17:33, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

A bookworm / beetle grub found inside a paperback book, showing some of the damage it has wrought Hello, Spurb. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Bookworm (insect) Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Nuuk • Lake surfing Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 17 December 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

20:34, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

A diagram that includes the scalp Hello, Spurb. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Scalp Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Bookworm (insect) • Nuuk Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 24 December 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Poster for a production of Boucicault's farce Contempt of Court, c. 1879. From the Library of Congress. Hello, Spurb. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Farce Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Scalp • Bookworm (insect) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 31 December 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).

Administrator changes Galobtter Orangemike BorgQueen • Davidruben • Ocee • Revolving Bugbear • Theda • There'sNoTime • Timc • Tijuana Brass • Tristessa de St Ange Bureaucrat changes Addshore

CheckUser changes Joe Roe • SilkTork Euryalus • Newyorkbrad • There'sNoTime Oversight changes AGK • Joe Roe • SilkTork Euryalus • Newyorkbrad • There'sNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• There are a number of new or changed speedy deletion criteria, each previously part of WP:CSD#G6:

1. G14 (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-disambig}}; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages.
2. R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no file links) that have the same name as a file or redirect at Commons are now covered under the new R4 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-redircom}}; the text is unchanged.
3. G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use {{db-blankdraft}}.

• The Wikimedia Foundation now requires all interface administrators to enable two-factor authentication.
• Members of the Bot Approvals Group (BAG) are now subject to an activity requirement. After two years without any bot-related activity (e.g. operating a bot, posting on a bot-related talk page), BAG members will be retired from BAG following a one-week notice.

Technical news

• Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors, et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length. All accounts must have a password:

1. At least 8 characters in length
2. Not in the 100,000 most popular passwords (defined by the Password Blacklist library)
3. Different from their username

User accounts not meeting these requirements will be prompted to update their password accordingly. More information is available on MediaWiki.org.

• Blocked administrators may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
• {{Copyvio-revdel}} now has a link to open the history with the RevDel checkboxes already filled in.

Arbitration

• Following the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: AGK, Courcelles, GorillaWarfare, Joe Roe, Mkdw, SilkTork.

Miscellaneous

• Accounts continue to be compromised on a regular basis. Evidence shows this is entirely due to the accounts having the same 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.
• Around 22% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 20% in June 2018. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless of whether you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

An example of page orientation: a smartphone positioned upright (portrait orientation) and horizontally (landscape orientation) Hello, Spurb. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Page orientation Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Farce • Scalp Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:27, 7 January 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

18:29, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi. Recently, a request was made for someone to revise the User:Bility/convert24hourtime.js user script. I (DannyS712) took up that challenge, and have fixed the bug with the "thanks" button, fixed the bug regarding blocked users, fixed the bug regarding converting the times when examining a diff, and even added the feature to convert times when looking at logs. I have some more features planned, but I thought that, since you are currently importing Bility's script, you may want to know that a less buggy version is available at User:DannyS712/12Hours. This is intended as a one-time note. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 20:07, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:00, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Vicki Gunvalson in 2009 Hello, Spurb. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Vicki Gunvalson Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Page orientation • Farce Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 14 January 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

17:54, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

A view of the Quetschenfest street fair in the community of Geichlingen, Germany Hello, Spurb. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Street fair Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Vicki Gunvalson • Page orientation Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 21 January 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

20:33, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Dear all. Recently, our community lost a dedicated user, Flooded with them hundreds (talk). Among their projects were a number of user scripts that were deleted when they left. I (DannyS712) have asked that they be undeleted, and have taken over maintaining them. You currently import Flooded's (deleted) script, and I thought that you might want to import a working version. Links to each script are provided below.

If you have any questions, please reach out and talk to me. --DannyS712 (talk) 21:31, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:50, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

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