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	Happy New Year!
	Hello CptViraj: Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles with axes, hammers and chisels? Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unnecessary blisters. CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 00:44, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

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The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 12, No. 4 — 4th Quarter, 2020
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Administrator changes Hammersoft Andres • Brion VIBBER • Rkitko • Thatcher

CheckUser changes Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek • Primefac Oversight changes Barkeep49 • BDD • CaptainEek Joe Roe

Guideline and policy news

• T3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment
  .

Technical news

• You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.

Arbitration

• By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
• Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, BDD, Bradv, CaptainEek, L235, Maxim, Primefac.

I am capable and I know. Vimlesh Kumar Kanaujiya (talk) 13:59, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

(by talk page stalker) Trinity112233, I would second the advice that Girth Summit gave you on their talk page, wait until you have more edits before trying an RfA. Pahunkat (talk) 19:11, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. Trinity112233 (talk) 19:17, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

It is a proud moment for me to thank you. Vimlesh Kumar Kanaujiya (talk) 12:01, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

@Trinity112233: No problem, Happy Editing :) -- CptViraj (talk) 18:35, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

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Hi dear viraj, hope you’re safe and doing good, I wanted to ask that why aren’t indian esports related articles covered on wikipedia? Like i have seen even small esports organisations from other countries are covered but not even a single esport organisation from india is covered on wikipedia. I have noticed that you’re a gamer as well, and also since my first article’s subject is related to esports, while researching i have got a lot of information and I’d like to ask if you can collaborate on the same, or if we could make a group of like minded people. Hums4r (Let's Talk) 05:45, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

@

WP:NOTABILITY. Sorry but I'm no longer interested in creating articles on English Wikipedia because I'm not a native speaker of English and I've faced some issues because of it. Thanks! -- CptViraj (talk

) 14:06, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

@CptViraj:, Thanks for the response, but i think what we can do is create stub article's and maybe someone in future will add more information to it. i have already started working on Stalwart Esports because as you said they don't get enough coverage but i have read some major articles on stalwart esports and i think it should work for stub. Hums4r (Let's Talk) 14:13, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Actually please do not change my username. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ghosty057 (talk • contribs) 05:08, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Declined, Thanks! -- CptViraj (talk) 09:08, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).

Administrator changes Hog Farm Mattflaschen • Nandesuka • Savidan • Wangi

CheckUser changes Berean Hunter • Xeno Oversight changes Someguy1221 • Xeno

Arbitration

• The
  standard discretionary sanctions authorized for American Politics were amended by motion
  to cover post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2021 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2021, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2021, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Wikipedia has now been around for 20 years, and recently saw its billionth edit!

Hi sir i have made a request on

@Hyderabadi Wikipedian: Hi. A bug has came in usurption process, see phab:T272770, therefore we cannot perform any usurptions before the bug gets resolved. -- CptViraj (talk) 07:12, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Hello

@

KamilAleeBhat: It won't be transferred to this account. "Kamilalibhat" account will be renamed to "Kamilalibhat (usurped)". -- CptViraj (talk

) 17:19, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

CptViraj, is there any criteria to merge two accounts of same person? –

Ali

17:47, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

I do know that it is not possible to merge accounts. The best that you can do is post a statement on your user page saying "Hi, I am Kamilalibhat, I previously used the account (old account name)". 331dot (talk) 17:59, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

Could anyone of you please decline my request for usurpation before it will be done by any global renamer?,

Ali

19:24, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

@

KamilAleeBhat: Done. -- CptViraj (talk

) 01:38, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

@

Ali

04:10, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

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TJMSmith

Boing! said Zebedee • Hiberniantears • Lear's Fool • Only • WGFinley

Interface administrator changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
• A
  subcriterion a
  , which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
• A request for comment seeks to grant page movers the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.
• A
  request for comment
  asks if sysops may place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
• There is a
  protection
  .

Technical news

• When blocking an IPv6 address with
  just block the /64
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• When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at
  WP:RfPP
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• There have been
  Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322
  ).

Arbitration

• By motion, the discretionary sanctions originally authorized under the GamerGate case are now authorized under a new Gender and sexuality case, with sanctions authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people. Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
• The Kurds and Kurdistan case was closed, authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP, Operator873, Stanglavine, Teles, and Wiki13.

