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This Month in GLAM: January 2022
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Wikidata weekly summary #507
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot: EnvlhBot 2
 * Closed request for permissions/Bot: Dexbot 15
 * New request for comments: Population data model


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 15 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
 * Wikidata Lab XXXII: Querying Wikidata February 17, 5:00 PM
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #71 - YouTube, Facebook, February 19 at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #96, February 20 at 13.00 UTC
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #29, Love
 * Past: LIVE Wikidata editing #70 #Beijing2022 - YouTube


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs
 * Historical people and modern collections: a Wikidata exploration
 * Wikidata in Stardog
 * Does your birthplace affect your probability to have your Wikipedia biography ? some evidence from people born in France.
 * Videos
 * Wikidata Tutorial (in German): add qualifiers, coordinates & address
 * PADE Workshop: Wikidata – Linked, Open Data - YouTube
 * OpenGLAM Valentine's Day School: Intro to Wikidata (in Finish) - YouTube
 * Workshop on adding intangible heritage community data and images on Wikidata/Wikimedia - YouTube
 * Hands On: SPARQL Query Dbpedia Wikidata Python - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Equal Street Names is a map visualizing the streetnames of a city by gender.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * New development plan for Wikidata and Wikibase for Q1 2022
 * Krbot's constraint reports are now generally updated daily, after code optimizations and hardware upgrades.
 * Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this  page!
 * Wikidata ESR is a tool to visualize evolutions of universities and schools, such as creations, mergers, deletions and relations. Feedback and help to develop this project further is requested.


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: semantic gender, original catalog description
 * External identifiers: doollee.com play ID, doollee.com play publisher ID, doollee.com playwright ID, Dico en ligne Le Robert ID, Inventaire national du Patrimoine culturel immatériel ID, Réseau documents d'artistes ID, Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English ID, Key Biodiversity Areas factsheet ID, Viki ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti ID, Clavis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti ID, World Economic Forum ID, USgamer ID, Podvig Naroda ID, Vesti.ru dossier ID, Turin University student ID, Naver TV ID, AusGamers ID, PlayGround.ru ID, Maritimt Magasin ship ID, TV3 show ID, TV3 video ID, IRIS UNIGE author ID, nzs.si player ID, UKÄ classification of science topics 2016, Lib.ru author ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Finnish real property ID, GoodGame.ru ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Computational complexity, audio contains, identifies, Cadastral areas, video depicts, YouTube video, cadastral plot reference, Finisher, trainiert von, identifier values as, YouTube video or playlist privacy, debut date
 * External identifiers: Strongman Archives athlete ID, TVSA actor ID, vc.ru company ID, Change.org decision maker ID, INPA nature reserve id, Basketball Bundesliga UUID, Roskomnadzor media license number 2, Viciebsk Encyclopedia ID, Dumbarton Oaks object ID, Transilien ID, Cybersport.ru ID, JeuxActu ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Name Authority ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Classification Authority ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, St. Sergius Institute authority ID, ICQ user ID, previous property definition, State Heraldic Register of the Russian Federation ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, VK Music ID, Biographisches Portal der Rabbiner ID, Künstlerdatenbank ID, BelTA dossier ID, Spotify user ID, NTSF ID, BritBox ID, KLADR ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy, PLOS Thesaurus ID, traveloka hotel id, tiket com hotel id, trip.com Hotel ID, VerbaAlpina ID


 * Query examples:
 * Tram bridges in France
 * Polish Righteous Among the Nations
 * Launch date, logo of social media services (source)
 * Oscar winners from 1929 (source)
 * Images of biologists by height (source)
 * Biggest coins outside the U.S. (source)


 * Development
 * Continuing work on the basics of the new Special:NewLexeme page. Nothing to see yet though.
 * Fixed a bug where sitelinks where added for wikis that shouldn't get them. (T301247)

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:42, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-07
 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
 * Purging a category page with fewer than 5,000 members will now recount it completely. This will allow editors to fix incorrect counts when it is wrong.

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).
 * Octicons-tools.svg In the AbuseFilter extension, the  function has been updated so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of   with   wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage.

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19:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

WP:AFC Helper News
Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest. Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
 * AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
 * The template db-afc-move has been created - this template is similar to db-move when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

Rankin's page
Hi, I see you asked for a citation for Rankin working as a porter. Here is one: https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/rankin-nhs-portraits-coronavirus

BTW, you aren't Tanya's brother, are you? — Preceding unsigned comment added by CujoJnr (talk • contribs) 19:35, 17 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you. No; who's Tanya? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:06, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Human Appeal
Please provide me with the issues you have with the new updates.

