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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 13
 News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (February 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 13th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Cobaltcigs's DiffPreviewFindLine is this month's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Amorymeltzer's History button links* Headbomb's Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector
 * Interstellarity's Semi-protected edit requests and Extended-protected edit requests


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Amorymeltzer's Crat Highlighter now has separate colors for each user access level
 * Opencooper's IPtoEmoji has been updated

Pending requests
 * A script to help administrators handle proposed deletions
 * A script to hide newsletters when viewing another user's talk page
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



I hope everyone is having a great year so far! --DannyS712 (talk) 15:53, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2020 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2, with 57 contestants qualifying. We have abolished the groups this year, so to qualify for Round 3 you will need to finish Round 2 among the top thirty-two contestants.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:


 * Epicgenius, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with a featured article, five good articles and an assortment of other submissions, specialising on buildings and locations in New York, for a total of 895 points.
 * Royal standard of England (1406–1603).svg Gog the Mild came next with 464 points, from a featured article, two good articles and a number of reviews, the main theme being naval warfare.
 * 🇺🇸 Raymie was in third place with 419 points, garnered from one good article and an impressive 34 DYKs on radio and TV stations in the United States.
 * Harrias came next at 414, with a featured article and three good articles, an English civil war battle specialist.
 * Pirate Flag.svg CaptainEek was in fifth place with 405 points, mostly garnered from bringing Cactus wren to featured article status.
 * The top ten contestants at the end of Round 1 all scored over 200 points; they also included 🇺🇸 L293D, 🇻🇪 Kingsif, 🇦🇶 Enwebb, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski and 🇳🇵 CAPTAIN MEDUSA. Seven of the top ten contestants in Round 1 are new to the WikiCup.

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. In Round 1 there were four featured articles, one featured list and two featured pictures, as well as around two hundred DYKs and twenty-seven ITNs. Between them, contestants completed 127 good article reviews, nearly a hundred more than the 43 good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Contestants also claimed for 40 featured article / featured list reviews, and most even remembered to mention their WikiCup participation in their reviews (a requirement).

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Some contestants made claims before the new submissions pages were set up, and they will need to resubmit them. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:46, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 March 2020
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WikiCup newsletter correction
There was an error in the WikiCup 2020 March newsletter; 🇺🇸 L293D should not have been included in the list of top ten scorers in Round 1 (they led the list last year), instead, 🇺🇸 Dunkleosteus77 should have been included, having garnered 334 points from five good articles on animals, living or extinct, and various reviews. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:30, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-10
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug.

Changes later this week
 * If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for.
 * When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security.
 * On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to.
 * 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).

Future changes
 * The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback.
 * There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
 * Octicons-tools.svg  was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list.

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Your GA nomination of Sulphur Crisis of 1840
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Sulphur Crisis of 1840 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 Legobot, on behalf of Gog the Mild -- Gog the Mild (talk) 03:41, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Autopatrolled granted
Hi Eddie891, I just wanted to let you know that I have [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&page=User%3AEddie891 added] the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the autopatrolled right, see Autopatrolled. However, you should consider adding relevant wikiproject talk-page templates, stub-tags and categories to new articles that you create if you aren't already in the habit of doing so, since your articles will no longer be systematically checked by other editors (User:Evad37/rater and User:SD0001/StubSorter.js are useful scripts which can help). Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Chetsford (talk) 20:35, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-11
 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
 * There is a new search word called . You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 March. It will be on all wikis from 12 March (calendar).

Future changes
 * There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
 * The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year.

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Your GA nomination of Sulphur Crisis of 1840
The article Sulphur Crisis of 1840 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Sulphur Crisis of 1840 for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Gog the Mild -- Gog the Mild (talk) 16:21, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXVII, March 2020
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Tech News: 2020-12
 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
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use  to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).

Future changes
 * If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface.
 * You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.

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St. Patrick's Day
decoration + music with thanks from QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:10, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

"Nothing wrong with a redlink"? (your edit to For the Fallen)
True in so far as it goes (if one ignores possible user confusion, inadvertent misdirection, and sundry other matters). In fact assuming the redlink refers to an article that has not been written (yet) but could (or even should) be it might even serve as a practical reminder to editors to get at least a stub up and running. But Authors' declaration does not qualify - it doesn't just refer to an article that doesn't exist - but one that patently never will exist, at least under that name. If you see the point. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 23:02, 19 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Back already. Will duplicate this lot on my own talk page to keep both threads intelligible. I will put my case as succinctly but comprehensively as I can. 1. Redlinks are inherently pernicious - they should be avoided except in the case when there are genuine reasons why a particular "link" might be useful (e.g. as a reminder to other editors that an important and relevant article is missing and needs to be written - especially if it is one that will attract links from other articles.) In any case the inclusion of a redlink here (or anywhere else) is something that requires a positive cause, not a "why not".) 2. Assuming that an article on this specific subject was ever written, "Authors' declaration" is NOT a natural title for anything (as it stands) - although it could possibly serve as the title of a disambiguation page (?!) The actual title would be something like "Authors' declaration (New York Times - 18 September 1914), or perhaps "Authors' declaration (justifying British entry into the First World War") anything, in fact, that gave a reasonable indication of the subject of the article. Thus the (blue) link would be something like authors' declaration. 3. The declaration itself is extremely obscure - the case for an article on it (however named) to be included might well run into "notability" questions. Details relevant to this article are already part of the text anyway.
 * Sorry if this seems like taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 00:39, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
 * , Fair enough. Might as well leave it be. There're plenty of other articles for me to write. Best wishes and happy editing, Eddie891 Talk Work 15:21, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
 * As you say - lots of much more important stuff that needs fixing! And very best wishes to you, too! --Soundofmusicals (talk) 18:37, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-13
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
 * There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 March. It will be on all wikis from 26 March (calendar).

Future changes
 * There is a project to make editing easier for newcomers. The developers are trying to understand what initiatives different Wikipedias have to welcome newcomers. They also want to know which templates are often used for maintenance activities. You can help this project by checking if your wiki's pages are listed on Wikidata.

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Tech News: 2020-14
 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 beta version of the Wikipedia app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all wikis from 2 April (calendar).

Future changes
 * The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed.
 * There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback.

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WikiCup 2019 March newsletter
And so ends the first round of the competition. Everyone with a positive score moves on to Round 2. With 56 contestants qualifying, each group in Round 2 contains seven contestants, with the two leaders from each group due to qualify for Round 3 as well as the top sixteen remaining contestants.

