For2 and For[edit]

Hi! There's a merger proposal for {{for}} and {{for2}}: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2021 June 30#Template:For. I'm not invested in the outcome, but I believe it hinges on the big picture stuff, and I don't think anyone apart from you has worked on that. – Uanfala (talk) 01:57, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2021-27[edit]

17:31, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: June 2021[edit]

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue VI, June 2021 Headlines AfLIA Wikipedia in African Libraries report: African Librarians Week 2021 Albania report: CEE Spring Campaign in Albania and Kosovo Argentina report: A course on opening cultural collections Belgium report: Edit-a-thons with Wiki Women Design Brazil report: A metadata roundtripping model for museums France report: European Archaeology Days; Edit-a-thon in Romanity Museum Guinea report: GLAM with Harmattan Guinée 15 June 2021 in Conakry Italy report: Festival and edit-a-thon dedicated to the world of archives Netherlands report: Training at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam; training for Suriname and the Dutch Caribbean has concluded New Zealand report: Making artists visible Serbia report: Wikidata development and culture of Rudnik and Takovo region Spain report: Museums writing challenge and Viquimarató Carmelina Sánchez-Cutillas Sweden report: Free music; Kulturarv som gymnasiearbete; Statistics Sweden – now as open data; KTH library training Switzerland report: Diversity in GLAM Program Uganda report: Wikipedia for Museums in Uganda UK report: British Library and Khalili Collections Ukraine report: #1Lib1Ref in Ukrainian Wikipedia USA report: Meetup/CCCCWI; Vaccine Safety Wikipedia Edit-a-thon; WikiWednesday Salon; San Diego Wiknic; Black Lunch Table / Black visual artists Special story: Play, experiment and cross borders at Hack4OpenGLAM Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: OpenRefine starts Structured Data on Commons development and is searching for two developers WMF GLAM report: Conferences and Structured data modeling Calendar: July's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Tech News: 2021-29[edit]

15:30, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-30[edit]

21:10, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2021[edit]

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

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

Technical news

• Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)

Arbitration

• Following an amendment request, the committee has clarified that the Talk page exception to the 500/30 rule in remedy 5 of the Palestine-Israel articles 4 case does not apply to requested move discussions.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2021 Board of Trustees elections from 4 August to 17 August. Four community elected seats are up for election.

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Tech News: 2021-31[edit]

20:45, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

redirect hatnote bug[edit]

In this version that had three separate {{redirect}} hatnotes, the third one did NOT redirect to the article and was not caught (Category:Articles with redirect hatnotes needing review). As an experiment, I deleted the first two hatnotes (which DO redirect to the article) and then the article was listed in the category. I've fixed this article by reworking the hatnotes. But there still appears to be an underlying bug that could be affecting other articles. It this enough for you to try to track it down? Thanks. MB 03:38, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I’ll take a proper look tomorrow morning. It "smells" like a static context error, or perhaps some quirk of mw.title objects that I’ve missed. {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 04:15, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Just a reminder in case you have forgotten this. MB 15:21, 4 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

​Looking at it again (I went over it silently earlier without finding any problem in the code) … I can't reproduce the bug. It appears that that third redirect still generates the Category:Articles with redirect hatnotes needing review tracking category, in previews at least. Could it have simply been category update lag? {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 16:49, 6 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for looking into this. I've seen short category update lags before, but always less than a minute. Unless I was mistaken, I wouldn't have been looking at the category itself, but at the categories listed in the article. I don't see a problem now either, so I have no idea now if this was a real problem at the time or not. MB 18:25, 7 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2021-32[edit]

16:19, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2021[edit]

