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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 2
 News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (January 2019).

Hello everyone and welcome to the second issue of the new Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg User:Enterprisey's Easy BRFA


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg BrandonXLF: Floating side menu* Mobile View link* Global Preferences link* Green Redirects* To Top* To Bottom


 * Danski454: code-link* cat-next
 * DannyS712: 12Hour time* Draft no cat
 * Enterprisey: script-installer* hover-edit-section
 * FR30799386's copyvio-check* Abelmoschus Esculentus's Source Assess Table Generator


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Galobtter's Short description helper (now in version 3)* FR30799386's mobileUndo (released from beta)
 * Evad37's XFDcloser (now detects the age of discussions)* DannyS712's Cat Links (now in version 3)
 * Enterprisey's reply-link (now compatible with Comments in Local Time)


 * Farm-Fresh error go.png Following a discussion, has been redirected to Evad37's fork (User:Evad37/duplinks-alt)
 * Flooded with them hundreds temporarily retired from Wikipedia; DannyS712 is now maintaining their scripts:


 * Page Mover Closure, Section Remover, and Section Mover

Open tasks
 * There is an ongoing discussion about promoting Galobtter's Short description helper to a gadget.
 * Evad37 has proposed that a pseudo-namespace be created for script modules. Find out more and discuss here

Pending requests
 * Anyone knows Galician? Their wikipedia has asked for some help
 * A request has been made for a tool to detect duplicated references
 * Want to help code a gadget? Lend a hand here
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests



Miscellaneous
 * There was a recent village pump thread about either Enterprisey's or Equazcion's "Script Installer" tool becoming a gadget. It wasn't officially closed, and so far neither has become a gadget. Stay tuned for updates.

Lets keep up the good work! --DannyS712 (talk) 03:09, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2019-05
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The Wikimedia servers use HHVM to run the PHP code. They are going to use PHP7 and stop using HHVM. You can test PHP7 with a new beta feature. That way you can help find and report problems.

Problems
 * When someone moves a page to a name that already exists that page that had the name the article is moved to is deleted. For a couple of months this didn't always work. Some users saw an error message instead. This has now been fixed.

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

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 January at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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The Signpost: 31 January 2019
 * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:50, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:53, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you
... for the nice message on my talk. I replied there, but this is for you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:54, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

Want to become a member of the cabal of the outcasts, perhaps? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:55, 31 January 2019 (UTC)


 * You are serving the cabal well! Would you mind becoming an official member, being its messenger? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:06, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
 * , joined... What does being its messenger entail? Eddie891 Talk Work 14:11, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
 * What you do, spreading appreciation of quality work. Thanks for joining, so nice to see the percentage of the blocked and banned among the members (see the "despised" corner of my talk) go down ;) - It was founded in 2012 in opposition (to a TFA dictatorship), but now (that TFA is handled in a much more transparent and almost democratic way) became more general. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:15, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Can't believe nobody gave Precious to you yet! (Too many Ed and the like, sorry.) Which day would you like? Next available, or a special date? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:23, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
 * , I already got it on 3 May! thanks for the offer though :-) Eddie891 Talk Work 14:27, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Can't type, not even in the search field. Relief! - Im busy with an article dedicated to a friend who died, DYK? I want to nominate it for GA and translate to German now. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:32, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-06
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * It was easy to untick a box by accident in Special:Preferences. This will now be fixed.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 February. It will be on all wikis from 7 February (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  17:12, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Thank you
That was a very nice message you left on my talk page. I'm glad to see some people appreciate the work that was put into this project.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 19:04, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

toggle ref check
Hello, just a note to say that User:Lingzhi2/reviewsourcecheck has been update to add the option to toggle it on or off.

