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

Administrator changes DanCherek • DatGuy • Femke • Z1720 Aldux • Graham Beards • Nyttend

Interface administrator changes Mr. Stradivarius

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
• An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news

• The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
• The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
• The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
• Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.

I recently reverted a clear case of a link spam vandalism by XAnT1nGx. Given that they only have 3 edits I opted to warn them with spam or vandalism. This being such a blatant case I'm having trouble deciding between the level of warning, as the first few seem too soft for such a clear case.

So I'm asking for help on which template and level to use. Doerakpoes ( talk) 16:02, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi Doerakpoes, thanks for reverting that! I assume you are referring to Special:Diff/1108092472. I would use {{ subst: uw-advert2}} ({{ subst: uw-advert3}} is also fine but I don't really like it personally), warnings vary a lot by editor. Skipping levels is fine when giving warnings. Have you tried installing twinkle or ultraviolet? They usually make warning users a lot easier. Just i yaya 00:44, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for the info and the suggestion of Twinkle. Using the gadget made it a lot easier to compare warnings and their different levels.

Furthermore, while using Twinkle I encountered a visual bug. Where can I report bugs? Doerakpoes ( talk) 14:46, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

@ Doerakpoes, what bug did you encounter? It can be reported at Wikipedia talk:Twinkle (please read the headers on top before leaving a message there). Just i yaya 16:03, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

After looking and selecting different options in the Twinkle warn-user menu, eventually the foldout menus for different warnings ended up appearing behind the entire popup. I only managed to get the foldouts to appear in-front of the popup again by reloading the page. this happened multiple times while evaluating warning messages (browser is Firefox). Doerakpoes ( talk) 16:31, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

@ Doerakpoes yeah I don't really know, might be worth leaving a message on the above link but I use firefox too and that doesn't really occur for me. Just i yaya 16:44, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

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hii, how many articles i can edit per month week or day -- Karmwarsaurabh ( talk) 07:02, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

You can edit basically an infinite amount of articles per day/month/week. Going through your edits, make sure that you provide a citation supporting the information that is added, see referencing for beginners. Feel free to post below if you have any additional questions and happy editing :D Just i yaya 08:00, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

forgot to @ Karmwarsaurabh Just i yaya 16:05, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

I am Eunice Alejandra López Sánchez known as Eunice Shade, mexican-nicaraguan writer. Since months ago I asked to erase a page of my work because I do not know how the page ended in hands of another people that I do not know, without my authorization. And today appears this: https://es.wikipedia.org/?title=Eunice_Shade&action=history&year=2021&month=12&tagfilter= I would like this to be erased. I would like also tell you that I HAVE NOT authorized any creative commons license of my work or something like it. I also would like to tell you that this another page of Wikipedia is not authorized by me and I would like this page be erased from internet because there is false material: : https://www.eswiki.org/wiki/Eunice_Shade I also would like to know how to register my material on internet for free, photos, writings, etc I also would like to open a new page on Wikipedia with my own edition because I need to update my things as I say because it is my job. I will appreciate your help, Eunice. -- Cisnedenieve ( talk) 06:06, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi @ Cisnedenieve, the article appears to be deleted (or erased) on the Spanish Wikipedia already. Eswiki.org is not is not Wikipedia, sending a notice to that site may help. Opening a new page on Wikipedia would not be a really good idea, see WP:Autobiography Just i yaya 00:41, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi, when Iḿ doing the short fixes on articles should I just look for sections with headers (like the ones saying that it needs a more neutral tone), or should I do the whole article? -- Boot Sanford ( talk) 14:14, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi @ Boot Sanford, you can choose to fix the whole article or provide short fixes on the section headers, either is fine. Do not use th, rd, or st when trying to express dates (example being November 30th) instead reference the examples listed in MOS:DATE, although there are certain exceptions to this (like you did at Special:Diff/1110613534, I've already fixed it for you). Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia and feel free to ask any additional questions. Just i yaya 15:09, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi Justiyaya, I am looking to create a Wikipedia page for my non-profit Project Insulin (Projectinsulin.org). Hopefully, it is not too hard to get this done any advice would be greatly apprecaited. -- Project Insulin ( talk) 18:57, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi Project Insulin, conflict of interest editing has a large potential of being a waste of time, if you wish to continue, I've notified you of a username issue on your talk page and you need to declare your conflict of interest with the subject following the instructions described at WP:COIDISCLOSE. Just i yaya 23:22, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

Welcome to the twenty-second newsletter from the Growth team!

