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New Page Patrol December Newsletter[edit]
Hello Carrite,
- Year in review
It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
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| 1 | DannyS712 bot III (talk) | 67,552 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 2 | Rosguill (talk) | 63,821 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 3 | John B123 (talk) | 21,697 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 4 | Onel5969 (talk) | 19,879 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 5 | JTtheOG (talk) | 12,901 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 6 | Mcampany (talk) | 9,103 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 7 | DragonflySixtyseven (talk) | 6,401 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 8 | Mccapra (talk) | 4,918 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 9 | Hughesdarren (talk) | 4,520 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 10 | Utopes (talk) | 3,958 | Patrol Page Curation |
- Reviewer of the Year
John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.
- NPP Technical Achievement Award
As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.
Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271
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Happy First Edit Day![edit]
Have a very happy first edit anniversary!
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A New Year With Women in Red![edit]
 
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2021[edit]
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Organized labour project[edit]
Thank you for earlier joining the Organized Labour project. I've been a participant in the project since 2006 and am helping with a revival of it. As part this we are introducing a new membership system, which will help with communications among participants. This involves creating a membership file for each participant within your user space (you can see an example of my membership card here: User:Goldsztajn/WikiProjectCards/WikiProject Organized Labour). This system is already in operation within a number of wikiprojects (such as Women in Red and Medicine). You will not have to do anything, myself or someone else from the project will create the relevant file within your userspace. However, I am conscious that it is not polite to change an editor's userspace without notice. If I don't hear from you in the negative, I will go ahead with making the change after the 18th of January. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. Many thanks for supporting the project, in solidarity, --Goldsztajn (talk) 20:12, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
February 2021 at Women in Red[edit]
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Greek article deletions[edit]
Good afternoon - I participate in the Fraternities and Sororities Project, having written a number of articles, cleaned up others and added graphics. Recently, I've worked on the broader upkeep and mentoring of the project itself. My latest contributions include expanding the watchlist (from 300 to now about 1,200 articles), clarifying structures for new project participants (Notability, syntax, consistency), adding a {{to do}} list to Talk pages, etc.
While doing this, I've noticed a low-level campaign to WP:NPOV, WP:GNG and WP:ORG many of these pages into oblivion.
I happened to see you once weighed in on discussions for this category, and wonder if you would take a look at the recent AfD discussions ongoing, to see if there is a pattern here, like in April of 2011, when you helpfully commented on the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alpha Gamma deletion discussion. One user, Onel5969 seems to be aggressive in his "Deletionism" over a more helpful "Inclusionism". But he's also a leading contributor, and perhaps I am in the wrong. My personal opinion is that if an organization was once notable, it remains notable; Fraternities that were good enough for Baird's once, are good enough for Wikipedia. Here are the pages up for deletion now:
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Delta Beta Phi
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kappa Sigma (Philippines)
- I'd written another article on Canadian sorority Delta Pi last summer, which was similarly AfD PROD'ed into deletion. Unfairly, I think.
There are a number of similar deletions that have occurred over the past months.
Delta Beta Phi strikes me as an interesting article about a valid, while minor fraternity, which should be kept. Meanwhile, my rationale to keep the K Sig (Philippines) article is at the deletion discussion, but part of this is an assumption that SEC registration in the Philippines offers enough to meet the bar of notability. Some of those weighing in to delete these pages seem to demand multiple, published, independent sources, as if their existence was in questioned or as if these were vanity articles. I don't believe groups like these, especially the older, dormant fraternities will ever have that level of multiple citations available. Yet they are real.
Do you have any advice for me?
By the way, I've recently learned that Baird's Manual now has its Archive online, which has been expanded and enhanced since publication of the latest (20th) 1991 print edition. The online Baird's Archive is available here. I plan to revive that Delta Pi page soon, as it is now in the online Baird's archive, and thereby meets the notability rules that have been flagging it. Jax MN (talk) 21:58, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2021[edit]
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Writing Black History of the Pacific Northwest into Wikipedia - Editathon 2021[edit]
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March 2021 at Women in Red[edit]
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2021[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).
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Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
- A request for comment is in progress to remove F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
- A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the
delete-redirectuserright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect. - A request for comment asks if sysops may
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Arbitration
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April editathons from Women in Red[edit]
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2021[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
- Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the
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Technical news
- When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
- Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)
Arbitration
- A community consultation on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure is open until April 25.
