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I have just looked at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Nigeria

I was curious, because I just added one to it. An interesting(!) selection 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 22:14, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Timtrent, Shall we take this to ANI? They are literally deliberately inserting wrong information to the articles they created, that should warrant revocation of their editing privileges permanently or in the very least a temporal block. Celestina007 (talk) 22:35, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
I wonder about the usefulness of ANI in areas like this. The deception is subtle, and many people will not notice it. It takes a nose for these things. I think they might have one worthwhile article, though even then I am unsure. Sometimes good quality happens by accident. We can rip the rest away.
There are some stinkers on that delsort list, and some I cannot be bothered with. Geography ones and 'when is a village not a village' are like arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a oiun 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 22:40, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
Oh, better unblocked and in plain sight than block evading 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 22:40, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
        • Timtrent, If the editor in question is engaging in less than ethical practices, which I believe they are, I think I might know the original editor behind the account, I’m proceeding to connect the dots prior moving to file an SPI. This may sound outlandish but the reason I’m effective in nabbing possible unethical practices easily is because my brain interprets written words as though they are vocalized, I can’t explain it, so when a suspicious 'new editor' comes around and starts editing, their words are interpreted as a tone/voice in my mind/head, hence I can tell the sock master easily. This bothered me until I saw an entry by JBW which explained my condition they said something along the lines of "People make certain little remarks that are so unique to them that they do not even know when this betrays their true identity". Celestina007 (talk) 11:41, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
          You have a special form of Synasthesia. Others have different effects. No wonder you are so effective. I am starting tio smell a dirty sock drawer. I just don't know whose it is. 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 17:15, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

, Timtrent, I was a little scared when you mentioned that what I go through is a documented medical condition, I went to see a specialist and indeed confirmed that I had Synasthesia, I asked if it was curable and they pretty much said no, because it is imbedded in my genetic make up. I’d be lying if I said this didn’t bother but I guess it’s all for the best. It can be scary, to be honest this condition is probably the reason I can easily detect undeclared paid editing as you rightfully said, how it works as I stated earlier is my brain interprets written words as they are spoken/vocalized. In the same manner the 7.9 billion people have their own distinctive handwriting, it works in a similar manner In my head, you see, to me, every Wikipedian has or possess a distinctive manner of writing which my brain interprets as sounds, thus I easily can tell when an editor is socking or engaging in meat puppetry. Oh well, I choose to believe it a blessing rather than something to be scared about, using, on a more jovial note, using my mutant abilities I have succeeded in locating the sock master of that editor (who is evading a ban actually) and I have filed the report promised, See here. Celestina007 (talk) 12:53, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

It is part of who you are. Just embrace it and glory in it. 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 07:30, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-18

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  • On all remaining wikis (group 2), the software to play videos and audio files on pages has now changed. The old player has been removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player has been a beta feature for over four years. [1][2]

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19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

How are you?

Celestina007, how are you doing? Been awhile, I got saw your contributions yesterday and decided to drop in today. Sorry for the loss of your family member, accept my condolences.

I noticed you extended occultist activity from May to August and I was wondering if I could help you out. Just write the names of the people you’re intending to write about and I’ll do the creating. They might be largely stubs, but I believe it will motivate you to improve them whenever you deem fit..

Furthermore, stay safe. Reading Beans Talk to the Beans? 08:46, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Reading Beans, Thanks I appreciate the love, I really do, the love the entirety of this collaborative project has shown me via email is extremely exponential, I don’t believe I can respond to them all. Okay, straight to business, I’m not sure your diff is what you think it is, by August I intend to create a mailing list for those working in anti-spam and not create biographical articles on occultists. Creating biographical articles on occultists is something I would do any day and any time if I ever came across any occultist with encyclopedic value lacking Wikipedia entry. I would however be grateful if you know of any occultists (Preferably Nigerian) and suggest them to me. Once again thank you for the love. Celestina007 (talk) 16:23, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Quick AWB Question

Hi! Always good to see you wander across my watch list. Re: this edit, should I also change the capitalization on Executive Director? I'm not disagreeing with your edit at all, I'm just not sure since they're both titles and it seems they should be treated the same? Thanks! Star Mississippi 02:52, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

