Enhancements
- Run link table updates when importing pages [Brion Vibber]
- Update Special:Recentchanges and the import log when importing pages [Brion Vibber]
- List pages created after import [Brion Vibber]
- Link to page histories in Special:Newpages [Rob Church]
- Show a more specific message when an anonymous user tries to access Special:Watchlist [Rob Church]
- Introduce
{{formatnum:}}
magic word [Niklas Laxström]
- Enforce bad image list in categories [Brion Vibber]
- Show relevant log fragment in Special:Movepage [Rob Church]
- Preserve language selections in the mode switch link on Special:Userlogin [Rob Church]
- Rename "searchquery" to "searchsubtitle" and support wiki text in it [Rob Church]
Bug fixes
- Don't do message transformations when preloading messages for editing [Rob Church]
- Fix paging links in Special:Prefixindex [Rob Church]
- Treat spaces as underscores in parameters to
{{ns:}}
[Rob Church]
- Respect page existence on Special:Shortpages [Rob Church]
Last week in servers
One million Wiktionary entries
Wiktionary, a sister project of Wikipedia, has exceeded a total of 1,000,000 entries in all languages. An unofficial press release cited that the project has seen extraordinary growth since its inception in December 2002, and since then the free dictionary has been started in nearly 150 languages. In addition, the total number of edits in all Wikimedia projects surpassed 150 million.
Modified privacy policy goes into effect
Changes to the Wikimedia Foundation's privacy policy became effective on Saturday, July 1. The changes, which were approved by the Board of Trustees in June, mainly reflect the use of CheckUser, with the major change providing that people with access to CheckUser can view a logged-in user's IP address "in cases of abuse, including vandalism of a wiki page by you or by another user with the same IP address."
Translation newsletter released
The promotion and translation subcommittee, part of the communications committee, released their first newsletter this week. Temporarily dubbed "The Babylonian", the monthly newsletter will serve to coordinate translation of news, press releases, and notices, and bring together promotional efforts, such as poster designs.
Medical wiki proposed
A medical dictionary wiki was proposed recently, with the goal of providing a comprehensive medical resource. The advocates of the proposal admitted that the project would have a controversial legal status, as law prohibits anyone from giving medical advice except for medical professionals. However, the proponents argued that "[the project] would be retelling medical advice from legitimate sources" instead of giving medical advice.
Voting begins on incubator logo
Voting began on a new logo for the Incubator Wiki, a place where projects can be developed and tested before launch. As of press time, there are four logos proposed, with one logo having the vast majority of votes. A vote is also ongoing on whether the name should be "Wikimedia Incubator" or something else.
Briefly
- The Hebrew Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.
- The Ligurian Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
- The Samogitian Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
- The Slovenian Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.
- The Malayalam Wikipedia has reached 500 registered users.
- The Cantonese Wikipedia has reached 600 articles.
- The Bengali Wikipedia has reached 500 registered users.
- The Ido Wiktionary has reached 60,000 pages.
- The Russian Wikipedia has reached 20,000 registered users.
- The Min Nan Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.
- The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 130,000 articles.
- The Thai Wikipedia has reached 7,000 registered users.
- The Korean Wikipedia has reached 5,000 registered users.
- The Tagalog Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
- The Italian Wikibooks has reached 1,000 wikibook modules.
- The Turkish Wikibooks has reached 100 wikibook modules.
- The Russian Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles.
- The Marathi Wiktionary has reached 100 entries.
- The Latvian Wikipedia has reached 4,000 articles.
- The Venetian Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
- The Arabic Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
- The Vietnamese Wiktionary has reached 25,000 total pages.
The Arbitration Committee closed five cases and opened two others this week.
Closed cases
- Deathrocker: Closed on Tuesday, this case involved Deathrocker and Leyasu involved in revert wars on various articles related to Gothic rock. The Arbitration Committee placed both Deathrocker and Leyasu on revert parole, banning them from reverting more than once per 24 hour period, more than twice in any 7 day period, or more than three times in any 30 day period. Deathrocker could be blocked for up to a week for violations of the ban; Leyasu, who was already subject to a revert parole in a previous case, could be blocked for up to a year.
