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Tech News: 2023-24

MediaWiki message delivery 14:48, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

Hello Frostly,

New Page Review queue April to June 2023

Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.

Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.

You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.

Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).

Reminders

Hi, thank you for your contributions. If a contested technical request is set to discuss=yes, as it was here [9] with AVICII Invector, it shouldn't be removed without starting a discussion on the relevant talk page. 162 etc. (talk) 16:30, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi @162 etc., thanks for the heads-up! Frostly (talk) 20:24, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2023)

Epileptic spike and wave discharges monitored EEG
Hello, Frostly. The article for improvement of the week is:

Electroencephalography

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Tank biathlon • Bible


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The Signpost: 19 June 2023

Tech News: 2023-25

MediaWiki message delivery 20:07, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

ConvoWizard study details

Hi Frostly,

This is Jonathan with the ConvoWizard study team. First off, thanks for indicating your interest in our study! We just wanted to give you a quick update that we're still waiting on more sign-ups, and will officially launch the study once we hit a "critical mass" of participants - once that happens we'll follow up with more details. In the meantime, please don't hesitate to reach out (via talk page, email, etc.) if you have any questions before we begin!

(And if you know anyone else who'd be potentially interested in ConvoWizard, please feel free to spread the word!)

-- Jonathan at CornellNLP (talk) 19:17, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2023)

The water frame is a spinning frame that is powered by a water-wheel.
Hello, Frostly. The article for improvement of the week is:

Water frame

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Electroencephalography • Tank biathlon


Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations


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Tech News: 2023-26

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Women in Red July 2023

Women in Red June 2023, Vol 9, Iss 7, Nos 251, 252, 274, 275, 276


Online events:

Tip of the month:

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--Lajmmoore (talk) 07:43, 27 June 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging

New pages patrol needs your help!

New pages awaiting review as of June 30th, 2023.

Hello Frostly,

The New Page Patrol team is sending you this impromptu message to inform you of a steeply rising backlog of articles needing review. If you have any extra time to spare, please consider reviewing one or two articles each day to help lower the backlog. You can start reviewing by visiting Special:NewPagesFeed. Thank you very much for your help.

Reminders:

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

Administrator changes

added Novem Linguae
removed

Bureaucrat changes

removed MBisanz

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

WikiProject Scouting Newsletter: July 2023

WikiProject Scouting | July 2023


Notes for July
  • On our To do list, we need to prioritize some tasks for articles outside of the US or the UK.
Announcements for the benefit of all
Other ways to participate

--evrik (talk)



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Question from Antonio Setaro (17:18, 2 July 2023)

Open account --Antonio Setaro (talk) 17:18, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Antonio Setaro, and welcome to Wikipedia! It looks like you’ve successfully made an account :) Best, Frostly (talk) 20:52, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 27, 2023)

Outdoor Tai chi practice in Beijing's Temple of Heaven
Hello, Frostly. The article for improvement of the week is:

Tai chi

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Water frame • Electroencephalography


Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations


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The Signpost: 3 July 2023

ConvoWizard study now live

Hi Frostly,

Just wanted to drop by and give another update that the ConvoWizard study you previously indicated interest in has officially launched. If you are still interested in participating, you can begin by filling out the following form, which also contains more detailed instructions: https://cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dm4TiyTZkTfIICO (note that the first page does ask again for the same information as the initial interest form you filled out, but subsequent pages of the form contain more new questions/information). Thanks again for your interest, and please let us know if you have any questions or comments!

-- Jonathan at CornellNLP (talk) 19:22, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-27

MediaWiki message delivery 22:49, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Question from Zeuz001 (15:46, 15 September 2023)

Uhm okay thanks.I'll let you know if i need any help --Zeuz001 (talk) 15:46, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 16 September 2023

This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2023)

Juice for public consumption
Hello, Frostly. The article for improvement of the week is:

Juice

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Antebellum South • Fishing industry


Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations


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Tech News: 2023-38

MediaWiki message delivery 19:18, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious
Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:46, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Question from Pigsterwasmtaken (07:43, 21 September 2023)

What’s the fastest way to get ip banned on Wikipedia --Pigsterwasmtaken (talk) 07:43, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Question from Pigsterwasmtaken (07:45, 21 September 2023)

If I publish an article, does it get public --Pigsterwasmtaken (talk) 07:45, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

New pages patrol newsletter

Hello Frostly,

New Page Review article queue, March to September 2023

Backlog update: At the time of this message, there are 11,300 articles and 15,600 redirects awaiting review. This is the highest backlog in a long time. Please help out by doing additional reviews!

October backlog elimination drive: A one-month backlog drive for October will start in one week! Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Articles will earn 4x as many points compared to redirects. You can sign up here.

