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RFA2024 update: Discussion-only period now open for review
[edit]Hi there! The trial of the RfA discussion-only period passed at WP:RFA2024 has concluded, and after open discussion, the RfC is now considering whether to retain, modify, or discontinue it. You are invited to participate at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase II/Discussion-only period. Cheers, and happy editing! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:38, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
Congrats!
[edit]G'day Hawkeye, congrats on being re-elected lead coord! Thanks for all your attention to detail and work for the project. Warm regards, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:57, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you! I have been in Europe at Wikimania and the Paralympics for the past month but am back now. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 09:15, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-40
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- Readers of 42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
- Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding
?veaction=editsourceto the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences. [1] - For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin. Learn more about the changes related to donor experiences. [2]
- The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been enabled on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Wikipedia has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Wikipedia and on Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
- View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.
In depth
- The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes. [3]
Meetings and events
- October 4–6: WikiIndaba Conference's Hackathon in Johannesburg, South Africa
- November 4–6: MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 in Vienna, Austria
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MediaWiki message delivery 22:16, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
Congratulations from the Military History Project
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Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history) | |
| On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history) for participating in 10 reviews between July and September 2024. Donner60 (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 00:31, 3 October 2024 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste |
Tech News: 2024-41
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [4]
Updates for editors
- Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now customize their articles suggestion list from 41 filtering options when using the tool. This topic-based article suggestion feature makes it easy for translators to self-discover relevant articles based on their area of interest and translate them. You can try it with your mobile device. [5]
- View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- It is now possible for
<syntaxhighlight>code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if thecopy=1attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [6] - Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [7]
Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available.- Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
- Five new wikis have been created:
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:39, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: September 2024
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DYK for Santa (singer)
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On 13 October 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Santa (singer), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Santa opened the 2024 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony (pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Santa (singer). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Santa (singer)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
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DYK for 2024 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony
[edit]On 13 October 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 2024 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Santa opened the 2024 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony (pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Santa (singer). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, 2024 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
Typo
[edit]Just wanted to let you know, while you still have a chance to fix it, that you have a typo in your self-nomination statement (blacked vs blocked). Good luck! --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 16:17, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for that! I have corrected it. Any suggestions welcome. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:15, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-42
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. [13][14]
- WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [15]
- View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.
Updates for technical contributors
- Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. [16]
- Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [17]
- Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a
<bdi>element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time. [18]
In depth
- The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more.
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more.
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MediaWiki message delivery 21:17, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. Fram (talk) 18:38, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
DYK for 2024 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony
[edit]On 16 October 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 2024 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 2024 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony featured dancing Phryges? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2024 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, 2024 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:03, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
TFA
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Thank you today for Galileo project, "about a robotic space mission to Jupiter. This article is about the mission; there is a separate article about the spacecraft itself."! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:30, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
- What a great article, Hawkeye7. --Floquenbeam (talk) 21:16, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you! I started with a paragraph in the Centaur (rocket stage) article that talked about Shuttle-Centaur. I was intrigued and created an article on it. From there I went on to expand the article on Galileo, as it was one of the intended payloads. Thanks for your comment; it is always heartening to hear that someone read and enjoyed an article. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:14, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
Administrator Elections: Candidate instructions
[edit]Thank you for choosing to run in the October 2024 administrator elections. This bulletin contains some important information about the next stages of the election process.
As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:
- October 15–21: SecurePoll setup phase
- October 22–24: Discussion phase
- October 25–31: SecurePoll voting phase
- November 1–?: Scrutineering phase
We are currently in the SecurePoll setup phase. Your candidate subpage will remain closed to questions and discussion. However, this is an excellent opportunity for you to recruit nominators (if you want them) and have them place their nomination statements, and a good time for you to answer the standard three questions, if you have not done so already. We recommend you spend the SecurePoll setup phase from October 15–21 getting your candidate page polished and ready for the next phase.
The discussion phase will take place from October 22–24. Your candidate subpage will open to the public and they will be permitted to discuss you and ask you formal questions, in the same style as a request for adminship (RfA). Please make sure you are around on those dates to answer the formal questions in a timely manner.
On October 25, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close again to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. Anyone can see who has voted, but not who they voted for. You are permitted and encouraged to vote in the election, including voting for yourself. Please note that the vote tallies cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see your tally during the election. The suffrage requirements are different from those at RfA.
Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for an indeterminate amount of time, perhaps a week or two. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, you must have received at least 70% support, calculated as support ÷ (support + oppose). As this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("'crat chats").
Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation as a candidate, and best of luck.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:40, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 19 October 2024
[edit]- News and notes: One election's end, another election's beginning
- Recent research: "As many as 5%" of new English Wikipedia articles "contain significant AI-generated content", says paper
- In the media: Off to the races! Wikipedia wins!
