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Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity
are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are
now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
There will soon be a
calendar widget at
Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.
Arbitration
The Arbitration Committee
is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at
WP:AE or
WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at
WP:ARCA.
Miscellaneous
A
discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to
enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the
Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.
Using AWB to clear maintence categories, is it allowed?
I was given permission to use AWB to clear the backlog of articles in the
Category:Biography_articles_without_living_parameter and have done so. Every so often I open up AWB to clear the category once again, but it has been raised to my attention that in clearing the category it won't always be inline with the rules, as when I add living=n this does not actually affect the page visually. I assumed that because it was a mandatory field (as noted on the WikiProject page), this would be still acceptable. Is my assumption right? Thanks.
Wpgbrown (
talk)
17:32, 3 April 2018 (UTC)reply
(
talk page stalker) Adding or removing a category changes the visual appearance of a page. Technically. You might get some pushback, but plenty of people use AWB to fix errors and subsequently cause a category to appear or disappear. –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
04:05, 4 April 2018 (UTC)reply
A new version of
Denelezh, a tool to monitor the gender gap in Wikidata, has been released, including a new methodology to produce the data (explained at the top of the main page and in the
documentation), and an overview of the
gender gap by Wikimedia project.
Ideally. There is a lot of work to do before we can do that. On a naive basis, for example,
Evolution contains the strings "CO", "SC", "VI" and "ID" which should not be changed, so I will need a proper gazetteer. Most likely I will create a learning algorithm. All the best: RichFarmbrough,
16:45, 14 April 2018 (UTC).reply
Yeah, <onlyinclude> would also work if you knew you just wanted the lead. LST is better for copying different parts of pages to different locations.
Primefac (
talk)
16:27, 14 April 2018 (UTC)reply
Wikidata weekly summary #308
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
There will be
some changes to the way wikitext is parsed during the next few weeks. It will affect all namespaces. You can see a list of pages that may display incorrectly at
Special:LintErrors. Since most of the easy problems have already been solved at the English Wikipedia, I am specifically contacting tech-savvy editors such as yourself with this one-time message, in the hope that you will be able to investigate the remaining high-priority pages during the next month.
There are approximately 10,000 articles (and many more non-article pages) with high-priority errors. The most important ones are the articles with
misnested tags and
table problems. Some of these involve templates, such as infoboxes, or the way the template is used in the article. In some cases, the "error" is a minor, unimportant difference in the visual appearance. In other cases, the results are undesirable. You can see a before-and-after comparison of any article by adding ?action=parsermigration-edit to the end of a link, like this:
/info/en/?search=Arthur_Foss?action=parsermigration-edit (which shows a difference in how {{infobox ship}} is parsed).
WikiWorkshop, a forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects the Wikimedia projects, in Lyon, April 24th. Seven papers related to Wikidata will be presented.
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Wiki Loves Food (WLF) is happening again in 2018 and this year, it's going International. To make this event a grand success, your direction is key. Please sign up
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Danidamiobi (
talk)
02:30, 30 April 2018 (UTC)reply
Wikidata weekly summary #310
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.