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Hello JoJan, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to join the community. Drop us a note at Wikipedia:New user log so we can meet you and help you get started. If you need editing help, visit Wikipedia:How to edit a page. For format questions, visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Newcomers' Village pump. And of course, feel free to talk with me or ask questions on my talk page. Enjoy! --Αλεξ Σ 15:14, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).
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- Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.
- Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of an administrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions.
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- Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping.
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- The functionaries email list (Template:NonSpamEmail) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.
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Happy New Year, JoJan!
JoJan,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
— Moops ⋠T⋡ 02:23, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
Send New Year cheer by adding Template:Tls to user talk pages.
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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023
Hello JoJan,
- Backlog
The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to Template:Noping who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.
- 2022 Awards
Template:No ping won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. Template:No ping led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!
Minimum deletion time: The previous WP:NPP guideline was to wait 15 minutes before tagging for deletion (including draftification and WP:BLAR). Due to complaints, a consensus decided to raise the time to 1 hour. To illustrate this, very new pages in the feed are now highlighted in red. (As always, this is not applicable to attack pages, copyvios, vandalism, etc.)
New draftify script: In response to feedback from AFC, the The Move to Draft script now provides a choice of set messages that also link the creator to a new, friendly explanation page. The script also warns reviewers if the creator is probably still developing the article. The former script is no longer maintained. Please edit your edit your common.js or vector.js file from User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js to User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js
Redirects: Some of our redirect reviewers have reduced their activity and the backlog is up to 9,000+ (two months deep). If you are interested in this distinctly different task and need any help, see this guide, this checklist, and spend some time at WP:RFD.
Discussions with the WMF The PageTriage open letter signed by 444 users is bearing fruit. The Growth Team has assigned some software engineers to work on PageTriage, the software that powers the NewPagesFeed and the Page Curation toolbar. WMF has submitted dozens of patches in the last few weeks to modernize PageTriage's code, which will make it easier to write patches in the future. This work is helpful but is not very visible to the end user. For patches visible to the end user, volunteers such as Template:Noping and Template:Noping have been writing patches for bug reports and feature requests. The Growth Team also had a video conference with the NPP coordinators to discuss revamping the landing pages that new users see.
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).
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- Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.
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- Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping.
- The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
- The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.
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- Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
- Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.
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commons category is misplaced
your edit, commons category is misplaced. placement info Template:Commons_category#Location. thank u. <_> jindam, vani (talk) 16:02, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 54
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 54, November – December 2022
- New collections:
- British Newspaper Archive
- Findmypast
- University of Michigan Press
- ACLS
- Duke University Press
- 1Lib1Ref 2023
- Spotlight: EDS Refine Results
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Disambiguation link notification for January 24
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Caenogastropoda, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Subclass.
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Frequent references
Hello, thanks for all your work on references. I see hundreds of articles about species often have the same references and some (most?) seem added by you so hopefully you can help me understand: would it be ok to convert them to Template:Tl usage? Sometimes the links break and it would be nice to automatically add links to archives, but that's hard if the citations aren't templated. For example doi:10.1111/zoj.12431 is currently broken (classic OUP) but the citation would be still usable if we had added an archive. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyu055 is cited on over 800 articles and is also available at https://hal.science/hal-02458202 . Nemo 21:38, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
- OK, I wouldn't mind if this can be done automatically by a bot. JoJan (talk) 14:33, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).
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- Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
- Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.
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- The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.
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- The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
- In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.
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- Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
- Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).
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- Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
- Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
- A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline.
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- The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.
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- Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
- The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023.
- A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon.
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- The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
- Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
- The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a Template:Tq. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.
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OVERLINKING
Hi, please ensure that "United States" and other common words and terms are not linked in articles you edit. Tony (talk) 23:53, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 55
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 55, January – February 2023
- New bundle partners:
- Newspapers.com
- Fold3
- 1Lib1Ref January report
- Spotlight: EDS SmartText Searching
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Help! Potential Edit War
Hiya! Sorry to bother you but I saw you in the recently active admins list and I thought I would see if you could help me with a burgeoning dispute (on a minor page, all things considered). User:TheWikiholic has twice reverted my edits on Forbes list of the world's highest-paid dead celebrities. There is a small group of editors on that page that have continuously sought to list Michael Jackson's cause of death as homicide, which I argue contradicts the page on his death. I tagged the article for contradiction, but the user in question reverted the tag without engaging with me on the talk page. I know this is petty all things considered, but I thought it would give it a shot
Thanks! ~~RedPandaWatcher RedPandaWatcher (talk) 13:40, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
- I don't see how I can intervene in this dispute. The article Death of Michael Jackson states that the cause of his death was homocide and that his physician was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. JoJan (talk) 13:57, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks for the quick response!
