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Obliquely or not, telling someone to STFU in the middle of a conversation about enforcing civility norms is unhelpful, and I wonder if you'd consider striking it? Thanks, Mackensen (talk) 15:59, 31 January 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240131155900","author":"Mackensen","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Mackensen-20240131155900-Comment","replies":[]}}-->

WP:LLM was supposed to be a one-paragraph policy proposal and it was slowly turned into one of those $2 million San Francisco municipal toilet projects with a 0% chance of passing by the time someone finally slapped a RfC on it. I sure as heck learned my lesson from that!

I swear you have a way with words that is vastly underappreciated around here. That comment alone got me interested in reading about the history of WP:LLM. Your userpage says that you're a writer; what sort of writing do you do? Blogging, journalism, technical writing, fiction, etc.? _{Duly signed,} ⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 14:14, 1 February 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240201141400","author":"WaltCip","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-WaltCip-20240201141400-Another_comment","replies":[],"displayName":"\u26f5 WaltClipper"}}-->

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

Administrator changes

• Red-tailed hawk
• Robertsky

• Ameliorate!
• Ancheta Wis
• Anthony Bradbury (deceased)
• Cobi
• Ev
• Moondyne
• Worm That Turned

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

CheckUser changes

Wugapodes

Interface administrator changes

• Enterprisey
• Izno

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

Technical news

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
• Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
• Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
• The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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at the newsroom talk page. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 05:33, 13 February 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240213053300","author":"Smallbones","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Smallbones-20240213053300-Please_address_my_last_comment","replies":[]}}-->

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Hello,

As you didn't respond to the last few request in regards to User:JPxG/sandbox99, I went ahead and commented out a call to the {{PAGESIZE}} template as it adds the page to Category:Pages which use a template in place of a magic word. Hope you don't mind! :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 23:34, 20 February 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240220233400","author":"Eejit43","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Eejit43-20240220233400-User:JPxG\/sandbox99","replies":["c-JPxG-20240220234100-Eejit43-20240220233400"]}}-->

@Eejit43: That section of the sandbox is specifically made to demonstrate what happens with different invocations of the magic word versus the template -- it just plain does not work if you comment it. That's why I haven't substed it or anything; it wouldn't serve its purpose. I will see if I can do something else in its stead. jp×g🗯️ 23:41, 20 February 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240220234100","author":"JPxG","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-JPxG-20240220234100-Eejit43-20240220233400","replies":["c-Eejit43-20240220234500-JPxG-20240220234100"],"displayName":"jp"}}-->

Thank you for responding, I appreciate it. If you want an exact reproduction of what the template does, {{PAGESIZE:{{{1}}}}} would serve that purpose. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 23:45, 20 February 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240220234500","author":"Eejit43","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Eejit43-20240220234500-JPxG-20240220234100","replies":["c-Jonesey95-20240221200500-Eejit43-20240220234500"]}}-->

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Hi there JPxG, I figured that the talk page where the requested move took place is not moved to the new destination, and the destination's talk page is redirecting to the talk page of the title it's supposed to be moved from. Did you intentionally leave it that way or it was something you missed? Vanderwaalforces (talk) 22:31, 22 February 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240222223100","author":"Vanderwaalforces","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Vanderwaalforces-20240222223100-2024_Jerusalem_municipal_election","replies":["c-JPxG-20240222223600-Vanderwaalforces-20240222223100"]}}-->

Oh, what a mess. My pagemove was a mistake (I didn't read the RM closure hard enough -- it was a WP:BADNAC). I tried to revert myself but apparently failed -- I have attempted to fix it now. jp×g🗯️ 22:36, 22 February 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240222223600","author":"JPxG","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-JPxG-20240222223600-Vanderwaalforces-20240222223100","replies":["c-Vanderwaalforces-20240223054300-JPxG-20240222223600"],"displayName":"jp"}}-->

Okay, that is great! Vanderwaalforces (talk) 05:43, 23 February 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240223054300","author":"Vanderwaalforces","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Vanderwaalforces-20240223054300-JPxG-20240222223600","replies":[]}}-->

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at the newsroom talk page. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 05:33, 13 February 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240213053300","author":"Smallbones","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Smallbones-20240213053300-Please_address_my_last_comment_2","replies":[]}}-->