- Contest: A WikiCup for the Global South
- Traffic report: A scream breaks the still of the night
- Book review: The Editors
- Humour: The Newspaper Editors
- Crossword: Spilled Coffee Mug
DYK for Catharina Weiss
[edit]On 20 October 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Catharina Weiss, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Catharina Weiss (pictured) used to play for the Rolling Chocolate? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Catharina Weiss. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Catharina Weiss), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:02, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
Our Admin Election Test
[edit]Hello there. As we're preparing to move from one stage to the next, this is just a quick note from one member of the test group to another, wishing you well in the process of this new alternative to RfA. It seems that there are more of us in this group than some in the community anticipated, so i hope that doesn't make the experience any the worse for all of us. Whatever our individual results, i thank you, along with the rest, for stepping up and testing this process; happy days, ~ LindsayHello 07:14, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
- Best wishes to you too. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 07:30, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
- Best wishes to you both, to all those who offered themselves up, and the entire community in this test of wikipolitics. It's not fun. Sorry if I drew undue attention to you today, dude. I couldn't just stay silent today. BusterD (talk) 20:11, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you! I am glad you did. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:15, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
- You and I know how much is involved in high-quality reviews, so I know it's a lot of time investment. Not very many admins spend THAT MUCH time reviewing others' work. Lead Coord can be a nightmare! Thought normies should know the numbers. I'll save my second question. We actually need you to get the mop this time. BusterD (talk) 20:54, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
- Just voted for you. Good luck! 🤞 Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 04:16, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:48, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- Just voted for you. Good luck! 🤞 Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 04:16, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- You and I know how much is involved in high-quality reviews, so I know it's a lot of time investment. Not very many admins spend THAT MUCH time reviewing others' work. Lead Coord can be a nightmare! Thought normies should know the numbers. I'll save my second question. We actually need you to get the mop this time. BusterD (talk) 20:54, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you! I am glad you did. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:15, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
- Best wishes to you both, to all those who offered themselves up, and the entire community in this test of wikipolitics. It's not fun. Sorry if I drew undue attention to you today, dude. I couldn't just stay silent today. BusterD (talk) 20:11, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-43
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- The Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.
Updates for editors
- Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.
- Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
- View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week. [19][20][21][22][23]
- It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.
Updates for technical contributors
- Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new
{{#timef:…}}parser function. For example,{{#timef:now|date|en}}will show as "9 November 2024". Previously,{{#time:…}}could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation.#timef(or#timeflfor local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [24][25] - Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using
{{USERLANGUAGE}}instead of using{{int:lang}}. [26] - The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform. [27]
In depth
- The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
- The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
- The Community Wishlist is now testing machine translations for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.
Meetings and events
- 24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar - Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel.
- 20–22 December 2024 - Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:49, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
Invitation to participate in a research
[edit]Hello,
The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a survey of Wikipedians to better understand what draws administrators to contribute to Wikipedia, and what affects administrator retention. We will use this research to improve experiences for Wikipedians, and address common problems and needs. We have identified you as a good candidate for this research, and would greatly appreciate your participation in this anonymous survey.
You do not have to be an Administrator to participate.
The survey should take around 10-15 minutes to complete. You may read more about the study on its Meta page and view its privacy statement .
Please find our contact on the project Meta page if you have any questions or concerns.
Kind Regards,
BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:27, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
Responding to your question
[edit]Optional question from SilkTork
- 17. Could you explain what you mean by this statement you made in response to Q9: "The third finding was particularly embarrassing to the arbs because they voted for a finding of fact that one of their number, Newyorkbrad, pointed out at the time was not true." In relation to the finding that you had been previously admonished, all the Arbs active in the case supported it, including Newyorkbrad: [28]. (NYB added a comment later in response to Hersfold's feeling that the Civility case also related to involvement, which NYB didn't agree with - but that was a side issue, and not what we were voting on). To offer some clarity to people who might take your assertion for fact, I am not at all embarrassed that I supported a clearly obvious finding of which NYB said: "that Hawkeye7 was sanctioned in the case is a historical fact" 10:05, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
- A:. Why would you vote on something if you didn't feel it was germane to the case? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:40, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
- That you had been admonished by ArbCom for using the blocking tool inappropriately was very clearly germane to the case, and was a significant deciding factor in you being desysopped for again using the blocking tool inappropriately. That you still don't understand the reason why you were desysopped, and feel that ArbCom were wrong, is not very encouraging. My views now are pretty much the same as my views then: that you are a valuable member of the community, and are clearly not a bad person. You made actions that you felt were in the best interests of the project; and there are many folks that would support your actions, or, at the least, understand your actions. And I feel that neither action by itself would amount to a desysop - it was the one following the other that tipped matters over. And I felt that you would be one of those rare folks who would get your tools back at a RFA because of your good work and that the desysopping was largely technical. But each time you have asked for the tools back you have acted in a manner where you want to blame ArbCom for the desysopping without showing understanding of the reasons why.
