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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.
A screenshot showing that the markAdmins script repeats the "(A)" text twice on Vector 2022.
On Vector 2022, the parenthetical note indicating the groups a user is in appears twice rather than the expected once. See right. JJPMaster (she/they) 01:47, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 26th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 August 2024. At press time, over 94% of the world has legally fallen prey to the merry celebrations of "Christmas", and so shall you soon. It's been a quiet 4 months, and we hope to see you with way more new scripts next year. Happy holidays! Aaron Liu (talk) 05:06, 25 December 2024 (UTC)
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Very useful for changelist patrollers, DiffUndo, by Nardog, is this edition's featured script. Taking inspiration from WP:AutoWikiBrowser's double-click-to-undo feature, it adds an undo button to every line of every diff from "show changes", optimizing partial reverts with your favorite magic spell and nearly fulfilling m:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Partial revert undo.
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Doğu/Adiutor, a recent WP:Twinkle/WP:RedWarn-like userscript that follows modern WMF UI design, is now an extension. However, its sole maintainer has left the project, which still awaits WMF mw:code stewardship (among some audits) to be installed on your favorite WMF wikis.
DannyS712, our former chief editor, has ascended to MediaWiki and the greener purpley pastures of PHP with commits creating Special:NamespaceInfo and the __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ magic word to exclude a template from Special:UnusedTemplates! I wonder if Wikipedia has a templaters' newsletter...
BilledMammal/Move+ needs updating to order list of pages handle lists of pages to move correctly regardless of the discussion's page, so that we may avoid repeating fiasco history.
Andrybak/Unsigned helper forks Anomie/unsignedhelper to add support for binary search, automatic edit summaries after generating the {{unsigned}} template, support for {{undated}}, and support for generating while syntax highlighting is on.
Polygnotus/Move+ updates BilledMammal's classic Move+ to add automattic watchlisting of all pages—except the target page(s)—changed while processing a move.
A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.
Technical news
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.
I was surprised to see a Welcome message from you on this editor's User talk page on January 1st when they didn't even start editing until January 3rd. We generally do not welcome editors until they start making contributions on the project so please do not do so in the future. And, in this case, they were quickly blocked as a sockpuppet which is what prompted me to look into their user talk page and their edit history. Thank you. LizRead!Talk!22:28, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
Hi @Liz. Hope you're well. This account was one I created per an ACC request, in accordance with the ACC guide. Accounts created for ACC requests are automatically welcomed by the tool -- it's not something I do manually. (For an example of another user creating an account with the ACC tool, see this account, which JJMC89 created).
Regarding the fact that the user is a sock, consistent with the guide and the NDA I signed, all I can say is that the proper procedure was followed. If you'd like to see the request itself, given that you are a CheckUser and arbitrator, I'm sure Stwalkerster would be happy to provide you the information. If you're interested, you're also welcome to sign up for a tool account, which once approved should give you access to view this and other requests. (And we always need CU help!) Best, — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 23:08, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
Hello, Mdaniels5757,
Thanks for posting a note on my User talk page as I don't check my "pings". I also post a high number of Welcome notices so I receive a great number of pings, more than I can respond to. I didn't know about your work with ACC requests, that explains why you Welcomed the editor before they had even made 1 edit. I have no interest in pursuing this, I accept your explanation and thank you for your work creating accounts for editors who, for whatever reason, can't create an account themselves. I know we can always use more help with the ACC area.
And while I might now have "CU" now listed by my username or on my User page, using these tools requires instruction which I haven't received so consider me just a regular admin editor. I think diving into SPI investigations can take up all of ones time so I have no plan on making much use of the tools. It's just part of the package you receive when you become an arbitrator. But thank you for that link, I might take advantage of that and get signed up. LizRead!Talk!01:34, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 66
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 66, November – December 2024
Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
A 'Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. T56145
A request for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. T378488
Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. T376378
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User talk:VancityRothaug, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User talk:VancityRothaug and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User talk:VancityRothaug during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. VancityRothaug (talk) 17:20, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
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