User talk:Alpha3031/Archive 10

A side issue about opinion / secondary sources
I'm bringing this to your user talk page because it has little to do with the ongoing content dispute at Talk:Scientific_American. You stated there that opinion pieces are not considered a secondary source. That's not quite accurate. Per WP:SECONDARY, whether a source is considered primary or secondary is context-dependent, and independent of whether it is considered reliable. The problem with using WP:RSEDITORIAL sources for claims about anything other than the author's opinion is that they are rarely reliable for statements of fact and thus do not typically confer DUE weight, not that they aren't SECONDARY analysis. I'll admit that this is a rather arcane topic, but I thought it warranted saying. Cheers, Generalrelative (talk) 04:27, 16 October 2023 (UTC)


 * No worries, Generalrelative. To be specific, opinion pieces are so defined by footnote d in WP:PRIMARY (editorials, op-eds, columns, blogs, and other opinion pieces, including (depending on context) reviews and interviews) but it's not something that comes up very often so not usually very useful except when discussing obscure points of policy, since primary sources could well be independent, reliable and useful for the purposes we're using them for. Alpha3031 (t • c) 06:19, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Aha, now I see what you're talking about. I appreciate your thoughtful engagement. Generalrelative (talk) 06:50, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

FYI: If you do end up taking that editor to a noticeboard, you should be aware (if you aren't already) of their previous sanction for precisely this kind of behavior (Civil POV pushing and wear-down talkpage tactics) at Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory. You have to go into the history of their talk page to read about it, but here are their two lengthy, unsuccessful unblock requests, followed by a very direct admin warning about "making everyone miserable". I keep on hoping that they'll drop the stick, because drama boards are such a drag, and getting folks to take action on civil POV-pushing can be difficult –– but with this relevant history at least it may go down a bit easier. Generalrelative (talk) 00:02, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Question from Reinkanyeted (19:47, 17 October 2023)
I recently edited the page for Graduation (album) by Kanye West. I edited the critical reception part from "was met with generally positive reviews" to "was met with widespread critical acclaim." I have reviewed the ratings for Graduation for many hours, and can confidently say that Graduation deserves the "widespread critical acclaim" acknowledgement. What are your thoughts? --Reinkanyeted (talk) 19:47, 17 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Reinkanyeted. In general, we would expect a strong claim like "widespread critical acclaim" to be supported by equally strong sources. This could be a secondary source (evaluating the other reviews) explicitly stating the same claim where that source is generally considered reliable for such a claim. Alternatively, if there are no such sources available, it should be immediately obvious without spending hours reviewing things, even to people who may be less familiar with the subject than you are. Otherwise, I would recommend considering whether a less strongly worded phrase may be more appropriately supported by the available sources. Alpha3031 (t • c) 09:18, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Question from Wonderstatista (00:22, 21 October 2023)
How do schools decide on budgeting for sports programs for the whole year with so many sports in the midwest: cross country, golf, basketball, football, track, field hockey, volleyball,soccer, bowling, and academic programs: speech, drama, model united nations, home economics, literature club, student council, library club, computer club, journalism and yearbook, photography, homecoming events, mathematics club, physics and chemistry club, law club, human development club, sociology club, and psychology club. I would like to know the top schools in the midwest for these subjects. --Wonderstatista (talk) 00:22, 21 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Wonderstatista. We can probably point you towards general advice on how schools budget, for example, this report from the American Association of School Administrators, but for specifics it's probably best to contact the specific schools you're considering, or seeing if there are rankings in local news sources. Alpha3031 (t • c) 10:39, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

Question from SPEEDOONE (10:48, 21 October 2023)
i want to create my own biography --SPEEDOONE (talk) 10:48, 21 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi @SPEEDOONE. It is usually recommended not to do so, but Wikipedia:Autobiography § Creating an article about yourself has some advice on how to do so. If you do decide to go ahead, please ensure you have lots of coverage in reliable sources written about you directly and in detail, that are not interviews or directly derived from something you said, wrote or otherwise produced (see WP:GNG and WP:BASIC). Alpha3031 (t • c) 11:24, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