'''The installed script will add a tab to the drop-down tab at the top, located between the 'watchlist star' and the search box (using the vector.js skin). The tab toggles between "Hide ref check" and "Show ref check"''' with displaying the errors as the default option. You may need to edit Special:MyPage/common.js and change User:Lingzhi/reviewsourcecheck to User:Lingzhi2/reviewsourcecheck (add the "2" after User:Lingzhi). Please do drop me a line if you have any problems or suggestions. Tks. ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 15:53, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
 * , Good to know... Your script has been immensely helpful to me -- Eddie891 Talk Work 15:55, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm very happy that it has helped you. Always open for suggestions.. tks! ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 15:56, 2 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Sorry to bother you again. After the addition of a toggle option in the tab atop the page, one editor requested a revised version in which the toggle link appears in the "Tools" section of the page's left sidebar. So now there are two versions of this tool. If you prefer the links in the Toolbar section on the side, the slightly altered script is named User:Lingzhi2/reviewsourcecheck-sb.js (just add "-sb" before the ".js"). Finally, both versions should now also store the page state (whether reference errors/warnings are "hidden" or "shown"). The state persists between page loads and between the browser closing and reopening (unless cleared by the user, for example by deleting data in your browser's cache etc.). Huge thanks to User:Evad37 for much coding help. If you have any questions or problems, please drop me a line. Thanks again. ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 08:21, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
 * , : Thanks for all the work you do! Eddie891 Talk Work 19:13, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

A page you started (Mary Margaret Francis) has been reviewed!
Thanks for creating Mary Margaret Francis.

I have just reviewed the page, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

To reply, leave a comment here and prepend it with. And, don't forget to sign your reply with.

Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.

---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk&#124;Contribs) 13:19, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for supporting the Sustainability Initiative!
Hi Eddie891, Thank you for supporting the Sustainability Initiative with your signature! Maybe you know another Wikipedian who'd like to sign as well? :-) --Gnom (talk) 09:11, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

WikiCup 2019 Reminder
Hi. I'm DannyS712 (talk), and I just wanted to remind you that you have signed up to compete in this year's WikiCup! There are about 2 weeks left before the first round ends – if you haven't yet made your first submission, there is still time to start; if you have already started, keep up the good work. See your submissions page: here. Good luck!

Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 07:33, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLIV, February 2019
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 12:19, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-07
 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 use the  CSS class to show page issues to mobile readers. When you use   there are classes you can use.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 February. It will be on all wikis from 14 February (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  18:45, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

List of named storms (A) moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, List of named storms (A), does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Eddie891 Talk Work 21:34, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the review

 * Of course! It was a pleasure! Eddie891 Talk Work 20:34, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

List of named storms moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, List of named storms, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page.  CASSIOPEIA(talk) 07:55, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
 * , See List of Latin terms, articles like that one function as though they are disambigs Eddie891 Talk Work 14:51, 12 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi Eddie891 - Greetings to you. Pls note stand alone list need to be supported by source just like normal article - see Stand-alone lists. Do note also note WP:OTHERSTUFFEXIST for articles should not be in Wikipedia as volunteers have not come around to work on them.  Since the lists in your article in your draft have pages in Wikipedia, it is very easy to find sources to support the claimed. Ping me when you have added the sources and I will review and get it publish for you. CASSIOPEIA(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 22:46, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
 * , sources added Eddie891 Talk Work 20:33, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Eddie891 - Thank you for informing. Reviewed. Article in main space. Thank you for your contribution.<b style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:80%;color:#FA0"> CASSIOPEIA</b>(<b style="#0000FF">talk</b>) 01:18, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-08
<section begin="technews-2019-W08"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * When you thank someone on the mobile web you will now have two seconds to cancel the thank. This is in case you clicked on the thank button by accident.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 February. It will be on all wikis from 21 February (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * There is a proposal to add a red link to mobile search results if there is no page with that name. This is how it works on desktop. You can leave feedback.

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Talk to us about talking
The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a global consultation about communication. The goal is to bring Wikimedians and wiki-minded people together to improve tools for communication.

We want all contributors to be able to talk to each other on the wikis, whatever their experience, their skills or their devices.

We are looking for input from as many different parts of the Wikimedia community as possible. It will come from multiple projects, in multiple languages, and with multiple perspectives.

We are currently planning the consultation. We need your help.

We need volunteers to help talk to their communities or user groups.

