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Tech News: 2020-49
 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 . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).

Future changes
 * The iOS Wikipedia app will show readers more of the article history. They can see new updates and easier see how the article has changed over time. This is an experiment. It will first be shown only to some iOS app users as a test.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wiki Replicas can be used for SQL queries. You can use Quarry, PAWS or other ways to do this. To make the Wiki Replicas stable there will be two changes. Cross-database  will no longer work. You can also only query a database if you connect to it directly. This will happen in February 2021. If you think this affects you and you need help you can post on Phabricator or on Wikitech.

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Multiple accounts problem
Hello, referring to a problem about "using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia, such as Anna Margherita Donà (talk · contribs)". I would like to disclose my connection with this account. Indeed, I've created it at first without linked the Anna Margherita Donà account with an email adresse and then I forgot the password. So I've created a new account and I'm not using Anna Margherita Donà anymore, indeed I tried to delete it (even if I'm aware this is not possible on Wikipedia). Do you know how I could solve the problem without have my (and unique active) account be blocked from editing ? Thankyou for your help.Cleo 18 (talk) 17:44, 30 November 2020 (UTC)


 * , you won't be blocked. I would recommend that in the interest of transparency you mention that Anna Margherita Dona is a past account on your userpage, but that is your choice. GeneralNotability (talk) 19:38, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, ok, I will mention it in my Cleo 18 user page if it's needed. Best Cleo 18 (talk) 20:18, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

protection on Ben Bova
Thanks for protecting Ben Bova. His death's been sourced now, so the protection can be removed. Schazjmd  (talk)  21:43, 30 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks, unprotected. GeneralNotability (talk) 22:42, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Andrwsc • Anetode • GoldenRing • JzG • LinguistAtLarge • Nehrams2020

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Izno

Guideline and policy news
 * There is a request for comment in progress to either remove T3 (duplicated and hardcoded instances) as a speedy deletion criterion or eliminate its seven-day waiting period.

Technical news
 * Voting for proposals in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regarding administrators and anti-harassment.

Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 7 December 2020 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

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 * , handled. GeneralNotability (talk) 16:51, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 18
 News and updates associated with user scripts from the past three months (September, October, and November 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 18th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg SD0001's W-Ping is this month's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Sportzpikachu's bookmarks adds a bookmarks section to the navigation toolbar
 * SD0001's deleted-metadata-link.js adds links to the deletedrevisions API output for deleted pages
 * SD0001's GAN-helper makes it easier to create a GAN nomination.
 * 1234qwer1234qwer4's XfDstarted scripts add links to today's XfD log pages to the personal toolbar
 * Awesome Aasim's rcpatrol is a tool that can be used to patrol recent changes, including reverting edits and warning users
 * A new JavaScript snippet, MediaWiki:AFC-add-project-tags.js, can be used to add WikiProject tags to drafts at WikiProject Articles for creation/Add WikiProject tags without actually needing to install a user script.
 * Nardog's PlayAudioNow makes audio links playable while staying on the page, regardless of the format
 * GeneralNotability's ip-ext-info.js adds extended info on IPs in a popup with their range, ASN, and ISP
 * TheTVExpert's submitRMTR adds a button to Special:MovePage to submit a technical request at Requested moves/Technical requests
 * TheTVExpert's rmCloser helps with closing and relisting requested moves.
 * Enterprisey's parsoid-round-trip uses Parsoid to convert wikitext to HTML and back, and then shows the result and the difference between the original wikitext and the post-conversion wikitext.
 * Frietjes's infoboxgap assists in renumbering infobox labels/data/classes, so that a new line can be inserted in the middle of the infobox.

Pending requests
 * A request for a script to help with maintaining the lists of vital articles
 * A request for a script to make it easier to archive specific list entries, rather than whole discussion sections
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests




 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Twinkle has made a number of improvements, including using a change tag to identify actions made with it and automatically filing edit requests for protected XfD nominations.
 * SD0001's shortdescs-in-category is now compatible with scripts modifying category listings, such as Equazcion's CatListMainTalkLinks
 * GhostInTheMachine's TalkHelper2 is a newer version of their prior script, TalkHelper
 * GeneralNotability's spihelper updated to 2.2.10, fixing a number of small bugs, automatically tagging globally locked socks as such in the sockpuppet template, and restoring open cases following an SPI history merge.
 * Enterprisey's script-installer gadget has been updated with more internationalization of messages, as well as addition of a user preference,  to allow controlling where new scripts are to be installed.

