Tech News: 2021-39
22:20, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – October 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).
- Following an RfC, extended confirmed protection may be used preemptively on certain high-risk templates.
- Following a discussion at the Village Pump, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.
- DiscussionTools has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features.
- A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
- Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
- The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.
- Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
- The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.
Tech News: 2021-40
16:29, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-41
15:29, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-42
20:52, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-43
20:07, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).
- Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.
- Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.
- GeneralNotability, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections. Ivanvector and John M Wolfson are reserve commissioners.
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves to stand in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections from 07 November 2021 until 16 November 2021.
- The 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.
Tech News: 2021-44
20:27, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
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Hi 65.188.227.62 (talk) 06:37, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
Malplaced disambiguation pages report is overdue
Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Malplaced disambiguation pages hasn't been updated in over a month (last bot update was 4 October 2021). Timing suggests it may be related to this noticeboard discussion. – wbm1058 (talk) 18:31, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
- Actually, it failed for a reason entirely unrelated to that discussion. But thanks for the alert; I've fixed a bug and hopefully it will run tonight. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 01:51, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-45
20:35, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
The Union (Marvel Team)
I created a page The Union (Marvel Team), however there is not yet enough information to warrant two articles for the individual topic areas so they are currently mashed into one article, The two areas are The Union (Marvel Team and The Union (comics).
I have currently named the article The Union (Marvel Team) as I think it best reflects the current situation given that the team have now featured outside of The Union (comics), but I would like your advice regarding the wiki article naming policy as it is a grey area with multiple actions I could take. ChefBear01 (talk) 22:08, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
- Hi ChefBear01, I think you might get more helpful information if you ask this question on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics, since the users there are more familiar than I am with this specialized subject area. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 19:55, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you. ChefBear01 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-46
22:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Hello,
I was not able to reply directly to your message about my update to the US Court of Appeals for some reason so I am replying here. The judges on Superior Court of the District of Columbia are appointed by the president & confirmed by the senate just like the other judges on courts listed above on the same page. State supreme court judges are not (But I do like the addition to the page despite that). Therefore it should be listed on the page so I added it back to the "See Also" section.
Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dequanhargrove (talk • contribs) 04:23, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-47
20:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
ArbCom 2021 Elections voter message
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21:13, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
Thank You so much!
Hey dude i am incredibly grateful for you working to fix the demo disambiguation page! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Das Kittles (talk • contribs) 03:33, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-49
21:58, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – December 2021
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).
- Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
- The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)
- Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
- The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.
Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
Bots Newsletter, December 2021
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Tech News: 2021-50
22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
Tech News: 2021-51
22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
Merry Christmas!
Season's greetings and Merry Christmas to you and your family. Have a wonderful holiday season. Cheers! RV (talk) 02:40, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
Why did u put ethnic sub-groups of Georgians in People from Georgia (country) by ethnic or national origin?
Why did u put ethnic sub-groups of Georgians in People from Georgia (country) by ethnic or national origin? They are one people, Kakhetians, Khevsurians, Adjarians, Mingrelians, Kartlians, Svans and so on. They aren't different ethnically nor with mindset --Lemabeta (talk) 23:18, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
- The articles describe these groups as "ethnic sub-groups" of Georgians, so they seemed to me to fit the category. However, the term "ethnic origin" is somewhat ambiguous, so if you think this categorization was mistaken, I'm happy to be corrected. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 17:27, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
Hello, R'n'B,
This page is marked as a hoax but I saw that you edited it so I was wondering what you thought of the article. I know nothing about telecommuting companies so I'm looking for a second opinion. Thanks and I hope you are having a pleasant holiday season! Liz Read! Talk! 03:38, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
- Looks like it was a hoax, the article creator is blocked and all of their edits, mostly to templates, reverted. Liz Read! Talk! 07:12, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
- I'm embarrassed that I didn't call hoax on that myself; I was focused on the trees (fixing the individual links) and completely missed the forest! --R'n'B (call me Russ) 17:28, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Liz: It wouldn't have been apparent on-sight, but Verizon launching a satellite television service in 2021/2 would've been well-sourced and incredibly confusing to the business world, as home satellite service is in decline and TV is moving towards the Internet (along with all their other edits where Dish and T-Mobile were launching sudden cable services). I had thought they were good-faith until discovering that article and digging in further, so it would've slipped by me if I didn't know the industry myself; thankfully their lack of talk page editing and refusal to communicate lifted the curtain on their attempt when I called them out. I am glad for checks though to make sure that my suspicions were correct. Nate • (chatter) 20:23, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
- I'm embarrassed that I didn't call hoax on that myself; I was focused on the trees (fixing the individual links) and completely missed the forest! --R'n'B (call me Russ) 17:28, 29 December 2021 (UTC)