Question from Isahmhassan (17:45, 25 October 2023)
Hello I want to add my picture --Isahmhassan (talk) 17:45, 25 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Isahmhassan, there's a guide to uploading images at Uploading images that you should read if you want to do so. The most important thing to consider is the copyright of the image, but it should generally also have a relevant educational purpose. Alpha3031 (t • c) 23:15, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

November Articles for creation backlog drive
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Question from Raiyan Hafiy (19:15, 3 November 2023)
Hi, quick question. Where can you make your own page ? I'm still new here and wanted to make a page about my school since it wasn't in the Wiki. --Raiyan Hafiy (talk) 19:15, 3 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Raiyan Hafiy, I'd suggest reading the help page on this, Help:Your first article. After you're done there's a button that will start the article wizard, which will help create a draft page that you can start writing in. The most important thing to keep in mind though, is to make sure you can find enough sources that cover the school in detail, that are independent of the school itself, and are published by reputable publishers. Usually you'd want to aim for 3 of those detailed sources, and they will form a skeleton to build your article around, so to speak. This will improve the chances of your article being accepted, but more importantly, it will give a structure for your article to develop around. Alpha3031 (t • c) 13:16, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Milan 11 06 06 on University of Tokyo (12:18, 7 November 2023)
Hello. I want to ask about scholarships --Milan 11 06 06 (talk) 12:18, 7 November 2023 (UTC)


 * What kind of scholarships did you want to ask about Milan 11 06 06? Alpha3031 (t • c) 12:28, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Mvdjio on Bots/Requests for approval/Qwerfjkl (bot) 15 (21:08, 17 September 2023)
Hey I need your help about my article --Mvdjio (talk) 21:08, 17 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Do you still need my help? Mvdjio (talk) 11:46, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

What is a Woman?
Hi, when you removed the Distractify reference you also removed a National Review reference. Did you mean to remove both or just the Distractify? Thanks. Gooseneck41 (talk) 22:19, 16 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Just the Distractify, Gooseneck41. I don't use VE much so I might have accidentally deleted more than I intend. Alpha3031 (t • c) 22:22, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
 * No problem. You're braver than I am as I've never tried a visual edit.  Do you want to fix it or would you like me to? Gooseneck41 (talk) 22:25, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

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Question from LibXgen (19:28, 3 December 2023)
is my email address publicly available? --LibXgen (talk) 19:28, 3 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi LibXgen. The email that you have set in your user preferences, if any, is not publicly visible, though other people may be able to send you emails through the "email user" functionality (see also WP:EMAIL). Using this functionality yourself will also reveal your email to the recipient so that they can reply to it. Alpha3031 (t • c) 01:48, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Salmanidrishi (18:52, 6 December 2023)
Hell --Salmanidrishi (talk) 18:52, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Viktor Tane (14:01, 10 December 2023)
Hello! I'm curious to learn more about how Wikipedia ensures the accuracy of information edited by humans. What measures or processes are in place, and how does the platform address potential biases or errors in content? --Viktor Tane (talk) 14:01, 10 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Viktor. There's not any one specific formal processes for verifying the accuracy of edits to Wikipedia. Many people check the most recent changes (Special:RecentChanges) or a list of articles they've marked (Special:Watchlist) but it's fairly ad hoc. There are a number of different scenarios where one might want to make further changes to an article. In many cases, you can simply just make the change you would like yourself, but if there is a specific issue that you don't feel confident fixing, you can also add a cleanup tag so that people interested in that specific kind of issue can find it. Alpha3031 (t • c) 01:32, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