Open tasks
 * Enterprisey is looking for beta testers for their new section-watchlist user script. See the announcement.

Miscellaneous
 * The second edition of the m:Coolest Tool Award will be taking place in December.
 * Enterprisey's links-in-logs script has now been implemented as part of MediaWiki core, see 640761 and T207562.

My apologies for the delayed issue. As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, --DannyS712 (talk) 18:20, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

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Sockpuppet
Regarding Sockpuppet investigations/Elliotthomaspotts/Archive, they have another IP, which has vandalised past final warning too. – DarkGlow ( ✉ ) 21:03, 22 November 2020 (UTC)


 * , I think you're right, and that IP is on the same range as one I blocked before. Blocked them and another IP they seemed to be using. GeneralNotability (talk) 20:03, 23 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you. Do you think it would be relevant to perhaps add this to WP:LTA? – DarkGlow ( ✉ ) 20:05, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
 * , don't think so - a few block evasions isn't enough to earn a place there in my opinion. GeneralNotability (talk) 20:07, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Another of their IPs here: – DarkGlow ( ✉ ) 13:05, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
 * , blocked, thanks. Wish I could rangeblock but this is a huge range and there would be a lot of collateral damage. GeneralNotability (talk) 15:36, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
 * That's a shame. I don't know much about IPs – how many users would be affected by a rangeblock? – DarkGlow ( ✉ ) 15:48, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
 * , the network they're editing from contains 65,536 IPs and they could potentially be assigned any of those, plus they've previously been on a different network with the same number of IPs. I can't tell you how many people are actually on that range, but for ranges that big we usually won't block unless we're dealing with a really bad vandal or LTA. GeneralNotability (talk) 15:52, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Another of their IPs: – DarkGlow ( ✉ ) 18:01, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

MarquinhosWikipediano
It looks like they are using a proxy to editing the page .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/MarquinhosWikipediano/Archive#21_November_2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soviet_war_crimes&diff=989942043&oldid=989936206 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soviet_war_crimes&diff=992662261&oldid=992277578 looks like the page needs protection.2601:81:C400:DC30:C0BF:DCE:5AAE:ECC6 (talk) 14:50, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

They are adding the same material that was deleted by another admin that they put https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soviet_war_crimes&diff=990060344&oldid=989995557 and they admit to being MarquinhosWikipediano just like they did on the ip talk page https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soviet_war_crimes&diff=991022492&oldid=990892804 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:187.39.129.78#block.2601:81:C400:DC30:C0BF:DCE:5AAE:ECC6 (talk) 14:58, 6 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks, looks like them. I've blocked. GeneralNotability (talk) 19:15, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-50
 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 put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time. Some wikis already had this function.

Changes later this week
 * Information from Wikidata that is used on a wiki page can be shown in recent changes and watchlists on a Wikimedia wiki. To see this you need to turn on showing Wikidata edits in your watchlist in the preferences. Changes to the Wikidata description in the language of a Wikimedia wiki will then be shown in recent changes and watchlists. This will not show edits to languages that are not relevant to your wiki.
 * 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
 * You can vote on proposals in the Community Wishlist Survey between 8 December and 21 December. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on.

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Gary Ridgway
Hi, and thanks for your help on Gary Ridgway. However, I noticed that the protection you put in place is significantly shorter than the previous protection, which expired only a couple days ago. Would you please take a look at the page's protection history and consider making the semi-protection longer? The page has been a vandalism target for a long time. Thanks. Dunley (talk) 18:52, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Second that request. The IPs belong to LTA and he'll just keep going for lack of something else to do with his life. Favonian (talk) 19:00, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
 * ,, done - wasn't aware this was an LTA so I was just trying to stop the immediate damage. Protected for three months. GeneralNotability (talk) 19:04, 4 December 2020 (UTC)


 * The three month protection you put in is still significantly shorter than the one year protection that expired only a couple days ago. Are you absolutely sure you don't want to go longer? Dunley (talk) 19:28, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I saw El C's block and was like "why did they do a <1 day block from Dec 2 to later on Dec 2?" Nope, that was a year block. Reading is hard, okay? Amended. GeneralNotability (talk) 19:30, 4 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Pro-tip: SOP, Dunley's also blocked. -- zzuuzz (talk) 16:24, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