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Hello,

As you didn't respond to the last few request in regards to User:JPxG/sandbox99, I went ahead and commented out a call to the {{PAGESIZE}} template as it adds the page to Category:Pages which use a template in place of a magic word. Hope you don't mind! :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 23:34, 20 February 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240220233400","author":"Eejit43","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Eejit43-20240220233400-User:JPxG\/sandbox99_2","replies":["c-JPxG-20240220234100-Eejit43-20240220233400-1"]}}-->

@Eejit43: That section of the sandbox is specifically made to demonstrate what happens with different invocations of the magic word versus the template -- it just plain does not work if you comment it. That's why I haven't substed it or anything; it wouldn't serve its purpose. I will see if I can do something else in its stead. jp×g🗯️ 23:41, 20 February 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240220234100","author":"JPxG","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-JPxG-20240220234100-Eejit43-20240220233400-1","replies":["c-Eejit43-20240220234500-JPxG-20240220234100-1"],"displayName":"jp"}}-->

Thank you for responding, I appreciate it. If you want an exact reproduction of what the template does, {{PAGESIZE:{{{1}}}}} would serve that purpose. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 23:45, 20 February 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240220234500","author":"Eejit43","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Eejit43-20240220234500-JPxG-20240220234100-1","replies":["c-Jonesey95-20240221200500-Eejit43-20240220234500-1"]}}-->

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Hi there JPxG, I figured that the talk page where the requested move took place is not moved to the new destination, and the destination's talk page is redirecting to the talk page of the title it's supposed to be moved from. Did you intentionally leave it that way or it was something you missed? Vanderwaalforces (talk) 22:31, 22 February 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240222223100","author":"Vanderwaalforces","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Vanderwaalforces-20240222223100-2024_Jerusalem_municipal_election_2","replies":["c-JPxG-20240222223600-Vanderwaalforces-20240222223100-1"]}}-->

Oh, what a mess. My pagemove was a mistake (I didn't read the RM closure hard enough -- it was a WP:BADNAC). I tried to revert myself but apparently failed -- I have attempted to fix it now. jp×g🗯️ 22:36, 22 February 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240222223600","author":"JPxG","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-JPxG-20240222223600-Vanderwaalforces-20240222223100-1","replies":["c-Vanderwaalforces-20240223054300-JPxG-20240222223600-1"],"displayName":"jp"}}-->

Okay, that is great! Vanderwaalforces (talk) 05:43, 23 February 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240223054300","author":"Vanderwaalforces","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Vanderwaalforces-20240223054300-JPxG-20240222223600-1","replies":[]}}-->

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Featured script

Making user scripts load faster by SD0001 is this month's featured script, which caches userscripts every day to eliminate the overhead caused by force-downloading the newest version of scripts every time you open a Wikipedia page. Despite being released in April 2021, our best script scouters have failed to locate it due to its omission from the US of L. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.

Newly maintained scripts

After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...

• Aaron Liu has created What redirects here from Guarapiranga/WhatRedirectsHere; his fork includes support for every MediaWiki wiki, corrected link positions, an access key, and some rudimentary translation.
• Ahecht has created a fork of SiBr4/TemplateSearch, which adds the "TP:" shortcut for "Template:" in the search box, and updated it to be compatible with Vector 2022.
• AquilaFasciata/goToTopFast is a much faster fork of the classic goToTop script that also adds compatibility for Minerva and Vector 2022.
• Mesidast/Tidy citations is a fork of Meteor sandwich yum/Tidy citations is a fork of Waldyrious/formatcitations. It configurably harmonizes whitespace and cleans up parameters in citation templates, descriptive edit summary included.

Improve a script

Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!

• Many of our favorite scripts such as Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts and Bradv/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
• Elominius/media timer works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
• To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
• We want...

• ...a mark-as-read button and watchlist notices support for Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin
• ...a tool to automatically fix CAT:BROKENREFs, preferably a fork/addition to TheJJJunk/ARA
• ...a fix/fork of DannyS712/SectionRemover to make it work

Requested scripts

• A simple script to second or archive proposed deletions
• A script to auto-expand V22 ToC sections like this demo
• A WP:3O response tool that can automatically remove the relevant request from the 3O dashboard
• A byte filter to be split from Nux/LongTableFilters
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

New scripts

• DannyS712/AbuseFilterMessageLinks add links to the "warn" and "disallow" messages in edit filters.
• Diegodlh/Web2Cit/script adds an option to use m:Web2Cit (which WP:ProveIt also uses) instead of mw:Citoid to generate citations in the Visual Editor.
• Dragoniez/SuppressEnterInForm stops you from accidentally submitting anything due to pressing enter while in the smaller box, and works on almost anything... except the InputBox element itself, used in subscription lists and the Signpost Crossword! Oh, the humanity!