Hello Sir, Draft:Emiway Bantai (indian rapper) has been waiting for a review for several days. I did not want to request you but could not stop myself. I hope you will not disappoint me. Thanks Dada Rawan (talk) 11:04, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

@Dada Rawan: I was previously involved with the subject so I prefer someone else to review it. Thanks! -- CptViraj (talk) 00:57, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

(involved = had created a draft, participated in a discussion, etc...) -- CptViraj (talk) 00:58, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Do you think the article is worth mentioning and will it be published? Dada Rawan (talk) 03:08, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

@Dada Rawan: I believe Emiway Bantai is notable enough to have an article. But I don't know if the draft is ready to be published or not. -- CptViraj (talk) 11:39, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you, I am satisfied. Dada Rawan (talk) 15:31, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Give your vote - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Emiway Bantai (Indian rapper) 𝐃𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐑𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐧🇮🇳 02:42, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

@

User talk:Kammill#Review request 223.238.199.150 (talk

) 05:55, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

@CptViraj, I am waiting for your reply. 223.238.206.244 (talk) 16:00, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

I'll take a look by overmorrow. -- CptViraj (talk) 16:39, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

@CptViraj, I do not understand what you want to say. Rajat Verma's main title is Protected by Administrators. And I have drafted it. The problem is that how can the reviewer move it? I have discussed this on Kammill's talk page. The administrator says that if any Indian reviewer reviews it, then I should unprotect it. Write your review by tagging admin on Kammill's Talk page. Thank you 223.189.179.225 (talk) 01:31, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Give me some time to review the draft, I'm busy with other work right now. -- CptViraj (talk) 07:08, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Viraj ji 223.189.179.225 (talk) 07:21, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

@CptViraj, I can't wait any longer. It will not take much time to review, as the draft is not so large. You can review. Please 223.238.219.129 (talk) 02:02, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

@

WP:NACTOR and the article is in NPOV. -- CptViraj (talk

) 07:08, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

I've unsalted it. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 13:35, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. @IP: The draft has been published by Kammill. -- CptViraj (talk) 17:56, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

@CptViraj, Thanks for your support, but the article is not yet visible on the search engine. If the reviewer improves it, the link will probably be visible. 223.189.190.173 (talk) 01:03, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Yes, It needs to be reviewed by a

NPR. I'm a NPR but I only use the right outside the article namespace, so someone else will have to review the article. -- CptViraj (talk

) 01:13, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

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Hello CptViraj, would you please process my request at

Handling. -- CptViraj (talk) 17:27, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you!

talk

⟩ 09:36, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Your feedback is requested at

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).

Administrator changes

Alexandria • Happyme22 • RexxS

Guideline and policy news

• Following a
  subcriterion a
  has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
• Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

Technical news

• When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
• Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)

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  discretionary sanctions procedure
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To change the username

With reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Changing_username/Simple#Wikipmsss_%E2%86%92_Nikhil_Singh_Kotwal Yes sir please change my username to my real name, I am aware of it. — Preceding

talk • contribs

) 17:03, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

Done. -- CptViraj (talk) 03:39, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter, Q1 2021

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 13, No. 1 — 1st Quarter, 2021

Next issue

Project At a Glance
As of Q1

2021

, the project has:

241 Featured Articles 89 Featured Lists 10 Featured Topics

34 Featured Pictures 1,684 Good Articles 31 Good Topics

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Content

Changes to Featured and Good content News items and announcements WP:VG Talk Page Digest

Survey: How does WikiProject Video games determine character notability? Interview: Namcokid47

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Assess article

Hi CaptViraj, I noticed you were a member of the YouTube Wikiproject, could you kindly assess this YouTube article Fedmyster, for a B class, your help is appreciated thank you.Delta fiver (talk) (UTC) 17:42, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

TheWikiWizard-April 2021

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.

Wikipedia News

• MediaWiki has a new logo. Looks great, doesn't it?
• Did you get to see the April Fools DYK for the Main Page? If not, catch them here (Under April 1)
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Memorials

• Pi zero has passed away. Our condolences go out for Pi zero and anyone who knew him. Thank you Pi zero for your service here at Wikimedia. We are very sorry to hear this. We will never forget your valuable contributions to Wikipedia and it's sister projects.

Humour

Tsugaru's Humour Section

• April Showers can't Bring May Flowers, if the Flowers ran away to June!
• You can't get in trouble, if you don't cause trouble!
• The May Flowers can't be flowers if they are roses!

Please find CanadianOtaku's Humour Section below

• Sadly, there was no edit war of 2021, maybe next year.
• This joke space is up for rent!
• You too can be a hacker by removing everything in an article!
• Error 410
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Happy First Edit Day!

Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

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Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU^(T)

14:33, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

@CAPTAIN RAJU: Thank you. -- CptViraj (talk) 21:54, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 April 2021

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• In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby

• Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct

• Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way

• Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia

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• From the editor: A change is gonna come

• Disinformation report: Paid editing by a former head of state's business enterprise

• In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby

• Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct

• Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way

• Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia

• Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).

Administrator changes

Enchanter • Carlossuarez46

Interface administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
• Consensus was found in a previous RfC
  for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.

Technical news

• The user group oversight will be renamed to suppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.

Arbitration

• The
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Please

Hi @CptViraj:, I have prepared your sandbox Emiway Bantai to be published. Please share your opinion. Will you review it? If you don't review it, can I get it reviewed by other reviewers? 2402:3A80:10C5:7807:E52F:490A:CE8F:4B74 (talk) 15:12, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi. Sorry, I've reverted your edits. I've made that draft for my own testing/work, please don't edit. Create an account and write the draft on your own sandbox, you can copy-paste my draft and continue from there if you want :) -- CptViraj (talk) 16:17, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

Help

@

talk

) 09:40, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

@

Vrjbandhu

: Hi.

• For rename: Before requesting a rename please review
  WP:CHUS or via Special:GlobalRenameRequest
  .
• For custom signature: Before changing your signature please review
  WP:SIGN, you can make changes to your signature via Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal. -- CptViraj (talk
  ) 11:48, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Thanks @

^{Chit chat}

03:34, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Help please

Hey can you please create a article about youtuber CarryMinati song "Yalgaar" U.G sam (talk) 05:36, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

@U.G sam: Sorry. I no longer create articles (except list articles) here. -- CptViraj (talk) 07:29, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Oh thanku U.G sam (talk) 07:36, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi CptViraj, just as a FYI I have just mentioned U.G sam's post to your user talk page in a report at AN/I. Regards, --bonadea contributions talk 10:06, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. -- CptViraj (talk) 10:39, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

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.

Wikipedia News

• The Simple English Wikipedia was mentioned in a article online very recently, you can read the article here.
• Meta is looking for Board Election Volunteers you can read up more by following that link.
• The English Wikipedia, has just passed 6,300,000 articles!

Tip of the Month

This tip is one of the many ways to combat spam on Wikipedia:

• On Wikipedia, articles either meet the
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Memorials

• SlimVirgin has sadly passed away this month, you can read more about SlimVirgin's passing here
• Moroboshi also sadly passed away earlier this month.

Our condolences go out to the editors and their families, thank you for your work on Wikimedia projects.

Humour

• This section was made by CanadianOtaku, please note it contains some emojis, so you might just see a box if your browser doesn't support them. -つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁

• Got
  blocked on the English Wikipedia because of your epic hacking skills? Start hacking other Wikimedia projects, they ca- This user account is currently locked
  across all Wikimedia projects.
• This joke is a work in progress, so I might drop some hammers.

• This joke is 2 spaces away, so ａ🔨ｎ- woah that was close!

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Thank you

Thank you for processing my name change. I appreciate it immensely. Peace to you, --

Wolf

12:28, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

@ARoseWolf: Your welcome. You may want to update your signature. Cheers! -- CptViraj (talk) 04:09, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Done! --ARoseWolf 13:22, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 21

