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20:35, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

A level of indentation was removed from the template ((rfp)), so MusikBot's automated comments at WP:PERM may now be overindented. Winston (talk) 09:40, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

 Done, along with User:MusikAnimal/responseHelper.js and User:MusikAnimal/userRightsManager.js. — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:48, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

Dettifoss, located in northeast Iceland, is the largest waterfall in Europe in terms of volume discharge, with an average water flow of 200 m3/s. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Geography of Iceland Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Air sports • Isabel Adrian Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

22:05, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Wholesaling or distributing is the sale of goods or merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional or other professional business users; or to other wholesalers (wholesale businesses) and related subordinated services. Pictured is the Birmingham Wholesale Markets at 4:00 AM. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Wholesaling Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Geography of Iceland • Air sports Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 22 November 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

20:01, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

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Proposed Lazarev Sea name (at top-middle of image) as part of the Southern Ocean Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Lazarev Sea Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Wholesaling • Geography of Iceland Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 29 November 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

I need help with my JS script i used youre script loader

| Euglou^talk 14:33, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

@Euglou I see you installed User:MusikAnimal/userRightsManager.js. This is an admin-only script and will not work on your account. — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:31, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

@User:MusikAnimal must I delet the script or will it delete itself ?? | Euglou^talk 19:48, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

@Euglou: You used the script-installer gadget to install it, so you should be able to uninstall scripts just as easily. Look for the "Uninstall" button at User:MusikAnimal/userRightsManager, or in the heading when viewing User:MusikAnimal/userRightsManager.js. — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:37, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

21:13, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi, I need some assistance on Deri Lorus (singer) page. An user continues to placing the CSD for an article. Not allowing me to do anything. Help me. Thank you! Nonsmoker0000 (talk) 08:58, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

I encourage you to run a check on the OP and compare with IveMadeAn; Nonsmoker seems to be a sock for removing the G4 template. Note also the other edits of this editor. JavaHurricane 09:01, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

• Nonsmoker0000 is indefinitely blocked as a sockpuppet. JBW (talk) 09:23, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

Bushtits eating suet, which is usable as a bird food, from a bird feeder Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Bird food Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Lazarev Sea • Wholesaling Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 6 December 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

Would you please take a look there, Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-header/Normal? --Mahmudmasri (talk) 16:32, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

@Mahmudmasri This seems like a very narrow use-case, but I don't have anything against the idea. Still, I'd rather defer to someone else (I assume you came to me because my bot protected the page). To request changes to protected pages, you should make an edit request, in this case using the ((edit template-protected)) template. In my opinion it would be helpful to be more specific on exactly what changes you'd like to make. I assume there are also other templates used throughout the Signpost that you may also want to modify accordingly. For this reason, it may be worthwhile to seek broader input at Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost, since what you're trying to do is supposed to be a long-term change. Others may have input on the implementation. For instance, the words within CSS class names are usually hyphenated rather than CamelCase like you are using. Kind regards and hope this helps, — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:00, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi MusikAnimal. Per the recent RfA RfC and T297058, autopatrolled will soon be unbundled from the admin toolset. Would it therefore be possible to stop MusikBot making this kind of edit at PERM? Thanks. – Joe (talk) 13:52, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

I was hoping my bot was smart enough to actually check that the user has the said permission, and not just blindly assume it's part of the sysop user group, but nope! It's an easy fix, though. I'll get on that soon. For now, we should feel free to remind admins that they can assign autopatrolled to themselves. — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:15, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! Maybe an automated reminder would be helpful, but I would guess if an admin as made it all the way to PERM that they've considered and rejected the idea of assigning it themselves? (For laudable reasons of transparency etc.) – Joe (talk) 19:22, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

I agree, and besides I'd rather not hardcode any policy-based logic. This bot task is someday supposed to work on other wikis, too (it's a long ways from that now, but I don't want to add more enwiki-specific things). So unless others request it I won't add any sort of automated reminder. — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:28, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

21:58, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes

A Train • Berean Hunter • Epbr123 • GermanJoe • Sanchom • Mysid

Technical news

• Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
• The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
• The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.

A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Hey! So your bot is supposed to remove protection templates from pages without protection. However on Jun Matsumoto the last protection of the page expired on November 28. However, the bot didn't remove the template for protection until today. Any reason why the bot waited so long? From what I've seen the bot removes the protection template shortly after it expires. ― Blaze The Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 22:37, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

@Blaze The Wolf It works off of Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates, so for whatever reason it must not have been in that category until today. A simple software glitch could explain this; with background jobs failing to start, etc., and at some point that job finally ran (or maybe a purge to the article) which then caused it get added to the category. I can't say I've seen this specific issue much, but the other side of this bot task (adding protection templates to protected pages) does occasionally miss pages for completely different reasons. — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:33, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, December 2021

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. 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, Y 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful (N2 3 denied, ? 3 withdrawn, and 2 expired). September 2019 Y Monkbot 16, DannyS712 bot 60, Ahechtbot 6, PearBOT 3, Qbugbot 3 · N2 DannyS712 bot 5, PkbwcgsBot 24 · ? 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 Y OAbot 3, DannyS712 bot 47, Pathbot 2, PearBOT 2, DannyS712 bot 59, DannyS712 bot 62, HasteurBot 14, PearBOT 4, WOSlinkerBot 4, MilHistBot 5 Curb Safe Charmer adopts reFill: TAnthony pointed out that reFill 2's bug reports were going unanswered; creator Zhaofeng Li had retired from Wikipedia, and a maintainer was needed. As of June 2021, Curb Safe Charmer had taken up the mantle, saying: "Not that I have all the skills needed but better me than nobody! 'Maintainer' might be too strong a term though. Volunteers welcome!" November 2019 Y BHGbot 4, YiFeiBot 2, DannyS712 bot III 64 · ? PearBOT Old bots do new tricks: DannyS712 bot III 64 prowled redirects, YiFeiBot 2 archived GoCE requests, and BHGbot 4 removed links to portals deleted at MfD (until its authorization was revoked in January at operator BrownHairedGirl's request). December 2019 Y DemonDays64 Bot, DannyS712 bot III 66, Bot1058 6, Monkbot 15, MilHistBot 6, PearBOT 5, DannyS712 bot IV 65 · N2 SportsStatsBot · Xinbenlv bot, SteveBot 8 Redirects to be autopatrolled: A RfC took place at WP:NPP, closing with unanimous consensus that new redirects should be automatically marked as patrolled by bot. DannyS712 wasted no time, and submitted DannyS712 bot III 66 the next day; it passed two days after that. 200,000 bios get short descs: Along a similar vein, Bot1058 6 was approved to remove disambiguation pages from Category:Monitored short pages and a new bot (DemonDays64 Bot) changed lots of http links to https using JavaScript Wiki Browser. One particularly neat task, PearBOT 5, automatically generated short descriptions for more than 200,000 biographies. 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) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.)