- Locke Cole: Closed on Thursday, the case dealt with a dispute between Locke Cole and Netoholic. The Arbitration Committee found that Locke Cole's tactic of arguing on previously untouched pages after Netoholic was sufficiently "similar to stalking" to warrant a one-month ban for harassment. Locke Cole was also placed on non-vandalism one revert per page per day parole, requiring all reverts to be explained on the article's talk page. Meanwhile, Netoholic is again subject to restrictions imposed in a previous case, which had been temporarily suspended. These bar him from editing in the template namespace and restrict him to one revert per page per day. Netoholic was also reminded of Wikipedia's fair use policy, and both Netoholic and Locke Cole are banned from interacting with each other. Locke Cole has since left Wikipedia.
- Blu Aardvark: The review of the block status of Blu Aardvark was closed Friday. Blu Aardvark had been banned by general community agreement on 2 April for a series of disruptive activities, including vandalism, harassment, and creating sockpuppets. An attempt on 28 May by Linuxbeak and Raul654 to unblock him after negotiating a mentoring arrangement met with considerable opposition, leading to the arbitration case. Blu Aardvark was unblocked to participate in the case with a temporary injunction limiting his edits to his talk page and pages relating to the case. In the end, it was decided to ban Blu Aardvark for one year, although he claims to have left Wikipedia for good [1]. The administrators involved in the May incident, which included several unblocks and reblocks, were admonished for block-warring.
- Infinity0: This case, involving Infinity0 and RJII, was closed Saturday. RJII has been banned for one year, after a number of blocks based on a previous probation. Infinity0 was placed on one-revert-per-day parole for a year, requiring Infinity0 to discuss any reverts on talk pages.
- Election: Closed Saturday, this case involved the conduct of editors on 2004 U.S. presidential election controversy and irregularities. The dispute traced back to edit-warring on the article, including the addition and removal of a "NPOV" tag. The arbitrators found that the addition of the tag had been "adequately justified". To deal with the situation, they decided to structure a probation around articles rather than users, focusing on a set of nine related articles. Editors may continue to work on the articles, but any editor may be banned by an administrator from this group of articles "for disruptive edits, including, but not limited to, edit warring, incivilty, and original research."
New cases
Two cases were opened this week; both are in the evidence phase.
- Eternal Equinox: A case involving Eternal Equinox. Several users complained that Eternal Equinox has been trying to claim ownership of articles with edit wars and abuse directed at those who try to edit them. Eternal Equinox claims to have left Wikipedia, but the other parties argued that this was not credible because of a number of similar statements previously.
- Hunger: A case involving a dispute about articles related to The Hunger Project. One of the parties, Jcoonrod, identifies himself as John Coonrod, an executive with that organization. The dispute has been in mediation about how and whether to include unflattering material about the organization in the article.
Evidence phase
- 8bitJake: A case involving 8bitJake. badlydrawnjeff, the initiator of the arbitration request, has asserted that 8bitJake's editing on political articles was biased, and that 8bitJake was incivil to other editors on the articles.
- Iloveminun: A case brought against Iloveminun. Evidence presented asserted that Iloveminun violated fair use and image deletion policies by uploading copyrighted images and removing tags. A checkuser request confirmed that Iloveminun also was involved in sockpuppetry.
Voting phase
- Irishpunktom: A case involving Irishpunktom, Karl Meier, and Dbiv. Measures to ban Irishpunktom and Dbiv from editing Peter Tatchell for one year, place Irishpunktom and Karl Meier on probation for one year, place Irishpunktom on one revert per article per week parole, and desysop Dbiv have the support of two arbitrators.
- Saladin1970: A case involving an appeal of Saladin1970's indefinite block originally placed by Jayjg, and later by SlimVirgin. Arbitrator Fred Bauder has submitted remedies in the case, but none have been voted on by other arbitrators as of press time.
Motion to close
- Highways: A case involving naming conventions on highway-related articles. Current remedies that will likely pass include a probation against move warriors in the case, a ban on moving pages between names until a policy on the names is adopted, and a warning for JohnnyBGood and SPUI to remain civil at all times.