- Sorry for not being more clear, but the main issue with the argument is that homicide is not a cause of death, it is a manner of death (see here for an explanation of the distinction). That's the reason it is listed as what it is on the page I referenced. RedPandaWatcher (talk) 14:17, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
Vexillum etremoides: Attribution is required
In the future, please add attribution when copying from public domain sources: simply add the template Template:Tlx after your citation. I have done so for the above article. Please do this in the future so that our readers will be aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself, and that it's okay to copy verbatim. Thanks, — Diannaa (talk) 15:31, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).
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- A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.
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- Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (Template:Phab)
- The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
- A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.
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- The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
- A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.
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Merger discussion for Amphimenia
File:Merge-arrows.svg An article that you have been involved in editing—Amphimenia —has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. UtherSRG (talk) 20:17, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
New Page Patrol – May 2023 Backlog Drive
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cloudfront URL
Hi, I made some changes to a couple articles example Special:Diff/1151195681/1151210845. This is because cloudfront URLs are hosted at AWS and expire within a few hours see WP:AWSURL. Also I converted it to a Template:Tlx. Feel free to copy to other articles. Thanks! -- GreenC 16:02, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).
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- A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.
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- Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.
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- The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.
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- The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.
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Books & Bytes – Issue 56
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 56, March – April 2023
- New partner:
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- Library access tips and tricks
- Spotlight: EveryBookItsReader
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).
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- Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
- As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.
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- Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.
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- The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.
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- Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Template:Noping.
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Possible copyright violation
Hi @JoJan Your edit at Vitrea subrimata got picked up as a possible copyright violation on CopyPatrol [1]. This is the comparison with the source. Since you added the source as a reference I assume this is a case of close paraphrasing. It might be better to add it as a quote instead. Nobody (talk) 08:35, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
- The database AnimalBase "provides copyright-free open access to zoological works, and provides manually verified lists of names of zoological genera and species as a free resource for the public. The public use of AnimalBase data is not restricted or conditioned. Those who contribute voluntarily data or pictures to AnimalBase do this under the understanding of contributing to a free public resource. age authors). If you download content from AnimalBase please make sure that you attribute the source (in cases of downloaded books, the library, and in cases of downloaded pictures, the image authors). The legal term for this is CC BY-SA." [1]
Since I have made that deep link to AnimalBase, I can't see any infringement on copyright. Furthermore, the description of species is very specific. Any alteration, and you may be describing another species. JoJan (talk) 12:51, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
- Hi JoJan, thanks for clarifying the copyright status of the source, I missed it when I checked the website earlier. I've marked the report as a false positive. Sorry for the trouble Nobody (talk) 13:00, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Xenuroturris subconcavus
A tag has been placed on Category:Xenuroturris subconcavus indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 05:23, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
- I've deleted this unnecessary category. JoJan (talk) 12:32, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Vexillum pisolinum
A tag has been placed on Category:Vexillum pisolinum indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 05:25, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
- I've deleted this unnecessary category. JoJan (talk) 12:30, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023
Hello JoJan,
Backlog
Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Template:Noping who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Template:Noping and Template:Noping with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.
Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.
WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Template:Noping, and also some patches from Template:Noping, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.
Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.
You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.
Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).
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The New Page Patrol team is sending you this impromptu message to inform you of a steeply rising backlog of articles needing review. If you have any extra time to spare, please consider reviewing one or two articles each day to help lower the backlog. You can start reviewing by visiting Special:NewPagesFeed. Thank you very much for your help.
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).
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- Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.
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- Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.
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- Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Umbonella
A tag has been placed on Category:Umbonella indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 01:12, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
- I've deleted this unnecessary category. JoJan (talk) 13:23, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 57
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 57, May – June 2023
- Suggestion improvements
- Favorite collections tips
- Spotlight: Promoting Nigerian Books and Authors
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).
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- The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (Template:Phab)
- Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (Template:Phab)
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- The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
- The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.
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WikiProject Tree of Life Newsletter Issue 21
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).