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Question from Nihittirkey on Cyberattack (13:51, 13 December 2023)
deam 11 hack kaise kare --Nihittirkey (talk) 13:51, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Fuggly.Aquarius (17:34, 16 December 2023)
Hello I recently just edited a sentence on "catfishing". I only added what I thought was needed and it will not make a huge difference but I would love if you were to check it out and see if there aren't any mistakes. Thank you. --Fuggly.Aquarius (talk) 17:34, 16 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Fuggly.Aquarius. I can see that your edit was later removed by someone else because it didn't exactly match the claim in the existing source. When adding a new claim, it is generally required for a source to explicitly state something that means the same (not something similar) as new claims different in meaning from those stated in sources are considered "original research" which should not be part of Wikipedia. I've added a new source and revised the wording a little. Alpha3031 (t • c) 12:55, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Eleanor Clarke (15:01, 19 December 2023)
Hello! I am trying to update my company's wikipedia page. I have worked at Blenheim Art Foundation for 3 years and was personally involved in the exhibition that I am trying to add to our page. Unfortunately, every time I try to update our page, my edits are removed. Please can you help me with this? --Eleanor Clarke (talk) 15:01, 19 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Eleanor, I see your previous edits to Blenheim Art Foundation were removed due to copyright concerns. Paraphrasing the text such that it is no longer substantially similar to the original would remove any said concerns. As you mentioned you are closely associated with the Foundation, please also take a look at the Conflict of interest guidelines for managing any actual or perceived conflicts of interest. You may also find the edit request process helpful for getting at least some feedback on proposed edits. Alpha3031 (t • c) 14:00, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 23
 New year, new scripts. Welcome to the 23rd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering around 39% of our favorite new and updated user scripts since. That’s right, we haven’t published in two years! Can you believe it? Did you miss us?

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Cscr-featured.svg Featured script

 * RefRenamer by Nardog is this issue's featured script. For whatever reason, the foundation will only give us better reference names in VisualEditor if we wish for it in the next survey. Nardog to the rescue! This script has a ton of options to satisfy almost anyone who wishes to use better refnames than ":0" and ":418".

Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Updated scripts

 * Nardog: MoveHistory can now look up the move history of any page from anywhere on the site.
 * User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink now has a version that copies the Special:Diff link with square brackets.
 * User:GhostInTheMachine/WatchlistTidy now moves the Active Filters panel to the right so that the Show/Hide button doesn't constantly jump.
 * User:Alexander Davronov/HistoryHelper has now become stable with some bugfixes and features such as automatically highlighting potentially uncivil edit summaries and automatically pinging all the users selected.
 * AutoEd/unicodehex.js will no longer replace legacy MediaWiki dot-entities (dot followed by two uppercase alphanumeric characters) in article links, which caused several links to become broken.



Ambox important.svg Improve a script

 * Many of our favorite scripts such as User:Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, User:Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts and User:Bradv/Scripts/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
 * User:Elominius/gadget/media timer works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
 * To a lesser extent, the same goes for User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
 * We want...
 * ...a mark-as-read button for Watchlyst Greybar Unsin
 * ...a tool to automatically fix CAT:BROKENREFs, preferably a fork/addition to User:TheJJJunk/ARA
 * ...a fix/fork of User:DannyS712/SectionRemover.js to make it work

1009Clock.jpg Requested scripts

 * A WP:3O requesting and responding tool, similar to Terasil's classic edit request tool
 * A "bytes removed"/"added" filter on the user contribs page
 * A review tool for WP:proposed deletions
 * Mass patrol new pages by a user for use in WP:RFP/A
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests

Gnome-colors-list-add.svg New scripts

 * Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin is a rewrite of Ais's Watchlist Notifier with modern APIs and several new features such as not displaying watchlist items marked as seen (hence the name), not bolding diffs of unseen watchlist elements which doesn’t work properly anyways, displaying the rendered edit summary, proper display of log and creation actions and more links.
 * Alexis Jazz: Factotum is a spiritual successor to reply-link with a host of extra features like section adding, link rewriting, regular expressions and more.
 * User:Aveaoz/AutoMobileRedirect: This script will automatically redirect MobileFrontend (en.m.wikipedia) to normal Wikipedia. Unlike existing scripts, this one will actually check if your browser is mobile or not through its secret agent string, so you can stay logged in on mobile! Hooray screen estate!
 * Chlod:
 * Deputy is a first-of-its-kind copyright cleanup toolkit. It overrides the interface for Contributor copyright investigations for easy case processing. It also includes the functionality of the following (also new) scripts:
 * Attribution Notice Template Editor (ANTE) graphically modifies content attribution notices. It is the successor to User:Chlod/Scripts/CopiedTemplateEditor and supports more templates than copied ones.
 * Infringement Assistant allows a user to hide sections of a page for suspected copyright violations and report the page to the appropriate Copyright problems noticeboard.
 * User:Elominius/gadget/diff arrow keys allows navigation between diffs with the arrow keys. It also has a version that requires holding Ctrl with the arrow key.
 * Enterprisey
 * diff-permalink-2 allows quickly copying wikilinks to diff and permalink pages from those pages, a variation of existing script User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink
 * archiver is a fork of Σ's Archiver with several bugfixes.
 * /parent-cats highlights categories that are a subcategory of a category already included in a page's categories.
 * User:Guarapiranga/accessKeysCheatSheet adds an access key shortcut to display all shortcuts based on code provided by Nardog and NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh.
 * User:HungKhanh0106/ProperDisplay loads a bunch of fonts to add correct rendering supports for "esoteric" languages.
 * User:Jeeputer/highlightPiped will make piped links irresistible (or else).
 * User:Jerome Frank Disciple/curlyfixer.js adds an WP:AutoEd function that straightens curly quotes per MOS. That's right! Such a module was only made in the 14th year of AutoEd's existence! Configure away!
 * Frequently link to Wikipedia on your websites yet find generating CC-BY credits to be such a hassle? Say no more! User:Luke10.27/attribute will automatically do it for ya and copy the credit to yer clipboard.
 * User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft, a spiritual successor (i.e. fork) to Evad37's script, with a few bugs solved, and a host of extra features like check-boxes for choosing draftification reasons, multi-contributor notification, and appropriate warnings based on last edit time.
 * Nardog
 * /CopyCodeBlock: one of the most important operations for any scripter and script-user is to copy and paste. This script adds a copy button in the top right of every code block (not to be confused with tag. See Help:Citation merging for more information. Otherwise, it is not really possible to collapse footnotes in different ref tags, because of the software features like hovering over the numbers showing the full footnote, so each individual number has to be shown. Alpha3031 (t • c) 15:07, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Ive been a cool person (05:57, 26 January 2024)
HELLO!! I just wanted to know how you add pictures to yk th text or passage I think thats what it’s called.! --Ive been a cool person (talk) 05:57, 26 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi Ive been a cool person, you can find instructions on how to add pictures to a page at Help:Pictures. Alpha3031 (t • c) 15:00, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Scivikal (06:40, 27 January 2024)
Hello! I have a question. I would like to add information to Just Dance 2019 - Just Dance 2024 Edition about their seasonal updates. Should I make multiple pages for them or edit the pages for their respective games to contain information about their seasons? --Scivikal (talk) 06:40, 27 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi Scivikal, I would recommend adding a section in the existing pages where possible. Once there is sufficient suitable content, we can consider a WP:SIZESPLIT, but as it's closely related to the games themselves there should be at least some information on the game's pages to point people to the new pages once split. Alpha3031 (t • c) 14:58, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much! Scivikal (talk) 03:59, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 24
 Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Cscr-featured.svg Featured script

 * Making user scripts load faster by SD0001 is this month's featured script, which caches userscripts every day to eliminate the overhead caused by force-downloading the newest version of scripts every time you open a Wikipedia page. Despite being released in April 2021, our best script scouters have failed to locate it due to its omission from the US of L. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.

Farm-Fresh error go.png Newly maintained scripts
After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...
 * Aaron Liu has created What redirects here from Guarapiranga/WhatRedirectsHere; their fork includes support for every MediaWiki wiki, corrected link positions, an access key, and some rudimentary translation.
 * Ahecht has created a fork of SiBr4/TemplateSearch, which adds the "TP:" shortcut for "Template:" in the search box, and updated it to be compatible with Vector 2022.
 * AquilaFasciata/goToTopFast is a much faster fork of the classic goToTop script that also adds compatibility for Minerva and Vector 2022.
 * Mesidast/Tidy citations is a fork of Meteor sandwich yum/Tidy citations is a fork of Waldyrious/formatcitations. It configurably harmonizes whitespace and cleans up parameters in citation templates, descriptive edit summary included.



