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Tech News: 2024-08

MediaWiki message delivery 15:35, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious
Four years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:24, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

User:Zyczeswoj

Please check whether the new user "Zyczeswoj" and the IP addresses "91.206.244.11", "86.27.125.24" are the next sockpuppets of "Gejzir.owski/PolishBoyInUK". Thanks in advance 77.6.114.104 (talk) 21:58, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't do check requests from IPs. RoySmith (talk) 22:02, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-09

MediaWiki message delivery 19:21, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Use of OS view on English Wikipedia

Hi Roy. I was pretty surprised when I read that you had viewed the suppressed edit. In conversations with Legal, they have impressed upon me the concept that people should only have information covered by the ANPDP if they have a need for it based on their grant of the permission. Which would mean in this case means it would not be OK for an Ombud to view the suppressed edit outside of the need within the context of the Commission, which I'm guessing this was not. Admittedly this is written not so clearly in the actual ANPDP - yet another problem I see in the document and part of why I've been strongly urging a rewrite of that document - but I do think it is implicit in this section. This is all grey and my thinking could be out of line with the thinking of others, but I thought it important to note for your consideration. Barkeep49 (talk) 17:37, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. RoySmith-Mobile (talk) 18:31, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Was worth a try, anyway

Thanks. Floquenbeam (talk) 21:38, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Sigh. RoySmith (talk) 21:42, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

+1 Carrite (talk) 00:35, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

story · music · places

+1 good close - music and flowers on Rossini's rare birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:09, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Tue March 5: Wiki Gala NYC

March 5: Wiki Gala @ Prime Produce
Wiki-fashion show at last year's event

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community and visitors from the global Wikimedia Foundation for our Wiki Gala at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. All are welcome!

This is a sequel to the March 2023 Grand Central Salon and the March 2022 Wiki-Tent Brunch.

The event will feature lightning talks and a Wiki-fashion show, for which you are encouraged to dress in your finest Wikimedia clothing and accessories (bags, buttons, even books), or clothing connected to the topics you edit on wiki projects.

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person you should be vaccinated and also be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate.

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--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:32, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous


The Signpost: 2 March 2024

Tech News: 2024-10

MediaWiki message delivery 19:45, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Hello RoySmith,

You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Conflict of interest management. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Conflict of interest management/Evidence. Please add your evidence by March 20, 2024, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Conflict of interest management/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration.

For the Arbitration Committee,
~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:03, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

WikiNYC: 3/14 Hacking Night + 3/16 Queens Name Explorer

March 14: Hacking Night @ Prime Produce

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for Pi Day Hacking Night at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. It is intended primarily for technical contributors, though newcomers are welcome as well, and pies will be served in celebration of Pi Day!

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Wikimedia's Technical Code of Conduct.

Meeting info:

March 16: Queens Name Explorer @ QPL Tech Lab

You are also invited to the Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Queens Name Explorer edit-a-thon at the Queens Public Library Tech Lab in Long Island City, which will be hosted in collaboration OpenStreetMap US, Urban Archive and the Queens Memory Project. This is an opportunity for the tech savvy to learn about Queens history and for the history savvy to hone their open data skills – plus, there will be refreshments and prizes for everyone!

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct. In addition, to participate in person, you should be vaccinated and be sure to respect others' personal space, and we may limit overall attendance size if appropriate.

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--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:59, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Viking Saga censorship incident you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of 750h+ -- 750h+ (talk) 05:45, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

The article Viking Saga censorship incident you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Viking Saga censorship incident for comments about the article, and Talk:Viking Saga censorship incident/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of 750h+ -- 750h+ (talk) 15:02, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

New message from Jo-Jo Eumerus

Hello, RoySmith. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ojos del Salado/archive1.
Message added 08:53, 11 March 2024 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Greetings, since you did review Guallatiri at FAC I was wondering if you may be interested in Ojos del Salado too. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 08:53, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-11

MediaWiki message delivery 23:02, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I

Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:

  • Proposal 2, initiated by HouseBlaster, provides for the addition of a text box at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship reminding all editors of our policies and enforcement mechanisms around decorum.
  • Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by Barkeep49 and Usedtobecool, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
  • Proposal 5, initiated by SilkTork, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
  • Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by BilledMammal, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
  • Proposal 7, initiated by Lee Vilenski, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
  • Proposal 9b, initiated by Reaper Eternal, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
  • Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by City of Silver, Ritchie333, and HouseBlaster, respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
  • Proposal 13, initiated by Novem Lingaue, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
  • Proposal 14, initiated by Kusma, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
  • Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by Thebiguglyalien and Soni, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
  • Proposal 16e, initiated by BilledMammal, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
  • Proposal 17, initiated by SchroCat, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
  • Proposal 18, initiated by theleekycauldron, provides for lowering the RfB target from 85% to 75%.
  • Proposal 24, initiated by SportingFlyer, provides for a more robust alternate version of the optional candidate poll.
  • Proposal 25, initiated by Femke, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators.
  • Proposal 27, initiated by WereSpielChequers, provides for the creation of a training course for admin hopefuls, as well as periodic retraining to keep admins from drifting out of sync with community norms.
  • Proposal 28, initiated by HouseBlaster, tightens restrictions on multi-part questions.

