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Nomination for deletion of Template:Offer help side box

Template:Offer help side box has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 21:15, 2 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Fine, I'll do it myself!" Enterprisey (talk!) 23:47, 2 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

WT:RESPONDER-RFC

I saw this edit by you and wanted to note a few things. Five years ago, I noted that we needed to start planning for a post-admin era. Five years later, and we're in the same place, if not worse. Back then, we had 525 active administrators. Now we're down to 468, a drop of 57...more than 10% of our admin corps. The situation continues to get worse. WP:RBM and WP:DBM both show we're in a crisis, but there's not enough things that are breaking to motivate people. There may never be enough; over at Commons there are deletion discussions awaiting closer by admins for 11 months. That's not even the worst backlog. It's not been enough to motivate Commons to do anything about it. Commons has become a failed project. I think it highly unlikely we are ever going to come up with a way to rejuvenate the admin corps. It's in a death spiral...a permanent one. So, yeah, I agree with you; we need to figure out a way to operate without administrators. I didn't want to post this one the WT:RESPONDER-RFC because it would have been a new section below the one you just started and might have distracted from it. Best regards, --Hammersoft (talk) 23:42, 2 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the note. I totally agree. I got motivated to start working on the proposal again recently, so I hope it can move to a discussion no later than early next year. Enterprisey (talk!) 08:47, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Fresh blood

Just wanted to let you know that in my opinion you are probably the most "youngest" candidate in the Arbcom 2021 elections in terms of registration date. And know what? I like that. I think we need some fresh blood to smooth out rusty Arbcom mechanisms... Cheers! AXONOV (talk) ⚑ 14:21, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I do feel like a bit of a spring chicken in that lineup. (Wugapodes might have me beat in that department, though.) Enterprisey (talk!) 05:51, 1 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Changes to TimestampDiffs

Hey. I made some changes to a fork of TimestampDiffs earlier in the year (diff), for better handling when viewing archive pages. I think there are some cases where this fails, like if a bot edits a really old archive page which kinda screws up the rough timestamps on highly edited pages (eg really old archives of AN/ANI with lint errors etc), but on the whole seems to identify the revisions better than the core handling. Just letting you know in case you wanted to merge the changes into the main script. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 16:54, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@ProcrastinatingReader TimestampDiffs is by Evad37. – SD0001 (talk) 11:12, 4 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – December 2021

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

Administrator changes

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Bot question

It seems to me that the edits by Rlink2 should be done by a bot account, but my knowledge of these things is limited. I wouldn't normally care, but I use Recent changes a fair amount and lately Rlink2 has dominated the entries. I filter out bots, but I can't filter out single users (AFAIK), and it renders Recent changes far less useful. You're in the bot approvals group, which I didn't even know existed until I checked policy just now (heh), so I thought I'd ask you what you think.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:14, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hm. If people are saying "it's making recent changes less useful", I'd say that indicates the edits should be under a bot flag. There seems to have been a previous user talk page discussion about this without a firm conclusion. I'll ask for consensus and/or a BRFA on their talk page. Thanks for the pointer. Enterprisey (talk!) 02:05, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for looking into it.--Bbb23 (talk) 03:03, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

User:Enterprisey/copy-section-link.js

Hi, just to let you know that I edited User:Enterprisey/copy-section-link.js just now to fix a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the hash part of the external URL. I managed to exploit this vulnerability on a private MediaWiki installation on my local PC by using a specially crafted heading containing JavaScript code. Let me know if you're interested in the details, and I'll share them with you. (I suppose I may as well share the details publicly now that the issue is fixed.) Best — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 15:41, 5 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Mr. Stradivarius, thanks for that! Good catch. I guess I gotta go through the rest of 'em and check for XSS, or (hopeful voice) have you already gotten to that? Enterprisey (talk!) 02:08, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Not yet - I do plan on looking for more XSS in user scripts, but I've only just started. That script was about the third one that I checked. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 02:14, 6 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ACE 2021

Hi Enterprisey. Thank you for your courage to run in this year's ACE. This kind of scrutiny can sometimes be as challenging as an RfA - if not worse. Some candidates ran on a platform for changes in Arbcom. Now comes the cliff-hanger of waiting for the results. 52% of the votes were cast on day 1 of the ballot. You might find this analysis of the campaign to be of interest. You are welcome to leave your thoughts on its talk page. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:20, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Block this LTA now, please

DSMN-IHSAGT (talk · contribs). BKFIP. 🐔 Chicdat  Bawk to me! 12:20, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps User:Chicdat needs to be blocked for serial vandalism, introducing grammar, spelling, factual and style errors into an article and reverting dozens of times to try to keep the errors in place. DSMN-IHSAGT (talk) 12:24, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps DSMN-IHSAGT is violating WP:NPA. 🐔 Chicdat  Bawk to me! 12:25, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
You've decided to attack me, in fact, in the course of indulging your vandalistic desires. DSMN-IHSAGT (talk) 12:27, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
WP:NPA wasn't just nullified, you know. 🐔 Chicdat  Bawk to me! 12:28, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Bots Newsletter, December 2021

Bots Newsletter, December 2021
BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

Our last issue was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots.

