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Tech News: 2026-27

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2026

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2026).

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Backlog drive awards should not be marked as minor edits

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Please do not mark backlog drive awards done using the paws [2.2] tool as minor edits (as in Special:Diff/1359027924) for future NPP or unreferenced articles backlog drives, because they add significant new information. GTrang (talk) 16:54, 2 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Sure, I'll make sure it doesn't happen again. I just forgot to disable the default setting in Pywikibot. – DreamRimmer 04:49, 3 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Tech News: 2026-28

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MediaWiki message delivery 13:54, 6 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Your main user page

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Hello, I just happened to notice your recent username change because I have your deleted metadata script documentation page on my watchlist. Most of your user subpages seem to have been moved over but unfortunately your main and user talk pages weren't because of this earlier page move from a username change. I've gone and moved them over for you. Hope you don't mind. Graham87 (talk) 05:21, 7 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

I've done the same thing for your main sandbox. We'll need specialised help for your common.js and vector.js pages. I'll either ask the person who changed your username what to do or ask an intadmin. Graham87 (talk) 05:30, 7 July 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Pppery: I see you've surfaced. Could you help with this? Graham87 (talk) 06:01, 7 July 2026 (UTC)Reply
I've done the .js page moves. That said, I'm kind of surprised this rename was approved as renaming to the prior name of someone with tens of thousands of edits and no doubt hundreds of links to their old user page seems like it's bound to cause confusion down the line. * Pppery * in solidarity 06:10, 7 July 2026 (UTC)Reply
Sorry for bothering you with all this work. I hadn't planned to request a rename, but there were some issues with my previous username that were affecting me off-wiki. I did some basic research, didn't notice any problems, and submitted the rename request. I take full responsibility for this situation and am willing to change my username again if that would help resolve it. I know that would create even more work, but it's the least I can offer since I created this situation. MX (talk) 06:26, 7 July 2026 (UTC)Reply
Hey my guy! I’m sorry about the off-wiki situation… I hope it isn’t serious or harmful. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 06:28, 7 July 2026 (UTC)Reply
Yeah that doesn't sound good at all. I checked the links to the old username and there are indeed quite a few, including an old sockpuppet category. I'd say changing it might be a good idea. Graham87 (talk) 07:42, 7 July 2026 (UTC)Reply
Hi, I got here because I saw a similar issue on Meta and wanted to check whether this also happened on other wikis :). Looking here, I think it's problematic to use the name MX because of the many links. Although they can easily be fixed with a bot, I believe it's still problematic because other users still remember "MX" as belonging to someone else (especially since both of you have made tens of thousands of edits on the same wiki...).
If you could choose a different name, that would be great.
Just a small thought: maybe it's better to first change the username back to "DreamRimmer", and only afterward to the new name, in order to save a lot of manual handling of duplicate references on userspace script pages. If you need help with the actual change (if you want to do what I said, the regular request queue doesn't fit such a request), feel free to write here and I'll gladly do it. Neriah (talk) 07:55, 7 July 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Neriah: I was also thinking, what would be the best way of moving everything over without moving the redirects from the first username change, of which there are quite a few? Is it to revert the recent moves or something else? Graham87 (talk) 08:08, 7 July 2026 (UTC)Reply
reverting the username to the original name can be done without leaving redirects behind, i guess. Neriah (talk) 08:28, 7 July 2026 (UTC)Reply
I'm in the process of moving the old titles to "User:Graham87/MX/..." to separate them for now. I can't do anything about User:MX/EditCounterOptIn.js though. Graham87 (talk) 09:50, 7 July 2026 (UTC)Reply
Feel free to revert this rename. If I need to choose another username afterward, I'll go with "UnexpectedDiscovery". Sorry again for all the trouble. I would have preferred to keep my original username since that's what everyone knows me by, but I had to change it for reasons I can't discuss publicly. MX (talk) 09:52, 7 July 2026 (UTC)Reply
I imagine it'd probably be best to do it in one step. I've moved all the user page redirects over, but there are several user talk page archives that didn't make it over. Will look more later. Graham87 (talk) 10:11, 7 July 2026 (UTC)Reply
I just sent you an email on the subject, I'd be happy to hear your response :).
@Graham87, regarding performing the moves, I think it's better for it to be automatic together with the username change. The problem isn't only within enwiki but also on meta (and the problematic part is mainly many scripts), so I think in any case it's better to change the name in two stages. Neriah (talk) 10:16, 7 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