People experiencing an adventure (close-up view) Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Adventure Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Bird food • Lazarev Sea Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 13 December 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

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22:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Goat meat being roasted as part of an asado Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Goat meat Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Adventure • Bird food Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 20 December 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

Hi, It seems MusikBot hasn't been updated yet to acknowledge the fact that admins no longer have the autopatrolled right as part of the sysop group, as its still marking request from admins as already done (see eg [9]). Could the bot be updated to reflect the fact admins no longer have that right? Thanks in advance, -- Asartea ^{Talk | Contribs} 09:54, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Oops, I meant to fix this last week but I forgot. It's  Fixed now, though :) Thanks for letting me know, — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:16, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

22:04, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

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! ✨ 12:48, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Sounds very cool! I'm part of the IntelliJ family myself and am not looking to switch IDEs at this time, but I'm sure there are plenty who would make use of your plugin. I use a simple Node server (example) to serve my user scripts to the wiki and be able to develop from my IDE, which I'm guessing is basically how your plugin works. Anyway if/when you make an IntelliJ plugin, please ping me :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:12, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, and Visual Studio Code only serves as a user friendly way to start the server (mainly for node newbies). You can use the server script without Visual Studio Code, just run node .wikidev from the root directory of the project. ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 03:09, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

@Ed6767 Nice! I applaud you for making this easier for newbies. We need more of that across the board! As an aside, is there a reason User:Ed6767/EasyWikiDev.js has everything in the global scope? I would recommend wrapping it in an anonymous function and assign things to the window if necessary. I was also going to ask how it knows what dependencies the script you're developing requires, but I guess the script you're developing is responsible for using mw.loader.using() etc. (which makes sense). When working on gadgets though, you don't normally use mw.loader because the ResourceLoader definition has that, so I guess in that situation you should have a local wrapper script. Just goes to show how complicated this process really is! :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 04:24, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

@MusikAnimal, I didn't wrap the code because I wrote it in a few hours quite early in the morning lol but it should be, thanks for pointing that out - the script doesn't need any dependencies, it basically runs as a user script would, and indeed, it can get quite complex and confusing sometimes ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 05:47, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

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).

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

Featured script LuckyRename, by Alexis Jazz, is this month's featured script. LuckyRename makes requesting file moves easier, and automates the many steps in file moving (including automatic replacement of existing usage). Give it a shot! Updated scripts SD0001: hide-reverted-edits has been updated to take into account changes in reversion tools like Twinkle and RedWarn. Writ Keeper: massRollback.js has added a rollback-some option (missed in last issue). ClaudineChionh: SkinSwitcher (a fork and update of Eizen's script) provides an options menu/toolbox/toolbar allowing users to view a given page in MediaWiki's default skins.

Pending requests Mass-patrolling at Special:NewPages Taking up the mantle of an almost completed peer review javascript bot Restore the Wikipedia Citation Tool for Google Books Autohighlighting specific characters (Greek) ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests Miscellaneous Wikipedia:User scripts/Ranking is a sortable table of Wikipedia's thousand-or-so most commonly used scripts; it includes their author, last modification date, installation count, and sometimes a short description. Toolhub is a community managed catalog of software tools used in the Wikimedia movement. Technical volunteers can use Toolhub to document the tools that they create or maintain. All Wikimedians can use Toolhub to search for tools to help with their workflows and to create lists of useful tools to share with others.

New scripts

• Ahecht:
  • draft-sorter sorts AfC drafts by adding WikiProject banners to their talk pages. It supersedes User:Enterprisey/draft-sorter, adding a few features and fixing some bugs.
  • massmove, a modified User:Plastikspork/massmove.js that adds a link to the left column, allows adding and removing both prefixes and suffixes.
  • watchlistcleaner removes missing pages (redlinks), redirects, pages you haven't edited recently, and/or pages you've never edited from your watchlist.
• 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:
  • CopiedTemplateEditor, mainly for CCI case handlers, allows graphically editing a talk page's ((copied)) templates.
• 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:
  • OneClickArchiver is a custom version of User:Technical_13/Scripts/OneClickArchiver which doesn't prepend ((Clear)) to the top of each section on the archive page.
• 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:
  • TwinkleMobile enables Twinkle on mobile view (Minerva skin).
• 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:
  • VisualEditor Citation Needed adds a button (under "Insert") in VisualEditor to add a ((citation needed)) tag.
• 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:
  • StatusChanger is a fork of Enterprisey's Status Changer, which adds a UI to the script. (using Morebits, so you'll need to have Twinkle enabled to use it).