You can help by hosting a discussion at your wiki. Here's what to do:
 * 1) First, sign up your group here.
 * 2) Next, create a page (or a section on a Village pump, or an e-mail thread – whatever is natural for your group) to collect information from other people in your group.  This is not a vote or decision-making discussion: we are just collecting feedback.
 * 3) Then ask people what they think about communication processes.  We want to hear stories and other information about how people communicate with each other on and off wiki.  Please consider asking these five questions:
 * 4) When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work for you, and what problems block you?
 * 5) What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
 * 6) What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
 * 7) What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the technical limitations?
 * 8) What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
 * 9) Finally, please go to Talk pages consultation 2019 on Mediawiki.org and report what you learned from your group.  Please include links if the discussion is available to the public.

You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to each other.

Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through external tools... Tell us how your group communicates.

You can read more about the overall process on mediawiki.org. If you have questions or ideas, you can leave feedback about the consultation process in the language you prefer.

Thank you! We're looking forward to talking with you. Trizek (WMF) 15:08, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-09
<section begin="technews-2019-W09"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * There is a new version of the iOS Wikipedia app. It has for example syntax highlighting and new toolbars to make it easier to write wikitext. It also has night mode, a find-on-page function and other things. You can give feedback and suggestions.

Changes later this week
 * When you look at your watchlist or the recent changes page you can use the new filters for edit review. There you can choose tags to filter different edits. Empty tags will no longer be shown.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 February. It will be on all wikis from 28 February (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 February at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The Wikipedia app for Android will invite users to add Wikidata descriptions to Wikidata objects that have Wikipedia articles but no Wikidata descriptions. It will only invite users who have added a number of Wikidata descriptions in the app without being reverted. This is to avoid spam and bad edits. You can read more and leave feedback.

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Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:01, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 February 2019
<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) 11:15, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 3
<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 (February 2019).

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

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Bradv's Superlinks


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Abelmoschus Esculentus: Discussion Closer* Edit Filter False Positives Response Helper
 * PrimeHunter's Search sorter* Reinischmax's Internet Archive Books
 * Erutuon's Charinsert-names* DannyS712's De-Stub* Evad37's Timeless New Message Highlighter
 * RhinosF1's Status Changer* Suffusion of Yellow's Filter Highlighter


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Timotheus Canens's SPI Helper (now in 1.6.8)

Open tasks
 * Evad37 has raised the idea for a pseudo-namespace be created for "script modules". Find out more and discuss here
 * Cyberpower678 has proposed adding a "Read Now" feature for book references; a working demo is available.
 * FR30799386 has also suggested making their mobileUndo script into a gadget

Miscellaneous
 * Following a discussion, a new process for reviewing code for user-scripts and gadgets has been created.
 * See Code review for more.


 * This month we welcomed three new interface administrators: Evad37, Galobtter, and Enterprisey.
 * On a sadder note, just this morning we said goodbye to Abelmoschus Esculentus, a prolific script writer.

We are three months in to this newsletter and everything is going great–keep on creating amazing new scripts! Who knows–maybe the scripts will take over one day... --DannyS712 (talk) 17:59, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Pending requests WikiProject Portals is looking for some help making scripts...
 * to help build navboxes
 * to simplify adding links to portals
 * and even to make creating the portals easier
 * other open requests are available at User scripts/Requests



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we thank you
Thank you for article improvements in February, and passing Precious! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:34, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
 * , And thank you for all you do! Eddie891 Talk Work 22:09, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Mary Margaret Francis
Hello! Your submission of Mary Margaret Francis 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) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 21:41, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-10
<section begin="technews-2019-W10"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You can give feedback on the future of talk pages.
 * The mobile website will use the standard fonts on your computer or phone instead of a generic font. This will make it easier to read text in many scripts.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2019-W10"/> 16:38, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Unanswered Peer Review Requests
Hello Eddie891, This is an automated notification to remind you about unanswered peer review requests at WP:PR (Don't want these notifications? Click to unsubscribe or change your subscription).

