User talk:K6ka/Archive 25

Compromised...?
Err, on what basis do you suspect Giano's account of being compromised? Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:07, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Easily explained! I woudl try and suppress Eric Corbett's massive contributions too, if I was responsible for his absence. Giano    (talk) 12:20, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Easily explained. 1 2 3. A bit odd for a user who's been here since 2004, so I was puzzled and suspected compromise. It was initially reported on AIV. At first I dismissed it as soon as I saw the edit count, thinking it was a user unhappy with someone's comments at WT:Arbitration Committee. Upon closer inspection, though, I saw the three edits that inexplicably vandalized WP:Arbitration Committee and WT:Arbitration Committee, so I blocked as a suspected compromise. I gave -revi a jab, because I had to head out of the house, and they concluded it wasn't a compromise while I was out. That's my easy explanation. I have no hard one to give. — k6ka  🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 13:37, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I was indeed contacted for investigation (Stewards are responsible for locking compromised account). I concluded it was not compromised because it was not doing anything malicious other than the vandalism, they edited their user talk after the block was placed, and it was not privileged account (so the harmful action it could do was limited to ECP'ed page) &mdash; regards, Revi 13:48, 13 November 2019 (UTC)


 * There are many of us here who consider banning Eric Corbett to be an act of wanton vandalism towards the project as a whole. Reminding the Arbs on their own page of just how many pages he created, improved and raised to GA and FA is something which needs doing on a regular basis. They should be hanging their heads in shame, their recent actions have done far more damage to the project's than a million short tempered snaps from Eric could ever have achieved. Giano    (talk) 14:07, 13 November 2019 (UTC)


 * How is that unrelated? It's an explanation of the three edits you link to above — 1 2 3: — edits which "[reminded] the Arbs on their own page of just how many pages he [=Eric Corbett] created, improved and raised to GA and FA". It could not easily be more related, so why collapse it? Please don't collapse this post of mine, K6ka. Feel free to remove it, of course. Bishonen &#124; talk 15:57, 13 November 2019 (UTC).
 * This thread was started as an inquiry into my block, which was because I had suspected an account compromise. It has already been proven that this isn't the case. Any inquiry into why those edits were made in the first place should go to ANI, not here. I'm not interested in dealing with the complicated narrative and the long, winded history behind this, and I did not block because I have something against Giano. I simply got a report, suspected an account compromise, and treated it as such. Good to see that it wasn't a compromise. Now let's move on with our day. — k6ka  🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 16:08, 13 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Hello. Where in ADMINACCT does it say you can revert legitimate questions about your unexplainable actions?  Please prove that your account hasn't been compromised.  You've published a SHA-512 commitment.  It should be quite easy for you to prove to me that you are still in control of your account. Jehochman Talk 16:46, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * This cannot possibly be a good faith request. I literally linked you directly to K6's response at ANI to which you acknowledged reading. This is well into WP:HOUND territory now and I think everyone needs to knock it off. Praxidicae (talk) 16:51, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * What are you talking about? I asked a polite question and have not yet received a direct response from the person I've asked.  They seem to have summoned a variety of friends to run interference.  Why don't you just let them answer me, and I'll then go away. I see that Giano made a few silly, protest type edits.  They were reverted and the activity had stopped.  If there was a problem with Giano's editing, the first step was to ask Giano to stop.  If a block was needed, it's for WP:POINT and there's a block message with diffs.  Had that have happened, I would not complain.  But instead there was a "secret" block an hour after the bad edits had ceased, and no block message.  No prior attempt at communication.  This is weird behavior by an administrator.  Because they accuse Giano of having a compromised account, it naturally calls into question the idea that maybe they are the one who's account is compromised, by a troll, who is looking to amplify disruption. Jehochman Talk 16:58, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Maybe you can explain what a secret block is? I can see the block log and message pretty clearly. The diffs from the account itself tell the story of why it was a suspected compromised account. I was under the impression that we didn't expect veteran editors to vandalize AIV, or ARB but I've been wrong before. Also congrats,, I didn't know you got hired as a make people disappearer sysadmin! Praxidicae (talk) 17:26, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I can. Always happy to explain.  A secret block, as Giano used the term, is one where the blocking admin fails to leave the blocked user a talk page message explaining the block, the policy violated, and perhaps a few sample diffs.  Had this been done, so much trouble here could have been avoided.  Does K6ka understand what they did wrong, nevermind what Giano did wrong.  Two wrongs don't make it right. Jehochman Talk 17:42, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Clearly you haven't had much experience with Giano if you think an experienced editor wouldn't do such silly things. We have a page about that...where is it...WP:SPIDERMAN. Jehochman Talk 17:44, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * , we also have a behavioral guideline called WP:POINT. So-called "silly things" like vandalizing arb pages to express discontent violates that policy. An admin such as yourself might be well served to catch up on it. Kb03 (talk) 17:54, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Sarcarsm and disrespect are so awesome. I am aware of that.  Now explain what that wasn't noted to Giano's talk page in a block message.  It would have been so much easier for all concerned.  Jehochman Talk 17:56, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Because there is no need or reason to tag compromised accounts. I'm pretty sure such an experienced editor as Giano knows how to appropriately request an unblock and doesn't need direction, so what's the real problem here? Praxidicae (talk) 17:59, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * The real problem is that an admin thinks its okay to block an established user without providing any explanation on the user's talk page. This is a problem that if continued will eventually lead to ArbCom. I wish K6ka would hear this and say that they understand. Jehochman Talk 18:37, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

