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Administrators' newsletter – August 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2018).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- After a discussion at Meta, a new user group called "interface administrators" (formerly "technical administrator") has been created. Come the end of August, interface admins will be the only users able to edit site-wide JavaScript and CSS pages like MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css, or edit other user's personal JavaScript and CSS. The intention is to improve security and privacy by reducing the number of accounts which could be used to compromise the site or another user's account through malicious code. The new user group can be assigned and revoked by bureaucrats. Discussion is ongoing to establish details for implementing the group on the English Wikipedia.
- Following a request for comment, the WP:SISTER style guideline now states that in the mainspace, interwiki links to Wikinews should only be made as per the external links guideline. This generally means that within the body of an article, you should not link to Wikinews about a particular event that is only a part of the larger topic. Wikinews links in "external links" sections can be used where helpful, but not automatically if an equivalent article from a reliable news outlet could be linked in the same manner.
Technical news
- The WMF Anti-Harassment Tools team is seeking input on the second set of wireframes for the Special:Block redesign that will introduce partial blocks. The new functionality will allow you to block a user from editing a specific set of pages, pages in a category, a namespace, and for specific actions such as moving pages and uploading files.
This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2018)
Hello, Theinstantmatrix.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Liqueur • Louis IV of France Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 6 August 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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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
- Special:NewPages now has the OOUI look. [1]
Problems
- The MediaWiki version that was released two weeks ago was late to some Wikimedia wikis. This was because of bugs. It was on all wikis 30 July. [2][3]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 August. It will be on all wikis from 9 August.
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 7 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 8 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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19:39, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
Sean Kelly
Not sure what you searched on google, but there are over 70 articles on Sean Kelly, and he is already verified on Facebook. Riveros19 (talk) 23:10, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2018)
 Anna Anka is a Swedish-American model, actress and author.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Club drug • Liqueur Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 13 August 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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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
- CSS in templates can now be stored in a separate page on all wikis. This is called TemplateStyles. This is to make it easier to edit how templates look. [4]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 14 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 15 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The developers are planning more ways to block users. This could be blocking someone from just a page or a namespace. You can read more. You can leave feedback on the talk page. [5]
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17:53, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
A message from Davidweltz
Hi Theinstantmatrix-
For some reason you removed the photo of Marvin Newman. I am the developer of his website. Marvin assures me that he has full rights to that picture.
Thanks, David Weltz
Davidweltz (talk) 22:13, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
- You're a month too late. That image is already deleted to protect the project from using media content that may not be legally used, so there's absolutely no reason for you to use the undo feature to "restore" the image as you attempted to do so here. As I (and others) told you already, the only way you're going to get the image restored is have the photographer of the image go through OTRS that declares that his/her image be released under a free license. Do not participate in disruptive editing every month and instead ask the person who took the photo of your subject to release the image under the free license via OTRS. Just for the record, here's the copyright-violating image that you've tried to upload to Commons for use on Wikipedia. theinstantmatrix (talk) 03:02, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
A message from Driving1972
Hi there, re Burgh Island addition - personally think it is interesting and important it's been sold and is being redeveloped. It's also factually correct.
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/devons-iconic-burgh-island-been-1448234
While I'm on what's the best format for adding references in the numbered section? Thanks for your help! Driving1972 (talk) 12:44, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
- I added it back, under a different wording. Sorry about that. You can see Help:Referencing for beginners for your future contributions. Thanks, theinstantmatrix (talk) 13:09, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 34, 2018)
 Guacamole is an avocado-based dip, spread, or salad first developed by the Aztecs in what is now Mexico.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Anna Anka • Club drug Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 20 August 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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A message from 2601:4A:C001:4580:C0FE:DACD:3AA8:5626
My earlier edits to Red Ash: The indelible Legend are simply character descriptions as any other page for a video game or anime or movie will often have, only they are the official descriptions and openly provided on the game's Kickstarter page. There is actually nothing even remotely copyright infringing about it. The website that you linked to took those descriptions from the official Kickstarter page. They did not create them. Plus, no one on the internet has the official list of the voice actors for the characters, which I retrieved from the official credits.
Reference: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mightyno9/red-ash-the-indelible-legend
This page is incredibly blank, and does not give n acceptable representation of what is actually available from this game. If you visit pages like Mega Man Legends or Pokémon (Anime), it has character sections precisely like the one I created for this page. I do believe it is appropriate for this page, just as it would be for any other page. Thank you. :-)
2601:4A:C001:4580:C0FE:DACD:3AA8:5626 (talk) 00:59, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
- So? It's still against policy to copy those character descriptions and paste it onto here. It did say on WP:VGSCOPE that lists of video game characters are inappropriate to add unless there's secondary sourcing, and that there is evidence it's notable enough to include it. In the case of The Indelible Legend, it's still an upcoming game, and it's highly unlikely a VG characters list would survive if one would add it into the page. Plus, just because you think it's "openly provided" does not mean you get to copy it and paste it as your own. Works are copyrighted by default, even when there's no copyright notice. theinstantmatrix (talk) 02:21, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
Wow, sore much, because you made a mistake, lol?
I'll write my own descriptions then. Again, every other page in the world has character descriptions, and if your too stubborn to include actually useful information the n, I'm sorry, you're failing to do the job Wikipedia is trying to do by providing appropriate information. You, sir, need to actually learn copyright, and maybe look up a few more pages that source things precisely as I did, because they're out there. but, you can do that work yourself. Bye-bye, Amigo.
~muah — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:4A:C001:4580:C0FE:DACD:3AA8:5626 (talk) 04:37, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 August. It will be on all wikis from 23 August (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The 2018 Community Wishlist Survey begins on 29 October. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 29 October to 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
- Legacy JavaScript global variables have been deprecated for seven years. They will soon be removed from all wikis. Gadgets and scripts that use them will stop working. You can test your community's gadgets on "group0" wikis. For example Test Wikipedia or mediawiki.org. The legacy JavaScript global variables are already disabled there. You can read the migration guide to fix old scripts. [6]
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16:46, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
Notice
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. SemiHypercube ✎ 10:43, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
A barnstar for you
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | |
| This is for your valuable efforts for reverting and protecting enwiki from Vandalism PATH SLOPU (Talk) 14:00, 23 August 2018 (UTC) |
This week's article for improvement (week 35, 2018)
 "The noblest motive is the public good." Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Guacamole • Anna Anka Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 27 August 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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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
- You can now see moved paragraphs in diffs in the mobile view. It also works on all languages in the desktop view. [7]
- Bureaucrats on all Wikimedia wikis can now remove the interface admin user right. [8]
Problems
- Some diffs show lines in the wrong order. The developers are working on fixing it. [9]
Changes later this week
- The message you see when you thank a user will change. This is to make it easier to understand. [10]
- AWB will stop adding
using AWBin the edit summary. Instead it will add a tag that saysAWB. [11] - Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says
Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example isarticle_textwhich is nowpage_title. [12] - Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is
page_age. [13] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 August. It will be on all wikis from 30 August (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 28 August at 18:30 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 August at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this.
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16:16, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
A message from Merona Brown
Hello,
I was just curious how to have my edit put back. I saw it was removed as it wasn't cited. I attended the wedding and wasn't sure how to put myself as a source.
Merona Brown (talk) 22:40, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
- Sorry, but Wikipedia doesn't accept original research (including your own personal experiences), nor we do not allow any unsourced/questionable statements about a living person. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for your own future contributions. theinstantmatrix (talk) 22:53, 31 August 2018 (UTC)