isn't enough for something to be deleted". North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:42, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

The precedent is that FA and GA class album articles do not include a singles discography table. Does 3 of Hearts (album) have one? 1989 (Taylor Swift album)? No. Every other FA and GA class album article I checked does not have a singles discography. So if it's not included in FA- and GA-class articles -- which are supposed to be comprehensive -- it shouldn't be included at all, right? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 20:45, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

• @TenPoundHammer: It's obvious that others disagree with you, as evidenced by three editors that have reverted your erasure of singles content at This Is It (Jack Ingram album) alone. It's unlikely we will reach an agreement here regarding this matter. As I stated above, I feel that the most functional way to move forward is for you to initiate a full Request for comment from the community regarding your stance of "no singles" sections in articles. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:53, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

• Chart performance section shows the album's "Peak position" so no reason not to show the singles beneath that. The information in the infobox doesn't have that information. Articles that have the chart section quite long, like the mentioned 1989_(Taylor_Swift_album)#Charts, don't seem to list the singles information there, but probably because not enough room to list that much information, they instead put that information in a separate article Taylor Swift singles discography. Dream Focus 20:50, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

  And Jack Ingram also has a discography section on his article because his main article isn't overly long. So by your logic, if the info is already contained on his discography, it should not also be in the albums. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 21:00, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

  Her article has a lot more charts listed. The information at her singles discography is too long to fit, and would just be spun out. So in that case, instead of having articles for each album's singles, it makes more sense to have them altogether. This_Is_It_(Jack_Ingram_album)#Singles does not take up much space to list the singles there. Dream Focus 21:09, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

  You're saying there's no policy based reason not to include it. But under what policy based reason should we include it? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 21:38, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

• Nb. Continued at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums/Album article style advice § Inclusion of singles charts in album articles. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:55, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for July 3

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Lantern, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page George Allsopp.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 13:10, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

Nb. Another user fixed it before I got to it. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:53, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2022)

Hello, Northamerica1000. The article for improvement of the week is: Sexual abuse Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Liquor • Pork tenderloin Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 4 July 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Evidence at the Conduct in deletion-related editing case

An editor has submitted one or more edits that were made by you or relate to you as evidence in an ongoing arbitration case. Please note that the editor is not requesting that the Committee add you to the case as a party. You may review the evidence submission at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Conduct in deletion-related editing/Evidence § Evidence presented by GiantSnowman. Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 00:09, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

• Nb. replied there. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:58, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-27

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 5 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 7 July at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
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• This change only affects pages in the main namespace in Wikisource. The Javascript config variable proofreadpage_source_href will be removed from mw.config and be replaced with the variable prpSourceIndexPage. [5]

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19:30, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!

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This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2022)

Temperature map of the United States during the Great Blizzard of 1899 Hello, Northamerica1000. The article for improvement of the week is: Great Blizzard of 1899 Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Sexual abuse • Liquor Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 11 July 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2022-28

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Recent changes

• In the Vector 2022 skin, the page title is now displayed above the tabs such as Discussion, Read, Edit, View history, or More. Learn more. [6]
• It is now possible to easily view most of the configuration settings that apply to just one wiki, and to compare settings between two wikis if those settings are different. For example: Japanese Wiktionary settings, or settings that are different between the Spanish and Esperanto Wikipedias. Local communities may want to discuss and propose changes to their local settings. Details about each of the named settings can be found by searching MediaWiki.org. [7]
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Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 12 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

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• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.

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19:23, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

1973 Tour de Corse

Excuse me, but your action looks much like vandalism to me. WP:TNT is a valid argument. But when you want this rubbish to be kept, have fun. The Banner talk 17:13, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

• @The Banner: My speedy close of the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1973 Tour de Corse deletion discussion was entirely warranted, because it fully qualified for closure per Wikipedia:Speedy keep, an English Wikipedia deletion guideline. Properly following procedures is certainly not "vandalism"; what a bizarre, absurdly incorrect sentiment. WP:TNT is an opinion essay, as it states atop the page (bold emphasis mine):

“ This is an essay on the deletion policy.

