User talk:Moonythedwarf/Archives/2021/November

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The Signpost: 31 October 2021

From the editor: Different stories, same place

What Wikipedians can and cannot do.

News and notes: The sockpuppet who ran for adminship and almost succeeded

And will the last person to leave the C-Suite please turn off the lights?

In the media: China bans, and is there intelligent life on this planet?

Beam me up, Scotty – Matt Amodio for sure, and maybe just a few VIPs, billionaires, and Tucker Carlson.

Opinion: A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life

Section 230 in practice – this Black life should matter to us.

Discussion report: Editors brainstorm and propose changes to the Requests for adminship process

Proposals to solve eight core problems – what many describe as a broken process – identified in the 2021 RfA review.

Recent research: Welcome messages fail to improve newbie retention

And other new research results

Community view: Reflections on the Chinese Wikipedia

Were the bans justified?

Traffic report: James Bond and the Giant Squid Game

Plus German elections and movies galore.

Technology report: Wikimedia Toolhub, winners of the Coolest Tool Award, and more

Now discovering and accessing Wikimedia tools will be easier.

Serendipity: How Wikipedia helped create a Serbian stamp

Details can make all the difference!

Book review: Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality

Or you could watch the video!

WikiProject report: Redirection

An interview with participants at WikiProject Redirect.

Humour: A very Wiki crossword

24 clues to chew on.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2021

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

Administrator changes

Clpo13

Brian0918 • JDoorjam • Karanacs • MrDarcy • Mindspillage

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

CheckUser changes

Dreamy Jazz • Ferret • GeneralNotability • Girth Summit • RoySmith

Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz • LuK3

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

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 limit on the amount of emails a user can send each day. This limit is now global instead of per-wiki. This change is to prevent abuse. [1]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 November. It will be on all wikis from 4 November (calendar).

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20:27, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-45

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

Mobile IP editors are now able to receive warning notices indicating they have a talk page message on the mobile website (similar to the orange banners available on desktop). These notices will be displayed on every page outside of the main namespace and every time the user attempts to edit. The notice on desktop now has a slightly different colour. [2][3]

Changes later this week

Wikidata will be read-only for a few minutes on 11 November. This will happen around 06:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance. [4]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

In the future, unregistered editors will be given an identity that is not their IP address. This is for legal reasons. A new user right will let editors who need to know the IPs of unregistered accounts to fight vandalism, spam, and harassment, see the IP. You can read the suggestions for how that identity could work and discuss on the talk page.

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20:35, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-46

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

Most large file uploads errors that had messages like "stashfailed" or "DBQueryError" have now been fixed. An incident report is available.

Problems

Sometimes, edits made on iOS using the visual editor save groups of numbers as telephone number links, because of a feature in the operating system. This problem is under investigation. [5]
There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error. [6]

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 November. It will be on all wikis from 18 November (calendar).

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22:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-47

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

Changes later this week

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
The template dialog in VisualEditor and in the new wikitext mode Beta feature will be heavily improved on a few wikis. Your feedback is welcome.

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20:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

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The Signpost: 29 November 2021

In the media: Denial: climate change, mass killings and pornography

Will they deny non-fungible tokens next?

WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2021

15th annual event closes with hundreds of articles improved

Deletion report: What we lost, what we gained

1,767 nominations in November... AN/Is... DRVs... The largest AfD in history, possibly ever!

From a Wikipedia reader: What's Matt Amodio?

Wikipedia democratizes knowledge, but is it in Jeopardy?

Arbitration report: ArbCom in 2021

We should have at least one of these every year!

Discussion report: On the brink of change – RFA reforms appear imminent

Editors propose modifications to Wikipedia's admin-making process.

Technology report: What does it take to upload a file?

How MediaWiki works with media files.

WikiProject report: Interview with contributors to WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers

From the silver screen to your computer screen

Serendipity: "Did You Know ..." featured a photo of the wrong female WWII pilot

A worthy pilot but the photo didn't match the article!

News from Diff: Content translation tool helps create one million Wikipedia articles

Sharing the wealth of information!

Traffic report: Reporting ticket sales on the edge of the Wiki, if Eternals should fail

Conjuring up the jesters again!

Recent research: Vandalizing Wikipedia as rational behavior

And other recent research publications

Humour: A very new very Wiki crossword

Answers to last month's puzzle included.

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Tech News: 2021-48

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

Changes later this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 December. It will be on all wikis from 2 December (calendar).

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21:13, 29 November 2021 (UTC)