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Books & Bytes – Issue 60
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes

Issue 60, November – December 2023 
 * Three new partners
 * Google Scholar integration
 * How to track partner suggestions

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Tech News: 2024-05
 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
 * Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org.
 * There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-gift.svg On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the  option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the  option instead.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:29, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

God
Thank you 2603:6010:3542:206B:EDAD:4582:E9FE:896E (talk) 01:19, 13 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Hmm? 0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 04:27, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
 * what did he mean by this? Formerlychucks (talk) 15:25, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Rollback Request
I have been waiting for an actual response for a while now on my rollback request for perms. I looked through the list and decided that asking directly would be quicker to just get it over with. May you please consider my request?

(P.S: Rust > Go) jayhawker6 (talk) 16:46, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Red-tailed hawk · Robertsky
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ameliorate! · Ancheta Wis · Anthony Bradbury (deceased) · Cobi · Ev · Moondyne · Worm That Turned

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Worm That Turned



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Wugapodes

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Enterprisey · Izno

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news
 * Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size.

Arbitration
 * Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
 * Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
 * A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
 * Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
 * The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with Unreferenced. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:01, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Reporting bulut/ASPE
Hi! I was going to ask in the SPI if it'd be more convenient just to keep track of new socks somewhere and then report the bulk of them later on in the week or something. Most of my findings have just been getting lucky spotting an account or two late at night.

I'm mostly filing since it appears they abuse more on the Japanese Wikipedia and might just be using en wiki to make new accounts where our rangeblocks may not be as comprehensive. Should I just hold off for future filings? Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 21:03, 4 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Feel free to message me, actually. I have written an edit filter than automatically catches these socks so we can space out the filings. 0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 01:48, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Forgive my lack of knowledge about on-wiki messaging methods - would that be via email, leaving a message here or on some user talk subpage, or some super secret on-wiki messaging? There's another pretty blatant (not really long term) vandal/spammer who I'm not sure has a filter yet. Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 01:56, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
 * if you want to ask a filter to be created for a blatant vandal, send an email to the mailing list. (WP:EFMAILING) For the ASPE LTA feel free to just leave a message here. 0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 02:03, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-06
 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
 * The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to the phabricator task.
 * On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity. Learn more about "action blocks".

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed.

Future changes
 * 24 Wikipedias with Reference Tooltips as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make Reference Previews the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For 46 Wikipedias with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February, unless there are concerns. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:20, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Congratulations!
Congrats on becoming the top administrator! I am happy to relinquish the position to you, and wish you the best of luck with the truly strange emails you may receive by virtue of being the first administrator on the list. Cheers, 28bytes (talk) 16:37, 17 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I realized that yesterday, and it explained some of the weird talk page comments I have received since I became an admin. I hope I don't have to reconsider my username choice because of this! 0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 23:14, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm a rather big fan of above.  AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:46, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
 * That's a nice message, actually. Though I mostly referred to a comment I got that is now suppressed from the history. (from a wmf-banned user asking for my email) 0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 13:14, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Ah, that's not so fun. Anyway, now that Bots/Requests for approval/DeadbeefBot 3 has been approved, how soon do you intend to set it loose? AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:52, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I spent some time doing housekeeping on the code, but it looks like PetScan is down. I do have some lists saved offline, but I'd rather go off from a fresh list that the bot definitely knows how to process. 0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 01:18, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
 * It seems like it's up again. AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:09, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
 * this week is quite busy for me. I'll try to get it up and running this weekend <span style="font-family:Iosevka,monospace">0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 00:59, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Did you manage to find the time? &#126;~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:05, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @AirshipJungleman29: I did manage to find some time. (and it had a few hundreds of edits I think) There are more things to consider before the bot can be made to have a larger scope. For example, Talk:Therese Forster has a DYK image, but there's no way to specify that in the article history template currently, so I told the bot to not handle those yet. I asked more than a month ago at Template talk:Article history but no one said yes or no. What do you think?
 * The other issue is determining if a PR is reviewed or not. I actually have some idea on this. If the page only has one signature, then it is definitely not reviewed. If it has more than one, we can put it as reviewed. I'll just have to find more time to code that into the bot. <span style="font-family:Iosevka,monospace">0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 09:56, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I hadn't noticed that DYK image inclusion, and I don't really know what to think about it. On the one hand, I suppose it is nice to have that picture, but what if it gets deleted in the future? I also don't know where it would fit in the article history template, which is presumably why it was left out. That is a slight conundrum, yes. &#126;~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 10:06, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