PageTriage code upgrades: Upgrades to the PageTriage code, initiated by the NPP open letter in 2022 and actioned by the WMF Moderator Tools Team in 2023, are ongoing. More information can be found here. As part of this work, the Special:NewPagesFeed now has a new version in beta! The update leaves the NewPagesFeed appearance and function mostly identical to the old one, but updates the underlying code, making it easier to maintain and helping make sure the extension is not decommissioned due to maintenance issues in the future. You can try out the new Special:NewPagesFeed here - it will replace the current version soon.

Notability tip: Professors can meet WP:PROF #1 by having their academic papers be widely cited by their peers. When reviewing professor articles, it is a good idea to find their Google Scholar or Scopus profile and take a look at their h-index and number of citations. As a very rough rule of thumb, for most fields, articles on people with a h-index of twenty or more, a first-authored paper with more than a thousand citations, or multiple papers each with more than a hundred citations are likely to be kept at AfD.

Reviewing tip: If you would like like a second opinion on your reviews or simply want another new page reviewer by your side when patrolling, we recommend pair reviewing! This is where two reviewers use Discord voice chat and screen sharing to communicate with each other while reviewing the same article simultaneously. This is a great way to learn and transfer knowledge.

Reminders:

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Question from Kavi Sandeep Mohan on User:Kavi Sandeep Mohan (07:55, 23 September 2023)

How to submitte my photo in my page --Kavi Sandeep Mohan (talk) 07:55, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2023)

vs graph for a moving particle under a non-uniform acceleration .
Hello, Frostly. The article for improvement of the week is:

Motion

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Juice • Antebellum South


Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations


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Tech News: 2023-39

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Question from Tictak211 (06:09, 28 September 2023)

Delete my account please. I don't want to be associated with this cursed website. --Tictak211 (talk) 06:09, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

@Tictak211: you might want to use the vanishing process. Best, Frostly (talk) 15:35, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red October 2023

Women in Red October 2023, Vol 9, Iss 10, Nos 251, 252, 284, 285, 286


Online events:

See also

Tip of the month:

Other ways to participate:

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TheWikiWizard - September 2023

Hello, Frostly! Here is the September 2023 for the TheWikiWizard!

Wiki(p/m)edia News

  • On the EN Wikipedia, there were 4 successful RFAs between the period of July and September! Congrats to the candidates! Also on Simple English Wikipedia, they had 1 successful RFA in August!
  • For those wondering why you were unable to edit for a period of time on 20th September, there was a server testing going on. You can follow the link to read more. We will always inform you here if one of these kinds of tests is going to take place, or has taken place. You can also head on over to the Meta Wiki main page, information on these kinds of tests will always be displayed there.
  • Did you know you that Wikimedia Commons has monthly photo challenges? You can check out more here!
  • The USA has viewed Wikipedia 4 Billion times in August!
  • The Talysh Wikipedia was recently created!

Humor

  • It's almost fall again! (or is it already?) Don't fall on fallen leaves!
  • One moment it's raining, the next its too hot. Welcome to fall!

Editor's Notes

  • Quite a bit has happened since our last issue! Thanks for your patience during our gap of inactivity between issues!
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WikiProject Tree of Life Newsletter Issue 22

September 2023—Issue 022


Tree of Life


Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
Newly recognized content

List of cercopithecoids by PresN
List of tapaculos by AryKun
Polar bear by Little Jerry
Ohmdenosaurus by Jens Lallensack
Amargatitanis by Augustios Paleo, reviewed by Jens Lallensack
Teloschistaceae by Esculenta, reviewed by Chiswick Chap
Holozoa by Snoteleks, reviewed by Esculenta
Ashy flycatcher by AryKun, reviewed by Jens Lallensack
Nyctibatrachus radcliffei by AryKun, reviewed by Jens Lallensack
Carcharodontosaurus by Augustios Paleo, reviewed by SilverTiger12
Life by Chiswick Chap, reviewed by Jens Lallensack
Apatosaurinae by Augustios Paleo, reviewed by Jens Lallensack
Hypericum perforatum by Fritzmann2002, reviewed by Femke

Newly nominated content

Mountain pigeon by AryKun
List of hominoids by PresN
List of cranes by AryKun
List of tarsiiformes by PresN
Lycorma meliae by Etriusus
Aristonectes by Amirani1746
Animal echolocation by Chiswick Chap
Hyalospheniidae by Snoteleks
Buellia frigida by Snoteleks


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This week's article for improvement (week 40, 2023)

Chinese blue and white porcelain jar, Ming dynasty, 15th century
Hello, Frostly. The article for improvement of the week is:

The arts

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Motion • Juice


Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations


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Tech News: 2023-40

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The Signpost: 3 October 2023

Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

Technical news

  • Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


The Bugle: Issue 210, October 2023

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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 05:39, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 41, 2023)

Witch-hunting is commonly motivated by religious superstition.
Hello, Frostly. The article for improvement of the week is:

Superstition

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: The arts • Motion


Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations


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Tech News: 2023-41

MediaWiki message delivery 14:37, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Requesting mentorship

Hello,

I write to ask whether you're still participating in Adopt-a-user and would be willing to mentor me! Most of my edits are limited to references and MOS so far, but indeed because I'm diffident regarding more involved contributions.

