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Hi, Mz7 - {{u|Awilley}} made a suggestion at ] for me to basically conduct an in-depth review as follows: {{xt|pointing out specific actionable problems and tagging the relevant sections, paragraphs, or sentences where appropriate}}. It made me think about {{u|CaptainEek}}'s at the original GAR3 wherein he said: {{xt|But unless a group of contributors is willing to come together to save it, I would opt to delist (And no, I don't have time to join a GA team I'm afraid).}} Granted, few understand the GAR process, and I truly didn't believe it would have been a controversial delist considering the blindingly obvious circumstances, but I'm a team player, problem-solver, and always willing to collaborate productively. My suggestion to you - what do you think about forming a team with 3 collaborators to address Awilley's suggestion? I would appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with you and one other editor, {{u|BD2412}}, who has excellent writing skills. A team of 3 will give us a 2 to 1 decision-making advantage to avoid loggerheads. I have collaborated with BD2412 in the past (at his invitation) to help stabilize ], (I just did a splash of ce) and now I am reciprocating with this invite. 😇 But having said the aforementioned, I'm not sure it is the right path to take. Maintenance tags get removed and actually tend to create more issues. I am open to suggestions as to how best to proceed. Thank you for your consideration. ] <sub>]</sub> ] 23:40, 23 April 2020 (UTC) | Hi, Mz7 - {{u|Awilley}} made a suggestion at ] for me to basically conduct an in-depth review as follows: {{xt|pointing out specific actionable problems and tagging the relevant sections, paragraphs, or sentences where appropriate}}. It made me think about {{u|CaptainEek}}'s at the original GAR3 wherein he said: {{xt|But unless a group of contributors is willing to come together to save it, I would opt to delist (And no, I don't have time to join a GA team I'm afraid).}} Granted, few understand the GAR process, and I truly didn't believe it would have been a controversial delist considering the blindingly obvious circumstances, but I'm a team player, problem-solver, and always willing to collaborate productively. My suggestion to you - what do you think about forming a team with 3 collaborators to address Awilley's suggestion? I would appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with you and one other editor, {{u|BD2412}}, who has excellent writing skills. A team of 3 will give us a 2 to 1 decision-making advantage to avoid loggerheads. I have collaborated with BD2412 in the past (at his invitation) to help stabilize ], (I just did a splash of ce) and now I am reciprocating with this invite. 😇 But having said the aforementioned, I'm not sure it is the right path to take. Maintenance tags get removed and actually tend to create more issues. I am open to suggestions as to how best to proceed. Thank you for your consideration. ] <sub>]</sub> ] 23:40, 23 April 2020 (UTC) | ||
: I appreciate you thinking of me, but Joe Biden is a whole other kettle of fish, and frankly is likely to be a locus of chaos for the next six-and-a-half months. I'd just as soon let others fight the battles that are going to be fought there. ] ] 23:57, 23 April 2020 (UTC) |
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- Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops
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Tech News: 2020-10
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- Readers who were not logged in briefly saw the interface in a language decided by their browser. It should normally be in the language of the wiki. This happened for a short period of time last week. This was because of a bug.
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- If you forget your password you can ask for a new one to be sent to your email address. You need to know your email address or your username. You will now be able to choose that you need to enter both your email address and your username. This will be a preference. This is to get fewer password reset emails someone else asked for.
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00:36, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
Moe szylak block evasion
Hi there. Just to let you know that I've picked up on some block evasion from IPs today, relating to Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Moe szylak. IPs that I've blocked are 154.121.26.103, 154.121.26.39, 154.121.28.63 and 154.121.27.3. I thought I'd let you know in case there's anything else that can be done to identify other instances of block evasion in this case. Cordless Larry (talk) 18:10, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks, Cordless Larry! I will take a look. Mz7 (talk) 19:56, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
Misplaced Pages talk:Requests for adminship
Ignore the auto notice on this. I twas just a slow screen msiclick. Sorry Meters (talk) 09:11, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Meters: Heh, I've definitely done this before. No worries. Mz7 (talk) 09:13, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
User talk:Dzyntechno
You may wish to revoke TPA.--Cahk (talk) 09:25, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
- Done Mz7 (talk) 11:29, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-11
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- There is a new search word called
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17:15, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
Happy First Edit Day!
Happy First Edit Day, Mz7, from the Misplaced Pages Birthday Committee! Have a great day! CAPTAIN RAJU 04:29, 14 March 2020 (UTC) |
Invitation to join the Ten Year Society
Dear Mz7,
I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Misplaced Pages project for ten years or more.
Best regards, Chris Troutman (talk) 18:55, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
- :O Wow. 10 years. A long time. Mz7 (talk) 22:21, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-12
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- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all wikis from 19 March (calendar).
