User talk:Enterprisey/Archive 13

Hi! Thank you for your kind offer to review the draft of the Vector (2022) deployment RfC. It's already on wiki. Be bold and edit or add your thoughts on the talk page, whatever you're more comfortable with. Also, at the top of the page, we've put a box with two questions, and we'd be interested in learning your opinion. Thanks! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 14:32, 1 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the link; feedback left. Enterprisey (talk!) 06:13, 8 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

Is there anyone that you might suggest that I ask for feedback on the Responder? I asked Beeblebrox for his input, and it provided some valuable insight. Maybe an opposer of one of those old RFCs? There are probably a few that are still active and willing to give advice. CollectiveSolidarity (talk) 00:45, 14 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hm. Try Kudpung, Steel1943, MusikAnimal, Kusma, k6ka, but I'd recommend only one or two from that list at first, and slowly. Enterprisey (talk!) 05:36, 14 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hi Enterprisey! Your amazing vote history tool doesn't appear to be working for Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Deployment of Vector (2022). If there's a simple reason why, it might be worth fixing; otherwise we can count manually haha {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 02:53, 23 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Sdkb, fixed a silly bug and it looks better now. Counts might still be off, though. Enterprisey (talk!) 03:38, 23 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

EnterpriseyBot's task "Archive WP:GO" failed to run per the configuration specified at Wikipedia:Bot activity monitor/Configurations. Detected only 0 edits in the last 1 week, whereas at least 1 was expected. If/when the issue is fixed, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. When that is done, this notice will be reposted if the bot task is still broken or is re-broken. If your bot is behaving as expected, then you may want to modify the task configuration instead. Or to unsubscribe from bot failure notifications, remove the |notify= parameter from the {{/task}} template. Thanks! – SDZeroBot (talk) 00:20, 16 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

Didn't expect that failure mode... someone had created the destination page. Enterprisey (talk!) 16:43, 16 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

i have a cross-wiki project and recently found out that you made this https://apersonbot.toolforge.org/recently-active/, i update everything manually and i am a bit tired, can you please help me with my project? —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 17:19, 16 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Sakura emad, if you have specific questions I'd be happy to answer them. For broader help on making a bot to automatically create a list like yours, I would recommend WP:BOTREQ. Enterprisey (talk!) 20:01, 16 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

yes WP:BOTREQ is helpful too, but i have specific questions, your Recently Active Users script finds active users on En Wiki, but instead of just 'English wikipedia' can i change it as i like, so the script works on other projects too, and i can easily find active users without searching throughout special:ActiveUsers? —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 20:09, 16 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

I use mw:API:Recentchanges, which works on any project. Enterprisey (talk!) 20:56, 16 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

EnterpriseyBot's task "Update BOTREQ status" failed to run per the configuration specified at Wikipedia:Bot activity monitor/Configurations. Detected only 0 edits in the last 1 week, whereas at least 1 was expected. If/when the issue is fixed, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. When that is done, this notice will be reposted if the bot task is still broken or is re-broken. If your bot is behaving as expected, then you may want to modify the task configuration instead. Or to unsubscribe from bot failure notifications, remove the |notify= parameter from the {{/task}} template. Thanks! – SDZeroBot (talk) 20:20, 20 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

Fixed by removing from config and stopping the bot task. Enterprisey (talk!) 03:34, 18 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

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

  Administrator changes

•  
  • Isabelle Belato
  • Whpq
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  • Atama
  • Astronautics~enwiki
  • Athaenara
  • Eddie891
  • GraemeL
  • Marianocecowski
  • Natalya
  • Pratyeka
  • SB Johnny

  Interface administrator changes

•   TheresNoTime
•   Ragesoss

 

  CheckUser changes

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  • Blablubbs
  • Firefly
•   Joe Roe

  Oversight changes

•   DGG

  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}}.