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)

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Diagram of a prawn, with the carapace highlighted in red Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Carapace Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Goat meat • Adventure Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 27 December 2021 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

Hello, any idea why this was created? ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 18:52, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Some faulty logic in fetching the WikiProjects from the talk page. I believe that code predates Special:PageAssessments. These days we can query the API to get the WikiProjects. I'll try to fix this soon. — MusikAnimal ^talk 20:42, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

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Hello.
I went through Help:Creating a bot, and related pages, and a few meta pages regarding pywikibot as well, but I couldn't find the answers I was looking for. Would it be okay if I email you with two - three questions? —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 21:02, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

@Usernamekiran I am not a user of Pywikibot, sorry! But there is lots of info on Mediawiki.org and Wikitech, for instance mw:Manual:Pywikibot and wikitech:Help:Toolforge/My first Pywikibot tool. There is fairly large community of volunteers who work with this framework who I'm sure could help you. You could try asking your questions on the mailing list, at mw:Manual talk:Pywikibot, or in real-time on IRC at #pywikibot ^connect. Hope this helps. — MusikAnimal ^talk 22:23, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

well, it's not a pywikibot either. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 22:31, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

I see. Well, unless it's something sensitive, I generally recommend asking at public venues like wikitech-l so others can weigh in, and for searchability for others with the same questions, but you most certainly are welcome to email me. There's no need to ask first :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 22:51, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

thanks. It's a pretty simple, and non-confidential doubt. But it's that simplicity which makes it embarrassing lol. Hence the email. I will mail you in around 24 hours. Thanks a lot. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 22:55, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

sent. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 17:37, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

I found mw:Manual:Pywikibot/replace.py, but not how to deploy it. Its in python though, not in ruby. I am comfortable with C#/.net but I think I can work with python too —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 21:53, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

updated on, I dont I like python. 22:21, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

I also found dotnetwikibot. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 22:21, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

• I posted in detail at Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard#help creating a bot, your input will be appreciated a lot. —usernamekiran • sign the guestbook • (talk) 23:44, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Hello MusikAnimal: Thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia, and have a great New Year! Cheers, ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 23:47, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding ((subst:Happy New Year snowman)) to people's talk pages with a friendly message.

Same to you, thanks! — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:57, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

A token of thanks Hi MusikAnimal! I've nominated you (along with all other active admins) to receive a solstice season gift from the WMF. Talk page stalkers are invited to comment at the nomination. Enjoy! Cheers, ((u|Sdkb)) talk ~~~~~

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:50, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

I commented on the Meta page but will write here for the record, that while I appreciate the sentiment, I have declined the offer given I am WMF staff. — MusikAnimal ^talk 03:59, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello Sir Why incomplete information attached? I want to add some information in Abhira tribe please unprotection this Page 2409:4053:E0D:579D:0:0:5789:2B10 (talk) 07:45, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi, I'm afraid due to frequent disruption this page cannot be unprotected at this time. You can make an edit request and someone else can implement the changes for you. Best, — MusikAnimal ^talk 04:03, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

A man playing the didgeridoo, an indigenous instrument of Australia that was developed at least 1,500 years ago. This is one of the myriad topics within the history of music. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: History of music Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Carapace • Goat meat Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 3 January 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

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

Administrator changes Amalthea • Ihcoyc (deceased) • Kateshortforbob • Kirill Lokshin • Rifleman 82 • Ryan Norton • Wrp103 Interface administrator changes Mr. Stradivarius

CheckUser changes Cabayi • Donald Albury • Enterprisey • Izno • Wugapodes Opabinia regalis Casliber • David Fuchs • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy Oversighter changes Cabayi • Donald Albury • Enterprisey • Izno • Wugapodes Opabinia regalis Casliber • David Fuchs • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy

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.

• 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.

Arbitration

• Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Cabayi, Donald Albury, Enterprisey, Izno, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, Wugapodes.

Miscellaneous

• The functionaries email list (functionaries-enlists.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.

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18:14, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

I have rised a request on Teahouse and somebody pinged you there. could you check my request ? Onmyway22 talk 17:27, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

Replying here for the record that I followed up at the Teashouse and the issue has been resolved. — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:51, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi MusikAnimal, there have been a couple of cases recently where a template sandbox was used in article space and got a high enough transclusion count that the bot protected it and it had to got to RfPP to be unprotected. Do you think it would be sensible to exclude sandbox pages from the bot? In an ideal world recent editors of the sandbox and template would get some sort of warning that they were using the sandbox live so they could fix it. User:GKFX^talk 19:35, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

@GKFX: hmmmm - if the sandbox is being used in articles, it would be a ripe vandalism target though, wouldn't it? — xaosflux ^Talk 19:50, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

Yes, it’s certainly a risk. I guess it’s not too much of a burden to go to RfPP, provided someone notices the problem. Automatic unprotection after the sandbox is removed from articles would be another answer; I know that would need to go through bot approval again. User:GKFX^talk 19:53, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

@GKFX I like your ideal world! That's a solution I will definitely look into. For now, we absolutely cannot exempt sandboxes. On many or perhaps most occasions, the editor forgot they were transcluding the sandbox version, in some cases with millions of transclusions. The automatic protection in those cases to me is more of a feature, not a bug, since it surfaces the mistakes. But as you say there are other ways to do that, too :) Thanks for the fine idea! I'm going to be extremely busy for the next few weeks but after that I should have time to work on this. — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:50, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

01:22, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

A NeXTstation graphics workstation from 1990 Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Workstation Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Reader Rabbit • History of music Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 17 January 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

19:53, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

21:37, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello!

Is there any way that I could request some changes to filter 846 (T-Mobile/LTA tracking)?

2607:fb90:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 is currently globally blocked, so there's no real need to have that anymore. 2607:FB91:0:0:0:0:0:0/32 would be good to add, though.

