User talk:Moonythedwarf/Archives/2020/February

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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Tech News: 2020-06
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * 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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Thank you
Thanks for reverting the edit by dark warrior Blake on Batman: Arkham Asylum. Those edits were mine, and I know they were unsourced, but I have played the game for 2 years straight with a 100% completion. Thanks for supporting those edits. Heroe Of Time (talk) 07:14, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
 * , I was mistaken to do so. Wikipedia requires reliable sources, and you are not one. moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 13:42, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Nah, it’s fine. You are right. Heroe Of Time (talk) 15:56, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-07
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * 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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questions
here everything is different from wikipedia italia, you could orient yourself with the templates for example how a user is embroidered--Dany1000 (talk) 19:13, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-08
 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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"Barry Sussman" : Requesting speedy deletion (CSD G12)
This seems to be overkill. This has been here since 20:33, 28 March 2005‎. I have removed a lot of the PR BS. The article about "Barry Sussman" is important. My edits rewrite what seems to have been verbatim. Nevertheless, the photo is the same.

"This criterion applies only in unequivocal cases, where there is no free-content material on the page worth saving and no later edits requiring attribution"

The criterion does not apply.

T3g5JZ50GLq (talk) 19:35, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
 * , Alrighty, you can remove the CSD —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 19:35, 18 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Perhaps someone close to Barry Sussman added most of the content, see commons:User:Scoopskin and File:Barrywiki.jpg. This photo may have copyright issues. That image is : http://www.thewatergatestory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Barrywiki.jpg
 * Perhaps barry@thewatergatestory.com could explain the content situation and who possibly copied who.
 * Would you ask barry@thewatergatestory.com ?
 * I would like for you to remove the CSD.
 * T3g5JZ50GLq (talk) 20:06, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
 * , I have removed the CSD. I will email them in about 2hr
 * It appears they may be using Wikipedia content, and it is not the other way around. —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 20:08, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
 * It appears they may be using Wikipedia content, and it is not the other way around. —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 20:08, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-09
 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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