Good Morning, Enterprisy. I have a request for a tool. One that lets anyone and voluntarily subscribe to the notifications the article creator gets. As far as I have noticed those are links to and from other articles and the userviews. I like the notifications as then I get aware the subject might have received some attention and some new info might be there to report. Same goes with the userviews as if one article suddenly rises in media attention there are likely some more news available with which one can update the article. If such a tool already exists, let me know. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 15:44, 17 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Paradise Chronicle, this might be better placed at WP:SCRIPTREQ. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:38, 17 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, wasn't aware of that venue. I also noticed that the idea is not fully developed. If one could think of a watchlist for page views for notifications where one can add or remove an article. Will go to that venue. Paradise Chronicle (talk) 17:33, 17 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hello friend. When you get a chance, you may be interested in fixing a bug in the userscript cv-revdel. More info at phab:T323347. cc Blaze Wolf. Thanks. –Novem Linguae (talk) 03:16, 18 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

Fixed. Enterprisey (talk!) 03:26, 18 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hi, the archiver script did not completely archive this. The last thread (which was pretty big) was broken mid sentence. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 15:09, 25 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

One more here. As the edit summary says, I selected 25 threads to archive, but it archived 31 threads. The last 3 characters of the last thread was left behind. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 16:52, 25 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

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

  Administrator changes

 

• Eddie891
• Euryalus
• TheresNoTime

 

• Alex.muller
• Excirial
• RedWordSmith
• Ron Ritzman
• TheresNoTime
• Stephen

  Interface administrator changes

  TheresNoTime

  TheresNoTime

 

  CheckUser changes

  TheresNoTime

  Oversight changes

  TheresNoTime

  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 /64 to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.

 

 

 

 

Hello Enterprisey: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 03:16, 12 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

 

MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 03:16, 12 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hi Enterprisey! I wanted to invite you to join this conversation next month if you're free. I know you've thought a lot about how to improve the editing experience, so I think your insights would be valuable. Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 07:03, 15 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for the invitation! I'll try to make it. Enterprisey (talk!) 08:34, 18 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hi Enterprisey! Hope you're doing well. I was wondering if you were able to run EnterpriseyBot for the AfC backlog drive next month. If you aren't able to, I've created a script that has similar functionality, but I will need to create a BRFA for my bot before running it. Thanks! — Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 22:22, 20 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Ingenuity, I would be able to run the bot. If you want to use your script that's fine too. I would be happy to speedily approve the BRFA, because from my experience with the last drive, you'll have to tweak it a lot during the drive and we might as well get to that stage sooner rather than later. Enterprisey (talk!) 06:40, 28 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for your response. My BRFA was approved for a trial by Xaosflux yesterday, and I've been testing the script out. It appears to work so far, so hopefully I won't have to make too many changes next month. — Ingenuity (talk • contribs) 01:32, 29 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

 

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year, Enterprisey!

The other day, I was having a conversation with someone about holiday cards and social media. It occurred to me that, in the years since I left Facebook, the site I use most to communicate with people I like isn't actually a social media site at all. If you're receiving this, it's pretty likely I've talked with you more recently than I have my distant relatives and college friends on FB, at very least, and we may have even collaborated on something useful. So here's a holiday "card", Wikipedia friend. :) Hope the next couple weeks bring some fun and/or rest. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 18:22, 22 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, whether it's Christmas or some other festival, I hope you and those close to you have a happy, restful time! Have fun, Donner60 (talk) 00:16, 23 December 2022 (UTC)}} Reply

Donner60 (talk) 01:27, 24 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

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

  Administrator changes

 

• ComplexRational
• Extraordinary Writ

  Stephen

 

• Andrew Yong
• Dbenbenn
• DESiegel
• GlassCobra
• Joe Decker
• Nancy
• Pathoschild
• StuffOfInterest
• William Pietri
• Wwwwolf
• Xdamr

  Interface administrator changes

  Nihiltres

 

  CheckUser changes

  Moneytrees

 

• Ivanvector
• SilkTork

  Oversighter changes

 

• GeneralNotability
• Moneytrees

 

• Guerillero
• SilkTork

  Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.

  Arbitration

• Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, SilkTork.
• The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.

  Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
• Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.