Since I still care about this place[edit]
(Stupid me) ... While I agree wholeheartedly that how editors pee is relatively trivial, I'm alarmed to find you swallowing the WMF's alarmist 85% statistic, because I have yet to see any indication that it emanates from anything except someone's rear end. You undoubtedly recall that the original survey asking editors their sex was not only voluntary, it disappeared forever unless one stopped whatever edit one was doing, and that the next one was also voluntary and involved a lot of binary choices; and I assume you are aware of the WMF's practices since then of counting as female only those editors with user names they think are female, those editors with female-identifying user boxes, and those who elect female pronouns, and putting the rest down as male (really queer-friendly). Perhaps there's been actual solid research that I'm unaware of that's substantiated the percentage? I heavily doubt it, not least because it's held so steady, and also because I am apparently more aware than the WMF of the importance of anonymity online to many women (and queers) and the rich history of cross-gender nyms. (I believe someone said quite recently on that unnameable site that PL was probably a couple of dozen of the female editors the WMF was aware of.) I doubt it would be possible to arrive at any useful estimate, so I personally try to avoid forming any impression of which constitutes the larger group on en.wikipedia: cis males, cis females, trans males, trans females, genderqueer, agender, genderfluid, third gender, or little green things from Alpha Centauri.
I think it's a pernicious meme that divides us, and I insist on my right to edit about Nazi highways, steamships, heroic legend, male supremacists, sex acts, and anything else I damned well please, though I admit I have yet to edit on jock straps. Yngvadottir (talk) 09:03, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
- "Pernicious meme." Nice phrase. Hope all is well with you and if I run across any good primary sources on jockstraps during my bookstore browsing I will most certainly keep you in mind! Carrite (talk) 16:37, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
May 2021 at Women in Red[edit]
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2021[edit]
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- Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
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Arbitration
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June 2021 at Women in Red[edit]
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2021[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).
Administrator changes
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- Consensus was reached to deprecate Wikipedia:Editor assistance.
- Following a Request for Comment the Book namespace was deprecated.
Technical news
- Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.
Arbitration
- After a Clarification request, the Arbitration Committee modified Remedy 5 of the Antisemitism in Poland case. This means sourcing expectations are a discretionary sanction instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the Reliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss disputed sources.
July 2021 at Women in Red[edit]
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021[edit]
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- 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
- The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.
"1912 1912 Washington State College football team" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]
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August Editathons at Women in Red[edit]
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021[edit]
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- 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
- Following an amendment request, the committee has clarified that the Talk page exception to the 500/30 rule in remedy 5 of the Palestine-Israel articles 4 case does not apply to requested move discussions.
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September 2021 at Women in Red[edit]
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2021[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- Feedback is requested on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement draft by the Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee.
- A RfC is open on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection on high-risk templates.
- A discussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
- A RfC on the next steps after the trial of pending changes on TFAs has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.
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
- A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.
Miscellaneous
- The 2021 RfA review is now open for comments.
New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021[edit]
Hello Carrite,
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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October 2021 at Women in Red[edit]
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2021[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, extended confirmed protection may be used preemptively on certain high-risk templates.
- Following a discussion at the Village Pump, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.
Technical news
- DiscussionTools has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features.
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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November 2021 at Women in Red[edit]
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November 2021 backlog drive[edit]
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2021[edit]
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- 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
- Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.
Arbitration
- GeneralNotability, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections. Ivanvector and John M Wolfson are reserve commissioners.
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves to stand in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections from 07 November 2021 until 16 November 2021.
Miscellaneous
- The 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.
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December 2021 at Women in Red[edit]
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2021[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).
Administrator changes
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
- Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
- The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.
Happy First Edit Day![edit]
Have a very happy first edit anniversary!
From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 12:32, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
January 2022 Women in Red[edit]
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2022[edit]
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Guideline and policy news
- 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.
- Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of an administrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions.
Arbitration
- Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Cabayi, Donald Albury, Enterprisey, Izno, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, Wugapodes.
Miscellaneous
- 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.
lists.wikimedia.orgShould SDUSA still be listed as active on the American Socialism template?[edit]
Hi, Tim, and happy new year.
Perhaps you can shed some light (or documentation) on a discussion I began on Template talk:American socialism about whether it's time to move SDUSA from active to inactive socialist organizations.
Do you realize that we're now into the fiftieth anniversary of the Socialist Party split and the birth of the SPUSA, SDUSA and DSOC? I was there.
Any help much appreciated. —— Shakescene (talk) 07:46, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
You've got mail[edit]
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.— Wanderingpotato (talk) 02:27, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
February with Women in Red[edit]
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.
