User talk:Asukite/Archives/2023/January

The Signpost: 1 January 2023
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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023
Hello , The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day. won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!
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Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)

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Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as and  have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.


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Broken interwiki links when moving a page
Hi, I'm looking for a general solution to a specific problem you were involved with. You moved a page a year ago but the information on wikidata was not updated. So the entry was pointing at the wrong page for almost a year when it should've been. I'm not sure why the enwiki move didn't automatically update the wikidata links but because of this the interwiki links were all missing. Is there some kind of technical or enwiki process solution to preventing this in the future? This is not a rare occurrence. For example, and  are broken in the same way by. And left Jason Webb/ broken. There are likely tens of thousands of such errors. Too many for me to personally correct them all.

Do you have any ideas to stop this from happening? I'm mainly a wikidata user nowadays so I don't know where to start in raising this as a enwiki issue. Thanks. BrokenSegue 22:55, 12 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Well, the only thing I can think of is that the move was done with the pageswap script, which performs a round-robin move by moving pages through a third location before they are then moved to their final destination. I wonder if that somehow may have affected the wikidata links. I'll admit I was more conscious of those when I started out doing page moves, and I will have to keep a close eye on them from now on.
 * I will take the time to go over my previous swaps this weekend and see if I can find more examples (and fix them of course). If I don't manage to find any other complaints about this I'll open a ticket or raise this somewhere because that is very concerning and something that needs to be fixed. It's possible a bot could be used to help fix the remaining errors.
 * Thanks for bringing this up! Hopefully we can get this fixed. ASUKITE  23:25, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hm, actually it's more interesting that the one @Sphilbrick moved was completed by deleting the target, so maybe not a pageswap issue (or this is cause by multiple separate bugs?) Will need to look closer to see what the common thread is. ASUKITE  23:43, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I used a bot to detect the errors and there are a ton more listed on wikidata:User:BrokenSegue/PsychiqConflicts (I fixed a bunch manually before giving up) but I can't think of an easy way to automate the fixing process. BrokenSegue 01:25, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

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