EnterpriseyBot's task "Archive WP:GO" failed to run per the configuration specified at Wikipedia:Bot activity monitor/Configurations. Detected only 0 edits in the last 1 week, whereas at least 1 was expected. If/when the issue is fixed, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. When that is done, this notice will be reposted if the bot task is still broken or is re-broken. If your bot is behaving as expected, then you may want to modify the task configuration instead. Or to unsubscribe from bot failure notifications, remove the |notify= parameter from the {{/task}} template. Thanks! – SDZeroBot (talk) 00:20, 29 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

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

Administrator changes   Gimmetrow   Bjelleklang Bob the Wikipedian Leithp WhisperToMe 100 inactive admins

CheckUser changes   BDD Bradv Donald Albury Maxim MusikAnimal   Oversighter changes   BDD Bradv Donald Albury Maxim

  Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
• Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.

  Technical news

• The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

  Arbitration

• The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
• In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.

  Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
• Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.

Hello! Just wanted to let you know that your bot's "BOTREQ status" page (permalink) will incorrectly transclude templates if they are a part of section names, which obviously messes up the table entry, and sometimes leads to error categorization. :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 05:20, 26 February 2023 (UTC)Reply

(talk page watcher) @Eejit43: It's not the bot's fault, MOS:NOSECTIONLINKS says that for technical reasons, section headings should not contain template transclusions. The fix is to remove the template. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 09:36, 26 February 2023 (UTC)Reply

@Redrose64 completely forgot about that, sorry! Thanks! :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 15:50, 26 February 2023 (UTC)Reply

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

Administrator changes   The Wordsmith   Fuhghettaboutit Spinningspark (deceased)

CheckUser changes   Callanecc   Oversighter changes   Callanecc

  Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
• Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
• A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline.

  Technical news

• The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.

  Arbitration

• Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
• The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023.
• A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon.

  Miscellaneous

• The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
• Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
• The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a [p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.

https://afdstats.toolforge.org/ doesn't work atm:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/data/project/afdstats/public_html/afdstats.py", line 90, in main db = MySQLdb.connect(db='enwiki_p', host="enwiki.labsdb", read_default_file=os.path.expanduser("~/replica.my.cnf")) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 86, in Connect return Connection(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 204, in __init__ super(Connection, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs2) OperationalError: (1045, "Access denied for user 's51480'@'10.64.37.27' (using password: YES)") None

Fatal error. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:24, 10 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

Ran into the same error myself today--it seems like it occurs irrespective of which editor the search is conducted on. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 17:47, 10 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

@Rosguill Seems to be up again. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:34, 11 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hi, I created a fork of your StatusChanger here, hope that fine with you. 1AmNobody24 (talk) 18:31, 24 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

Neat! Enterprisey (talk!) 05:50, 1 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

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

Administrator changes   Aoidh   KillerChihuahua

CheckUser changes   Ferret

  Guideline and policy news

• A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.

  Technical news

• Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
• The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
• A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.

  Arbitration

• The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
• A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

You should update the edit summary to link to your current username (great script btw). Galobtter (talk) 08:53, 30 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

(talk page watcher) User:APerson/sync-template-sandbox exists as a working redirect, so WP:NOTBROKEN? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 11:17, 30 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

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

Administrator changes   Spicy   Ale jrb Dbachmann DGG (deceased) Jimbo Wales

CheckUser changes   Jimbo Wales   Oversighter changes   Jimbo Wales

  Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

  Technical news

• Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.

  Arbitration

• The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.

  Miscellaneous

• The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.

Please review https://github.com/enterprisey/afdstats/pull/17 and https://github.com/enterprisey/afdstats/pull/16. Thanks. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 03:03, 7 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

Merged and deployed, thanks. Enterprisey (talk!) 04:26, 8 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hello, Enterprisey,

I just saw your comment on the thread I started on WP:AN. I haven't read PROD policy with a fine-tooth comb, but I do know how admins currently handle Proposed deletions. There are basically four admins who review PRODs on a regular basis, myself, Explicit, GB fan and Voice of Clam and after we thoroughly review the articles, if deletion is suitable, then deletion occurs at or after one week after the article was tagged for deletion. This day and time is indicated prominently on the PROD tag. It's hard to miss this "expiration time". While this procedure might not be specified in policy but it was how I learned how to handle PRODs and it's how the admins who review PRODs handle them. Additionally, I'll add that two of the PRODs prematurely deleted by BigHaz had their PROD tags later removed (one by me, one by Explicit) after they were restored because there were objections to the article deletion and PRODs are for uncontroversial deletions, not for ones that are contested. So, obviously, these kinds of article reviews do not occur when an admin just blindly deletes all of the articles in a category. I also think admin duties were previously handled in a much more casual, less accountable way years ago than they are currently handled. A few arbitration cases over the past 5 years have gotten the message across to admins to act responsibly.