- It's all water under the bridge now, as people will vote as they will based on what's already been said, but I feel that it is a shame that you cannot accept what happened, and move on. I understand your position though, because it happened to me. I failed in my first RFA because of an incident where I felt I was in the right. Indeed, I felt somewhat resentful that nobody was understanding me, and it took me a long time to realise that I was actually in the wrong. It can be hard to make that shift in thinking. I hope you do get there. SilkTork (talk) 09:48, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for your kind words. I accepted the verdict long ago. Moving on is of course much harder. I hope you can move on too. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:08, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
- Reading the election discussion and then this brought it all back to me. It was a difficult time and I don't know if I've ever directly apologised to you for my part in the events that led up to your desysop. I thought at the time I was doing the right thing, but I've had great cause to regret it ever since. I've since come to see you as a great editor and a valued colleague. I'm deeply sorry for the trouble my hotheaded mistake caused you all those years ago. I hope you're successful in the election; I've voted for you, for what it's worth. Keep well. John (talk) 13:06, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks John. I have long since come to see you as a valued colleague too. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:08, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
- Reading the election discussion and then this brought it all back to me. It was a difficult time and I don't know if I've ever directly apologised to you for my part in the events that led up to your desysop. I thought at the time I was doing the right thing, but I've had great cause to regret it ever since. I've since come to see you as a great editor and a valued colleague. I'm deeply sorry for the trouble my hotheaded mistake caused you all those years ago. I hope you're successful in the election; I've voted for you, for what it's worth. Keep well. John (talk) 13:06, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for your kind words. I accepted the verdict long ago. Moving on is of course much harder. I hope you can move on too. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:08, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
Since my vote and comments in the "Civility enforcement" arbitration case are being discussed, please note that I opposed desysopping Hawkeye7 in that case. I opined there, albeit in lonely dissent, that the remedy was a significant overreaction and observed that the matter would likely never have come to arbitration if not for a controversy involving a different editor. See my comments on the proposed decision page, particularly here. Newyorkbrad (talk) 15:27, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
Your nomination
[edit]I was off-wiki for a time and just got wind of your administrator nomination! I missed a chance to weigh in with my endorsement. Wishing you the best of luck! Figureofnine (talk • contribs) 15:19, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks! Voting is still going on. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:31, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
- Indeed! Not too late for that. Figureofnine (talk • contribs) 18:17, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-44
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read the October project update and see the latest documentation and examples on Beta Wikipedia.
- View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pediapress.com, an external service that creates books from Wikipedia, can now use Wikimedia Maps to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Wikipedia. [29]
Updates for technical contributors
- Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set
emitTransitionOnSteptotrueto fix an old bug. They can use the new flagallowAutomaticBackto avoid back-buttons they don't want. [30] - Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. [31]
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:53, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue 222, October 2024
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WikiCup 2024 November newsletter
[edit]The 2024 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round being a very tight race. Our new champion is 
AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who scored 2,283 points mainly through 3 high-multiplier FAs and 3 GAs on military history topics. By a 1% margin, Airship beat out last year's champion, 
BeanieFan11 (submissions), who scored second with 2,264 points, mainly from an impressive 58 GAs about athletes. In third place, 
Generalissima (submissions) scored 1,528 points, primarily from two FAs on U.S. Librarians of Congress and 20 GAs about various historical topics. Our other finalists are: 
Sammi Brie (submissions) with 879 points, 
Hey man im josh (submissions) with 533 points, 
BennyOnTheLoose (submissions) with 432 points, 
Arconning (submissions) with 244 points, and 
AryKun (submissions) with 15 points. Congratulations to our finalists and all who participated!
The final round was very productive, and contestants had 7 FAs, 9 FLs, 94 GAs, 73 FAC reviews, and 79 GAN reviews and peer reviews. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!
All those who reached the final will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field.
- Generalissima (submissions) wins the featured article prize for 3 FAs in round 4, and 7 FAs overall.
- Hey man im josh (submissions) wins the featured list prize for 23 FLs overall.
MaranoFan (submissions) wins the featured topic prize for 9 articles in featured topics in round 1.- Hey man im josh (submissions) wins the featured content reviewer prize for 110 FA/FL reviews overall.
- BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the good article prize for 58 GAs in round 5, and 70 GAs overall.
Fritzmann (submissions) wins the good topic prize for 6 articles in good topics in round 2.- Sammi Brie (submissions) wins the good article reviewer prize for 45 GA reviews in round 2, and 78 GA reviews overall.
- BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the DYK prize, for 131 Did you know articles overall.
Muboshgu (submissions) wins the ITN prize, for 15 In the news articles in round 1, and 36 overall.
Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2025 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement!
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Tech News: 2024-45
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts. [32]
- Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled can now use the Collaboration List feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
- The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode. [33]
- View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.
Updates for technical contributors
- XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. [34]
In depth
- Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.
Meetings and events
- MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:47, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
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[edit]Hi Hawkeye7, I'm disappointed that your candidacy in the recent admin elections was unsuccessful. I hope that you'll keep trying and will again be an admin someday. Acalamari 05:02, 5 November 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:26, 5 November 2024 (UTC)
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