Technical news
- The user group
oversightwill be renamedsuppressin 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.
- The user group
Arbitration
- Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
- The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
- A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.
You're Invited! Writing Black History of the Pacific Northwest into Wikipedia[edit]
On, Friday, February 25, 2022, Oregon State University will be hosting an online editathon focused on Black history of the Pacific Northwest. You can learn more here and/or register here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:25, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
March editathons[edit]
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2022[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
- A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.
Technical news
- The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
- Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
- The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)
Arbitration
- Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.
Miscellaneous
- The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
- Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
- The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.
Portland Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon: March 12, 2022[edit]
You are invited! An Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon will be held in Portland, Oregon, on March 12, 2022. Learn more here!
Wikipedia is one of the most-visited sites on the internet—and it’s created by people who volunteer their time to write and edit pages. Learn how to edit Wikipedia and be a part of shaping our understanding of our world. In this workshop, volunteer Wikipedia editors will be on hand to train participants on how to get started editing pages and offer ideas for which pages you can pitch in to help improve. Show up at any point during the four hours to get started!
Also: Free burritos!! We will be providing vegan, vegetarian, and meat burritos from food cart Loncheria Las Mayos. Alder Commons has a large, fenced playground. Children are welcome! Some computers will be available to borrow, but if you have a laptop, please bring it to use. We will also be leading an online training for new editors at 11am-12pm PST. Please feel free to join that training if you are not able to show up IRL.
This event is part of the international month of events organized by Art+Feminism, which is building a community of activists committed to closing information gaps related to gender, feminism, and the arts, beginning with Wikipedia. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:36, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
"The revolution of farmers" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect The revolution of farmers and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 March 10#The revolution of farmers until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Paul_012 (talk) 14:05, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
April Editathons from Women in Red[edit]
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2022[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.
Technical news
- Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the
deletelogentryanddeletedhistoryrights. 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)
Arbitration
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
- A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
- A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.
Miscellaneous
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.
May Women in Red events[edit]
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2022[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
- Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.
Technical news
- The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
- A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.
Arbitration
- Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.
New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022[edit]
Hello Carrite,
At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.
Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.
In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 723 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 910 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.
This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.
If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do 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.
Sent 05:17, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
- Gee, now WMF has something to worry about, don't they? Oh, wait, they only care about conferences and Universal Codes of Conduct. My bad. Carrite (talk) 14:26, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- Only a clueless bureaucracy would think the solution to a lack of activity would be a purge of potential activists. How about polling those with the "privilege" on why they are not more active patrolling and then taking concrete action based upon that, hmmm? Ping Kudpung. Carrite (talk) 15:20, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
- Carrite
How about polling those with the "privilege" on why they are not more active patrolling and then taking concrete action based upon that, hmmm?
I've been advocating that for months (years?), but everyone, including Barkeep49 disagrees with me - at least tacitly. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 07:20, 1 June 2022 (UTC)- I'm not sure I had understood polling in the way that Carrite suggests, so apologies there @Kudpung. I think that's actually a promising idea and we should develop that. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 13:34, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Barkeep49: I always thought you weren't keen on the idea of pruning the deadwood out of the 750 reviewers. My most humble apologies if I'd got it wrong. It simply needs to be done. No great fuss, just remove the rights from everyone who has not made a review for more than 12 months, for example, and telling them they are welcome to reapply if they want to be active again, but the admin at PERM will first accord the right on a 30 day probation. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 14:19, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
- Oh that is definitely true - I think the benefit of removing the PERM from people is limited and smaller than the hurt we'd generate. No one wants to be the "deadwood". But finding out why the people who have it don't use the perm is very different to me. That could generate data that could help us know what to focus limited time and energy on changing. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 14:31, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
- Barkeep49: For a few years I was one of the main admins working the PERM requests. My focus was by no way specially on editors asking to be New Page Reviewers, indeed I started working there long before I had the idea of creating a user group for NPP. One impression that I came away with - and still maintain - is that a not insignificant number of candidates are indeed hat collectors and I still see it today whenever I poke my nose in there out of curiosity. You can do your fact finding poll, but it may be of limited worth because no one is actually going to admit to being a hat collector. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 17:25, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
- Oh that is definitely true - I think the benefit of removing the PERM from people is limited and smaller than the hurt we'd generate. No one wants to be the "deadwood". But finding out why the people who have it don't use the perm is very different to me. That could generate data that could help us know what to focus limited time and energy on changing. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 14:31, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Barkeep49: I always thought you weren't keen on the idea of pruning the deadwood out of the 750 reviewers. My most humble apologies if I'd got it wrong. It simply needs to be done. No great fuss, just remove the rights from everyone who has not made a review for more than 12 months, for example, and telling them they are welcome to reapply if they want to be active again, but the admin at PERM will first accord the right on a 30 day probation. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 14:19, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
- I'm not sure I had understood polling in the way that Carrite suggests, so apologies there @Kudpung. I think that's actually a promising idea and we should develop that. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 13:34, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
- Carrite
June events from Women in Red[edit]
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2022[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.