Kind regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.46.208.50 (talk) 11:01, 21 February 2022 (UTC)


 * You appear to have addressed your comment to the wrong person. Try using the article's talk page. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:06, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #508
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * ChineseWikiClubBot, 1
 * Auto Prod Bot


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * The Data Reuse Days will bring together Wikidata editors and data reusers on March 14-24 - we're currently building the schedule. Join us and discover many cool projects!
 * The next Wikibase live session is 16:00 UTC on Thursday 24th February 2022 (17:00 Berlin time). What are you working on around Wikibase? You're welcome to come and share your project with the community.
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Huda Khan and Astrid Usong on their Linked Data for Production 3 (LD4P3) grant work to use Wikidata in knowledge panels in Cornell’s library catalog Agenda - 2022-02-22 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter)
 * Hands-on introduction to Wikidata with The Digital Scholarship Group at the Northeastern University Library's Edit-a-Thon! Theme: Boston public art and artists. February 23, 2022 Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm Eastern time
 * OpenRefine and Structured Data on Commons: community meetup - Tuesday, February 22, at 15:00-17:00 UTC (check the time in your timezone).
 * Live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, February 22 at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #30, Trains
 * Past: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #71 #MelFest - YouTube


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blogs: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Plans Become Projects
 * Papers: "COVID-19 Claim Radar: A Structured Claim Extraction and Tracking System" using Wikidata
 * Videos: Wikidata Lab XXXII: Querying Wikidata (in Spanish) - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * Wikidata:Tools/asseeibot - is a tool made by User:So9q to improve the scientific articles in Wikidata. Source code on GitHub under GPLv3+
 * Coinherbarium.com - coins depicting plants; powered by Wikidata


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Call for Mentors: Wiki Mentor Africa is a mentorship project for tool creators/contributors. Interested to become a mentor (experienced tool creators/contributors), please visit this  page!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: number of lanes, computational complexity
 * External identifiers: UKÄ classification of science topics 2016, Lib.ru author ID, Hessian Literature Council author ID, Finnish real property ID, GoodGame.ru ID, Gardens Navigator ID, Tagoo video game ID, Lingua Libre ID, Labyrinth database ID, A9VG game ID, Offizielle Deutsche Charts composer ID, Mnemosine ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, RCN, CHY Number, dailytelefrag.ru ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: YouTube video or playlist privacy, debut date, quality has state, beforehand-afterward owned by, Number of units, created during, award recipient, medical indication
 * External identifiers: KLADR ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy, PLOS Thesaurus ID, traveloka hotel id, tiket com hotel id, trip.com Hotel ID, VerbaAlpina ID, PegiPegi Hotel ID, YouTube Topic channel ID, YouTube Official Artist Channel ID, GoFood restaurant ID, traveloka restaurant ID, Urban Electric Transit model ID, HiSCoD, Databazeknih.cz Book ID, Databazeknih.cz Author ID, Renacyt ID, CBDB.cz Book ID, CBDB.cz Author ID, Gab ID, Drammen byleksikon ID, NLI topic id, Via Rail station code, GBIF occurrence ID, MakeMyTrip Hotel ID, Culture.ru person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Ensemble), Encyclopedia of Russian America ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Berlin Street ID, Yarkipedia ID, parliament.uk member ID


 * Query examples:
 * Frequency of letters in five-letter words in Wikidata lexeme forms (source)
 * Visualization of the Prime/Ulam Spiral using natural numbers and primes stored in Wikidata (source)
 * Monuments that are named after somebody without being connected to them by any other property (source)
 * Places named after Valentine's Day (Saint Valentine) (source)
 * Gold medal winners in the Olympic Games by age (source)
 * Top 20 languages in number of lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of lexemes with at least one external id (source)
 * Count of PropertyLabels for lakes in the UK (source)
 * Moons of solar system planets and what they are names for (source)
 * Top 20 languages in number of Lexemes in Wikidata and percentage of Lexemes with at least one external ID (source)


 * Development
 * We started coding on the Wikibase Rest API based on the proposal we published a while ago.
 * We are continuing to work on the new Special:NewLexeme page. The first input fields are in place but not pretty or usable yet.