Our top scorers in Round 1 were:


 * 🇺🇸 L293D, a WikiCup newcomer, led the field with ten good articles on submarines for a total of 357 points.
 * Pirate_Flag_of_Henry_Every.svg, a WikiCup veteran, came next with 274 points, mostly from eight featured pictures, restorations of artwork.
 * 🇩🇰 MPJ-DK, a wrestling enthusiast, was in third place with 263 points, garnered from a featured list, five good articles, two DYKs and four GARs.
 * 🇺🇸 Usernameunique came next at 243, with a featured article and a good article, both on ancient helmets.
 * Flag of the United States Library of Congress 2.svg Squeamish Ossifrage was in joint fifth place with 224 points, mostly garnered from bringing the 1937 Fox vault fire to featured article status.
 * Ed! was also on 224, with an amazing number of good article reviews (56 actually).

These contestants, like all the others, now have to start scoring points again from scratch. Between them, contestants completed reviews on 143 good articles, one hundred more than the number of good articles they claimed for, thus making a substantial dent in the review backlog. Well done all!

Remember that any content promoted after the end of Round 1 but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews.

If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk).

Merry Christmas
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 14
 News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (March 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 14th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Danski454's code-link is this month's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg RealFakeKim's pageInfo* Guywan: InsertShortcuts* ConfirmLogout


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Headbomb's Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector has been updated to include more sources
 * Evad37's rater script is now on version 2.5. New features include:
 * No longer showing dropdowns for projects without ratings
 * Making use of Category:WikiProject banner templates not based on WPBannerMeta to detect templates
 * Automatically detecting Good Article, Featured Article, and Featured List status, and limiting ORES predictions to B-class
 * An updated version of Twinkle was released. Features relating to the recently-enabled partial blocks include automatic lookup of pages and expanded options for block templates. See a full list of changes here
 * For users of Enterprisey's easy-brfa script, the bug with transcluding new BRFAs has been resolved
 * Guywan's RefCruncher has had minor updates

Miscellaneous
 * For any scripts that previously made use of the  API to change a page's content model, a new API module is available: use   to specify the new content model of an existing page. Documentation is available: mw:API:ChangeContentModel.
 * The dispute resolution noticeboard wizard is no longer a gadget, but rather is loaded using and  . See the discussion at MediaWiki talk:Gadget-DRN-wizard.js

Pending requests
 * A script to help file movers process requests, including
 * renaming the file
 * updating file links
 * removing the Rename media template (when relevant)
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



Stay safe, --DannyS712 (talk) 05:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

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Although, while I am here, what are you considering for your next FAC? Gog the Mild (talk) 23:32, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , First of all, thank you so much for this! It means a lot especially in these rather trying times. As far as content goes, I've hit a bit of a lull in article writing... I still plan on finishing Fabian Ware up, but I just need to convince myself to get through the rest of Crane's book. I'm more currently working on User:Eddie891/Katangese Gendarmerie (collab w/ Indy beetle), just needs another paragraph to finish up a fascinating story of the army built and led largely by Belgian mercenaries into one of the more significant fighting forces of the mid-late 19th century who became an army without a state in Angola. In the future, I plan a re-write of Military Staff Committee. I hope to shore Ware up for an A-class nom by sometime next week. Eddie891 Talk Work 23:49, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I await FW with a keen interest. Gog the Mild (talk) 00:05, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-15
<section begin="technews-2020-W15"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April (calendar).

Future changes
 * MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user . This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to.

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A barnstar for you!

 * I see you've quoted Prunier 2009, as well as the other one I wanted to check had been used, Gerald-Lubois, Katanga Secession. Have you looked at O'Brien, To Katanga And Back? But great start - now as an extra and improvement over the long term, would want blow-by-blow well referenced listing of all engagements with ONUC troops, ideally.. Buckshot06 (talk) 22:45, 6 April 2020 (UTC)


 * thanks for the feedback- I hope you’re well in these trying times. I’ll certainly get those books again as soon as we get out of quarantine in NY (could be a while!) I have kennes and Larmer online and plan on getting the others from libraries asap. Indy beetle actually contributed the the article a fair amount- many of the other sources are their doing, as they were the first person I turned to for help. I’ll certainly reach further out for feedback from the rest of Milhist when I get more sources incorporated. Thanks again! Eddie891 Talk Work 22:58, 6 April 2020 (UTC)


 * I should note you have started on detailing the fighting with ONUC; my predilection is to always want more, more, and more data from all relatively solid sources, so good start. AS far as I can tell, there has never been any proper history of ONUC written. Would also ask you consider extracting the useful text & references you've written for ONUC and importing them into that article as well.. Buckshot06 (talk) 23:05, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CLXVIII, April 2020
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Tech News: 2020-16
<section begin="technews-2020-W16"/> 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
 * You can now use the  search word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic.
 * You can see wiki tools in the new Tools Gallery.
 * You can see edits from the Wikimedia Cloud Services in a new dashboard.
 * When you use filters on a history page you sometimes don't see any edits. There is a text explaining this now. Before it was just empty.
 * There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog.

Problems
 * There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 15. It will be on all wikis from April 16 (calendar).

Future changes
 * Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed.
 * The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
 * For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated  tag, as well as the use of the deprecated   parameter, will add tracking categories.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2020-W16"/> 15:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Military Staff Committee
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Military Staff Committee 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 Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 02:40, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Military Staff Committee
The article Military Staff Committee you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Military Staff Committee for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 09:00, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Military Staff Committee
The article Military Staff Committee you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Military Staff Committee for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Peacemaker67 -- Peacemaker67 (talk) 09:02, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

National Pacification Army GAN
Hello, I received a message on my talk page earlier notifying me of the article National Pacification Army that I put up for GAN was being reviewed by you. Unfortunately, I am on break from Wikipedia indefinitely and I will most likely not be participating in the GA Review for this reason. I apologize for not clarifying this on the GAN page. Roniius (talk) 06:58, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-17
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Tech News
 * The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed.  is now  .   is now  .   is now  . This is so the skins can use HTML5 elements. If your gadgets or user styles used them you will have to update them.

Changes later this week
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011.
 * The font in the diffs will change.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar).

