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Earth Day 2022 Edit-a-thon - April 22nd - 2PM EST
edit| You're invited! NYC Earth Day 2022 Edit-a-thon! April 22nd! | |
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Sure We Can and the Environment of New York City Task Force invite you to join us for:
This Edit-a-Thon is part of a larger Earth Day celebration, hosted by Brooklyn based recycling and community center Sure We Can, that runs from 1PM-7PM and is open to the public! See this flyer for more information: https://www.instagram.com/p/CcGr4FyuqEa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link | |
How adverse is DYK...
editThe Signpost: 4 September 2024
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Tech News: 2024-37
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Feature news
- Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page. [1][2]
- Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions
entity:getSitelink()andmw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid)will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [3]
Project updates
- Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [4]
- Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new
MOSnamespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning withMOS:(usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language codemos). [5]
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Sep 25: Wikimedia NYC Annual Election Meeting (plus Latin music event on Sep 21!)
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our Annual Election & Members Meeting, with in-person at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, as well as an online-based participation option. The Members' Meeting is similar to other WikiWednesday meetups, except that its primary function is to elect a new Board of Directors. We will elect three board seats, half of the elected seats on the board. After being elected, those elected can potentially appoint more seats. We will also focus on the Wikimedia NYC Strategic Plan, our Financial Report, and Annual and Monthly event teams for the coming year. Election info:
Meeting info:
All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. P.S. Also upcoming just before our annual meeting is the Latin music edit-a-thon, Wikicurious: Editing to the Beat (RSVP at Eventbrite), on Saturday September 21! | |
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--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:57, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
Wierzba/IsraPara2/שקולניק block
editHi Roy. In May you blocked Wierzba (talk · contribs), IsraPara2 (talk · contribs) and שקולניק (talk · contribs), saying that CheckUser showed them to be the same person, despite the fact that none of them were the editors being reported for sockpuppetry – they simply seem to have been picked up during a scan of some kind. I have only just found out about this, and I don't think it is correct. I've been editing since 2005 and have interacted with Wierzba occasionally in that time (they have been editing since 2006). In the time I've known them, they have shown no inclination for disruption or controversial topics and generally stuck to gnome-like edits on Israeli politicians.
While I never interacted with IsraPara2 or שקולניק, I see that similarly, they were largely focussed on one topic (Israeli para-athletes and Israeli politicians respectively) and did not edit in any controversial topic areas nor get into any disputes. All three of them also edit Hebrew Wikipedia without issue.
A few years ago, several Israeli editors, two of whom that I had interacted with and were not in any way troublemakers were accused of being sockpuppets and blocked based on checkuser evidence. You can see that case here. However, it appears that the two I knew (Eranrabl (talk · contribs) and SuperJew (talk · contribs)) had been caught up in some weird Israel-related IP issue that made it appear they were the same editor but they were not.
I appealed to ARBCOM and provided evidence of the two editors' real life identities. Several other editors also supported them (as seen here and here) and eventually both were unblocked (you can see in the block logs that they made successful appeals).
There is clearly some weird issue with Israeli IPs, and I believe the Wierzba/IsraPara2/שקולניק situation is the same as previously occurred with Eranrabl and SuperJew – the three accounts were not disruptive and there was no benefit or rationale for them socking. Please could you consider unblocking them. I am happy to make the case at WP:AN if needed. Cheers, Number 57 01:25, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
- @Number 57 I think the best I can do here is repeat what I wrote in the SPI:
the technical and behavioral data really are indisputable that IsraPara2, שקולניק, and Wierzba are all the same person, but there's no good reason to believe they are Tombah
. I just reviewed my notes from my original investigation, and I'll stand by that statement. I also just consulted off-wiki with another CU who agrees with me. You are welcome to take this to WP:AN if you want, but given how heavily this depends on checkuser data, I think arbcom is really the place to file an appeal, per WP:CUBL. RoySmith (talk) 01:50, 10 September 2024 (UTC)- OK, I will contact ARBCOM. However, could you clarify the behavioural argument? I've looked at their contributions and I don't see any behavioural links between IsraPara2 and the other two. Number 57 14:27, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
- I'm unable to say anything more in a public forum. If arbcom contacts me, I will be happy to answer their questions. RoySmith (talk) 14:43, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
- OK, I will contact ARBCOM. However, could you clarify the behavioural argument? I've looked at their contributions and I don't see any behavioural links between IsraPara2 and the other two. Number 57 14:27, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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| Thanks for managing to get Austin J. Tobin Plaza on the 9/11 queue! Sir MemeGod :D (talk - contribs - created articles) 16:02, 10 September 2024 (UTC) |
Hey Roy, hope you're doing well. I really valued your nitpicks and fine-tooth combing over iMac G3 when it was up at FAC. I've got a peer review open for the iMac G4 right now at Wikipedia:Peer review/IMac G4/archive1 in preparation for a Featured Article nomination, and if you had any time I'd appreciate a look-see. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs talk 19:12, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
- Hey, I think we had one of those in my office! No promises, but if I get a chance I'll take a look. RoySmith (talk) 20:42, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
Sep 21: Wikicurious for Latin Music: Editing to the Beat ♫
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for the "Editing to the Beat" event of the beginner-focused Wikicurious series at Lehman College. This is the second event of the series, following the inaugural event at Civic Hall in July. Led by a 9-person live band demonstrating Caribbean and Latin musical genres, we'll engage with efforts such as WikiProject Latin Music, and will encourage editing on both English and Spanish Wikipedia. All are welcome, and newcomers and aspiring editors are especially encouraged to attend. Registration via Eventbrite is required for building entry, and is also encouraged on the event page on Meta. The Wikicurious series is supported by Craig Newmark Philanthropies. Wikimedia NYC is an official affiliate and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. Also supporting this event are Equis, The Celia Cruz Foundation, and the International Museum of Salsa. In association with WikiCari and AfroCrowd. All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. Meeting info:
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P.S. Upcoming WikiNYC meetups:
- Wed Sep 25: Wikimedia NYC Annual Election/Members Meeting 2024!
- Sat Oct 26: Wikidata Day 2024!
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--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:20, 14 September 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-38
editLatest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Improvements and Maintenance
Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.
- The new automated Special:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. [6]
- References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed. [7]
- It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order. [8]
Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
- Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes
mw-message-boxneed to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newercdx-messagegroup of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. [9]
Technical project updates
- Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible. [10]
Tech in depth
- Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are more details and links available in the Phabricator task.
- Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.
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September music
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Thank you for understanding my hook exactly as I meant it, - that's so unusual! - My story today is about a man who played jazz when it was banned by the Nazis, - you can listen to how they played it later. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:39, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
Thank you again, - my story today about one of the greatest users I had the honour to meet here, mentioned in my edit notice. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:21, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
- To be fair, I think you could make these things go smoother by being more accommodating of suggestions from reviewers. 11 editors invested 9 days arguing over this. It didn't need to be that complicated. RoySmith (talk) 20:37, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
- I agree completely that it should not be complicated. The original hook could have been modified a bit, instead of struck. Next time I'll call you for mediation sooner, if there is a next time that is. I really try to avoid DYK but with a brandnew article about a woman musician, I failed to resist the temptation to tell the world about her. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:50, 19 September 2024 (UTC)