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!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 14:42, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-08
 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
 * Special:Nuke will now provide the standard deletion reasons (editable at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown ) to use when mass-deleting pages. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * At Wikipedias, all new accounts now get the Growth features by default when creating an account. Communities are encouraged to update their help resources. Previously, only 80% of new accounts would get the Growth features. A few Wikipedias remain unaffected by this change.
 * You can now prevent specific images that are used in a page from appearing in other locations, such as within PagePreviews or Search results. This is done with the markup  . For example,.
 * Octicons-tools.svg There has been a change to the HTML of Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory, and History pages, to support the grouping of changes by date in the mobile skin. While unlikely, this may affect gadgets and user scripts. A list of all the HTML changes is on Phabricator.

Events
 * Community Wishlist Survey results have been published. The ranking of prioritized proposals is also 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).

Future changes
 * The software to play videos and audio files on pages will change soon on all wikis. The old player will be removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years.
 * Octicons-tools.svg Toolforge's underlying operating system is being updated. If you maintain any tools there, there are two options for migrating your tools into the new system. There are details, deadlines, and instructions on Wikitech.
 * Administrators will soon have the option to delete/undelete the associated "talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option will also be available. This was a request from the 2021 Wishlist Survey.

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19:11, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

March editathons

 * New: Women's History Month Art+Activism  | Feminism and Folklore | Dutch Caribbean
 * Continuing: Climate (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman | Women in sport (Feb/Mar)

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The Signpost: 27 February 2022
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Miscellaneous pages with VIAF identifiers


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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 05:38, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:User pages with VIAF identifiers


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Wikidata weekly summary #509
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 * Discussions
 * Open request for adminship: Ikkingjinnammebetinke (RfP scheduled to end after 7 March 2022 13:33 UTC)
 * New request for comments: Creating items for videos at online video platforms that are representation of notable items
 * Other: Qualifiers for given names and surnames


 * Events
 * Upcoming:
 * Live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, March 1st at 19:00 CET (UTC+1)
 * Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—March 2nd, 2022. Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET & WAT
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #73 - YouTube, Facebook, March 5th at 19:00 UTC
 * Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #98, March 6th at 13.00 UTC
 * Ongoing: Weekly Lexemes Challenge #31, War
 * Past:
 * Wikibase Live session, February 2022 - log
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #72 - YouTube


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Papers: Wikidata as a Tool for Mapping Investment in Open Infrastructure: An Exploratory Study
 * Videos
 * Mismatch Finder tool: Quick introduction to and demo of how the tool works
 * Using a Custom Wikibase as a File Format Registry with Siegfried
 * Create a Wikidata Query - example using Shipwrecks data
 * Map Wikidata in an R Shiny App - example
 * Bring Wikidata into Power BI using a simple R script - example
 * Using QuickStatements to load tabular data and the Wikidata Edit Framework (in Italian)


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Guergana Tzatchkova (WMDE)/MismatchFinderWidget.js is a user script to show a notification on an Item if the Mismatch Finder has an unreviewed mismatch for it.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Mismatch Finder, the tool that lets you review mismatches between the data in Wikidata and other databases, is now ready to be used for checking potential mismatches and uploading lists of new potential mismatches.
 * February 2022 WDQS scaling update now available: SPARQL query service/WDQS scaling update feb 2022
 * Job opening: The Search Platform team is looking for someone to maintain and develop WDQS. Apply here!
 * Job opening: is looking for someone for project- and data management especially for Wikidata related stuff about the museums collections Job Description (German)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: computational complexity
 * External identifiers: Offizielle Deutsche Charts composer ID, Mnemosine ID, Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library ID, ScienceDirect topic ID, Irish Registered Charity Number (RCN), CHY Number, dailytelefrag.ru ID, Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy ID, VerbaAlpina ID, Prosopographia Imperii Romani online ID, Game World Navigator ID, Bugs! track ID, Vsemirnaya Istoriya Encyclopedia ID, Databazeknih.cz book ID, Databazeknih.cz author ID, MakeMyTrip hotel ID, Urban Electric Transit model ID, GameGuru ID, 100-Year Guide to Hebrew Theatre person ID, INPA park ID, Riot Pixels game ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: created during, award recipient, medical indication, Moscow Street ID, Moscow area ID, eingesetzter Sportler
 * External identifiers: NLI topic id, Via Rail station code, GBIF occurrence ID, Culture.ru person ID, Pamyat Naroda ID, Encyclopedia of Russian avant-garde ID, Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas Objekt-ID (Ensemble), Encyclopedia of Russian America ID, HockeySlovakia.sk player ID, Berlin Street ID, Yarkipedia ID, parliament.uk member ID, reddoorz hotel ID, symogih.org ID, CNKI Author ID, Encyclopedia of Database Systems ID, Portable Antiquities Scheme object type identifier, Spanish National Associations Register Number, Michigan Legislative Bio ID, RODI-DB player ID, Historische Topographie des Kulturerbes ID, Refuge.tokyo video game ID, MovieMeter series ID, Kayak Hotel ID, Linked Open Data Taiwan @ Library Subject Terms Authority ID, hostelworld hostel ID, Discover Moscow ID, Game Informer ID, Vedomosti company ID, USP Production Repository ID, Dansk Navneleksikon, Femiwiki ID


