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Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #030, 17 Mar 2019

Previous issue:

Single-page portals: 4,704
Total portals: 5,705

This issue:

Single-page portals: 4,562
Total portals: 5,578

The collection of portals has shrunk

All Portals closed at WP:MfD during 2019

Grouped Nominations total 127 Portals:

  1. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/US County Portals Deleted 64 portals
  2. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Districts of India Portals Deleted 30 Portals
  3. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portals for Portland, Oregon neighborhoods Deleted 23 Portals
  4. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Allen Park, Michigan Deleted 6 Portals
  5. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cryptocurrency Deleted 2 Portals
  6. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:North Pole Deleted 2 Portals

Individual Nominations:

  1. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Circles Deleted
  2. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Fruits Deleted
  3. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:E (mathematical constant) Deleted
  4. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Burger King Deleted
  5. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cotingas Deleted
  6. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Prostitution in Canada Deleted
  7. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Agoura Hills, California Deleted
  8. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Urinary system Deleted
  9. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:You Am I Deleted
  10. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cannabis (2nd nomination) Reverted to non-Automated version
  11. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Intermodal containers Deleted
  12. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Adventure travel Deleted
  13. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Adam Ant Deleted
  14. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Benito Juárez, Mexico City Deleted
  15. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Spaghetti Deleted
  16. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Wikiatlas Deleted
  17. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Greek alphabet Deleted
  18. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Deleted
  19. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Accounting Deleted G7
  20. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Lents, Portland, Oregon Deleted P2
  21. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ankaran Deleted
  22. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Jiu-jitsu Deleted G8
  23. Portal:University of Nebraska Speedy Deleted P1/A10 exactly the same as Portal:University of Nebraska–Lincoln also created by the TTH

Related WikiProject:

  1. Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals Demoted

(Attribution: Copied from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Portal MfD Results)

WikiProject Quantum portals

This was a spin-off from WikiProject Portals, for the purpose of developing zero-page portals (portals generated on-the-screen at the push of a button, with no stored pages).

It has been merged back into WikiProject Portals. In the MfD the vote was "demote". See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Quantum portals.

Hiatus on mass creation of Portals

At WP:VPR, mass creation of Portals using semi-automated tools has been put on hold until clearer community consensus is established.

See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Hiatus on mass creation of Portals.

The Transhumanist banned from creating new portals for 3 months

See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Proposal 1: Interim Topic-Ban on New Portals.

Until next issue...

Keep on keepin' on.    — The Transhumanist   04:13, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

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Kirstjen Nielsen

~Thanks ~ Mitch Mitchellhobbs (talk) 15:30, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Je vous en prie. Javert2113 (Siarad.|¤) 15:32, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

LOL ~~ Mitchellhobbs (talk) 15:36, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

I liked her Mitchellhobbs (talk) 01:05, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

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Good morning Javert2113 Hope you had your coffee,

I sent this draft for review, If you are the reviewer please let me know what I have to do to improve in order to be accepted, also there is a section in Burger King franchises (at the bottom) and GPS Hospitality for ref of why I started this article ~ thanks ~ mitch ~ Mitchellhobbs (talk) 16:42, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Mitch. I'm afraid I don't have the access level required to review pages, but it looks pretty good to me! A few more references never hurt, of course, but the ones you have are pretty solid. I think this draft will be accepted! Appreciate you reaching out; have a great day! Javert2113 (Siarad.|¤) 16:59, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
Thanks Javert2113 I got a bad edit on my (talk) from MelanieN on Spamming because I sent the same edit to the only few editors I knew, last thing I wanted to do, but thanks for looking at Draft:GPS Hospitality and for your answer ~ mitch ~ Mitchellhobbs (talk) 17:06, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
GPS Hospitality thanks Javert2113 ~ Mitchellhobbs (talk) 20:38, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
You're welcome! Have a great day! Javert2113 (Siarad.|¤) 20:52, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals update #031, 01 May 2019

Back to the drawing board

Implementation of the new portal design has been culled back almost completely, and the cull is still ongoing. The cull has also affected portals that existed before the development of the automated design.

Some of the reasons for the purge are:

  • Portals receive insufficient traffic, making it a waste of editor resources to maintain them, especially for narrow-scope or "micro" portals
  • The default {{bpsp}} portals are redundant with the corresponding articles, being based primarily on the corresponding navigation footer displayed on each of those articles, and therefore not worth separate pages to do so
  • They were mass created

Most of the deletions have been made without prejudice to recreation of curated portals, so that approval does not need to be sought at Deletion Review in those cases.