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21:16, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Request for roll backer rights
Hello Mz7, I appreciate your administrative work you are doing. I have been editing Misplaced Pages for some time and have knowledge of Misplaced Pages policies and guidelines. I request for roll backer rights to enable me fight vandalism. I kindly request you to grant my request. King Onyx (talk) 05:46, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
- Hi King Onyx, thanks for contacting me. I took a look through your contributions, and I am not seeing sufficient experience with identifying and reverting vandalism, which is the primary use of the rollback right. I noticed that in the past, you have used Twinkle to welcome new editors to Misplaced Pages. Twinkle also provides a lot of useful tools against vandalism, such as a "rollback" button that works similar to the rollback button provided by the rollback right. If you are interested in learning more about counter-vandalism, we also have a mentorship program that may interest you at WP:CVUA. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask me.
- On a related note, I noticed that you have unsuccessfully requested multiple permissions today, one quickly after the other. Some of these requests demonstrate to me that you may not be carefully reading all of the policies and guidelines associated with the rights you are applying for, which makes me concerned that you have not carefully read the guidelines on the rollback permission before applying. For these reasons, I'm afraid your request is Not done. Respectfully, Mz7 (talk) 18:24, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-13
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- Some development will be slower than planned. This is because of the current pandemic. You can see the new deployment guidelines. This is to avoid risks when some persons could be unavailable.
- There was a problem when adding interwiki links. The tool you use to add interwiki links could suggest the wrong project to link to. This has now been fixed.
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- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 March. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 March. It will be on all wikis from 26 March (calendar).
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17:08, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
Locked account is still disrupting through an IP
As you can see by these edits. Best, GPL93 (talk) 19:52, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
- @GPL93: Blocked, thanks Mz7 (talk) 19:54, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
A beer for you!
Thank you. Drmies (talk) 12:57, 24 March 2020 (UTC) |
- @Drmies: For what you've been through, I'd say I should be the one to buy you the beer today! Mz7 (talk) 20:32, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
- Ha, one gets used to it. While you were typing this, I was looking at this, whose edit summary was borrowed from one of those edits from that range. Maybe you can learn more--it's odd but it doesn't have to mean they're the same. Certainly geolocation and machinery are quite different. Drmies (talk) 20:38, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet investigations/Sezer777
Can you add User:Seden777, with a CU block? Thanks! Drmies (talk) 13:29, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Drmies: Sure, I added a new "pro forma" SPI report that lists the account you blocked . Mz7 (talk) 18:45, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 March 2020
- From the editors: The bad and the good
- News and notes: 2018 Wikipedian of the year blocked
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- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
Tech News: 2020-14
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- The beta version of the Misplaced Pages app for Android can now help users add tags on Commons. These tags are called depicts.
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- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 March. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 April. It will be on all wikis from 2 April (calendar).
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- The video player will change to be simpler and more modern. The current beta feature will become the video player for everyone. The old player will be removed.
- There is a project to make templates easier to use. The next few weeks the developers will present ideas on the project page. You can watch that page if you are interested in giving feedback.
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17:25, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).
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- There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.
- There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a
Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment
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- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a
- The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.
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Wilma Archer amendments
Hello.
The wikipedia account represents the artist in question.
From this account there have been several attempts made to update (the currently invalid and outdated) segments of the page in question - which have been repeatedly overturned - despite the amendments being supplied with legitimate citations and references from widely credible and verified publications.
This unbiased, accurate, verifiable and new information is coming direct from the artist's representation - and the constant edit refusals / reversals from the watchers on this page are harming the credibility of wikipedia as a source of factual information and the artist's accessible public information.
Sockpuppet investigation help
I don't know exactly where to turn for this since discussion was closed, but I have concerns about a comment at Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet_investigations/Ineedtostopforgetting/Archive#03_April_2020. First, I had only identified the similarity, having not actually spotted that the exact same edit had been made. Second, without that edit, would the investigation not have gone through? This seems to be a dedicated sockpuppet, and one who seems intent on continuing to sock, having done so for at least 6 months over several accounts. Isn't there a risk that if we demand such exact similarities in editing style, that the person learns to avoid investigation? @Cryptic Canadian: as well. Also regarding the comment about devices, with the risk that this will be spotted, that is quite easy to spoof. (Feel free to hide this last comment in the edit history if needed) Carl Fredrik 07:19, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
- Hi CFCF, you bring up great points. Yes, there absolutely is such a risk, and I tried to be as vague as possible about the underlying technical details, but ultimately it remains. We have an essay about the phenomenon as well: WP:BEANS. In hindsight, I don't disagree with your thoughts, so I removed the comment from the archive. In every sockpuppet investigation, we have to balance the amount of information we disclose for the purpose of future identification of the sockmaster with the risk of tipping to sockmaster off to what we are looking for. In this case, I felt that the information you provided us ("similar articles edited, similar editing practices to socks") was too vague for me to justify checking the account—I had to go through the user's contributions myself and identify more concrete examples of the similarity. The two diffs I mentioned were just one such similarity I found. In the future, I would perhaps give slightly more detail. Diffs would be ideal (and are technically required by SPI procedures), but at least try to mention the specific articles the accounts are targeting or the specific "editing practices" that you find similar. As for how much detail to mention, ultimately this is a matter of judgment. It would save time for SPI volunteers, as they wouldn't have to look for this information themselves, and it would also help prevent your SPI from being delayed. I hope this helps clarify my thinking process, and I would be happy to answer any other questions you might have. Mz7 (talk) 16:09, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
- @CFCF: It's true that someone could fly under the radar if they tried harder, but I would think that someone who keeps getting blocked for socking/edit warring over the exact same topics does not care about their image very much. For my SPI contributions regarding this user, the biggest giveaways were when they were changing the exact same wording in the exact same passage in the exact same article, and then getting into edit wars with the exact same user. This person created new socks and revived old accounts just to try and remove nine specific words from the lead for POV reasons. Hiding from scrutiny would require them to sock somewhere else, but they've now sacrificed several accounts just to change this one sentence. It's going to be hard for them to cover up that kind of dedication going forward.