Newcomers tasks reach the 500,000 edits milestone — more data publicly available

As of the last week of June 2022, the newcomers of the world have completed over 500,000 newcomer tasks. In other words, newcomers have made over half a million Wikipedia edits via Growth’s “Suggested Edits” module.

• About 30% of those edits were completed on mobile devices.
• Usage continues to increase; in June 2022 almost 50,000 newcomer tasks were completed.

We have added some new data to Grafana. You can now check the number of edits and reverts by task types, or the number of questions asked to mentors. You can filter the data by wiki.

If you have any questions, or there is more data you want access to, please let us know.

Ongoing projects and explorations

We are continuing our work on our new project, Positive Reinforcement. User testing of initial Positive Reinforcement designs was just completed. Interviews were conducted in Arabic, English, and Spanish. The outcome has been published on the Positive Reinforcement page. We are now utilizing user testing feedback along with prior community feedback to iterate and improve designs.

We are exploring the idea of a Copy Edit structured task. We have tested copy edits in Wikipedia articles for arwiki, bnwiki, cswiki, eswiki (Growth pilot-wikis) and enwiki with two different methods: LanguageTool and Hunspell. We will share more details here and on the associated Copy Edit page once the evaluation is complete.

Add an image was utilized at GLAM events in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile. For an overview of what was learned from these events, read: #1Pic1Article I: how Latin American heritage experts added images to Wikipedia (in English).

Experiments analysis

Add a Link Experiment Analysis has been published. The most important points are:

• Newcomers who get the Add a Link structured task are more likely to be activated (i.e. make a constructive first article edit).
• They are also more likely to be retained (i.e. come back and make another constructive article edit on a different day).
• The feature also increases edit volume (i.e. the number of constructive edits made across the first couple weeks), while at the same time improving edit quality (i.e. the likelihood that the newcomer's edits aren't reverted).

Newcomer task edit type analysis has been published.

• Communities had expressed concern that newcomers whose initial edits were structured tasks wouldn’t go on to learn how to complete more difficult tasks. The Growth team data scientist conducted a Newcomer task edit type analysis to see if this was indeed the case.
• Results from analysis indicate that this likely isn’t a significant concern. More than 70% of users who start with the easy task "Add a link" also make another task type. Read the full analysis and methodology here.

News for mentors

A new system for the mentors list

The configuration of the mentors list will change over the next weeks. In the future, mentors will sign up, edit their mentor description and quit using Special:MentorDashboard. This new system will make the development of new features for mentors much easier.

At the moment, the mentor list is a simple page anyone can edit, unless it’s protected. With the new page, mentors will be able to edit only their own description, while administrators will be able to edit the entire mentors' list if needed.

The deployment will happen first at the pilot wikis, then at all wikis. Existing lists of mentors will be automatically converted, no action will be needed from the mentors. [1] [2]

Mentors will be informed about the next steps soon, by a message posted on the talk page of existing Mentor lists.

Learn more about this new structured page on mediawiki.org.

A tip for mentors

Did you know that mentors can filter their mentees' changes at Special:MentorDashboard (and star the ones that require attention)? This feature helps to keep an eye on newcomers' edits, helping mentors to fix minor details, and encourage them if necessary.

And did you know that mentors have special filters to highlight their mentees' edits at Special:RecentChanges? Look for the following filters in RecentChanges: Your starred mentees, Your unstarred mentees.

Other improvements

Some improvements will be made to the mentor dashboard in the coming weeks:

• While we now offer some options for mentors to take a break, the option to quit mentoring was not easy to find. This will be improved. [3]
• Mentors at wikis using FlaggedRevisions will have a way to discover their mentees' pending edits. [4]
• Dashboard discovery for new mentors will be improved. [5]

Recent changes and fixed bugs

• We moved to a new Image Suggestions API. This new API will allow us to deploy Add an Image to more wikis. [6]
• Starting September 19, a few more wikis now offer Add an image to newcomers. These wikis are Greek Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia. [7]
• Add an image has been disabled for a few days due to technical issue. "Add an image" added a blank line instead of an image. This has been fixed. [8]
• In order to know if Special:EditGrowthConfig is used by communities, we now instrument page loads and saves of configuration. [9]

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hello! Can you suggest some edits for this article? Thank you -- Pgupta1997 ( talk) 06:37, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi @ Pgupta1997, that article generally lack citations, content on Wikipedia needs to be verifiable. Unverifiable content needs to be removed. Finding more sources for the linked article would really help improve the page. Just i yaya 06:42, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

