User talk:Paper9oll
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).
- Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.
- The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351
- The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
- The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.
- WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!
May 2024 NPP backlog drive – Points award[edit]
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This award is given in recognition to Paper9oll for accumulating at least 10 points during the May 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions helped play a part in the 14,452 reviews completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 18:50, 6 June 2024 (UTC) |
The Signpost: 8 June 2024[edit]
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Tactics to avoid your redirects being overwritten[edit]
Paper9oll, in regards to your just-created Red Velvet redirects, creating redirects then immediately repointing them to a different page looks like a very blatant tactic to try avoid having your redirects be overwritten, since you appear to know redirects can simply be overwritten by page movers if there's only one edit to them. You cannot stop redirects from being overwritten if someone wants to do so, and you should not attempt to camp on topics like this by trying to force interested people to make articles on them. A moderately experienced user can either move redirects you've created out of the way themselves, ask a page mover to do it at WP:RM/TR, or an ask an admin to simply delete your redirects for them. You should know this by now. Unless you rush-create an article yourself, there's no way to stop others from creating what they want to create by making quick subsequent edits to a redirect and every conceivable variation of a title, including making draftspace titles, and both "(EP)" and "(album)", which I know you've personally disapproved of before—you yourself have previously nominated "(album)" redirects for deletion when a release has been an EP, have you not? Nobody on Wikipedia is forced to make an article on someone's redirect if they don't want to. I have seen this behaviour before, so I don't think my assumption that this is what you're doing, for a K-pop girl group whose topics you've made plenty of articles for and are still heavily involved with, is out of line. It looks like you do this for most, if not all redirects you make. Please stop this behaviour.
At this point you also haven't added any mention of what "Cosmic" is at Red Velvet discography, and you should do that when you create redirects. Ss112 16:08, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-24[edit]
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
- The software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [1]
- The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
- The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the
mw-reference-text
class, Parsoid now also adds thereference-text
class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [2]
Problems
- There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. [3]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [4][5]
- The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a
<span class="mw-cite-backlink">
wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available. [6] - On multilingual wikis that use the
<translate>
system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it. [7]
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