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This Month in Education: April 2019
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Wikidata weekly summary #362
Tech News: 2019-18
22:27, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
The Signpost: 30 April 2019
- News and notes: An Action Packed April
- In the media: Is Wikipedia just another social media site?
- Discussion report: English Wikipedia community's conclusions on talk pages
- Featured content: Anguish, accolades, animals, and art
- Arbitration report: An Active Arbitration Committee
- Traffic report: Mötley Crüe, Notre-Dame, a black hole, and Bonnie and Clyde
- Technology report: A new special page, and other news
- Gallery: Notre-Dame de Paris burns
- News from the WMF: Can machine learning uncover Wikipedia’s missing “citation needed” tags?
- Recent research: Female scholars underrepresented; whitepaper on Wikidata and libraries; undo patterns reveal editor hierarchy
- From the archives: Portals revisited
Administrators' newsletter – May 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).
Interface administrator changes
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- A request for comment concluded that creating pages in the portal namespace should be restricted to autoconfirmed users.
- Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.
- XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.
- In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases,
the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions
; administrators found failing to have adequately done sowill not be resysopped automatically
. All current administrators have been notified of this change. - Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.
- In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases,
- A request for comment is currently open to amend the community sanctions procedure to exclude non XfD or CSD deletions.
- A proposal to remove pre-2009 indefinite IP blocks is currently open for discussion.
Wikidata weekly summary #363
Tech News: 2019-19
16:27, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: April 2019
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Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society
Dear Pigsonthewing/Archive 121,
I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more.
Best regards, Urhixidur (talk) 16:28, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi there, as you created this template, I thought I should let you know that the SongFacts URLs are no longer in the http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1697 format, now they look like this: https://www.songfacts.com/facts/pink-floyd/comfortably-numb and there doesn't appear to be any way to derive the ID number from the page, if you don't know it in advance. Robman94 (talk) 22:32, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks, It seems that the old links still work, so at least the template is not broken. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:41, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Correct, if you click on the 1697 link above (as generated by the template) it takes you to the new style link page, but if you go to SongFacts and search for a song, I can't see anyway to tell what its id number is. I just discovered your template yesterday after adding SF links to a few song articles and was about to replace them with the template, which is how I found that I can't use it. Would it be possible to modify the template so it can handle both formats? Or, if that's too difficult, how about a new template for the new format? (Btw, I'm a big Floyd fan too). Robman94 (talk) 13:25, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
- I had added SongFacts articles as references in a couple of articles but somebody came along and deleted them, as it turns out that SongFacts is not an approved WP:RS, so I'm not sure that a linking template is needed. Robman94 (talk) 17:24, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CLVII, May 2019
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Tech News: 2019-20
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List of infoboxes#Religious building
is still a building
and there is also overlap, e.g.
embedded = {{Infobox UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Template:Infobox UNESCO World Heritage Site ... listed at Geography_and_place#Buildings_and_structures
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NPR Newsletter No.18
Hello Pigsonthewing,
- WMF at work on NPP Improvements
Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:
- Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
- Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.
- Reliable Sources for NPP
Rosguill has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.
- Backlog drive coming soon
Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the New Page Patrol talk page.
- News
- Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.
- Discussions of interest
- A request for bot approval for a bot to patrol two kinds of redirects
- There has been a lot discussion about Notability of Academics
- What, if anything, would a SNG for Softball look like
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