It's obvious that Giano was climbing the Reichstag if you're familiar with his history vis-a-vis ArbCom and Eric Corbett. But if you're not (and most admins don't follow the ins-and-outs of arb drama), an established user vandalising high-profile pages is the textbook sign of a compromised account. K6ka was absolutely right to act quickly on that, which I'm sure we'd all appreciate if our accounts were hacked. I agree that it would be better to leave a talk page notice straight away too, but let's not forget that a blocked user is shown the reason in the block log as soon as they try to edit, which Giano did within minutes of being blocked. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 19:05, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * It's appears that Giano had stopped about 60 minutes before the block. Knowing Giano or if the admin were to familiarize themselves with Giano's long block log (a good practice: check user's block log before blocking!), they would understand that this was typical Giano behavior, not a compromised account.  Blocking Giano 60 minutes after he stopped being disruptive was a pointless escalation.  Failing to leave a block notice is just adding fuel to the fire.  I think an admin should never block an established (non-throw away) account without leaving a block notice.  It would be great for K6ka to hear this good advice and confirm that they've understood it.  This will help Wikipedia in the future. Jehochman Talk 19:27, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I say this genuinely and without my normal level of sass but I strongly suggest you drop it. k6 has given his reasoning and if the ANI thread is anything to go by, is acceptable by consensus. No editor is required to give you a response just to placate you. And all you're doing now is digging a hole for both yourself and Giano by pointing out the fact that he is perpetually uncivil and probably deserving of a block other than for a compromised account. Please stop hounding him and let it go. Praxidicae (talk) 19:34, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Are you the lawyer for K6ka? Please let them speak for themselves.  Jehochman Talk 19:47, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * , are you kidding me? It can't be explained any clearer, there's no need for K6ka to reply here when multiple respected editors explained why. You started that witch-hunt of an ANI thread and are continuing it here. It's over. Kb03 (talk) 22:28, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * There’s no kidding here at all. Secretive and unsubstantiated blocks always need questioning. Clearly, this block came from on high because I questioned why a prolific content editor’s edits were being hidden from public view. A disgusting action clearly ordered by the WMF. Giano    (talk) 22:35, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * No you were vandalizing AIV and WP:ARB. Now go scurry off and spam your shrine to Corbett elsewhere. Praxidicae (talk) 22:36, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * , you've got to be shitting me. First you claim that it's a so called "secret block" and now you claim that it's the WMF. You vandalized project pages to make a point, that shit doesn't fly. You were reported for it, it looked like a compromised account, blocked as such. You don't want that to happen, maybe discuss things instead of vandalizing to prove a point. Novel idea. Kb03 (talk) 22:42, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * , I'm with the other folks here. There was nothing "secret" about your block and you were vandalizing project pages. The block was perfectly justified given the situation. There's nothing wrong in questioning admin and arbcom actions in a civil and constructive manner, but vandalising project pages, making repeated personal attacks and refusing to drop the stick is wrong. On top of that, this wild speculation about this block coming "from on high" and about the WMF having something to do with it is patently ridiculous. I would strongly recommend that you step away from all this for a bit, this clearly isn't helping you OR the encyclopedia. Waggie (talk) 23:44, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * {{u|Waggie} }Not helping the Encyclopedia? Banning Eric Corbett one the project's most prolific producers of FAs and GAs is not helping the encyclopedia. Secondly, a block of which the only notification is buried on some obscure page is a secretive block. Why not put it on my talk page where everyone can see it? Finally, bringing Eric Corbett's massive edit contribution to the attention of the Arbs and other editors is not vandalsing, but a useful contribution for the project's future. If the Arbs hadn't tried to hide them away, it woudl not have been necessary at all. You can blame any disruption entirely on the Arbcom for their despicable actions. Giano    (talk) 09:12, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
 * , "a useful contribution for the project's future" go build your shrine to Corbett elsewhere. Multiple people have told you the same damn thing, now how about you drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass. Kb03 (talk) 15:27, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Growth team updates #11
Welcome to the eleventh newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