To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron (talk • she/her), via:

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:53, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-12

MediaWiki message delivery 17:38, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

User:GhostRiver has not visited his active reviews since February.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 16:17, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Um, are we talking DYK, GA, something else? RoySmith (talk) 16:28, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
GAN. Me (Talk:Joanne McCarthy (basketball)/GA1) and a couple of others-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 02:20, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
GhostRiver takes she/her pronouns :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 02:55, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
My apologies to her. I don't know how true it is, but 80-90% of editors use to be men and for sports editing probably even a higher percentage of editors were men. Maybe for women's basketball a lot of she/her editors are invovled. Apologies. I guess when I am doing anything but fashion, I assume male editors.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 10:56, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-13

MediaWiki message delivery 18:54, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Dorothy Olsen scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 4 May 2024. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 2024, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/May 2024. Please keep an eye on that page, as comments regarding the draft blurb may be left there by user:dying, who assists the coordinators by making suggestions on the blurbs, or by others. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work! Gog the Mild (talk) 18:48, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Promotion of Dorothy Olsen

Congratulations, RoySmith! The article you nominated, Dorothy Olsen, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.
This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, David Fuchs (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:05, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

TFA

story · music · places

Thank you today for American Bank Note Company Printing Plant, introduced: "In a sense, this is a companion piece to my previous FA, Fleetwood Park Racetrack. We've moved (1.5 miles (2.4 km)) away and it's 10 years later, but it's a different world. Fleetwood Park was the end of the Bronx as a rural area on the outskirts of the city, where the rich and powerful had their estates and playgrounds. Now we're into the rise of the Bronx as a densely populated area and a center of industry. Both sites are adjacent to railways, but instead of bringing in crowds of people seeking entertainment, it's bringing in industrial supplies and shipping out finished products. While the racetrack fell victim to the economic pressure to build houses driving it out of existence, here we see the printing plant and the surrounding residential development having a symbiotic relationship, with the newly built housing providing a place to live for the workers in the plant and the plant providing additional incentive for developers to build new houses. Another contrast is that while physical evidence of the race track is all gone today, the printing plant, while no longer used for its original purpose, remains as a highly visible reminder of the history behind it."! - I have Aribert Reimann on the same page, sadly because he died. He wrote so much so emotional music for voices! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:11, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

I listen to Bach's St John Passion today, - 300 years after it was first performed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:15, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 March 2024

Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

Administrator changes

removed

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

Tech News: 2024-14

MediaWiki message delivery 03:34, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

The redirect Wikipedia:THREE has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 April 2 § Wikipedia:THREE until a consensus is reached. ~ A412 talk! 18:39, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Four Award

Four Award
Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on Dorothy Olsen. — Bilorv (talk) 12:21, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Toilets in New York City

On 5 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Toilets in New York City, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 2006, half a million people used a temporary New York City public toilet sponsored by a toilet paper brand? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Toilets in New York City. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Toilets in New York City), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

Z1720 (talk) 00:03, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

WikiWednesday (April 10) and City Tech Library LGBTQIA edit-a-thon (April 11)

April 10: WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce
Prime Produce

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon, with in-person at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, as well as an online-based participation option.

Among the topics, we'll be covering the newly-released drafts of the Movement Charter for Wikimedia global governance.

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct.

April 11: City Tech Library LGBTQIA edit-a-thon
New York City College of Technology

Additionally, you are invited to City Tech Library LGBTQIA edit-a-thon at the New York City College of Technology Library in Downtown Brooklyn! Join us in person on April 11th to learn about these great new materials at City Tech Library; to learn about editing Wikipedia; and to help increase representation of LGBTQIA individuals and issues online. All are welcome, new and experienced!

Interested in attending, but not a CUNY student or faculty? Please get in touch; we'll help you navigate City Tech building security. Email Jen: jennifer.hoyer18 (at) citytech.cuny.edu.

  • Thursday, April 11 City Tech Library LGBTQIA edit-a-thon (RSVP on-wiki).
    12:30 pm – 3:30 pm (come by any time!)
    4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (reception to celebrate the library's LGBTQIA collection)
    City Tech Library Multimedia Screening and Meeting Space, 300 Jay Street, Brooklyn NY

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct.

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--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:12, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-15

MediaWiki message delivery 23:35, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

PR

Hello RoySmith, could you possibly add your comments on the peer review about the Aston Martin DB9 article (heading towards FAC)? Please don't feel obliged to. Best,  750h+ | Talk  04:28, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-16

MediaWiki message delivery 23:27, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Check User??

I am heavily involved at English Wikinews. I am an accredited reporter, Reviewer, Administrator and Bureaucrat. One of our two CheckUser's has pretty much vanished (Cromium). How can I apply for CheckUser status? Do I do it at Meta or at Wikinews? Bddpaux (talk) 15:14, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Bddpaux. Each project manages their own CU appointments, so you really should be asking this on en.wikinews.org. The process for new CU appointments on that project is described at wikinews:Wikinews:CheckUser policy#Appointing local CheckUsers. RoySmith (talk) 15:36, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Thu April 25: WikiNYC Hacking Night

April 25: Hacking Night @ Prime Produce
Past event at Prime Produce.

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for NYC Hacking Night at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. It is intended primarily for technical contributors, though newcomers are welcome as well!

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Wikimedia's Technical Code of Conduct.

Meeting info:

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--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:48, 19 April 2024 (UTC)