Robertsky

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	For your tireless contributions to this project. Happy editing! Maliner (talk) 17:02, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

@Maliner thank you! – robertsky (talk) 04:19, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Query

Hello, Robertsky,

I was looking at an AFD tagged by a new editor, Dmitry Bobriakov, and their User page states they are a member of English Wikipedia conflict of interest volunteer response team. I was unfamiliar with this group so I went to Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Conflict of interest reports and saw your name listed so I'm coming to you. I was wondering if you could tell me more about this "team", who is on it and what it does. Thanks for any insight. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:41, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Ooops! It looks like I already asked the editor about this on their User talk page back in October. But I'd still like to get your feedback on this. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:44, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

@Liz, the COIVRT team arose from Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Cases/2024#April case, in which there were private information being used to investigate into a COI issue involving an admin. After the case, the COIVRT mailing list was established. Admins can apply to the ArbCom to access it and also work on the reports there. Other than applying for access, other admins holding CU rights and on the Arbcom as well may access it. As such, other than the 4 admins listed on the page, CUs and ArbCom members have access as well. If the ArbCom elections is in your favour, you will also have access.

If the COIVRT report warrants it, we may block accounts while tagging the block with [[ticket:2024xxx]] COIVRT or similar in the block log message. We don't do this often as this meant that whatever unblock decisions needed to be made, it will be restricted to only a few admins as the block decision is based on the correspondence.

To my knowledge, the editor in question is not a member of the team. The editor might have submitted reports via the email which may have been handled and closed before I came onboard recently. Their userpage stated that they are "a volunteer who together with the team..." (shortened for brevity) sounds about right as it can be read that they are interested in hunting down COI editors and then sending the reports over for the team to review, akin to an editor reporting suspected socks at SPI then the SPI clerks/admins/CUs work on the report or one working on persistent copyright infringements by others. It just sounds... fluffy (WP:PROMO much?). – robertsky (talk) 04:11, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Fishes

HI I see you did not implement my requested move for Yunnanilus nigromaculatus to Eonemachilus nigromaculatus. The relevant project WP:Fishes agreed in October this year that the taxonomy used in fish articles, for taxa below the level of order, should follow Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes. That is what I was doing in this case. I have re-requested the move.

Can you tell me why the original request was not implemented? Quetzal1964 (talk) 09:22, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

@Quetzal1964 those are contested as seen at Special:Permalink/1261835653. I routinely clear out requests with no activity in the last three days as stale. However, I missed out on your latest comment it seems. If you don't mind, I will restore the previous requests since there's some activity discussion. – robertsky (talk) 10:50, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Okay Quetzal1964 (talk) 12:13, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Typo slayer (14:16, 9 December 2024)

Hi, i wanted to ask you how to upload profile image to someone's biography article. Like what are restrictions. Can i get the image from anywhere (news article or social media site) to upload? --Typo slayer (talk) 14:16, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

@Typo slayer If the subject is still alive, you will need to find a copyright-free or creative commons (by-sa) version and upload to c:Commons first, as we have a strict interpretation of what non-free content can be used at WP:NFCC. Therefore, you cannot just get from anywhere, but instead find specifically on Flickr or even YouTube. For example, Ix Shen, I cannot use his image from todayonline or his instagram, but it was possible to get an updated image via a podcast on YouTube as it is labelled with "Creative Commons Attribution licence (reuse allowed)". If the subject is dead, and there is a already a copyright-free/cc-licensed image, the only way to replace it would be finding another copyright-free/cc-licensed image. – robertsky (talk) 14:37, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-50

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

Weekly highlight

• Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new #wikimedia-techdocs IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team.

Updates for editors

Layout change for the Edit Check feature

• Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear while they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
• The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
• Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide. [1]
• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
• The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements. [2]
• The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, archiveUrl and archiveDate, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates. [3]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Indonesian (voy:id:) [4]
• Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing. [5]
• View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases. [6][7]

Updates for technical contributors

• Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library. [8]
• Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase system.
• The 2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [9]

Meetings and events

• The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation discussions with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on December 12 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is new media and new contributors. Contributors from all wikis are welcome to attend.

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Template:Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 01:56, 10 December 2024 (UTC)