New functionality
- Image undeletion enabled (see related story)
- Indicator added to show that an edit in recent changes, watchlists, etc. was made by a bot account. (Rob Church)
- Custom namespaces can now be deemed content via site configuration. (Rob Church)
- Magic word
{{NUMBEROFADMINS}}
added; current value: 848. (Rob Church)
- Magic word
__NOGALLERY__
added; the word suppresses image galleries in category views. (Magnus Manske)
- Special page Special:Uncategorizedimages (not currently active). (Rob Church)
- Smart auto-comments added when changing an existing page to a redirect. (Rob Church)
Interface tweaks
- Timestamp associated with the current version of a page now shown when viewing diffs. (Brion Vibber)
- MediaWiki:Nogomatch was replaced by MediaWiki:Noexactmatch, which requires only one parameter instead of two. (Rob Church)
Bug fixes
- Improved cache updates for pages linking to other pages, speeding up a common MediaWiki operation. (Tim Starling)
Last week in servers
- Search engine upgraded
- ImageMagick upgraded
- srv42 reinstalled, handling job queue on English Wikipedia.
Project logo discussions
Discussions were ongoing on the Meta-Wiki regarding the redesign of logos on Wiktionary and Wikibooks, as well as on a logo for Wikimedia Incubator. A minor change regarding the logo of Wikispecies has also been brought up.
Briefly
- The English Wikipedia has reached 1,200,000 articles.
- The Urdu Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
- The Hebrew Wikipedia has reached 20,000 registered users.
- The Vietnamese Wiktionary has reached 3,000 entries.
- The Quechua Wiktionary has reached 100 entries.
- The Korean Wikipedia has reached 4,800 registered users.
- The Min Nan Wiktionary has reached 500 entries.
- The Kannada Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
- The Hungarian Wiktionary has reached 25,000 entries.
- The English Wiktionary has reached 150,000 entries.
- The Portuguese Wikisource has reached 2,000 text-units.
- The Neapolitan Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
- The Korean Wikipedia has reached 400,000 page edits.
- The Haitian Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles, becoming the first creole language and the 80th Wikipedia to reach this milestone.
The Arbitration Committee did not close any cases this week.
New cases
Four cases were opened this week; all are in the evidence phase.
- 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.
Evidence phase
Voting phase
- 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, and a ban on moving pages between names until a policy on the names is adopted.
- Blu Aardvark: A case involving the block status of Blu Aardvark. Blu Aardvark was unblocked to participate in the case, but a temporary injunction in the case bans Blu Aardvark to his talk page and pages relating to the case. Five arbitrators, with no dissent, have endorsed remedies banning Blu Aardvark for one year, and placing him on personal attack parole, probation, and general probation, as well as admonishing administrators for block-warring. Blu Aardvark has claimed that he has left Wikipedia for good. [1]
- Deathrocker: A case involving Deathrocker and Leyasu. Five arbitrators supported measures that would place both Deathrocker and Leyasu on revert parole, banning the user 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 could be blocked for up to a year.
- Infinity0: A case involving Infinity0 and RJII. It appears that RJII may be banned for one year, and Infinity0 may be placed on one-revert-per-day parole for a year, requiring Infinity0 to discuss any reverts on talk pages.
- PoolGuy: A case involving PoolGuy. PoolGuy, who has created multiple sockpuppets, is likely to be restricted to one user account (7 arbitrators supporting), though he would not be required to disclose the account's name. A remedy to place PoolGuy on probation has 4 support votes and 1 oppose.
Motion to close
- Cesar Tort and Ombudsman vs others: A case involving editors on biological psychiatry. Cesar Tort and Ombudsman believe the article has a pro-psychiatry point of view. If closed, Ombudsman would be placed on probation indefinitely for tendentious editing on the article, and Cesar Tort would be cautioned to "limit critical material to that supported by reliable scientific authority."
- Locke Cole: A case involving Locke Cole and Netoholic. If closed, Locke Cole would be banned for a month for harassment, and placed on non-vandalism one revert per page per day parole, requiring all reverts to be explained on the article's talk page. Netoholic would be banned from editing in the template namespace and restricted to one revert per page per day, as was previously prescribed in a previous case. Netoholic would also be reminded of Wikipedia's fair use policy, and both Netoholic and Locke Cole would be banned from interacting with each other. Locke Cole has since left Wikipedia.