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DYK for Peregrine Pollen
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

good work
Smallbones( smalltalk ) 21:54, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , Responded Eddie891 Talk Work 22:48, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

GA backlog drive
Hi, thanks for your email but I'm not a participant in the drive. To be honest, I'm not sure why an official drive and promises of barnstars motivate people to review a lot more articles than they would otherwise. You'd have to ask them I guess. <b style="color: White">b</b><b style="color: White">uidh</b><b style="color: White">e</b> 23:25, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , That's fine, and thanks for getting back to me! I guess I was more wondering if you had anything to say about potential long-term reform, as I saw you are pretty active on the GA talk about things like that Eddie891 Talk Work 23:27, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
 * The main problem with GAN is that reviewing is highly concentrated among a small number of users, while nominating is much more broad-based. (If you look at WP:GAN, you can see that the vast majority of reviewers have done more reviews than the nominator.) Many nominators are new to the process and others are prolific nominators uninterested in reviewing. Requiring a quid pro quo, as was instituted at DYK, would help expand the base of reviewers, but the cost would be more pro forma reviews and pushing away would-be nominators who write quality articles. (Restricting the number of nominations wouldn't help much. Even looking pre-backlog, only a small fraction of nominations are above the suggested threshhold of five nominations per user. Perhaps this is because nominators with a track record are more appealing to reviewers, leading to shorter waits for them.) The backlog drive seems mostly to encourage increased participation in GA reviewing by people who were already prolific reviewers, and it's equally concentrated; the top five reviewers or so have done a majority of backlog reviews to date. On the other hand, the drive has significantly incresed overall reviewing and shrunk the backlog. Hope that's what you were looking for. <b style="color: White">b</b><b style="color: White">uidh</b><b style="color: White">e</b> 05:36, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Comment from Vami_IV
Responding to your email:

I hate to disappoint, but I must - I don't know very much about GA in general, and I don't have to tell you the drive has been a success. I'm very much the person swinging the sword rather than thinking of the best ways to swing it. I'm glad to give my two cents on WP:GA and the drive, though.

1. The success of the drive is a combination of the coronavirus quarantine life, advertisement (I saw MX asking Buidhe about participating in it), the hardworking spirit of The Rambling Man, and prestige seeking. As Buidhe pointed out above, a hardcore clique of editors does the heavy lifting, and now they have a lot more time to do that lifting. It'll also net them wikikarma, whether or not that's what they're after.

2. Buidhe suggested a quid pro quo system, and that might be workable. I like the implied network-building between editors, for better or worse. Otherwise, I would very much like to more easily and quickly be able to check out the credentials of an article's references. This would immediately make reviewing articles on subjects you're not familiar, or articles with lots of references, with much easier.

X – ♠Vami _IV†♠  05:55, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

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GA templates
Hi Eddie. I am no expert on the GA process, so I might be wrong, but... I am pretty sure Template:GA and Template:FailedGA are supposed to be transcluded, not substituted (e.g. here and here). The substituted versions add a lot of clutter at the top of the talk page and make it much harder to edit the notice if necessary. -- Black Falcon (talk) 02:42, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
 * you are quite right! I just noticed this tonight (when you fixed it, might I add) and was planning to go through my reviewed articles tomorrow and fix them... thanks for catching that— sometimes I wonder whether I’m quite qualified to be editing here . . . Eddie891 Talk Work 02:46, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
 * You're too modest, sir! I think there isn't a longtime editor here who hasn't had an issue with some template or other at some point in time. :) I saw and fixed three instances, but thank you for planning to take care of the rest! Cheers, -- Black Falcon (talk) 03:01, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , I've gone through my reviews from the drive, but I don't exactly have a list of my other reviews, so I'll just continue fixing them as I see them-- Not all of my 45 reviews were subst-ed also, I think that's something I picked up rather recently... Eddie891 Talk Work 12:05, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for going back and fixing what you could find. If there are any others, I am sure they'll be seen and fixed over time. Cheers, -- Black Falcon (talk) 16:05, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

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Battle of the Bagradas River (255 BC)
Hi Eddie. On the strength of your thorough review of it for GAN, I have just nominated Battle of the Bagradas River (255 BC) for FAC. Being both cheeky and completely shameless, can I invite you to consider continuing your excellently rigorous examination at Featured article candidates/Battle of the Bagradas River (255 BC)/archive1? Obviously, if time or motivation don't permit, then no worries. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:56, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , Dear me, I will sure try! I'm largely sticking to GA reviews until I get a few more FA's under my belt, but always happy to review upon request Eddie891 Talk Work 17:33, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Eddie, I have done over 120 FAC reviews and been on the receiving end of even more and, trust me, your GAN reviews would not be out off place at FAC. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:57, 26 April 2020 (UTC)


 * PS. And thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:57, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I'll make my way over there tonight or tomorrow, hang tight Eddie891 Talk Work 19:41, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
 * There is no rush Eddie, FACs take an absolute minimum of two weeks, usually over a month. But I confess that I will rest a little easier knowing that someone both rigorous and friendly has gone over it. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:50, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Happy Easter
or: the resurrection of loving-kindness --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:54, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , thank you for all your work and always having the time to leave a nice message on my talk, It's really appreciated though I may not respond all the time Eddie891 Talk Work 12:08, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
 * thank you, and today, there's Le Concert Spirituel --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:20, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
 * ... and today Credo, or this is the day from Psalm 118. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:58, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2020 May newsletter
The second round of the 2020 WikiCup has now finished. It was a high-scoring round and contestants needed 75 points to advance to round 3. There were some very impressive efforts in round 2, with the top ten contestants all scoring more than 500 points. A large number of the points came from the 12 featured articles and the 186 good articles achieved in total by contestants, and the 355 good article reviews they performed; the GAN backlog drive and the stay-at-home imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been partially responsible for these impressive figures.

Our top scorers in round 2 were:


 * Epicgenius, with 2333 points from one featured article, forty-five good articles, fourteen DYKs and plenty of bonus points
 * Royal standard of England (1406–1603).svg Gog the Mild, with 1784 points from three featured articles, eight good articles, a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews and lots of bonus points
 * 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man, with 1262 points from two featured articles, eight good articles and a hundred good article reviews
 * Harrias, with 1141 points from two featured articles, three featured lists, ten good articles, nine DYKs and a substantial number of featured article and good article reviews
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lee Vilenski with 869 points, Blason Gondor.svg Hog Farm with 801, 🇻🇪 Kingsif with 719, SounderBruce with 710, 🇺🇸 Dunkleosteus77 with 608 and 🇲🇽 MX with 515.

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 15
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#606060; background-color:#f8f8f8; border-width:2px; text-align:left; padding:7px; border-radius: 1em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);" class="plainlinks"> News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (April 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 15th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg SD0001's find-archived-section, now a gadget, is this month's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Enterprisey:
 * link-deleted-revs (On error pages for deleted revisions, show a link to the Special:Undelete page)
 * undelete-backlink (On Special:Undelete pages for diffs and revisions, link back to the main Undelete page with the list of revisions)
 * Epicgenius's sortcategories (sorts categories in an article alphabetically)
 * Awesome Aasim:
 * addmylinks (adds a customizable area for links and/or text to the sidebar)
 * editrequest (tool that allows for processing and answering edit requests)
 * DemonDays64's Dumb quotes (replaces smart curly single and double quotes with "dumb" quotes)
 * Guywan's FileMoverHelper (move files and replace their uses in one action)


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Enterprisey's reply-link has been updated to fail less, especially around template transclusions.
 * Twinkle released new features, including a new option to disable individual modules, support for stub template nomination at CfD, and integration with the PageTriage extension used to patrol new pages. (See full list of changes)

Open tasks
 * The  resource loader module was deprecated and is no longer needed; its functionality is now available by default. See mw:ResourceLoader/Migration guide (users) for more. Any dependency on it should be removed.