User:HaleBot
Hello, 0xDeadbeef,

I think the bot needs to be restarted or get a tune-up. It's not just the report I use, it looks like it overslept. Thanks. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 03:46, 9 February 2024 (UTC)


 * I've restarted it. <span style="font-family:Iosevka,monospace">0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 04:54, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

"Unreliable sources"
on the wojak page, you dismissed my edits concerning soyjak.party due to it being an unreliable source, yet the first reference on the article is know your meme, WP:KYM

i would like to remind you that soyjak party has a KYM article aswell, dont be a hypocrite

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/soyjakparty Formerlychucks (talk) 16:14, 9 February 2024 (UTC)


 * It isn't hypocrisy. Unreliable sources can't be used but we still get articles of poor quality using them. We don't have enough volunteer time to enforce that. Usually, someone is supposed to find a better source instead of removing content wholesale. <span style="font-family:Iosevka,monospace">0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 16:26, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
 * But in your case, the WP:BURDEN is on you to show that your content can be attributed to a reliable source. <span style="font-family:Iosevka,monospace">0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 16:27, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes it is hypocritical, why are you removing my content wholesale when "unreliable sources" are casually used in the articles and are only given a [better source needed] tag? your mental gymnastics contradict logic, also, please assume good faith.
 * Also, it seems you deleted my addition hastily and haven't checked my source, the source i am using, followchain.org is made by Lim How Wei, this man has 8+ years of experience in social media marketing, and has been quoted and referenced by major publications and media companies like WikiHow, Fast Company, HuffPost, Vice, New York Post, The Conversation, and many others, and despite having poor english (that still gets the point across and can be corrected thoughbeit) he can still research obscure social media websites and provide adequate information for them, i would argue he is more reliable than even know your meme. Formerlychucks (talk) 11:00, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Seems like a spammy source at best. Primary and beware of WP:ONUS. Please try to work with us and find an actual reliable source. And also bring it up on Talk:Wojak instead of here. <span style="font-family:Iosevka,monospace">0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 12:14, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
 * "Spammy source"
 * That does not matter, it gives valuable information about social media.
 * All news articles are spammy, technically.
 * WP:ONUS: "Consensus may determine that certain information does not improve an article. Such information should be omitted or presented instead in a different article"
 * Mentioning soyjak.party presents the impact of the soyjak and how it created an entire thriving community, that definitely improves the section (and by addition; the article) by adding interesting and notable information about soyjak.
 * Do you understand now? Formerlychucks (talk) 14:49, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
 * No. <span style="font-family:Iosevka,monospace">0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 14:54, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-07
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Recent changes
 * The WDQS Graph Split experiment is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels. Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service.

Problems
 * There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black; this issue is fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-tools.svg As work continues on the grid engine deprecation, tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped.

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MediaWiki message delivery 05:46, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-08
<section begin="technews-2024-W08"/> 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
 * If you have the "" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails.
 * There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see  this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
 * Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the task's description.
 * The maximum file size when using Upload Wizard is now 5 GiB.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).


 * Octicons-tools.svg Selected tools on the grid engine have been stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
 * The CSS <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> property can now be used in HTML <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> attributes in wikitext.