Technical news
- Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
- The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.
Arbitration
- Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
- An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.
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Arbcom evidence[edit]
Hi Carrite. I read your evidence at the open arbcom case about AfD behavior. I provided some evidence as well, and I noticed that we both used data from the afdstats tool, but some of our percentages don't match up. Many people might not remember, but I actually created the afdstats tool originally. I eventually handed it off to others to maintain, so I don't work on it actively anymore, but it hasn't really changed from when I created it and I still remember how it works. And, I think you may have misinterpreted the results that it provided.
For instance, if we look at Johnpacklambert's last 500 AfDs, we get the following stats at the top of the page:
- Keep votes: 2 (0.4%)
- Delete votes: 445 (97.8%)
- Speedy Keep votes: 0 (0.0%)
- Speedy Delete votes: 0 (0.0%)
- Merge votes: 2 (0.4%)
- Redirect votes: 6 (1.3%)
- Transwiki votes: 0 (0.0%)
- Userfy votes: 0 (0.0%)
- The remaining 45 pages had no discernible vote by this user.
One important piece of data is that last line. Out of the last 500 AfD pages that JPL edited, the tool could not find a vote on 45 of them. That might be because JPL only left a comment, or perhaps added a delsort template or something like that. Or maybe he made a vote but didn't put a bolded Keep or Delete before it, so the tool couldn't recognize it as a vote. Either way, for the purposes of determining percentages, those 45 pages should be removed from the total, and we should assume we're looking at the last 455 AfDs that JPL voted in. Since JPL voted delete in 445 of the last 455 AfDs where a vote could be found, that means he voted delete at 97.8% of them. It seems that your calculations include AfDs where JPL didn't make a discernible vote, which artificially lowers the percentage to 445/500, or 89%.
When you go down further to the table that compares the vote to the eventual result of the AfD to see if they match, you'll notice that some AfDs are missing. If you go through that table and total up the number of AfDs where JPL voted to delete, you'll see that it only adds up to 406 delete votes, not 445. What gives? Well, the purpose of that table is to compare votes to results, so any AfDs that haven't closed yet are not considered for the purpose of that table. That means there are 39 AfDs where JPL voted delete, but the AfD hasn't yet been closed (including two from today). That means, for the purpose of calculating the percentage of AfDs where JPL's vote matched the eventual consensus, the denominator of that calculation is even less than 455 because all open AfDs are removed from consideration. (In fact, there's even a calculation on the page that removes all AfDs that were closed as "no consensus", since there's no way for someone to make a "no consensus" vote.)
So, I think your percentage calculations for how often JPL matched consensus are pretty accurate. But, your calculations for how often he voted delete seem to be off, and don't match the evidence that I provided further up the page. The same goes for other editors for whom you provided stats. It appears that Mangoe also provided some stats from the afdstats tool even further up the page, and seems to be making similar misinterpretations of the data provided by the tool. I blame myself; the way the tool displays the data is not entirely clear. If I still had access to the tool I created (and the time to work on it), I would probably redesign the layout of that page to make it more clear.
Anyway, just wanted to point that out. Happy to answer any other questions you might have. Cheers. —ScottyWong— 16:28, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
- I used the percentages directly from the tool, only rounding off because I didn't think three places of accuracy was justified. (For example, my second tranche of 500 votes comes to 89% accuracy.) Mangoe (talk) 18:27, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Mangoe: But again, using Johnpacklambert as an example, you list his delete vote percentage as 89%, but the tool reports that it's 97.8%. —ScottyWong— 19:20, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
- I see what happened: I started doing the math as you find problematic, and then switched to the other way and forgot to update this value. The others should all be correct. Thanks for catching that. BTW, these number are continually changing as more votes are cast. Mangoe (talk) 21:35, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Mangoe: But again, using Johnpacklambert as an example, you list his delete vote percentage as 89%, but the tool reports that it's 97.8%. —ScottyWong— 19:20, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022[edit]
Hello Carrite,
- Backlog status
At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000[a] at the end of May.
Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.[b]
In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).
While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).
- Backlog drive
A backlog reduction drive, coordinated by buidhe and Zippybonzo, will be held from July 1 to July 31. Sign up here. 
Barnstars will be awarded.
- TIP – New school articles
Many new articles on schools are being created by new users in developing and/or non-English-speaking countries. The authors are probably not even aware of Wikipedia's projects and policy pages. WP:WPSCH/AG has some excellent advice and resources specifically written for these users. Reviewers could consider providing such first-time article creators with a link to it while also mentioning that not all schools pass the GNG and that elementary schools are almost certainly not notable.
- Misc
There is a new template available, {{NPP backlog}}, to show the current backlog. You can place it on your user or talk page as a reminder:
Very low unreviewed pages backlog: 1316 articles, as of 12:00, 28 March 2023 (UTC), according to DatBot
There has been significant discussion at WP:VPP recently on NPP-related matters (Draftification, Deletion, Notability, Verifiability, Burden). Proposals that would somewhat ease the burden on NPP aren't gaining much traction, although there are suggestions that the role of NPP be fundamentally changed to focus only on major CSD-type issues.
- 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.
- Notes
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Women in Red in July 2022[edit]
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NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on![edit]
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2022[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).
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Technical news
user_global_editcountis 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
- The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.
Tod Goodwin[edit]
Hi Carrite,
I noticed after I amended some article info on football player Tod Goodwin, that you may have been the person that added to this player in the past. I'm not one to jump over someone with editing, so I wanted to touch base with you.
Do you think that the Shipwreck Kelly stats hold water? I stopped editing when I saw your name and the amount you put into the article.
If you want me to revert it, not a problem. I hate stepping on toes when not needed. Thank you in advance.
Regards, Bringingthewood (talk) 23:05, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red in August 2022[edit]
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2022[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).
Administrator changes
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.
New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022[edit]
Hello Carrite,
- 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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NPP message[edit]
Hi Carrite,
- Invitation
For those who may have missed it in our last newsletter, here's a quick reminder to see the letter we have drafted, and if you support it, do please go ahead and sign it. If you already signed, thanks. Also, if you haven't noticed, the backlog has been trending up lately; all reviews are greatly appreciated.
To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.
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Women in Red in September 2022[edit]
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2022[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
- An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.
Technical news
- The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
- The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.
Arbitration
- An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
- The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.
Miscellaneous
- The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
- Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.
Board of Trustees election[edit]
Thank you for supporting the NPP initiative to improve WMF support of the Page Curation tools. Another way you can help is by voting in the Board of Trustees election. The next Board composition might be giving attention to software development. The election closes on 6 September at 23:59 UTC. View candidate statement videos and Vote Here. MB 03:19, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive[edit]
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Women in Red October 2022[edit]
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2022[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
- Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
- Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.
Technical news
- The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.
Arbitration
- Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
- A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
- The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.
Miscellaneous
- An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
- Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October.
- You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
- An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
- Tech tip: You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete.
Precious anniversary[edit]
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John S. Clarke image[edit]
Hi @Carrite, hope you're well. This may be a long-shot but I am currently researching John Clarke with the intention of expanding the article, and I noticed that the image was uploaded by you from the Marxists Internet Archive. I have since found the precise URL for the image, but I am wondering if you know where it was originally taken from, i.e. a newspaper or book? With more details we may determine that the image is public domain. Many thanks in advance :) Unexpectedlydian♯4talk‽ 17:28, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
- @ Unexpectedlydian, My recollection is that I scanned it from the frontis of a public domain Clarke book. I am a MIA volunteer and supplied the image to them, not vice-versa. Hope this helps. Carrite (talk) 09:58, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you for your quick response, that is helpful thanks. There don't seem to be that many images of John S. Clarke out there, so good to know where this one came from :) Unexpectedlydian♯4talk‽ 19:20, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
- I'd try to find it again but I've got like 14,000 books and I'm not quite sure where to start hunting. But it should be an unproblematic image. Carrite (talk) 19:17, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
- Wow that’s quite to collection! I appreciate your help, thank you. Just in case you’re interested, I’ve expanded the article and submitted it to GAN. I’ve also suggested that the title is changed to “John Smith Clarke” or “John S. Clarke”, which seems overwhelmingly how he was and is referred to in publications. Unexpectedlydian♯4talk‽ 12:27, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
- I'd try to find it again but I've got like 14,000 books and I'm not quite sure where to start hunting. But it should be an unproblematic image. Carrite (talk) 19:17, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you for your quick response, that is helpful thanks. There don't seem to be that many images of John S. Clarke out there, so good to know where this one came from :) Unexpectedlydian♯4talk‽ 19:20, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022[edit]
Hello Carrite,
Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.