Pending requests
 * A script to reload feeds automatically
 * A script to mark templates in the TFD holding cell as ready for deletion
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



Miscellaneous
 * User scripts/Most imported scripts now also shows the number of active users for each script. It will now be updated by a bot periodically.
 * Twinkle's Morebits library added a new  class to replace the moment library. It can handle custom formatting and natural language for dates, as well as section header regexes. If you were using   or   with   objects, those have been deprecated and should be updated.
 * User:SD0001/find-archived-section was made a gadget. You can enable it from your gadget preferences, in the Browsing section.

Hope everyone stays safe. --DannyS712 (talk) 20:27, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * , hard to believe I've been around for that long already! Feels like it's barely been a year since I joined the project. Thanks, for everything you do! I think there's a potential precious recipient in the ga reviewer just above... Would you mind if I gave it to them? Eddie891 Talk Work 13:48, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

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Thank you for helping with my page I created for Walter Conway!!SDEditor101 (talk) 23:30, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

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Fabian Ware
Hi Eddie, would you mind posting Fabian Ware at GoCE Requests, where I will pick it up and work on it. This will mean that it will formally go down to my credit there. GoCE is where I started when I first became active on Wikipedia. And while, in truth I am too busy with content creation and reviews to pull my weight there, I like to feel that I am still paying my dues, as it were. Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:59, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
 * with pleasure! I believe it’s been correctly listed? Eddie891 Talk Work 21:34, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Hello
I've not extensively trawled your edit history, but you seem like a good chap, helpful and collaborative. Have you ever considered running for admin? --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 16:35, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , It's nice to finally 'meet' you, and I hope all is well in these unusual times. I've thought about running before (though not a lot) and am interested in the idea. Although I'm primarily involved in content creation, I could see myself of use as an admin at NPP and AfD, perhaps other places across the wiki; I would consider myself a general net positive. I've progressed a lot since joining in 2016, but of course, there are things I can improve upon. Running is definitely something I am considering, but I'd appreciate some more feedback before rushing into anything. Best wishes, Eddie891 Talk Work 19:13, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Nice reply. Promising! Have you often been involved in conflict? Any biggies? Any that have ended up with a slap from ANI / ARBCOM? Not necessarily a deal-breaker if yes. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 08:15, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , I've not been involved in much conflict, but I'll endeavor to list all potential issues that come to mind. I've commented on one thing and never been mentioned at an admin noticeboard (see here). I've several alternate accounts, but I don't use them, and certainly not in a sockpuppeting way; and the only money I've gotten for editing was $110 for participating in the Women in Red world contest. When I was involved in AfC for the first time, I declined three drafts that I shouldn't have:
 * Complex random vector Approved by Joe Roe on 27 December 2017 (declined on 25 December 2017)
 * Mont-Huon Military Cemetery Approved by Eddie891 on 8 May 2017 (declined on 29 April 2017
 * Casting About Approved by Jovanmilic97 after I commented saying it should be accepted on 19 December 2018 (Declined 10 May 2017)
 * After the last one, I voluntarily relinquished my AfC right in September 2017, and began participating in AfD discussions until I felt I understood notability better and returned in September 2018. I'm now a bit active there, but not as much. Otherwise, prematurely nominated Presidency of George Washington for GA and FA, but it was a great learning experience. I vaguely remember after the FA failed a user wanting to dramatically change it, and myself not agreeing based on the fact that it received support on the prose; now I would discuss proposed changes further instead.
 * As far as conflict goes, there's not much: A user was blocked per WP:NPA, after an admin thought they attacked me on an AfC submission. I was a little less polite than I try to be on Talk:Groom Mine/GA1, but apologized to the user and they were fine about it. I created Draft:List of honors received by Fred Rogers and it was tagged for copyvio and deleted (because I copied text from Fred Rodgers) before I had a chance to comment on it. I was frustrated and left a rather unhappy note on the taggers talk, and they summarily reverted it. I made a mistake at Monetary/fiscal policy debate somehow, but the page was eventually restored (see here and here)
 * I used to be under the mistaken impression that AfD could be used as a way of ensuring discussion for requested merges or redirects, resulting in a rather misguided nomination or two of notable topics.
 * I write for The Signpost, but have been involved in exactly no conflict in that capacity. I was testing a script for writing Featured Content and accidentally ran a few bot edits at User:Filnik/Report, but reverted them when I realized. I filed one SPI at here. I've edited RFPP a few times, though I doubt I'd be involved with that. My most recent filing was declined here, but the page was eventually protected.
 * Sorry if this is a little more detail then you wanted, but I just wanted to be thorough. I think that's the extent of my conflict; if anything else big comes to mind, I'll mention it. I try to be helpful and cooperative rather than conflicting, and particularly in the last two years, I've almost completely avoided major disagreeing. Best wishes, Eddie891 Talk Work 12:58, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I write for The Signpost, but have been involved in exactly no conflict in that capacity. I was testing a script for writing Featured Content and accidentally ran a few bot edits at User:Filnik/Report, but reverted them when I realized. I filed one SPI at here. I've edited RFPP a few times, though I doubt I'd be involved with that. My most recent filing was declined here, but the page was eventually protected.
 * Sorry if this is a little more detail then you wanted, but I just wanted to be thorough. I think that's the extent of my conflict; if anything else big comes to mind, I'll mention it. I try to be helpful and cooperative rather than conflicting, and particularly in the last two years, I've almost completely avoided major disagreeing. Best wishes, Eddie891 Talk Work 12:58, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry if this is a little more detail then you wanted, but I just wanted to be thorough. I think that's the extent of my conflict; if anything else big comes to mind, I'll mention it. I try to be helpful and cooperative rather than conflicting, and particularly in the last two years, I've almost completely avoided major disagreeing. Best wishes, Eddie891 Talk Work 12:58, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Sorry if this is a little more detail then you wanted, but I just wanted to be thorough. I think that's the extent of my conflict; if anything else big comes to mind, I'll mention it. I try to be helpful and cooperative rather than conflicting, and particularly in the last two years, I've almost completely avoided major disagreeing. Best wishes, Eddie891 Talk Work 12:58, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Unusually honest and self-reflective. I like that. I strongly recommend a WP:ORCP and, if I may be so bold, I suggest you review User:Dweller/Tips for aspiring future admins. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 14:12, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , I've gone ahead and filed a poll, and will review your tips in more depth later today. Thanks again, Eddie891 Talk Work 14:52, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Terrific. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 16:03, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Please be aware of an alternate view of the utility of the poll: some editors think it is harmful for serious candidates. It may get raised during the poll. isaacl (talk) 18:34, 15 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Interesting. I think it's better to get harsh criticism from a small number of contributors there than suffer a pile-on oppose RfA, but thank you. Eddie, you're getting terrific feedback, I think. Really actionable. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 16:46, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Some people think the pile-on is worse after a poll; I gave my view in the thread to which I linked. isaacl (talk) 21:10, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Message to talk page stalkers
Please do contribute at Eddie's ORCP. Constructive criticism is good. Better to see it at ORCP and deal with it in some way than as a shock at a [premature] RfA. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 16:03, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , Not sure if you have noticed, but the ORCP has been archived recently. I think the feedback was very good and useful on the whole, and agree it's really actionable. I've been and plan to continue upping AfD participation, as that's something the commenters suggested. HJ Mitchell's comments were particularly helpful, and I think Fabian Ware (the article he mentioned) will be up for FAC or an A-class nomination some time this week, and will hopefully pass towards mid/late June. I'd be curious to hear your opinion on things now that the poll is concluded. Best wishes, Eddie891 Talk Work 22:47, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

