User talk:Joseph2302/Archives/2021/December

Sadly our debate was never resolved
Thank you for closing the discussion. However I still disagree that "and so WP:NFCC#1 was clearly not satisfied in this case" is correct. As it turned out an image was found and quite quickly, if you look at the debate of Flickr then you will see that it was a very close thing. If the license change had been been refused or we had not found it for another ten years then would it still be "clearly not satisfied". It is true to say that it say, that it turned out to be "not satisfied" but to add the word "clearly" only makes sense IMO with 20:20 hindsight. The bar that is required to assure ourselves that an image will "never" be found, needs to be specified - we cannot have to draw a consensus for every new article's image. Victuallers (talk) 16:25, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
 * The discussion got closed automatically by a bot, as the file was deleted. But I think it'd be worth having a centralised discussion about what WP:NFCC actually means for recently deceased people, as there's clearly no consensus (and I can imagine the same questions coming up again within the next few days/weeks, the next time someone uses fair use image on someone recently deceased). Probably Wikipedia talk:Non-free content is best place for that. I also note that someone has added a note to the NFCC criteria about this, seemingly without discussion

. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:54, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-48
 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).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 

21:13, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Talk page
Just noticed your user talk page history and noticed two WP:IMPERSONATOR accounts have edited here.

On the "Iggy the Swan" part: I am currently seeking assistance on the possibility of preventing further impersonators on creating accounts similar to my own user name as I found two others with the same editing patterns. Just as well I have an email address attached to my account so that I can get my password back if I ever forget it.

With the "Joseph2302 2021" contributions: I've requested deletion of the user page of the impersonator account as I have identified the content there was just a blanked version of section headings from your user page which you've cleared out moments after. The edit summaries they gave out on the Joseph2302 2021 account from what I see is certainly bogus as well since people always log in to edit on the days when editing is made. Thanks, Iggy (Swan) (Contribs) 17:48, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-49
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * MediaWiki 1.38-wmf.11 was scheduled to be deployed on some wikis last week. The deployment was delayed because of unexpected problems.

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).
 * At all Wikipedias, a Mentor Dashboard is now available at  . It allows registered mentors, who take care of newcomers' first steps, to monitor their assigned newcomers' activity. It is part of the Growth features. You can learn more about activating the mentor list on your wiki and about the mentor dashboard project.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The predecessor to the current MediaWiki Action API (which was created in 2008), , will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to the corresponding API module.
 * Octicons-tools.svg An old ResourceLoader module, , which was deprecated in 2016, will be removed this week. Any scripts or bots using it will need to switch to  instead.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 

21:57, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-50
 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
 * There are now default short aliases for the "Project:" namespace on most wikis. E.g. On Wikibooks wikis,  will go to the local language default for the  namespace. This change is intended to help the smaller communities have easy access to this feature. Additional local aliases can still be requested via the usual process.

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).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 

22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-51
<section begin="technews-2021-W51"/> 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 10 January 2022.

Recent changes
 * Queries made by the DynamicPageList extension (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"> ) are now only allowed to run for 10 seconds and error if they take longer. This is in response to multiple outages where long-running queries caused an outage on all wikis.

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

Future changes
 * The developers of the Wikipedia iOS app are looking for testers who edit in multiple languages. You can read more and let them know if you are interested.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from February.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2021-W51"/>

22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Happy Christmas!

 * Thanks, hope you have a good Christmas too. <b style="color:#0033ab">Joseph</b><b style="color:#000000">2302</b> (talk) 16:19, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Ask for advice
Hi. Merry Christmas and happy new year! Have you ever had a peer review with no replies (even after 5/6 months)? If so, what have you done in that/those occasion(s) with their articles? I ask so as I have a PR with no replies (in spite of my several asks and a wait of 5 months) and I have no idea if I should nominate for a FL their articles or not <b style="font-family: Verdana; color: #6633FF;">Dr</b> <b style="font-family: Verdana; color: #6633FF;">Salvus</b> 17:09, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I haven't ever had a PR, so don't know the process for it unfortunately. <b style="color:#0033ab">Joseph</b><b style="color:#000000">2302</b> (talk) 17:11, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

January 2022 with Women in Red
--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:02, 28 December 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging

The Signpost: 28 December 2021
<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) 21:07, 28 December 2021 (UTC)