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

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.

Technical news

• Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).

Arbitration

• Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
• The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.

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Seven years ago this week, the Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:

• The 50 millionth edit using the visual editor on desktop was made this year. More than 10 million edits have been made here at the English Wikipedia.
• More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
• Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
• The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has been increasing every year.
• Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode. You can enable it in your preferences.
• On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor.
• In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers, and half of their first edits, were made using the visual editor. This percentage has been increasing every year since the tool became available.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:05, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

20:18, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

16:29, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

19:13, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

13:51, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes

Red Phoenix

Euryalus • SQL

Jujutacular • Monty845 • Rettetast • Madchester

Oversight changes

GB fan

Keegan • Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos

Guideline and policy news

• There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
• Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
• Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
• There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.

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15:43, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

16:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

20:41, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

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The Reply tool has been available as a Beta Feature at the Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias since 31 March 2020. The first analysis showed positive results.

• More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
• Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
• Comments from Wikipedia editors are positive. One said, أعتقد أن الأداة تقدم فائدة ملحوظة؛ فهي تختصر الوقت لتقديم رد بدلًا من التنقل بالفأرة إلى وصلة تعديل القسم أو الصفحة، التي تكون بعيدة عن التعليق الأخير في الغالب، ويصل المساهم لصندوق التعديل بسرعة باستخدام الأداة. ("I think the tool has a significant impact; it saves time to reply while the classic way is to move with a mouse to the Edit link to edit the section or the page which is generally far away from the comment. And the user reaches to the edit box so quickly to use the Reply tool.")[35]

The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).

The Reply tool is still in active development. Per request from the Dutch Wikipedia and other editors, you will be able to customize the edit summary. (The default edit summary is "Reply".) A "ping" feature is available in the Reply tool's visual editing mode. This feature searches for usernames. Per request from the Arabic Wikipedia, each wiki will be able to set its own preferred symbol for pinging editors. Per request from editors at the Japanese and Hungarian Wikipedias, each wiki can define a preferred signature prefix in the page MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix. For example, some languages omit spaces before signatures. Other communities want to add a dash or a non-breaking space.

• The new requirements for custom user signatures began on 6 July 2020. If you try to create a custom signature that does not meet the requirements, you will get an error message.
• Existing custom signatures that do not meet the new requirements will be unaffected temporarily. Eventually, all custom signatures will need to meet the new requirements. You can check your signature and see lists of active editors whose custom signatures need to be corrected. Volunteers have been contacting editors who need to change their custom signatures. If you need to change your custom signature, then please read the help page.

Next, the team will be working on a tool for quickly and easily starting a new discussion section to a talk page. To follow the development of this new tool, please put the New Discussion Tool project page on your watchlist.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:47, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

20:08, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes

Eddie891

Angela • Jcw69 • Just Chilling • Philg88 • Viajero

CheckUser changes

SQL

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the minimum length for site ban discussions was increased to 72 hours, up from 24.
• A request for comment is ongoing to determine whether paid editors must or should use the articles for creation process.
• A request for comment is open to resolve inconsistencies between the draftification and alternative to deletion processes.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2020 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
• An open request for comment asks whether active Arbitrators may serve on the Trust and Safety Case Review Committee or Ombudsman commission.

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15:59, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

16:18, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

21:26, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

21:23, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes

Ajpolino • LuK3

Jackmcbarn

Ad Orientem • Harej • Lid • Lomn • Mentoz86 • Oliver Pereira • XJaM

There'sNoTime → TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely 1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.

Technical news

• The filter log now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions (phab:T261630).

Arbitration

• The 2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
• Following a request for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either the Ombuds Commission or the WMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committee passed a motion implementing those results into their procedures.

Miscellaneous

• The Universal Code of Conduct draft is open for community review and comment until October 6th, 2020.
• Office actions may now be appealed to the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee.

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16:24, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Hey Babymissfortune

Just letting you know that we have an editor that is going through the MotoGP season pages re-arranging the entry lists in a way that does not follow the principles that we have always used on the motorbike racing pages.

I have posted a notice on that editor's talk page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Samster80#Entry_Lists_On_MotoGP_Season_Pages ) explaining the way we do things. But I doubt if the editor will listen to me, since I am just an IP editor whose address changes every time he visits. (I did create an account one time many years ago, but have been refusing to use it because they changed the underscore that I wanted to be in my name into a space).

While I'm here, can I just say that I don't like the new layout that has been used for the Entry list tables for the past few seasons. It is very hard to read in a straight line across the merged cells in the "constructor" and "motorcycle" columns. And if you are looking at the Moto2 or Moto3 pages in particular where lots of teams use the same bike, it is a nuisance having to scroll down (or up) the table to find out about the bike being used, because those details are positioned much lower (or higher) than the row you are reading.

Personally, I didn't have any problems with the way it used to be, when the only only merged cells in the table were within team rows. Even if it did mean a lot of repitition if reading down the "constructor" and "motorcycle" columns. It was much easier to follow.