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue VII, July 2021 Headlines Albania report: Collaboration with the New Vision Organization in Tirana; Summer of Wikivoyage Campaign 2021 Australia report: Representation and erasure: opportunities and risks that Wikipedia presents for First Nations knowledges Brazil report: A wikicontest to celebrate and make visible the state of Bahia India report: Rabimas proofread contest ends on Bengali Wikisource New Zealand report: New Zealand holds its second Wikimedia conference, and a performing arts Wikiproject gathers steam Serbia report: New chances for GLAM success Sweden report: Photos of Childrens theatre UK report: A Thousand Images of Islam, British Library Updates USA report: Smithsonian Wiki Focus: Black Women in Food History; San Diego 73; Black Lunch Table Black artists WMF GLAM report: A conversation about depicts and Structured Data on Commons Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Tech News: 2021-33[edit]

19:25, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-34[edit]

21:57, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

Read-only reminder[edit]

A maintenance operation will be performed on Wednesday August 25 06:00 UTC. It should only last for a few minutes.

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Tech News: 2021-35[edit]

15:59, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2021[edit]

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

Administrator changes

Jake Wartenberg

Emperor • Viridian Bovary

Ashleyyoursmile → Viridian Bovary

Guideline and policy news

• Feedback is requested on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement draft by the Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee.
• A RfC is open on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection on high-risk templates.
• A discussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
• A RfC on the next steps after the trial of pending changes on TFAs has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.

Technical news

• The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.

Miscellaneous

• The 2021 RfA review is now open for comments.

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Possible hoax article[edit]

Hello, I believe the page Crocodile Society is a hoax. The only links I found via a Google search are Wikipedia and mirrors. Can anything be done about this possible hoax? 2600:1003:B8D8:F0F3:115:38F8:78A7:92E (talk) 04:14, 4 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2021-36[edit]

15:19, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: August 2021[edit]

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue VIII, August 2021 Headlines Albania report: Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) Campaign in Albania and Kosovo Australia report: How Australian libraries are turning to Wikipedia during the global pandemic Brazil report: Transbordados: WikidataCon's preconference for Latin America discusses GLAM and decolonization Côte d'Ivoire report: Glam-wiki 2021 10 Juillet en Côte d'Ivoire France report: Wikimedian in residence; Some projects for this autumn India report: Second proofread competition starts on Bengali Wikisource in collaboration with the British Library Italy report: Summer school in July and two new WiR in August Netherlands report: 50 cool new things you can now do with KB’s collection highlights, and New old photographs of Algeria, Mali and Morocco by Angeline van Achterberg New Zealand report: A Wikimedian at New Zealand Opera Serbia report: Villas and castles of Serbia Sweden report: History, history and future UK report: Khalili Collections reaches 30 articles USA report: Wiki salons and Kearny Mesa Special story: Hack4OpenGLAM is ready to start Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: OpenRefine starts SDC development WMF GLAM report: GLAM conversations and feedbacks for a better Wikimedia movement Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Tech News: 2021-37[edit]

15:32, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-38[edit]

18:30, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-39[edit]

22:20, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2021[edit]

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

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

Technical news

• DiscussionTools has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features.

Arbitration

• 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.

Miscellaneous

• 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.

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Tech News: 2021-40[edit]

16:28, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

The Mute's Soliloquy ISBN[edit]

Thanks for the heads-up. I must have been careless when I was tidying up the references for the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies page. Regards Davidelit (Talk) 03:53, 10 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2021-41[edit]

15:29, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: September 2021[edit]

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue IX, September 2021 Headlines Albania report: Diaspora Edits Wikipedia Campaign Argentina report: New parnership agreements and more training! Australia report: Preserving paralympic history Belgium report: Wikimedia Belgium GLAM report September 2021 Brazil report: WikidataCon's right around the corner: find out how to participate France report: Wikidata training in Musée de Grenoble Italy report: Call for Italian museums, archives and libraries Kosovo report: Diaspora Edits Wikipedia Campaign Netherlands report: GLAM at WikiconNL2021, ISA-campaign Tag the species Naturalis en Rijksmuseum Serbia report: New WiR and presentation of our activities Spain report: Women Gastronomes Edit-a-thon Sweden report: Kulturhistoria som gymnasiearbete; Uploads from museums in Göteborg; Wiki Loves Monuments; LGBTQIA+ edit-a-thon UK report: British Library and Khalili Collections USA report: New page patrol not assuming good faith towards workshop editors Content Partnerships Hub report: Working towards a thematic hub on content partnerships Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: First steps for Wikimedia Commons reconciliation service WMF GLAM report: Updates on grant-funded technical projects Calendar: October's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Tech News: 2021-42[edit]