I have added some new information along with proper citation of those. Please have a look. Pgupta1997 ( talk) 06:57, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi @ Pgupta1997, thanks for seeking a review for your edits. Unfortunatly, I've had to revert your edit due to several reasons. Generally, travel agencies/travel websites are not regarded as reliable sources, using news sources (non-English is accepted) to support these claims would be better. Do not remove IPA pronunciation guides, usually they are there for a reason, if you are unsure, check the guideline. Do not remove the nbsp tags from distances. Getting started editing can be really hard, feel free to ask me more questions or reviews of edits. Thanks again for making edits on Wikipedia! Just i yaya 15:09, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Then how can we add more references in the article? Pgupta1997 ( talk) 03:58, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

@ Pgupta1997, you need to find better references, not more references, please see Wikipedia:Reliable Sources. Just i yaya 16:25, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Also looking at the edit again, it has been identified as a copyright violation, please see the welcome message on your talk page for more information. Just i yaya 16:27, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

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Issue 52, July – August 2022

• New instant-access collections:
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

Administrator changes ScottishFinnishRadish Staxringold Ahoerstemeier ( deceased) • Ched

Interface administrator changes Cyberpower678 CheckUser changes GorillaWarfare

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
• Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
• Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.

Technical news

• The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

Arbitration

• Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
• A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
• The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.

Miscellaneous

• An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October.
• You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
• An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
• Tech tip: You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete.

hi how do i change my name -- Mr Beckum ( talk) 17:10, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi Mr Beckum, please see Wikipedia:Changing username, happy editing! Just i yaya 18:03, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

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== Thank you, and appreciate the support.

Thanks for your time. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Singularitywiki ( talk • contribs) 15:56, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

How to add pictures, sub catagory and other information in biography -- Kakasaheb11 ( talk) 22:19, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

@ Kakasaheb11 your userpage was deleted due to advertising or promotion. I'm assuming that you were writing about a subject where you have a conflict of interest with. If you want to improve Wikipedia, it is suggested that you choose another task. Just i yaya 11:57, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

First of all, allow me to express my appreciation to your review and suggestions.

About your first suggestion, to be honestly, at that time I created the article based on the ones used in vi.wiki and zh.wiki, therefore I re-used the title "princess Lechang" from them. Now I think about it what you suggest about changing the title and modifying the content is correct, because indeed the story and the idiom itself is more notable than the characters. I think I agree with your idea and we can proceed with such modifications.

About the translation of the phrase, I have to admitted that I am not fluent in English and therefore my writing/translation can be a bit weird and inaccurate. The word "重圆" literally means "reunited again", so the literal translated should have been "broken mirror reunited". However the word "amended" I used originated from the Vietnamese version of the idiom, "Gương vỡ lại lành", literally means "broken mirror healed/amended". The word "lành" in Vietnamese usually means "fixed, healed, amended" of a wound or a broken object. In many instances, I saw the phrase "Gương vỡ lại lành" used not to describe a reunited after separation, but a broken relationship amended, like a broken couple forgive each other and start lovey-dovey again. That come to my decision to use the word "broken mirror amended". If you have any suggestion about the name, please feel free to say.

On my opinion, if we finally decide use the phrase 破镜 重圆 as the title for the article, it is better to use an English translation already appeared on a book, written document, or authoritative website, rather than translate it ourselves. The problem is that there are a number of translation of this phrase on the written documents, and I don't know which version is the most orthodox. What do you think ? Inuyasha2021 ( talk) 05:19, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

(see also discussion on their talk page)

@ Inuyasha2021 Oh yeah you're right, the translation is "reunited", I was a bit confused. I do think "Broken Mirror Reunited" sounds better but both also sounds a bit poorly translated anyways. "mended" might be a better word for "amended" if you are going with your version (I don't really care either way). If there is a English translation already in a book, that is definitely preferred. If you have the sources feel free to cite them in the draft or link them below, if you want me to take a look after the rename feel free to leave another message below Just i yaya 05:44, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

@ Justiyaya: There are many styles of translation of this term in various literature documents, for examples:

• In Wang Xiang, The Prehistory of Ximingsi: Anecdotes and Imaginaire of Chang'an Buddhism it is translated as "a broken mirror made whole again".
• In Haiyan Lee, The rise and fall (and rise again) of vernacular happiness, and Ebrey and Huang, Visual and Material Cultures in Middle Period China it is translated as "a broken mirror restored", just like you previously suggested.
• In Xu Yanting, Validity of Metaphor Translation in Fortress Besieged in light of Relevance Theory it is translated as "broken mirror was made round again". It is a very poor translation and I do not recommend. 圆 in Chinese indeed means "round", "circle", but it also means "union", "reunited", "full", "whole", because a circle or round-shape thing is seen as a sign of completeness and reunion.
• In WANG Pei. A Study on Idiom Translation in Half a Lifelong Romance from the Perspective of Translator Behavior Criticism, it is translated as "a broken mirror joined together".
• In Debbie Hogan et al., Solution Focused Practice in Asia, it is "Broken mirror can be put together".
• In Luna Pearl, 16 Best Bedtime Stories for Your Kiddos, it is "The Reunion of the Broken Mirror".
• In Chinese - English Classical Idiom Stories, it is "the broken mirror joined together".