It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors. This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints.

”

The nomination wholly lacked any form of validity per Wikipedia's Wikipedia:Deletion policy and WP:DEL-REASON.

Also, I have no opinion at this time about whether or not the article should be retained or not, nor did I when I performed the closure, yet you quickly assume that I do. In the close I stated, "No prejudice against speedy renomination with a valid deletion rationale."

It's all very simple, just devise a valid deletion rationale that qualifies deletion per Wikipedia's deletion policy, or initiate a Request for comment (RfC) somewhere to have various opinion essays become part of notability guidelines and policies. Regarding the latter, Wikipedia talk:Deletion policy would be a functional place to initiate an RfC such as this. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:27, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

• @The Banner: I notice that you added to the closed discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1973 Tour de Corse, "Too bad that this substandard article can stay..." (diff). Did you read the part in the closure about there being no prejudice against speedy renomination? Or, is it that you are unable to devise a valid deletion rationale relative to guidelines and policies? Either way, please note that it clearly states in the top closure template, "The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page... (et al.)". North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:42, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2022

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

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

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Technical news

• user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.

Miscellaneous

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Nomination of Kent W. Colton for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Kent W. Colton is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kent W. Colton (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

Hut 8.5 08:29, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

Edit conflict at AfD

FYI, when saved this said 43 seconds after your close. I started writing it before that, so I think my vote should stay. Re Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shadowbinders. I don't mind if you chose not to relist this, my vote is dissenting. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:46, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

@Piotrus: Thanks for the notification. I won't remove your !vote. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:58, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2022)

The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity in the United States. Pictured above are four patrons and a flapper in 1921 awaiting the opening of the Krazy Kat Klub, a speakeasy. Hello, Northamerica1000. The article for improvement of the week is: Jazz Age Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Great Blizzard of 1899 • Sexual abuse Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 18 July 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

A new bread thread

Hi, NA1k - I finally got an opportunity to stop by, say hi, and ask for your input. I've been working some of the redirects in the NPP queue, and came across the French bread redirect, which got stuck in my craw. See Italian bread, and then look at 13 Types of French Bread. In 2005, French bread was redirected to bread, became a redirect in 2008, then a dab in 2019 that was quickly reverted. I'm of the mind that it needs to be an article similar to Italian bread because the redirect is misinformation. List of breads (which is tagged) shows Baguette, but at the bottom of the page in the templated list we have both French Bread and Italian Bread. Your thoughts? Atsme 💬 📧 11:24, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

@Atsme: I need more time to think about it; will respond later. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:10, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

@Atsme: Update – I have created the new List of French breads article and redirected the French bread link to that article. Feel free to improve the new list article, if you'd like. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:58, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

Yay! Well done! Knew I could count on you to get the job done right. Atsme 💬 📧 22:24, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

@Atsme:

– Thank you kindly.

– North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 23:51, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi - loved your article on white squalls - would love to chat with you about them for TV show that involves white squalls - if interested, please reach out via phone or text, 802-258-1184 96.234.224.241 (talk) 00:23, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

@96.234.224.241: I did not create the White squall article; I only performed minor edits to it back in 2020. Perhaps you sent notice here accidenatlly? North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:34, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-29

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Problems

• The feature on mobile web for Nearby Pages was missing last week. It will be fixed this week. [8]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 July. It will be on all wikis from 21 July (calendar).

Future changes

• The Technical Decision Forum is seeking community representatives. You can apply on wiki or by emailing [email protected] before 12 August.