• 

  Doǵu/Adiutor (pictured) provides a nice, integrated interface to do some twinkley tasks such as copyvio detection, CSD tagging, and viewing the most recent diff.

• 

  Eejit43 has quite the aesthetically pleasing scripts, all made in TypeScript.
  • /afcrc-helper is a replacement for the unmaintained Enterprisey/AFCRHS and processes Redirects for Creation and Categories for Creation requests.
  • /ajax-undo stops the "undo" button from taking you to another page while providing a text box to provide a reason for the revert.
  • /redirect-helper (pictured) adds a much better interface for editing and redirects, including categorization, for which valid categories are dictated by /redirect-helper.json.
  • /rmtr-helper helps process technical requested moves without being able to actually move them.

• 

  Guycn2/UserInfoPopup (pictured) adds a flyout after the watchlist star on userspace pages that displays the common information you might use about a user.
• Jeeputer/editCounter, under userspace, adds a portlet link to count your edits by namespace, put them in a table, and put that table in a hardcoded subpage, all in the background.
• Hilst/Scripts/sectionLinks converts all section links to use the § sign, which are known to be preferred over the ugly # by 99% of the devils I've met.
• Moonythedwarf/extra-unreliable highlights phrases commonly used in spammed and POV'd paragraphs.

• 

  NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/FormattedEditRequest (pictured) generates a wikitext-formatted diff view of any changes you've made that you can copy and paste anywhere.
• PrimeHunter/Category source.js adds portlet links to tell you where a category for an article comes from and supports those from template transclusions.
• Qwerfjkl/massCFD creates mass WP:CfD nominations.
• Rublov/refspace highlights footnote spacing errors in red.
• Sophivorus's MiniEdit adds some nice, li'l buttons next to paragraphs to edit their wikitext with a minimal interface.

Edit-listings

• Dragoniez/ToollinkTweaks adds more and customizable links next to users in page history, logs, watchlist, recent changes, etc.
• Firefly/more-block-info optimizes the display of rangeblocks in contribution pages. Doesn't work outside the English locale of any wiki, unfortunately.
• Ingenuity/AbuseFilterContribs adds the edit filters that an edit tripped (if any) to a user's contributions page.
  • Nardog/ExamineMore makes it so the paging at Special:AbuseFilter/examine actually works, pending a fix to T292764.
• NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader makes paging links (e.g. older 50, 500, newest) load without refreshing and makes you realize how slow your internet actually is.

Appearance-ricing

• Ahecht/RedirectID adds the redirect target to all redirects. For all the WP:NAVPOPS haters. (Do these exist?)
• Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal: Remember the "strike blocked usernames" gadget? Now you can use a red, dotted line to highlight rangeblocks and global locks!
• GhostInTheMachine/GraphicReplyLink replaces the [ reply ] link with 💬, which is some sort of rainy cloud I guess?^[Joke]

• 

  Jonesey/common (pictured) has some styles to overhaul your Vector 2022 experience. It reduces padding everywhere, and makes the top bar animation faster.
  • Aaron Liu/V22 is a fork that narrows the sidebars instead of upheaving them, reverts the January 2024 dropdown changes, and restores the old page-link color for links that don't go outside the current wiki.
• Nardog: SmartDiff is a spiritual successor to Enterprisey/fancy-diffs. It makes the page title part of links in diffs clickable, along with template and parser function calls. Unnamed parameters can be configured per template to also be linked. All links are styled based on the normal CSS classes of rendered links.
• Phlsph7/ClassicalTOC (Vector 2022) reinserts the inline table of contents to pages under Vector 2022.
• For the paranoid: Rublov/anonymize replaces your username at the top of the screen with the generic "User page" text. Remember, it is your duty to persuade everyone that editing is an honor.
• Sideswipe9th/Vector 2022 Floating Tools Menu moves the Page Tools menu to the left and makes it float along with the table of contents.
• Sm8ps/SectionEditing makes pressing Tab ↹ toggle the visibility of the tiny [ edit ] links next to section headings.. Not a great name, eh?
• The wub/tocExpandAll adds a button on top of the floating ToC to expand or collapse subheadings.

Permissions required!

• Ahecht/potd-helper: A script to post the picture of the day. A powerful upgrade for your mop.

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  • /AjaxBlock provides a dialog box for easy input of reasons while blocking users.
  • /Selective Rollback (pictured) provides a dialog box to customize rollback edit summaries and does them without reloading the page. Seriously, why doesn't MediaWiki already do this?
• Theleekycauldron/DYK promoter automates (nearly) all the work needed to post a DYK hook.

QOL shortcuts

• BrandonXLF/SVGEditor lets you edit any file that is an SVG, straight from the file page.
• DanCherek/UAABotRemover adds a portlet link to enable a removal shortcut of faulty reports from Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention.
• DreamRimmer/BlankUserPage helps you destroy webhost-ers' hopes and dreams with a user-friendly dialog box.
• ESanders (WMF)/commentlinks.js adds a "link" button right after the "reply" button while the WMF struggles to reach feature parity with Convenient Discussions.
• Isaacl/copy-comment-link-to-clipboard does exactly what you'd think it does, but in Wikitext.
• FenrisAureus/SimpleStatus adds a shortcut at the top to edit your /Status subpage while providing a pre-made template.
• Fred Gandt/addCloneClearButtonAboveScributoConsole: What a mouthful! Yet all it does (no offense) is add another Clear button on top of the Lua module debug console.
• Guarapiranga/GlobalWatchlistLink adds a link to metawiki:Special:GlobalWatchlist next to the normal watchlist.
• Nardog
  • PasteToCommons adds a paste handler to upload the pasted image to Wikimedia Commons.
  • Unpipe tries to detect violations of WP:NOPIPE and fix them as much as possible.
• Ohconfucius/tometricunits automatically adds unit conversions of imperial units in brackets after their uses per MOS:UNITS.
• Suntooooth
  • /flickrsearch adds a portlet link to search for uploadable flickr images about the subject.
  • /randomincategory adds a portlet link when on Category pages to go to a random page in the current category.
• Vghfr/EasyTemplates adds a portlet link to automatically insert some of the most common inline {{fix}} templates.

Yes, we're just doing 'em as we go now. Thanks for reading through this looong issue, if you did! I'm sure this'll send a record for the longest issue ev-ah. You may need to wait even longer for the last issue, as our reserve of old-y and goodie scripts have ran out... We encourage you to try and do some of the requests or improvement tasks. See you in Summer, hopefully!

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Administrator changes Sdkb The Night Watch East718 Isabelle Belato Mzajac Staecker Stan Shebs Sugarfish Tamzin

Bureaucrat changes SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
• Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

Technical news

• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous

• The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

It's a little late to be adding comments now, but regarding your second comment on the special report covering some of BMN123's off-wiki stuff, I saw some uncertainty over the current page creator's relation to the sock farm. The basic conclusion at the time was that Tester beta 1298, was likely cheap low-quality UPE, see for example this bit of spam, still live as a write this actually; as shown by diffs on the LTA report, The sockmaster had bragged about paying people to edit. With the sockmaster subsequently taking over for future edits and RFPI. Among others in the history for example, 137.74.150.79 is still a long-term proxy, and of course some P2P and short term residential stuff proxies with past blocks in the logs were used to.

Fun fact, their off-wiki defamation campaign was a key factor in starting a deeper investigation since it indicated someone with a grudge against Wikipedia that uncovered much of the sockmaster's editing. Starting with this discussion and and continuing with AN after multiple proxies began spamming people's talk pages with stuff like this. Where their use of WP:RFPI, which is so obscure that even you didn't know what it was, ended being the key piece of evidence that tied everything together since abusing that process lead to the global lock on the master account (see block followed lock) there was plenty of other evidence too, but that removed any and all doubt.

If some of their off-wiki antics ever become Signpost material again, you may wish to contact Drmies or some of the others involved in thos discussions who almost certainly remember things better than I. Anyway, well-written report. 184.152.68.190 (talk) 23:34, 2 March 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240302233400","author":"184.152.68.190","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-184.152.68.190-20240302233400-Spotted_while_perusing_some_recent_Signpost_stuff","replies":[]}}-->

Hello!

Although I already left a short message on the Newsroom's talk page, I just wanted to let you know that I might not be able to contribute to the next few issues as much as I did recently, due to real-life priorities. Sorry for it... Oltrepier (talk) 08:30, 3 March 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20240303083000","author":"Oltrepier","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Oltrepier-20240303083000-About_my_future_Signpost_contributions","replies":[]}}-->