''You can see a list of all categories at WP:PRWAITING. We hope to see you soon Wikipedia:Peer Review. Happy Reviewing!'' KadaneBot (talk) 01:05, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLV, March 2019
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 11:00, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Mary Margaret Francis
Vanamonde (Talk) 00:03, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-11
<section begin="technews-2019-W11"/> 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
 * Pages can use geocoordinates from Wikidata with the  Lua function or the   parser function. If they do, they will now be shown using  mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer if the wiki can use Kartographer. You can report bugs or ask questions on Phabricator.
 * There is now an EventStream to see when links are added or removed on Wikimedia wikis. You can read the discussions and plans.

Problems
 * Some wikis will not be able to edit for a short period of time on 19 March (UTC). This will start at 15:00 UTC. It will last up to 15 minutes but probably shorter. You can see the list of affected wikis. This is because of network maintenance. You can still read the wikis.
 * Editors who use Firefox to edit with the visual editor had a problem with copying text. When they tried to select text that included footnotes, templates or block images in the middle they would often only get part of the text. This has now been fixed.
 * Some maps didn't work for a while on 8 March. 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 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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NPR Newsletter No.17


Hello ,


 * News
 * The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.


 * Discussions of interest
 * Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
 * db-blankdraft was merged into G13 (Discussion)
 * A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
 * There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.


 * Reminders
 * NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD  because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.


 * NPP Tools Report
 * Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
 * copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
 * The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.

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Response for SignPost
Hi Eddie,

The Administrative Noticeboard quickly opened a thread on this and two admins did a deep dive into the allegations. Rather than respond at length myself, I'll let the admin, User: Swarm, who did most of the investigation respond for me (the highlight is: "This article seems to be little more than an unfortunate piece of trumped-up clickbaity garbage."):

"BC1278 is alleged to be a serial POV-pusher and professional whitewasher, who games the system to get his edits through with a combination of relentless bludgeoning and canvassing. That's extremely alarming and I was ready to crucify this guy. I was even pissed to see the lighthearted reactions above. But, when you actually examine the article, I'm not seeing any violations. In fact, I'm not really seeing anything of major concern. The article itself seems to quietly concede that he doesn't actually violate any policies. In fact, it comes across as extremely misleading and obviously written by someone who doesn't understand Wikipedia at all. He "spent over a year lobbying" for the creation of Caryn Marooney? Come on, he created it as a draft and got it approved through the AfC process, not because he's some relentless lobbyist. Relentless bludgeoning, based on this? Really? He's literally just discussing something in the discussion section, because he was refraining from !voting. Obviously the writer has never witnessed true bludgeoning. Canvassing? The supposed incidents of "canvassing" are usually explained as simply being notifications to relevant users who are involved in some way, such as WikiProject members. I have not seen any refutations of that point. I mean, one of the warnings cited was literally for notifying the only other contributor to an article about a deletion discussion.[30] There's nothing even particularly unreasonable about that. Most of the supposed "whitewashing" seems to be mundane matters that don't harm articles at all, if not actual improvements, like making articles better comply with BLP. "It almost always works"? Uh, yeah, if you're in compliance with policies and are making reasonable requests that are being vetted by established editors who decide to approve them, then good for you, you're not terrible at what you do. It certainly isn't because the community has no problem with paid COI editors, on the contrary, they're among the most stigmatized editors within the community. This article seems to be little more than an unfortunate piece of trumped-up clickbaity garbage, and I actually feel bad for the paid editor here. I hope both the editor and the Foundation will push back in some way. If COIN wants to do an in-depth investigation of this editor, that's perhaps a reasonable reaction, but based solely on the allegations and supporting evidence presented in the article, which, I assume was the worst they could find, there's nothing actionable there."

The other investigating admin concurs, though he wishes I were more concise. I think the entire admin thread is very informative. The thread also has an extended reply as to my practices in my own words. Feel free to use it. I'll say that as I go through the HuffPo article example-by-example for my extended letter of response to them, I am more perturbed than ever by the level of intentional deception, sensationalism, ignorance of Wikipedia, and very disturbingly to me, failure to practice the basic practices of investigative journalism (such as letting the subject of accusations respond to them specifically - before you run your article; or using and quoting actual experts to analyze difficult and controversial material.) The reporter, Ashley Feinberg, did her formative training at Gawker, famous for smearing people without allowing them to respond. Ms. Feinberg did not ask or email me about any specific proposed edit I ever made on Wikipedia. When she contacted me, I asked her if she had any seen any problems with anything I had done. She lied and said “no.” Had she asked me, I would have taken the time to talk her through her allegations one at a time.