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22:58, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of Busy work for deletion

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This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2022)

A retractable pen is a type of ink pen that has a spring-loaded ink cartridge which retracts and extends outside a protective housing. Hello, Northamerica1000. The article for improvement of the week is: Retractable pen Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Jazz Age • Great Blizzard of 1899 Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 25 July 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2022-30

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Recent changes

• The www.wikibooks.org and www.wikiquote.org portal pages now use an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [9]

Problems

• Last week, some wikis were in read-only mode for a few minutes because of an emergency switch of their main database (targeted wikis). [10]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar).
• The external link icon will change slightly in the skins Vector legacy and Vector 2022. The new icon uses simpler shapes to be more recognizable on low-fidelity screens. [11]
• Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. [12]

Future meetings

• The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (26 July).

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19:26, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2022)

Hello, Northamerica1000. The article for improvement of the week is: Diego Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Retractable pen • Jazz Age Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 1 August 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2022-31

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Improved LaTeX capabilities for math rendering are now available in the wikis thanks to supporting Phantom tags. This completes part of the #59 wish of the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on all wikis from 4 August (calendar).
• The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 0. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

Future changes

• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes.

Future meetings

• This week, three meetings about Vector (2022) with live interpretation will take place. On Tuesday, interpretation in Russian will be provided. On Thursday, meetings for Arabic and Spanish speakers will take place. See how to join.

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21:20, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 August 2022

• From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something

• News and notes: Information considered harmful

• In the media: Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap

• Op-Ed: The "recession" affair

• Eyewitness Wikimedian, Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3)

• Election guide: The chosen six: 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

• Community view: Youth culture and notability

• Opinion: Criminals among us

• Arbitration report: Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement

• Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country

• Discussion report: Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us

• Traffic report: US TV, JP ex-PM, outer space, and politics of IN, US, UK top charts for July

• Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists

• Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot

• In focus: Wikidata insights from a handy little tool

• On the bright side: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories

• Essay: How to research an image

• Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed

• Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia

• Gallery: A backstage pass

• From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened

• Humour: Why did the chicken cross the road?

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Tech News: 2022-32

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• GUS2Wiki copies the information from Special:GadgetUsage to an on-wiki page so you can review its history. If your project isn't already listed on the Wikidata entry for Project:GUS2Wiki you can either run GUS2Wiki yourself or make a request to receive updates. [13]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 9 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 11 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).

Future meetings

• The Wikimania Hackathon will take place online from August 12–14. Don't miss the pre-hacking showcase to learn about projects and find collaborators. Anyone can propose a project or host a session. Newcomers are welcome!

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19:48, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

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New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022

New Page Review queue August 2022

Hello Northamerica1000,

Backlog status

After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.

Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.

Coordination

MB and Novem Linguae have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. MPGuy2824 will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.

Open letter to the WMF

The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.

TIP - Reviewing by subject

Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated sorted topic list.

New reviewers

The NPP School is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here.

Reminders

• Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
• If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.
• 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 and its software.
• To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2022

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

Administrator changes

Valereee

Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
• An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news

• The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
• Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration

• The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
• Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
• Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

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This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2022)

A home page of Wikipedia (in 2014) displayed in a web browser. Hello, Northamerica1000. The article for improvement of the week is: Home page Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Diego • Retractable pen Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 8 August 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

DYK for Deep fried egg

On 23 July 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Deep fried egg, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a kind of deep fried egg dish might be perceived as a warning in Thai folklore? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Deep fried egg. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Deep fried egg), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—Kusma (talk) 12:22, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 5,559 views (465.2 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of July 2022 – nice work!

theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 14:35, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

• @Theleekycauldron: Thanks for the info! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:37, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-33

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia community decided to block IP editing from October 2021 to April 2022. The Wikimedia Foundation's Product Analytics team tracked the impact of this change. An impact report is now available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 August. It will be on all wikis from 18 August (calendar).
• Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 16 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on 18 August at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
• The Realtime Preview will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 1. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals.

Future changes

• The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes. [14][15][16]

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21:07, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2022)

Christmas market in Red Square in 2017 Hello, Northamerica1000. The article for improvement of the week is: Christmas in Russia Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Home page • Diego Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 15 August 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •