User talk:Ale jrb/Archives/August 2018

Administrators' newsletter – August 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2018). Administrator changes
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 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg KaisaL • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news
 * After a discussion at Meta, a new user group called "interface administrators" (formerly "technical administrator") has been created. Come the end of August, interface admins will be the only users able to edit site-wide JavaScript and CSS pages like MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css, or edit other user's personal JavaScript and CSS. The intention is to improve security and privacy by reducing the number of accounts which could be used to compromise the site or another user's account through malicious code. The new user group can be assigned and revoked by bureaucrats. Discussion is ongoing to establish details for implementing the group on the English Wikipedia.
 * Following a request for comment, the WP:SISTER style guideline now states that in the mainspace, interwiki links to Wikinews should only be made as per the external links guideline. This generally means that within the body of an article, you should not link to Wikinews about a particular event that is only a part of the larger topic. Wikinews links in "external links" sections can be used where helpful, but not automatically if an equivalent article from a reliable news outlet could be linked in the same manner.

Technical news
 * The WMF Anti-Harassment Tools team is seeking input on the second set of wireframes for the Special:Block redesign that will introduce partial blocks. The new functionality will allow you to block a user from editing a specific set of pages, pages in a category, a namespace, and for specific actions such as moving pages and uploading files.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:31, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

CSDH hiccup with determining username
I tried to decline a speedy at Mingo Chin but the script hangs at "- Determining user who tagged page...". The browser's console says: TypeError: csdHController.pageReq.data.page.revisions[i] is undefined csdH_controller/this.declineDo https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php:443:11 csdH_controller/this.declineDo/csdHController.editReq.onCompleteAction https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php:431:60 wa_mediawikiApi/this.performAction/< https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingo_Chin#:342:13 wa_ajaxcall/this.doRequest/waMyAjax.pageRequest.onreadystatechange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingo_Chin#:485:6 Not sure whether that's related but could you take a look? Maybe the user name is too long? Regards SoWhy 08:04, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Huh, that's odd. I'll take a look. A le_Jrb talk 10:13, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

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