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May
Thank you for article improvements in May! - DYK our list of people for whose life I'm thankful enough to improve their articles? - I have a FAC open, one of Monteverdi's exceptional works, in memory of Brian who passed me his collected sources. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:37, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

today a composer pictured who wrote a triple concerto for violin, harp and double bass, in honour of the composer who died and my brother who plays double bass. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:55, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!
Thank you very much,, it really has been my pleasure-- the Civil War was my first passion (though I don't write about it often) so it's nice to see somebody working on those articles. I hate to be a bother, but if you have a moment, could you take a look at Rick Dantzler for me? I've been reviewing it, and something just seems odd, but I'm not sure what to comment on anymore. Eddie891 Talk Work 00:19, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

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 * The Vector skin had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed.

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 * You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can turn these notifications off for individual pages. You can soon turn them off also in the notifications you get.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 June. It will be on all wikis from 4 June (calendar).

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Tech News: 2020-24
<section begin="technews-2020-W24"/> 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
 * Some articles have tables that can be sorted in different ways. For example a list of countries can be sorted alphabetically but you can click on the size column to sort them by size. If you clicked on the column a second time it would sort the countries from the bottom to the top instead. A third click will now take you back to the original sorting.
 * Self-closed tags now work as in the HTML5 specifications. This means you should stop using some of them.  is an example of a self-closed tag that won't work.   can be self-closed. Pages with tags that should not be self-closed have been listed in a tracking category since 2016. They will be listed in Special:LintErrors/self-closed-tag. This doesn't affect   or.
 * There is a banner called . It is for example used by the Wikivoyages, Wikimedia Russia and the Catalan, Basque, Galician and Turkish Wikipedias. It will now been seen by mobile visitors too. Before this it was only seen on desktop. The wikis should update instructions on   so that editors know to test and style for mobile too.

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 * Octicons-tools.svg You can now edit MassMessage descriptions through the API. This is useful for tools and gadgets.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 June. It will be on all wikis from 11 June (calendar).

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 * A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 118 wikis need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected.

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Draft:Phara Souffrant Forrest Review
Hi Eddie!

Thank you for reviewing my draft on Phara Souffrant Forrest. I'm a bit confused because Jabari Brisport has an article about him, but he similarly hasn't won any elections and has only been covered by local papers. Should Jabari Brisport be deleted? I went ahead and put a notability flag on it just in case. Of note, Phara Souffrant Forrest was covered in Teen Vogue. Let me know if that's notable enough, or you still think we have to wait and see the results of the election. Thanks!

Brooklynpedestrian (talk) 22:39, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, and thanks for reaching out. The general consensus on Wikipedia is that most political candidates are not notable until (if) they win their election. Politicians who have not been successful yet must be shown to have enough coverage either outside of their campaign (somebody like Cynthia Nixon) or have a highly covered and/or unique campaign (like Christine O'Donnell). I don't think that the Teen Vogue article is quite enough coverage on its own for an article; and based on the coverage of her we just have to wait until the election results are announced. I'd agree with you that Jabari Brisport doesn't seem to have enough coverage for an article as it stands.
 * I encourage you to continue contributing to Wikipedia in other forms, there are many articles that need improvement! You might consider trying the Wikipedia adventure and looking at open tasks. If you would like clarification or have any further questions, feel free to ask them here; or for a quicker response or help from other editors, I'd recommend trying the teahouse or the AfC help desk. Best wishes, Eddie891 Talk Work 23:39, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I encourage you to continue contributing to Wikipedia in other forms, there are many articles that need improvement! You might consider trying the Wikipedia adventure and looking at open tasks. If you would like clarification or have any further questions, feel free to ask them here; or for a quicker response or help from other editors, I'd recommend trying the teahouse or the AfC help desk. Best wishes, Eddie891 Talk Work 23:39, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Stanhope Medal
I merged Chandos Scudamore Scudamore Stanhope into Stanhope Medal. I nominated it just now. Can you look to see. Thanks.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 16:25, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * , Yeah sure I can take a look soon ish Eddie891 Talk Work 20:42, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you, ! It was an enjoyable article to write, glad to hear at least one person appreciated it . I thought your report (presumably this) was very well done-- did you do the graphs manually? They look much nicer than mine!


 * I posted my thoughts at Wikipedia talk:Good article nominations which I'm hoping will lead to some some discussion. I'm out of my depth as far as moving forward goes but I think some sort of change (whether it reflects my suggestions or not) would definitely help the project. I'd really appreciate hearing your thoughts on how to move forward. I'd also like to do a follow up, but there need to be things to follow up on first! Eddie891 Talk Work 20:28, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm sure many more appreciated it; it's already gotten more than 200 views! I made the graphs using the standard R plotting functions, though I've since learned of better visualization methods for that software. Your suggestion #4 is probably one of the more important ones, but also one that gets put on the backburner a lot. I've wanted to replace legobot for a while, but other projects keep getting in the way. #5 is probably really easy to implement and would pay off for announcing micro-drives or recognizing particularly outstanding reviews or nominations. I'd say that's your best bet in terms of potential benefit versus time involved. I'll think on this more, but don't feel out of your depth; WP:BOLD applies to project space too! — Wug·a·po·des​ 21:18, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
 * , I'd agree with that assessment pretty much completely. I think a newsletter could be beneficial and I doubt it would take too much effort. A new bot has been suggested an incredible amount of times, so I thought I could just add to the clamor, and the other ideas just came to mind as things to consider and I figured it couldn't hurt to throw them out there I'll probably revisit any sort of proposal in a couple of weeks when I have more time. Best, Eddie891 Talk Work 14:52, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXX, June 2020
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Tech News: 2020-25
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Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Toolforge hosts several tools created by the Wikimedia community like edit counters or enhanced editors. It is changing the domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org. The routing scheme is moving from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. You can read the details. Tools that use OAuth will have to be updated to keep working. You can ask for help.