  • Hello, I've made the correction. President of the United States is styled as president of the United States, so I think those offices should be decapped. Reading Beans Talk to the Beans? 08:52, 3 May 2022 (UTC) I’m a stalk?
    • Thanks Reading Beans. And definitely not reverting, I just wasn't sure why it wasn't the same for both, which you clarified. Thanks both! Star Mississippi 13:30, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
  • Star Mississippi, Star, I’m so sorry for the late response, in Nigeria, today is a public holiday as our Muslim brothers and sisters celebrate Eid al-Fitr Sallah, so for the better part of the day I went around sharing food in my community. I’m a Christian btw, so once again I’m sorry for the late response, have you gotten the answer you earlier sought for? Celestina007 (talk) 22:14, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
    No worries, it wasn't time sensitive. Hope you had a wonderful holiday with the practicing members of your community. And yes, thank you. @Reading Beans explained it and did the edit directly. Star Mississippi 01:27, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

More Progress

After I noticed two strange accounts editing Nigeria related articles, I suspected one to be a sock of the other(master sock) hence I dug deep into the history of the suspected master account and I noticed they were editing in the topic areas UPE editors frequent thus I filed a report and not only were they mere socks, but both accounts belonged to the banned serial abuser named Buysomebananas, see this. Note that Praxidicae was one who did all the heavy lifting and was very much integral in taking down this socks, without her input, not much would have been accomplished. Celestina007 (talk) 18:10, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

A quick thank you

For your kind words of support for my autopatrol request. I really appreciate it! Best, GPL93 (talk) 14:29, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

There’s nothing I wouldn’t do to support or protect those I care about. You’re a serial content creator and you were overqualified for it anyway :) Celestina007 (talk) 18:08, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for cleaning up Reintegration of Transnistria I've added some categories to it  :) Fourdots2 (talk) 08:04, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

I’m happy you are happy :) Celestina007 (talk) 14:46, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

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  • The next open meeting with the Web team about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.

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15:20, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2022

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My wife, are you back home yet?

Celestina007, how are you? Have you made it back to Naija safely? O.ominirabluejack (talk) 11:07, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

@O.ominirabluejack: "my wife"? —usernamekiran (talk) 09:31, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
Don't be alarmed, usernamekiran... Friendly banter. I should be so lucky. 🤣
O.ominirabluejack (talk) 12:35, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
Friendly banter or not, it would probably be better to skip it next time. Same goes for the last bit of your response to usernamekiran. --Adamant1 (talk) 00:32, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
@Adamant1, usernamekiran, that’s Jack he’s a friend. I call that friendly fire. I do intend to formally appreciate you all, but I’m currently not at optimal health. Celestina007 (talk) 02:28, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
OK. Thanks for the context. Sorry to hear about the health issues. I hope you have a speedy recovery. --Adamant1 (talk) 03:44, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-20

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  • Some wikis can soon use the add a link feature. This will start on Wednesday. The wikis are Catalan Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia. This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [10]
  • The Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 will take place online on May 20–22. It will be in English. There are also local hackathon meetups in Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Nigeria and the United States. Technically interested Wikimedians can work on software projects and learn new skills. You can also host a session or post a project you want to work on.
  • The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 May. It will be on all wikis from 19 May (calendar).

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  • You can soon edit translatable pages in the visual editor. Translatable pages exist on for examples Meta and Commons. [11]

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18:56, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Celestina007 case request declined

The case request, Celestina007, that you were a party to has been declined by the committee. You can view the declined case request through this wikilink. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 19:36, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Question

How do you make the box where you insert the userboxes on your userpage? Dinosaur TrexXX33 (chat?) 13:08, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

DinosaurTrexXX33, hello please see WP:UBX. Celestina007 (talk) 14:37, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022

New Page Review queue March 2022

Hello Celestina007/Archives/2022,

At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently 816 New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All 859 administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, do suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.

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  • The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers. Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship, in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [14]
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00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

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Hey, Hiii!

Greetings Cele! Before you go find me come, I say make I come report myself. 😊 Hope you're doing great? May 16, the Tyap language translation project my colleagues and I have been working on since 2020 got a Wikipedia subdomain, kcg.wikipedia.org . I should have told you earlier sha, ẹ ma binu. Translation is quite an interesting aspect of Wikimedia. Kambai Akau (talk) 07:40, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-22

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  • Advanced item In the AbuseFilter extension, an ip_in_ranges() function has been introduced to check if an IP is in any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple ip_in_range() expressions joined by | into a single expression for better performance. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [17]
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20:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

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