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I received email from him claiming he was still ]. His email to me was timestamped 0451 UTC so a 24 hours block at 04:13, 1 September 2008 should have ended. Any idea what's going on here? ] (]) 15:03, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
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Hi again King of Hearts. I noticed you were online, and I was wondering if you have any experience with updating DYK. Meaning, moving the hooks from ] to ]. If you can do that, I can handle the rest of the updating (talk page credits, user talk page credits, archiving, ect). Its about an hours and 30 mon. delayed. Any help would be appreciated. If you can't, or if you have no experience updating it, then that's fine, I'll try to find another admin to do it. -- ] (''''']''''') 05:47, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
:Well, ] has it done. :-) Thanks anyway. But for future reference, do you know or have any experience with updating DYK? -- ] ] (''''']''''') 06:22, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
::I suppose I could handle these updates, though I don't do so often. -- ] ] ] ] &spades; 13:18, 3 September 2008 (UTC)


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Hi there. I've been around for a few months now, and dealing with vandals would be much simpler with the rollback feature (undoing multiple edits is a pain and a half). I was wondering if you would grant me the ability? I would be happy to answer any questions you have, of course. (I picked you randomly from the category of admins who are happy to consider such requests). ]<sup>] | ]</sup> 06:26, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
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This looks like a mistake in response to a bad faith 3RR report. The editor you blocked, ], was doing run-of-the-mill article patrol work on ] and although he technically did make four edits to the article in question they were to three different parts of the article, and all were correct, modest, and uncontroversial edits. In no way was this edit warring - this kind of article maintenance keeps article stability and has been normal practice at the Obama and other high-volume articles.
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Scjessey is not about to edit war. I suggest you unblock, and also leave a note indicating that the edits preceding the block should not be construed in the future as evidence of editing misbehavior. I would rather discuss this with you directly than take this to AN/I or the Obama article probation notice board because there have been so many over-the-top administrative complaints (I am currently the subject of one) cluttering up the boards. Thanks, ] (]) 00:04, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
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: I would ask you to ] in why I did what I did. There are a handful of editors who are keeping any other editor from making any kind of contribution to this article. The reason that the article is under probation right now is because of edit warring from Scjessey, amongst others. Not all of his edits were “housekeeping” he was rolling back the good faith contributions of other editors with no discussion. ] (]) 00:43, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
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::(ec) Technically, the editor violated 3RR in my opinion. 3RR is supposed to be an "electric fence". If there's a special understanding that at certain articles, people are allowed to go over 3 reverts per 24 hours under certain circumstances, then maybe there should be a template or poll or something letting people know about that, at the top of the article talk page, so that everyone can equally take advantage of that situation. King of Hearts' action may be correct in order to avoid any possibility of ] or unequal enforcement for different political views. In my opinion, it's up to King of Hearts' discretion whether to block in this situation, or to issue a warning and no block, or to declare that it will not be treated as a 3RR violation due to mitigating circumstances, or to take some other action; and in my opinion it's up to King of Hearts' decretion whether to decide to modify the decision in response to the above comment (which makes a good point in my opinion) or not to do so. People doing reverts should keep count of their reverts to avoid exceeding 3RR. Thirty-one hours for a second-offense 3RR violation is a very typical block. I agree with CENSEI that the edits being reverted by Scjessey appeared to be good-faith edits. <span style="color:Green; font-size:1.5em;">☺</span> ] (]) 00:45, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
::Link re article probation: ] ] (]) 00:49, 5 September 2008 (UTC)


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::: If that was discretion it was a mistake of discretion to punish (this is punishment under the circumstance, nothing preventive) an editor on a technicality for his good faith wikignoming efforts, doing the right thing in a way a lot of other eitors do. The issue is not that the reverted edits were in good faith - 80% of the bad edits are coming from inexperienced editors who make simple good faith mistakes, and ought to be reverted rather than discussed. We need watchful editors to do more than 3 uncontroversial reverts per day to keep the article stable. If this gives ammunition to tendentious editors to take aim at the legitimate ones we'll have to modify the terms of article probation accordingly. We can invite KingofHearts to reverse / unblock before taking this to AN/I, but it should not be used against Scjessey in future review of his edit history - which is sure to come. ] (]) 01:06, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
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::::I don't see why you think it was punitive, not preventive. If Scjessey was exerting too much control over the article, reverting changes that other editors were trying to make (and I don't have an opinion as to whether it was "too much" or not) then this block prevents Scjessey from making such reverts for 31 hours, allowing other editors freedom to edit the article during that time. This is enforcement of the normal 3RR rule that applies to every page. I think the article probation is intended to tighten such restrictions, not loosen them. Scjessey is free to make an ], promising to wait before doing further reverts on that article. <span style="color:Red; font-size:1.5em;">☺</span> ] (]) 01:23, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
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:::::Scjessey is ''not'' exerting too much control over the article. If anyone thought his maintenance edits were too aggressive all they had to do is tell him so. The "freedom" you talk about is simply a freedom to make mistakes, which get reverted. They must be reverted at a high rate because there are a high number of unproductive edits. The article probation arose from serious editing abuses, tendentious editing and incivility by POV editors, trolls, sockpuppets, etc., not from routine article maintenance. I've asked Scjessey to make that promise, but again, what he was doing needs to be done, and the 3RR report is not on the level.] (]) 01:34, 5 September 2008 (UTC)


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::To clarify, there was no "review" of Scjessey's block, an admin friendly to Scjessey was found and that admin unblocked him. I was blocked for edit warring, not incivility. Scjessey violated 3RR, whatever reason or excuse he uses, he did make more then 3 content reverts in one day, if he wont be held to this standard why the hell should anyone else expect follow th rules? ] (]) 20:50, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
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:::After Wikidemon's initial complaint, more editors have expressed their opinions. They seem to have a consensus that the block was unjust. -- ] ] ] ] &spades; 20:57, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

:::: And all of the editord have friendly working relationships with Scjessey and it would seem to bias their opinion. Coppertwig, see above, did not seem to share the opinion that the block was unwarranted. ] (]) 21:17, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
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:::::More wikigaming, I see. Perhaps you should check out and see how much of a problem CENSEI is. -- ] (]) 21:53, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
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:::::: And I mean it Scjessey, your days of unopposed article ownership are done. Step over the line, and I will be the first one to report you. Oh, and please stop talking about me in the third person ... its creepy. ] (]) 22:17, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Indonesian (voy:id:)
  • 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.
  • Recurrent item 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.

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.
  • 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.

Meetings and events

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The Signpost: 12 December 2024

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Happy First Edit Day!

Hey, King of Hearts. Just stopping by to wish you a Happy Wiki-Birthday from the Misplaced Pages Birthday Committee!
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P.S. I am so sorry for the lateness. DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 06:01, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

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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

  • Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page.

Updates for editors

  • Users of the iOS Misplaced Pages App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history.
  • Users of the Android Misplaced Pages App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.
  • The global reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page for more information.
  • The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
  • Recurrent item View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the Android Misplaced Pages App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.

Updates for technical contributors

  • There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January.

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The Signpost: 24 December 2024

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