Wikidata weekly summary #415
This Month in GLAM: April 2020
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Tech News: 2020-20
20:41, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #416
Tech News: 2020-21
17:19, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-22
14:18, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #417
The Signpost: 31 May 2020
- From the editor: Meltdown May?
- News and notes: 2019 Picture of the Year, 200 French paid editing accounts blocked, 10 years of Guild Copyediting
- Discussion report: WMF's Universal Code of Conduct
- Featured content: Weathering the storm
- Arbitration report: Board member likely to receive editing restriction
- Traffic report: Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam
- Gallery: Wildlife photos by the book
- News from the WMF: WMF Board announces Community Culture Statement
- Recent research: Automatic detection of covert paid editing; Wiki Workshop 2020
- Community view: Transit routes and mapping during stay-at-home order downtime
- WikiProject report: Revitalizing good articles
- On the bright side: 500,000 articles in the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia
Administrators' newsletter – June 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).
- CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth
- Anna Frodesiak • Buckshot06 • Ronhjones • SQL
- A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
- The Wikimedia Foundation announced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.
- A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on
articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland
. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.
- A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on
Wikidata weekly summary #418
Tech News: 2020-23
22:31, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #419
Tech News: 2020-24
21:12, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: May 2020
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Books & Bytes – Issue 39, May – June 2020
Books & Bytes
Issue 39, May – June 2020
- Library Card Platform
- New partnerships
- ProQuest
- Springer Nature
- BioOne
- CEEOL
- IWA Publishing
- ICE Publishing
- Bytes in brief
On behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:13, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #420
Editing news 2020 #2 – Quick updates
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This edition of the Editing newsletter includes information the Wikipedia:Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. The central project page is on MediaWiki.org.
- Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing
@
. You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months. - New requirements for user signatures: Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable. Most editors will not be affected.
- New discussion tool: The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions. You can see the initial design on the project page.
- Research on the use of talk pages: The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles. We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.
– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:11, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-25
21:38, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #421
Tech News: 2020-26
18:49, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 28 June 2020
- News and notes: Progress at Wikipedia Library and Wikijournal of Medicine
- Community view: Community open letter on renaming
- Gallery: After the killing of George Floyd
- In the media: Part collaboration and part combat
- Discussion report: Community reacts to WMF rebranding proposals
- Featured content: Sports are returning, with a rainbow
- Arbitration report: Anti-harassment RfC and a checkuser revocation
- Traffic report: The pandemic, alleged murder, a massacre, and other deaths
- News from the WMF: We stand for racial justice
- Recent research: Wikipedia and COVID-19; automated Wikipedia-based fact-checking
- Humour: Cherchez une femme
- On the bright side: For what are you grateful this month?
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Black Lives Matter
Wikidata weekly summary #422
Tech News: 2020-27
16:31, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – July 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).
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Interface administrator changes
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- A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.
- Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an
RfC regarding on-wiki harassment
. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community. - The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for
all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles
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- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an
Editing news 2020 #3
Seven years ago this week, the Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:
- The 50 millionth edit using the visual editor on desktop was made this year. More than 10 million edits have been made here at the English Wikipedia.
- More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
- Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
- The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has been increasing every year.
- Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.
- On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor.
- In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers, and half of their first edits, were made using the visual editor. This percentage has been increasing every year since the tool became available.
Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:06, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #423
Tech News: 2020-28
20:18, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: June 2020
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Wikidata weekly summary #424
Tech News: 2020-29
16:30, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #425
Tech News: 2020-30
19:11, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
Exporting Wikipedia Adventure to a local wiki
I am currently trying to add Wikipedia Adventure into Malayalam Wikipedia. I would like to know which pages needs to be exported to mlwiki, so as to get the message boxes that appear in pages like the ones containing WP:TWA/1/Start?tour=twa1 in the URL. Adithyak1997 (talk) 18:57, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
- Adithyak1997, I think what you're looking for is Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure/Index. Also, check out how other communities have translated it here: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Adventure . Good luck! Ocaasi t | c 20:48, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you. Adithyak1997 (talk) 07:14, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-31
13:52, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #426
Teahouse award script
Hello! Just wanted to ask if this still works — Yours, Berrely • Talk∕Contribs 21:30, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
- Hey Berrely, I actually have no idea. I haven't thought about it in at least 7 years and I frankly don't even remember what it does! Try it? I have a hunch it's functionality was built into the main interface...Ocaasi t | c 21:32, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
Well as long as it doesn't mess up my UI I'll be happy to :D. Just thought I'd might ask you you before I did. If it works or not thanks for creating it anyway 😁. — Yours, Berrely • Talk∕Contribs 21:40, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).
- Red Phoenix
- Euryalus • SQL
- Jujutacular • Monty845 • Rettetast • Madchester
- There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
- Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
- Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
- There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.
The Signpost: 2 August 2020
- Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?
- COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money
- News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin
- In the media: Dog days gone bad
- Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy
- Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom
- Traffic report: Now for something completely different
- News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users
- Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil
Wikidata weekly summary #427
Tech News: 2020-32
15:43, 3 August 2020 (UTC)