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== Response to your suggestion on my talk page == == Earth Day 2022 Edit-a-thon - April 22nd - 2PM EST ==


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Hey man, I always ensure that I am logged in while editing, you can check the edit log & I have edited the article through my account.. Maybe its the issue where people share the IP address in question,I can assure you that I use my account to edit any article. I just have a single account named "Lord Elzai". Hope this sorts it out. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year in Advance!- LORD ELZAI
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== SPI check == == How adverse is DYK... ==


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Hello {{Ping|RoySmith}} I am asking you for help because you are well aware of this and you have run an SPI check previously.This editor who was until recently indefinitely blocked for using multiple accounts ] per spi check Crovata/MF, I am pretty sure that they used different IP addresses during their indefinite blocked phase, like this ip ] example ] which is correspondent with previous editing of the same editor ] which means while indefinite blocked they were editing Misplaced Pages, note that this editor has been already 2 times indefinite blocked per SPI check ] with resulting both Crovata/MF being indef blocked ] but for some reason on 31.01.2022 unblocked but still it means that they were editing during that time. Thank you.] (]) 16:47, 13.February 2022 (UTC)
:Hi, thanks for your note. Could I ask that you file a new SPI report? That'll make it easier to process, thanks. -- ] ] 16:58, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
:: I have never done it but I will try. I assume I can go on the same page. ]. ] (]) 17:01, 13.February 2022 (UTC)
:::You should file your report at ], not the archive page. The best way to do this is to enable ] and use the ] function. -- ] ] 17:09, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
::::{{Ping|RoySmith}} It is my first time but I did it somehow, it looks terible ] but I hope it will not be ignored.Maybe you could check it since you know them. Thank you. ] (]) 17:49, 13.February 2022 (UTC)
:::::{{Ping|RoySmith}} Thank you anyway for your trouble, have a good day. ] (]) 19:41, 13.February 2022 (UTC)


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Hi! Sorry for the confusion with regards to . As I do not usually edit on the weekends and I was browsing (reading, not editing) Wiki on some other stuff, I misread your reply there and in my haste to reply you, I thought you are asking for the IP editor instead of the account (which there is no new account created but only IP editing). Based on the initial (since corrected) closing reasons for the ANI etc, I used it as a reference for this particular SPI. My apologies for the confusion caused.


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About ], what is an editor supposed to do if new accounts and anonymous users keep making the same edits? I know you said to wait before continuing the investigation, but the page keeps being attacked in the meantime.


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After Zessede, Accplc1213, and Aqww did it (as we discussed at the investigation page), this new anonymous user 220.95.101.209 just removed the references and material from ]. The new ones from this week (Accplc1213, Aqww, 220.95.101.209) are ignoring the attempt to discuss this on ] while continuing to push their Korean nationalist stance.
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Am I supposed to keep moving the page back to its original version until this person get bored and stops? Several other editors were also undoing the new Korean nationalist accounts and anonymous users for the past year. I don't mean to sound frustrated, but there must be some other way than having to go back to check the newest account ignoring everyone else to remove the academic mainstream (], ], ], ], ], ], ], ...).


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:I guess Esiymbro just changed it back, so Buyeo is back to normal. But regard my question above as one on general procedure on how to handle the new accounts. Should I keep changing the page back to normal until there is enough evidence to restart the investigation? ] (]) 02:36, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
:@] I'm semi-protected ] which should give some relief. -- ] ] 02:37, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
::Thanks for answering me so quickly. What exactly does that mean? ] (]) 02:38, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
::To more specifically answer your question, reverting makes sense (even if it does get old pretty quickly). Once my page protection expires (in a month), keep an eye on that page. If problems persist, asking at ] to have the protection extended will probably be a faster way to get a response than at SPI, which tends to be pretty slow. -- ] ] 02:40, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
:::@] My apologies for speaking in techno-jargon. There's several different levels of protection that can be applied to a page. The lowest is what we call "semi-protection", which means to edit the page, a user need to have 10 or more edits and the account was created more than 4 days previously. If problems persist, there's stronger measures we can take, but we try to apply the lowest level of protection which will stop disruption. -- ] ] 14:22, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
::::I don't think the protection did much because Aqww and Zessede can still edit war on the page. Can you take a look at the article again?
::::After the protection, Aqww undid 3 other editors 6 times (isn't that edit warring?), while even using the same exact words as Zessede did: . Then Zessede returned to undo an editor and make the same edit as Aqww: . Then another new account Q1A1Z did the same: .
::::Can I restore the page? Zessede/Aqww/Q1A1Z have not addressed any of the concerns on the talk page (Zessede and Q1A1Z did just comment on it, but without addressing anything substantial while still making their edits). ] (]) 18:04, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
:::::@] Thanks for the note. There's been a lot more editing since I first look at this case, so I'll reopen it and take another look. -- ] ] 18:49, 21 February 2022 (UTC)


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You had warned for socking and with he has proven that he is socking. He is not even replying . I think indef block should be made on both accounts and the main account (Asrtyon) should be unblocked only if he promises to adhere to not just ] but also ]. ] (]) 07:13, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
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Earth Day 2022 Edit-a-thon - April 22nd - 2PM EST

You're invited! NYC Earth Day 2022 Edit-a-thon! April 22nd!

Sure We Can and the Environment of New York City Task Force invite you to join us for:

This Edit-a-Thon is part of a larger Earth Day celebration, hosted by Brooklyn based recycling and community center Sure We Can, that runs from 1PM-7PM and is open to the public! See this flyer for more information: https://www.instagram.com/p/CcGr4FyuqEa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

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Happy new year 2025, opened with trumpet fanfares that first sounded OTD in 1725 (as the Main page had). Thank you for DYK work! My story today is about a composer who influenced music history also by writing. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:17, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

... and today, pictured on the Main page, Tosca, in memory of her first appearance on stage OTD in 1900, and of principal author Brian Boulton. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:50, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-03

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

  • The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.

Updates for editors

  • On wikis with PageAssessments installed, you can now filter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using the inproject: keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Misplaced Pages, English Misplaced Pages, English Wikivoyage, French Misplaced Pages, Hungarian Misplaced Pages, Nepali Misplaced Pages, Turkish Misplaced Pages, Chinese Misplaced Pages)
  • One new wiki has been created: a Misplaced Pages in Tigre (w:tig:)
  • Recurrent item View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Advanced item Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.
  • Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.
  • Advanced item For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in its sub field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13.
  • Many wikis currently use Cite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to not clean up your MediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output.

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