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 * There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared for a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed.
 * Editing, logging in and logging out didn't work properly for a short period of time last week. It was soon fixed.

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 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June (calendar).

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 * Octicons-tools.svg Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. It will not support Python 2 after the new version in July. Support for Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. You should migrate to Python 3. You can ask for help.
 * The selectors  and   will no longer work in the Vector skin. This can affect gadgets and user scripts.    should be replaced by  .   should be replaced by.

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Re: AFD SU
Thanking you for commenting in the discussion, i want to clarify that i didn't mean that Ulvang was notable only because of coverage in Rolling Stone and NYT. You probably had the most valid argument in the whole conversation but i insist that he is not only covered by small publications. SLCW, Deccan Herald, Abq Journal, The Morning call etc. are one of the most prestigious publications in all of USA. And all of them covered him and addressed him as "Stelth Ulvang". In the majority of references, the whole article was centred around him (not just 1 paragraph) and thus none of them are trivial. Therefore WP:GNG is no-doubt met. Regarding WP:MUSICBIO, i will be more than just thankful to you if you tell me what is the weakness of my justification of it because i tried my best explaining it word by word (which got no attention). Regards Pesticide1110 (talk) 16:10, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, and thanks for reaching out here. I read your explanation (I've read every word of that AFD) and it's actually pretty well laid out. I almost voted keep, and you will note that it led to me only placing a 'weak' redirect vote, which from me means that I think the other side has merit. I have some general comments on your arguments and I will analyse your sources in-depth here. As I see it, there are a bunch of 'meh' sources, which just doesn't push him over the line into the land of notability. That doesn't mean I'm definitely right (I have been known to make mistakes).
 * assume good faith. Most people generally are trying to improve the encyclopedia and just because they don't agree with you doesn't mean they have a vendetta against you
 * Be brief. It has been said that brevity is the soul of wit, and that's pretty true for afds as well. Users who are looking to vote in an Afd generally don't have the time or will to read through walls of text.
 * Notability is not always clear. While you may consider the coverage here to clearly make one notable, I don't...
 * ... and that's ok. Borderline cases like this will almost always have some disagreement as users try and form consensus about the notability of an article. Generally they reach the right consensus eventually, even if you or I don't agree with it. One of the best things on Wikipedia is that users have the right to be wrong. We have deletionists, inclusionists and everything in between. Each group has vastly different opinions on what merits an article, but through civil discussion a decent consensus is usually reached.
 * Hopefully this doesn't just sound like ramblings and is helpful. Best wishes, Eddie891 Talk Work 17:29, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Hopefully this doesn't just sound like ramblings and is helpful. Best wishes, Eddie891 Talk Work 17:29, 15 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Your message proved that you're clearly one of the best here. This message also completely cleared up your point to me, which looks very valid. All the mess was created because of the difference in the perception of wikipedia between all of us. The difference in my view was due to the fact that i was comparing the situation to other identical situations where, articles much inferior to this were and are being kept. I am aiming for uniformity while you are aiming for perfection. Both, in its own right, are acceptable. Regards Pesticide1110 (talk) 17:58, 15 June 2020 (UTC)


 * One last thing, What do you think about this? An Inlander (newspaper) article, it just consists 2 or 3 quotes of Mr. Ulvang. Other than that, its totally independent. Regards Pesticide1110 (talk) 03:24, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

2020 Minsk Victory Parade
Hello Eddie891, I appreciate your concerns about the article. If I create a section as it relates to the long-term effects it had on Russian-Belarusian relations, Belarusian society, or the pandemic in Belarus, will that be enough to avoid deletion? AyodeleA2 (talk) 13:39, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, and thanks for your work. I honestly cannot speak beyond what I said in the deletion nomination. It is hard to demonstrate that a parade had long-term and wide-scale effects, particularly when it just occurred a month ago. If it has demonstrably long-term and major impacts then it could be independently notable. It cannot hurt to add information, but I won't guarantee it will be enough to meet WP:GNG or WP:NEVENT. Individual parades have generally been deleted at Afd when there's nothing to make them very notable (see 1 2 3). My suggestion, in this case, would be to create Minsk Victory Parade and propose redirecting or merging some content on the 2020 parade if consensus does not emerge to keep the article. Hopefully that helps somewhat. Best regards, Eddie891 Talk Work 14:11, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Here is an update: I was able to create a combined list of parades through redirecting some of the individual Minsk parades to List of Victory Day Parades in Minsk. AyodeleA2 (talk) 02:59, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
 * , Personally, I'd support merging some content from 2020 Minsk Victory Day Parade into List of Victory Day Parades in Minsk, I think that article looks quite good overall! Thanks for all your work on these topics. -- Eddie891 Talk Work 14:48, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your comments. One more question though. Should I go ahead and redirect the information on the article or wait until the discussion is officially closed? AyodeleA2 (talk) 15:52, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
 * , the discussion has to be closed before a decision can be made on the page Eddie891 Talk Work 16:45, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020
Hello ,

NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference. In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.
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 * A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
 * Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
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 * Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.

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June
Thank you for improving articles in June. I can proudly present a FA, quite a gift after a year without, and a FL is in the making, comments welcome. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:54, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-26
<section begin="technews-2020-W26"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * There are some new tools to make it easier for newcomers to start editing. They are available on some wikis. These wikis had a problem with the visual editor for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug in the new tools. It was soon fixed.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Some user scripts and gadgets stopped working because of a change to CSS selectors.  should be replaced with   to fix this.

Changes later this week
 * The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. This will be released on 24 June. You can give feedback.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 June. It will be on all wikis from 25 June (calendar).

Future changes
 * A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. It will not work after 13 July. Wikis should use TemplateStyles instead. 91 wikis still need to fix this. You can read more and see if your wiki is affected.

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The Signpost: 28 June 2020
<div class="hlist" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:53, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-27
<section begin="technews-2020-W27"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Everyone was logged out. This was because a few users saw the wikis as if they were logged in to someone else's account. The problem should be fixed now.
 * Some readers didn't see new edits to pages. If the page had been recently changed they saw an older version of the page instead. This only affected readers who were logged out. It lasted for ten days. It has been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (calendar).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Modern and Monobook skins use the ID  for the go button. This is   for Vector. To have the same ID for all skins it will change to   in Monobook and Modern too. This will affect gadgets and user scripts. It will happen on 23 July. They should be updated to use  . You can read more and see a list of affected scripts.

