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Possible TPA issue

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You may or may not want to look at TPA revocation here. Following the declined unblock they vandalized their talk page (twice). 🪷 nahida 20:48, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging @Discospinster too as they were the blocking admin, but it shouldn't matter who. 🪷 nahida 20:50, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Done, and 24 hours were too optimistic for my liking. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:10, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-26

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

  • This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to the third and last batch of Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Latin Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project. [1]

Updates for editors

  • Last week, temporary accounts were rolled out on Czech, Korean, and Turkish Wikipedias. This and next week, deployments on larger Wikipedias will follow. Share your thoughts about the project. [2]
  • Later this week, the Editing team will release Multi Check to all Wikipedias (except English Wikipedia). This feature shows multiple Reference checks within the editing experience. This encourages users to add citations when they add multiple new paragraphs to a Wikipedia article. This feature was previously available as an A/B test. The test shows that users who are shown multiple checks are 1.3 times more likely to add a reference to their edit, and their edit is less likely to be reverted (-34.7%). [3]
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  • Editors can now use Lua modules to filter and transform tabular data for use with Extension:Chart. This can be used for things like selecting a subset of rows or columns from the source data, converting between units, statistical processing, and many other useful transformations. Information on how to use transforms is available. [5]
  • The all_links variable in AbuseFilter is now renamed to new_links for consistency with other variables. Old usages will still continue to work. [6]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:18, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Re: malformed AN3 request

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Received and understood, but I'd appreciate a brief look at the contributions of the tagged editor on the page as it's pretty clear to me that they are in large part WP:NOTHERE. Etzedek24 (I'll talk at ya) (Check my track record) 00:48, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Etzedek24, I did have a look before recommending talking to the user and taking it to ANI if they persist. 🙂 I think reverting, notifying Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Schools and warning the user is a good approach. Let's see if there is a response other than simply continuing to edit the same way. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:07, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Looks like they've decided to take me to ANI. Etzedek24 (I'll talk at ya) (Check my track record) 02:57, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oh my. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 03:14, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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