Ambox important.svg Improve a script
Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!
 * Many of our favorite scripts such as Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts and Bradv/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
 * Elominius/media timer works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
 * To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
 * We want...
 * ...a mark-as-read button and watchlist notices support for Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin
 * ...a tool to automatically fix CAT:BROKENREFs, preferably a fork/addition to TheJJJunk/ARA
 * ...a fix/fork of DannyS712/SectionRemover to make it work

Ambox clock yellow.svg Requested scripts

 * A simple script to second or archive proposed deletions
 * A script to auto-expand V22 ToC sections like this demo
 * A WP:3O response tool that can automatically remove the relevant request from the 3O dashboard
 * A byte filter to be split from Nux/LongTableFilters
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests

Gnome-colors-list-add.svg New scripts

 * DannyS712/AbuseFilterMessageLinks add links to the "warn" and "disallow" messages in edit filters.
 * Diegodlh/Web2Cit/script adds an option to use Web2Cit (which WP:ProveIt also uses) instead of Citoid to generate citations in the Visual Editor.
 * Dragoniez/SuppressEnterInForm stops you from accidentally submitting anything due to pressing enter while in the smaller box, and works on almost anything... except the InputBox element itself, used in subscription lists and the Signpost Crossword! Oh, the humanity!
 * CopyVio detector, Adiutor.pngǵu/Adiutor (pictured) provides a nice, integrated interface to do some twinkley tasks such as copyvio detection, CSD tagging, and viewing the most recent diff.
 * Eejit43's redirect-helper script demo.png43 has quite the aesthetically pleasing scripts, all made in TypeScript.
 * /afcrc-helper is a replacement for the unmaintained Enterprisey/AFCRHS and processes Redirects for Creation and Categories for Creation requests.
 * /ajax-undo stops the "undo" button from taking you to another page while providing a text box to provide a reason for the revert.
 * /redirect-helper (pictured) adds a much better interface for editing and redirects, including categorization, for which valid categories are dictated by /redirect-helper.json.
 * /rmtr-helper helps process technical requested moves without being able to actually move them.
 * User Info Popup screenshot 1.jpg2/UserInfoPopup (pictured) adds a flyout after the watchlist star on userspace pages that displays the common information you might use about a user.
 * Jeeputer/editCounter, under userspace, adds a portlet link to count your edits by namespace, put them in a table, and put that table in a hardcoded subpage, all in the background.
 * Hilst/Scripts/sectionLinks converts all section links to use the § sign, which are known to be preferred over the ugly # by 99% of the devils I've met.
 * Moonythedwarf/extra-unreliable highlights phrases commonly used in spammed and POV'd paragraphs.
 * FormattedEditRequest-in-work.pngDungKhongDinhDanh/FormattedEditRequest (pictured) generates a wikitext-formatted diff view of any changes you've made that you can copy and paste anywhere.
 * PrimeHunter/Category source.js adds portlet links to tell you where a category for an article comes from and supports those from template transclusions.
 * Qwerfjkl/massCFD creates mass WP:CfD nominations.
 * Rublov/refspace highlights footnote spacing errors in red.
 * Sophivorus's MiniEdit adds some nice, li'l buttons next to paragraphs to edit their wikitext with a minimal interface.

Edit-listings

 * Dragoniez/ToollinkTweaks adds more and customizable links next to users in page history, logs, watchlist, recent changes, etc.
 * Firefly/more-block-info optimizes the display of rangeblocks in contribution pages. Doesn't work outside the English locale of any wiki, unfortunately.
 * Ingenuity/AbuseFilterContribs adds the edit filters that an edit tripped (if any) to a user's contributions page.
 * Nardog/ExamineMore makes it so the paging at Special:AbuseFilter/examine actually works, pending a fix to.
 * NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader makes paging links (e.g. older 50, 500, newest) load without refreshing and makes you realize how slow your internet actually is.