In addition to new portals being deleted, most of the portals that were converted to an automated design have been reverted.

Which puts us back to portals with manually selected content, that need to be maintained by hand, for the most part, for the time being, and back facing some of the same problems we had when we were at this crossroads before:

  • Manually maintained portals are not scalable (they are labor intensive, and there aren't very many editors available to maintain them)
  • The builders/maintainers tend to eventually abandon them
  • Untended handcrafted portals go stale and fall into disrepair over time

These and other concepts require further discussion. See you at WT:POG.

However, after the purge/reversion is completed, some of the single-page portals might be left, due to having acceptable characteristics (their design varied some). If so, then those could possibly be used as a model to convert and/or build more, after the discussions on portal creation and design guidelines have reached a community consensus on what is and is not acceptable for a portal.

See you at WT:POG.

Curation

A major theme in the deletion discussions was the need for portals to be curated, that is, each one having a dedicated maintainer.

There are currently around 100 curated portals. Based on the predominant reasoning at MfD, it seems likely that all the other portals may be subject to deletion.

See you at WT:POG.

Traffic

An observation and argument that arose again and again during the WP:ENDPORTALS RfC and the ongoing deletion drive of {{bpsp}} default portals, was that portals simply do not get much traffic. Typically, they get a tiny fraction of what the corresponding like-titled articles get.

And while this isn't generally considered a good rationale for creation or deletion of articles, portals are not articles, and portal critics insist that traffic is a key factor in the utility of portals.

The implication is that portals won't be seen much, so wouldn't it be better to develop pages that are?

And since such development isn't limited to editing, almost anything is possible. If we can't bring readers to portals, we could bring portal features, or even better features, to the readers (i.e., to articles)...

Some potential future directions of development

Quantum portals?

An approach that has received some brainstorming is "quantum portals", meaning portals generated on-the-fly and presented directly on the view screen without any saved portal pages. This could be done by script or as a MediaWiki program feature, but would initially be done by script. The main benefits of this is that it would be opt-in (only those who wanted it would install it), and the resultant generated pages wouldn't be saved, so that there wouldn't be anything to maintain except the script itself.

Non-portal integrated components

Another approach would be to focus on implementing specific features independently, and provide them somewhere highly visible in a non-portal presentation context (that is, on a page that wasn't a portal that has lots of traffic, i.e., articles). Such as inserted directly into an article's HTML, as a pop-up there, or as a temporary page. There are scripts that use these approaches (providing unrelated features), and so these approaches have been proven to be feasible.

What kind of features could this be done with?

The various components of the automated portal design are transcluded excerpts, news, did you know, image slideshows, excerpt slideshows, and so on.

Some of the features, such as navigation footers and links to sister projects are already included on article pages. And some already have interface counterparts (such as image slideshows). Some of the rest may be able to be integrated directly via script, but may need further development before they are perfected. Fortunately, scripts are used on an opt-in basis, and therefore wouldn't affect readers-in-general and editors-at-large during the development process (except for those who wanted to be beta testers and installed the scripts).

The development of such scripts falls under the scope of the Javascript-WikiProject/Userscript-department, and will likely be listed on Wikipedia:User scripts/List when completed enough for beta-testing. Be sure to watchlist that page.

Where would that leave curated portals?

Being curated. At least for the time being.

New encyclopedia program features will likely eventually render most portals obsolete. For example, the pop-up feature of MediaWiki provides much the same functionality as excerpts in portals already, and there is also a slideshow feature to view all the images on the current page (just click on any image, and that activates the slideshow). Future features could also overlap portal features, until there is nothing that portals provide that isn't provided elsewhere or as part of Wikipedia's interface.

But, that may be a ways off. Perhaps months or years. It depends on how rapidly programmers develop them.

Keep on keepin' on

The features of Wikipedia and its articles will continue to evolve, even if Portals go by the wayside. Most, if not all of portals' functionality, or functions very similar, will likely be made available in some form or other.

And who knows what else?

No worries.