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- Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (Template:Phab)
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- The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming Template:Tq. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to Template:Tq.
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New page patrol October 2023 Backlog drive
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Books & Bytes – Issue 58
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 58, July – August 2023
- New partners - De Standaard and Duncker & Humblot
- Tech tip: Filters
- Wikimania presentation
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New pages patrol newsletter
Hello JoJan,
Backlog update: At the time of this message, there are 11,300 articles and 15,600 redirects awaiting review. This is the highest backlog in a long time. Please help out by doing additional reviews!
October backlog elimination drive: A one-month backlog drive for October will start in one week! Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Articles will earn 4x as many points compared to redirects. You can sign up here.
PageTriage code upgrades: Upgrades to the PageTriage code, initiated by the NPP open letter in 2022 and actioned by the WMF Moderator Tools Team in 2023, are ongoing. More information can be found here. As part of this work, the Special:NewPagesFeed now has a new version in beta! The update leaves the NewPagesFeed appearance and function mostly identical to the old one, but updates the underlying code, making it easier to maintain and helping make sure the extension is not decommissioned due to maintenance issues in the future. You can try out the new Special:NewPagesFeed here - it will replace the current version soon.
Notability tip: Professors can meet WP:PROF #1 by having their academic papers be widely cited by their peers. When reviewing professor articles, it is a good idea to find their Google Scholar or Scopus profile and take a look at their h-index and number of citations. As a very rough rule of thumb, for most fields, articles on people with a h-index of twenty or more, a first-authored paper with more than a thousand citations, or multiple papers each with more than a hundred citations are likely to be kept at AfD.
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WikiProject Tree of Life Newsletter Issue 22
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The first edition of our new monthly contest had perhaps a little less participation than I hoped for, but it still resulted in a huge amount of content work, mainly focussed on de-stubbing articles on little-known species, although we did also see two GAs for Holozoa and Hypericum perforatum. Overall, over 60 articles were improved, with most going from stubs or redlinks to fully fleshed out articles. The winner this month was Template:Noping, who improved 21 articles about spiders, mainly to B and C class, and racked up 70 points, over twice the next highest. Hopefully, we'll continue to see such great work next month, with even more participants and even more articles improved.
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).
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- An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Template:Tq
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- Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (Template:Phab)
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- The 2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of one new CheckUser.
- Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.
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A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Genliseaviolacea1web.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. —Matr1x-101 (Ping me when replying) {user page (@ commons) - talk} 18:02, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
November Articles for creation backlog drive
Hello JoJan:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.
You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.
Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
WikiProject Tree of Life Newsletter Issue 23
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The second edition of our monthly contest was even better than the last month, with 80 articles improved spanning the entire tree of life. The winner this month was Template:Noping, who contributed to 47 articles, mainly relating to marine fish, and racked up 81 points in the process. In second place was Template:Noping, who got 60 points from 14 articles on various species of jumping spiders. Template:Noping is still at the top of our overall standings, with 130 points, and Template:Noping's close behind on 108. The November edition of the contest is now open: feel free to drop by and participate if you work on any TOL-related articles this month. |
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).
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- The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
- There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.
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- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
- Template:Noping, Template:Noping and Template:Noping have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. Template:Noping is the reserve commissioner.
- Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
- Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
- Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
- Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
- An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.
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- The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!
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Books & Bytes – Issue 59
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 59, September – October 2023
- Spotlight: Introducing a repository of anti-disinformation projects
- Tech tip: Library access methods
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WikiProject Tree of Life Newsletter Issue 24
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The third edition of our monthly contest saw Template:Noping win for the second month in a row, scoring 68 points from 39 articles about a variety of marine fishes. In second place for the month is Template:Noping, who scored 45 points from 10 articles on extinct crustaceans and geckoes. In the overall standings, Template:Noping leapfrogged over Template:Noping into first place, with 176 points from 109 articles; Template:Noping is now in second place with 136 points from 37 articles. The December edition of the contest is now open: feel free to drop by and participate if you work on any TOL-related articles this month. |
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Now, this newsletter is technically not new, but I have only recently become aware of its existence and am only a month late, so it still counts. Wikiproject Fungi's Lichen task force has a new newsletter that is very nicely formatted and also features much better writing than this newsletter. Anyone interested in receiving the newsletter can add their name here. |
November DYKs
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The source for Zonites festae spells it as Zonites festai. Is this a mistake or not? 115.188.140.167 (talk) 08:00, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you for noticing this. I've made the necessary changes and deleted Zonites festae. JoJan (talk) 08:55, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – December 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).