 * Query examples:
 * Number of edits by user on French lexemes (source)
 * Languages in Indonesia with their status according to UNESCO (source)
 * Successful coups and attempts in Africa (source)
 * New York Times journalists that are alive (source)
 * Ukrainian coins and banknotes (source)
 * Types of quartz (source)
 * Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Chemistry/Natural products


 * Development
 * Lexicographical data: work is continuing on the new Special:NewLexeme page. We are working on the basic input fields and permission handling.
 * Mismatch Finder: Released the tool and working through feedback now and getting additional mismatches from organizations using our data.
 * REST API: Starting to build the initial Wikibase REST API. We are starting with the endpoint to read Item data first.
 * Data Reuse Days: Continuing event preparation
 * Published new security release updates for Wikibase suite wmde.6 (1.35)

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!

<div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 15:03, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

This Month in Education: February 2022

 * Open Foundation West Africa Expands Open Movement With UHAS
 * Celebrating the 18th anniversary of Ukrainian Wikipedia
 * Integrating Wikipedia in the academic curriculum in a university in Mexico
 * Results of "Reading Wikipedia" workshop in the summer school of Plan Ceibal in Uruguay
 * WikiFundi, offline editing plateform : last release notes and how-tos
 * Writing Wikipedia as an academic assignment in STEM fields
 * The Learning and Connection – 1Lib1Ref with African Librarians

For the team: ZI Jony 15:09, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

February thanks
Thank you for improving articles in February! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:51, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

stand and sing Prayer for Ukraine - it had two infoboxes in a recent version, - could you make them one? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:38, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXXVIV, February 2022
The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 22:23, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-09
<section begin="technews-2022-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.

Recent changes
 * When searching for edits by change tags, e.g. in page history or user contributions, there is now a dropdown list of possible tags. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.
 * Mentors using the Growth Mentor dashboard will now see newcomers assigned to them who have made at least one edit, up to 200 edits. Previously, all newcomers assigned to the mentor were visible on the dashboard, even ones without any edit or ones who made hundred of edits. Mentors can still change these values using the filters on their dashboard. Also, the last choice of filters will now be saved.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The user group  was renamed  . This is for technical reasons. You may need to update any local references to the old name, e.g. gadgets, links to Special:Listusers, or uses of NUMBERINGROUP.

Problems
 * The recent change to the HTML of tracking changes pages caused some problems for screenreaders. This is being fixed.

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).

Future changes
 * Working with templates will become easier. Several improvements are planned for March 9 on most wikis and on March 16 on English Wikipedia. The improvements include: Bracket matching, syntax highlighting colors, finding and inserting templates, and related visual editor features.
 * If you are a template developer or an interface administrator, and you are intentionally overriding or using the default CSS styles of user feedback boxes (the classes: ), please note that these classes and associated CSS will soon be removed from MediaWiki core. This is to prevent problems when the same class-names are also used on a wiki. Please let us know by commenting at T300314 if you think you might be affected.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2022-W09"/>

22:58, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Modussiccandi
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg BOZ • Brookie (deceased) • Jackmcbarn • Jamesday • Jonathunder • Master of Puppets • Saravask



CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Callanecc

Oversighter changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Callanecc

Guideline and policy news
 * A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
 * A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

Technical news
 * The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project.
 * Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022.
 * The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.

Arbitration
 * Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
 * Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
 * The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.

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