By the way, could you do me a favour? Yesterday, I went through all the pages that linked to the "Avintia Racing" or "By Queroseno Racing" pages, and changed the links to point to the "Esponsorama Racing" page instead. However, I could not do it on the curent 2020 MotoGP World Championship page, because it is semi-protected. So, could you change the "Avintia Racing" links on it?

Thank you

2A00:23C5:17D6:3E01:C7F:935A:90:F58A (talk) 08:03, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

15:23, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

16:30, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

17:37, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

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

Guideline and policy news

• Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account or logged-out sockpuppet, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT.

Technical news

• Sysops will once again be able to view the deleted history of JS/CSS pages; this was restricted to interface administrators when that group was introduced.
• Twinkle's block module now includes the ability to note the specific case when applying a discretionary sanctions block and/or template.
• Sysops will be able to use Special:CreateLocalAccount to create a local account for a global user that is prevented from auto-creation locally (such as by a filter or range block). Administrators that are not sure if such a creation is appropriate should contact a checkuser.

Arbitration

• The 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections process has begun. Eligible editors will be able to nominate themselves as candidates from November 8 through November 17. The voting period will run from November 23 through December 6.
• The Anti-harassment RfC has concluded with a summary of the feedback provided.

Miscellaneous

• A reminder that standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. (American Politics 2 Arbitration case).

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16:08, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

15:49, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

No, the test is for the virus (if we want to be pedantic, we actually test for protiens or antibodies which result from the presense of a virus in the body). We cannot "test for a disease". Any medical technician can test for the precense of a virus, but a doctor must make a diagnosis of a disease. A positive viral test might be used as part of the diagnostic procedure to help a doctor to make a diagnosis, but they are not one in the same. Example: We test for HIV (a virus), but not everyone that is HIV-positive will be diagnosed with AIDS. A test from a simple community health centre can declare someone HIV-positive. But only the presence of relavent symptoms along with a positive HIV test will allow a doctor to make a diagnosis of AIDS. Or considering your example of cancer specifically: Yes, we do test for cancer cells. Eg. a tumour biopsy. A doctor waits for a positive test result showing cancerous cells in order to help make a diagnosis of "cancer". A person might be carrying the SARS-COV-2 virus, but they will not necessarily be diagnosed of COVID-19. Rossi and Lecuona tested positive for the SARS-COV-2 virus, but no doctor ever diagnosed them with the disease so far as they have been relatively assymptomic and have only been in household quarantine after their positive tests / close contact with positive tested. Admittedly, the sources cited for Rossi and Lecuona have a lot of mistakes confusing and equating SARS-COV-2 / COVID-19 and the difference between testing and diagnoses, but they are motorsports journalists and not medical professionals, and perhaps they were attempting to simplify for the layman or simply misunderstoof themselves. Grdijk (talk) 20:09, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

15:36, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

HI Dieter Lloyd Wexler/Archive 11,
I'm writing to let you know we have simplified the RfC on trust levels for the tool WikiLoop DoubleCheck. Please join and share your thoughts about this feature! We made this change after hearing users' comments on the first RfC being too complicated. I hope that you can participate this time around, giving your feedback on this new feature for WikiLoop DoubleCheck users.
Thanks and see you around online,
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17:43, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes

Andrwsc • Anetode • GoldenRing • JzG • LinguistAtLarge • Nehrams2020

Interface administrator changes

Izno

Guideline and policy news

• There is a request for comment in progress to either remove T3 (duplicated and hardcoded instances) as a speedy deletion criterion or eliminate its seven-day waiting period.

Technical news

• Voting for proposals in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regarding administrators and anti-harassment.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 7 December 2020 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

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16:14, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

18:17, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

21:33, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

hi i have provided a reliable source in my edit. providing it here again . please revert back the edit. sources: 1. https://www.weddingsutra.com/blog/actress-nisha-aggarwal-to-marry-karan-valecha-of-golds-gym/ Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page). 2.https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/got-bored-of-cardio-and-started-football-karan-valecha-director-golds-gym-india/articleshow/48477600.cmsCite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abhiram Aditya (talk • contribs)

@Abhiram Aditya: Then cite it on the page, not here. ^{Engr. Smitty Werben} 05:35, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi,

Did you really mean to template Materialscientist in this edit? It was obviously the correct action on low-level vandalism. The fact it's in the wrong place makes me think you did it accidentally? Might be polite to remove it? Chaheel Riens (talk) 18:33, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

@Chaheel Riens: Yep, it was a misclick that I didn't notice. It seems as if I was to revert a vandalism, but then admin reverted it at the same time I reverted the edit already so the software reverted admin's edit. I already removed the warning. Thanks for noticing. ^{Engr. Smitty Werben} 05:05, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

20:52, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Hello, Engr. Smitty! Thank you for your work to maintain and improve Wikipedia! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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I am sorry if that is the case I am just 100% sure after seeing how insiders and everyone has reported it. But you can bet that I am not trying to vandalize the article. I will try to fix the article when an “official” announcement comes out. Again my apologies (I mean it). ParkerLyme (talk) 05:18, 29 December 2020 (UTC)