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- Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.
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- Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
- The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
- Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
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New pages patrol January 2024 Backlog drive
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WikiProject Tree of Life Newsletter Issue 25
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And so ends the fourth edition of the monthly rolling contest, as well as the 2023 Tree of Life Contest as a whole. This month saw Template:Noping win with a very impressive 120 points from 27 articles. Template:Noping was second with 74 points from 37 articles. The annual contest was a close race between simongraham and Quetzal1964; simongraham won first place with 256 points from 64 articles, and Quetzal1964 was second with 250 points from 146 articles. Template:Noping was third with 79 points from 33 articles. Congratulations to everyone who won this year and my gratitude to everyone else who helped raise the quality of articles in our little corner of Wikipedia this year. Additionally, a very Happy New Year to everyone in the project and here's looking forward to continuing our good work in 2024! |
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).
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- Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping, Template:Noping.
- Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
- The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.
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- The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
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Books & Bytes – Issue 60
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 60, November – December 2023
- Three new partners
- Google Scholar integration
- How to track partner suggestions
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
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File:Green check.svg Guideline and policy news
- An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
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- Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (Template:Phab)
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- Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
- Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.
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- Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
- Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
- The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with Template:Tl. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).
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- Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
- Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.
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- The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (Template:Phab)
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- The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
- Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.
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WikiProject Tree of Life Newsletter Issue 26
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Books & Bytes – Issue 61
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 61, January – February 2024
- Bristol University Press and British Online Archives now available
- 1Lib1Ref results
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Callostracon and attribution
Hi JoJan,
Thank you for your edits to Callostracon, where you have copied content from a CC-licensed source into the article, which is allowed.
However, please note that you must always add a relevant notice that the content is copied beyond simply citing it, using a template like Template:Tl; I have fixed it for you in the meantime.
Please see this page for further information. Thank you! – Isochrone (talk) 18:59, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).
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- An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.
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- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (Template:Phab)
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- An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
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- Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.
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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
Hello JoJan,
Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Template:No ping, who led with over 2,300 points.
Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to Template:No ping, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.
Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.
It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!
2023 Awards
Template:No ping won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Template:No ping led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!
WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.
Recruitment: A couple of the coordinators have been inviting editors to become reviewers, via mass-messages to their talk pages. If you know someone who you'd think would make a good reviewer, then a personal invitation to them would be great. Additionally, if there are Wikiprojects that you are active on, then you can add a post there asking participants to join NPP. Please be careful not to double invite folks that have already been invited.
Reviewing tip: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages within their most familiar subjects can use the regularly updated NPP Browser tool.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
how to ban link?
i want try to ban this link https://www.surahyaseenpdf.info/
do you know how to ban this link from wikipedia? or marking as spam and not to be add as reff?
https://www.surahyaseenpdf.info/ Parjiano (talk) 15:56, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
- Can you give me some more information ? As far as I can understand, you are referring to the article Ya-Sin and the edit contest between two users. In this case you better bring this to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents and explain your reasons. JoJan (talk) 12:52, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
Happy First Edit Day!
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Dear JoJan,
I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Twenty Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for twenty years or more.
Best regards, The Herald (Benison) (talk) 02:25, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
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New page patrol May 2024 Backlog drive
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Books & Bytes – Issue 62
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 62, March – April 2024
- IEEE and Haaretz now available
- Let's Connect Clinics about The Wikipedia Library
- Spotlight and Wikipedia Library tips
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).
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File:Green check.svg Guideline and policy news
- Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.
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- Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531
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- The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.
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- This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!
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WikiProject Tree of Life Newsletter Issue 27
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- Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!
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Request in new articles
Hi @JoJan, I have been following up on new species articles. I have been noticing a trend in your new articles. Often there is an empty external links section, see these edits here and here. Is there a reason for this section?