General news

 * Expanding to more wikis: the team is preparing to deploy Growth features to Ukrainian and Hungarian Wikipedias. Wikis that already have the features are Czech, Korean, Arabic, Vietnamese, and Basque Wikipedias.  If your community is enthusiastic about welcoming newcomers, we encourage you to contact us so that we can verify together if your wiki is eligible. Then you can go through the checklist to start the process of configuring the features.
 * Mentor training: we tried out our first training for mentors with the Czech community, so that experienced users can build skills that help them retain newcomers.
 * The guide for mentors has been updated. Translations are welcomed!

Help panel results
The help panel was first deployed to newcomers in January 2019, and we have now finished analyzing data to determine its impact. A brief summary is below, and more in-depth information can be found here (in English).
 * In summary, although we have seen a good amount of usage of the help panel, the help panel has not shown an increase in activation (whether a user makes their first edit) or retention (whether a user returns to edit again).
 * This is a disappointing result, and our team has discussed potential reasons for the result and ideas for the future. Although we have many ideas for how to improve the help panel, we have decided to keep our attention on the newcomer homepage and newcomer tasks projects for the coming months.
 * We'll be using the help panel as part of the newcomer tasks project: using it to guide newcomers while they complete suggested edits.
 * We welcome questions and thoughts about this on the project's talk page.

Newcomer tasks deployment



 * The first version of the newcomer tasks workflow (V1.0) will be deployed in the next weeks on our 4 priority wikis. This version will suggest articles to edit based on maintenance templates.  In this first version, we expect many newcomers to initiate the workflow, but not many to select articles to edit or complete edits.  We expect future versions of the feature to increase those behaviors.
 * We're excited about this project because the majority of newcomers visit their newcomer homepage, and this will be the first element of the homepage that clearly asks the newcomer to start editing.
 * These are the next two versions of the feature, which are already being planned:
 * V1.1 (topic matching): will allow newcomers to choose topics of interest (such as Art, Music, Sports, or Technology) to personalize their suggestions. After evaluating several approaches, we have decided to use a new ORES model built by the WMF Scoring team.  The model will automatically identify the topic area of each article.  We expect this to increase how often newcomers select articles to edit.
 * V1.2 (guidance): once newcomers arrive on an article to edit, we will use the help panel to provide guidance about how to complete the editing task. We expect this to increase how many newcomers actually complete productive edits.
 * The project page includes links to the designs of the workflow, and we welcome questions and thoughts on the talk page.

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Tech News: 2019-47
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Problems
 * You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the  database. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames.

Changes later this week
 * You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
 * There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings
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Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.

Thank you!

--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

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Changes later this week
 * The mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script.
 * Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.

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 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view.

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The Signpost: 29 November 2019
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019). Administrator changes
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CheckUser changes
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Interface administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
 * Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

Technical news
 * Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. (T219126)

Arbitration
 * Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous
 * The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.

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Recent changes
 * Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (calendar).

Meetings
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Future changes
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 * Octicons-tools.svg The  magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns   (empty string). When you read a page it returns   (dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces.