Until next issue...    — The Transhumanist   00:24, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

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Coma ergo comma

Fa Chrissake, illuminate me about that comma, uvverwise, I'm not going to sleep tonight:) Or just fix it kindly. I might add that I can link to a wonderful example of at sight reverting, if you are curious. [39] [40] and the discussion that followed, here, which evoked a 'for fuck's sake' on my part over stalling, and the immediate redress of 'be civil', when there is no trace of civility in the thread or the reverts! History! (and I'm somewhat history myself). Regards.Nishidani (talk) 12:54, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Nishidani. I wasn't referring to your statements, mind (I don't find it very kind or civil to correct another editor's grammar, especially given the international nature of Wikipedia and the prevalence of errors with mobile device keyboards), but the grammatical error is in the open letter to the Foundation (which should be, of course, unblemished by error in tone or grammar), which, as a nonrestrictive adjective clause (if I recall what I was taught), could read as follows:

The ban itself was actioned using a recently-introduced T&S process for local, time-limited bans, which, although announced in T&S’ 2018–2019 Annual Plan, was not adequately communicated to the English Wikipedia community, and not subject to any form of community consultation.

I'm sorry if I caused you any confusion or distress; I sure didn't mean to: I was unclear in my response about what I was discussing (which is what I get for posting immediately after waking up). All in all, it's a slight error, and there are multiple ways of resolving it (for example, another comma where I placed it, while keeping the former comma, too), but I couldn't help but notice it in an otherwise flawless statement. (I may have some quibbles regarding the closing paragraph, too, but I've already said way too much.) Hope you're well, Nishidani, and, as always, thank you for your candid and much-needed insight. Javert2113 (Siarad.|¤) 13:13, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
In short, this wasn't about you (and I really do apologize if you felt I was speaking to you), but the open letter. There, one comma is needed to separate off the "which", regardless of other commas. Javert2113 (Siarad.|¤) 13:15, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

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Thanks and a question

After editing Louis G. Dreyfus, the WikiGnome was thrilled to receive a kitten. The shy creature was pleased to discover the nice patch of "mushrooms" (articles) that you had planted. He has now slipped quietly from plant to plant, hoping to assist by clipping a blade of grass here, or patting down some soil there. It brings him pleasure to help the "big people" (writers) in his own small way.

Ever since T&S/WMF stomped through the forest a couple of months ago, the gnomes have been nervous. They have seen Avatar and fear the continued search for the unobtanium of Universal Civility. If my gnome is annoying you, please say so. He will trot on his tiny legs back into the undergrowth.

Seriously, though, I did look at some of your articles, to see if I could help. Added some sections, etc. One article has a problem that I cannot resolve: William S. B. Lacy. Look under "Career at the State Department". The first two sentences contradict each other-- 1944 vs. 1946. I don't have access to NYT, so I cannot check ref #2, to see if it provides clarification. If you have time, can you review? I will make the changes, if you do not care to edit in article space at this time. (I consider Fram's block to be a travesty of natural justice, and support your right to protest.)

Thank you for your excellent contributions. You are a good writer and researcher and I enjoyed reading your work. Best wishes for all your endeavors, Tribe of Tiger Let's Purrfect! 22:13, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

  • Hello, Tribe of Tiger. I greatly appreciate your help in the maintenance and cleanup of some of the articles I've had the pleasure of contributing. I also wouldn't mind this being an ongoing thing for the next batch of articles; I admittedly do take quite some time to research and synthesize the sources, and I'd be obliged if you could, in effect, be a second pair of eyes to catch my errors and mistakes.
As for the matter in question: The New York Times article referenced, from 18 JULY 1961, notes that "[t]he 51-year-old diplomat has served in the State Department since 1944." The Washington Post article, as you may know, says that he began working at the State Department in 1946. It is possible (though I admit to pure speculation at this point) that Mr. Lacy served as some sort of informal liaison or in some sort of combined-duty capacity until 1946, when he formally transferred over to State; but, given the greater detail and verifiability of the Post in this matter, I would be inclined to write something approximating the following: "Trained as an economist, Lacy joined the State Department in 1944 [Times citation here] or in 1946, after working in the War Production Board and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.[Post citation]" For that matter, a complete omission of the Times article would not be wholly incorrect, either.
Again, thank you for bringing that to my attention: it must have slipped through my generally rigorous fact-checking process. I'm afraid, however, that I must leave the ultimate decision of what to write to you, as a fellow editor; though I do believe that I will be ending my strike rather soon, upon the release of the final decision in the Arbitration Committee case, I fear that my graduate education will be dominating whatever free time I would otherwise gladly devote to the betterment and improvement of this project. Javert2113 (Siarad.|¤) 01:05, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
Thanks, this was very helpful! I have made the changes, as you suggested. I left the WaPo ref in place, in case others cannot access NYT. Do you have a subscription to NYT or can you access it through your university? I enjoy reading refs for further info, and find it distressing to be "shut out" of certain citations.
It can be a challenge to proofread one's own work, especially after you've already spent so much time immersed in reading sources, writing and revising. It will be a pleasure to review any upcoming articles that you produce. I will check your user page list from time to time, or you could send me a ping. Hope this current semester is a good one for you! Tribe of Tiger Let's Purrfect! 02:33, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