You're invited to the Mentorship noticeboard

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Hi, DreamRimmer. You are cordially invited to the brand new Wikipedia:Mentorship noticeboard. I get the impression sometimes that we mentors are each toiling in our own cubbyhole or hamster wheel, quietly answering mentee questions with little to no interaction with other mentors. I think we have a lot to share and learn from each other, and I know it will make me feel better just having the opportunity to interact with you and other mentors there, and I hope it will for you, too. Looking forward to hearing your feedback. Please take the § Survey when you get there! Mathglot (talk) 00:29, 8 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

The Signpost: 13 July 2026

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  • News and notes: An exclusive club
    Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger gets a community ban for canvassing.
  • In the media: Battle for a soul – who won?
    Commissars, winners and losers, blocks or bans, a Wiki red card, social engineering on wikis, and Swift action!

Tech News: 2026-29

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:09, 13 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Replacing Firefly reminder

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Before /Archive_16#Replacing_Firefly was archived, you had asked me to send you a reminder. And I was reminded when I saw this today: Request WP:Requests for undeletion § Draft:God is my Co-Pilot (1943 Book) came because it was the second G13 for this draft, and the 1-month warnings go for the first G13 only, not subsequent ones. Jay 06:59, 14 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 88#Web scrapping v2

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What you did with Elsevier journals... could you do with Wiley journals?

https://authors.wiley.com/asset/Wiley-Journal-APCs-Open-Access.xlsx

has the list. First columns has the links. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 19:07, 14 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Headbomb: There are 606 journals, but only 601 were fetched. The other 5 are missing.

DreamRimmer 16:25, 15 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Amazing. Thanks. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 21:02, 15 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Articles for Creation backlog drive

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Hello DreamRimmer:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive in August!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than a month of outstanding reviews from the current 3+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 August 2026 through 31 August 2026.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is a backlog of over 5000 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:37, 19 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

PhuzBot

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Just wanted to reiterate that the issue on PhuzBot 11 was NOT caused by any form of error by Phuzion. The issue (in short) was a change in scope of the cleanup. As it took a few weeks to get approved, in the ensuing time, new information came to light and additional parameters needed to be cleaned up. Your comments about double checking are 100% valid but I just want it on the record somewhere that the issues you identified were caused not by the bot operator, but by a third party (ME) changing the request. Don't want this to reflect poorly on Phuzion who did nothing at all wrong here. The blame is mine and I appreciate your feedback. Moving forward I will be better about nailing down the scope of a project BEFORE requesting a bot run. As a result of this I have already changed my workflow to prevent these issues down the road. Thanks for the feedback! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 05:37, 19 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the clarification. I didn't mean it as criticism of Phuzion at all. I know these things happen, and I make mistakes myself too. My comment about double checking was just a general suggestion, and it applies to me as well. I appreciate you explaining what happened, and it's good to hear you've already updated your workflow to help avoid this in the future. Thanks to both of you for all the work you're doing. – DreamRimmer 05:45, 19 July 2026 (UTC)Reply
I didn't take it as a criticism. Just wanted to make sure I took the blame here since it was, after all, my fault. Keep up the great work! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 16:19, 19 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

May 2026 Administrator Elections – RFC Phase

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The RFC phase of the May 2026 administrator elections has started. There are 20 RFCs for consideration. You can participate in the RFC phase at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/May 2026/RFC phase.

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