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Hi The Anome, glad to see the bot is back! It looks like the bot is set to add counties for California geocoordinate requests (example). However, these subcategories were deleted as no longer needed earlier this year, as the backlog has been reduced to almost nothing through the hard work of some editors. Could you adjust the bot so that it just leaves the articles in Category:California articles missing geocoordinate data and doesn't add counties? Many thanks, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 07:35, 25 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241125073500","author":"Pi.1415926535","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Pi.1415926535-20241125073500-California_county_categories","replies":["c-The_Anome-20241125154900-Pi.1415926535-20241125073500"]}}-->

I've just used the bot to take a look at its last 500 writes of county-level California coord-missing tags, and it looks like other editors have already cleaned things up. I've modified the bot scripts so it won't generate any more of these in the future. — The Anome (talk) 15:49, 25 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241125154900","author":"The Anome","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-The_Anome-20241125154900-Pi.1415926535-20241125073500","replies":[]}}-->

No worries. I was going to let you know about the county-level categories having been deleted once I was done cleaning up redlinked categories, but when I came here to do that I saw that Pi had already let you know. Wasn't too many pages, thankfully; this run of WantedCategories was longer than usual, but the California county categories weren't the primary culprit in that, so it wasn't too big of a deal. Bearcat (talk) 15:59, 25 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241125155900","author":"Bearcat","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Bearcat-20241125155900-California_county_categories","replies":["c-Pi.1415926535-20241125175700-Bearcat-20241125155900"]}}-->

@Bearcat@The Anome: Thanks to both of you! Pi.1415926535 (talk) 17:57, 25 November 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241125175700","author":"Pi.1415926535","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Pi.1415926535-20241125175700-Bearcat-20241125155900","replies":[]}}-->

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Guideline and policy news

• Following an RFC, the policy on restoration of adminship has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
• Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

Technical news

• Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Yasuke (formerly titled Backlash to diversity and inclusion) has been closed.
• An arbitration case titled Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.

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I've looked at it from the third person about the "Trump is Hitler" stuff and I realise you're very righteously concerned about my appearance of impropriety when it comes to creating redirects. I'd like to explain here and continue my line of reasoning, since I've gone and meandered about my business on the wrong place to be making a point.

When I go about on article pages, I usually write phrases about the subjects. When a phrase that I write strikes me, such as "the Israelis are committing genocide", I like to think about it a bit. "Could that be a {{R from search term}}?", I ask myself. In any case, I think letting myself write naturally and to notice myself writing naturally, allows me to practise a method of trying to understand terms people might search for on Google, so they can be directed to a relevant part of the encyclopedia.

The appearance of impropriety makes it look like I'm creating content to prove a point, when in reality I'm only meaning to be thoughtful enough to put myself in their shoes. Now, look at that. I wonder if that term, "put myself in their shoes" might work well as a WP:SOFTREDIRECT to the Wiktionary entry put oneself in someone's shoes? Do you sort of understand how I'm thinking here? BarntToust 15:18, 9 December 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241209151800","author":"BarntToust","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-BarntToust-20241209151800-It's_really_improper_to_drag_you_through_the_mud_on_the_talk_page,_I_apologise.","replies":["c-BarntToust-20241209152500-BarntToust-20241209151800","c-BarntToust-20241209152800-BarntToust-20241209151800"],"displayName":"Barnt"}}-->

And hey presto, there is now a soft redirect at that target. BarntToust 15:25, 9 December 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241209152500","author":"BarntToust","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-BarntToust-20241209152500-BarntToust-20241209151800","replies":[],"displayName":"Barnt"}}-->

I'd also like to give my thanks to you for your over 20 years of helping out the encyclopedia. It's always a treat to meet dedicated folks on this site who truly care about bringing knowledge to the world. BarntToust 15:28, 9 December 2024 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20241209152800","author":"BarntToust","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-BarntToust-20241209152800-BarntToust-20241209151800","replies":[],"displayName":"Barnt"}}-->

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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

• 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. [36]
• 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. [37]
• 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. [38]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Indonesian (voy:id:) [39]
• 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. [40]
• 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. [41][42]

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. [43]
• 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. [44]

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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