20:52, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Missing redirect check[edit]

There are a number of redirect hatnotes for special symbols. For visual clarity, editors have used various special syntax to make them stand out. Position tolerance is the latest example. This causes the missing redirect check to fail. My work-around has been to just use {{hatnote}} instead of {{redirect}}. There are probably 10-15 that I have converted this way. Just checking if you concur this is reasonable. This is so infrequent that I highly doubt it makes any sense to handle this in the check itself. MB 17:18, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@MB: Hmm, that's an interesting special case, and the workaround is okay for now. It looks like it should work normally if we stripped off the (de-)italicization, and handling (de-)italicized cases seems like something to look into either way. I'll try to think a bit about how that might best be implemented, so that we don't need the workaround. {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 17:27, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2021-43[edit]

20:07, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2021[edit]

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

Guideline and policy news

• 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.

Technical news

• Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.

Arbitration

• 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.

Miscellaneous

• The 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.

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Tech News: 2021-44[edit]

20:27, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-45[edit]

20:35, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Other MeSH codes[edit]

Template:Other MeSH codes has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 18:14, 10 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in GLAM: October 2021[edit]

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue X, October 2021 Headlines Australia report: Open access as Australia reopens Belgium report: Wikimedia Belgium GLAM report October 2021 Estonia report: Wikipedia Art Month + Heritage Days Italy report: Collaborations and partnership Netherlands report: How Wikipedia helped to create a Serbian stamp; Many GLAM-related presentations planned at WikiconNL New Zealand report: Outreach by members of the Aotearoa New Zealand Wikimedia User Group Nigeria report: Wikidata for Libraries and notable Librarians in Nigeria Serbia report: A good start to GLAM Fall Spain report: Women Writers Month Sweden report: The Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk; More museum data on Wikidata; LGBT edit-a-thon; Local business history in Nyköping; Stockholm City Museum ♥ Wikipedia; Writing about fashion at Nordiska museet UK report: British Library and Khalili Collections USA report: Wikiconference North America + Workshops Content Partnerships Hub report: Needs assessment interviews; Cultural heritage on Wikidata – thousands of monuments in Norway; Structured Data uploads continue Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: A Wikimedia Commons Reconciliation Service, You Say? WMF GLAM report: GLAM office hours, GLAM newsletter moving to Meta-wiki, and more Calendar: November's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Berries[edit]

Raspberries and strawberries are not berries, as bbq they have seeds on their exterior — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.29.231.31 (talk)

Okay. The relevant articles already identify them as not botanical berries but merely aggregate fruit. Is there any reason you mentioned this to me? {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 19:56, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2021-46[edit]

22:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-47[edit]

20:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

ArbCom 2021 Elections voter message[edit]

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Tech News: 2021-48[edit]

21:13, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2021[edit]

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

Administrator changes

A Train • Berean Hunter • Epbr123 • GermanJoe • Sanchom • Mysid

Technical news

• 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)

Arbitration

• 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.

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Tech News: 2021-49[edit]

21:58, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled[edit]

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)

This Month in GLAM: November 2021[edit]

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue XI, November 2021 Headlines From the team: Migration from Outreach to Meta: your opinion is needed France report: Study day on open content; Open content GLAM report India report: Second proofread competition ended on Bengali Wikisource in collaboration with the British Library Italy report: Traing course and conference in November Serbia report: GLAMorous November Sweden report: Art, design and history from the museums of Göteborg; Maps in the National Archives of Sweden UK report: Khalili Collections Ukraine report: Aricle contest for librarians «Local cultural heritage and prominent people» USA report: Smithsonian demos new Wiki API Connector tool and other meetups Content Partnerships Hub report: We continue building for the hub; SDC for fun and profit: detecting bad coordinates; Needs assessment – video recorded interviews; Improving ISA WMF GLAM report: Wikisource birthday celebration, Community Tech Wishlist, and upcoming conversation about courses for GLAM professionals Calendar: December's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Tech News: 2021-50[edit]