Awards: Barnstars were given for the past several years (thanks to MPGuy2824), and we are now all caught up. The 2021 cup went to John B123 for leading with 26,525 article reviews during 2021. To encourage moderate activity, a new "Iron" level barnstar is awarded annually for reviewing 360 articles ("one-a-day"), and 100 reviews earns the "Standard" NPP barnstar. About 90 reviewers received barnstars for each of the years 2018 to 2021 (including the new awards that were given retroactively). All awards issued for every year are listed on the Awards page. Check out the new Hall of Fame also.
Software news: Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have connected with WMF developers who can review and approve patches, so they have been able to fix some bugs, and make other improvements to the Page Curation software. You can see everything that has been fixed recently here. The reviewer report has also been improved.
Suggestions:
- There is much enthusiasm over the low backlog, but remember that the "quality and depth of patrolling are more important than speed".
- Reminder: an article should not be tagged for any kind of deletion for a minimum of 15 minutes after creation and it is often appropriate to wait an hour or more. (from the NPP tutorial)
- Reviewers should focus their effort where it can do the most good, reviewing articles. Other clean-up tasks that don't require advanced permissions can be left to other editors that routinely improve articles in these ways (creating Talk Pages, specifying projects and ratings, adding categories, etc.) Let's rely on others when it makes the most sense. On the other hand, if you enjoy doing these tasks while reviewing and it keeps you engaged with NPP (or are guiding a newcomer), then by all means continue.
- This user script puts a link to the feed in your top toolbar.
Backlog:
Saving the best for last: From a July low of 8,500, the backlog climbed back to 11,000 in August and then reversed in September dropping to below 6,000 and continued falling with the October backlog drive to under 1,000, a level not seen in over four years. Keep in mind that there are 2,000 new articles every week, so the number of reviews is far higher than the backlog reduction. To keep the backlog under a thousand, we have to keep reviewing at about half the recent rate!
- Reminders
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Women in Red November 2022[edit]
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2022[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November.
- An RfC is open to discuss having open requests for adminship automatically placed on hold after the seven-day period has elapsed, pending closure or other action by a bureaucrat.
Arbitration
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections.
- The arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion.
- The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has entered the proposed decision stage.
- AmandaNP, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections. Xaosflux and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
Miscellaneous
- The 2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers.
- You can add yourself to the centralised page listing time zones of administrators.
- Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like
{{rangeblock|create=yes}}or{{uw-ublock|contains profanity}}.
SDUSA revisited[edit]
Hi, Tim, I did move SDUSA from Active to "Inactive or defunct organizations" on Template:American socialism, q.v. (No doubt our old friend & comrade KW will object and revert). I think the same might be done for the on-line-only World SP of the US. Fraternal regards, —— Shakescene (talk) 20:43, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
Is the SLP inactive?[edit]
Hi, Tim. See this discussion:
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Women in Red December 2022[edit]
See also:
Tip of the month:
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ArbCom 2022 Elections voter message[edit]
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2022[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- Consensus has been found in an RfC to automatically place RfAs on hold after one week.
- The article creation at scale RfC has been closed.
- An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.
Technical news
- A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449)
Arbitration
- Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
- The proposed decision for the 2021-22 review of the discretionary sanctions system is open.
- The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has been closed.
- The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
- A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop.
Miscellaneous
- Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add
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Women in Red January 2023[edit]
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Happy Fourteenth First Edit Day![edit]
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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023[edit]
Hello Carrite,
- Backlog
The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.
- 2022 Awards
Onel5969 won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Rosguill led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!
Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)
New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js to User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js
Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.
Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Novem Linguae and MPGuy2824 have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.
- Reminders
- Newsletter feedback - please take this short poll about the newsletter.
- There is live chat with patrollers on the New Page Patrol Discord.
- Please add the project discussion page to your watchlist.
- If you no longer wish to be a reviewer, please ask any admin to remove you from the group. If you want the tools back again, just ask at PERM.
- To opt out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.
Administrators' newsletter – January 2023[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes