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Administrators' newsletter – April 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).

Administrator changes

331dot • Cordless Larry • ClueBot NG

Gogo Dodo • Pb30 • Sebastiankessel • Seicer • SoLando

Guideline and policy news

• Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
• Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
• The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
• The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

Technical news

• There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

Miscellaneous

• A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
• The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:23, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2018_April_12#Cyber_Anakin

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2018_April_12#Cyber_Anakin . 2A00:C98:2060:A008:8:0:0:1 (talk) 15:16, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

IP ping at deletion review

That'd be because they are block evading. Google the edit summary here too. ;) CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 17:39, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

shrugs Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 18:01, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Upcoming changes to wikitext parsing

Hello,

There will be some changes to the way wikitext is parsed during the next few weeks. It will affect all namespaces. You can see a list of pages that may display incorrectly at Special:LintErrors. Since most of the easy problems have already been solved at the English Wikipedia, I am specifically contacting tech-savvy editors such as yourself with this one-time message, in the hope that you will be able to investigate the remaining high-priority pages during the next month.

There are approximately 10,000 articles (and many more non-article pages) with high-priority errors. The most important ones are the articles with misnested tags and table problems. Some of these involve templates, such as infoboxes, or the way the template is used in the article. In some cases, the "error" is a minor, unimportant difference in the visual appearance. In other cases, the results are undesirable. You can see a before-and-after comparison of any article by adding ?action=parsermigration-edit to the end of a link, like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Foss?action=parsermigration-edit (which shows a difference in how {{infobox ship}} is parsed).

If you are interested in helping with this project, please see Wikipedia:Linter. There are also some basic instructions (and links to even more information) at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2018-April/001836.html You can also leave a note at WT:Linter if you have questions.

Thank you for all the good things you do for the English Wikipedia. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:18, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Chochopk • Coffee • Gryffindor • Jimp • Knowledge Seeker • Lankiveil • Peridon • Rjd0060

Guideline and policy news

• The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
• A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

• AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
• When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
• The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
• There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee is seeking additional clerks to help with the arbitration process.

Obituaries

• Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:05, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Translation request

Is it possible you could translate this article for me? [1] :)?? Very few sources of this game, so it would be very helpful. Thanks in advance. TarkusAB^talk 22:33, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Sure but I might not have time right away, is it urgent? Otherwise I can definitely get it for you this week. :) Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 23:00, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Not urgent at all. Thanks would be awesome! TarkusAB^talk 00:50, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

• @TarkusAB: sorry for the time it took. :D

"Treasure: the podium at all costs" [Treasure: le podium à tout prix]. Consoles + (in French) (87). EMAP France: 20. April 1999. Retrieved 7 May 2018.

Treasure: the podium at all costs After the resounding Radiant Silvergun, Treasure is back in the arcades with a game for the NAOMI, entitled Gun Beat. Treasure is often synonymous with intense and original actions. Their new game is no different. Gun Beat mixes shooting, fighting and 3D racing thanks to a simple concept: we race on a 3D circuit to complete a specific number of laps within a time limit. Classical, you might say! But wait, this isn't over. Of course, everything is permitted, and all shortcuts can be taken. There are also a ton of traps, items to pickup, and ennemies who will do everything to slow you down. It's up to you to to clear your path with the help of the weapons at your disposal. If you chain your attacks together, you'll even be able to cash in Combos and score a lot of points. To save some time, you have access to a Magical Turbo gauge. The game includes three circuits (city, snow, ruins) and four characters with varied movement modes (on foot, on a magical broom, on a giant hamster, on a futuristic motorcyle). There are also three game modes: Race, Score Attach (to score a maximum of points), and VS (up to four linked players). The controls are very simplistic. The joystick controls the right and left lateral movements, and the speed is controlled by pushing the joystick up and down. The Beat Gun (super special attack) is triggered with a double-upwards movements. We also have two buttons : normal shot and jump (double-tap for Magical Turbo). At the end of the race we're attributed a rank in accordance with the number of points collected, like in Fatal Fury. We also find a complete system of various bonuses. In short, Treasure seems to have once again hatched a very interesting title. We're impatiently awaiting the definitive version and, of course, the Dreamcast version a bit later. Caption, top image: Your opponents will do anything to slow you down! Captions, bottom four, from top-left clockwise: Avoir enemies. Time is short! To go faster, fill your Magical Turbo. Combos bring you points! The crosshair automatically targets

You should be able to copy the entire {{cite journal}} from the collapse header for use as an in-article citation. I found the issue and page number as well. :) Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 14:45, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you so much! This will help improve the article for sure. :D If you ever need some Japanese translation help, let me know! TarkusAB^talk 15:04, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Short descriptions

I don't understand the purpose of this edit. The information in Wikidata is correct and gets pulled for short description without the {{short description}} tag being needed in the article. What is the purpose of overriding use of Wikidata directly for this. Geraldo Perez (talk) 20:44, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Geraldo Perez: English Wikipedia wants control of its content. Every Wikidata-defined shortdesc needs reviewing and import into Enwiki. It'll be a slow process but we'll get further and further. Like Dabsolving it'll never be a complete thing. Quoth parts WP:SHORTDESC: "After concerns were raised about their accuracy, suitability, and the potential for sneaky vandalism on Wikidata, the ability to define short descriptions directly on Wikipedia was added. Wikidata has English descriptions of a significant fraction of Wikipedia articles. Where these are good, they may be copied to the relevant article. If a Wikipedia short description for an article is not defined, as of May 2018, the Wikidata description is still used. The Wikidata descriptions are all public domain, so there is no need for attribution. At some point, the Wikidata fallback will be removed. Once Wikipedia editors write ~2 million descriptions, we'll switch to entirely Wikipedia-hosted descriptions." Your guess is as good as mine as to how quickly or slowly the 2million mark will be reached. Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 21:36, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for the explanation and pointers. Geraldo Perez (talk) 22:36, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

UTRS template error?

Hey Salvidrim!

I was on UTRS a moment ago and I happened to have to view the template "Global, defer to Meta". I notice that the template says "you can post an appeal on your talk pagel". Shouldn't "talk pagel" be "talk page"? Or am I missing something?--5 albert square (talk) 10:40, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Definitely a simple typo. IIRC only tooladmins can edit templates. Either ask one directly or e-mail the mailing list. As you know I've been desysopped at the start of the year so I'm don't currently have UTRS access. :( Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 20:13, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks :)--5 albert square (talk) 20:59, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Please unprotect Battlefield 5

Battlefield V was officially announced today. The page should redirect to Battlefield V. Brightgalrs (/braɪtˈɡæl.ərˌɛs/)^[ᴛ] 21:09, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Brightgalrs: Salv cannot unprotect at this time, but I have created the redirect. -- ferret (talk) 21:13, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Great! Brightgalrs (/braɪtˈɡæl.ərˌɛs/)^[ᴛ] 21:15, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Yea, thanks Ferret :D Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 21:20, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

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ESPN NBA HangTime '95

Hi there, do you have any sources with which to restore this game? It got redirected to a similar, but unrelated game. 76.231.73.99 (talk) 03:53, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

• I did what I could. Hopefully Sergecross73 finds my source hunt satisfactory but Serge knows the way to AfD otherwise. :p Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 15:05, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

• I'm fine with it now, I was just unhappy with its "one source, two sentences" initial state with a context-less direct quote as the entire reception section, and didn't think it was likely to ever see improvement. It's better now. I'm also rather shocked to hear that it's unrelated to NBA Hangtime considering the names, concepts, and release periods having so much in common. Sergecross73 msg me 15:13, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

• Well... the concept of hangtime is just a general basketball term after all. NBA Hangtime is an arcade game (and its console ports) by Midway successor to previous Midway NBA Jam games but had to change the name, ESPN NBA Hangtime '95 is a Sony Imagesoft game specifically for Sega CD. Can cause confusion but the Sega CD game is absolutely not one of the numerous console ports of the Midway arcade game. :p Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 15:21, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

• Yeah, that was my assumption, that they had just outsourced the port to the Sega CD. Seems very weird to me that, Midway, in losing the rights to the NBA Jam name, decided to go with NBA Hangtime, a name that was already being used by Sony Imagesoft, and then proceeded to make an arcade style, less-players-than-standard basketball game. I figured it was just another extremely standard Genesis-to- SegaCD port, as they had done with a ton of titles at the time, including, ironically, NBA Jam itself. Sergecross73 msg me 15:58, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

• Yea, except the Sega-CD version predates the Midway arcade gane or its ports and has no similarity :p the Sega-CD game is really more an ESPN thing than an NBA thing, it even has FMVs of ESPN casters. The gameplay itself has been trashed in reviews if you've read them. :p I wonder if Midway were even aware of this one when they chose the name of their NBA Jam successor... maybe they figured nobody would remember this oscure turd. :p Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 16:34, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

• Very weird. Seems about as ill-advised as Sega creating a new RPG game called "Sega Presents Mass Effect Adromeda 2019" or something. Oh well. Regardless, the sourcing and prose is much improved, so I no longer have an issue with it. If there are future efforts to redirect/merge/delete, it won't be from me. Sergecross73 msg me 17:05, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

• The nineties were a weird time... we had three unrelated Disney's Aladdin games close together -- 1993 by Virgin for Genesis, NES, PC, GB, GBC; 1993 by Capcom for SNES, GBA; 1994 by SIMS for Game Gear and SMS. Same kind of situation as with The Flintstones (see one section above) which I also refhunted yesterday. Back then one franchise (NBA, movie, cartoon) was licensed for VG adaptation on a per-console basis, so you could have two different studios producing two wildly different games with a similar titles for two platforms and release them almost at the same time. Nowadays you usually have one studio handle all the multiplatform and maybe subcontract a port but you wouldn't have, say, Ubisoft making a Deadpool game for Xbox, EA making one for Playstation, and Retro Studios making one for Switch. Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 17:13, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Awesome, awesome, thank you very much! :) If it's not too much more to ask for just one more, would you be able to see if you have any sources that could make sure Shadow: War of Succession meets the GNG? Thank you kindly! 2600:1700:E820:1BA0:866:3E19:2AD4:9B72 (talk) 03:53, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, yeah, this is the same person who started this thread above... my IP changes from time to time. Thanks again for restoring the NBA article! And if there is anything you can do for the Shadow article, that would also be fantastic. 2600:1700:E820:1BA0:F547:54CF:BB57:887D (talk) 13:09, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Both of the above were me, sorry if there was any confusion. :) 76.231.73.99 (talk) 22:44, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

No worries, I assumed as much. I'll look at Shadow this week. :) Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 22:55, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Yay, thank you. :) 2600:1700:E820:1BA0:F547:54CF:BB57:887D (talk) 11:24, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Much better, thank you very much! :) 2600:1700:E820:1BA0:34E3:D926:558F:EB05 (talk) 01:45, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018).

Administrator changes

None

Al Ameer son • AliveFreeHappy • Cenarium • Lupo • MichaelBillington

Guideline and policy news

• Following a successful request for comment, administrators are now able to add and remove editors to the "event coordinator" group. Users in the event coordinator group have the ability to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit. Users will no longer need to be in the "account creator" group if they are in the event coordinator group.
• Following an AN discussion, all pages with content related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, broadly construed, are now under indefinite general sanctions.

Technical news

• IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in June. This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
• The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page.
• There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
• It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.

Arbitration

• A recent technical issue with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.

Miscellaneous

• In early May, an unusually high level of failed login attempts was observed. The WMF has stated that this was an "external effort to gain unauthorized access to random accounts". Under Wikipedia policy, administrators are required to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:00, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

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Carnival Ride Tour previous AfD

The outcome was delete, so it's not like a keep vote. What a waste. Walter Görlitz (talk) 17:31, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

If its a recreation with the same content, G4. If it's new content, it warrants a new AfD review per WP:CCC. You may deem it wasteful but you're always welcome to propose changes to the deletion policy. :) Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 17:40, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

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A beer for you!

Thank you for staying with me during my brief time of activity under this account. I am currently planning a clean start in a few months, and hope that not only you continue to maintain to the best of your ability articles I've improved, but also that we cross paths again soon. This one's on me. :) jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk • contribs) 19:15, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

• Take care of yourself buddy :) Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 19:20, 28 June 2018 (UTC)