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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).

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Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

Technical news

• Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)

Arbitration

• Remedy 9 ("MarioProtIV topic ban") of the WikiProject Tropical Cyclones case has been rescinded.

Miscellaneous

• The
  2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process
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• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.

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Hi Wugapodes! Hope all is well. I noticed that capricorn still has {{R fictional work}}, which was deleted at this TfD Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2023 May 20#R fictional work. Could you remove it when you get the chance? I think you can clean it up by cutting the R fictional work JSON entry at User:Wugapodes/Capricorn/RedirectTemplates.json. Best! TartarTorte 18:20, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

 Done thanks for letting me know, TartarTorte. — Wug·a·po·des 20:15, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Welcome to the twenty-eighth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations

Community configuration 2.0

• Community Configuration 2.0 is a feature that will enable Wikimedia communities to easily customize and configure features to meet their unique needs. This approach provides non-technical moderators with more independence and control over enabling/disabling and customizing features for their communities.
• Technical approach and associated tasks are detailed in this Epic task on Phabricator.
• Initial designs are drafted for two different approaches (see images). We will soon demo interactive prototypes to interested admins, stewards, and experienced editors (T346109). Please let us know if you have feedback on the design approach, or want to participate in prototype testing.

IP Masking

• The Growth team has been working on several updates to ensure Growth maintained features will be compatible with future IP Masking changes. This work has included code changes to: Recent Changes (T343322), Echo notifications (T333531), the Thanks extension (T345679) and Mentorship (T341390).
• Before December, the Growth team will initiate community discussions with the goal of migrating communities from Flow to DiscussionTools. This move aims to minimize the necessity for additional engineering work to make Flow compatible with IP Masking. (T346108)

Mentorship

• We assembled some resources for mentors at Mediawiki wiki. This resource page is translatable and will be linked from the mentor dashboard.
• We are working to resolve a bug related to mentors properly returning after being marked as "Away". (T347024)
• Half of newcomers at English Wikipedia get a mentor assigned to them. To ensure every newcomer receives mentorship, we need additional volunteer mentors at English Wikipedia to achieve a 100% coverage rate. We also encourage experienced users from other wikis to help newcomers at their own community.

Scaling Growth features

• We continue the deployment of the structured task "add a link" to all Wikipedias. We plan to scale the task to all Wikipedias that have link suggestions available by the end of 2023.
• We plan to scale the new Impact Module to all Wikipedias soon, but first we are investigating a bug with the job that refreshes the Impact Module data. (T344428)
• At some wikis, newcomers have access to the "add an image" structured task. This task suggests images that may be relevant to add to unillustrated articles. Newcomers at these wikis can now add images to unillustrated articles sections. (T345940) The wikis that have this task are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team deployment table.

Other news

• We disabled the “add an image” task temporarily (T345188) because there was a failure in the image suggestions pipeline (T345141). This is now fixed.
• You can read a report about the Growth team’s representation at Wikimania in Singapore here. Growth team members presented two sessions at Wikimania Singapore.
• After a 2.5 years-long collaboration with Bangala Wikipedia, we have decided to start a collaboration with another wiki. Swahili Wikipedia is now a pilot wiki for Growth experiments.

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October songs

my story today

Today, it's a place that inspired me, musings if you have time. My corner for memory and music has today a juxtaposition of what our local church choirs offer. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:54, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

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Hi, can you explain how to add a citation or how to make it say "Citation Needed" simply Thanks, Matthew Campbell --Matthew Campbell (talk) 19:11, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

@Matt the wiki master This tutorial walks you through how to add citations. For the citation needed tag, you can simply add {{citation needed}} (including the curly braces) to the text. That link also gives some additional instructions. — Wug·a·po·des 20:34, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Hello, How to add reference link to a text? and how to add a picture?

