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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).
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T112147 if you have objections.Welcome to the eighteenth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.
" Add a link" is now being tested in production and is nearing release on our four pilot wikis (Arabic, Czech, Vietnamese, and Bengali Wikipedias). We'll be doing final tests this week and next week, and then plan to deploy to the four wikis either during May 24 week, or May 31 week. After two weeks, we will analyze the initial data to identify any problems or trends. We expect that this feature will engage new kinds of newcomers in easy and successful edits. If things are going well after four weeks, we'll progressively deploy it to the wikis with Growth features.
We are working on project to allow communities to manage the configuration of the Growth features on their own. In the past, communities have needed to work directly with the Growth team to set up and alter the features. We plan to put this capability in the hands of administrators, through an easy-to-use form, so that the features can be easily tailored to fit the needs of each community. While we developed it initially for Growth features, we think this approach could have uses in other features as well. We'll be trying this on our pilot wikis in the coming weeks, and then we'll bring it to all Growth wikis soon after. We hope you check out the project page and add any of your thoughts to the talk page.
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15:23, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
Women in Red | June 2021, Volume 7, Issue 6, Numbers 184, 188, 196, 199, 200, 201
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-- Rosiestep ( talk) 18:50, 28 May 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past four months (February through May 2021).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 21st issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
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My apologies for this long-overdue issue, and if I missed any scripts.
Hopefully going forward we can go back to monthly releases - any help would be appreciated. Thanks, --
DannyS712 (
talk) 13:04, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).
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Hello Insertcleverphrasehere:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long
Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running until 31 July 2021.
Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is currently a backlog of over 3300 articles, so start reviewing articles. We're looking forward to your help!
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for Creation at 21:53, 7 July 2021 (UTC). If you do not wish to recieve future notification, please remove your name from the mailing list.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).
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Hello 👋, i am new here in English Wikipedia, and i would like to review New pages and Patrol them, if you have a time, i am honored to be your student, and you as my Trainer thank you -- —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 ( talk) 12:49, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello friend. Thanks for making the NPP flowchart. I was wondering if you still had the original draw.io file and might be willing to share it with me? I am thinking of making some updates and then proposing the changes over at WT:NPPR. Thanks a lot. Looking forward to your feedback. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 22:23, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Widom–Larsen theory until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.
jps ( talk) 21:57, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).
Hi! Reply-link has officially been superseded by mw:DiscussionTools, which you can install using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. DiscussionTools, developed by the WMF's Editing Team, is faster and has more features than reply-link, and it wouldn't make sense for me to keep developing reply-link. I think the Editing Team is doing amazing work, and look forward to what they can do in the future. Thank you for using reply-link over the years! Enterprisey ( talk!) 06:11, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello Insertcleverphrasehere,
Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.
Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.
At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.
There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.
Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.
To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. Sent to 827 users. 04:31, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).
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Interface administrator changes
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New Page Patrol | November 2021 Backlog Drive | |
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You're receiving this message because you are a new page patroller. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. |
Welcome to the nineteenth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in Wikimedia projects.
Growth team's newsletter prepared by the Growth team and posted by bot • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
18:36, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).
This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.
You have shown interest in discussions about infoboxes and to edits adding, deleting, collapsing, or removing verifiable information from infoboxes. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.
For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.
– MJL ‐Talk‐ ☖ 23:50, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I hope you're well. Wish List time is coming up again, this time with a deadline in January. I realise that you are very much in semi-retirement - a real life job like yours doesn't leave much time for things like Wikipedia. I am also trying very hard to be semi-retired but there are still a couple of things I shepherded for years and I would like to think I left a positive legacy on them, I therefore find it hard to let go completely and I'm not being very consistent. Barkeep49 who provided excellent support for NPP has taken on additional campaigns and responsibilities which don't leave him with as much time to devote to it as before. As a consequence, with no one in the role of de facto coordinator, NPP is in a bit of a disarray. I'm prepared (very reluctantly) to come partially out of semi-retirement to help organise polling at the Wish List for permanently on going requirements for the NPP tools. Your former contributions to the management of NPP are sorely missed. Nobody else appears to have the institutional memory to pull it off successfully unless we could maybe enlist Scottywong, but I don't believe NPP is his special focus these days. Would you be able to come on board and give me a hand? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 04:23, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence | |
For your brilliance at NPP! Thank you so much for your service, words can’t express how grateful we are to have you. Celestina007 ( talk) 03:19, 20 November 2021 (UTC) |
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 15 | ← | Archive 17 | Archive 18 | Archive 19 | Archive 20 | Archive 21 | → | Archive 24 |
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).