About that film we discussed on IRC
After further investigating, I have come to the conclusion that the text may actually be a copyright violation. I copied and pasted the text into Google, and searches from 2010 came up. Dutchy85 did not add the text until 2012. I am well aware that these search results do not necessarily mean that the text was copied, but I do think it can be a good indicator. Sorry if I'm wasting your time. Again, the film is The Duel at Silver Creek. Scorpions13256 (talk) 19:53, 9 December 2020 (UTC)


 * , if you do think it's a copyvio, go ahead and use the copyvio-revdel template (User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel is a great tool for generating the template). I just wanted to make sure that you'd considered the possibility that it was a reverse copyvio since the source looked a little iffy. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:32, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much for recommending that script. I did not know it existed. I guess I no longer have to use IRC. I'll wait for someone to delete the revision. Scorpions13256 (talk) 01:16, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Trueman31
Hello. I recently saw a investigation of sock puppetry regards to that specific user. And I was put under suspicion. I am telling you and I felt like that I Just need to say I am 100% not trueman31. I would never vandalise the Wikipedia ever. Especially not after the last times. The edits I reverted was the ones that Trueman31 vandalised. I know that case closed but I’m just letting you know I’m not trueman31 or any sock puppet of him. Thanks WikiFlame50 (talk) 22:04, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

New Page Patrol December Newsletter
Hello ,



It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to and  who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to, , and who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
 * Year in review

has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.
 * Reviewer of the Year

As a special recognition and thank you has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.
 * NPP Technical Achievement Award

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 2262 Low – 2232 High – 10271

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The Bugle: Issue CLXXVI, December 2020
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) 22:49, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

Forum shopping
See this, which itself links to my talk page and another deletion forum. Not sure what this editor is up to, keeps being told it's irredeemable spam Jimfbleak - talk to me?  11:51, 14 December 2020 (UTC)


 * , thanks, I'll keep an eye on this...for someone with 100k+ edits they seem distressingly unfamiliar with some basic policies. GeneralNotability (talk) 13:53, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Protection on Rufus
The page on Rufus (software) is semiprotected due to vandalism, despite having a low amount of edits, vandalism or not. I personally think that pending changes would be a better form of protection for the remainder of the current protection. Computerfan0 (talk) 20:17, 14 December 2020 (UTC)


 * , sure, why not. Dropped to PC protection. GeneralNotability (talk) 21:03, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-51
 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 Wikipedia app for KaiOS phones. It was released in India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too.

Changes later this week
 * 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).

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SPI follow-up: KevinPR82
This is follow up to SPI case you closed. I would have taken this to User:Ad Orientem, but that editor retired. Because there were other issues (what to do with standing cases when an admin retires, plus long-term edit warring, disruptive unsourced editing, and WP:IDHT), I tried ANI, but failed to get a coherent response. The SPI subject did respond promptly with an unsigned post from another IP in the SPI case. Despite a clear warning to avoid mixing static IP and account edits which was received a half-hearted response, there was an ongoing mix with IP and logged-in edits over the following months: account and IP. Not all, but many of the logged-in edits were on partially protected pages. My threshold for action was reached with the account repeating the same factually incorrect (basic arithmatic) edit: IP (October)-account (December) that had been reverted by another editor. The IP that replied on ANI, had not made other edits between the SPI and the ANI, but has only made one unsourced edit that has been reverted at Chain letter. It follows the same theme as prior unsourced edits from a defunct IP from the SPI case. That IP had been reported for sockpuppetry and there was an unsigned IP reply that argued against the need for sources since some unsourced edits had not been reverted. I hope I am not out of line coming to you. If I am, please refer me to the appropriate venue. BiologicalMe (talk) 18:56, 14 December 2020 (UTC)


 * , acknowledging that I've seen this, but it's been a busy couple of days. I'll try to take care of this tomorrow. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:54, 16 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you. This is a case measured in edits per week, so there is no rush. Thank you for for the status update. BiologicalMe (talk) 01:09, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Could you take a look at...
this, in your capacity as an SPI clerk? My concern is that the reported sock is editing articles which the master has been topic banned from. Thanks, Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:33, 15 December 2020 (UTC)


