User talk:Matthewrb/Archive/2022/February

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.

Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
38		Yeshimebet Ali (talk)	Add sources
213		Comparison of United Kingdom and United States military ranks (talk)	Add sources
114		Pilot officer (talk)	Add sources
7		GM HydroGen3 (talk)	Add sources
535		Brigadier general (talk)	Add sources
40		Army officer ranks (talk)	Add sources
25		Maria (empress) (talk)	Cleanup
7		James F. Gibbons (talk)	Cleanup
49		Iran national football team records and statistics (talk)	Cleanup
870		Christianity in the United States (talk)	Expand
1,602		Shinkansen (talk)	Expand
106		Evaluation of binary classifiers (talk)	Expand
2,917		Michel Foucault (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
84		Lou and Andy (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
140		Sociology of knowledge (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
151		Precision medicine (talk)	Merge
52		History of cricket (1726–1771) (talk)	Merge
232		Passive smoking (talk)	Merge
227		Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (talk)	Wikify
55		Health in the United States (talk)	Wikify
542		History of books (talk)	Wikify
304		Jeff Gutheim (talk)	Orphan
68		Singapore national football team results (2000–2019) (talk)	Orphan
14		British Land Units of the First World War (talk)	Orphan
4		Line 3 (Changsha Metro) (talk)	Stub
5		Liuzhou Rail Transit (talk)	Stub
3		Kuleaen District (talk)	Stub
2		South Square of Chongqingbei Railway Station station (talk)	Stub
17		Khan Chroy Changvar (talk)	Stub
25		Justin Rennicks (talk)	Stub

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. -- SuggestBot (talk) 11:24, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – February 2022

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.

---

• Discuss this newsletter
• Subscribe
• Archive

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

WikiProject Colorado online meeting 02/08/2022

WikiProject Colorado

What's up with Wikipedia and WikiProject Colorado? Join us for an online meeting from 7:30 to 8:30 PM MST, Tuesday evening, February 8, 2022, at meet.google.com/ksx-wksh-eba

If you don't want to receive these invitations any more, please remove your username from the Wikipedia:Meetup/Colorado/Invitation list. Thanks.
Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:28, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-06

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• English Wikipedia recently set up a gadget for dark mode. You can enable it there, or request help from an interface administrator to set it up on your wiki (instructions and screenshot).
• Category counts are sometimes wrong. They will now be completely recounted at the beginning of every month. [1]

Problems

• A code-change last week to fix a bug with Live Preview may have caused problems with some local gadgets and user-scripts. Any code with skin-specific behaviour for vector should be updated to also check for vector-2022. A code-snippet, global search, and example are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 8 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 February. It will be on all wikis from 10 February (calendar).

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

21:14, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.

Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
200		Flying officer (talk)	Add sources
1,975		Colonialism (talk)	Add sources
194		Air marshal (talk)	Add sources
12		751 Squadron (Portugal) (talk)	Add sources
1,851		Addis Ababa (talk)	Add sources
210		Uniforms of the Union Army (talk)	Add sources
11		Population impact measure (talk)	Cleanup
132		Military ranks of the Swedish Armed Forces (talk)	Cleanup
64		Gendarmerie (Romania) (talk)	Cleanup
8		Chongqing West railway station (talk)	Expand
116		Early Germanic culture (talk)	Expand
75		Kalabari tribe (talk)	Expand
151		European Union–NATO relations (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
22		Charudes (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
451		The End of Time (Doctor Who) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
8,588		Harvard University (talk)	Merge
104		People's Committee of North Korea (talk)	Merge
6		Saudi Arabia national football team results (2000–2009) (talk)	Merge
68		Almaqah (talk)	Wikify
31		Partido Independiente de Color (talk)	Wikify
365		Visa requirements for Romanian citizens (talk)	Wikify
726		Quizizz (talk)	Orphan
23		Zimele Asset Management Company Limited (talk)	Orphan
3		David Duffy (talk)	Orphan
58		Matty Daly (talk)	Stub
11		Pax Praetoriana (talk)	Stub
60		Buildbot (talk)	Stub
19		Guiyang Metro (talk)	Stub
2		Stevenson Railroad Depot and Hotel (talk)	Stub
6		Yaque del Sur River (talk)	Stub

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. -- SuggestBot (talk) 11:24, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-07

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Purging a category page with fewer than 5,000 members will now recount it completely. This will allow editors to fix incorrect counts when it is wrong. [2]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 February. It will be on all wikis from 17 February (calendar).
• In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function has been updated so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [3]

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

19:17, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.

Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
2,088		Colonialism (talk)	Add sources
191		Flying officer (talk)	Add sources
184		Group captain (talk)	Add sources
1,890		Addis Ababa (talk)	Add sources
198		Comparison of United Kingdom and United States military ranks (talk)	Add sources
266		Kazakhstan national football team (talk)	Add sources
10		James F. Gibbons (talk)	Cleanup
73		Academic dress of the University of Oxford (talk)	Cleanup
15		Population impact measure (talk)	Cleanup
16,943		Turkey (talk)	Expand
6		Shapingba railway station (talk)	Expand
9		Chongqing West railway station (talk)	Expand
342		False positive rate (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
74		Lou and Andy (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
24		Charudes (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
108		People's Committee of North Korea (talk)	Merge
8,508		Harvard University (talk)	Merge
58		Economic policy of the Joe Biden administration (talk)	Merge
21		Maria (empress) (talk)	Wikify
514		Nigerian Air Force (talk)	Wikify
589		Transportation Security Administration (talk)	Wikify
72		Grand Prix motorcycle racing sponsorship liveries (talk)	Orphan
21		Zimele Asset Management Company Limited (talk)	Orphan
848		Quizizz (talk)	Orphan
15		Al Muharraq Stadium (talk)	Stub
17		Guiyang Metro (talk)	Stub
128		Oberstleutnant (talk)	Stub
39		Matty Daly (talk)	Stub
5		Line 3 (Changsha Metro) (talk)	Stub
49		Military Gendarmerie (Poland) (talk)	Stub

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. -- SuggestBot (talk) 11:25, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

WP:AFC Helper News

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

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

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

Your advice

Dear Mattew, hi. Remember, you reviewed my contribution Creatio? Please take a look at Draft:Joe Sullivan (Internet security expert). It is a properly stated WP:COI contribution about an Internet security expert, former CSO of Facebook and Uber. Keen to know your opinion. Any advice that you can give me? Thanks! Peter. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 18:37, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

@Bbarmadillo: Looks good to me, I've accepted it! Thanks for going through the right channels for COI contributions. ~ Matthewrb ^{Talk to me · Changes I've made} 23:01, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! --Bbarmadillo (talk) 09:08, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-08

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Special:Nuke will now provide the standard deletion reasons (editable at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown) to use when mass-deleting pages. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [4]
• At Wikipedias, all new accounts now get the Growth features by default when creating an account. Communities are encouraged to update their help resources. Previously, only 80% of new accounts would get the Growth features. A few Wikipedias remain unaffected by this change. [5]
• You can now prevent specific images that are used in a page from appearing in other locations, such as within PagePreviews or Search results. This is done with the markup class=notpageimage. For example, [[File:Example.png|class=notpageimage]]. [6]
• There has been a change to the HTML of Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory, and History pages, to support the grouping of changes by date in the mobile skin. While unlikely, this may affect gadgets and user scripts. A list of all the HTML changes is on Phabricator.

Events

• Community Wishlist Survey results have been published. The ranking of prioritized proposals is also available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 February. It will be on all wikis from 24 February (calendar).

Future changes

• The software to play videos and audio files on pages will change soon on all wikis. The old player will be removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [7][8]
• Toolforge's underlying operating system is being updated. If you maintain any tools there, there are two options for migrating your tools into the new system. There are details, deadlines, and instructions on Wikitech. [9]
• Administrators will soon have the option to delete/undelete the associated "talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option will also be available. This was a request from the 2021 Wishlist Survey.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

19:10, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.