Thanks a lot in advance --MHFS1971 (talk) 10:36, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

@MHFS1971 This tutorial walks you through how to add citations. For pictures, this tutorial will help you add images and other media to an article. — Wug·a·po·des 20:36, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi!

I'm your student, I guess. I'm excited to edit articles! --JAAMLERB (talk) 18:45, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. ✗plicit 14:54, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

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Hello Wugapodes:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

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The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-

• BeanieFan11 with 2582 points
• Thebiguglyalien with 1615 points
• Epicgenius with 1518 points
• MyCatIsAChonk with 1012 points
• BennyOnTheLoose with 974 points
• AirshipJungleman29 with 673 points
• Sammi Brie with 520 points
• Unlimitedlead with 5 points

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the competition, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.

• Unlimitedlead wins the featured article prize, for 7 FAs in total including 3 in round 2.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in total.
• Lee Vilenski wins the featured topic prize, for a 6-article featured topic in round 4.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured picture prize, for 6 FPs in total.
• BeanieFan11 wins the good article prize, for 75 GAs in total, including 61 in the final round.
• Epicgenius wins the good topic prize, for a 41-article good topic in the final round.
• LunaEatsTuna wins the GA reviewer prize, for 70 GA reviews in round 1.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the FA reviewer prize, for 66 FA reviews in the final round.
• Epicgenius wins the DYK prize, for 49 did you know articles in total.
• Muboshgu wins the ITN prize, for 46 in the news articles in total.

The WikiCup has run every year since 2007. With the 2023 contest now concluded, I will be standing down as a judge due to real life commitments, so I hope that another editor will take over running the competition. Please get in touch if you are interested. Next year's competition will hopefully begin on 1 January 2024. You are invited to sign up to participate in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors. It only remains to congratulate our worthy winners once again and thank all participants for their involvement! (If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.) Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:52, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Mcmillenms YouTube --Mcmillenms (talk) 07:00, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

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• RFC

Hi. Just saw your closure, and in my reading, it didn't appear to address what I think what was a concern.

The proposed text includes the line: "Comments that are uncivil may be removed without warning."

The problem is that is beyond what

I understand that this can be a question of semantics (uncivil vs. derogatory). But having editors

So with that all in mind, what is your read of the discussion concerning enforcement and application of CIVIL, and whether this RFC is authorizing editors to go beyond what CIVIL says to do? - jc37 00:10, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

@

WP:RUC includes three classes of uncivil comments which may be removed. I don't think it's correct to characterize the former as going beyond what the latter advises. CIV is a policy after all, so I don't see why this local consensus should be read as anything more strict. So if your question is whether this authorizes more than what's already in CIV: no, definitely not. The sense I got from the discussion is that it's being read as a short summary of CIV (with many in both support and opposition seeing it as redundant to the policy), not some new thing, so when in doubt refer to CIV. It might be worth rephrasing the wording to something like Uncivil comments such as trolling or personal attacks may be removed... but that wasn't discussed and can be done pretty easily through regular editing. I'd hesitate to add that wording to the close, but I think it would be an improvement personally. — Wug·a·po·des

01:17, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for the clarification.

For now, I just added links to CIVIL and NPA. Hopefully that should be clear enough.

Thanks again : ) - jc37 03:18, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

Administrator changes

0xDeadbeef

Tamzin

Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

Pppery

• Ragesoss
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
• There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
• Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
• Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
• Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
• Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
• Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
• An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous

• The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

How to I create a pager for a artist ? --ClaireFirley (talk) 02:57, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

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I want to add some caste related information, so, that everyone should know this thing and change their views about the caste .. --Rishi 'Surname' (talk) 18:56, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi Rishi 'Surname' I would suggest you avoid editing articles related to castes until you have more experience with editing Wikipedia. The topic is contentious and even editors who are trying to help can be asked by an administrator to stop if they accidentally cause problems. I would recommend trying out the newcomer tasks like adding links or citations until you get more experience with our editorial policies. — Wug·a·po·des 00:40, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

hi wuga, i want to contribute in wikipedia. for starting, i want t o edit some articles and add some citation(when needed) or add some new parts or sentences. i edited my first article but it disapeard. what should i do ? --Morty.tama (talk) 20:34, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi Morty.tama and thanks for your contributions! It looks like some of your more recent edits have stuck around. The reason your first edit disappeared is because entries to your list articles usually need to already have their own separate articles. So while your edit had a citation, it was removed because there was no article on the topic. Hopefully that helps! And I look forward to your contributions! — Wug·a·po·des 00:47, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

I like being able to contribute to things that are missing or fix/update things, but a little overwhelmed by all the features and rules. What's the most simple way to edit things? And what are the main rules to follow? --Agottworth (talk) 17:44, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi Agottworth and welcome! I left a message on your talk page with a short tutorial that should help you with how to edit and some of our more important rules. Happy editing! — Wug·a·po·des 00:49, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Wugapodes. Bishzilla knows she's not supposed to post in Wikipedia space, but sometimes she nevertheless does. Sigh. Feel free to ignore/remove the question she just posted on your candidate questions page — I'm sure you have enough to do without looking up that particular ancient history. Bishonen | tålk 14:57, 26 November 2023 (UTC).

Hi

WP:PROJSOCK is that undisclosed alternative accounts are (with limited exception) forbidden from participating in project space, but since Bishzilla is a declared alternate account, I don't see why she can't participate. She even has her own carve out at Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry#Legitimate uses. It's an interesting piece of history I wasn't aware of, and I've found it an educational read as I dig into the various discussions. Hopefully you find the answer as interesting if long. — Wug·a·po·des

00:04, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Very interesting indeed, Wugapodes, thank you. Note, by "not supposed to", I was referring to my personal rules for my sockfarm, not to

WP:PROJSOCK, which I was only vaguely aware of. The socks are not supposed to pop up all over the place and annoy people, and the other lot generally don't. Bishzilla does. Bishonen | tålk

02:39, 27 November 2023 (UTC).

Precious anniversary

Precious

Seven years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:30, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

November music

November songs

my story today

Vacation pictures offered if you click on songs, and my story today is a DYK hook from 13 years ago OTD: about the great music at one of my churches. Mozart's Requiem to come on Sunday, coupled with Arvo Pärt's Da pacem Domine, - I guess you might come if it was a bit closer. Perhaps watch the video of our last production, our first on yt, ever. --(forgot to sign yesterday)

Thank you for standing to continue as arbitrator! My story today is Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his, - the composer, born OTD 110 years ago, didn't want it shorter (but the publisher), - more here. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:01, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for a reply to my cand question. I may discuss it after tomorrow's concert when we will sing the Mozart and listen to Pärt's

User Talk:Gerda Arendt#Mozart Requiem --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:16, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for the story, Gerda Arendt and the question. Regardless of the election outcome I hope to work on the RfC in late December or early January when I should have more free time. — Wug·a·po·des 00:43, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. - Today: in memoriam Jerome Kohl who said (In Freundschaft): "and I hope that they have met again in the beyond and are making joyous music together" --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:35, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

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Hi, could you please guide me on what I should write on my User Page? Thank you! --Sindhi Manhon (talk) 14:02, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

@Sindhi Manhon: Your user page looks good to me! Most editors use their user page to talk about what they like editing, list links to pages they find interesting or want to edit, and maybe say about about their personal interests. It looks like you did a good job of that! — Wug·a·po·des 00:36, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you so much. SM (talk) 14:02, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

In your Arbcom election answers to questions, you incorrectly stated that Kurz was the president of Austria. In fact, he was the chancellor. (t · c) buidhe 08:46, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks Buidhe, corrected. Apparently I did not remember 2019 Austrian politics as well as I thought. — Wug·a·po·des 09:16, 29 November 2023 (UTC)