I don't want to rehash the discussion on AN. But I think you found a technicality for why this wasn't disruptive that doesn't coincide with the behavior of admins who take on PROD review as a regular task. If another admin started prematurely deleting PRODs like this again, it would not only be me who would object but other admins as well. This is not OWN behavior it's just that if you are an admin who closes TFD discussions, then you know how that system works, if you patrol CSD categories, then you are familar with the different speedy deletion criteria and how and when they are applied. My mistake was jumping to AN instead of waiting for a talk page reply from BigHaz. That was an error on my part but considering the circumstances (a formerly inactive admin conducting bold deletions), it was a jarring change from how PRODs have been handled for the five years I've been reviewing them although I admit that I jumped to the wrong conclusion. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:50, 7 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

The tag on the PROD'd article I just deleted states The article may be deleted if this message remains in place for seven days, i.e., after 03:58, 7 May 2023 (UTC).. That seems like pretty clear admin instructions to me (if one takes the time to review the deletion tag). Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:07, 7 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

Yeah, not noticing objections to PRODs is a pretty big error, and I also missed that the precise deadline is shown in the template. I appreciate the follow-up. Enterprisey (talk!) 04:53, 8 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for AFCH, which certainly saves me work. But I happened to notice that its automated addition of an article to a list somehow resulted in a smaller file. (It performed this feat by deleting another entry.) A known problem? -- Hoary (talk)

@Hoary:, fwiw, if it doesn't remove an older entry while adding a new one, the list would not be of "recent AfC creations" but of general AfC creations that have been approved so far. This is not a problem. The list is a list of recent AfC approved drafts and not an archive. I hope this clarifies yours doubt. ─ The Aafī on Mobile ^(talk) 18:21, 14 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

AafiOnMobile, well: Duh. (Where do I apply for a brain upgrade?) -- Hoary (talk) 22:08, 14 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

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

Administrator changes   Ingenuity   Ddstretch Prodego Resolute

CheckUser changes   Courcelles

  Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
• As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

  Technical news

• Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

  Arbitration

• The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

  Miscellaneous

• Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.

Hi Enterprisey, I was recently looking at your automated Wikipediholic test (https://apersonbot.toolforge.org/wikipediholism-test). I was thinking maybe I could make a remake or update to the automated test as it has been a while since it was last updated with new questions and could also use a refresher in visuals. I was wondering if that would be OK with you. Thanks, Urban Versis 32^KB ⚡ ^{(talk / contribs)} 00:14, 28 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

@Urban Versis 32, heck yeah! Feel free. Enterprisey (talk!) 14:58, 5 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

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

 

  Administrator changes

  Novem Linguae

 

• Deckiller
• Electionworld
• MBisanz
• Penwhale
• Raul654
• Roadrunner
• Viridae
• Yannismarou

  Bureaucrat changes

  MBisanz

  Guideline and policy news

• Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.

  Technical news

• Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.

  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.

I just rollbacked vandalism on one of your scripts and the vandal edit was done some months ago. I came to the script page through WP:CHUS. Makes me believe such pages should be at the least not allowed to be edited by IPs. ─ The Aafī (talk) 20:17, 19 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

(talk page watcher) @TheAafi: That's not the script, it's the documentation. The script is at User:Enterprisey/rename-reason-fixer.js, which is only editable by Enterprisey (as page owner) plus the other eleven WP:INTADMINs. This is the case for all .js and .css pages in user space. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:08, 19 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

@Redrose64 ohh sorry, not sure how I missed this. I am aware that js and css pages aren't editable by others. I was pointing out to related doc pages that carry necessary information about these scripts. Best, ─ The Aafī (talk) 00:01, 20 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

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

 

  Administrator changes

  Firefangledfeathers

 

• AlisonW
• Amberrock
• Closedmouth
• Scottywong

  Interface administrator changes

  Novem Linguae

  Technical news

• The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
• Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)

  Arbitration

• The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
• The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.