 * , replied at the SPI and on the editor in question's talk page, and if they don't give a satisfactory answer there will be indefs. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:07, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:10, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Regarding a page
Hi, is it possible to delete this Sockpuppet investigations/MRRaja001 -  MRRaja001  (talk) 17:20, 12 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Please give reply. -  MRRaja001  (talk) 07:00, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , I've deleted it. GeneralNotability (talk) 15:41, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you. -  MRRaja001  (talk) 16:26, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

FYI
Quick courtesy note because the filer didn't notify you: You are being discussed at AN. Blablubbs | talk 10:35, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Bizarre comments
The User:EnPassant is attempting to claim that I am the subject of the article and is referring to me this way here. You cannot see his username, but the comment is at the bottom with the chess piece characters. He also claimed to delete material in articles. Dr42 (talk) 22:00, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm not just attempting, I'm openly stating my suspicion. And yes, I deleted the puffery, , , , , , , that you spammed all over Wikipedia. ♟♙ (talk) 22:27, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm apparently late to the party (seeing as how you're CU-blocked), but I consider myself far too involved in this situation to act as a neutral admin. Ask someone else. GeneralNotability (talk) 23:13, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 19
 News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (December 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 19th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here
 * Cscr-featured.svg Enterprisey's script-installer, a gadget that makes it easier to install scripts, is this month's featured script


 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Enterprisey's copy-section-link adds popups to section headers which has an appropriate wikilink and external link to the section.
 * DannyS712's FindBlacklistEntry can be used to figure out which line(s) in either the local or global spamblacklist prevent a particular url from being added.
 * Nardog's CodeEditorAssist allows customizing the code editor, including changing the color theme and enabling live autocompletion.
 * Cobaltcigs's IllWill allows searches wikidata.org for foreign-language sitelinks, to populate ill and replace plain red links.


 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Twinkle has made a number of improvements, most notably full support for expiring watchlist items.
 * Evad37's Signpost Publishing Script is now at version 2.4.2, with changes including a fix for calculating the size of pages with files.
 * Evad37's MoveToDraft is now at version 2.5.1, with changes including:
 * checks for move conflicts and better options if move fails
 * the addition of Drafts moved from mainspace after moves
 * updating the default move log and notification texts to be more in line with WP:DRAFTIFY
 * Enterprisey's cv-revdel now handles failures more cleanly, including reporting failures caused by the spam blacklist.
 * Bradv's Notepad.js script has been updated with new styles and a new launch button.
 * A beta version of XFDcloser is available for testing, and brings a new user interface for dialogs and some preferences for customization.



Open tasks
 * Voting in the m:Community Wishlist Survey 2021 is ongoing until December 21, 2020. There are 15 proposals in the "bots and gadgets" category that may be of interest.

Pending requests
 * A script to help list discussions at WP:ANRFC (request)
 * A script to allow undoing edits despite conflicting intermediary edits (request)
 * ...and many more, all available at User scripts/Requests

Miscellaneous
 * The Watchlist Expiry feature worked on by the Community Tech team has been enabled on Wikipedia. For scripts that include watching or unwatching pages, developers may want to update their code to take advantage of the new functionality. See the documentation on mediawiki.org.
 * As noted in the prior issue, Enterprisey's links-in-logs script has now been implemented as part of MediaWiki core. By my count, this is his third script that was replaced by implementing the code in MediaWiki core or an extension, along with link-section-edits and abusefilter-hide-search. Additionally, his reply-link script is being converted in part to mw:Extension:DiscussionTools. Are there any other scripts that might be worth integrating directly in MediaWiki? Thoughts would be welcome at Wikipedia talk:Scripts++.

As always, if anyone else would like to contribute, help is appreciated. Stay safe, and happy holidays! --DannyS712 (talk) 00:19, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

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Wow
Wow, has a good nose. I'm developing a "beginner's nose" for dirty laundry but this amount of research is several orders of magnitude above what I will ever see myself doing, not to mention the presentation. I've only been following SPIs for a few months and don't follow all of them, but I don't think I've seen anything that comes close to this level of digging except maybe for persistent, known, last-sock-was-fairly-recent LTA cases. In a word, just... wow.