Here are all the ranges used by T-Mobile as well: https://isprangefinder.toolforge.org/hint.php?type=asn&range=21928 (it's a lot)

wizzito | say hello! 20:10, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

@Wizzito I'm afraid I'm not sure what we're tracking with this filter. I don't personally use it. @TheresNoTime and @Beetstra are probably the better edit filter managers to consult about this. — MusikAnimal ^talk 22:11, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

@Wizzito: Meh, I don't know this filter either - I don' t use it. I guess your best bet will be to go to the Edit Filter Request page and see whether it needs to be updated. Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 05:51, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Are you the responder at Wishlist on meta right? Can I add another proposal there? –Ctrlwiki (talk) 02:07, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, we are no longer accepting new proposals. I see you got in a few at least, so that's nice :) Hope you see you voting, and further participation in next Survey, too! Regards, — MusikAnimal ^talk 04:20, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

When the next wishlist? –Ctrlwiki (talk) 04:46, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

To be determined! At least a year, perhaps two years – since we've received a lot of feedback that it's better to work on addressing older wishes than running a new survey. You can watchlist meta:Community Wishlist Survey/Updates for updates. — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:21, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

17:41, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, January 2022

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. 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, Y 59 were approved, and 12 were unsuccessful (with N2 8 denied, ? 2 withdrawn, and 2 expired). January 2020 Yeah, you're not gonna be able to get away with this anymore. Y ST47Bot, Seppi333Bot, Qbugbot 4 · N2 PkbwcgsBot 25, PkbwcgsBot 26 A new Pywikibot release dropped support for Python 3.4, and it was expected that support for Python 2.7 would be removed in coming updates. Toolforge itself planned to drop Python 2 support in 2022. Two new bots dropped in January 2020: ST47Bot, the successor to STBot, and Seppi333Bot, whose task was to perform a weekly update of four "massive" wikitables for WikiProject Molecular Biology. Cydebot, an adminbot operated by Cyde since 2006, was blocked after going berserk on categories that hadn't yet been CfD'd. February 2020 Y AnomieBOT 78, Cewbot 2, DannyS712 bot 67, DannyS712 bot III 63, PearBOT 6, DemonDays64 Bot 2 · N2 PearBOT On February 1, some concerns were raised about ListeriaBot performing "nonsense" edits. Semi-active operator Magnus Manske (who originally coded the Phase II software|precursor of MediaWiki) was pinged. Meanwhile, the bot was temporarily blocked for several hours until the issue was diagnosed and resolved. On February 18, ST47Bot got into a tussle with Amalthea (bot), and had to be partially-blocked from Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cases/Overview. March 2020 Y MajavahBot, SDZeroBot, TheSandBot 6, TheSandBot 7, Bitbotje, FACBot 6, TheSandBot 8, Qbugbot 5, Cewbot 3, SDZeroBot 2, PrimeBOT 31, WikiCleanerBot 12 · AntiCompositeBot In March, a long discussion was started at Wikipedia talk:Bot policy by Skdb about the troubling trend of bots "expiring" without explanation after their owners became inactive. This can happen for a variety of reasons -- API changes break code, hosting providers' software updates break code, hosting accounts lapse, software changes make bots' edits unnecessary, and policy changes make bots' edits unwanted. The most promising solution seemed to be Toolforge hosting (although it has some problems of its own, like the occasional necessity of refactoring code). Some of the twelve bot tasks approved this month were TheSandBot 6 (removing blocked users from Category:Wikipedia usernames with possible policy issues), and TheSandBot 7 (removing unblocked users from Category:Wikipedians who are indefinitely blocked for promotional user names). SDZeroBot 2 was approved to refine geographic stub tags. New bots approved this month were MajavahBot (to patrol WP:EFFPR), SDZeroBot (to merge stub tags), and Bitbotje (fixing DISPLAYTITLE modifications, DEFAULTSORT errors and broken behavior switches in draftspace). April 2020 Y TheSandBot 9, BHGbot 5, DannyS712 bot 69, SDZeroBot 3, ST47ProxyBot, WugBot 4, SDZeroBot 4, DatBot 10, WikiCleanerBot 11, WikiCleanerBot 13, WikiCleanerBot 14, AntiCompositeBot 2, Cewbot 4 · N2 DaedanBot 1 · Creffbot A discussion on the bot noticeboard, "Re-examination of ListeriaBot", was started by Barkeep49, who pointed out repeated operation outside the scope of its BRFA (i.e. editing pages in mainspace, and adding non-free images to others). Some said it was doing good work, and others said it was operating beyond its remit. It was blocked on April 10; the next day it was unblocked, reblocked from article space, reblocked "for specified non-editing actions", unblocked, and indeffed. The next week, several safeguards were implemented in its code by Magnus; the bot was allowed to roam free once more on April 18. ST47ProxyBot joined the stable in April, after a BRFA started in December was finally completed. As an adminbot, it was authorized to block IP addresses belonging to open proxies, public VPN services, and web hosts. New tasks approved for existing bots included BHGbot 5 (diffusing categories), TheSandBot 9 (taking over some tasks from the inactive RonBot), and WugBot 4 (updating data at ((Interactive COVID-19 maps))). Also, DatBot 10 was approved to scale down non-free SVGs — I didn't even know that was a thing. A discussion at Wikipedia talk:Bot policy was started by Thryduulf about whether WP:BOTCOMM should explicitly specify that bot operators must be responsive to concerns raised on English Wikipedia specifically (as opposed to Phabricator, SourceForge, Toolforge, et cetera). Eventually, the policy was amended to its current form: 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 Y MajavahBot 3, DannyS712 bot 70, CitationCleanerBot 5, Dreamy Jazz Bot 4, QEDKbot, William Avery Bot 2, DannyS712 bot 68, PrimeBOT 32, TheSandBot 10, Bot1058 7, BHGbot 6, EaglesBot 2, Cewbot 5, WikiCleanerBot 17 · N2 MDanielsBot, PhuzBot 3, Gedimon · ? PearBOT 7 MajavahBot 3, an impressively meta bot task, was approved this month for maintaining a list of bots running on the English Wikipedia. The page, located at User:MajavahBot/Bot status report, is updated every 24 hours; it contains a list of all accounts with the bot flag, as well as their operator, edit count, last activity date, last edit date, last logged action date, user groups and block status. Other approvals for this month were William Avery Bot 2 (processing redirects in ((R from scientific name))), DannyS712 bot 68 (allowing users to schedule bot reminders for themselves), TheSandBot 10 (removing blocked/locked users from Category:User talk pages with conflict of interest notices), Bot1058 7 (updating Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests/Permalink), Dreamy Jazz Bot 4 (adding ((WikiProject Biography|living=no)) to talk pages where their associated article is in a year of death category), and QEDKbot (deleting and nominating empty categories). General syntax fixing tasks were approved for DannyS712 bot 70, CitationCleanerBot 5, PrimeBOT 32, BHGbot 6, Cewbot 5, and EaglesBot 2, as well as WikiCleanerBot 15, 16, and 17. Seven bots who fell below activity requirements (with neither the bots nor their operators having any edits or logged actions in two years) had their bot flags removed. They were NekoBot, Robert SkyBot, DASHBotAV, VoxelBot, JackieBot, ReferenceBot, and CensusBot. On May 12, EmausBot was blocked. June 2020 Y QEDKbot 2, AnomieBOT 79, WOSlinkerBot 6, Yapperbot 2, Yapperbot, AnomieBOT 80, Dreamy Jazz Bot 5, WikiCleanerBot 18, HasteurBot 15, MusikBot II 4, NoSandboxesHere · N2 RedWarn · ? Seppi333Bot 2 In July 2017, Headbomb made a proposal that a section of the Wikipedia:Dashboard be devoted to bots and technical issues. In November 2019, Lua code was written superseding Legobot's tasks on that page, and operator Legoktm was asked to stop them so that the new code could be deployed. After no response to pings, a partial-block of Legobot for the dashboard was proposed. Some months later, on June 16, Headbomb said: "A full block serves nothing. A partial block solves all current issues [...] Just fucking do it. It's been 3 years now." The next day, however, Legoktm disabled the task, and the dashboard was successfully refactored. On June 7, RexxS blocked Citation bot for disruptive editing, saying it was "still removing links after request to stop". A couple weeks later, a discussion on the bots noticeboard was opened, saying "it is a widely-used and useful bot, but it has one of the longest block logs for any recently-operating bot on Wikipedia". While its last BRFA approval was in 2011, its code and functionality had changed dramatically since then, and AntiCompositeNumber requested that BAG require a new BRFA. Maintainer AManWithNoPlan responded that most blocks were from years ago (when it lacked a proper test suite), and problems since then had mostly been one-off errors (like a June 2019 incident in which a LTA had "weaponized" the bot to harass editors). David Tornheim opened a discussion about whether bots based on closed-source code should be permitted, and proposed that they not. He cited a recent case in which a maintainer had said "I can only suppose that the code that is available on GitHub is not the actual code that was running on [the bot]". Some disagreed: Naypta said that "I like free software as much as the next person, and I strongly believe that bot operators should make their bot code public, but I don't think it should be that they must do so". Two new bots had their first BRFAs approved: Yapperbot, to replace Legobot for handling the Feedback Request Service, and NoSandboxesHere, to remove ((user sandbox)) from articles in draftspace using Category:Non-userspace pages using User sandbox. 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) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.)

