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The Signpost: 1 March 2020

From the editor: The ball is in your court

How to stop abusive commercial editing.

News and notes: Alexa ranking down to 13th worldwide

Falling behind Chinese websites.

Special report: More participation, more conversation, more pageviews

A statistical insight into the English Wikipedia's very own online community newsletter.

In the media: Mapping IP editors, Smithsonian open-access, and coronavirus disinformation

We're all over the map this month.

Discussion report: Do you prefer M or P?

Wikimedia or Wikipedia?

Arbitration report: Two prominent administrators removed

Arbitration Committee and the "blue wall of silence".

By the numbers: How many actions by administrators does it take to clean up spam?

Numbers for vandalism and sockpuppeting included at no additional charge!

Community view: The Incredible Invisible Woman

No more "Hidden Figures", let's work to make women visible on Wikipedia!

In focus: History of The Signpost, 2015–2019

Covering Wikipedia for another five years!

Recent research: Wikipedia generates $50 billion/year consumer surplus in the US alone

And other new research results

From the archives: Is Wikipedia for sale?

How long has Wikipedia been for sale? When will it stop?

Traffic report: February articles, floating in the dark

Kobe sets another record.

Gallery: Feel the love

Renewing our vows.

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

A selection of good news and encouraging stories from the Wikiverse.

Op-Ed: What I learned as Wikimedia UK Communications Coordinator

Getting across the Wikipedia experience to the press.

Opinion: Wikipedia is another country

Or: how to best bite a newbie.

Humour: The Wilhelm scream

WikiWorld is back.

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:44, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).

Administrator changes

Money emoji

Athaenara • DeltaQuad

Fishhead64 • Kudpung • Mikaey

Bureaucrat changes

DeltaQuad

CheckUser changes

DeltaQuad

Oversight changes

DeltaQuad

Guideline and policy news

Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news

Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

Miscellaneous

Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.

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Tech News: 2020-10

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug. [1]

Changes later this week

If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for. [2]
When you asked for a new password you could see if the username didn't exist on Special:PasswordReset. Now the page will show the username you entered and tell you an email has been sent if the username exists. This is for better security. [3]
On Special:WhatLinksHere you can see what other pages link to a page. You can see if the link is from a redirect. You can now see which section the redirect links to. [4]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 March. It will be on all wikis from 5 March (calendar).

Future changes

The developers are working on a new interface to solve edit conflicts on talk pages. You can give feedback. [5]
There is a vote on the creation of a new user group called abuse filter manager. The vote runs from March 1 to March 31 on Meta.
wgMFSpecialCaseMainPage was used for the mobile site. It was deprecated in 2017. It will stop working in April. Wikis should see if they use it. If they do they should fix it. You can read more and ask for help. This affects 183 wikis. There is a list. [6]

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00:36, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

please help translate this message into your local language via meta

The 2019 Cure Award

In 2019 you were one of the top ~300 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a thematic organization whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:35, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-11

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

There is a new search word called articletopic. You can use it to search for articles on a specific topic. It is available on the Arabic, Czech, English and Vietnamese Wikipedias. It will come to more Wikipedias soon. [7][8][9]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 March. It will be on all wikis from 12 March (calendar).

Future changes

There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
The Wikipedia Android app will do push notifications if users want them. This could help you see for example when someone wrote on your talk page or your edit was reverted. This will come later this year. [10]

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17:14, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-12

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

There is a new API module for changing the content model of existing pages. Use action=changecontentmodel to specify the new model. You can read the documentation on mediawiki.org. [11]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).

Future changes

If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new interface. [12][13]
You can see a proposed design for replying to comments in an easier way.

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21:16, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject Medicine!

We at Wikiproject Medicine would like to thank you for your contribution now during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. We are far from out of the woods with regard to the pandemic and understand that your focus may lie on coronavirus efforts.
We would still like to shine a light on our active medical community, which you are more than welcome to join. As a participant you can ask questions and get help about best practices on editing any health or medical article — on our talk-page. We are a (mostly) collegial bunch, and I do hope you feel welcome to participate. Currently there are two active communities:

Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine (talk — The general medical community)
Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19 (talk — A temporary COVID-19 community)

Please join up!

Best regards, Carl Fredrik^talk 09:47, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 March 2020

From the editors: The bad and the good

Getting ready for anything.

News and notes: 2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked

Wheel war on Tatar Wikipedia.

WikiProject report: WikiProject COVID-19: A WikiProject Report

An interview with members of the COVID Project.

Special report: Wikipedia on COVID-19: what we publish and why it matters

Wikipedia presents solid widely-consulted information on COVID-19 and related topics.

In the media: Blocked in Iran but still covering the big story

COVID-19, Zika, edit-a-thons, and macrons.

Discussion report: Rethinking draft space

Plus: geonotices, reliable sources, and job titles.

Arbitration report: Unfinished business

A new case, a case returns from limbo, and an RfC being prepared.

In focus: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …"

The twists and turns of Epstein’s portrayal on Wikipedia.

Community view: Wikimedia community responds to COVID-19

Individually and in organized groups, Wikimedians stand up and make a difference.

Recent research: Disease outbreak uncertainties, AfD forecasting, auto-updating Wikipedia

New research publications on "the fear of being erased" and other topics.

From the archives: Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own

Five years ago with a different crisis.

Traffic report: The only thing that matters in the world

Going to movies and sport stadiums is history, and readers turn to Wikipedia for crucial medical information and updates.

Gallery: Visible Women on Wikipedia

Images from the Whose Knowlege? campaign.

News from the WMF: Amid COVID-19, Wikimedia Foundation offers full pay for reduced hours, mobilizes all staff to work remote, and waives sick time

The WMF responds.

On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?

A selection of good news and encouraging stories from the Wikiverse.

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Tech News: 2020-14

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

The beta version of the Wikipedia app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts. [14]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all wikis from 2 April (calendar).

Future changes

The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed. [15]
There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback. [16]

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17:25, 30 March 2020 (UTC)