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past four months (February through May 2021).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 21st issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here New scripts Alexander Davronov's HistoryHelper helps to copy diff links from the history display of a page Aseleste's Purger makes it easier to purge or null edit a page Awesome Aasim: CatMan adds a category manager to simplify interactions for adding and removing the categories of a page redirectcreator allows for easy creation of multiple redirects Bop34's EasyDesc adds a link to the top navigation bar which allows you to add a short description without opening the edit menu BrandonXLF's NullEdit adds a portlet link to perform a null edit on a page Chlod: FoldArchives collapses archived talk page threads in order to reduce screen space GoToTitle converts the page title into an input field for navigating to other pages UserHighlighter adds highlighting to links to the userpages, talk pages, and contributions of administrators and other user groups as well as tooltips to indicate which groups a user is in GhostInTheMachine: NoEditSummary adds a warning if an edit will be saved without an edit summary SortWhatLinksHere sorts the links shows on Special:WhatLinksHere WatchlistTidy moves the "new updates found" timestamp block from the bottom of the filter block to the top of the filter area on the watchlist GorillaWarfare's curlies simplifies converting curly quotes to straight quotes while in the source editing mode Nardog: AutoSectionLink corrects the /* section link */ every time you hit "Show changes" AutoTestcases autofills "Preview page with this template/module" with the most relevant /testcases page that exists SortCentralAuthByEditCount sorts the list of local accounts on CentralAuth by edit count Novem Linguae: CiteHighlighter highlights 1800 sources green, yellow, or red depending on reliability. WP:BEFORE Google search links, copyvio check, duplicate article check, and other links to the left menu. Ritenerek's goce_nav adds a link to Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors to the navigation menu Suffusion of Yellow: filterDiff: Adds a "Show changes" button to the filter editor. filterNotes: Parses filter notes as wikitext (so links are clickable), and signs and dates new comments for you. filterTest: Adds a "Test changes" button. Opens Special:AbuseFilter/test with what's currently in the edit form, not with what's saved in the database, so you don't have to copy-paste your changes. Terasail's COI Request Tool allows users to reply to, close or remove conflict of interest edit requests Updated scripts WP:RfPP request, and new copyright blocks default to indefinite. Wikipedia:Shortdesc helper now v3.4.17, changes include minor fixes and preventing edits that don't change the description. WP:CS2 Joeytje50's JWB now version 4.1.0, includes the ability to generate page lists from the search tool, major updates to the handling of regular expressions, the storing of user settings, the addition of upload protection, and an option to skip pages that belong to a specific category, among other changes. See User:Joeytje50/JWB/Changelog for a full list of recent changes. User:SD0001/deleted-metadata-link.js – updated to include a link to snippet of deleted content, instead of just metadata. Miscellaneous Wikipedia:User scripts/List has been revamped to make it easier to find scripts suited for your needs. If you know of a cool script that is missing on the list, or a script on the list that is no longer working, please edit the list or let us know on the talk page. Pending requests A request for a script to help admins posting "recent death" items to Template:In the news A request for a script to warn users about syntax and template errors ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

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A tag has been placed on File:Darcy Rose Byrnes at the world premiere of Cinderella at the El Capitan Theatre Hollywood March 1 2015.jpg for "speedy deletion"

Hi, not sure what's wrong with the picture. Not sure why it's been tagged for speedy deletion. Does this refer to the picture on wikimedia commons that is referenced as her "profile picture" on her wikipedia page?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Darcy_Rose_Byrnes_at_the_world_premiere_of_Cinderella_at_the_El_Capitan_Theatre_Hollywood_March_1_2015.jpg

Or is this deletion in reference to a different file reference? I'm a bit new to all this. I couldn't find the "contest speedy deletion" button that was mentioned.

Is the file missing info? Is it a copyright question? (I took the photo and own the copyright.)

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Help to learn Hindi IPA pronounce

@CptViraj:, please help IPA pronounce –– 𝚅𝚁𝙹𝙱𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚑𝚞 01:02, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

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New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021

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Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

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At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

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Technical news

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Humour

• Christmas is here again, time to bug people to get you the stuff you really, really want! (Anyone going to get me some butter cookies, or that giant Costco teddy bear?)
• If you don't like turkey, there's always the rotisserie chicken!
• If you ate too much turkey and regret it, then you should have read the above message ;)

Wikipedia News

We don't have much to report this month, but we do have the following...

• The Simple English Wikipedia has almost reached 200,000 articles!
• Wikipedia Asian Month which took place in November, has finished. Now, all the articles are judged and then it is determined who gets the postcards, even if you don't get one, or didn't participate, there is always next year, and we thank you for everything you have done!
• Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021 took place earlier this month, for elegible editors. (At the time of this writing it was still taking place, but I assumed by the time this issue was sent, it would have been finished - It is set to finish at December 6 2021 at 23:59 UTC )

Editor's Notes

• I haven't forgotten about TWW ;) Don't worry.
• TWW is in the process of getting a new main page, if you have any ideas, or would like to help, please shoot a message on the TWW talk page.
• That's it for this issue! This is the last issue for 2021. See you all in 2022! Have a safe and happy holiday season!