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MediaWiki message delivery 15:34, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

HaleBot
Hello, 0xDeadbeef,

I just thought I'd let you know that Database reports/Empty categories hasn't been updated since February 18th. I do have that alternative source for empty categories but in case this is a problem with HaleBot, I thought I'd alert you. Thank you. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 02:09, 22 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Looks like Legoktm took care of it. <span style="font-family:Iosevka,monospace">0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 08:43, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

DeadbeefBot edit to Talk:Typhoon Ike
I'm not sure what happened here. The bot didn't like that I skipped over "1", so it deleted
 * action3=WAR ? Schierbecker (talk) 04:47, 23 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I will take a note to fix this before I run the bot the next time. <span style="font-family:Iosevka,monospace">0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 13:14, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

sigma.toolforge.org/summary.py is not working.
Hello, I tried to use this query and got a 502. I am contacting you because you were listed as one of the maintainers.  NW1223 &lt; Howl at me &bull; My hunts &gt; 22:06, 21 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Noted. I will take a look when I get time. <span style="font-family:Iosevka,monospace">0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 04:26, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

CS1 error on Direction – Social Democracy
Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Direction – Social Democracy, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows: Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=User:Qwerfjkl/Botpreload&editintro=User:Qwerfjkl/boteditintro&minor=&title=User_talk:Qwerfjkl&preloadtitle=Qwerfjkl%20(bot)%20–%200xDeadbeef&section=new&preloadparams%5b%5d=&preloadparams%5b%5d=1210136801 report it to my operator]. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 04:37, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
 * A "bare URL and missing title" error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. ([//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Direction_%E2%80%93_Social_Democracy&action=edit&minor=minor&summary=Fixing+reference+error+raised+by+%5B%5BUser%3AQwerfjkl%20(bot)%7CQwerfjkl%20(bot)%5D%5D Fix] | [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Help_desk&action=edit&section=new&preload=User:Qwerfjkl%20(bot)/helpform&preloadtitle=Referencing%20errors%20on%20%5B%5BSpecial%3ADiff%2F1210136801%7CDirection%20–%20Social%20Democracy%5D%5D Ask for help])

Tech News: 2024-09
<section begin="technews-2024-W09"/> 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
 * The mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research  shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The mw.config value  now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is: <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">.

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 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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 * The right to change edit tags (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> ) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Sdkb · The Night Watch
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg East718 · Isabelle Belato · Mzajac · Staecker · Stan Shebs · Sugarfish · Tamzin



Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg SilkTork

Guideline and policy news
 * Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
 * Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news
 * The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
 * Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:21, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Bunk'd
May I create a table for the main cast and characters since season 7 is the final season also Matteo, Finn, Ava and Gwen are returning for season 7 as a guest character. Noah2004 (talk) Noah4000 (talk) 17:55, 9 February 2024 (UTC)


 * You need to leave messages on the talk page. <span style="font-family:Iosevka,monospace">0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 03:39, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I did Noah4000 (talk) 17:42, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
 * And another editor disagreed with you. So you need to try to get consensus for adding such a table. <span style="font-family:Iosevka,monospace">0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 17:44, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
 * how do I do that? Noah4000 (talk) 17:52, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Convince them at Talk:Bunk'd. <span style="font-family:Iosevka,monospace">0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 04:26, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
 * ok Noah4000 (talk) 03:33, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-10
<section begin="technews-2024-W10"/> 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
 * The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the Wikisource extension.
 * Wikitech now uses the next-generation Parsoid wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the Known Issues discussion page. You can use the ParserMigration extension to control the use of Parsoid; see the ParserMigration help documentation for more details.
 * Maintenance on etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> namespaces and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> user right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made.
 * A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

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 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
 * The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See Heading HTML changes for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> to your URL (more info) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (more info).

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

Books & Bytes – Issue 61
<span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes

Issue 61, January – February 2024 <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: 1.2em">
 * Bristol University Press and British Online Archives now available
 * 1Lib1Ref results

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あすぺるがあすぺしゃりすと?
I suspect the following to be あすぺるがあすぺしゃりすと.