Additionally, I have noticed that occasionally geographic categories are missing from your articles, see here and here. I have been adding them for a few days now, would it be possible for you to incorporate this in your article drafting process? Cheers, --Classicwiki (talk) If you reply here, please ping me. 01:28, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
- I have been removing those empty sections. I've also been making a series of edits that seem to be common to all of your new articles, JoJan. Please take a look at your recent new articles that I have edited and pick up these changes for future articles. Thanks! - UtherSRG (talk) 15:20, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
- You're asking for more citations and more footnotes, while that's all there is for these obscure species. JoJan (talk) 16:12, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
- My changes are more than that. Don't add Template:Tl if there is no Wikidata item; or make the Wikidata item. Use Template:Tl instead of a raw URL ref. Add the appropriate stub tag. Etc. - UtherSRG (talk) 16:22, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
- And yes, ensure all assertions are sourced to a reference. There are plenty of articles you've made where you've asserted a piece of information, but have not indicated where that information comes from. - UtherSRG (talk) 16:24, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
- You're asking for more citations and more footnotes, while that's all there is for these obscure species. JoJan (talk) 16:12, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
- Following up, I have noticed that categories have improved. Thank you! Congrats on making it out of Aegista and beyond.
- Some other notes:
- You occasionally miss adding periods in your distribution sections.
- Some sections you create lack citations. I know that it is likely to be found in the very few sources that are listed, but it would be good to get those citations inline.
- If possible/available could you Wikilink the authority name in the infobox? It could be useful to readers.
- As a very experienced editor, I am sure you know there are many valid ways to format references. Is there a reason you avoid citation templates? Using Template:Tl, Template:Tl, Template:Tl, Template:Tl, etc. could be helpful towards standardising the information.
- I am sure @UtherSRG has some thoughts on this front.
- This must be hard work, thanks for taking it on. So many snails! Sincerely, --Classicwiki (talk) If you reply here, please ping me. 22:02, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
- Nope, you said it all, Classicwiki. Template:Ping I know you can do better. Your reticence to improve is disappointing. - UtherSRG (talk) 23:02, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
- I understand you remarks. I'm working in this project pretty much alone, and I thank the occasional collaborators. I'm already of an advanced age and I hope I still have some time left. Furthermore the time I can spend on my computer is limited, but I do what I can. Following all your remarks - justified as they are - would slow me down considerably. There are just so many templates and categories - this is not a piece of cake. Already I have to invest so much time in research for text in public domain and for images (photos or original drawings) in lots of museums and dedicated websites. If I have to follow all your recommendations, this would slow down the creation of new articles or the much needed expansion of already existing stubs. If just we had more collaborators.... JoJan (talk) 09:27, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
- That's no excuse. Have a scrap book where you have all of the basics ready to just drop in the data. Or have a baseline article that has all of what we are talking about already implemented and use that as a reminder of what to do. There are ways of making it easier. You don't have to remember it all and type it from scratch. Do better. - UtherSRG (talk) 10:57, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
- I understand you remarks. I'm working in this project pretty much alone, and I thank the occasional collaborators. I'm already of an advanced age and I hope I still have some time left. Furthermore the time I can spend on my computer is limited, but I do what I can. Following all your remarks - justified as they are - would slow me down considerably. There are just so many templates and categories - this is not a piece of cake. Already I have to invest so much time in research for text in public domain and for images (photos or original drawings) in lots of museums and dedicated websites. If I have to follow all your recommendations, this would slow down the creation of new articles or the much needed expansion of already existing stubs. If just we had more collaborators.... JoJan (talk) 09:27, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
- Nope, you said it all, Classicwiki. Template:Ping I know you can do better. Your reticence to improve is disappointing. - UtherSRG (talk) 23:02, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
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- I get what you are saying @JoJan. I agree that this is a tough undertaking and the research you are doing to prepare these articles must be arduous to comb through. It is amazing that you supply so many images to your articles.
- You are not totally alone. As you can see we are trying to improve the articles, but usually they are routine edits that if incorporated into your drafting process, would require less maintenance work from us. However, there is only so much I can do when I see an unsourced statement. I do not have the expertise or the time (or access) to read every book/reference you incorporate into your articles.
- On the collaboration front, how is WikiProject Gastropods going? Have you tried writing on the article Talk page and tagging new users in seeking help? You might be able to rustle up some new recruits by posting on WikiProject Tree of Life and related forums. WP:TEAMWORK has some ideas as well. Shake the tree and see what falls out.
- Have you experimented with the new ref tools in the Wikipedia editing modules or over at Help:Citation tools lately? You might be surprised about how quick some of these tools can be. Of course, nothing is perfect and some adjustments will need to be made to the title or authors often, but if you already have that info, it can be pretty quick. Additionally, the Insert Template Wizard can be copy-paste. If it is a frequent source, consider making a master template in a userspace and adjusting the page numbers as necessary.