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User:Curryfart
Can you block this user's permission to edit the talk page? As they are abusing it. CAPTAIN MEDUSA  talk  21:14, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ — k6ka  🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 21:18, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

GOCE December 2019 Newsletter
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List of heads of state of Mauritius
You might want to consider reinstating PP - it came off, the IP wades back in :/ Cheers -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 02:48, 6 December 2019 (UTC)


 * ✅ — k6ka  🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 03:00, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

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Legal threat
Looks like this editor posted a legal threat after your block, see this and this. Talk page access might need to be revoked. --   LuK3      (Talk)   04:01, 7 December 2019 (UTC)


 * They've been taken care of by . — k6ka  🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 13:35, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

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Recent changes
 * Wikimedia projects use Translatewiki to translate the wiki interface. You can now use WatchTranslations to watch projects there. You would get an email if there are missing translations to your language.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There is a new dataset you can use. It shows the number of editors per country per month for a number of countries. You can read the documentation and download the dataset.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 December. It will be on all wikis from 12 December (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 11 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * You can test a new reference tool. It makes it possible to reference different parts of a source without repeating all information. You can test it on the beta cluster. You can see an example article.

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Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:20, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
 * "Fighting vandalism with music"? Well, I think I've done less of that over the past few years than I would've liked... 2014 was my year to shine. — k6ka  🍁 ( Talk  ·  Contributions ) 12:42, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Hi
I will take note of that suggestion, but I had a question, how do I change my username? Gumshoe97 (talk) 15:42, 12 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Your question has been answered at the Teahouse (link). — k6ka  <span title="Canadian!" style="color:red">🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 15:49, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-51
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Problems
 * The Linter extension helps you find technical errors in articles. It did not show new changes last week. This was because of an API problem. It is now working again.
 * Special:Watchlist can show the wrong information again. It does not always show which edits are read and which are unread. This is because of a database problem. The developers are working on solving the problem.

Changes later this week
 * You can get email notifications. You can get them immediately, a summary every day or a summary once every week. If you choose a summary you can soon choose not to get notifications you have already marked as read on the wiki.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (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 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The partial blocks feature is now stable. It will come to most wikis on 6 January. Your wiki can ask to wait. Contact NKohli (WMF) if you don't want it now.

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Merry Xmas!
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Merry Christmas!!
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The SandDoctor Talk is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

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Please un block following user name
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Hinduism_in_uttar_pradesh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Hinduism_in_uttar_pradesh

(Hinduisms (talk) 18:55, 20 December 2019 (UTC))

Tech News: 2019-52
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Tech News
 * Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 6 January 2020.

Recent changes
 * All mobile site users now have new features. Features include: tabs for page/discussion; an expanded user-menu; direct access to history pages. These features were initially part of the "advanced mode".

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

Future changes
 * You can use  in the URL to change the user interface language. This will no longer happen automatically. When you open the link you will be asked to confirm the language change. This will not happen if Javascript is not working in your browser.

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Season's Greetings
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Joyous Season
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The Signpost: 27 December 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) 12:37, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Revdel
Hello K6ka. I noticed that you were the one who recently rev-deleted some entries at Belle Delphine. I wondered if this was related to material added by Honestyfirst10 (Special:Contributions/Honestyfirst10) that seems to have used unreliable sources (also reverted since). I'm leaving this at your discretion if you think it also deserves revdel. Thanks, — Paleo Neonate  – 02:16, 29 December 2019 (UTC)


 * I'll hide their edits as well, just in case. — k6ka  <span title="Canadian!" style="color:red">🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 02:36, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you, — Paleo Neonate  – 02:39, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Dreamy Jazz • Newslinger • Rosguill
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Deor • Spartaz • Xeno
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Angusmclellan • clpo13 • Edgar181 • Matthewedwards • NCurse

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Bradv • Casliber • David Fuchs • Maxim • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy • Xeno

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Bradv • Casliber • DGG • David Fuchs • Maxim • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy • Xeno
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Someguy1221

Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
 * A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
 * Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.

Arbitration
 * The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
 * Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:, , , , , , , , , ,.

Miscellaneous
 * This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!

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Tech News: 2020-02
<section begin="technews-2020-W02"/> 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 trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 January. It will be on all wikis from 9 January (calendar).

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Happy Adminship Anniversary!
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Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 05:41, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Invite to use WikiLoop Battlefield
Hi K6ka,

I found that you are a power user for the counter-vandalism tool STiki. First of all, Kudos! Thank you for help protecting Wikipedia.

Secondly, we are building a new web-based counter-vandalism tool, hoping to make it easier to use, and wonder if you would be interested in giving it a try here: http://battlefield.wikiloop.org, and kindly give us feedback at Wikipedia_talk:WikiLoop_Battlefield, thank you!

