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The Signpost: 22 May 2023
- In the media: History, propaganda and censorship
- Arbitration report: Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland"
- Featured content: A very musical week for featured articles
- Traffic report: Coronation, chatbot, celebs
Books & Bytes – Issue 56
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 56, March – April 2023
- New partner:
- Perlego
- Library access tips and tricks
- Spotlight: EveryBookItsReader
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Archived FAC
My FAC was archived again. While I disagree with the seemingly rushed pace of this process, I realize now that I should have gotten some editors to review and support before I renominated. That being said, I have submitted a GOCE request and am going to try to see if I can get some users to support before I attempt again. I only plan to attempt one more time, but I'm already starting to think I'm pushing a lost cause. Some users seem to think that the maps RfC may have dissuaded some users from the U.S. Roads project. Bneu2013 (talk) 20:17, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
- Even in 2009 when FAC was more functional, it took me three tries to get California State Route 78 through. On FAC #2 someone outright opposed over the "fact" that it was the longest SR in California (it's not). That being said, things on English Wikipedia have taken a significantly disturbing turn [1] and I am not sure how much longer any of us are going to be putting our content-creation efforts into the English Wikipedia. --Rschen7754 21:20, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
- Yes, unfortunately I do recognize several of the users who contributed to that discussion. I am honestly sick an tired of non-content contributors telling users like myself what to do when they understand none of it. In my opinion, users who do nothing but police articles are not here to build an encyclopedia. However, if more people get discouraged by this and quit, it's only going to get worse. Bneu2013 (talk) 10:20, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 5 June 2023
- News and notes: WMRU director forks new 'pedia, birds flap in top '22 piccy, WMF weighs in on Indian gov's map axe plea
- Featured content: Poetry under pressure
- Traffic report: Celebs, controversies and a chatbot in the public eye
Administrators' newsletter – June 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- 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.
Technical news
- 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.
Arbitration
- 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.
Miscellaneous
- Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.
Scottywong case opened
You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Scottywong. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Scottywong/Evidence. Please add your evidence by June 21, 2023, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Scottywong/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 19:22, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 19 June 2023
- News and notes: WMF Terms of Use now in force, new Creative Commons licensing
- Featured content: Content, featured
- Recent research: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics
Administrators' newsletter – July 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- 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.
Technical news
- 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.
Arbitration
- 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.
The Signpost: 3 July 2023
- Disinformation report: Imploded submersible outfit foiled trying to sing own praises on Wikipedia
- Featured content: Incensed
- Traffic report: Are you afraid of spiders? Arnold? The Idol? ChatGPT?
Nigerian road article
Hi Rschen7754, could you tell me your thoughts on this article [2]? Thanks. Chamaemelum (talk) 23:58, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 17 July 2023
- In the media: Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia
- Tips and tricks: What automation can do for you (and your WikiProject)
- Featured content: Scrollin', scrollin', scrollin', keep those readers scrollin', got to keep on scrollin', Rawhide!
- Traffic report: The Idol becomes the Master
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
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --11:22, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 1 August 2023
- News and notes: City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians, Ruwiki founder banned, WMF launches Mastodon server
- In the media: Truth, AI, bull from politicians, and climate change
- Disinformation report: Hot climate, hot hit, hot money, hot news hot off the presses!
- Tips and tricks: Citation tools for dummies!
- In focus: Journals cited by Wikipedia
- Opinion: Are global bans the last step?
- Featured content: Featured Content, 1 to 15 July
- Traffic report: Come on Oppie, let's go party
FA opinion
Hello, I would like to try to get Interstate 40 in Tennessee to FA status one last time. But before I do so, I'd like to know, would you support the article in its current form? Thanks. Bneu2013 (talk) 06:31, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
- I get the feeling that you're going to go ahead and do a FAC regardless of what I say. --Rschen7754 04:12, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Technical news
- The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
- 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. (T337431)
Arbitration
- The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
- The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.
The Signpost: 15 August 2023
- News and notes: Dude, Where's My Donations? Wikimedia Foundation announces another million in grants for non-Wikimedia-related projects
- Tips and tricks: How to find images for your articles, check their copyright, upload them, and restore them
- Cobwebs: Getting serious about writing
- Serendipity: Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether
- Featured content: Barbenheimer confirmed
- Traffic report: 'Cause today it just goes with the fashion
The Signpost: 31 August 2023
- From the editor: Beta version of signpost.news now online
- News and notes: You like RecentChanges?
- In the media: Taking it sleazy
- Recent research: The five barriers that impede "stitching" collaboration between Commons and Wikipedia
- Draftspace: Bad Jokes and Other Draftspace Novelties
- Humour: The Dehumourification Plan
- Traffic report: Raise your drinking glass, here's to yesterday
Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
- A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that
[s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment
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Technical news
- Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)
Arbitration
- The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming
local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus
. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged tonote when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful
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Miscellaneous
- Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.
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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The Center Line: Fall 2023
Volume 10, Issue 1 • Fall 2023 • About the Newsletter
- Features
- —delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of Imzadi 1979 → on 19:00, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 16 September 2023
- In the media: "Just flirting", going Dutch and Shapps for the defence?
- Obituary: Nosebagbear
- Featured content: Catching up
- Traffic report: Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
Interview
Would you be willing to do an interview for my YouTube channel? I'm fascinated with recent developments and would love to chat with you about it! –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 04:34, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
- @MJL: Hi, for privacy reasons I am not comfortable with doing a recorded audio interview, but if you are interested I could ask around and see if anyone else is. --Rschen7754 18:07, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
- [Thank you for the ping] That's perfectly fine! Please, have anyone interested reach out to me. I'm also very willing to do an unrecorded audio interview as well. :D –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 18:11, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
- I would be interested, if that's alright with you, sir. — MatthewAnderson707 (talk|sandbox) 00:51, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
- @MatthewAnderson707: Will respond on Discord.
For the record, I'm not a guy. :P –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 01:38, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
- @MatthewAnderson707: Will respond on Discord.
- I would be interested, if that's alright with you, sir. — MatthewAnderson707 (talk|sandbox) 00:51, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
- [Thank you for the ping] That's perfectly fine! Please, have anyone interested reach out to me. I'm also very willing to do an unrecorded audio interview as well. :D –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 18:11, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
A kitten for you!
Rschen--you have done so much for the project: thank you very much. All the best to you.
Drmies (talk) 17:06, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
Resigning
HI @Rschen7754: I'm saddened to see you are planning to leave Wikipedia. I hope at some point you find a path back. You have done excellent work and the place won't be the same without you. scope_creepTalk 09:06, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
Splitting off
Interesting to read about the reasons a number of road editors split from Wikipedia. A number of the most prolific medical editors have also split off to MDWiki. Part of our reason for splitting had to do with EN Wikipedia declining to permit discussions around the costs of medications unless heavily covered in the popular press, ie expensive in the United States plus the unpleasantness of many interactions here. Wondering if you have any use for NC licensed images? We also host NC Commons and are happy to see others use it. Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:58, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks, this is something that we can keep in mind for the future. While AARoads is not run for profit, and there are as of now no ads on the wiki itself, I know that the main AARoads site does run ads to cover costs and I am not sure if that would count as NC. --Rschen7754 05:43, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
- The definition of NC is “not primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation.” So if one was to publish a CD of the material and distribute at the cost of manufacturing or have ads to support the cost of hosting a website, that does not necessarily disallow use of NC material. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:33, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
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Happy Adminship Anniversary!
| Happy adminship anniversary! Hi Rschen7754! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 02:33, 16 December 2023 (UTC) |  |