Overall

  • Between September and December 2019, there were 33 BRFAs. Of these, Green checkmarkY 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful (Dark red X symbolN2 3 denied, Blue question mark? 3 withdrawn, and Expired 2 expired).

September 2019

Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, IT'S ALIVE!
  • Green checkmarkY Monkbot 16, DannyS712 bot 60, Ahechtbot 6, PearBOT 3, Qbugbot 3 · Dark red X symbolN2 DannyS712 bot 5, PkbwcgsBot 24 · Blue question mark? DannyS712 bot 61, TheSandBot 4
  • TParis goes away, UTRSBot goes kaput: Beeblebrox noted that the bot for maintaining on-wiki records of UTRS appeals stopped working a while ago. TParis, the semi-retired user who had previously run it, said they were "unlikely to return to actively editing Wikipedia", and the bot had been vanquished by trolls submitting bogus UTRS requests on behalf of real blocked users. While OAuth was a potential fix, neither maintainer had time to implement it. TParis offered to access to the UTRS WMFLabs account to any admin identified with the WMF: "I miss you guys a whole lot [...] but I've also moved on with my life. Good luck, let me know how I can help". Ultimately, SQL ended up in charge. Some progress was made, and the bot continued to work another couple months — but as of press time, UTRSBot has not edited since November 2019.
  • Article-measuring contest resumed: The list of Wikipedians by article count, which had lain dead for several years, was triumphantly resurrected by GreenC following a bot request.

October 2019

November 2019

Now you're thinking with portals.

December 2019

In the next issue of Bots Newsletter:
What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?

  • What happens when two bots want to clerk the same page?
  • What happens when an adminbot goes hog wild?
  • Will reFill ever get fixed?
  • What's up with ListeriaBot, anyway?
  • Python 3.4 deprecation? In my PyWikiBot? (It's more likely than you think!)

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the January 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... jp×g 04:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Possible AFC drive

Hello!

I’m writing here to see if you would have any interest in helping to co-run an AFC backlog drive in either January or February. The AFC backlog (3 months, >2.8K articles to review) is getting to be pretty long. Would you be willing to help organize such a drive?

I also see that you’ve been recently appointed to ArbCom, and I know that that can take up a lot of time, so if you don’t have the time to help with running this it would make total sense. If that’s the case, would you be willing to give me any advice on how to formally organize a drive or on contacting key people to whom I should reach out?

Thank you for your time and contributions to Wikipedia. Happy reviewing! 

— Mhawk10 (talk) 17:27, 16 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Query

Hey, Enterprisey,

First, congratulations on the ARBCOM position! I should also probably wish you good luck! I didn't even know the results were in until I saw the message on your talk page. Time to go see who the other lucky editors are.

My query though is about User:EnterpriseyBot/WiR report which I kind of stumbled upon. I was just curious what this report was all about. As much as I can figure out it is listing pages that have been tagged for speedy deletion that have taken a long time to be addressed. Is that correct?

I know you will be busy when January hits so I'm hoping for a reply before then. Thanks vey much! Liz Read! Talk! 00:50, 17 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Liz, thank you! Yeah, it isn't documented very well, but it's the result of this October 2017 discussion. From the code it seems to look for articles that match these rules (and thus are hopefully relevant to WP:WIR), although I suppose it doesn't do a very good job of it at the moment. It seems to get some page views from time to time. Enterprisey (talk!) 01:34, 17 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

EasyWikiDev

Hi! I'm User:Ed6767. I'm probably best known for founding and developing Wikipedia:RedWarn, which is now one of the most used user scripts on the English Wikipedia. I couldn't help but notice that you also develop user scripts, so I was wondering if I could ask you to try and give me feedback on my new tool called EasyWikiDev. It's a new way to develop user scripts quickly and easily using Visual Studio Code, and only takes a few minutes to set up and install on your computer, whilst saving you the headache of constantly having to save edits and reload the page for every single change to your script you'd like to test. EasyWikiDev makes it so you can develop your script locally, on your own computer, and only publish the changes to your users when you are ready to - and unlike other solutions, EasyWikiDev reloads the page right away when you make a change, so you always see the latest version of your script. Plus, by using Visual Studio Code, you have access to some of the most extensive and helpful extensions and tools available to developers right now.