You are receiving this message as one of the overseers of TFA Protector Bot. I have just closed the TFA semi-protection RfC with consensus to implement both it and its sub-RfC. I leave the finer details in the hands of the bot operators. Your service is appreciated :) CaptainEek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!}⚓ 22:30, 28 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

As a further note, in case you already read my close, I have amended my close after a conversation with Sdkb, withdrawing my close of the sub-RfC. CaptainEek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!}⚓ 23:35, 28 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

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

Administrator changes   Pppery Theleekycauldron   Dwheeler G.A.S Royalbroil Ssd

CheckUser changes   Bradv   Oversighter changes   Bradv

  Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
• A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that [s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

  Technical news

• Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)

  Arbitration

• The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

  Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

Hi Enterprisey. Thanks for all the scripts! I'm having an issue with the cv-revdel request script where unchecking the "Include End?" box doesn't just remove the most recent version from the range requested, but cause the script to ignore the whole range except the oldest version. Another user had the same issue, and the problem persisted when I tested it using a fresh install on my alt account. Any ideas? Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 20:26, 26 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

@Firefangledfeathers, thanks for the report. That's interesting. I believe the script's wording needs updating. In the {{Copyvio-revdel}} docs, it seems that not including the "end" parameter means that only the single oldest revision is marked. However, as you're saying, one meaning of "Include End?" is that the whole range is marked except for the final revision - which isn't what the script actually does. We can fix this by changing what the checkbox says. Perhaps it should just say "Start Only?". But that would confuse people who've gotten used to the current behavior, where the checkbox being selected means that it's in "range" mode. I guess we could just change it to "Range?", but that seems cryptic. I think that's our best bet, though. I'll change it to "Range?" and update both the instructions in the script and in the docs. If you have any thoughts on that, let me know. Enterprisey (talk!) 03:47, 28 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the quick response! I searched through the archives of this user talk page and the one associated with the script, and the whole time I was thinking "has no one else ever encountered this issue?". I think that may have been a sign that no one was interpreting the checkbox label the way I was, so maybe no change is needed! Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 13:01, 28 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

If one person speaks up, I figure it's good practice to guess that several others have encountered the issue but not spoken up, so I think your confusion was warranted and I definitely appreciate you telling me about it!   Enterprisey (talk!) 19:34, 29 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

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

Administrator changes   Hey man im josh   Alex Bakharev CorbieVreccan Cyphoidbomb Davodd Hog Farm JamesR KnightLago Mark Ironie Nosebagbear (deceased) Rschen7754 Tamzin TonyBallioni

CheckUser changes   DatGuy   Ferret RickinBaltimore   TonyBallioni Worm That Turned   Oversighter changes   RickinBaltimore   TonyBallioni Worm That Turned

  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

• Remedy 9 ("MarioProtIV topic ban") of the WikiProject Tropical Cyclones case has been rescinded.

  Miscellaneous

• The 2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of one new CheckUser.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.

Hello. Why did your bot remove the class=Redirect here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Active_data_structure&diff=prev&oldid=1181335519  ? Christian75 (talk) 09:20, 25 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

(talk page watcher) @Christian75: Because it's redundant. Most class values are autodetected, including Redirect-class; the only ones that normally need to be set explicitly are those for actual articles and lists: Stub, Start, List, C, B, GA, A, FA, FL, and FM. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:28, 25 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

@Redrose64: So why was it changed to NA? Christian75 (talk) 22:27, 25 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

It wasn't. The diff that you supplied shows the removal of |class=Redirect. In the absence of the parameter, a default value is used; and the facts that (i) the banner displays the text "This redirect is within the scope of ..."; a grey box containing the word "Redirect"; and also the text "This redirect does not require a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale." and (ii) the page is in Category:Redirect-Class Computer science articles both indicate that the automatically-selected value is not NA but Redirect. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:33, 26 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

I'm sorry. I thought I saw it was replaced with NA. My mistake. Christian75 (talk) 12:04, 27 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

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

 

  Administrator changes

  0xDeadbeef

  Tamzin

  Dennis Brown

  Interface administrator changes

  Pppery

 

• Ragesoss
• TheresNoTime

  Guideline and policy news

  Technical news

• The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
• There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

  Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
• Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
• Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
• Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
• Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
• Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
• An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

  Miscellaneous

• The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!