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April 2019
WP:UAA reports on users with no edits
Generally, there is no reason to report usernames with no edits whatsoever. Per WP:UAAI: "Wait until the user edits. Do not report a user that hasn't edited unless they are clearly a vandal. We do not want to welcome productive editors with a report at UAA, nor do we want to waste our time dealing with accounts that may never be used." The exceptions are obvious hate speech or names that attack a living person/Wikipedia editor, those are blockable even without any edits, but other run-of-the-mill violations need not be reported unless and until they at least attempt to edit, and you should be able to clearly explain what the problem is if it is not immediately evident.
For whatever reason, every day dozens, if not hundreds of accounts are created that never make one single edit. It is our responsibility as admins to conscientiously review every report a user makes at UAA, so we have to check for contribs, deleted contribs, and tripping of the edit filter for every one of these reports, only to find out there's nothing there and therefore no problem to be solved. That's time that could be spent doing more productive things, but you basically obligate admins to do it by making such reports.Template:Z182 Beeblebrox (talk) 21:31, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
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Vikash.kumawat96 (talk) 11:01, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2019
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).
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Technical news
- In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
- The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Please see meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019 to provide your input on this idea.
Arbitration
- The Arbitration Committee clarified that the General 1RR prohibition for Palestine-Israel articles may only be enforced on pages with the {{ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} edit notice.
Miscellaneous
- Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
- As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- More wikis are now testing visual editor section editing for mobile users. You can read more.
- Admins on French and Polish Wikipedia can block someone from editing a page or a namespace. If your wiki wants to get these blocks before they are available to all wikis, you can tell the developers. [1][2]
Problems
- You will be able read but not edit most wikis for 30 minutes on 11 April at 05:00 (UTC). This is because of a hardware problem. You can see a list of the affected wikis. [3]
- A map update caused some problems on 29 March and 30 March. It was rolled back. [4]
- Pages on some Wikivoyages had problems with the top headline. This has been fixed. [5]
Changes later this week
- When you add an edit summary the VisualEditor will search your recent edit summaries in case you want to re-use one. This works in both the visual and wikitext modes on desktop. It also works on the mobile site. [6]
- The Wikimedia wikis will get a URL shortener. This will work from 11 April. You can read more. [7]
The {{REVISIONID}}magic word will no longer work. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it will return""(empty string). When you read a page it will return"-"(dash). For now this will only affect content namespaces. [8]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 April at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You will be able to preview references. This means that when you hover over the link you will get a popup that shows you a preview of the reference. It will work much like page previews. This is so you don't have to go to the bottom of the page to see a reference. This will now be available as a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia. [9][10]
- The Wikidata JSON output will change. Empty containers will be serialised as empty objects. This is a breaking change that will affect tools that use JSON outputs and APIs. It will happen on 30 April. You can read more and see how to test your code.
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18:24, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
Draft Status
Could you take a moment and explain something to me. I've created a few articles and been able to elevate a few others to "Did you know..." and Good Article status. I was in the process of creating another article (which would have taken perhaps another 45 minutes) when you sent it to a Draft page. Couldn't you just wait another few minutes (after reviewing the user information to confirm prior activity) for me to complete the work, rather than sending my article off to purgatory (where approvals can take weeks and month)? Is that really necessary? Gulbenk (talk) 20:56, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Gulbenk: Hey sorry about that. I've reviewed the article and it's now in the mainspace. Also can you add this tag Template:Under construction when creating new article that is going through a major edit. ___CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 21:17, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
- CAPTAIN MEDUSA, thanks (on both counts)! Gulbenk (talk) 21:39, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
Request on 22:44:33, 8 April 2019 for assistance on AfC submission by DanStallman
- DanStallman (talk · contribs)
You removed the article, Articles for creation: Robert W. Stallman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Robert_W._Stallman
Did you notice he died in 1977?
Or was it the "falling out comment"?
DanStallman (talk) 22:44, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
Request on 23:59:16, 8 April 2019 for assistance on AfC submission by CERWriter
Hello - I received the following message in response to my article submission. Will you provide some clarity as to what this means? Thank you so much.
This submission seems to be a test edit and not an article worthy of an encyclopedia. Please use the sandbox for any editing tests, but do not submit for review until you have an article that you want reviewed for inclusion in Wikipedia. Thank you.
CERWriter (talk) 23:59, 8 April 2019 (UTC) CERWriter (talk) 23:59, 8 April 2019 (UTC)