Conclusion: seems to be there is no standard, orthodox English translation of the term. Each author chose her own style that they themselves think is the best.

For now, I will change the content of the draft article to match the new title as you suggested, and I temporarily put the title as "The Broken Mirror Restored" as it is the closest translation to the original. However, as I am not 100% familiar with the technicality of wikipedia redirection and as we have not yet met the final conclusion of the accurate page name, I will left the page name "Princess Lechang" untouced and left a note saying that "the content does not match the title for ABCD reason". Would you mind perform the page redirection in my stead to that temporary name if you also see it as a proper solution ?

I would like to ask for your review as soon as I finish the neccessary modification. And again, thank you very much for your help so far. Inuyasha2021 ( talk) 10:07, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

@ Inuyasha2021 I would happily make the redirects after you've finished. Thank you for all the work put in to researching this and writing the article. Don't think there is much of an issue if we move the article afterwards if the title needs to be changed later anyways. Sorry about the short reply, my computer is running out of battery. Just i yaya 10:18, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

I just finished the modification. Feel free to review it as soon as your battery are fully charged. :P Thank you for your help. Inuyasha2021 ( talk) 10:24, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Accepted Happy editing! Just i yaya 12:50, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

@ Inuyasha2021 Collaborating with you was amazing, you're possibly the best editor with less than 500 edits that I know of. If you need any help with anything, feel free to leave a message here and I'll help. Just i yaya 13:05, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Thanks you very much for your helping. I really appreciate that. :) Inuyasha2021 ( talk) 14:46, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

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@ Eva3188 This is an encyclopedia, we cannot assist you in recovering cryptocurrencies. Just i yaya 04:58, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

The page "Anil Kumar Gupta (Scientist)" is considered as AFD by one editor from Wikipedia. Can you help me to do some important edits on that page to avoid AFD? Thank you -- Pgupta1997 ( talk) 11:51, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

@ Pgupta1997 Reviewing the external links policy might be a good place to start if you want to improve the article. Please declare a conflict of interest if you have one. I can't comment on the AFD due to policy. Just i yaya 13:04, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

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

• 
  • 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}}.

Hi im BrainyAsf! -- BrainyAsf ( talk) 18:15, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Hi @ BrainyAsf, welcome to Wikipedia! If you need anything, feel free to ask me a question through what you just did or leave a message below :D Just i yaya 18:18, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

hello how to put my biography -- Araali fauzan ( talk) 13:04, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

@ Araali fauzan, trying to promote or write an article about yourself on Wikipedia is usually a bad idea, see WP:Autobiography Just i yaya 13:06, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

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Please, can you translate in English these Chinese pages: zh:董狐狸, zh:长秃, zh:长昂. Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.248.235.49 ( talk) 10:12, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

Hi IP, I'm doubtful that the zh-wiki articles linked meet our notability guidelines, although I haven't done a thorough search.

It appears that you have been trying to get someone to write an article about the below documentary for about three years now? If you are sure that the articles are notable, why not do it yourself? Just i yaya 02:19, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

I wanted to do it myself, but it's too difficult from Chinese, then can you help me? A citation is on Qi Jiguang. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.207.194.232 ( talk) 07:12, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

Hello, in this documentary about the Great Wall of China, Geng Zhou was really existerd? Can you find information about him, even in Chinese? Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.248.235.49 ( talk) 10:36, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

Hello,how can I watch clips or videos in here please help -- Vlone Fore ( talk) 21:14, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

Hi @ Vlone Fore, does the sample videos on Wikipedia:Videos not work? Just i yaya 02:37, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

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Issue 53, September – October 2022

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Welcome to the twenty-third newsletter from the Growth team!

Highlights

• Mentorship: We released the new structured mentor list to all wikis. This change makes mentorship easier to setup, manage and use.
• Positive reinforcement: An improved impact module is available for testing.

Positive reinforcement: an improved impact module to test

The goal of the Growth team is to encourage newcomers to try editing for the first time, and encourage them to keep editing. We want to increase newcomers' motivation by showing them how impactful their edits are.

