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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

Hello Bradv,

New Page Review queue April to June 2023

Backlog

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reminders

I saw that you closed the previous previous SPI on this editor, after it had been pending for some time. I was wondering if you would be open to closing the current one as well, as it has also been pending for a while after CU had commented. 33ABGirl ( talk) 09:19, 12 February 2024 (UTC) reply

Done. – bradv 17:03, 13 February 2024 (UTC) reply
Thank you for taking the measure to block the account. 33ABGirl ( talk) 02:29, 14 February 2024 (UTC) reply

I want to bring your attention to several IP's where the editing pattern is similar to the user account on the current event portal for a certain day. The IP's are 82.34.33.245, 185.177.200.54, and 2A00:23C4:B18A:2E01:96E6:F7FF:FE2B:63E4. These are the ones I found so far and have been recent since I opened that casepage. I wanted to bring this to your attention since you blocked and closed the page. I've been reverting the edits due to their suspicious similarities. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 2:36, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Another one is 76.146.66.26. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 16:17, 19 February 2024 (UTC) reply

This report may also be of relevance. I reported a similar IP to Courcelles (who did the CU on the SPI), who blocked the IP for a duration of one week. 33ABGirl ( talk) 01:37, 20 February 2024 (UTC) reply

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 24

MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 02:36, 1 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. ( T353388)

Miscellaneous


Sent by MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 12:21, 1 March 2024 (UTC) reply

U2 of renamed user

I think you made a mistake in deleting User talk:ClydeFranklin. WP:U2 excludes "redirects created due to a user being renamed". SilverLocust 💬 13:13, 3 March 2024 (UTC) reply

( talk page stalker) @ SilverLocust: in practice this is allowed with consent of the renamed user (this should probably be clarified in policy somewhere). Elli ( talk | contribs) 13:42, 3 March 2024 (UTC) reply
You are correct, the policy as written doesn't fully reflect current practice, and in many cases there are legitimate reasons for wanting these redirects removed. – bradv 17:51, 11 March 2024 (UTC) reply
@ Bradv: Then you should try to change the CSD rather than making out-of-process deletions. SilverLocust 💬 20:40, 21 March 2024 (UTC) reply
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Archives

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26

New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

Hello Bradv,

New Page Review queue April to June 2023

Backlog

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reminders

I saw that you closed the previous previous SPI on this editor, after it had been pending for some time. I was wondering if you would be open to closing the current one as well, as it has also been pending for a while after CU had commented. 33ABGirl ( talk) 09:19, 12 February 2024 (UTC) reply

Done. – bradv 17:03, 13 February 2024 (UTC) reply
Thank you for taking the measure to block the account. 33ABGirl ( talk) 02:29, 14 February 2024 (UTC) reply

I want to bring your attention to several IP's where the editing pattern is similar to the user account on the current event portal for a certain day. The IP's are 82.34.33.245, 185.177.200.54, and 2A00:23C4:B18A:2E01:96E6:F7FF:FE2B:63E4. These are the ones I found so far and have been recent since I opened that casepage. I wanted to bring this to your attention since you blocked and closed the page. I've been reverting the edits due to their suspicious similarities. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 2:36, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Another one is 76.146.66.26. -- WikiCleanerMan ( talk) 16:17, 19 February 2024 (UTC) reply

This report may also be of relevance. I reported a similar IP to Courcelles (who did the CU on the SPI), who blocked the IP for a duration of one week. 33ABGirl ( talk) 01:37, 20 February 2024 (UTC) reply

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 24

MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 02:36, 1 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. ( T353388)

Miscellaneous


Sent by MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 12:21, 1 March 2024 (UTC) reply

U2 of renamed user

I think you made a mistake in deleting User talk:ClydeFranklin. WP:U2 excludes "redirects created due to a user being renamed". SilverLocust 💬 13:13, 3 March 2024 (UTC) reply

( talk page stalker) @ SilverLocust: in practice this is allowed with consent of the renamed user (this should probably be clarified in policy somewhere). Elli ( talk | contribs) 13:42, 3 March 2024 (UTC) reply
You are correct, the policy as written doesn't fully reflect current practice, and in many cases there are legitimate reasons for wanting these redirects removed. – bradv 17:51, 11 March 2024 (UTC) reply
@ Bradv: Then you should try to change the CSD rather than making out-of-process deletions. SilverLocust 💬 20:40, 21 March 2024 (UTC) reply

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