User talk:Philipnelson99/Archives/2024/April

Thank you

 * Hello Philipnelson99, and thank you for your edits to combat the editor currently engaging in edit war in the Black Sea slave trade-article.
 * The editor Someone Qırımlı are currently engaging in persistent vandalism of the article. They edit the article both from anonymous IP-adresses, as well as from their account, which had barely been used for anything than for editing this article.
 * They erase and remove referenced information describing the slave trade of the Crimean Khanate, referring to everything descriging the slave trade as non neutral "Russian propaganda", and either erase the entire topic from the article, or replace it with content describing the slavery as benevolent.
 * I wonder if the article can be protected somehow, or if the user can be blocked from edititing it? They clearly violate the rules of bias, vandalism and edit warring, but as a contributor I mostly write, and and know less about what can be done in these situations. Perhaps you have more knowledge as how do adress this? I have limited time dealing with this (I am travelling soon). My best greetings--Aciram (talk) 13:14, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
 * PS: They also appear to emply a sock puppet: AzaqQara. They have also started their own article about the issue, "The Crimean slave trade", to further their opinion about the issue. The article appears to be appologetic to slavery in the Crimea, which is perhaps not a suprise considering their non-neutral edit warring. I do hope the article is deleted. --Aciram (talk) 13:22, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
Hello ,

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #150 is out: Product Update on Diff and Upcoming API Improvements
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we discuss our latest blog post on Diff, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on April 8, at 22:30 UTC (link to the meeting).

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 10:23, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

There is a mop reserved in your name
Since you mentioned that you thoroughly understand regular expressions, I have the confidence that you can create and help out with modifying filters that stop the frequent and long-term vandals. Codename Noreste 🤔  talk  17:01, 5 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I appreciate that. I think I will wait a little longer before I go for EFM. Philipnelson99 (talk) 14:54, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #151 is out: New API for calling Wikifunctions and celebrating 1000 functions
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we discuss the new API for calling Wikifunctions, we celebrate our first 1,000 functions, and we take a look at the latest software developments. Also, there's a job opening for joining our team!

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Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 09:57, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #152 is out: Welcome, Sharvani!
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we welcome a new member of the team and we take a look at the latest software developments.

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Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 17:14, 22 April 2024 (UTC)