If you're interested, you can find the GitHub repository here and a video tutorial that shows both how to set up EasyWikiDev and how to use it (which you should watch) here. When you have tried it and would like to give feedback, or just need help, please let me know by pinging me - you'd play a big part in my goal to make user script development easier for all Wikipedians. Thanks again for your consideration, ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 12:41, 17 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2022 Arbitration Committee

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BOTREQ status

Hey Enterprisey. Hope you are well. Just wanted to let you know that EnterpriseyBot hasn't edited User:EnterpriseyBot/BOTREQ status since the end of November. Might need to restart it in Toolforge or something. Happy editing. –Novem Linguae (talk) 10:00, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed, thanks for letting me know. (I've turned on WP:BAM talk page notifications so hopefully the bot tells me about it next time as well.) Enterprisey (talk!) 11:16, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

EnterpriseyBot: Notify users of DYK nominations failure - Fixed I think

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EnterpriseyBot: Update BOTREQ status failure - Fixed I hope

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Happy Holidays!

Hello Enterprisey: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 21:08, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

--MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 21:08, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

User Scripts

How did you create so many user scripts? What hand at coding! Is there a secret? ― ItcouldbepossibleTalk 06:29, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if there are any secrets. At that time, I had a lot of free time and a lot of ideas for user scripts, so I just kept coding. At some point when I got close to 50 I thought that was a nice round number to stop at. (I just got busier in other areas at around that time as well.) I still have lots of ideas for user scripts, but at this point, with the amount of knowledge I have about Wikipedia, it's more productive for me to contribute in other ways. Enterprisey (talk!) 11:35, 25 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

User HHHHHYYYY

Postscript: I've just spotted Wikipedia:Suggestededit-add 1.0 which sheds much light on such edit(or)s. I will read into it further. Surely it would be helpful at least for users to have a pointer to such things on their User or Talk pages? And I wonder re the choice of ES. And now I've spotted Qwerfjkl's helpful tip at the end of this section, too. Trafford09 (talk) 10:28, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be grateful for your advice, please, re User:HHHHHYYYY.

You will see that their contributions appear consistent, with identical edit summary, but they seem generally useful.

My concern is that the user may well be a (ro)bot, yet it appears to be unregistered, and the edit summary is unhelpful.

I know little about bots, so thought I should consult an expert.

This ES search shows some 2,158 edits that caught my eye, the oldest being this one.

If you'd like me to report this somewhere more appropriate, fair play; I am out of my comfort zone!.

Thanks, Trafford09 (talk) 17:47, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) @Trafford09: These edits are done through mw:Suggested edits, and the account is probably not a bot. ― Qwerfjkltalk 19:01, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thx for the good tip, Qwerfjkl. Trafford09 (talk) 10:28, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Holidays

The 12 Days of Wikipedia
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5 Check Users Checking
4 Oversighters Hiding
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22

Hello everyone, and welcome to the 22nd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter. This issue will be covering new and updated user scripts from the past seven months (June through December 2021).