We currently started whitelist for DIRECT ROLLBACK features, if you are interested, ask us at Wikipedia_talk:WikiLoop_Battlefield too.

23:46, 9 January 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xinbenlv (talk • contribs) 00:06, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

Regarding Ali Eid page
Hi K6ka The information I provided is the right one because I am the son of Mr. ALI Eid Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.40.211.9 (talk) 00:41, 10 January 2020 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry, but you need to read the message that was left on your talk page. Click here to read it. You need to provide a reliable source and cite it in the article when you edit Wikipedia. We cannot accept claims that you are someone because we do not have a way of verifying your identity. Additionally, we cannot cite a person as a source, nor can we cite conversations we have heard from other people; we can only accept information that has been published through credible or academic sources. Please take this time to review our verifiability policy, and to take this time to add proper citations to the article. — k6ka  <span title="Canadian!" style="color:red">🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 01:11, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-03
<section begin="technews-2020-W03"/> 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 no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser use very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It can lead to downgrade attacks. Since 9 December you just see a warning. Soon the browser will not connect to the wikis at all. Most are users on Android systems older than 4.4. You can read the browser recommendations.
 * Special:LinkSearch has been moved from the "" section on Special:SpecialPages to the "" section.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg Wikis can protect pages so that only some users can edit them. The standard protection levels are and . If your wiki use more protection levels the technical name might be renamed for standardisation. This doesn't affect what users see.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 January. It will be on all wikis from 16 January (calendar).

Future changes
 * Deepcat and Catgraph will stop working. This will happen at the end of January. This is because you can now use the normal search function instead.
 * You can use  to merge footnotes that follow each other. It is meant to be used for digitised books on Wikisource. If the order of the footnotes is wrong no error was shown but the bad was shown outside the  tag if you need to continue running Python 2 scripts. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The weekly MediaWiki branch cut will soon become automated. The timing for this cut may change. You can discuss in Phabricator if this affects you.
 * Octicons-tools.svg You can read about coming technical events and mentoring interns.

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Talk page access of Boalbint
Hi, the user is Boalbint, vandalizing own talk page, please revoke access. Also created a pure vandalism draft titled "Draft:Hummerrocket" which is my username so if that could deleted that it would be great. Thanks. Hummerrocket  (talk)  03:56, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 January 2020
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Tech News: 2020-05
<section begin="technews-2020-W05"/> 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 mobile diffs have problems. A couple of buttons are not shown. Structured data diffs on Commons are confusing. The developers are working on fixing it.
 * Administrators on wikis that use Structured Discussions can't move discussion pages. This is a bug. The developers are working on fixing it.

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

Future changes
 * There is JavaScript code on Special:Undelete for administrators that makes it possible to automatically select multiple checkboxes by holding the "Shift" key and clicking. This code is also loaded by accident on other special pages and on articles. This makes pages slower to load. This will be fixed. If you know of other special pages where this is useful please tell the developers at T232688.

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Ergo Sum • Nick Moyes • QEDK • Wugapodes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Dennis Brown
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Aude • BrownHairedGirl • CALR • Jengod • John Reaves • J.smith • Kim Dent-Brown • K1Bond007 • MECU • Refdoc • RHaworth



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news
 * Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Partial blocks.
 * The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

Technical news
 * Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating.  There is currently one template: uw-pblock.
 * When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title.

Arbitration
 * Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

Miscellaneous
 * Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
 * The English Wikipedia has reached six million articles. Thank you everyone for your contributions!

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Insults
Hello K6ka, are insults no longer sanctioned in Wikipedia? Regards --Serols (talk) 13:50, 2 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Serols, while they are most certainly uncivil, I do not believe a block is warranted at this time. You may want to advise the user about WP:NPA. If they continue editing disruptively, you may report them to AIV again. — k6ka  <span title="Canadian!" style="color:red">🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 17:04, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-06
<section begin="technews-2020-W06"/> 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 4 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 February. It will be on all wikis from 6 February (calendar).

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IRC ban
Hey k6ka, hope all is well. I tried to connect to the #wikipedia-en-revdel IRC channel but it looks like I am banned. Do you happen to have any other infomation on this? --   LuK3      (Talk)   02:47, 4 February 2020 (UTC)


 * I'm not seeing any recent bans that match your hostname on my end. Can you try again now and see if you can get in? — k6ka  <span title="Canadian!" style="color:red">🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 02:56, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Still nothing, I'm still getting "Cannot join channel (+b) - you are banned". --   LuK3      (Talk)   02:57, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Looks like it is working now. --   LuK3      (Talk)   03:05, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Growth team updates #12
Welcome to the twelfth newsletter from the Growth team!