Almost certainly あすぺるがあすぺしゃりすと: Possible sleepers:

32.220.205.180 (talk) 04:01, 11 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Yes, the two users are them. I don't think we need to report them until more socks pop up though. <span style="font-family:Iosevka,monospace">0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 04:19, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
 * And possibly (not really sure because I can't read it):
 * 32.220.205.180 (talk) 06:10, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Seems there's more:
 * with diff
 * with diff 2
 * <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 04:34, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * More rearrangements of previous sock names. I'd be surprised if these weren't them:
 * 32.220.205.180 (talk) 20:59, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Also noting that ዝጋሉፔ and ƆƑŋUkE that I put above have gone and created/blanked their talk pages. 32.220.205.180 (talk) 21:01, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't think it is necessary to report them frequently, and I personally would like to see at least 10 obvious accounts (with blanking and username) before it could be made more a satisfying task for the CUs than a tedious bureaucratic necessity. But feel free to start a report with what you have already. I can always be nudged to add to reports that others start. <span style="font-family:Iosevka,monospace">0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 09:59, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
 * actually, just went through some of them blocking them manually indef. I'll actually start a request. <span style="font-family:Iosevka,monospace">0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 10:03, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Another one:
 * <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 03:28, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Mentioned above 32.220.205.180 (talk) 03:31, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Oops - saw them pop up in recent user page changes. Looks like the account maybe slept for a few days? <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 03:32, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * The account سرنئپ that I mentioned on 11 February also wrote in Japanese on their talk page. 32.220.205.180 (talk) 03:34, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * And that account also wrote patent nonsense on their talk page. I don't see anything new in the User Creation Log. 32.220.205.180 (talk) 03:37, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh. They're blocked on jawiki for sockpuppetry. 32.220.205.180 (talk) 03:41, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Both accounts (KEƆƑŋU and سرنئپ) are blocked on jawiki for sockpuppetry! 32.220.205.180 (talk) 03:42, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Another one:
 * <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 03:28, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Mentioned above 32.220.205.180 (talk) 03:31, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Oops - saw them pop up in recent user page changes. Looks like the account maybe slept for a few days? <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 03:32, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * The account سرنئپ that I mentioned on 11 February also wrote in Japanese on their talk page. 32.220.205.180 (talk) 03:34, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * And that account also wrote patent nonsense on their talk page. I don't see anything new in the User Creation Log. 32.220.205.180 (talk) 03:37, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh. They're blocked on jawiki for sockpuppetry. 32.220.205.180 (talk) 03:41, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Both accounts (KEƆƑŋU and سرنئپ) are blocked on jawiki for sockpuppetry! 32.220.205.180 (talk) 03:42, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Both accounts (KEƆƑŋU and سرنئپ) are blocked on jawiki for sockpuppetry! 32.220.205.180 (talk) 03:42, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

I see that some of the new ones have already been caught (The last two are possible, but I think I would need to see them create their talk pages and blank them first). 32.220.205.180 (talk) 16:11, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Was about to report the first two. :) <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 21:11, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Throw:
 * onto the pile. <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 03:24, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Caught those on 13 February already :) Maybe we should start a report, because سرنئپ, KEƆƑŋU, and these two evaded the latest check. 32.220.205.180 (talk) 04:01, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Strange - they just edited their talk pages today. I guess you're checking new user creations and I'm on recent changes. With the username trends they all tend to look the same after a while, haha. <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 04:02, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't act upon the accounts based on usernames alone. <span style="font-family:Iosevka,monospace">0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 05:03, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, but they've written on their talkpages in Japanese, in addition to their usernames. It's either them or someone impersonating them. 32.220.205.180 (talk) 06:11, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Two more popping up:
 * <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 04:05, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I do check the user creation log, but I usually only check mobile creations because that's usually where the socks are. Some other accounts that were created in the same timeframe and also rearrangements of previous sock names (The six above this reply are already blocked on jawiki for sockpuppetry):
 * (compare to 焙犀ピオラ and 焙犀)
 * (焙犀蠍焙ピオラ and 焙犀蠍焙)
 * (compare ልብውስጥየ, ስጥየልውስ, ስውስጥየል, ብስውስጥየል, ውስልብየስጥ, የውልብስስጥ, የውስልብስጥ, ጥየልብስውስ, whichever one, take your pick...)
 * Maybe? (They all end in the same three characters, and this master has used the last two characters to end some of their sock names before):
 * I did see an account named 'ApseK12', but I don't think it's them because it's not like this master to misspell things.
 * 32.220.205.180 (talk) 06:05, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * The socks continue! ジ・焙犀 and ジ・焙犀蠍焙 created their talk pages. This master has created their talk page with what was on ジ・焙犀蠍焙 before, though. 32.220.205.180 (talk) 06:35, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Blocked all of them that were obvious. Requested locks on Meta. <span style="font-family:Iosevka,monospace">0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 08:00, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * You forgot
 * In addition,
 * have been CU blocked by.
 * In addition, I don't see how 璋隙北, ゴー!プリンセス璋隙北, 旧璋隙北 are obvious given that they don't have talk pages yet.
 * 32.220.205.180 (talk) 18:55, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I've created a user page to track Bulut's socks, please let me know 0xDeadbeef if this should be deleted to deny recognition. The table is probably a little messy, but should help keep track of who's been blocked and who hasn't (plus who to report and to not report). <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 22:47, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Per their Japanese LTA page (taken with a grain of machine translated salt):
 * "...so you can find Romanized readings, non-Japanese spellings, and even anagrams of "Asperger", and similar user names..."
 * Romanized anagrams aren't out of the question. Since they've been pretty prolific here, an LTA page or a translated LTA page from jawiki may not hurt. <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 20:34, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, if we are to trust machine translation, most of the Japanese names have something to do (or are similar sounding) to 'Aspergers', but some of the other names don't have relation to Aspergers or don't translate at all (Sometimes, their names also machine translate to "Tomorrow", some of them also include "North" ):
 * "UkEɔƑŋ" --> "UkEɔŋŋ"
 * "ꯑꯦꯁ꯭ꯔ꯫" --> "ꯑꯦꯁ꯭ꯔ꯫"
 * "焙犀蠍焙" --> "roasted scorpion" (or "Baked Rhinoceros Scorpion Baked"?)
 * "跖芒拜蓼渠跖" --> "蓖苒苜蓼渠蓖"
 * "ስጥየልውስ" --> "When I give it to you"
 * "زلوااا" --> "Zaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" or "Zlwaaa"
 * "متزوجشدد" --> "MarriedStressed"
 * "تلوث اشعاعى" --> "Radioactive Contamination"
 * I think there are some translation issues, like not knowing the original language.
 * Another question, have any of their socks ever vandalized? 32.220.205.180 (talk) 22:50, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I think there's been a few in the four archive pages (!!) that have made edits to mainspace, but most of their target articles (I believe) have at least some sort of semi-protection. <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 22:52, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I have some more questions:
 * What does "あすぺるがあすぺしゃりすと" really mean? I can get it to translate to "Asperger Specialist", "Asperu is Tomorrow", "tomorrow is tomorrow", and "Tomorrow's Wikipedia".
 * Some accounts, such as Asperger'22, Aspe version2022, アスペルガー バージョン2022, Asperger version2022, or アスペ バージョン2022 are tagged as socks of ISECHIKA, are they impersonating?
 * 32.220.205.180 (talk) 23:32, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * It's plausible going off of this section of Isechika's page. Google Translate says he'll impersonate ASPE. Either way, they both need global locks, so I hope it doesn't matter too much one way or another which LTA it is. I assume any offensive usernames that Isechika may come up with, if impersonating ASPE, will be noticed by jawiki admins. <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 00:00, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * After looking at Special:Contributions/アスペ龍騎 & Special:Contributions/アスペルガー龍騎, it's plausible that this is Isechika. I have no clue if the CU data would be stale by now, but if any CUs passing by see this, it could be worth checking. The first is a lot closer to Special:Contributions/سرنئپ than any previously tagged socks are. It looks like they're both still active too, which doesn't make this any easier. <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 00:03, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Wow. I just realized the existence of the Sock list template. I could have done those lists above much easier... 32.220.205.180 (talk) 06:19, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * It doesn't really matter. They're going to be socks either way, whether operated by isechika or bulut. <span style="font-family:Iosevka,monospace">0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 09:25, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Mind smacking for this? <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish  &#9993; 02:01, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Sock drawer.
