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Administrators' newsletter – November 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).

Administrator changes

Sir Sputnik

Kudpung • Liz • Lourdes

Everyking • Jackmcbarn

Interface administrator changes

Dinoguy1000

CheckUser changes

AGK • Ivanvector • Stwalkerster • TonyBallioni

Oversight changes

Amorymeltzer • Oshwah • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93

Keilana

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment determined that non-administrators will not be able to request interface admin access.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the Mediation Committee should be closed and marked as historical.
• A village pump discussion has been ongoing about whether the proposed deletion policy (PROD) should be clarified or amended.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether pending changes protection should be applied automatically to today's featured article (TFA) in order to mitigate a recent trend of severe image vandalism.

Technical news

• Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
• A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
• The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
• The Arbitration Committee's email address has changed to arbcom-enwikimedia.org. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:18, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Soft redirects to Wiktionary in the mainspace

Further information: Special:Diff/866819295 and Special:Diff/866819408

{{Wiktionary redirect}} is indeed the appropriate template, see WP:SOFTSISTER. Plain {{soft redirect}} is not used in the mainspace. Warm regards, — Godsy ^(TALK_CONT) 19:08, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks — I could have sworn I knew that, but it just looked... I dunno, wrong. Appreciate the correction. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 19:17, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Arbitration clarification request archived

An arbitration clarification request concerning the Great Irish Famine arbitration case (t) (ev / t) (w / t) (pd / t) has been closed. For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 05:21, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-45

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 use TemplateWizard to edit templates. This works only with the 2010 wikitext editor and not in the visual editor or the 2017 wikitext editor. If you click on you can enter the information in a pop-up. You can turn on TemplateWizard in your beta feature preferences. [1]

Changes later this week

• You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
• When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic" citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases and add the top result. [2]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 November. It will be on all wikis from 8 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:28, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Oops

Oops. Resetting block to 31 hours. Airplaneman ✈ 20:18, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

👍 ~ Amory (u • t • c) 20:20, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol

Hey, would you mind re-adding me to the NPP group? I haven't been terribly active on the wiki lately, so I either didn't notice or forgot about NPP until now. Would you say I could be trusted with NPP? Thanks, PrussianOwl (talk) 21:22, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Good to see you PrussianOwl! I think it'd be good to hold off a bit and get into the swings of tagging, AfD, etc. for a while before going back to NPP. There are some things on your talkpage that give me pause so that makes the most sense to me. Sound good? ~ Amory (u • t • c) 11:45, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, seems fair enough. I'm a little rusty, admittedly. Thanks, PrussianOwl (talk) 18:53, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

User 195.11.204.67

My apologies if I am in the wrong place; if so please redirect. On August 6, you blocked User talk:195.11.204.67 for a period of 3 months. Yesterday, they have popped up again. Take a look at their edits since and see if further action is necessary. You might also consider a possible link to Special:Contributions/213.205.241.0. Emeraude (talk) 10:05, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, done! ~ Amory (u • t • c) 11:41, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. Emeraude (talk) 15:34, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-46

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

• Some old mobile browsers can use the watchlist again. This has not worked for a while. These browsers are called grade C browsers. This helps for example Windows Phone 8.1 with Internet Explorer and Lumia 535 with Windows 10. [3]

Problems

• You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. Users who use this view saw the edit conflict resolution page when they wanted to see a preview. This has been fixed. [4][5][6]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 November. It will be on all wikis from 15 November (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 14 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can use the content translation tool to translate articles. The developers are working on a new version. One of the changes will be a maintenance category. Articles where users add a lot of text from machine translation without changing it will be in that category. This is so the community can review it. The users will also have been warned before they publish the article that it has a lot of unchanged text from machine translations. [7]

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19:21, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

Unprotection

I saw your ping earlier on the unprotection. Thanks for handling that for me. It's amazing all these years later that some pages I protected are just having protection removed. Keep up the good work! Mark Arsten (talk) 22:56, 14 November 2018 (UTC)