Newcomers have access to an impact module; you can find yours at Special:Impact. The revised impact module provides new editors with more context about their impact. It will display the number of edits, the number of thanks received, the last time they edited, the number of consecutive days they edited, and the number of views for the articles they edited.

This module will soon be available at our pilot wikis starting December 1. You can already test this new module at Beta Wikipedia. For safety reasons, do not use your regular account and password at Beta wiki. Create a new, specific account for this wiki, with a different password.

Structured tasks: improvements based on patroller feedback

After the deployment of Structured tasks, we received feedback from various communities regarding how patrollers of recent changes were feeling overwhelmed by an increase in edits to check, and how some edits were poor quality or of poor relevance.

We made several improvements based on the feedback we received. Several points of improvement have already been addressed:

• Patroller fatigue:
  • By default, newcomers can complete up to 25 "add a link" tasks and 25 "add an image" tasks per day. If patrollers are overburdened, each community can use Special:EditGrowthConfig to lower that limit.

• Quality of edits: what constitutes a "quality edit" is not a well defined concept. We initiated a discussion and summarized our findings. We also worked on the following improvements:
  • Add a Link
    • Underlinked articles are now prioritized, so it's less likely that newcomers are adding links to articles that are already have a lot of links.
    • The confidence score was increased, so suggestions are more likely to be accurate.
    • The default number of suggested links per article has been lowered to 3. This can be changed at Special:EditGrowthConfig. Communities can also exclude articles containing certain templates or categories from being suggested.
  • Add an Image
    • Lists will no longer receive "add an image" suggestions.
    • Disambiguation pages will no longer receive "add an image" suggestions.
    • We have many further improvements we plan to make to "add an image" in early 2023. [10]

The Positive Reinforcement project will also address some of the concerns around encouraging newcomers to progress to higher value edits. The Growth team will soon work on strategies geared at " Leveling up" newcomers so they progress from easy to more difficult tasks.

Recent changes

• All Wikipedias now have the same onboarding experience. Previously, at a few wikis, 20% of new accounts didn't get the Growth features when they created their account. These 20% of new accounts were used as a control group, in order to know if the Growth features were changing newcomers' behavior. Experiments have shown that Growth features improve activation and retention, and as we want to provide the same onboarding experience at all Wikipedias, we have decided to remove the control groups. We will utilize control groups when testing new features, and German Wikipedia keeps a control group at their request. [11]
• The quality score for "add a link" suggestions will change. We will suggest less links for each article, but they will be more accurate. We will first deploy it at our pilot wikis, and then to all other wikis where this feature is available. [12] [13]
• Growth's features FAQ has been updated and expanded. This page centralizes all the information about Growth features. We invite you to read it, and, if you can, to translate it.

News for mentors

• All Wikipedias can now setup and manage a mentorship program in an easier way.
  • We changed the process to make it more reliable, easier to improve and easier to use.
  • Wikipedias where mentorship hasn't been enabled yet can turn mentorship on following a new process. When done, mentors can sign-up by visiting Special:MentorDashboard.
  • Wikipedias where the list of mentors already existed have been converted to the new system.
  • A new special page — Special:ManageMentors — now displays the list of mentors. This page can be transcluded on any other page. There are also new processes to signup as a mentor or to quit mentorship, and we improved community mentorship management.
• The Mentor dashboard's "Your mentees" module will have a new footer, called "Recent changes by your mentees". This footer will include a link to Recent changes, where mentors can see only edits made by their own mentees. [14]

Deployments

• Add a link has been deployed to a 5th round of wikis. [15]

Improving this newsletter

We plan to have a more regular newsletter, every two months. We also want to know if the current format suits you! Let us know what you like, what you like less and your suggestions of improvements: leave us a comment, in your preferred language.

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20:57, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

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 Justiyaya! I hope you enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world. Thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. –– FormalDude (talk) 08:34, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

Thanks FormalDude :D Just i yaya 08:07, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

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I am editing a page named as Sunil Rane but there is an automate filter which is removing my all changes and updates . Ho will I able to make updates on the page and fix errors ? -- Alap Phadke ( talk) 07:06, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

Hi @ Alap Phadke, do you have a conflict of interest surrounding the page? Just i yaya 07:25, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

Hello Justiyaya. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of TapNow, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A7 does not apply to apps. Thank you. Salvio 09:51, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

@ Salvio giuliano whoops yeah, sorry and thanks for catching that. Just i yaya 09:52, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

No worries. I confess I was tempted to delete the article all the same, but then decided to play by the rule... Salvio 09:56, 30 December 2022 (UTC)