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New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022[edit]
Hello JPxG,
At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.
Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.
In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 732 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 1034 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.
This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.
If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}}
on their talk page.
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 and its software.
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Sent 05:17, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-21[edit]
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
- Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. [1]
- The www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update system. Other project portals will be updated over the next few months. [2]
Problems
- The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [3]
- Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via Special:ContentTranslation. [4]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on all wikis from 26 May (calendar).
The Future changes
Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback on a proposed technical policy aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers. [5]
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00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
Don't remove my Talk page comments[edit]
Especially in WP:POINTy which which show you do not understand what a WP:PA is. This kind of thing is disruptive and unhelpful. Alexbrn (talk) 06:02, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
Merchandise Giveaway Nomination[edit]
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You deserve a thank you!
I thought that you deserved something a bit extra for all of the amazing work you've done for the project.
I've nominated you for a gift from the Wikimedia Foundation! |
-- 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 03:09, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
June 2022 Good Article Nominations backlog drive[edit]
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The Signpost: 29 May 2022[edit]
- From the team: A changing of the guard
- News and notes: 2022 Wikimedia Board elections
- Community view: Have your say in the 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board elections
- In the media: Putin, Jimbo, Musk and more
- Special report: Three stories of Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war
- Discussion report: Portals, April Fools, admin activity requirements and more
- WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19 revisited
- Technology report: A new video player for Wikimedia wikis
- Featured content: Featured Content of April
- Interview: Wikipedia's pride
- Serendipity: Those thieving image farms
- Recent research: 35 million Twitter links analysed
- Tips and tricks: The reference desks of Wikipedia
- Traffic report: Strange highs and strange lows
- News from Diff: Winners of the Human rights and Environment special nomination by Wiki Loves Earth announced
- News from the WMF: The EU Digital Services Act: What’s the Deal with the Deal?
- From the archives: The Onion and Wikipedia
- Humour: A new crossword
Regarding teh Signpost[edit]
OH GOD OH MAN OH WOW. LET ME TRY AND FIX THAT LMFAO HOW DID THAT EVEN HAPPEN WTF. jp×g 20:48, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
A brownie for your troubles![edit]
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Hi! My condolences on your heading/subheading situation. Rest assured I have fucked more mass messages than you have ever sent, so welcome to the club. Clean it up as best you can and move on! Cheers, Jake Ocaasi t | c 21:28, 29 May 2022 (UTC) |
Tech News: 2022-22[edit]
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
- In the AbuseFilter extension, an
ip_in_ranges()function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multipleip_in_range()expressions joined by|into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [7] - The IP Info feature which helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed to all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on test.wikipedia.org.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all wikis from 2 June (calendar).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 31 May at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
- The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [8][9]
- The list=usercontribs API will support fetching contributions from an IP range soon. API users can set the
uciprangeparameter to get contributions from any IP range within the limit. [10] - A new parser function will be introduced:
{{=}}. It will replace existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign. This can be used to escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates. [11]
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20:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
Please Help with a Page You've Removed "Vandalism" from in October[edit]
Hi, Would you please step in and help Jason Dottley's page from further vandalism? There is an all out call to get his page down on datalounge.com https://www.datalounge.com/thread/30947120 is the most recent thread about it but if you search for his name and wiki you can see where at least one user has posted numerous times on different threads about this. I saw in his edit history where you removed vandalism in oct or nov or last year and this is getting so out of control. I don't know enough about Wiki to know what to do, plus I don't want them after me too! People are CRAZY. His page is "Jason Dottley" and I hope after you see everything you'll know what to do. I'm a very frustrated fan and don't understand how any of this is even possible. regards, will [email protected] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2806:102E:18:5BE2:F11C:2931:BFB5:4605 (talk) 20:55, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 50[edit]
The Wikipedia Library
Books & Bytes
Issue 50, March – April 2022
- New library partner - SPIE
- 1Lib1Ref May 2022 underway
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --12:52, 1 June 2022 (UTC) (UTC)
A barnstar for you![edit]
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The Technical Barnstar |
| I found your current-switcher.js user script today. Simple yet very useful. I do a bunch of userscript assisted edits, and I sometimes go through my contribs to see if anyone edited after me and caught a bug I missed. Hiding revisions marked "current" makes that a lot easier. Well done :) –Novem Linguae (talk) 06:33, 6 June 2022 (UTC) |
Tech News: 2022-23[edit]
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 June. It will be on all wikis from 9 June (calendar).