- If that is not in cards, you might find a partner, by requesting help at WikiProject Reliability or WikiProject Citation cleanup.
- As another user mentioned on your talk page a year or so ago, links break, and having untemplated citations make it difficult to archive. One way to look at this, is that you are setting up future malacologist and malacology-enthusiasts up for better success (and an easier time) in their curiosity and research endeavours if your referencing is parsable and inline. What is that old Greek(?) or Japenese(?) saying about planting trees so that future generations may enjoy the shade?
- Tree platitudes aside, you are very experienced and may have considered/know all this. Again, thank you for your hard work and I look forward to the next gastro article. Wishing you good health, --Classicwiki (talk) If you reply here, please ping me. 02:57, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for your kind words and especially for the useful tips you provided. I must admit I hadn't noticed the "Cite" button in the toolbar before. It's incredibly handy, and I've already used it several times. Regarding finding new recruits, I've sent many invitations over the years. Occasionally, some individuals have started editing, but they often didn't continue. This is understandable, as contributing requires not only a good understanding of gastropod taxonomy but also a thorough knowledge of how to write on Wikipedia, with all its rules, templates, and categories. JoJan (talk) 09:21, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
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Accidental 1 week block instead of an indef for a VOA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/RaccaWurst This user should be blocked indefinitely, not for 1 week. Jdcomix (talk) 14:01, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
- Done JoJan (talk) 14:05, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Dymares
A tag has been placed on Category:Dymares indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
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- I've deleted this unnecessary category. JoJan (talk) 13:44, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
A horrable fire
ln 2024 there was a horrable fire in our place.lt was about two(14:00-15:00)when that happen.our parents were not around by that time. We had to protect the herns so so as our previous car not to burn. Some herns has burn.
That fire was made by three man who looked after the cows. They were smoking when the fire burn the bushes after that they run away. No one has been founded by now to be questioned.
41.113.162.198 (talk) 15:51, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
Wikidata
Hi. First of all, I'd like to congratulate you on your work on creating articles for lots of animal species. I'd want to let you know about Wikidata. Amongst many other things, it allows to link articles and categories and pages from Wikipedias in lots of languages and other projects within the scope of Wikimedia. If you do nothing about the new articles you create, a bot will eventually come and link them automatically. It's no big deal. However, there are already items on Wikidata for these species, some of them even with images. Linking the article you've recently created will allow to have links to that other version of Wikipedia and also to images in Wikimedia Commons if available. It's very simple. You can see here an example of how I did it with Navarriella, which is now linked there. Do not hesitate to contact me if you require further assistance or you have any doubts - I'll be happy to help. :) And keep up the good work. Kind regards, Alavense (talk) 07:59, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for your kind words. But I cannot create a new item in Wikidata. My screen only shows "read" and "view history". Therefore I leave this to a bot. My hands are already full with the creation and expansion of articles in en.wikipedia and uploading new images to the Commons and keep the Commons up-to-date with all the changes in taxonomy. JoJan (talk) 08:24, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- That's great. Keep up the excellent work! :) Alavense (talk) 09:06, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
Hello, JoJan,
Please do not delete categories that are being discussed at WP:CFD. They are immune from CSD C1 tagging. And if you come across an empty category, that is not being discussed at CFD, please do not delete it but tag it CSD C1. This is made easier if you use Twinkle to tag pages. Empty categories are not immediately deleted, they sit for 7 days at Category:Empty categories awaiting deletion in case they have been emptied out-of-process. Liz Read! Talk! 02:46, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- Also, this CFD wasn't a proposal to delete a category but to rename it so it shouldn't have been deleted. Liz Read! Talk! 02:50, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
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Requesting some article expansion help
Greetings @JoJan
Hi, I am User:Bookku, On Wikipedia I engage in, finding information and knowledge gap areas in Wikipedia and promoting expansion of related drafts and articles. Previously you seem to have attempted to update article Hagia Sophia. ((xtools))
Requesting your visit to Draft:Re-mosqueing of Hagia Sophia and help expand, if you find topic interesting.