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

Administrator changes AustralianRupert • Cimon Avaro • Euryalus • Jehochman • Nunh-huh 28bytes Bureaucrat changes 28bytes

Interface administrator changes Evad37 • Galobtter Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

• The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page.

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

• Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
• The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
• A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.

February 5, 12-2pm: ONLINE Met Afrofuturist edit-a-thon

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for a virtual Metropolitan Museum of Art edit-a-thon Saturday afternoon (12-2pm) with partners AfroCROWD and Black Lunch Table. To join the livestream from your computer or smartphone, just watch at this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. Our focus will be on the exhibition Before Yesterday We Could Fly inspired by Seneca Village, and featured art, artists, history and culture of the African diaspora. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! We are also running a Met Afrofuturist chat channel on our Wikimedia NYC Discord server for the whole monthlong campaign. Saturday February 5 ONLINE Met Afrofuturist edit-a-thon (optional RSVP on-wiki) + monthlong campaign. 12:00pm - 2:00 pm livestream via YouTube Join our Met Afrofuturist chat channel

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21:14, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Wikimedia NYC: Strategic Planning Survey for our community

Hi Wiki-Yorkers, We are reaching out as part of our community-building efforts at Wikimedia NYC. Our regional group is engaged in a strategic planning process to sharpen our strategy for the next three years, and we would like your input. Given your connection to us and your experience with Wikimedia NYC, I would be grateful if you would be willing to share some of your perspectives and insights as we think about our next chapter. Attached is an anonymous survey, which will remain active until February 28. Responses will go directly to Barretto Consulting and the Wikimedia NYC board will receive responses in aggregate and to identify cross-cutting themes. Please take some time to answer it and share your thoughts with us. Fill out our Wikimedia NYC survey! Thank you so much. We appreciate all your ideas and community spirit.

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--Wikimedia New York City Team 18:38, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

Hi MusikAnimal! Regarding your responseHelper script, I think it would make sense to change the indentation for WP:AIV (line 53) and WP:UAA (line 173) from :: to *: to match the current bullet formatting used on those pages. This would make the script consistent with the recommended indentation in the editnotices for those pages (see AIV and UAA), fix an issue that was mentioned here, and it would also help my new script for removing false positive bot reports at UAA. Thank you! DanCherek (talk) 18:29, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

Sure thing,  Done. Thanks for letting me know! — MusikAnimal ^talk 04:08, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

19:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

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)

Isabella I of Castile in the Rimado de la Conquista de Granada, by Pedro Marcuello Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Isabella I of Castile Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Cult of personality • Joseph Lelyveld Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 21 February 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

19:10, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

February 23, 7pm: ONLINE WikiWednesday Salon NYC

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-8pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop. To join the meeting from your computer or smartphone, just visit this link. More information about how to connect is available on the meetup page. We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might not typically be able to join us in person! If there's a project you'd like to share or a question you'd like answered, just let us know by adding it to the agenda or the talk page. Wednesday February 23 WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (optional RSVP on-wiki). 7:00pm - 8:00 pm online via Zoom (optional breakout rooms from 8:00-8:30)