- On top of that, their previous behavior surprises me that they weren't already caught for doing obviously sock-ish things, like when they made significant changes to an article, and then used a brand new sock to promote it to GA. Or when they basically admitted on an admin's talk page that they were using alternative accounts while their main had a rap sheet of recent blocks. Had I seen either of those, I would have started digging right away. These seem like things that would attract suspicion from relatively experienced editors. Cryptic Canadian 22:48, 4 April 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-15
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Problems
- There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April (calendar).
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- MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user
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Tech News: 2020-16
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Recent changes
- You can now use the
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- You can see edits from the Wikimedia Cloud Services in a new dashboard.
- When you use filters on a history page you sometimes don't see any edits. There is a text explaining this now. Before it was just empty.
- There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog.
Problems
- There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 14. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from April 15. It will be on all wikis from April 16 (calendar).
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- Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed.
- The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave feedback on this.
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15:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
Joe Biden
Hi Mz7, thanks for volunteering to help close the RfC at Talk:Joe Biden. Given Thryduulf's reply at AN and the comments on that talk page, I'd rather not wait to unprotect the page. My current plan is to place the archive templates with the statement: "Given rough consensus for inclusion, the article is no longer under full protection. A more detailed close will be provided by Mz7 and Thryduulf shortly." Would this be stepping on toes or do you anticipate any problems with that? — Wug·a·po·des 00:18, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
- Responded at AN Mz7 (talk) 01:22, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Tech News: 2020-17
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Tech News
- The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 4 May 2020.
Recent changes
- The small wiki toolkits is to help smaller wikis that need technical skills. They can learn and share technical skills.
- Over-qualified CSS selectors in Wikimedia skins have been removed.
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- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
- Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011.
- The font in the diffs will change.
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar).
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18:45, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
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Hell in a Bucket (talk) 04:17, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
Draft:Nikka Starr
I think maybe this needs to be salted to stop repeated re-creation of a biography of a minor, thanks Theroadislong (talk) 08:03, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
- Looks like another admin salted it already at the autoconfirmed level. The account's been blocked too. Mz7 (talk) 21:22, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
Request
Hi, Mz7 - Awilley made a suggestion at GAR/Joe Biden/1 for me to basically conduct an in-depth review as follows: pointing out specific actionable problems and tagging the relevant sections, paragraphs, or sentences where appropriate. It made me think about CaptainEek's suggestion at the original GAR3 wherein he said: But unless a group of contributors is willing to come together to save it, I would opt to delist (And no, I don't have time to join a GA team I'm afraid). Granted, few understand the GAR process, and I truly didn't believe it would have been a controversial delist considering the blindingly obvious circumstances, but I'm a team player, problem-solver, and always willing to collaborate productively. My suggestion to you - what do you think about forming a team with 3 collaborators to address Awilley's suggestion? I would appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with you and one other editor, BD2412, who has excellent writing skills. A team of 3 will give us a 2 to 1 decision-making advantage to avoid loggerheads. I have collaborated with BD2412 in the past (at his invitation) to help stabilize Matthew Whitaker, (I just did a splash of ce) and now I am reciprocating with this invite. 😇 But having said the aforementioned, I'm not sure it is the right path to take. Maintenance tags get removed and actually tend to create more issues. I am open to suggestions as to how best to proceed. Thank you for your consideration. Talk 📧 23:40, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
- I appreciate you thinking of me, but Joe Biden is a whole other kettle of fish, and frankly is likely to be a locus of chaos for the next six-and-a-half months. I'd just as soon let others fight the battles that are going to be fought there. BD2412 T 23:57, 23 April 2020 (UTC)