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Bots Newsletter, December 2021

Bots Newsletter, December 2021

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. BRFA activity by month Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots. Our last issue was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots. Overall Between September and December 2019, there were 33 BRFAs. Of these, Y 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful (N2 3 denied, ? 3 withdrawn, and 2 expired). September 2019 Y Monkbot 16, DannyS712 bot 60, Ahechtbot 6, PearBOT 3, Qbugbot 3 · N2 DannyS712 bot 5, PkbwcgsBot 24 · ? DannyS712 bot 61, TheSandBot 4 TParis goes away, UTRSBot goes kaput: Beeblebrox noted that the bot for maintaining on-wiki records of UTRS appeals stopped working a while ago. TParis, the semi-retired user who had previously run it, said they were "unlikely to return to actively editing Wikipedia", and the bot had been vanquished by trolls submitting bogus UTRS requests on behalf of real blocked users. While OAuth was a potential fix, neither maintainer had time to implement it. TParis offered to access to the UTRS WMFLabs account to any admin identified with the WMF: "I miss you guys a whole lot [...] but I've also moved on with my life. Good luck, let me know how I can help". Ultimately, SQL ended up in charge. Some progress was made, and the bot continued to work another couple months — but as of press time, UTRSBot has not edited since November 2019. Article-measuring contest resumed: The list of Wikipedians by article count, which had lain dead for several years, was triumphantly resurrected by GreenC following a bot request. October 2019 Y OAbot 3, DannyS712 bot 47, Pathbot 2, PearBOT 2, DannyS712 bot 59, DannyS712 bot 62, HasteurBot 14, PearBOT 4, WOSlinkerBot 4, MilHistBot 5 Curb Safe Charmer adopts reFill: TAnthony pointed out that reFill 2's bug reports were going unanswered; creator Zhaofeng Li had retired from Wikipedia, and a maintainer was needed. As of June 2021, Curb Safe Charmer had taken up the mantle, saying: "Not that I have all the skills needed but better me than nobody! 'Maintainer' might be too strong a term though. Volunteers welcome!" November 2019 Y BHGbot 4, YiFeiBot 2, DannyS712 bot III 64 · ? PearBOT Old bots do new tricks: DannyS712 bot III 64 prowled redirects, YiFeiBot 2 archived GoCE requests, and BHGbot 4 removed links to portals deleted at MfD (until its authorization was revoked in January at operator BrownHairedGirl's request). December 2019 Y DemonDays64 Bot, DannyS712 bot III 66, Bot1058 6, Monkbot 15, MilHistBot 6, PearBOT 5, DannyS712 bot IV 65 · N2 SportsStatsBot · Xinbenlv bot, SteveBot 8 Redirects to be autopatrolled: A RfC took place at WP:NPP, closing with unanimous consensus that new redirects should be automatically marked as patrolled by bot. DannyS712 wasted no time, and submitted DannyS712 bot III 66 the next day; it passed two days after that. 200,000 bios get short descs: Along a similar vein, JavaScript Wiki Browser. One particularly neat task, PearBOT 5, automatically generated short descriptions for more than 200,000 biographies. In the next issue of Bots Newsletter: What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers? What happens when two bots want to clerk the same page? What happens when an adminbot goes hog wild? Will reFill ever get fixed? What's up with ListeriaBot, anyway? Python 3.4 deprecation? In my PyWikiBot? (It's more likely than you think!) These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the January 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out! Signing off... jp×g 04:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22

Hello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Featured script LuckyRename, by Alexis Jazz, is this month's featured script. LuckyRename makes requesting file moves easier, and automates the many steps in file moving (including automatic replacement of existing usage). Give it a shot! Updated scripts SD0001: hide-reverted-edits has been updated to take into account changes in reversion tools like Twinkle and RedWarn. Writ Keeper: massRollback.js has added a rollback-some option (missed in last issue). ClaudineChionh: SkinSwitcher (a fork and update of Eizen's script) provides an options menu/toolbox/toolbar allowing users to view a given page in MediaWiki's default skins.

Pending requests Mass-patrolling at Special:NewPages Taking up the mantle of an almost completed peer review javascript bot Restore the Wikipedia Citation Tool for Google Books Autohighlighting specific characters (Greek) ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests Miscellaneous Wikipedia:User scripts/Ranking is a sortable table of Wikipedia's thousand-or-so most commonly used scripts; it includes their author, last modification date, installation count, and sometimes a short description. Toolhub is a community managed catalog of software tools used in the Wikimedia movement. Technical volunteers can use Toolhub to document the tools that they create or maintain. All Wikimedians can use Toolhub to search for tools to help with their workflows and to create lists of useful tools to share with others.