Scripts Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

New scripts New scripts

  • Ahecht:
  • Awesome Aasim:
    • Infiniscroll adds infinite scrolling to user contributions, page histories, and log pages.
    • Quick create allows for the fast creation of red-linked pages with two clicks.
  • Caburum:
    • UTCclock adds a clock displaying the current UTC time.
  • Chlod:
  • DaxServer:
    • BooksToSfn adds a portlet link in Visual Editor's source mode editing, in main namespace articles or in the user's Sandbox. When clicked, it converts one {{cite book}} inside a <ref>...</ref> tag block into an {{Sfn}}.
  • FlightTime:
  • Jon Harald Søby:
    • diffedit enables editing directly from viewing a diff "when, for instance, you notice a tiny mistake deep into an article, and don't want to edit the entire article and re-find that one line to fix that tiny mistake".
    • warnOnLargeFile warns you if you're about to open a very large file (width/height >10,000px or file size >100 MB) from a file page.
  • JPxG:
    • PressPass adds a collection of tools for Newspapers.com including configurable automatic citation generation in five different formats.
    • CurrentSwitcher gives you links on the contribs page to hide duplicate entries, current revisions, rollbacks, huggles, twinkles, and redwarns.
    • TrackSum lets you automatically sum the lengths of tracks in templates like {{track listing}} and get total runtimes.
  • Nardog:
    • CopySectLink adds a button to copy the unencoded page title or section path next to each heading.
    • IPAInput allows you to type in IPA symbols by directly looking at an IPA key like Help:IPA/English and clicking on the symbols.
    • TemplatePreviewGuard warns when you try to use "Preview page with this template" with a page that doesn't transclude the template.
  • NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh:
    • ContribsTabVector adds "Contributions" and "Statistics" tabs to user and user talk pages on the Vector skin.
    • CopyvioChecker adds a "CopyvioCheck" tab to all pages, except Special (Vector skin only).
    • LiveDiffLink is a version of Equazcion's LiveDiffLink which shows a wikilink instead of a URL.
    • QuickDiff (by OneTwoThreeFall at Fandom) lets you quickly view any diff link on a wiki, whether on Recent Changes, contribs pages, history pages, the diff view itself, or elsewhere. For more information, view its page on Fandom.
  • Novem Linguae:
    • DetectSNG scans a list of 1,600 SNG keywords and displays them at the top of the article.
    • NotSoFast highlights recently created articles in the new pages feed, to discourage patrolling them too quickly.
    • UserRightsDiff concisely displays what perm was added or removed when viewing Special:UserRights.
    • VoteCounter displays a rough count of keeps and deletes at XFDs, RFCs, etc.
    • WatchlistAFD automatically watchlists the AFDs of any pages you AFC accept or NPP patrol, to help you calibrate your reviewing.
  • P.T.Đ:
  • Qwerfjkl:
    • editRedirect adds a → link after redirects to edit them.
    • RegExTypoFix, a script for fixing typos, is a wrapper for User:Joeytje50/RETF.js.
    • talkback creates links after user talk page links like this: |C|TB (with the first linking to the user's contributions, and the latter giving the option of sending a {{talkback}} notice). It also adds a [copy] link next to section headers.
  • Rublov:
    • diff-link shows "copy" links on history and contributions pages that copy an internal link to the diff (e.g., Special:Diff/1026402230) to your clipboard when clicked.
  • Rummskartoffel:
    • auto-watchlist-expiry automatically watchlists every page you edit for a user-definable duration (you can still pick a different time using the dropdown, though).
    • generate pings generates the wikitext needed to ping all members of a category, up to 50 editors (the limit defined by MediaWiki).
    • share ExpandTemplates url allows for easy sharing of your inputs to Special:ExpandTemplates. It adds a button that, when clicked, copies a shareable URL to your exact invocation of the page, like this. Other editors do not need to have this script installed in order to access the URL generated.
    • show tag names shows the real names of tags next to their display names in places such as page revision histories or the watchlist.
  • Tol:
  • Venkat TL:
    • ColourContrib color-codes the user contributions page so that pages you've edited last are sharply distinguished from pages where another editor was the last to edit the page.
  • Vukky:

All in all, some very neat scripts were written in these last few months. Hoping to see many more in the next issue -- drop us a line on the talk page if you've been writing (or seeing) anything cool and good. Filling in for DannyS712, this has been jp×g. Take care, and merry Christmas! jp×g 07:30, 24 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Page protection request for Template:Userscript

Hi Enterprisey, a request for protecting Template:Userscript (indefinite template-editor protection) is currently at WP:RFPP. The alleged need comes from MediaWiki:Gadget-script-installer.js, which can allegedly be tricked into installing malicious scripts by modifying the template. To me personally, this makes no sense: It's either a security issue in the gadget or something that can be done without template modification. Your input would be welcome at WP:RFPP. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:29, 27 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Responded, thanks for the notice. Enterprisey (talk!) 04:30, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

How does vandalism checker actually work?

On my user page, I added the vandalism level template to check. On my most recent visit to the page, I saw that it showed a "moderate" level of vandalism. I'm not sure what it exactly means; I don't make disruptive edits or any of that stuff for that matter. Can someone please explain this to me? Would it be restoring edits or reverts? An explanation would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your response. Losipov (talk) 17:51, 31 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You might find User:ClueBot_NG#Vandalism_Detection_Algorithm helpful. Vexations (talk) 18:04, 31 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
(talk page stalker) @Losipov: The vandalism level template displays the 'reverts per minute ' (rpm) of edits on Wikipedia, and also how much vandalism this is relatively (e.g. moderate vandalism). This may also be of help. ― Qwerfjkltalk 22:27, 31 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Special:WantedTemplates

Hi, would it be possible for you to put // <pre> at the top and // </pre> at the bottom of User:Enterprisey/search-shortcuts.js? That page is generating an entry in Special:WantedTemplates. You could also use <nowiki>...</nowiki> or <syntaxhighlight>...</syntaxhighlight>. By putting the tags inside of comments, it will not impact the functionality, but will prevent the backend software from showing your page in Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:", "Template:" ).replace( ". Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:22, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done, thanks for the report. Enterprisey (talk!) 23:12, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – January 2022

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

Guideline and policy news

  • 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.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The functionaries email list (functionaries-en@lists.wikimedia.org) 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.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:24, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

How we will see unregistered users

Hi!

You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.