Thank you, regardless!

spida-tarbell ❀ (talk) (contribs) 00:42, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi Spida-tarbell, and welcome to Wikipedia! Sure, I'd be happy to act as a mentor. Here's some info on how that could look like; let me know if this sounds good and what your needs are! — Frostly (talk) 00:47, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: September 2023





Headlines
  • Argentina report: Disseminating open culture
  • Brazil report: Amazonia on Wiki
  • Colombia report: Wikidata and the editing of Ibero-American scientific journals
  • France report: Celebrating Rugby Herstory and History in Toulouse; Les Lorraines sans pages
  • India report: Wikimedia Commons Contest connects Pune citizens with the rivers Mula & Mutha
  • Italy report: 10,000 institutions on the Wikimedia projects
  • New Zealand report: West Coast Wikipedian at Large
  • Poland report: GLAM-Wiki educational activities
  • Portugal report: With multiple events, September was a busy month for Wikimedia Portugal
  • Sweden report: Wikipedia in education; Continuation at Swedish folk high schools; Wikipedians at the Bookfair
  • UK report: A new WIR and a very old book
  • USA report: Wikimedia New York City Election 2023; San Diego/September 2023; Climate Change and Food Safety
  • Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: OpenRefine and Wikimedia Commons: train the trainer course participants and two surveys
  • Wiki Loves Living Heritage report: European photo contest finalists, Local Contexts Wikiproject at GLAMhack
  • WMF GLAM report: Wikisource Loves Manuscripts, ICOM outreach, Flickr Foundation partnership, OpenRefine adoption, new sources in The Wikipedia Library, Image Description Month events, and the GLAM Wiki Conference
  • Calendar: October's GLAM events
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Question from Gyarizlingnigpluh123rapmeyuh (03:40, 14 October 2023)

hola, como esta negro? como te llamas??? gyat donde? --Gyarizlingnigpluh123rapmeyuh (talk) 03:40, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Gyarizlingnigpluh123rapmeyuh, you might want to take a look at the Spanish Wikipedia 🙂 — Frostly (talk) 03:52, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 42, 2023)

An IT8.7 Target by LaserSoft Imaging
Hello, Frostly. The article for improvement of the week is:

Color calibration

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Superstition • The arts


Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations


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ELECTCOM 2023 closure

Hi Frostly, I hope this note finds you well. I was surprised by your ELECTCOM RfC closure appointing Illusion Flame to be a reserve commissioner (ping for courtesy). I have the deepest respect for Illusion Flame and really appreciate their offering to serve. However, respectfully, I do not believe the RfC supports this outcome. In 2020, the ElectCom RfC closer found consensus to appoint only one reserve commissioner. When asked to explain, the closer wrote: [I]n closing, I do not feel the amount of endorsements that [two unsuccessful candidates] received reflected a rough consensus for appointment. As the EC RfC specifically only asks for endorsements, opposition (or lesser preference) can only be inferred through lack of endorsements by using the endorsements of the other candidates as a measuring tool. A review of the last several years shows that 0,1,or 2 reservists have been used. In that case, the closer declined to find consensus to appoint the fifth-ranked user as reserve commissioner when they received roughly half the endorsements of the top finisher (19 endorsements to 42). In this case, Illusion Flame received less than one sixth the number of endorsements as the top candidate (11 endorsements to 75). Judging by the 2020 standard, even BusterD's appointment would benefit from further consideration, though I think if I had been closer, I would have found consensus for BusterD (after considering that the first reserve slot is more critical to fill than the second). In any event, I would respectfully ask that you reconsider the RfC closure. Best, KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 06:51, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi Kevin, thanks for your message. I originally found consensus for Illusion Flame as the comments section also included some positive sentiment towards the editor. I definitely recognize the existing precedent involved, though; as such, I have modified my close. I appreciate your diligence. Sincerely, — Frostly (talk) 21:57, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
Thank you! KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 22:17, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2023-42

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Question from Ca+hode (11:19, 17 October 2023)

Hello, I would like to edit only articles in Romanian so far. Where can I change this preference? --Ca+hode (talk) 11:19, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Ca+hode, welcome to Wikipedia! Check out the Romanian Wikipedia. Best, — Frostly (talk) 15:42, 17 October 2023 (UTC)