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 16
<div style="border-style:solid; border-color:#606060; background-color:#f8f8f8; border-width:2px; text-align:left; padding:7px; border-radius: 1em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba(0,0,0,0.75);" class="plainlinks"> News and updates associated with user scripts from the past two months (May and June 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 16th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Ed6767's redwarn is this month's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Enterprisey: abusefilter-diff-check* abusefilter-hide-search* live-reload* quick-vand-block*
 * abusefilter-mass-test* simple-notifs* User:Enterprisey/rc-thanks
 * DannyS712's RemindMe* Majavah's Aligner
 * BrandonXLF: ShowUserGender* ReferenceExpander
 * Awesome Aasim: oneclickdelete* noeditredlinks.js* editrequest
 * TheTVExpert: searchForSection* scriptDocumentationTabs
 * Alex 21: script-categoriessort.js* script-imageres.js
 * Ed6767's redwarn


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Twinkle released new features, including a rollback links on history pages and Special:Recentchanges,
 * the ability to rollback-in-place on Recent changes and Contributions, a new option autoselect warning
 * level, and an XfD log. (Enable in your prefences; See full list of changes)
 * Headbomb's unreliable source detector script now allows users to add their own custom rules. See the documentation at User:Headbomb/unreliable.

Open tasks
 * Recent changes to the vector skin may have broken some scripts and gadgets. Uses of the  selector
 * should be replaced with . Additionally,   should be replaced with , and
 * should be replaced with . See T255718 and T254797 for more.

Pending requests
 * A script to simplify the process of nominating articles for good article reassessment (request)
 * A script to help create navboxes (request)
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



If anyone else would like to contribute to future issues, please comment at Wikipedia talk:Scripts++. --DannyS712 (talk) 20:13, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2020 July newsletter
The third round of the 2020 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it into the fourth round each had at least 353 points (compared to 68 in 2019). It was a highly competitive round, and a number of contestants were eliminated who would have moved on in earlier years. Our top scorers in round 3 were:


 * Epicgenius, with one featured article, 28 good articles and 17 DYKs, amassing 1836 points
 * 🇧🇼 The Rambling Man, with 1672 points gained from four featured articles and seventeen good articles, plus reviews of a large number of FACs and GAs
 * Royal standard of England (1406–1603).svg Gog the Mild, a first time contestant, with 1540 points, a tally built largely on 4 featured articles and related bonus points.

Between them, contestants managed 14 featured articles, 9 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 152 good articles, 136 DYK entries, 55 ITN entries, 65 featured article candidate reviews and 221 good article reviews. Additionally, 🇩🇰 MPJ-DK added 3 items to featured topics and 44 to good topics. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 710 good article reviews, in comparison to 387 good articles submitted for review and promoted. These large numbers are probably linked to a GAN backlog drive in April and May, and the changed patterns of editing during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk), Cwmhiraeth (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:33, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

Please only use a single account
Hello, Eddie891, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia, such as. Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who misuse multiple accounts may be blocked from editing. If you operate multiple accounts directly or with the help of another person, please disclose these connections. Thank you. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:44, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi ! I’m very confused as to why you left me this message- I have no connection to that account whatsoever and no idea who it was. Is there anything that indicates otherwise? My declared alternate accounts include User:Eddie892, User:Eddie893, and User:Eddie891's creature. I’m well aware of the socking policy and would disclose if I created an account calling myself ‘the smartest person ever’. Again, I’m not particularly upset, but I’d really appreciate some clarification here as to why you think I’m socking. Best, Eddie891 Talk Work 20:36, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , There was a complaint filed. If it's somebody pranking you, don't worry about it, but I was obligated to respond in some way. -- RoySmith (talk) 20:40, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Sandra Perron
Hello! Your submission of Sandra Perron at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 19:15, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-28
<section begin="technews-2020-W28"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * The Score extension has been disabled for now. This is because of a security issue. It will work again as soon as the security issue has been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 July. It will be on all wikis from 9 July (calendar).

Future changes
 * Abstract Wikipedia is a new Wikimedia project. It will collect language-independent information that can be easily read in different languages. It builds on Wikidata. The name is preliminary. You can read more.
 * The iOS Wikipedia app developers are thinking about new experimental tools. If you use an iPhone you can help them by answering the survey.
 * Some rules for user signatures will soon be enforced. Lint errors and invalid HTML will no longer be allowed in user signatures. Nested substitution will not be allowed. A link to your user page, user talk page or user contributions will be required. You can check if your signature works with the new rules. This is because the signatures can cause problems for tools or other text on the page.

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Fellowship and caps
Hi, saw your edits to Jonathan Parry and it has raised a query in my mind, so I've opened a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Biography. Not fussed on the outcome but it does need clarifying, I think, for the sake of consistency. - Sitush (talk) 07:05, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * now that you mention it, I’m not positive what the correct capitalization is. Thanks for raising this point. I’ll weigh in there shortly. Best wishes, Eddie891 Talk Work 11:05, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

In appreciation

 * Thank you very much, ! His article took a lot more work than I anticipated, but I feel was well worth it. A good portion of the credit should really go to you, and all the reviewers, for all the help they gave— I really cannot thank you all enough. I've been very lucky to meet such great people on-wiki and I certainly could not do half what I do without a lot of help. Maybe I'll be confident enough to start reviewing some more FACs and ACRs with this under my belt?  I hope you're staying healthy, I hope to see you around again soon, and best wishes for the future! -- Eddie891 Talk Work 18:13, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Cheers Eddie. Your input is, IMO, well up to ACR and/or FAC review level; and if you should choose to review more in these areas you would be a welcome addition to the ranks of reviewers. Gog the Mild (talk) 18:29, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Definitely start reviewing. Most nominators, myself included, are grateful for almost any input, and just reading the article and pointing out anything that sticks out is often the most useful thing a reviewer can do. Something that makes perfect sense to the person who wrote it might make no sense whatsoever to someone else. You'll pick up a lot of the fine point of the MoS etc as you go along. Well done on Fabian Ware. You put a lot of work into that but I hope you feel it was worth it to produce an impeccable article on such an important figure. <b style="color: teal; font-family: Tahoma">HJ Mitchell</b> &#124; <span style="color: navy; font-family: Times New Roman" title="(Talk page)">Penny for your thoughts? 15:16, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