Appearance-ricing

 * Ahecht/RedirectID adds the redirect target to all redirects. For all the WP:NAVPOPS haters. (Do these exist?)
 * Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal: Remember the "strike blocked usernames" gadget? Now you can use a red, dotted line to highlight rangeblocks and global locks!
 * GhostInTheMachine/GraphicReplyLink replaces the [ ] link with 💬, which is some sort of rainy cloud I guess?
 * En.WP VPP Screen Shot 2024-01-13 with custom CSS.pngey/common (pictured) has some styles to overhaul your Vector 2022 experience. It reduces padding everywhere, and makes the top bar animation faster.
 * Aaron Liu/V22 is a fork that narrows the sidebars instead of upheaving them, reverts the January 2024 dropdown changes, and restores the old page-link color for links that don't go outside the current wiki.
 * Nardog: SmartDiff is a spiritual successor to Enterprisey/fancy-diffs. It makes the page title part of links in diffs clickable, along with template and parser function calls. Unnamed parameters can be configured per template to also be linked. All links are styled based on the normal CSS classes of rendered links.
 * Phlsph7/ClassicalTOC (Vector 2022) reinserts the inline table of contents to pages under Vector 2022.
 * For the paranoid: Rublov/anonymize replaces your username at the top of the screen with the generic "User page" text. Remember, it is your duty to persuade everyone that editing is an honor.
 * Sideswipe9th/Vector 2022 Floating Tools Menu moves the Page Tools menu to the left and makes it float along with the table of contents.
 * Sm8ps/SectionEditing makes pressing Tab toggle the visibility of the tiny [ ] links next to section headings.. Not a great name, eh?
 * The wub/tocExpandAll adds a button on top of the floating ToC to expand or collapse subheadings.

Permissions required!

 * Ahecht/potd-helper: A script to post the picture of the day. A powerful upgrade for your mop.
 * Selective Rollback dialog.pngniez
 * /AjaxBlock provides a dialog box for easy input of reasons while blocking users.
 * /Selective Rollback (pictured) provides a dialog box to customize rollback edit summaries and does them without reloading the page. Seriously, why doesn't MediaWiki already do this?
 * Theleekycauldron/DYK promoter automates (nearly) all the work needed to post a DYK hook.

QOL shortcuts

 * BrandonXLF/SVGEditor lets you edit any file that is an SVG, straight from the file page.
 * DanCherek/UAABotRemover adds a portlet link to enable a removal shortcut of faulty reports from Usernames for administrator attention.
 * DreamRimmer/BlankUserPage helps you destroy webhost-ers' hopes and dreams with a user-friendly dialog box.
 * ESanders (WMF)/commentlinks.js adds a "link" button right after the "reply" button while the WMF struggles to reach feature parity with Convenient Discussions.
 * Isaacl/copy-comment-link-to-clipboard does exactly what you'd think it does, but in Wikitext.
 * FenrisAureus/SimpleStatus adds a shortcut at the top to edit your /Status subpage while providing a pre-made template.
 * Fred Gandt/addCloneClearButtonAboveScributoConsole: What a mouthful! Yet all it does (no offense) is add another button on top of the Lua module debug console.
 * Guarapiranga/GlobalWatchlistLink adds a link to metawiki:Special:GlobalWatchlist next to the normal watchlist.
 * Nardog
 * PasteToCommons adds a paste handler to upload the pasted image to Wikimedia Commons.
 * Unpipe tries to detect violations of WP:NOPIPE and fix them as much as possible.
 * Ohconfucius/tometricunits automatically adds unit conversions of imperial units in brackets after their uses per MOS:UNITS.
 * Suntooooth
 * /flickrsearch adds a portlet link to search for uploadable flickr images about the subject.
 * /randomincategory adds a portlet link when on Category pages to go to a random page in the current category.
 * Vghfr/EasyTemplates adds a portlet link to automatically insert some of the most common inline fix templates.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 61
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes

Issue 61, January – February 2024 
 * Bristol University Press and British Online Archives now available
 * 1Lib1Ref results

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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.
 * Proposal 9b, initiated by, 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, , 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.
 * Proposal 25, initiated by, provides for the requirement that nominees be extended-confirmed in addition to their nominators.
 * Proposal 27, initiated by, 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, tightens restrictions on multi-part questions.

To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see 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) 10:52, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
Hello ,

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.

Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.

Reminders:
 * You can access live chat with patrollers on the New Pages Patrol Discord.
 * Consider adding the project discussion page to your watchlist.
 * To opt out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

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