New scripts

• Ahecht:
  • draft-sorter sorts AfC drafts by adding WikiProject banners to their talk pages. It supersedes User:Enterprisey/draft-sorter, adding a few features and fixing some bugs.
  • massmove, a modified User:Plastikspork/massmove.js that adds a link to the left column, allows adding and removing both prefixes and suffixes.
  • watchlistcleaner removes missing pages (redlinks), redirects, pages you haven't edited recently, and/or pages you've never edited from your watchlist.
• Awesome Aasim:
  • Infiniscroll adds infinite scrolling to user contributions, page histories, and log pages.
  • Quick create allows for the fast creation of red-linked pages with two clicks.
• Caburum:
  • UTCclock adds a clock displaying the current UTC time.
• Chlod:
  • CCI case handlers, allows graphically editing a talk page's {{copied
    }} templates.
• DaxServer:
  • Visual Editor's source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one {{cite book}} inside a <ref>...</ref> tag block into an {{Sfn
    }}.
• FlightTime:
  • OneClickArchiver is a custom version of User:Technical_13/Scripts/OneClickArchiver which doesn't prepend {{Clear}} to the top of each section on the archive page.
• Jon Harald Søby:
  • diffedit enables editing directly from viewing a diff "when, for instance, you notice a tiny mistake deep into an article, and don't want to edit the entire article and re-find that one line to fix that tiny mistake".
  • warnOnLargeFile warns you if you're about to open a very large file (width/height >10,000px or file size >100 MB) from a file page.
• JPxG:
  • PressPass adds a collection of tools for Newspapers.com including configurable automatic citation generation in five different formats.
  • CurrentSwitcher gives you links on the contribs page to hide duplicate entries, current revisions, rollbacks, huggles, twinkles, and redwarns.
  • TrackSum lets you automatically sum the lengths of tracks in templates like {{track listing}} and get total runtimes.
• Nardog:
  • CopySectLink adds a button to copy the unencoded page title or section path next to each heading.
  • IPAInput allows you to type in IPA symbols by directly looking at an IPA key like Help:IPA/English and clicking on the symbols.
  • TemplatePreviewGuard warns when you try to use "Preview page with this template" with a page that doesn't transclude the template.
• NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh:
  • Vector
    skin.
  • CopyvioChecker adds a "CopyvioCheck" tab to all pages, except Special (Vector skin only).
  • LiveDiffLink is a version of Equazcion's LiveDiffLink which shows a wikilink instead of a URL.
  • QuickDiff (by OneTwoThreeFall at Fandom) lets you quickly view any diff link on a wiki, whether on Recent Changes, contribs pages, history pages, the diff view itself, or elsewhere. For more information, view its page on Fandom.
• Novem Linguae:
  • SNG
    keywords and displays them at the top of the article.
  • NotSoFast highlights recently created articles in the new pages feed, to discourage patrolling them too quickly.
  • UserRightsDiff concisely displays what perm was added or removed when viewing Special:UserRights.
  • VoteCounter displays a rough count of keeps and deletes at XFDs, RFCs, etc.
  • NPP
    patrol, to help you calibrate your reviewing.
• P.T.Đ:
  • TwinkleMobile
    enables Twinkle on mobile view (Minerva skin).
• Qwerfjkl:
  • editRedirect adds a → link after redirects to edit them.
  • RegExTypoFix, a script for fixing typos, is a wrapper for User:Joeytje50/RETF.js.
  • talkback creates links after user talk page links like this: |C|TB (with the first linking to the user's contributions, and the latter giving the option of sending a {{talkback}} notice). It also adds a [copy] link next to section headers.
• Rublov:
  • diff-link shows "copy" links on history and contributions pages that copy an internal link to the diff (e.g., Special:Diff/1026402230) to your clipboard when clicked.
• Rummskartoffel:
  • auto-watchlist-expiry automatically watchlists every page you edit for a user-definable duration (you can still pick a different time using the dropdown, though).
  • generate pings generates the wikitext needed to ping all members of a category, up to 50 editors (the limit defined by MediaWiki).
  • share ExpandTemplates url allows for easy sharing of your inputs to Special:ExpandTemplates. It adds a button that, when clicked, copies a shareable URL to your exact invocation of the page, like this. Other editors do not need to have this script installed in order to access the URL generated.
  • show tag names shows the real names of tags next to their display names in places such as page revision histories or the watchlist.
• Tol:
  • VisualEditor Citation Needed adds a button (under "Insert") in VisualEditor to add a {{citation needed}} tag.
• Venkat TL:
  • ColourContrib color-codes the user contributions page so that pages you've edited last are sharply distinguished from pages where another editor was the last to edit the page.
• Vukky
  :
  • Twinkle
    enabled to use it).

All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp×g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp×g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

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