April–May 2020 GAN Backlog drive

 * Thanks for co-ordinating the drive, and ! Best wishes, Eddie891 Talk Work 13:02, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost
Hi Eddie. Really nice work on the list of new FAs in The Signpost. Is this something you are planning to do each month? Gog the Mild (talk) 20:05, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
 * first off, thanks! Most of the work really is done by an ancient script that I just discovered a few months ago-- it is great, and even works half the time(!). The section is something I hope to do each month for the foreseeable future. I think recognizing our content creators is something that is done nowhere near often enough and I'm happy to do it wherever I can. Besides, it's quite enjoyable to read the articles people write and learn a bit about all these places I've never visited, all the people I'll never meet, things I won't experience. With that said, if you'd like to help out, please feel welcome to (though not obligated in any way). Best wishes, Eddie891 Talk Work 01:05, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Eddie. First of all, where can I get a look at this script? Secondly, I was going to draw your attention to the draft blurbs - ready for TFAs - on the FAC discussion talk pages. You may well already be aware of them. I help prepare those for MilHist and related articles, with drafts living here. I thought that they may be easier to cut down than the full articles. However, so long as you don't mind, I would be happy to help out on the MilHist side, initially at least with MilHist FAs.
 * What length of summary are you aiming for? I assume that I put them on Wikipedia:Signpost/Next issue/Featured content? Gog the Mild (talk) 17:32, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * : I absolutely don't mind your help-- in fact, you I would quite welcome it! The script generates a weekly list of featured content based upon WP:GO and its archives. The code is in this GitHub URL, you can see the basic formatting it generates at Wikipedia Signpost/Featuredcontentimporting (so it takes away the manual need to go through WP:FAL, WP:FLL and WP:FPL to find the number of the archive and the nominators). When it doesn't work it's usually because of improper nomination formatting or a page move after the nomination passed (the script cannot follow redirects).
 * I've not really decided upon a great length to aim for, though they should be a solid paragraph (probably shorter than the FA blurbs, which I will be sure to look at- they seem quite useful). Right now around 500 characters comes to mind as an arbitrary goal, but for more interesting to me longer articles (or those that escape easy summation) don't hesitate to go over. Feel free to summarize any articles as you feel like it. Best wishes, Eddie891 Talk Work 13:02, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , I use Featured articles promoted in 2020 to keep track of new FAs. I have had a go at the MilHist FAs since 20 June. See here. The nominators and a possible picture for each for you to chose from are included. Feedback is welcome. If you could amend as appropriate and post them to The Signpost I will watch and learn. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:11, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , thanks very much for that! I'll take more of a look on Sunday night or Monday-- going away for the weekend shortly... Best, Eddie891 Talk Work 14:14, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , shorter, and more informal, versions here. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:34, 12 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , thanks very much for that! I'll take more of a look on Sunday night or Monday-- going away for the weekend shortly... Best, Eddie891 Talk Work 14:14, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , shorter, and more informal, versions here. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:34, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXI, July 2020
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Tech News: 2020-29
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Recent changes
 * Users can thank others for their edits. Checkusers can now see user data related to that action. This can help identify sock puppets who harass others using thanks.

Problems
 * Everyone was logged out a couple of weeks ago to fix a security problem. The problem was not entirely fixed. Because of this everyone was logged out once again last week.

Changes later this week
 * Wikis that are not for one specific language can translate pages. Sometimes parts of translations are outdated or missing. Outdated translations are marked with a pink background . Missing translations will also be marked in the future. This markup can sometimes break things. It can soon be disabled by using  on the source page.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 July. It will be on all wikis from 16 July (calendar).

Future changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikimedia code review plans to use GitLab. It would be hosted on Wikimedia servers.

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Marking Chand_Singh_(soldier) as Reviewed
I didn't get it, you just voted !delete on the AfD page and then marked the page as reviewed. This article is clearly going to be deleted. I am just curious what is the significance of the review. Zoodino (talk) 03:25, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, that's a good question. After the AFD a consensus will be reached about the notability of the page one way or another. That means that it no longer needs to be reviewed by a new page reviewer and can be marked as reviewed. I'd recommend reading the tutorial thoroughly for more information on reviewing. Note at WP:NPPDEL where it says that "Unlike CSDs and PRODs, you can mark AfDed pages as 'reviewed' after tagging them, as their fate will be decided via discussion and they can't fall through the cracks if tags are removed (a bot will restore them so long as the AfD discussion is open)." It's not a big deal either way, just something I've started doing out of habit when voting in AFDs. Best wishes, Eddie891 Talk Work 12:54, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
 * , I partially agree with your reason. But as the reviewed pages start appearing in Wikipedia search and are indexed by google and other search engines, thus become visible to the common user as one of the first result after google search (mostly in BLP cases). That article content may not follow notability and verifiability. Therefore I think one should wait for the AfD to end before marking a page, just a personal opinion. Zoodino (talk) 08:59, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
 * , thanks for bringing this up. Unless I'm mistaken, the AFD tag has noindex on it, so such an article shouldn't be indexed until after the AFD anyways. Best, Eddie891 Talk Work 17:18, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , Thanks for the clarification, didn't know that earlier. Zoodino (talk) 04:32, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-31
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Recent changes
 * The Starter kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this.
 * The first features of the Desktop Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck ' in your local or global preferences in section '. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome.
 * Octicons-tools.svg On multiple wikis, a UTCLiveClock gadget is available. For wikis that import the gadget directly from mediawiki.org, end users can now choose a different timezone to show instead of UTC.

Problems
 * Octicons-tools.svg The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week.
 * Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed.
 * Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from July 29. It will be on all wikis from JUly 30 (calendar).

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DYK for Sandra Perron
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The Signpost: 2 August 2020
<div class="hlist" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:25, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

In appreciation

 * Many thanks for this, Gog, and especially thanks for your help this issue. I certainly wouldn't have been able to finish the article on my own this month. Eddie891 Talk Work 00:37, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you in July
Thank you for improving articles in July! Now a FTN is open. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:45, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your support, - they now became a featured topic! ... exactly 10 years after both Brian and I were declared awesome ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:53, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-32
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Problems
 * All queries to the Wikidata Query Service failed between 17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a longer period.
 * Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks. This problem was also mentioned in Tech News two weeks ago. The problem is now fixed.
 * There is a problem with the global preferences for the "" option. Developers are working on fixing it.
 * A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and "create" types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons. New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have been possible. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The old player will be removed.
 * Users'  and   pages will now also be loaded on the mobile site. You can read documentation for how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin.
 * Octicons-tools.svg In the MonoBook skin, the  identifier is now  . This may affect CSS and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953. This was previously mentioned in issue 27.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses  to prevent large archives was changed.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from August 5. It will be on all wikis from August 6 (calendar).

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Tech News: 2020-30
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Recent changes
 * A temporary fix helped wikis make their main pages more mobile friendly. This was in 2012. It has not been recommended since 2017. The mobile main page special casing stopped working 14 July. 60 wikis now have main pages that don't work well on mobile. You can see which ones, how to fix it and how to get help in Phabricator. This is the same problem that was reported in Tech News 2020/24 and 2020/26.

Problems
 * There is a problem with the interlanguage links. The interlanguage links are the links that help you find a specific page in a different language. The sorting is broken. The developers are working on a solution.
 * Some users keep getting the notifications for the same event. Some of these are old events.
 * Some users have trouble logging in. This is probably a browser cookie problem. The developers are working on understanding the problem. If you have trouble logging in you can see the details on Phabricator.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 July. It will be on all wikis from 23 July (calendar).

Future changes
 * There is a  link. This will disappear. That is because web browsers today can create a printable version or show how it will look in print anyway.

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