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--Wikimedia New York City Team 19:38, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Could you possibly unprotect this article? It's been protected for five years and the protecting administrator is no longer active. 156.61.250.251 (talk) 13:43, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) The best place to ask is WP:RFPP. Near the bottom of that page are requests for reduced protection. EvergreenFir (talk) 16:05, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Google's corporate headquarters is named Googleplex, and is also the headquarters of its parent company, Alphabet Inc. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Google Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Isabella I of Castile • Cult of personality Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 28 February 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

Why is the pageviews analysis not working for massviews and others, and why did the look for the pageviews analysis change into a Times New Roman font that looks like it hasn't loaded? Could this be fixed soon? Thanks, Nearly but not perfect (talk) 06:48, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

@I'm not perfect but I'm almost Are you using a privacy browser plugin such as PrivacyBadger or uBlock? You will need to disable it for wmcloud.org. The fix to the ad blockers has been merged and will soon make its way to your plugins, at which time you can remove wmcloud.org from your allowlist if you want. — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:03, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

@MusikAnimal, yes, I do use uBlock origin. That's why it wasn't working. Thanks a lot! Nearly but not perfect (talk) 04:31, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

22:58, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes Modussiccandi BOZ • Brookie (deceased) • Jackmcbarn • Jamesday • Jonathunder • Master of Puppets • Saravask

CheckUser changes Callanecc Oversighter changes Callanecc

Guideline and policy news

• A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
• A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.

Technical news

• The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
• Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
• The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)

Arbitration

• Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
• Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
• The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.

21:15, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi MusikAnimal. MusikBot doesn't seem to want to archive this section. I'm guessing it's user error 😬, could you tell us what we're doing wrong? Courtesy ping for @Usernamekiran Thanks, FASTILY 00:02, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

@Fastily This is one is quite interesting... the bot is genuinely confused! Anyways, this is what ((User:MusikBot/archivenow)) is for. That worked when I used it. It archives as the most recent overridden resolution ( Done in this case because of the use of ((User:MusikBot/override))} at Special:Diff/1076012502). It seems the bot's logic around archiving when someone doesn't have the said permission is perhaps overly aggressive. I will investigate when time allows, but in the meantime, ((User:MusikBot/archivenow)) should always work if all else fails. Sorry for the bugginess! — MusikAnimal ^talk 06:47, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

A letter is a segmental symbol of a phonemic writing system. Pictured are uppercase and lowercase Z with stroke letters. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Letter (alphabet) Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: First Sudanese Civil War • Google Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:09, 14 March 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

Hi! MusikAnimal, I know you are one of the contributors to Twinkle, I have a request given on the Twinkle talk page, the concerned users made a Ticket for my request, but still no consensus is happening. What I want to happen is, at the moment, after I revert, I warn the user, and their talk page opens in another Tab, and this is Twinkle's default settings. My request is, I would like to open after I revert, the user talk page on the same Tab, like RedWarn, because I am a mobile user. RedWarn team process RedWarn users requests promptly. In RedWarn, after rollback, the Warn menu opens and goes straight to war, and the page will reload to the user who was warned. That's what I want to happen with Twinkle, hopefully it will work out, even if it makes option settings for mobile users only, thanks. —Ctrlwiki (talk) 12:14, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

I don't have time to work on this right now, but it seems from both the on-wiki discussion and the GitHub issue, that the consensus is to make it opt-in. So I feel there is a path forward, once a willing developer devotes the time to implement it. It's also worth mentioning Twinkle isn't (yet) designed to work on mobile, so the use-case is perhaps questionable. — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:51, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

22:06, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Can you either lower the protection For this page? Skyscapercity (talk) 17:23, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

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Tomba is a drink of Sikkimese cuisine made from fermented millet: warm water is added to the millet and the liquid is consumed. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Sikkimese cuisine Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Letter (alphabet) • First Sudanese Civil War Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 21 March 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

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Pumpkin pie is a dessert pie with a spiced, pumpkin-based custard filling. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Pumpkin pie Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Sikkimese cuisine • Letter (alphabet) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 28 March 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

19:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Precious

Eight years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:57, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Don't open this!

Paddle ball is a one-person game played with a paddle and an attached ball. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Paddle ball Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Pumpkin pie • Sikkimese cuisine Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 4 April 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

21:00, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi MusikAnimal. I think we managed to break the bot again. Whenever you have a moment, could you please take a look at this section and tell me what we've done wrong? Thanks, FASTILY 21:22, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

See Special:Diff/1081358452. The issue here was the mix of  Done and  Not done, so the bot didn't know where to archive. I recommend relying on any combination of ((User:MusikBot/override)) and ((User:MusikBot/archivenow)), but generally you shouldn't need the latter. The admin instructions (linked at the top-right of each WP:PERM page) is meant to explain this, though I admit it's still confusing! The bot could probably go by the latest comment with a resolution template, but I seem to recall there was a reason it wasn't programmed that way. — MusikAnimal ^talk 00:36, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

(note I accidentally force-archived as done, when it should be not done... fixed now :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 00:41, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks! -FASTILY 07:06, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes Firefly • Sdrqaz Ad Orientem Geschichte • Ryan Postlethwaite • Sabine's Sunbird • Wassupwestcoast

Interface administrator changes Evad37

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.

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

• Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
• A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
• A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.

In telecommunications, broadband is wide bandwidth data transmission which transports multiple signals at a wide range of frequencies and Internet traffic types, that enables messages to be sent simultaneously, used in fast internet connections. Pictured is a chart of global bandwidth concentration: 3 countries have almost 50% between them; 10 countries almost 75%. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Broadband Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Paddle ball • Pumpkin pie Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 11 April 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

19:43, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

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Astrid Lindgren was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays who is best known for several series of children's books. Pictured is Lindgren around 1960. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Astrid Lindgren Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Broadband • Paddle ball Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 18 April 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

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Sani Pass is a mountain pass in Mokhotlong, Lesotho, Africa. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Mountain pass Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Astrid Lindgren • Broadband Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 25 April 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

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A food court (in Asia-Pacific also called food hall or hawker centre) is generally an indoor plaza or common area within a facility that is contiguous with the counters of multiple food vendors and provides a common area for self-serve dinner. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Food court Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Mountain pass • Astrid Lindgren Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 2 May 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

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Have a Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Hey there MusikAnimal, I'd like to wish you a happy adminship anniversary! Congratulations on your special day, and thank you for all the contributions you've made.

𝕸𝖗 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕿𝖚𝖗𝖙𝖑𝖊 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 (talk) 01:32, 28 April 2022 (UTC) On behalf of the Birthday Committee

OMG IT'S MUSKIANIMAL THE INVENTOR OF THE MUSKIBOT. I AM JUST IN AWE! 𝕸𝖗 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕿𝖚𝖗𝖙𝖑𝖊 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 (talk) 01:32, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

A belated thank you :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 22:00, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

I was looking through Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates manually as i do a lot, and i noticed that the bot had added the ((pp-move)) template to a move protected page (Anantapur), which makes sense. However, the protection level was set to autoconfirmed, which is the default protection level for moving pages anyways. Because of that, ((pp-move)) actually considers this an invalid use and flags it (See Module:Protection banner line 120). To be fair its probably more the fault of the person who protected the page for adding a functionless protection (I've already asked the acting person if the action was a mistake, so dw), but I'd recommend checking for this anyways. Hope this helps. Aidan9382 _(talk) 06:12, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Note: The bot reverted my edit (Despite what the BRfA summary says about it not. I dunno, I probably somehow confused it or whatever), and ive noticed its not exclusion compliant. I'm not even gonna try edit war with a bot, so when you do fix this, please also correct the page. Thanks! Aidan9382 _(talk) 06:15, 5 May 2022 (UTC) I think the error it had earlier today caused it to get a bit confused. I reverted it again and it hasnt added it back in its most recent edits, so im assuming its fine on that front. Aidan9382 _(talk) 11:14, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

I think I may need to add some special handling for this. Thanks for letting me know! Right now I'm working on migrating all bot tasks to the new Toolforge jobs framework. The bot was edit warring with you probably while I was doing tests; it shouldn't normally look at pages that were protected that long ago. So anyway, there may be more of this today and tomorrow while I get things migrated. — MusikAnimal ^talk 16:21, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Soil profile: Darkened topsoil and reddish subsoil layers are typical of humid subtropical climate regions. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Soil Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Food court • Mountain pass Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 9 May 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

15:21, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes Colin M David.Monniaux • Fribbler • Grue • Kpjas • West.andrew.g

CheckUser changes Ks0stm Oversighter changes Ks0stm

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
• Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.

Technical news

• The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
• A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

A 500 dollar cheque of the Lithuanian Trade and Industry Bank with Vytis, circa 1920–1922 Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Cheque Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Soil • Food court Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 16 May 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

18:57, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi, MusikBot hasn't taken care of the daily DYK headings for a couple of days (User:MusikBot/RotateTDYK).  MANdARAX  XAЯAbИAM  07:49, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up! Something apparently broke with the migration to the new Toolforge jobs framework. What's weird is it's reporting that it has been successfully running, and there are no errors. I'm going to have to debug this by running the script manually right at 00:00 UTC, which I won't be able to do tonight but should be able to tomorrow. Sorry for the inconvenience. — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:56, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

I just manually updated the page to add May 15, and also to move the Current nominations section header to its proper place in the list. MusikAnimal, I'll be sure not to do so for tomorrow unless given the all-clear here. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:06, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

I tested from my local and on Toolforge (running the script directly) and it worked just fine. This suggests the Toolforge jobs framework is to blame, since it's not outputting any errors. I'm going to get in touch with the Cloud Services team and see if they have any ideas. Otherwise I can move this task back to the old grid engine, which should work.

Just in case I can't get it fixed in time, I should let you know I'll be on holiday from this Wednesday through the end of the month. So in worst case this won't be fixed until June 1 at the earliest. I've got a lot of things to do before I leave but I will try to address this issue before then. — MusikAnimal ^talk 00:13, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, MusikAnimal. I saw that tonight's update was made (twice!). I hope you'll be able to get help from Cloud Services, or otherwise manage to fix things. Let us know if it's a worst case situation, and I'll do my best to do daily manual updates as long as necessary—after all, I was one of those who did them in the manual-update days before you added the job to your bot. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:28, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

I'm happy to report that MusikBot updated the headers on the DYK Nominations page at midnight, so I think we're all set. I'll keep an eye on it, but I doubt it's necessary. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:16, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

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Hi. Nearly seven years ago you helped me with connecting to the replica database on Labs and we got as far as you can see your Labs MySQL credentials with cat ~/replica.my.cnf.

I didn't actually ever get that far because, as I recall, someone else picked up the ball I was carrying, and... figuring it all out was just too hard and time-consuming.

Fast forward seven years and now I've picked up another ball which I resolved to hold onto until either I solved it or someone else took the ball.

I successfully installed PuTTY and finally logged into my account on

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"...a server of the tools Cloud VPS project, the home of community managed bots, webservices, and tools supporting the Wikimedia movement."

where after getting stuck at Passphrase for key "rsa-key-20150713": I kept getting Wrong passphrase until ~two days later I had an epiphany and remembered it!

Then cat $HOME/replica.my.cnf revealed my user ID and password. (I needed to type $HOME rather than ~)

Then I successfully installed MySQL Workbench and got it working by following these instructions. I've successfully used MySQL Workbench to make the same queries I made on Quarry (and got the same results).

Now I'm stuck at The next part is figuring out how to get your PHP app to connect to the database through the SSH tunnel... maybe with the connection open through Putty and your credentials defined in the app it will just work, I'm not sure. E.g. if the PHP app is looking for a local MySQL database and 127.0.0.1:3306 (default port) is routed to the labs db through the SSH tunnel, you might be all set.

See the example code at wikitech:Help:Toolforge/Database#PHP (using PDO). I've tried both PDO and MySQLi and it fails the same way on both:

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught PDOException: PDO::__construct(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No such host is known.

Warning: mysqli::__construct(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No such host is known.