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What I did.

So what I did for the new locks were simple. I thought that they needed a new design to prevent confusion. I saw that some were the same colour and the symbol could be misleading. That is why the cascade protection lock is blue. I changed the letters a bit to keep it a character consistent. So, that is what I did. Thanks --Wyatt2049 | (Talk) or (Stalk) 00:29, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. Wyatt2049, did you, by any chance, look into how the current locks and your proposed locks affect the colour-blind? Thank you! (Feel free to reply on the Village Pump (proposals) page, too.) Javert2113 (Siarad.|¤) 00:39, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
No --Wyatt2049 | (Talk) or (Stalk) 00:44, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for your honesty. Javert2113 (Siarad.|¤) 00:46, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
That's What my teacher says. And is it a support or oppose? --Wyatt2049 | (Talk) or (Stalk) 00:47, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
I'm not sure yet, but I might not be able to support; we're pretty serious about everyone being able to access Wikipedia equally here, and that's the deciding factor for me, I'm afraid. Javert2113 (Siarad.|¤) 00:53, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

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Oversight changes

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Technical news

  • Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
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Arbitration

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Please comment on Talk:Right-wing politics

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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

Hello Javert2113,

Backlog

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Coordinator

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.

This month's refresher course

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.

Deletion tags

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Paid editing

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Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion
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  • Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.
Not English
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Tools

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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

Hello Javert2113,

Backlog

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Coordinator

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.

This month's refresher course

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.

Deletion tags

Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.

Paid editing

Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion
  • Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
  • Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.
Not English
  • A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.
Tools

Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.

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Please comment on Talk:Boris Johnson

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Milhist coordinator election voting has commenced

G'day everyone, voting for the 2019 Wikiproject Military history coordinator tranche is now open. This is a simple approval vote; only "support" votes should be made. Project members should vote for any candidates they support by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September 2018. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:37, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXI, September 2019

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Wikiproject Military history coordinator election half-way mark

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

Technical news

  • As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

Arbitration

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The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. Legobot (talk) 04:26, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

I have done some copyediting on this article, and added an image to the info box. Please read my notes on the talk page regarding the image! Thanks... I may try to add additional info, if I can nail down the sources. See [41]Tribe of Tiger Let's Purrfect! 22:54, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CLXII, October 2019

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Deletion discussion about Kate Marie Byrnes

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New Page Review newsletter November 2019

Hello Javert2113,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.

Getting the queue to 0

There are now 804 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
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Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.

Coordinator

Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.

This month's refresher course

Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.

Tools
  • It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
  • It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
Reviewer Feedback

Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.

Second set of eyes
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  • Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
Arbitration Committee

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Community Wish list

There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.


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Administrators' newsletter – November 2019

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Guideline and policy news

  • A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

Arbitration


Please comment on Talk:Mark Levin

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Mark Levin. Legobot (talk) 04:29, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

RfA criteria concerning controversy in word and deed

Can you please point me or elaborate here on your talk page, your "RfA criteria concerning controversy in word and deed"--DBigXray 06:52, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Gladly. You'll find it here, under "RFA Criteria#Controversy". Have a good day! Javert2113 (Siarad.|¤) 11:44, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
Thank you. I think it would be useful to clarify your position to the rest of us as well, if you could link it, in your comment that you made at the RfA. --DBigXray 16:28, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
@DBigXray: But of course: I'll do that right away. I originally planned to do so, but it must have slipped my mind. Javert2113 (Siarad.|¤) 16:38, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CLXIII, November 2019

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