User talk:GeneralNotability/Archives/2021/November

It did it again
Hi again GN - it did it again. Possibly relevant - this only seems to be happening if I override an existing block with a CU block. Girth Summit  (blether) 16:37, 28 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Grrr...okay, I'll look into this, that data point is helpful. I recently added some logic to grab data on existing blocks and pre-fill the forms, I wonder if something's getting messed up in there. GeneralNotability (talk) 17:00, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Hey - just a heads up, it's still happening. It was a re-block again. In case it helps, in this case I'm pretty confident that I unchecked the 'Add talk page notice when (re)blocking the sockmaster' box, but it added the notice anyway. Cheers Girth Summit  (blether)  10:57, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
 * , I've pushed a new version that I think will fix it - let me know. GeneralNotability (talk) 20:09, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Just got the same thing at . --Blablubbs (talk) 15:55, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
 * , I don't think User:GeneralNotability/spihelper.js has had the update yet. The dev version seems to have had the update to fix the issue. Dreamy Jazz talk to me &#124; my contributions 16:03, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
 * That darn "git push" button is so hard to find. I've cut a new release. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:47, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 October 2021
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).

Administrator changes
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Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Evad37

CheckUser changes
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Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Dreamy Jazz • LuK3

Guideline and policy news
 * Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

Technical news
 * Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.

Arbitration
 * , and  have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections.  and  are reserve commissioners.
 * Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves to stand in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections from 07 November 2021 until 16 November 2021.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.

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Tech News: 2021-44
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Recent changes
 * There is a limit on the amount of emails a user can send each day. This limit is now global instead of per-wiki. This change is to prevent abuse.

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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20:26, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

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Sockpuppet block evasion
Hello, you blocked a year ago IP for being a sockpuppet of. This user is still active, so could you block it again? The sockpuppet investigation already determined they are the same person. Super  Ψ   Dro  08:57, 6 November 2021 (UTC)


 * , sure, done. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:59, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Super   Ψ   Dro  14:10, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #493
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Live about SPARQL queries on Twitch and in French, by Vigneron, November 9 at 18:00 CET
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #61 - YouTube, Facebook, November 13 at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #86, November 14 at 13.00 UTC
 * Wikidata webinar at the Goethe Institute in Athens (Greek). Nov 8, 2021 17:00 UTC+1
 * Next installment of the LD4 Wikibase Working Hour! Monday 15 November 2021, 3PM - 4PM Eastern (Time zone converter). Registration: Zoom registration link
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #15, COP26 (2/2)
 * Past
 * Documentation of the WikidataCon 2021 sessions are currently ongoing. It may take a few weeks to publish all 80 hours of content but you can already watch some of them (from each session's Etherpad)
 * Wikidata SPARQL tutorial around the Saint-Brieuc museum (in French)


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Media
 * User:Theklan at : Wikidata: una base de datos editable, multilingüe, libre y con datos de todo conocimiento (Spanish)
 * Blogs
 * TIB at WikidataCon: Part 1, Part 2
 * With help of their prof, U of T students go from being Wikidata novices to international conference presenters
 * Crowdsourcing the Scene at the Boston Rock City Edit-a-Thon
 * Videos
 * Basic tutorial on how to improve Wikidata items (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Metadata of cultural institutes: import strategies on Wikidata in the case of the Tuscany Region (in Italian) - YouTube
 * Wikidata for 5-star Linked Open Databases: a case study of PanglaoDB - YouTube
 * Using Wikidata entities and properties in schema.org markup and linked data - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * are occupation labels gender neutral? a tool to explore gender neutrality of labels in different languages.
 * RAWGraphs, a dataviz tool which allows SPARQL queries (source)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New strategies for Wikidata and the Wikibase Ecosystem published and waiting for your feedback. Add your comments!
 * OpenRefine 3.5.0 was released