Connection failed: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

The line where it fails only specifies four of the nine or ten parameters I needed to set for MySQL Workbench to work.

• $db = new PDO("mysql:host=enwiki.analytics.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud;dbname=enwiki_p", $ts_mycnf['user'], $ts_mycnf['password']);
• $mysqli = new mysqli('enwiki.analytics.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud', $ts_mycnf['user'], $ts_mycnf['password'], 'enwiki_p');

The PHP installation manual says:

In the official PHP Windows distributions, MySQL Native Driver is enabled by default, so no additional configuration is required to use it. All MySQL database extensions will use MySQL Native Driver in this case.

So I assume that the other five or six parameters need to be specified in the MySQL Native Driver somehow? wbm1058 (talk) 17:01, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

To clarify the above, when I try

$mysqli = new mysqli("enwiki.analytics.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud",..., I get

"No such host is known"

and when I try

$mysqli = new mysqli("127.0.0.1:3306"..., I get

"No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it" – wbm1058 (talk) 22:59, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Connecting to the database replicas from your own computer says to set up a tunnel so that connections to port 4711 on your own computer will be relayed to the enwiki.analytics.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud database replica's MySQL server on port 3306. This tunnel will continue to work as long as the SSH session is open.

Also, Windows 10 has OpenSSH included and the ssh command can be used. On older versions of Windows, you can use the tool PuTTY by add in Connection → SSH → Tunnels the following settings.

I'm still running Windows 7 on my desktop which is my main Windows machine supporting Wikipedia 24×7. I have a Windows 10 laptop which I use for backup but which is often powered down. I can try the Windows 10 SSH command later but first I want to get this running on my desktop using PuTTY. My PuTTY session is still open, and my understanding is that I need to keep my PuTTY session open 24×7 to be able to run a PHP bot that tunnels to the database 24×7. I configured my PuTTY per How to set up PuTTY for direct access to your Toolforge account. There the Session configuration says to specify port 22. Why 22 and not 4711 or 3306? All these port numbers are confusing for someone still trying to understand what they all mean.

I see from the banner at the top that "This user is busy in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries." Sure wish you had a nice talk page watcher or stalker who could help. Trying to ask these questions via email or IRC seems difficult. wbm1058 (talk) 16:21, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Hey, I solved it!!! I uploaded a picture of the key dialog box I needed to fill out. wbm1058 (talk) 01:54, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

I think I understand now that port 22 is for the bastion. Only PuTTY needs to know port 22 to get bastion authorization. Once PuTTY is inside, it can be configured to allow my PHP to tunnel in without needing to know the bastion's port number. – wbm1058 (talk) 02:15, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

A turkey in a field Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Turkey (bird) Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Cheque • Soil Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:09, 23 May 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

Hello MusikAnimal,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 818 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 864 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing ((subst:NPR invite)) on their talk page.

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Good article nominations | June 2022 Backlog Drive

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Can MusikBot please have a longer delay after protection templates are added to an unprotected page before it removes them? Some more innovative vandals add protection templates on with their vandalism, and the bot's removal of the template makes rollback useless. Mako001 (C)  (T)  🇺🇦 07:37, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello Looking for a revision deletion for page Rory Phillips of all 4 edits made by IP 95.147.222.131 on 27 March 2022 as these constitute vandalism, containing defamatory and unverified accusations of abuse, as well as some frankly childish digs. Also a revision deletion of subsequent edits made undoing them If this content would still be visible in those. Appreciate your help and apologise for my lack of rhyming. I blame the timing. Letsnotstart (talk) 13:43, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Letsnotstart (talk) 13:43, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

20:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

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The Editing team plans to change the appearance of talk pages. These are separate from the changes made by the mw:Desktop improvements project and will appear in both Vector 2010 and Vector 2022. The goal is to add some information and make discussions look visibly different from encyclopedia articles. You can see some ideas at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project#Prototype Ready for Feedback.

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23:14, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Wednesday June 8, 11am-5pm: New York Botanical Garden - Environment of the Bronx - Editing Wikipedia for Beginners

The LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden and the Environment of New York City Task Force invite the general public of all experience levels to come to the Mertz Library in person and learn how to use Wikipedia! All skill levels welcome at the event! Experienced Wikipedia editors from the Wikimedia New York City chapter will be in attendance and available to help. A one hour training session will be offered at the start of this event covering introductory topics. Attendees familiar with editing Wikipedia can edit off of a worklist focused on the environment of New York City; as well as, a sub-list focused on the environment of the Bronx. The Mertz Library will pull topical media from their collection to assist the editing. --Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:03, 1 June 2022 (UTC) (You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for NYC-area events by adding or removing your name from this list.)

It seems that MusikBot perm clerking is saying that all users have 0 edits in mainspace, I have checked a few contributions pages and it seems untrue, just wondering if someone’s messed up the JSON or if the bot is broken. | Zippybonzo | Talk | 12:44, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

I believe this was due to phab:T309569; basically it was some maintenance the Cloud Services team was doing. I've removed the incorrect comments and the bot isn't re-adding them so I think we're back to normal now. — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:26, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes Tamzin Barek • Darkwind • Geometry guy • ProcseeBot • RoyBoy • Sean Whitton • Valereee • Visorstuff • WAvegetarian Sn0wflake → VersedFenrir

CheckUser changes Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news

• Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.

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

• Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
• An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.

Hold the date. Meetup/NYC Wiknic in Crotona Park, Sunday June 26.

Watch Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wiknic June 2022 for further details as they become available.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:31, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

	Barnstar of Awesomeness
	Thanks for your help fixing CopyPatrol, so many times over the years! You are an awesome Wikipedian! — Diannaa (talk) 20:00, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

My pleasure! Thanks for the barnstar :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 22:06, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Squash is a racket and ball sport played by two or four players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball. The players alternate in striking the ball with their rackets onto the playable surfaces of the four walls of the court. The objective of the game is to hit the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. Hello, MusikAnimal. The article for improvement of the week is: Squash (sport) Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Pop music • Turkey (bird) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 6 June 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions