Hi there Naypta, I felt it best to reach out as I'm a mostly clueless new editor. I was adding some information to the Benchmade page regarding the death of former CEO/President Les De Asis and noticed you cleaned up some information lacking neutrality back in July 2020. You removed the statement, " It is said to be one of the best knife companies in the world."
Needless to say, I saw 2 days following your revision of it, the IP address listed added it back, nullifying your edit -- I removed it once more but felt it best to see if follow up action would be needed or recommended, given the user IP Address has twice inserted the biased sentiment. Figured you would know, seeing as you have experience with vandalism/neutrality issues.
Thanks! I look forward to seeing how this is handled, if at all.
OfficerManatee (
talk) 13:33, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
Yapperbot/Pruner at Wikipedia:WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers
Hey there, in this edit I added Yapperbot/Pruner to the Participants section at Wikipedia:WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers. Since we haven't used it live very much, I thought I'd mention it in case you wanted to keep an eye on the pruning. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 23:01, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
- And IJBall was kind enough to fix my formatting error... Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 23:17, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function. [1] [2]
Changes later this week
- Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki. [3] [4]
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all wikis from 10 December (
calendar).
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- You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.
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16:14, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello Naypta/2020,
- Year in review
It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
| Rank | Username | Num reviews | Log |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DannyS712 bot III ( talk) | 67,552 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 2 | Rosguill ( talk) | 63,821 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 3 | John B123 ( talk) | 21,697 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 4 | Onel5969 ( talk) | 19,879 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 5 | JTtheOG ( talk) | 12,901 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 6 | Mcampany ( talk) | 9,103 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 7 | DragonflySixtyseven ( talk) | 6,401 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 8 | Mccapra ( talk) | 4,918 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 9 | Hughesdarren ( talk) | 4,520 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 10 | Utopes ( talk) | 3,958 | Patrol Page Curation |
- Reviewer of the Year
John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.
- NPP Technical Achievement Award
As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.
Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271
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18:16, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
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Recent changes
- There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too. [5]
Changes later this week
- The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all wikis from 17 December (
calendar).
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21:33, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
|
The Original Barnstar |
| I had only just realized that your bot, not Legobot, has been running the Feedback Request Service for the last half year! Thank you for stepping up and taking this on – the FRS is an essential part of our governance and consensus processes. You stepped in very quickly after the need was identified at WT:FRS; within one week you had done a complete rewrite, one that was better than the previous implementation. You have my respect and gratitude. Best, KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 06:42, 7 December 2020 (UTC) |
- And I just realized we haven't had you around for a few months! I hope everything is well with you and that if you find the time, energy, and enthusiasm for Wikipedia again, that we'll see you around.
KevinL (aka
L235 ·
t ·
c) 06:49, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
- Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2021.
Recent changes
- The
{{citation needed}}template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added. [6]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Future changes
- You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
- Some wikis use
LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a
<langconvert>tag that can convert a piece of text on a page. [7] - Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January. [8]
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20:52, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi there Naypta, I felt it best to reach out as I'm a mostly clueless new editor. I was adding some information to the Benchmade page regarding the death of former CEO/President Les De Asis and noticed you cleaned up some information lacking neutrality back in July 2020. You removed the statement, " It is said to be one of the best knife companies in the world."
Needless to say, I saw 2 days following your revision of it, the IP address listed added it back, nullifying your edit -- I removed it once more but felt it best to see if follow up action would be needed or recommended, given the user IP Address has twice inserted the biased sentiment. Figured you would know, seeing as you have experience with vandalism/neutrality issues.
Thanks! I look forward to seeing how this is handled, if at all.
OfficerManatee (
talk) 13:33, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
Yapperbot/Pruner at Wikipedia:WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers
Hey there, in this edit I added Yapperbot/Pruner to the Participants section at Wikipedia:WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers. Since we haven't used it live very much, I thought I'd mention it in case you wanted to keep an eye on the pruning. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 23:01, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
- And IJBall was kind enough to fix my formatting error... Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 23:17, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function. [1] [2]
Changes later this week
- Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki. [3] [4]
- The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all wikis from 10 December (
calendar).
Future changes
- You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.
Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
16:14, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
Hello Naypta/2020,
- Year in review
It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
| Rank | Username | Num reviews | Log |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DannyS712 bot III ( talk) | 67,552 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 2 | Rosguill ( talk) | 63,821 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 3 | John B123 ( talk) | 21,697 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 4 | Onel5969 ( talk) | 19,879 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 5 | JTtheOG ( talk) | 12,901 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 6 | Mcampany ( talk) | 9,103 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 7 | DragonflySixtyseven ( talk) | 6,401 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 8 | Mccapra ( talk) | 4,918 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 9 | Hughesdarren ( talk) | 4,520 | Patrol Page Curation |
| 10 | Utopes ( talk) | 3,958 | Patrol Page Curation |
- Reviewer of the Year
John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.
- NPP Technical Achievement Award
As a special recognition and thank you DannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.
Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271
To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here
18:16, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- There is a Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too. [5]
Changes later this week
- The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all wikis from 17 December (
calendar).
Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
21:33, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
|
|
The Original Barnstar |
| I had only just realized that your bot, not Legobot, has been running the Feedback Request Service for the last half year! Thank you for stepping up and taking this on – the FRS is an essential part of our governance and consensus processes. You stepped in very quickly after the need was identified at WT:FRS; within one week you had done a complete rewrite, one that was better than the previous implementation. You have my respect and gratitude. Best, KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 06:42, 7 December 2020 (UTC) |
- And I just realized we haven't had you around for a few months! I hope everything is well with you and that if you find the time, energy, and enthusiasm for Wikipedia again, that we'll see you around.
KevinL (aka
L235 ·
t ·
c) 06:49, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
- Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2021.
Recent changes
- The
{{citation needed}}template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added. [6]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Future changes
- You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
- Some wikis use
LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a
<langconvert>tag that can convert a piece of text on a page. [7] - Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January. [8]
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20:52, 21 December 2020 (UTC)