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: Museu da Pessoa History, Conway polyhedron notation
 * External identifiers: Tennis Abstract player ID, Women in the Legislature ID, StopGame ID, Enciclopedia di Roma person ID, Biografija.ru ID, Derrieux agency person ID, Kola Encyclopedia ID, Penza Encyclopedia ID, Enciclopedia della Scienza e della Tecnica ID, Musées Nationaux Recuperation ID, Lithuanian Heritage Registry code, Nynorskordboka-ID, Bokmålsordboka-ID, Indonesian parliament candidate ID 2019, Trove work ID, Vokrug.tv show ID, Apple maps ID, Federation Council person ID, Meetup group id, Glitchwave genre ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: original catalog description, Kanobu ID, Yandex.Question person ID, 発車メロディ
 * External identifiers: Listen Notes podcast ID, WhatsApp number, CNKI Journal ID, Baidu Scholar Journal ID, AllHomes research location ID, Domain suburb profile ID, Coles Online product ID, Woolworths product ID, Maritime Business Directory ID, Oslo Byleksikon ID, NVE Bre ID, Databáze-her.cz ID, FederalPress Encyclopedia ID, babesdirectory, DHAC ID, Naver TV ID, IJF competition ID, JudoInside competition ID, live.ijf competition ID, FAOLEX No, EJU competition ID, The-Sports.org competition ID, StarHit ID, Nasha Versia ID, LocalWiki ID, ESPN MMA fighter ID, Comparably company ID, Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID, Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases Chemical ID


 * Query examples:
 * Number of virtual twins (pair with the same dates of birth and death) in Wikidata (source)
 * People recently buried in a cemetery nearby without an image of the grave (P1442) on Wikidata (source)
 * List of lexemes in French associated with occupation items (source)
 * Towns with less than 1000 people that have a cathedral (Source)
 * Musical works based on literary works (Source)
 * Main surnames of people born in the Puy-de-Dôme, France (Source)
 * Members of the Ukrainian national sports team (Source)


 * Development
 * Mismatch Finder: We finished adding “next steps” dialog and a “more info” dialog to tell users more about the import a mismatch was added in.
 * We had discussions about how to best make the SearchBox WVUI component for the new Vector skin work well for Wikidata (T275251)
 * We have put a version of WBStack on wikibase.dev. We will start work to deploy to wikibase.cloud in the coming weeks.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2021-45
 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
 * Mobile IP editors are now able to receive warning notices indicating they have a talk page message on the mobile website (similar to the orange banners available on desktop). These notices will be displayed on every page outside of the main namespace and every time the user attempts to edit. The notice on desktop now has a slightly different colour.

Changes later this week
 * Wikidata will be read-only for a few minutes on 11 November. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes
 * In the future, unregistered editors will be given an identity that is not their IP address. This is for legal reasons. A new user right will let editors who need to know the IPs of unregistered accounts to fight vandalism, spam, and harassment, see the IP. You can read the suggestions for how that identity could work and discuss on the talk page.

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20:35, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

DYK for RADCAL
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Well done

 * Thank you :) GeneralNotability (talk) 18:35, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

You've got mail!
--Minorax &laquo;&brvbar;talk&brvbar;&raquo; 11:25, 14 November 2021 (UTC)


 * acknowledged, will try to take a look today. GeneralNotability (talk) 18:36, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

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Recent changes
 * Most large file uploads errors that had messages like " " or " " have now been fixed. An incident report is available.

Problems
 * Sometimes, edits made on iOS using the visual editor save groups of numbers as telephone number links, because of a feature in the operating system. This problem is under investigation.
 * There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error.

Changes later this week
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22:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

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Sock
Hello GeneralNotablity, Walkerdude's sock has returned, this page may need to be protected  Magherbin (talk) 20:18, 11 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks, that's them all right. ECP'd the page, blocked the user. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:42, 13 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello GeneralNotability, Could you please take a look at this SPI I launched a couple of days ago? It's the same one Magherbin has been dealing with. Ayaltimo (talk) 03:24, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

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 * The template dialog in VisualEditor and in the new wikitext mode Beta feature will be heavily improved on a few wikis. Your feedback is welcome.

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20:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

Marcel is back
I'm not sure if you remember this guy or not from March and then back in November last year, but they are back attempting to push their longest novel again with a couple accounts. Since you have dealt with this guy prior I thought you may want to take a look Sockpuppet investigations/Marcelrayduriez. Their efforts this time include I did not request a CU as most of his socks go right into trying to promote his books and not hide their effort. McMatter (talk)/(contrib) 05:09, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
 * User:Hotmail1234/sandbox
 * User:Joeblow8567/sandbox


 * Handled. GeneralNotability (talk) 13:59, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Filter 1068
Just going through stale filters. Is 1068 still needed? Seems the content has been added to the article in question anyway. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 11:42, 24 November 2021 (UTC)


 * , nope, I've disabled it. GeneralNotability (talk) 13:51, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

You asked me, and I think I have already found one.
I really have no idea what this guy is doing. - AssumeGoodWraith  (talk | contribs)  07:06, 26 November 2021 (UTC)


 * , I've got no idea either. I'll keep an eye on 'em. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:06, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

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