When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

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We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:14, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Apparent issue with EnterpriseyBot

Hi, there seems to be an error with your bot. If I'm reading the approval for Task 10 correctly, The task removes an inaccurate class (stub, start, etc.) from redirects. However, as of yesterday it is removing class=redirect parameters, which doesn't seem to be the intended purpose. I can't seem to find any discussions where the scope of Task 10 was changed or where a consensus was formed against using the redirect class in article assessment. So is this an intentional change or an error? 5225C (talk • contributions) 08:21, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@5225C, removing class=redirect parameters is intentional and allows the template to automatically detect when the page is no longer a redirect. The first post in the BOTREQ discussion mentions removal of class=redirect specifically. Enterprisey (talk!) 08:24, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ok, I see. I bring it up because it's only been removing the assessment on articles in my watchlist as of yesterday, some of which have had class=redirect for a long time (around a year), so I was surprised when it suddenly started. Thanks for clarifying. 5225C (talk • contributions) 08:30, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Oh yes, it runs very slowly. Enterprisey (talk!) 08:33, 5 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/MediaWiki:Gadget-afchelper.js/core.js

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/MediaWiki:Gadget-afchelper.js/core.js. –Novem Linguae (talk) 20:37, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Special day :)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing Enterprisey a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Bobherry Talk Edits 11:43, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Wishing Enterprisey a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Birthday Committee! Best wishes! CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 18:46, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Reply-link features

I'm trying to implement most of the features listed on User:Enterprisey/reply-link/features in my script. Many are already done, but I'm not sure what "Markdown" and "Signpost comments" mean. Signpost presumably refers to WP:Signpost, but what kind of comments? And for markdown I have no idea. Also, who made the requests? — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 08:00, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Markdown is support for Markdown. Honestly, maybe not my best idea :) but it would certainly increase usability for people used to other websites' systems. "Signpost comments" is support for replying to comments on Signpost articles. They use a slightly weird system (with transclusions and odd headers and stuff) and it used to break reply-link. I don't know if DiscussionTools supports it. Enterprisey (talk!) 08:04, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Looking at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-12-28/From the editor they have sectionless transclusion. DiscussionTools can't deal with it either: The "reply" link cannot be used to reply to this comment. To reply, please use the full page editor by clicking "Edit source". (bad advice because you won't find the comment there) My script should be able to handle it only if all participants use my script (or compatible, if you look at my signature you can guess why this would work), so erm yeah not quite the universal solution. Or reply on the talk page (not transcluded), DT and reply-link also wouldn't have an issue with that. I don't think I'd ever heard of Markdown but it looks interesting. At least partial support should be easy enough. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 11:26, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Bots Newsletter, January 2022

Bots Newsletter, January 2022
BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever.

Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost two years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020.

Overall
In the first half of 2020, there were 71 BRFAs. Of these, Green checkmarkY 59 were approved, and 12 were unsuccessful (with Dark red X symbolN2 8 denied, Blue question mark? 2 withdrawn, and Expired 2 expired).

January 2020

A python
A python
A python
0.4 pythons
Yeah, you're not gonna be able to get away with this anymore.

February 2020

Speaking of WikiProject Molecular Biology, Listeria went wild in February

March 2020

April 2020

Listeria being examined

Issues and enquiries are typically expected to be handled on the English Wikipedia. Pages reachable via unified login, like a talk page at Commons or at Italian Wikipedia could also be acceptable [...] External sites like Phabricator or GitHub (which require separate registration or do not allow for IP comments) and email (which can compromise anonymity) can supplement on-wiki communication, but do not replace it.

May 2020

We heard you like bots, so we made a bot that reports the status of your bots, so now you can use bots while you use bots

June 2020

A partial block averted at the eleventh hour for the robot that makes Legos

Conclusion

  • What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?
  • Will Citation bot ever be set free to roam the project?
  • What's the deal with all those book links that InternetArchiveBot is adding to articles?
  • Should we keep using Gerrit for MediaWiki?
  • What if we had a day for bots to make cosmetic edits?

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the February 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... jp×g 23:22, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The user group oversight will be renamed suppress in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
  • The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:01, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't feel as if I have accepted almost 50%

Please have a look at https://apersonbot.toolforge.org/afchistory/?user=Timtrent and run a mark one eyeball over it. I feel is if I have declined or rejected far more than I have accepted. If the stats don't lie then they don't lie. Even so it feels odd FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 14:08, 12 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Timtrent, think I have an answer. G13. I had just left an inquiry confirming the script is looking backwards time-based on each cycle. Coupled with seeing this, I think I now understand that our accept stat will naturally drift higher as declined and rejected articles are G13ed and no longer part of the stats. Take a look at run time and you will notice you start around 16% approval and drift up with each cycle. Slywriter (talk) 15:38, 16 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Slywriter Thank you. I'd watched it drift up, but had no idea what was happening in the background. I knew my intuition had to be more accurate than it appeared to be! 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 15:44, 16 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

WP:GO new week error

When your bot restarted the WP:GO page on 30 January 2022 it didn't include the '''[[Wikipedia:Featured lists|Lists]] that gained featured status''' line. Please could you look into this and see that it didn't occur again? (It stopped new FLs from being listed on the page.) Regards, Armbrust The Homunculus 19:21, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I found and fixed the issue; it didn't detect the date format properly, but I fixed it so now it just looks for anything in parentheses. Thanks for the report. Enterprisey (talk!) 23:38, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

WP:AFC Helper News

Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.

  • AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
  • The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

Short and sweet, but there's always more to discuss at WT:AFC. Stop on by, maybe review a draft on the way? Whether you're one of our top reviewers, or haven't reviewed in a while, I want to thank you for helping out in the past and in the future. Cheers, Primefac, via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject inactive participants task

Hi Enterprisey, are you still planning to work on this task? If not, I was looking to tweak the script slightly and open a new BRFA. 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 21:49, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@EpicPupper, yeah, I don't have the time - go ahead! Would be cool to have that running. Enterprisey (talk!) 23:27, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Recently active users

Is there a reason why recently active users doesn't include me? Like, does the list automatically exclude the person looking at it, does it glitch out with my edit count, or does it actually need to be fixed? --I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 22:50, 18 February 2022 (UTC) (ETA because words are hard)[reply]

@I dream of horses, the list uses the 500 most recent edits from Recent Changes, so it could be that a lot of people are editing right now (making it unlikely that a particular editor who's edited recently would show up). I'm unaware of any bug that would exclude a particular user. Enterprisey (talk!) 23:05, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Makes sense! Thanks. I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 23:06, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@I dream of horses, also, clearing your browser cache might work; I reloaded after making an edit and I didn't show up until I force-reloaded. Enterprisey (talk!) 23:08, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

cv-revdel buttons

Hi Enterprisey, based on a request from Vami IV I've tweaked the cv-revdel script so that the diffs button is easier to see (it's now blue and bigger, and looks more similar to the MW interface because of OOUI). The tweaked version is at User:EpicPupper/cv-revdel.js; see the comparison here. Could you add the changes to your script, please? Thanks so much! 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 20:27, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Please? 🥺 –♠Vami_IV†♠ 20:29, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Tweaking some stuff right now to the script, so it might be unstable. I should be done within the next minute or so. 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 20:36, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Done my changes. Now the button also is spaced better. 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 20:47, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
done Enterprisey (talk!) 00:30, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

EnterpriseyBot: Archive WP:GO failure - fixed 2022-02-27

EnterpriseyBot's task "Archive WP:GO" failed to run per the configuration specified at Wikipedia:Bot activity monitor/Configurations. Detected only 0 edits in the last 1 week, whereas at least 1 was expected. If/when the issue is fixed, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. When that is done, this notice will be reposted if the bot task is still broken or is re-broken. If your bot is behaving as expected, then you may want to modify the activity configuration instead. Or to unsubscribe from bot failure notifications, remove the |notify= parameter from the {{/task}} template. Thanks! – SDZeroBot (talk) 00:20, 27 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What a useful bot! Enterprisey (talk!) 05:55, 27 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

EnterpriseyBot: Update BOTREQ status failure -- fixed 2022-03-01

EnterpriseyBot's task "Update BOTREQ status" failed to run per the configuration specified at Wikipedia:Bot activity monitor/Configurations. Detected only 0 edits in the last 1 week, whereas at least 1 was expected. If/when the issue is fixed, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. When that is done, this notice will be reposted if the bot task is still broken or is re-broken. If your bot is behaving as expected, then you may want to modify the task configuration instead. Or to unsubscribe from bot failure notifications, remove the |notify= parameter from the {{/task}} template. Thanks! – SDZeroBot (talk) 17:20, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It just so happened that there hadn't been any edits to BOTREQ proper in a week. Enterprisey (talk!) 00:28, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Recent changes

Hello. I've been trying to patrol it for a long time, but the only method I've been able to use is through SWViewer, because the page takes too long to load, sometimes it gives errors in the software and it takes too long to update. Im not an expert on the subject of the Wikipedia interface precisely, but what I want to say is that if you can't see if there is a fault in the software, because the page does not work correctly and makes maintenance very difficult. And no, its not my hardware or my device, because those types of pages work normally in the rest of the wikis, but not here (enwiki). I will appreciate your attention. -Alabama- (Talk) 00:21, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@-Alabama-, hi. I don't work with any software for patrolling recent changes, so you may want to try asking meta:Talk:SWViewer or WP:VPT. Enterprisey (talk!) 00:23, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – March 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:46, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

User:Enterprisey/section-watchlist.js

To let you know, hlist styles will be removed out of the global stylesheets sooner (but SoonTM, not soon) rather than later. Izno (talk) 21:07, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Gotcha, thanks. Fortunately section-watchlist is dead (server isn't running) so the functionality won't be greatly impaired :^) Enterprisey (talk!) 22:28, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

