User talk:Salvidrim!/Q2 2019 Archive

Administrators' newsletter – April 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Reaper Eternal • ThaddeusB
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Bogdangiusca • Christopher Parham • Necrothesp • Schneelocke • Siroxo • Sarah
 * Pictogram voting rename.png →

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Mr. Stradivarius

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg DeltaQuad
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Kingturtle

Technical news
 * In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Please see meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019 to provide your input on this idea.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee clarified that the General 1RR prohibition for Palestine-Israel articles may only be enforced on pages with the ARBPIA 1RR editnotice edit notice.

Miscellaneous
 * Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
 * As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:57, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Talk:Underground Gamer
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Question
After creating Lâcher prise, I tried to add it to List of programs broadcast by Ici Radio-Canada Télé, only to find that article deeply out of date — it literally hasn't had a serious update in over 11 years, and still features charts for the prime time schedule as of 2008. (Yes, I know Tout le monde en parle and Le Téléjournal haven't changed, but I'm sure almost everything else has.) If you're living in Montreal, I have to assume you'd have at least somewhat more knowledge about its programming than this Trawna boy over here does, so I wanted to ask if you'd be willing to assist in getting it updated. Obviously if we're going to be this incapable of keeping it updated consistently in the future, then we should just blow the schedule chart out and convert it to a straight list, sorted either strictly alphabetically or by genre — but I need a cheat sheet just to keep Global vs. CTV vs. Citytv shows straight even though I get those channels, so I'm not the right guy to tackle it. Any chance you'd be willing to help out with repairing it? Bearcat (talk) 04:51, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I do believe the task is daunting and not feasible to keep updated. Straight list, sorted by year of debut and with airing years in parenthesis (sectioned by decade if too large) does appear more workable. Ben · Salvidrim!   &#9993;  05:06, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I also don't think we would need to overthink it — we probably don't need to undertake a massive project of trying to compile a complete list of every show the network ever aired all at once, it's mostly just a matter of reorganizing what's already there, adding what else we know off the top of our heads, and just letting anything else we've still missed get added over time as people identify it. My concern is mostly around not knowing very much — obviously the odd Radio-Canada or TVA show still gets onto my radar sometimes, but the majority of it just floats right past me without denting my awareness at all. I can realphabetize the existing list pretty easily, I just need help with the expansion part. Bearcat (talk) 21:11, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
 * https://ici.radio-canada.ca/tele/emissions is probably the best option. Ben · Salvidrim!   &#9993;  21:41, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Although do we really need a list when we have Category:Ici Radio-Canada Télé network shows? Ben · Salvidrim!   &#9993;  21:43, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
 * The difference is that the category only includes shows for which Radio-Canada was the originating broadcaster, while the list permits the inclusion of any show they verifiably aired at all, even if it was purchased from another network and/or dubbed from another language and thus can't be categorized as one of that network's original shows. That's why lists aren't considered redundant with categories when it comes to "TV shows by network" content. Bearcat (talk) 17:36, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg HickoryOughtShirt?4 • RexxS
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Necrothesp
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Bratsche • Kyle Barbour • Kzollman • Madman

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

Bureaucrat changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Primefac

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Reaper Eternal

Guideline and policy news
 * A request for comment concluded that creating pages in the portal namespace should be restricted to autoconfirmed users.
 * Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Technical news
 * XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

Arbitration
 * In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically.  All current administrators have been notified of this change.
 * Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.

Miscellaneous
 * A request for comment is currently open to amend the community sanctions procedure to exclude non XfD or CSD deletions.
 * A proposal to remove pre-2009 indefinite IP blocks is currently open for discussion.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019). Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Andonic • Consumed Crustacean • Enigmaman • Euryalus • EWS23 • HereToHelp • Nv8200pa • Peripitus • StringTheory11 • Vejvančický

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

Guideline and policy news
 * An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
 * An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
 * An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.

Technical news
 * The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion.  You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
 * Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution!  The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.

Miscellaneous
 * The previously discussed unblocking of IP addresses indefinitely-blocked before 2009 was approved and has taken place.
 * The 2019 talk pages consultation produced a report for Phase 1 and has entered Phase 2.

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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:49, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

Translation help
Hi again! I've managed to finish transcribing the automated speech-to-text output from the Runaway: A Road Adventure behind the scenes video I mentioned on WPVG's talk page. Most of it makes enough sense to me, but there are a few key parts that got too garbled to reliably use. If you have time, I'd really appreciate it if you could clarify some of these for me! Luckily I only need a French transcription—Google Translate is more than powerful enough these days to handle the conversion of the French to English.

The first one starts at this timestamp and runs until 9:39 (I've had to put a space in the URL to get around Wikipedia's blacklist):


 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AO4RcWzTG8&t=415

This is what my transcription turned out:

I can grasp part of what's being said but I can tell there are important subtleties being lost, alongside certain passages (like the "tomate 1 TV" and "medias albanais" parts) that appear to be gibberish.

The second part is from this timestamp to 14:56:


 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AO4RcWzTG8&t=763

Here's my transcription:

Again, it's a mixture of lost subtlety and pure nonsense that makes me uneasy to use some of this as a source.

The third starts at this timestamp and ends at 19:01:
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AO4RcWzTG8&t=1021

My transcription:

On top of the usual problems, whole sentences were missing from the speech-to-text output here.

And here's the final one, which is thankfully smaller. It starts here and ends at 21:36:
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AO4RcWzTG8&t=1226

My transcription:

Thank you for any help you can provide here! I realize this is a lot to ask, so if you're busy, please feel free to take your time with this. I'm working on Runaway alongside a few other Pendulo articles right now and can just delegate my time to those if this will require a week or two worth of waiting. Thanks again. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 08:30, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Yea link shortners are blacklisted including youtu.be but using full links is fine. I replaced them above for convenience and will post my updated transcriptions shortly. Ben · Salvidrim!   &#9993;  10:04, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * see inline above my retranscriptions. Let me know if you need any help matching the French titles of the referenced movies to their English titles or if any word/sentence doesn't translate well. (also, wow, transcribing at x0.25 speed to avoid pausing/rewinding sounds so weird :p) Ben · Salvidrim!   &#9993;  10:58, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much! These are perfect, and I never expected them to be ready this soon. I'll get to work adding these to my full transcript and using them to fill out the article. Massively appreciated—have a good one! JimmyBlackwing (talk) 20:53, 23 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Yo I know this is going to make me look absolutely INSANE but one tidbit of this transcription has been bothering me since 2019, the description of the two girls named after the guy's nieces, "filles aqueuses" (watery girls), never made sense to me. I tried to listen over and over, tried to look up local slang, came up with nothing better so I left it as is.... but over two years later, at 2:30AM, I just had a fucking **epiphany**: he said "deux filles hackeuse" (two hacker girls), in a very frenglish way that should have been instantly recognizable as it's my daily language but the accent must have thrown me off, he did not voice the H at all whereas here we would. If I knew anything about the game he was discussing, it might have been even more obvious.  Ben · Salvidrim!   &#9993;  06:41, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Haha, not insane at all! This was actually a lot of fun to read. Great catch—it does make sense in the context of the game. Thanks once again for all the effort you put into this transcription/translation. Literally couldn't have done all that work on the article without it. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 01:31, 16 October 2021 (UTC)