The case is marked "closed" so I'm not going to add to the SPI, but it looks like is the new "oldest account," from 2006. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs) 🎄  15:19, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Sometimes there are good tips who to check for... Still, it is pretty tedious and if you are wrong, it's been a complete waste of time. I recommend going to a user's contribs, setting it to 500 -- then modifying 500 to 5,000 or so in your browser's URL. The software allows you to see 5,000 of their contribs on the same page, and if you open both users' contribs in different tabs, it's fairly easy to CTRL+F for similarities. I find that more useful than the editor interaction tool. --Pudeo (talk) 17:00, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
 * that makes sense once you have a sockpuppeteer in mind, but I'm very confused/amazed how you thought of LoM in the first place? Matching "trying to get people blocked and edits in the China topic area" to a sock from 6 years ago is an incredible deduction. I figured you maybe remembered them from prior interactions but afaics you never interacted with LoM when they were around? ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 17:45, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

I want you to unblock DooksFoley147
I thought I was logged in and only realised after I sent the message. Can you unblock that for me ?. 92.251.219.191 (talk) 00:25, 21 December 2020 (UTC)


 * You may request an unblock on your talk page. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:35, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

I saw I made a mistake as I thought I was logged in as dooksfoley147 can you unblock this for me so I can log in ?. 92.251.219.191 (talk) 00:35, 21 December 2020 (UTC)


 * You are able to log in, but you can only edit your talk page at this time. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:39, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

I think this is very unfair I don't know how to request an unblock on a talkpage ?. 92.251.219.191 (talk) 00:43, 21 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Per the block message: If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: GeneralNotability (talk) 00:46, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Did I put the appeal in the right place ?. How will I know if it is lifted ?. 92.251.219.191 (talk) 01:18, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thanks so much for your help in getting a page locked to prevent vandalism for me, my client and I both appreciate the work you do! TheStarchildForever (talk) 16:33, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , I haven't the faintest idea what you're referring to, but I certainly did not protect any pages to do you or your client (whoever that is) any favors. GeneralNotability (talk) 17:22, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , I have previously pointed this out to you elsewhere, but could you please add a conflict of interest disclosure to your userpage? Thanks. Blablubbs | talk 17:48, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

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You were listed as the admin who locked a page, I was merely trying to thank someone for their hard work on Wikipedia. Sorry, I guess. TheStarchildForever (talk) 01:53, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-52
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Tech News
 * Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2021.

Recent changes
 * The  template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source. If you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. Now it can also show the reason and when it was added.

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

Future changes
 * You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information. This could be coordinates, maps or other related things.
 * Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language. This can only be done for the entire page. There will be a  tag that can convert a piece of text on a page.
 * Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. They can soon hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes. This works like hiding normal edits. It will happen in early January.

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TPA
Per this, I think you might have to revoke talk page access. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:54, 22 December 2020 (UTC)


 * , thanks, revoked. GeneralNotability (talk) 14:56, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

New sockpuppet
Hi. User Arthur Brum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Arthur_Brum)/created another sockpuppet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/RealityIllusion. Please check. [[Special:Contributions/177.142.41.77|177.142.41.77] (talk) 20:35, 22 December 2020 (UTC)


 * DrKay appears to have blocked. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:21, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy holidays
This year, many people had COVID to fear, The holidays are getting near, One thing that will be clear, We will still have holiday cheer, Happy holidays and happy new year!! From Interstellarity (talk) 23:31, 22 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you, a merry Christmas and happy holidays to you and yours! GeneralNotability (talk) 00:00, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Flyingcolored
Hey there, I just blocked for 2 weeks for persistent overlinking, most recently here, but prior to that, here. While I feel justified for the block, I didn't immediately recognise their name as the editor I'd previously come to you about, and it was my intention to avoid blocking them directly. Thus, I have removed the block. They were indeffed at Commons for copyright infringement, and this persistent effort to go out of their way to make bad edits, along with their deafening silence, is starting to feel an awful lot like trolling to me. I'd appreciate if you'd consider adminning here, please. Thank you. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 00:08, 24 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi ! I've reinstated the block you made; as an uninvolved admin I think two weeks off for disruptive editing (particularly the lack of communication) is appropriate. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:19, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks mate. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 01:20, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

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