 * , see Special:Diff/1212681428/
 * <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 04:25, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
 * for this. <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 01:38, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
 * And creating the user talk page for a locked sock. <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 01:40, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Done. Please go through and see if any of their childish shit needs to be removed. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 01:45, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
 * This, when (Google) translated, appears to be a legal threat (but not to Wikipedia). The edits from 脚抖北 just look like something about a restaurant and asking not to be blocked. <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 01:47, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
 * More! Oh boy.
 * recreating locked sock talk page (again), creating & blanking own talk page.
 * Locked sock pages are just requests to be unblocked. <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 06:12, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
 * It's plausible going off of this section of Isechika's page. Google Translate says he'll impersonate ASPE. Either way, they both need global locks, so I hope it doesn't matter too much one way or another which LTA it is. I assume any offensive usernames that Isechika may come up with, if impersonating ASPE, will be noticed by jawiki admins. <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 00:00, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * After looking at Special:Contributions/アスペ龍騎 & Special:Contributions/アスペルガー龍騎, it's plausible that this is Isechika. I have no clue if the CU data would be stale by now, but if any CUs passing by see this, it could be worth checking. The first is a lot closer to Special:Contributions/سرنئپ than any previously tagged socks are. It looks like they're both still active too, which doesn't make this any easier. <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 00:03, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Wow. I just realized the existence of the Sock list template. I could have done those lists above much easier... 32.220.205.180 (talk) 06:19, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * It doesn't really matter. They're going to be socks either way, whether operated by isechika or bulut. <span style="font-family:Iosevka,monospace">0x Deadbeef →∞ (talk to me) 09:25, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Mind smacking for this? <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish  &#9993; 02:01, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Sock drawer.
 * , see Special:Diff/1212681428/
 * <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 04:25, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
 * for this. <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 01:38, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
 * And creating the user talk page for a locked sock. <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 01:40, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Done. Please go through and see if any of their childish shit needs to be removed. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 01:45, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
 * This, when (Google) translated, appears to be a legal threat (but not to Wikipedia). The edits from 脚抖北 just look like something about a restaurant and asking not to be blocked. <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 01:47, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
 * More! Oh boy.
 * recreating locked sock talk page (again), creating & blanking own talk page.
 * Locked sock pages are just requests to be unblocked. <small style="color:#0080FF;background:#EAEAFF;border:2px solid;border-radius:4px;padding:0 4px">Schrödinger's jellyfish &#9993; 06:12, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

I threw in User talk:ብስየውስልጥ and User talk:تحتتي; there is no charge. Drmies (talk) 22:53, 18 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you for catching تحتتي, I was not sure on that one. 32.220.205.180 (talk) 23:00, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

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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, provides for the addition of a text box at Requests for adminship reminding all editors of our policies and enforcement mechanisms around decorum.
 * Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by and, 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, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
 * Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by, 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, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
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 * Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by, , and , 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, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
 * Proposal 14, initiated by, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
 * Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by and, 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, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
 * Proposal 17, initiated by, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
 * Proposal 18, initiated by, provides for lowering the RfB target from 85% to 75%.
 * Proposal 24, initiated by, provides for a more robust alternate version of the optional candidate poll.
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