The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.

General news

 * A training for mentors has been published. The training was first tried with the Czech community, and went well.
 * Growth team features have been deployed to Hungarian, Ukrainian, and Armenian Wikipedias. If your community is enthusiastic about welcoming newcomers, we encourage you to contact us so that we can verify together whether your wiki is eligible. Then you can go through the checklist to start the process of configuring the features.

Productive edits from newcomer tasks
We deployed the basic workflow for newcomer tasks to our target wikis on November 20, and the early results are exciting.




 * About 1.5% of newcomers who visit their homepage complete the workflow and save a suggested edit. So far, this has amounted to over 450 edits, on all wikis, coming from both desktop and mobile users.
 * When we look at the edits that newcomers make, we see that they are largely positive! We are pleased to see that this feature does not appear to encourage vandals.
 * 75% of the edits are productive and unreverted.
 * 95% of the edits appear to be in good faith.
 * Most of the edits include copyedits and adding links, with some newcomers also adding content and references. Copyedits are suggested most strongly.
 * Click here to learn more specifics about the results so far.

Topic matching deployed
The results from our user tests showed us that newcomers are likely to do more suggested edits if they can choose articles related to a topic that they're interested in, such as "science", "music", or "sports".


 * On January 21, we deployed topic matching on our pilot wikis. Newcomers are now using it. We expect it to cause more newcomers to try suggested edits, and to keep making more of them.
 * In the coming weeks, we will be making improvements to the accuracy of the algorithm used to topic matching, which is part of the ORES project.

Next steps for newcomer tasks
Because we are seeing positive results from newcomer tasks, the Growth team plans to concentrate our efforts on improving the workflow and encouraging more newcomers to use it.


 * Guidance: next, we will be using the help panel to provide guidance to newcomers as they do suggested edits, and to prompt them to do another edit after completing their first one. In user tests for this feature, demo videos were one of the favorite features, and we will think about how these might be added.
 * Starting the workflow: only about 20% of newcomer who visit their homepage begin the newcomer tasks workflow. We are going to be trying out different layouts of the homepage to encourage more newcomers to try newcomer tasks.
 * Additional task types: we are researching methods to recommend more specific tasks to newcomers, such as specific links to add, or images that could be added to articles from Commons.

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Tech News: 2020-07
<section begin="technews-2020-W07"/> 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 Wikimedia Commons app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem.

Problems
 * There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg The MediaWiki action API is used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change. Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be on all wikis from 13 February (calendar).

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Tech News: 2020-08
<section begin="technews-2020-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
 * Pages on Wikidata and Commons now load faster. You can read more about page load performance.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 February. It will be on all wikis from 20 February (calendar).

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Tech News: 2020-09
<section begin="technews-2020-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.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be on all wikis from 27 February (calendar).

Future changes
 * There will be a reply button after each post on a talk page if you want one. This will soon be a beta feature on the Arabic, French, Dutch and Hungarian Wikipedias. You will have to turn it on if you want to use it. It will come to more wikis later. You can test the reply button. It was briefly shown earlier than planned by mistake on the four first wikis last week.

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Happy First Edit Day!
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From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 05:59, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Invitation to join the Ten Year Society
Dear ,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more. &#x200B;

Best regards, Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 13:58, 27 February 2020 (UTC)


 * 🙊. TonyBallioni (talk) 18:15, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 March 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) 18:44, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2020
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Money emoji
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Athaenara • DeltaQuad
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Fishhead64 • Kudpung • Mikaey

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg DeltaQuad

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg DeltaQuad

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg DeltaQuad

Guideline and policy news
 * Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
 * A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news
 * Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present.  You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

Miscellaneous
 * Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
 * The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.

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Tech News: 2020-10
<section begin="technews-2020-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.

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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Edits by the now banned user with the profane username
They were making vandalism edits under a few different accounts and then rolling them back under that dumb username. --Mr. Vernon (talk) 03:30, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-11
<section begin="technews-2020-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
 * 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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Tech News: 2020-12
<section begin="technews-2020-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.

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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