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WikiCup 2018 May newsletter

The second round of the 2018 WikiCup has now finished. Most contestants who advanced to the next round scored upwards of 100 points, but two with just 10 points managed to scrape through into round 3. Our top scorers in the last round were:

  • Scotland Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with three featured articles
  • Republic of Texas Iazyges, with nine good articles and lots of bonus points
  • India Yashthepunisher, a first time contestant, with two featured lists
  • Cascadia (independence movement) SounderBruce, a finalist last year, with seventeen good topic articles
  • United States Usernameunique, a first time contestant, with fourteen DYKs
  • San Francisco Muboshgu, a seasoned competitor, with three ITNs and
  • South Carolina Courcelles, another first time contestant, with twenty-seven GARs

So far contestants have achieved twelve featured articles between them and a splendid 124 good articles. Commendably, 326 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2018 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met; most of the GARs are fine, but a few have been a bit skimpy.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:10, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2018

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).

Administrator changes

added None
removed ChochopkCoffeeGryffindorJimpKnowledge SeekerLankiveilPeridonRjd0060

Guideline and policy news

  • The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
  • A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

  • AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
  • When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
  • The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
  • There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

Obituaries

  • Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

This week's article for improvement (week 19, 2018)

The entrance of Kerobokan Prison
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Kerobokan Prison

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16:28, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2018)

A view of the Sargasso art installation at the BCE Place for Luminato arts festival in 2011
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Arts festival

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Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 14 May 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions[reply]

Phab report

Following instructions at WP:AWB/FR, I'm trying to make a report about AWB. When I try to log-in at mediawiki, I seem to get directed to "make a new account" instead of being able to log-in with my global account/password. The instructions at AWB clearly say "You do not need to create another account there". Can you help? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MB (talkcontribs) 21:27, 12 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi MB. It's been a while since I registered for Phabricator but to my knowledge Phabricator accounts are connected to Wikimedia accounts via OAuth. I guess the instructions on that page are a little misleading; you don't have to *register* for an account (in that you don't need to come up with a new password or anything) but you do need to create an account on Phabricator in order to use it. When you log in to Phabricator, you will use your Wikimedia login to do so; the Phabricator account is linked to your Wikimedia login. To create a Phabricator account:
  1. Log in to your Wikimedia account (if you haven't already)
  2. Go to the Phabricator login page
  3. Click on the "Login or Register - MediaWiki" button
  4. You will be asked to approve connecting to your Wikimedia account. Click "Yes" or "OK".
  5. You should be able to create a Phabricator account; you can use any username (you can use your Wikimedia username if you want)
If you need more help you can see this page to see if your question is answered there. I'm not a Phabricator expert but this to my knowledge is how you register for Phabricator. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 01:01, 13 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I had done all that but got confused at the last step of creating a Phabricator account because I was trying to use my global username MB and couldn't because that is in use at Phabricator. Since you confirmed I was doing it correctly, I went ahead and used MB_phab instead and now have an account there and was able to open a report. I didn't want to open an account under a different user name unless I really had to. Thanks for the help. MB 03:48, 13 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
No worries; glad I could be of help! —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 02:38, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

22:23, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

A brownie for you!

This is for welcoming me so graciously to this platform! SidhantUnnithan (talk) 14:01, 16 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled

I've already changed the name and now I need to change it since it has the username I choose has similar, but how can I change it that my name and I don't have any other option.

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Billionairebank (talkcontribs) 16:06, 17 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Billionairebank: Sorry, I am afraid I do not understand your question. Could you please rephrase that? —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 23:13, 17 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2018)

The Uzi is a weapon.
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Weapon

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17:34, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Draft article in sandbox

Hi k6ka, thank you for welcoming me to Wikipedia! I have a question...I submitted an article and now it's in my sandbox as a draft artcile. I can't use my sandbox to draft another article. It looks like this...

User:Skybabfp/sandbox From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia < User:Skybabfp Redirect page

Draft:Whyte Horses From a page move: This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.

Do I need to wait until the article is approved before I draft another article?

Any help appreciated. Thank you!

--Skybabfp (talk) 16:54, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Skybabfp. The page you're referring to, User:Skybabfp/sandbox, is currently a redirect. You can access redirect pages either by going to the page and then clicking on the "(Redirected from <page name>)" link, or type "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAME_OF_PAGE?redirect=no" into the address bar (in this case, it would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Skybabfp/sandbox?redirect=no); this will allow you to go directly to the redirect page without being redirected. From there, you can click the Edit button and remove the redirect, and then you're free to reuse that page to draft another article. —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 20:54, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Wow, thank you so much k6ka, that is incredibly helpful; I really appreciate it! - Skybabfp (talk) 08:38, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2018)

Henri Nestlé was a German-born Swiss confectioner and the founder of Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage company as of 2014.
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Henri Nestlé

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12:40, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

171.79.25.175

171.79.25.175 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)

Could you disable this IP's talkpage access? Thanks. 179.216.241.140 (talk) 15:16, 29 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

 Donek6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 15:20, 29 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]