Wish you very happy Wikipedia editing. Thanks and warm regards Bookku (talk) 04:56, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
Correction needed please
Hi JoJan. You have been listing this source as Public Domain, but this page shows that that's incorrect. It's acutally CC-by-SA 4.0. So the correct template to add is this one:
{{Creative Commons text attribution notice|cc=bysa4|from this source=yes}}
Please use this instead of Template:Tlx or Template:Tlx when copying from this source. Thanks! -- Diannaa (talk) 18:11, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for bringing this to my attention. JoJan (talk) 07:29, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
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Ways to improve Conus demisgeraldoi
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Thank you for creating Conus demisgeraldoi.
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- Deleted JoJan (talk) 16:26, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
Ways to improve Conus cazalisoi
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- Deleted. JoJan (talk) 16:27, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- @JoJan, I don't believe G6 is the appropriate deletion in this case, which is why I think @Explicit initially reverted the deletion of this and the article mentioned above. It's unclear to me whether this is supposedly viewed as a hoax (which would be G3), or whether the species has been re-named, or what, but articles should not typically be G6 deleted after existing for 6 years as "Housekeeping and routine (non-controversial) cleanup: not-accepted name". Hey man im josh (talk) 17:12, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- Chiming in to agree, although arguably G7 would be reasonable, but again it's been six years so I think maybe some discussion would be beneficial. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 18:13, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- To me it sounds like a move / merge / redirect might be best. I'm no species expert, but if there were previously entries in the relevant taxon databases, it should signify something. Hey man im josh (talk) 18:14, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- I concur. This should not have been deleted. - UtherSRG (talk) 18:41, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- Template:Reply to Not only is the application of G6 entirely wrong, re-deleting the pages after my clear opposition to them is in violation of WP:WHEEL. Having a look into their deletion log, and looking at examples like Schwartziella scalariformis and Thais cingulifera, it seems that JoJan has been misapplying G6 for years. Their RFA was nearly twenty years ago, so they may be quite out of touch with current practices. ✗plicit 23:34, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- I've now restored the page. - UtherSRG (talk) 01:56, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
- You're not wrong, but I do think this could have been said in a less bitey way. Hey man im josh (talk) 14:21, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
- Template:Reply to Not only is the application of G6 entirely wrong, re-deleting the pages after my clear opposition to them is in violation of WP:WHEEL. Having a look into their deletion log, and looking at examples like Schwartziella scalariformis and Thais cingulifera, it seems that JoJan has been misapplying G6 for years. Their RFA was nearly twenty years ago, so they may be quite out of touch with current practices. ✗plicit 23:34, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- I concur. This should not have been deleted. - UtherSRG (talk) 18:41, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- To me it sounds like a move / merge / redirect might be best. I'm no species expert, but if there were previously entries in the relevant taxon databases, it should signify something. Hey man im josh (talk) 18:14, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- Chiming in to agree, although arguably G7 would be reasonable, but again it's been six years so I think maybe some discussion would be beneficial. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 18:13, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- @JoJan, I don't believe G6 is the appropriate deletion in this case, which is why I think @Explicit initially reverted the deletion of this and the article mentioned above. It's unclear to me whether this is supposedly viewed as a hoax (which would be G3), or whether the species has been re-named, or what, but articles should not typically be G6 deleted after existing for 6 years as "Housekeeping and routine (non-controversial) cleanup: not-accepted name". Hey man im josh (talk) 17:12, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- It is still my opinion this article should be deleted, as Conus cazalisoi is now recognized as an unused combination, It was created by me in 2018 relying on WoRMS. In 2019 in the publication "Illustrated Catalog of the Living Cone Shells - 2018 update supplement" [2] it was stated that the original name was Africonus cazalisoi. This is, in turn, was recognized as a synonym of Conus (Kalloconus) trochulus Reeve, 1844, represented as Conus trochulus Reeve, 1844. This is how taxonomy works. The designation Conus cazalisoi was not a hoax. And merging or redirecting something that does not exist, is certainly wrong. One can discuss the reason for deleting, but in my opinion G6 or G7 seem appropriate. Therefore, if no one objects, I will delete this page again. JoJan (talk) 13:23, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
- That's fine and all, but that's not what G6 deletions are for. Neither G6 (non-controversial maintenance) or G7 (borderline in this case) seem appropriate. If you don't believe an article that was not solely edited by you no longer belongs on Wikipedia, we send it to AfD, even if only procedural. We typically don't just delete 6 year old articles like this. Please keep that in mind in the future, even though I'm confident your intentions were good and you were trying to save us from some bureaucracy. For all we know someone will come along and point us to a place where a redirect would make more sense or they shed some light that another person was not aware of. Hey man im josh (talk) 13:29, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