It took me five years to build confidence with some of the world's leading companies to trust me that it was in their best interest to always disclose a COI and always to make proposals only on a Talk page (whether they hired me or not.) I hope the Wikimedia Foundation will do as User:Swarm suggests and take some action of support here to stand up for the policy of COI disclosures, or this bit of digital yellow journalism will force many thousands of organizations and individuals back into the "black hat" undisclosed-paid-editor or undisclosed-COI-editing closet.BC1278 (talk) 03:04, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
 * , Thank you! Eddie891 Talk Work 12:14, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-12
<section begin="technews-2019-W12"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * When you use rollback you will be able to get a confirmation prompt on most wikis. It asks you if you wanted to do the rollback. This is to avoid misclicks. You will have to opt in to get it. On German Wikipedia it will be an opt-out feature from 28 March.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Admins will be able to block someone from editing a page or a namespace. This already works on a few Wikimedia wikis. You can read more. If your wiki wants to be an early tester of this, you can tell the developers.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Toolforge will shut down the Ubuntu Trusty job grid. This will happen the week of 25 March. Tools that use this grid needs to be moved to the new Debian Stretch job grid. If they haven't, they will be taken offline. Maintainers can restart the tools later. Users may not be able to use them in the meanwhile. You can see a list of affected tools.

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FR30799386's User Scripts
Dear all. Recently, was blocked for sock puppetry. Among their projects were a number of user scripts that they left behind. I (DannyS712) have copied the scripts, and have taken over maintaining them. You currently import one or more of FR30799386's scripts, and I thought that you might want to import a maintained version. Links to each script are provided below.


 * User:DannyS712/communicator
 * User:DannyS712/copyvio-check
 * User:DannyS712/Undo
 * User:DannyS712/Quick-undo
 * User:DannyS712/Readonly
 * User:DannyS712/Redirectify
 * User:DannyS712/Section-strike

If you have any questions, please reach out and talk to me. --DannyS712 (talk) 03:57, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Thank you ...
... for improving article quality in March and passing Precious - click on "March" for travel pics --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:34, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-13
<section begin="technews-2019-W13"/> 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 new version of the content translation tool will be used for all new translations. The older version will still be used for translations that were started with it. Most users won’t see any change. More than 80% of the published translations are already using the new version.

Problems
 * There was a problem with editing with Safari on iOS. When you wrote an edit summary you couldn't save the edit. This has now been fixed.
 * The editing toolbar sometimes disappears when you scroll on iOS devices. This will be fixed soon.
 * Wikis can over-ride interface messages on-wiki. A problem meant that sometimes an old versions of any changed messages were shown instead. This included the sitenotice and other important parts of the interface. This was fixed at around 2019-03-22 16:00 (UTC). Logged-out users may still get the wrong message. Purging the page should fix it for them.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 March at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Peer review of [New Albion]
Hello Eddie891. I have requested a peer review of New Albion which you may find HERE. I found your name on the volunteer list of reviewers and also saw that you have inspected this article in the past. So, I request, if you are so able, to review the article again. I have made many changes in the article, particularly with the citations. I have also altered images and some text. I am uncertain regarding the introduction and believe it may be too detailed, perhaps an insufficient summary. I also question my inclusion of the 1658 map by Nicolaes Visscher I. I included it at the expense of another image, one which depicts the careening of a ship. That version may be view HERE. I am believing that the Visscher map is unnecessary the the careening image valuable. However, I would like advice regarding their inclusion. I also read on your talk page that you have experience with featured articles, so I even more so look forward to your advice and thoughts. As the Military Project also is listed for peer review assistance, I also asked them for help. Kind regards, Hu Nhu (talk) 02:44, 27 March 2019 (UTC)