EnterpriseyBot: Update WiR CSD report failure

EnterpriseyBot's task "Update WiR CSD report" failed to run per the configuration specified at Wikipedia:Bot activity monitor/Configurations. Detected only 0 edits in the last 1 week, whereas at least 1 was expected. If/when the issue is fixed, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. When that is done, this notice will be reposted if the bot task is still broken or is re-broken. If your bot is behaving as expected, then you may want to modify the task configuration instead. Or to unsubscribe from bot failure notifications, remove the |notify= parameter from the {{/task}} template. Thanks! – SDZeroBot (talk) 18:20, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion at User talk:Σ § AfD Stats

 You are invited to join the discussion at User talk:Σ § AfD Stats. A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me! 17:00, 12 March 2022 (UTC) A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me! 12:06, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) @A. C. Santacruz: You already posted this at User talk:Σ/Archive/2022/April#AfD Stats, please respect WP:MULTI. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 16:39, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Redrose64, I've changed it now to the please see template, hope this is ok. A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me! 17:00, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Quick head's up

Hi Enterprisey: I just wanted to let you know that I adjusted your collapse box in the MoS discussion in order to allow the first few comments to show, since they were on-topic the editorial issue being discussed: policy does not permit collapsing merely because of length, unless the editor whose comments are being suppressed agrees it is appropriate: the relevant policy language can be found in WP:TPG. I agree that much of the discussion that followed was superfluous and led to no real progress on the underlying editorial issue, so I left that portion collapsed, but that spiraling meta exchange occurred specifically because another editor attempted to collapse the actual relevant discussion. I believe this is the appropriate balance, but I wanted to let you know, insofar as it is your name on the header of that box, as you signed it. Let me know if you'd rather I put my name there given the changed span of the box. SnowRise let's rap 03:48, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the notification, and feel free to do whatever w/r/t the box. I won't revert, but I remain of the opinion that the length of the comments diminishes the reading experience for visitors to the discussion severely enough to merit at least a refactor. Enterprisey (talk!) 04:00, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you: I'll take that feedback under advisement and consider moving the resulting discussion to a subsection so as to reduce the scrolling necessary for new participants wishing to read the !votes or add their own in that section. In the meantime, I think those points are germane and worth being a part of the record, so I appreciate that you have respected my wishes about having them visible until I figure out where they should ultimately be located and move them in a fashion that hopefully the other involved editor will find acceptable as well. Have a good one! SnowRise let's rap 04:12, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928)
  • When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:13, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Given the above note about phab:T284114, where I added your User:Enterprisey/undelete-backlink script to core, you may want to update that page and User:Enterprisey/Creations#User scripts to note that the script is no longer needed. --DannyS712 (talk) 19:16, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Since you've edited since I posted this, I assume you missed my suggestion given that I know for me I often ignore the bottom of newsletters with the subscription link, etc. :) DannyS712 (talk) 00:34, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Earth Day 2022 Edit-a-thon - April 22nd - 2PM EST

You're invited! NYC Earth Day 2022 Edit-a-thon! April 22nd!

Sure We Can and the Environment of New York City Task Force invite you to join us for:

This Edit-a-Thon is part of a larger Earth Day celebration, hosted by Brooklyn based recycling and community center Sure We Can, that runs from 1PM-7PM and is open to the public! See this flyer for more information: https://www.instagram.com/p/CcGr4FyuqEa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

-- Environment of New York City Task Force

User:Aageewaanf

Hey, you blocked this user earlier today, could you (or a talk page watcher) revdel their edits? They may qualify for oversight as well. Thanks, ansh.666 08:46, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done, thanks for the note. Enterprisey (talk!) 23:51, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! ansh.666 08:31, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Usage introduces Talk post errors

Hi Enterprisey. On the delsort program, it seems when I only change an AFD category and not add the AFD to a deletion sorting page, an unintended error message is added to the AFD discussion. This didn't happen before, and has already happened to both me and Engr. Smitty on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vettuva Gounder. Any timetable on a fix for this recently introduced bug? Thanks! Jalen Folf (talk) 06:45, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Enterprisey. I was keeping an eye on delsort errors for an unrelated reason so ended up thoroughly investigating this one. So the problem is that if the user doesn't pick any categories, delsort adds {{subst:Deletion sorting/multi|sig=~~~~}}, and that template with no cats specified displays a big red error. Long story short, here's the fix. Add after line 374: if ( Array.isArray(cats) && ! cats.length ) return ''; –Novem Linguae (talk) 08:09, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed, thanks for the patch. Enterprisey (talk!) 17:47, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
You hungry Enterprisey? The stray word "ramen" appears to have been placed in the code in the same diff where you added the patch. lol –Novem Linguae (talk) 19:26, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Really not sure how I did that, lol. Thanks again. Enterprisey (talk!) 20:38, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

New administrator activity requirement

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

  1. Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
  2. Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period

Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.

