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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 14

News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (March 2020).

Hello everyone and welcome to the 14th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:

Scripts Submit your new/improved script here

Danski454's code-link is this month's featured script

RealFakeKim's pageInfo • Guywan: InsertShortcuts • ConfirmLogout

Headbomb's Unreliable/Predatory Source Detector has been updated to include more sources

Evad37's rater script is now on version 2.5. New features include:

No longer showing dropdowns for projects without ratings
Making use of Category:WikiProject banner templates not based on WPBannerMeta to detect templates
Automatically detecting Good Article, Featured Article, and Featured List status, and limiting ORES predictions to B-class

An updated version of Twinkle was released. Features relating to the recently-enabled
partial blocks include automatic lookup of pages and expanded options for block templates.
See a full list of changes here
For users of Enterprisey's easy-brfa script, the bug with transcluding new BRFAs has been resolved
Guywan's RefCruncher has had minor updates

Miscellaneous

For any scripts that previously made use of the edit API to change a page's content model,
a new API module is available: use action=changecontentmodel to specify the new
content model of an existing page. Documentation is available: mw:API:ChangeContentModel.
The dispute resolution noticeboard wizard is no longer a gadget, but rather is loaded using
withJS and withCSS. See the discussion at MediaWiki talk:Gadget-DRN-wizard.js

Pending requests

A script to help file movers process requests, including
1. renaming the file
2. updating file links
3. removing the {{Rename media}} template (when relevant)
...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Stay safe, --DannyS712 (talk) 05:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2020

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).

Administrator changes

Cabayi • Lee Vilenski

Boing! said Zebedee

Jonny-mt • MarkGallagher • PeaceNT

Money emoji → Moneytrees

Bureaucrat changes

SilkTork • WereSpielChequers

CheckUser changes

NativeForeigner

Oversight changes

Someguy1221

Daniel Case

Guideline and policy news

There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news

There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.

Arbitration

Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.

Miscellaneous

The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:00, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

WikiProject Video games Newsletter Q1 2020

The WikiProject Video Games Newsletter
Volume 12, No. 1 — 1st Quarter, 2020
Previous issue | Index | Next issue

Project At a Glance
As of Q1 2020, the project has:

Content

Project Navigation

VG Project Main pages
- Main project – talk
- Project category – talk
- Portal – talk
VG Project Departments
- Assessment – talk
- Cleanup – talk
- Peer review – talk
- Reference library – talk
- Newsletter – talk
- Video game images – talk

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Following up on suggestion to create random screen name

Hello,

Per your suggestion, I would like to change BalkDitherGrouse to Gr0banukalo836, for purposes of confidentiality. Thank you!

newbattleground 01:50, 24 April 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by BalkDitherGrouse (talk • contribs)

@BalkDitherGrouse: Please see Wikipedia:Clean start and meta:Right to vanish. Pinging 1997kB. -- CptViraj (

) 03:18, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

@BalkDitherGrouse: Hey, BalkDitherGrouse is enough random if you are worried about privacy. There's no point further increasing this chain of renames as all these name change logs are public and can be traced back to original. My advice would be abandon this account and scramble it's password and create a new account. ‐‐1997kB (talk) 03:26, 24 April 2020 (UTC)