Sept 25: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

September 25, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda.

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Metropolitan New York Library Council (8th floor) at 599 11th Avenue, Manhattan
(note this month we will be meeting in Midtown Manhattan, not at Babycastles)

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team ~~~~~

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Jan 22: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

January 22, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda.

7:00pm - 9:00 pm at Metropolitan New York Library Council (8th floor) at 599 11th Avenue, Manhattan

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 20:08, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2020-04

19:42, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Saturday Jan 25: Met 'Understanding America' Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jan 25, 12:30pm: Met 'Understanding America' Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for the Met 'Understanding America' Edit-a-thon @ Metropolitan Museum of Art on the Upper East Side.

Together, we'll expand Wikipedia articles on American history and art, and the understanding that all communities bring to American culture, as reflected in the Met collection up until ca. 1900.

With refreshments, and there will be a wiki-cake!

Open to everyone at all levels of experience, wiki instructional workshop and one-on-one support will be provided.

12:30pm - 4:30 pm at Uris Center for Education, Metropolitan Museum of Art (81st Street entrance) at 1000 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan
(note this is just south of the main entrance)
Galleries will be open this evening until 9 pm, and some wiki-visitors may wish to take this opportunity to see exhibits together after the formal event.

Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends, colleagues and students! --Wikimedia New York City Team 21:02, 21 January 2020 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 27 January 2020

Tech News: 2020-05

18:53, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
  • The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

Technical news

  • Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
  • When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title.

Arbitration

  • Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

Miscellaneous


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PhanChavez

I realize that you may be involved here, but if they continue with their edit warring I'd take it to 3RRN. This has gotten out of hand and they have been warned enough. I'd deal with it myself but am off to bed. -Ad Orientem (talk) 05:09, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

@Ad Orientem: This note here on [[User:RoySmith]'s page is so inappropriate, I'm not sure what to make of it. I only noticed it after using Twinkle to post warnings to both your talk page, and this talk page (RoySmith's) to the effect of a coordinated attack. Whereas, you could post notes on the talk page in question instead of pointing to or suggesting it, or other places to talk about things. Vague warnings without articulating specifics of how to handle ambiguous situations, where you do not want to dig into the details shows how little you care about your responsibilities as administrators. (With great power, comes great responsibility.) It would be fair, on my part, to say that my only WP:COI is calling-out misbehavior, as I was impacted by when I first started out. And if you continue a biased campaign instead of paying attention to the details, your actions speak for themselves. This note posted PUBLICLY FOR REVIEW. PhanChavez (talk) 05:50, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

February 2020

Information icon Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would like you to assume good faith while interacting with other editors, which you did not do on User_talk:PhanChavez#Please_take_some_time_to_learn_how_things_work.. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. As cited on the Talk page, and per the recommendation of Redirects for Deletion to Be Bold! Neither you, User:RoySmith, or User:Ad Orientem (subsequently), acting in the capacity as a meat puppet to circumvent the three revert rule, ... neither of you have commented on the talk page of that article, only targeting me and my talk page. This behavior is inappropriate, and is not the behavior that would be exhibited by any knowledgeable and experienced administrators. Being a new user, my only best guess is that there is an undisclosed relationship and/or WP:COI behind this coordinated effort. PhanChavez (talk) 05:42, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Teahouse; Problem Article

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse#Problem_Article When I go to edit "Deweyism", the title is grey and I cannot interact with it. Everything else is normal. Tacogamer20 (talk) 17:53, 2 February 2020 (UTC)Tacogamer20

Tacogamer20, Ah, I see your problem. I'm assuming you're using a web browser (as opposed to the mobile app). You don't change the title by editing the page. You need to get out of the editor, and look for the "More" menu at the top. In there, you should see a "Move" item. That's what you want. -- RoySmith (talk) 18:09, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

RoySmith Yup, that was my problem, thanks. What about the second problem? Tacogamer20 (talk) 18:33, 2 February 2020 (UTC)Tacogamer20