Interface administrator changes
oversight
will be renamed to suppress
. This is for
technical reasons. You can comment at
T112147 if you have objections.Welcome to the eighteenth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.
" Add a link" is now being tested in production and is nearing release on our four pilot wikis (Arabic, Czech, Vietnamese, and Bengali Wikipedias). We'll be doing final tests this week and next week, and then plan to deploy to the four wikis either during May 24 week, or May 31 week. After two weeks, we will analyze the initial data to identify any problems or trends. We expect that this feature will engage new kinds of newcomers in easy and successful edits. If things are going well after four weeks, we'll progressively deploy it to the wikis with Growth features.
We are working on project to allow communities to manage the configuration of the Growth features on their own. In the past, communities have needed to work directly with the Growth team to set up and alter the features. We plan to put this capability in the hands of administrators, through an easy-to-use form, so that the features can be easily tailored to fit the needs of each community. While we developed it initially for Growth features, we think this approach could have uses in other features as well. We'll be trying this on our pilot wikis in the coming weeks, and then we'll bring it to all Growth wikis soon after. We hope you check out the project page and add any of your thoughts to the talk page.
Growth team's newsletter prepared by the Growth team and posted by bot • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
15:23, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
Women in Red | June 2021, Volume 7, Issue 6, Numbers 184, 188, 196, 199, 200, 201
|
-- Rosiestep ( talk) 18:50, 28 May 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past four months (February through May 2021).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 21st issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
|
My apologies for this long-overdue issue, and if I missed any scripts.
Hopefully going forward we can go back to monthly releases - any help would be appreciated. Thanks, --
DannyS712 (
talk) 13:04, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).
Interface administrator changes
|
|
Hello Insertcleverphrasehere:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long
Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running until 31 July 2021.
Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is currently a backlog of over 3300 articles, so start reviewing articles. We're looking forward to your help!
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for Creation at 21:53, 7 July 2021 (UTC). If you do not wish to recieve future notification, please remove your name from the mailing list.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).
|
|
Hello 👋, i am new here in English Wikipedia, and i would like to review New pages and Patrol them, if you have a time, i am honored to be your student, and you as my Trainer thank you -- —— 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 ( talk) 12:49, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello friend. Thanks for making the NPP flowchart. I was wondering if you still had the original draw.io file and might be willing to share it with me? I am thinking of making some updates and then proposing the changes over at WT:NPPR. Thanks a lot. Looking forward to your feedback. – Novem Linguae ( talk) 22:23, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Widom–Larsen theory until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.
jps ( talk) 21:57, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).
Hi! Reply-link has officially been superseded by mw:DiscussionTools, which you can install using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. DiscussionTools, developed by the WMF's Editing Team, is faster and has more features than reply-link, and it wouldn't make sense for me to keep developing reply-link. I think the Editing Team is doing amazing work, and look forward to what they can do in the future. Thank you for using reply-link over the years! Enterprisey ( talk!) 06:11, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello Insertcleverphrasehere,
Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.
Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.
At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.
There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.
Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here.
To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. Sent to 827 users. 04:31, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).
|
Interface administrator changes
|
New Page Patrol | November 2021 Backlog Drive | |
| |
You're receiving this message because you are a new page patroller. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. |
Welcome to the nineteenth newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in Wikimedia projects.
Growth team's newsletter prepared by the Growth team and posted by bot • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
18:36, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).
This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.
You have shown interest in discussions about infoboxes and to edits adding, deleting, collapsing, or removing verifiable information from infoboxes. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.
For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.
– MJL ‐Talk‐ ☖ 23:50, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I hope you're well. Wish List time is coming up again, this time with a deadline in January. I realise that you are very much in semi-retirement - a real life job like yours doesn't leave much time for things like Wikipedia. I am also trying very hard to be semi-retired but there are still a couple of things I shepherded for years and I would like to think I left a positive legacy on them, I therefore find it hard to let go completely and I'm not being very consistent. Barkeep49 who provided excellent support for NPP has taken on additional campaigns and responsibilities which don't leave him with as much time to devote to it as before. As a consequence, with no one in the role of de facto coordinator, NPP is in a bit of a disarray. I'm prepared (very reluctantly) to come partially out of semi-retirement to help organise polling at the Wish List for permanently on going requirements for the NPP tools. Your former contributions to the management of NPP are sorely missed. Nobody else appears to have the institutional memory to pull it off successfully unless we could maybe enlist Scottywong, but I don't believe NPP is his special focus these days. Would you be able to come on board and give me a hand? Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 04:23, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence | |
For your brilliance at NPP! Thank you so much for your service, words can’t express how grateful we are to have you. Celestina007 ( talk) 03:19, 20 November 2021 (UTC) |