- Alright folks, I know admin accountability is a thing, but I believe the efforts made were in good faith, and I think we should be approaching it as such. Let's give someone a chance to do better :) Hey man im josh (talk) 03:07, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- And as an admin, you are held to a higher standard of behavior. Abusing your admin bit in this way could be cause to having your bit removed. - UtherSRG (talk) 15:04, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
- As I have already expressed, I oppose your misapplication of the speedy deletion criteria. WP:PROD would be the way to go about it. ✗plicit 00:14, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
- That's fine and all, but that's not what G6 deletions are for. Neither G6 (non-controversial maintenance) or G7 (borderline in this case) seem appropriate. If you don't believe an article that was not solely edited by you no longer belongs on Wikipedia, we send it to AfD, even if only procedural. We typically don't just delete 6 year old articles like this. Please keep that in mind in the future, even though I'm confident your intentions were good and you were trying to save us from some bureaucracy. For all we know someone will come along and point us to a place where a redirect would make more sense or they shed some light that another person was not aware of. Hey man im josh (talk) 13:29, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
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- The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2025
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- The 2025 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, Arcticocean, Ameisenigel, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, Galahad, Nehaoua, Renvoy, Revi C., RoySmith, Teles and Zafer as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Amphibulima cucullata
A tag has been placed on Category:Amphibulima cucullata indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. ✗plicit 14:32, 13 March 2025 (UTC)
Hi JoJan,
Since you're an expert on gastropods in general, I thought I'd seek your help. In the genera section it lists Camaenid genera by distribution, and not by subfamily. However, because listing by taxonomy is standard practice across gastropod and other biological articles, I think genera should be listed by their subfamily and tribe, especially since some genera in subfamilies Bradybaeninae and Helicostylinae are not included, and it would make more sense (and be easier) to add them by subfamily instead of by distribution. Now, is it OK for me to do this on my own, or do I have to have a discussion about it?
Regards, Plant🌱man (talk) 18:23, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
- I agree, this is not the way we create articles in this project. You can recreate this article by listing the genera by subfamily and tribe. But it will be a lot of work. JoJan (talk) 15:07, 15 March 2025 (UTC)
- That’s fine, I was just wondering. Thanks! Plant🌱man (talk) 18:41, 15 March 2025 (UTC)
- Done! Plant🌱man (talk) 21:42, 15 March 2025 (UTC)
- Well done ! JoJan (talk) 14:54, 16 March 2025 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 67
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2025
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Capitalized taxobox parameter
Hi, just to note that in the series of articles on Amphidromus species you recently created, you inadvertently capitalized |taxon=, which then doesn't work. I've fixed them, but thought I'd leave you a note in case you had a 'template' somewhere you were copying. Peter coxhead (talk) 14:15, 21 April 2025 (UTC)
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- Following an RfC, administrator elections were permanently authorized on a five-month schedule. The next election will be scheduled soon; see Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections for more information. This is an alternate process to the RfA process and does not replace the latter.
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Books & Bytes – Issue 68
Issue 68, March–April 2025
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The article Setia (gastropod) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
NLIST. Most of the citations come from one source: WoRMS.
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the Template:Tlc notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
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- You did not add the
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- tag on the talk page of Setia (gastropod). Anyway I would have strongly objected , because the content of the article is duly documented. JoJan (talk) 14:21, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2025
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- A new feature called Multiblocks will be deployed on English Wikipedia on the week of June 2. See the relevant announcement on the administrators' noticeboard.
- History merges performed using the mergehistory special page are now logged at both the source and destination, rather than just the source as previously, after this RFC and the resolution of T118132.
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Streptaxidae
Hello!
While looking at MolluscaBase I noticed that there were new subfamilies and genera of Streptaxidae since 2024, so either the page is outdated or the database is wrong. I have tried to update some parts of it, but I have little knowledge on gastropods and taxonomy.
You do seem to have that knowledge, so it'd be appreciated if you could help me out with this.
NOT Joe Biden 17:47, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
- I've updated the article JoJan (talk) 01:49, 16 June 2025 (UTC)