Views/Day	Quality	Title	Tagged with…
372		Positive and negative predictive values (talk)	Add sources
29		26th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade (talk)	Add sources
4,367		Sudan (talk)	Add sources
1,311		F-score (talk)	Add sources
64		Flight sergeant (talk)	Add sources
39		Army officer ranks (talk)	Add sources
5		Howard Gable (talk)	Cleanup
5,691		Iraq War (talk)	Cleanup
140		Military ranks of the Swedish Armed Forces (talk)	Cleanup
1,291		Information security (talk)	Expand
844		Christianity in the United States (talk)	Expand
100		Evaluation of binary classifiers (talk)	Expand
715		Administrative divisions of India (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
56		Azerbaijani diaspora (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
3,076		Michel Foucault (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
6		Saudi Arabia national football team results (2000–2009) (talk)	Merge
159		Hindu Shahis (talk)	Merge
5		Saudi Arabia national football team results (2010–2019) (talk)	Merge
67		Lekki Conservation Centre (talk)	Wikify
1,227		Early Middle Ages (talk)	Wikify
119		Splatterhouse (2010 video game) (talk)	Wikify
293		Jeff Gutheim (talk)	Orphan
11		Camille Stewart (talk)	Orphan
16		British Land Units of the First World War (talk)	Orphan
42		Arkadiusz Reca (talk)	Stub
4		Stuart Rendell (talk)	Stub
4		South Square of Chongqingbei Railway Station station (talk)	Stub
15		Charlie Barker (footballer) (talk)	Stub
12		Battle of Rimini (432) (talk)	Stub
3		1903 SAFA season (talk)	Stub

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. -- SuggestBot (talk) 11:25, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 February 2022

• From the team: Selection of a new Signpost Editor-in-Chief

• News and notes: Impacts of Russian invasion of Ukraine

• Opinion: Why student editors are good for Wikipedia

• Special report: A presidential candidate's team takes on Wikipedia

• In the media: Wiki-drama in the UK House of Commons

• Serendipity: War photographers: from Crimea (1850s) to the Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022)

• Technology report: Community Wishlist Survey results

• WikiProject report: 10 years of tea

• Featured content: Featured Content returns

• Deletion report: The 10 most SHOCKING deletion discussions of February

• Recent research: How editors and readers may be emotionally affected by disasters and terrorist attacks

• Arbitration report: Parties remonstrate, arbs contemplate, skeptics coordinate

• By the numbers: Does birthplace affect the frequency of Wikipedia biography articles?

• Gallery: The vintage exhibit

• Traffic report: Euphoria, Pamela Anderson, lies and Netflix

• News from Diff: The Wikimania 2022 Core Organizing Team

• Crossword: A Crossword, featuring Featured Articles

• Humour: Notability of mailboxes

* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:20, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

Editor vs Author in International Christian College

I couldn't work out the correct procedure for a book that has an editor but no author. I realized Wikipedia's computers didn't like it. Seems wrong though! An editor of an encylopaedia is different to an author. Nigel Cameron was the organizing editor of the Dictionary of Scottish Church History & Theology but wrote only a small number of the articles. Various other Wikipedia articles (for which I have no responsibility) reference one or more editors for this Dictionary rather than an author. --PeterR2 (talk) 18:53, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Now fixed as per Template:Cite book#Examples (Citing a chapter in a book with different authors for different chapters and an editor) --PeterR2 (talk) 19:08, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for looking into it! It appears the template was not designed to handle that "edge case," as it were. I went based off of Amazon, which listed the author rather than the editor, but I agree your solution is better. ~ Matthewrb ^{Talk to me · Changes I've made} 19:34, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-09

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• When searching for edits by change tags, e.g. in page history or user contributions, there is now a dropdown list of possible tags. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey. [10]
• Mentors using the Growth Mentor dashboard will now see newcomers assigned to them who have made at least one edit, up to 200 edits. Previously, all newcomers assigned to the mentor were visible on the dashboard, even ones without any edit or ones who made hundred of edits. Mentors can still change these values using the filters on their dashboard. Also, the last choice of filters will now be saved. [11][12]
• The user group oversight was renamed suppress. This is for technical reasons. You may need to update any local references to the old name, e.g. gadgets, links to Special:Listusers, or uses of NUMBERINGROUP.

Problems

• The recent change to the HTML of tracking changes pages caused some problems for screenreaders. This is being fixed. [13]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 1 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 March. It will be on all wikis from 3 March (calendar).

Future changes

• Working with templates will become easier. Several improvements are planned for March 9 on most wikis and on March 16 on English Wikipedia. The improvements include: Bracket matching, syntax highlighting colors, finding and inserting templates, and related visual editor features.
• If you are a template developer or an interface administrator, and you are intentionally overriding or using the default CSS styles of user feedback boxes (the classes: successbox, messagebox, errorbox, warningbox), please note that these classes and associated CSS will soon be removed from MediaWiki core. This is to prevent problems when the same class-names are also used on a wiki. Please let us know by commenting at phab:T300314 if you think you might be affected.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

22:58, 28 February 2022 (UTC)