22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-51[edit]

22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Merchandise giveaway nomination[edit]

A token of thanks Hi Nihiltres! I've nominated you (along with all other active admins) to receive a solstice season gift from the WMF. Talk page stalkers are invited to comment at the nomination. Enjoy! Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} talk ~~~~~

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2022[edit]

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

Guideline and policy news

• Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.

• Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of an administrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions.

Arbitration

• Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Cabayi, Donald Albury, Enterprisey, Izno, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, Wugapodes.

Miscellaneous

• The functionaries email list (functionaries-enlists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.

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How we will see unregistered users[edit]

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Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

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18:13, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-02[edit]

01:22, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: December 2021[edit]

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue XII, December 2021 Headlines Australia report: Writing The Record: the Australian Music Wikipedia project launches Colombia report: We were editing about Bogotan writers Croatia report: Ab ovo. Towards future reports... New Zealand report: The New Zealand Wikidata thesis project Poland report: Safeguarding the heritage of a community Sweden report: Commons project with Göteborg museums was a success; Digital humaniora meets Wikidata; HBTQI, Europeana and WiR UK report: 2021 in Review USA report: Smithsonian Institution Training Content Partnerships Hub report: Adding more Structured Data on Commons statements WMF GLAM report: Some structured data developments Calendar: January's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

This Month in GLAM: December 2021[edit]

This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue XII, December 2021 Headlines Australia report: Writing The Record: the Australian Music Wikipedia project launches Colombia report: We were editing about Bogotan writers Croatia report: Ab ovo. Towards future reports... New Zealand report: The New Zealand Wikidata thesis project Poland report: Safeguarding the heritage of a community Sweden report: Commons project with Göteborg museums was a success; Digital humaniora meets Wikidata; HBTQI, Europeana and WiR UK report: 2021 in Review USA report: Smithsonian Institution Training Content Partnerships Hub report: Adding more Structured Data on Commons statements WMF GLAM report: Some structured data developments Calendar: January's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Tech News: 2022-03[edit]

19:53, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-04[edit]

21:37, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-05[edit]

17:41, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2022[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.

Technical news

• The user group oversight will be renamed suppress in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
• The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration

• Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
• The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
• A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.

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Tech News: 2022-06[edit]

21:14, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Precious anniversary[edit]

Precious

Seven years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:28, 12 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in GLAM: January 2022[edit]

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue I, January 2022 Headlines Belgium report: Belgium report Brazil report: A portable museum experience to digitize and share collections online Colombia report: Let's celebrate the Public domain day with Wikisource Estonia report: Mobile Photo Studio + New Cooperations Finland report: Photowalks in Helsinki, autumn 2021 France report: Training course for Musée de l'armée staff members; Journée Wikimédia Culture et numérique 2022; Wikiway Indonesia report: GLAM Indonesia wrap-up; Public Domain Day 2022 in Indonesia; #1Lib1Ref Italy report: Collaborations and new projects in January Romania report: About #1lib1ref activities in Romania (and Moldova) Serbia report: Successful end of the Old and even more successful beginning of the New year Spain report: BiBat Museum and libraries Sweden report: Uploads of photographs taken by Swedish missionaries in China; Sörmlands museum's first contributions UK report: Khalili Collections and British Library USA report: Report from DPLA AvoinGLAM report: Hello, world! Content Partnerships Hub report: Results and summaries; Helping with getting Pattypan back on track; Working with partners to make content available Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: February 22: Meetup about SDC support in OpenRefine WMF GLAM report: Wikimedia campaigns for librarians and museum workers; Community Wishlist Survey; and Wikimedia query services Calendar: February's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Tech News: 2022-07[edit]

19:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Redlink hatnotes[edit]

The category is over 9,000 if you haven't noticed. It still seems to be growing very slowly - not sure if these are due to editors manually adding new ones or continued detection of old ones. Anyway, I have found some cases of a redlink in a {{further}} in one of a series of articles where a particular article hasn't been written yet. Instead of removing these, they could be changed to {{further if exists}} (we have {{see also if exists}}, but not one for {{further}}. MB 03:29, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

​Should I create {{further if exists}}? I agree that that solution makes complete sense for "series" articles in particular, where they're likely to include redlinks to articles that can't yet be written, but presumably should be written and referenced elsewhere later. Fixing the backlog will take time and effort, but I've both been personally busy and wanted to see stability in the category count before I did more work to fix them. One thought that's occurred to me is to integrate the "if exists" functionality entirely, though I'm not fond of the idea because the failure mode (missing output) is likely to be very confusing to new users. {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 19:22, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, create it since you agree it would be useful in some cases. I agree having the functionality always on could be confusing, if you made a typo and didn't notice that was the cause of your hatnote not appearing. I have fixed a few hundred of these so far, but it't not as satisfying when I can't see the count decreasing. It seems that most of the redlinks are to articles that never existed (perhaps some hanotes are brought over during translations). Others are deleted pages where the link was not removed. Some are moved articles that don't have redirects for some reason. So actually inspecting each one does lead to some "rescues". I have only found one oddball case so far, The Vanishing Race has a link to a FILE. MB 20:40, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2022-08[edit]

19:10, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Arthur Lewis (Art Director)[edit]

Hello, I work for Executive Writing. As part of my consultancy work, I've established this account to represent clients on Wikipedia. I am hoping you can "userfy" the Wikipedia page for Arthur Lewis (art director). It has been removed and I would like to see what was removed and try and work with editors to make it better and have it restored. I have asked the administrator who removed it and have not had a response. Thank you. EWChristine (talk) 16:36, 24 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

EWChristine, I'm sorry, but I'm not willing to restore or userfy the page for you. The page was originally deleted because it was created through undisclosed paid editing and a sockpuppet, so it's a bit too on-the-nose for me to support another paid editor seeking to restore it, even while you're disclosing your conflict of interest. Feel free to write a new version of the page from scratch—you need not taint your work with the misbehaviour of the other editor. {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 17:12, 24 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2022-09[edit]

22:58, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2022[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

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. (T296645)
• 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. (T25020)
• 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. (T295389)

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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Tech News: 2022-10[edit]

21:15, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: February 2022[edit]

This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue II, February 2022 Headlines Albania report: Traditional Food Photography Belgium report: Shakespeare is dead - Contemporary playwriting festival; Public Domain Day Belgium 2022 (10/02) report Estonia report: An examples of a visual storytelling – two virtual exhibitions France report: Wikimedian in Residence in Clermont Auvergne Italy report: New agreement for Wiki Loves Monument Italy 2022 Kosovo report: Traditional Food Photography Netherlands report: New photo collections of Alkmaar, Wiki goes Caribbean meeting, contemporary art Wikidata import and knowledge platform for GLAMS New Zealand report: National Digital Forum and Editing in a Time of COVID Nigeria report: 1Lib1Ref 2022 Kwara Poland report: New GLAM-Wiki partnerships and cooperations Serbia report: A month in the sign of 1Lib1Ref Sweden report: Additional photos from Swedish missionairies; Historical maps of Ukraine UK report: Khalili Collections Ukraine report: Stand with Ukraine! USA report: Women's History Month activities AvoinGLAM report: February in AvoinGLAM Content Partnerships Hub report: Encyclopaedia of Life release their 2 million species descriptions under CC0 Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons report: Editing SDC with OpenRefine; Monthly OpenRefine and Wikimedia office hours Calendar: March's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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22:06, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2022-12[edit]

15:59, 21 March 2022 (UTC)