22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

I want to report user

Andrewgprout is reverting edits from Chandigarh - Vistara operates UK707 using A321N IXC-DEL-CCU with same aircraft, same flight number and pax does not disembark from plane. I have made attempt to chat with him on his chat page and he didn’t cared about and still reverted the edits and in the past he has got several warning for edits. I want to report this user. I dont know how I can. Admins please help and look into this matter. 649pardeep (talk) 07:31, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

AfC Helper script testing

Hi! Not sure if you're the right person to ask, so feel free to point me elsewhere if so, but I've been trying to make some changes to the AfC script and noticed a weird behavior during testing. On testwiki, when I run the script, talkText in the talk page handling inside handleAccept (starting line 2266 of submissions.js) is always an empty string, even if there's something on the talk page. Since I'm trying to work with WikiProject banners this is making testing almost impossible - do you know what might be going on here? Rusalkii (talk) 06:39, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, looks like this might only be a problem when the draft is in userspace, and happens on this wiki too. Looks like the script just doesn't pick up userspace talk pages. Rusalkii (talk) 14:46, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:33, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

delsort.js

The list of delsorts on your delsort.js script needs to be updated. I recently opened new delsorts for Oman and several Indian states. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 20:07, 13 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@LaundryPizza03, you can add it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Computer-readable.json. Enterprisey (talk!) 01:04, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

we have a draft, for an organisation

respected, greetings of the day, we have a draft for an organisation which is real and running till date but the submission of article is being rejected for some reasons since december 2021, the organization is ready to produce legal documents for any verfication (if there is a chance)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Smiley_Children_Society

thanks in advance

Some microchips for you!

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Love your vandalism updating stuff!

Spread the goodness of microchips by adding {{subst:Microchips for you}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message!

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
  • The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

Arbitration

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:55, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

AFD Stats Issue

Was curious and tried out the tool; it seems to not be registering new votes starting on June 9 for most users I've tested. Is this because the tool is only run periodically, or because toolforge is down or something? Iseult Δx parlez moi 05:37, 11 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

WP:REPLAG. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 08:43, 11 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
There's currently a thread at WP:VPT about this. ― Qwerfjkltalk 09:49, 11 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – July 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

Technical news

  • user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:28, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

AfD Stats could not discernible to renamed user's vote

Hello, Enterprisey/Archive 12. You have new messages at phab:T311709.
Message added 04:00, 16 July 2022 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Interwiki talkback}} or {{Itb}} template.

Q𝟤𝟪 04:00, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – August 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

Administrator changes

readded Valereee
removed Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
  • An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news

  • The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
  • Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration

  • The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

  • You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
  • Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
  • Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:44, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Recently Active Users bug

Hey Enterprisey, hope you are well. It seems as if Recently Active Oversighters is not showing any active Oversighters. It might be an issue with the usergroup name change to suppress instead of oversight. I posted this on Github as well, see here. Thanks! -- LuK3 (Talk) 16:41, 10 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Enterprisey (talk!) 22:51, 26 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

EnterpriseyBot: Update BOTREQ status failure (fixed 2022-09-08)

EnterpriseyBot's task "Update BOTREQ status" failed to run per the configuration specified at Wikipedia:Bot activity monitor/Configurations. Detected only 0 edits in the last 1 week, whereas at least 1 was expected. If/when the issue is fixed, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. When that is done, this notice will be reposted if the bot task is still broken or is re-broken. If your bot is behaving as expected, then you may want to modify the task configuration instead. Or to unsubscribe from bot failure notifications, remove the |notify= parameter from the {{/task}} template. Thanks! – SDZeroBot (talk) 18:20, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The TOC at BOTREQ hasn't udpated in a while

EnterpriseyBot needs a kick in the bucket of bolts I think. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 00:07, 20 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Kick provided. Thanks for the report. Enterprisey (talk!) 06:08, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

AFCH repo

Hey Enterprisey. Sorry to bug you, you're probably really busy. There's some open patches in the AFCH repo on GitHub (oldest is 6 months) and I was wondering if you wanted some help going through them. Myself (github NovemLinguae) and/or Ingenuity (github IngenuityWP) are both willing to help test and approve patches if you'd like. Would just need maintainer access. If not no worries. Thanks. –Novem Linguae (talk) 01:25, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done, thanks for offering to help! Enterprisey (talk!) 06:13, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – September 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).

Guideline and policy news

  • A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
  • An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news

Arbitration

  • An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
  • The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

  • The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
  • Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:11, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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