- A new
str_replace_regexp()function can be used in abuse filters to replace parts of text using a regular expression. [12]
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02:45, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
DYK for Nina Jankowicz[edit]
 | On 7 June 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Nina Jankowicz, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Nina Jankowicz dubbed herself the "Mary Poppins of disinformation"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Nina Jankowicz. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Nina Jankowicz), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:03, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
- Cwmhiraeth, I removed it. soibangla (talk) 11:23, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
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| Your hook reached 7,180 views (598.3 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of June 2022 – nice work! |
theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 07:05, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
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Thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:45, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
Tech News: 2022-24[edit]
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
- All wikis can now use Kartographer maps. Kartographer maps now also work on pages with pending changes. [13][14]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 June. It will be on all wikis from 16 June (calendar).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 14 June at 06:00 UTC (targeted wikis). [15]
- Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Abkhazian Wikipedia, Achinese Wikipedia, Adyghe Wikipedia, Afrikaans Wikipedia, Akan Wikipedia, Alemannisch Wikipedia, Amharic Wikipedia, Aragonese Wikipedia, Old English Wikipedia, Aramaic Wikipedia, Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, Asturian Wikipedia, Atikamekw Wikipedia, Avaric Wikipedia, Aymara Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, South Azerbaijani Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [16]
- The New Topic Tool will be deployed for all editors at Commons, Wikidata, and some other wikis soon. You will be able to opt out from within the tool and in Preferences. [17][18]
Future meetings
- The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place today (13 June). The following meetings will take place on: 28 June, 12 July, 26 July.
Future changes
- By the end of July, the Vector 2022 skin should be ready to become the default across all wikis. Discussions on how to adjust it to the communities' needs will begin in the next weeks. It will always be possible to revert to the previous version on an individual basis. Learn more.
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16:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
June GOCE newsletter[edit]
Guild of Copy Editors June 2022 Newsletter
 Hello and welcome to the June 2022 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since April 2022. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below. Blitz: of the 16 editors who signed up for our April Copy Editing Blitz, 12 completed at least one copy-edit, and between them removed 21 articles from the copy-editing backlog. Barnstars awarded are here. Drive: 27 editors signed up for our May Backlog Elimination Drive; of these, 20 copy-edited at least one article. 144 articles were copy-edited, and 88 articles from our target months August and September 2021 were removed from the backlog. Barnstars awarded are here. Blitz: our June Copy Editing Blitz, starting at 00:01, 19 June and closing at 00:59, 25 June (UTC), will focus on articles tagged for copy edit in September and October 2021, and requests from March, April and May 2022. Barnstars awarded will be posted here. Progress report: As of 07:12, 14 June 2022 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 209 requests since 1 January and the backlog stands at 1,404 articles. Election news: Nominations for our half-yearly Election of Coordinators continues until 23:50 on 15 June (UTC), after which, voting will commence until 23:59, 30 June (UTC). All Wikipedians in good standing (active and not blocked, banned, or under ArbCom or community sanctions) are eligible and self-nominations are welcomed. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Reidgreg, Baffle gab1978, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis and Tenryuu To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:39, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
Merchandise Giveaway Nomination – Successful[edit]
Hey JPxG,
You have been successfully nominated to receive a free t-shirt from the Wikimedia Foundation through our Merchandise Giveaway program. Congratulations and thank you for your hard work! Please email us at merchandise
wikimedia.org and we will send you full details on how to accept your free shirt. Thanks!
On behalf of the Merchandise Giveaway program,