National Mario Day

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    Yeah, apparently it's a thing. I guess it makes sense... like Star Wars Day on May 4th (as in "May the 4th be with you").

    I'm not entirely convinced it's notable, but I thought it might be worth giving it a chance.

    Cheers. 86.20.193.222 (talk) 01:05, 9 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

    On this day, 10 years ago...

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    Hey, Brianga. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
    Have a great day!
    Lepricavark (talk) 18:52, 9 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

    Re Bridge_Capital,_LLC

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    No, it's not whitewashing. I will put a more detailed section. I am just collecting more information. Thank you!

    I am so sorry. I did not see that the cannot be undone. What should I do? Really sorry. Help! Comment added by Jenv Corre (talk) 08:22, 13 March 2017 (UTC)Jenv Corre (talkcontribs) 08:18, 13 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

    Administrators' newsletter – April 2017

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2017).

    Administrator changes

    added TheDJ
    removed XnualaCJOldelpasoBerean HunterJimbo WalesAndrew cKaranacsModemacScott

    Guideline and policy news

    • Following a discussion on the backlog of unpatrolled files, consensus was found to create a new user right for autopatrolling file uploads. Implementation progress can be tracked on Phabricator.
    • The BLPPROD grandfather clause, which stated that unreferenced biographies of living persons were only eligible for proposed deletion if they were created after March 18, 2010, has been removed following an RfC.
    • An RfC has closed with consensus to allow proposed deletion of files. The implementation process is ongoing.
    • After an unsuccessful proposal to automatically grant IP block exemption, consensus was found to relax the criteria for granting the user right from needing it to wanting it.

    Technical news

    • After a recent RfC, moved pages will soon be featured in a queue similar to Special:NewPagesFeed and require patrolling. Moves by administrators, page movers, and autopatrolled editors will be automatically marked as patrolled.
    • Cookie blocks have been deployed. This extends the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user if they switch accounts, even under a new IP.

    Administrators' newsletter – May 2017

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2017).

    Administrator changes

    added KaranacsBerean HunterGoldenRingDlohcierekim
    removed GdrTyreniusJYolkowskiLonghairMaster Thief GarrettAaron BrennemanLaser brainJzGDragons flight

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    Miscellaneous

    • Following an RfC, the editing restrictions page is now split into a list of active restrictions and an archive of those that are old or on inactive accounts. Make sure to check both pages if searching for a restriction.

    Administrators' newsletter – June 2017

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2017).

    Administrator changes

    added Doug BellDennis BrownClpo13ONUnicorn
    removed ThaddeusBYandmanBjarki SOldakQuillShyamJondelWorm That Turned

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    Donal O'Sullivan article

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    Hi,

    I tried to create my first article about two weeks ago regarding Donal O'Sullivan but I didn't provide sources. I have them now, but I can't find the content that I wrote in the first version of the article.

    Is there any chance that the content that I wrote can be retrieved?

    Thank you

    PaulPaul.tuthill1979 (talk) 18:23, 7 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

    It looks like the article is back: Donal O'Sullivan (artist). I think your request is moot. If not, let me know. Brianga (talk) 04:31, 8 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

    A barnstar for you!

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    The Teamwork Barnstar
    Thank you for helping me, DynaGirl, Money money tickle parsnip, George Ho, and Shadowowl Marcos Rodriguez handle DonitzLiebt's disruptive edits; the user was ultimately blocked by John Reaves. Yoshiman6464 ♫🥚 16:30, 20 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

    Donald Trump the Republican presumptive nominee

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    I believe you were the first editor of John Kasich presidential campaign, 2016 to refer to Donald Trump as the possible "presumptive nominee". I invite you to add any comment you may have to a discussion at Talk:Attempted assassination of Donald Trump#Presumptive nominee. —Anomalocaris (talk) 15:56, 27 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

    Administrators' newsletter – July 2017

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2017).

    Administrator changes

    added Happyme22Dragons flight
    removed Zad68

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    Miscellaneous

    • A newly revamped database report can help identify users who may be eligible to be autopatrolled.
    • A potentially compromised account from 2001–2002 attempted to request resysop. Please practice appropriate account security by using a unique password for Wikipedia, and consider enabling two-factor authentication. Currently around 17% of admins have enabled 2FA, up from 16% in February 2017.
    • Did you know: On 29 June 2017, there were 1,261 administrators on the English Wikipedia – the exact number of administrators as there were ten years ago on 29 June 2007. Since that time, the English Wikipedia has grown from 1.85 million articles to over 5.43 million.

    Administrators' newsletter – August 2017

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2017).

    Administrator changes

    added AnarchyteGeneralizationsAreBadCullen328 (first RfA to reach WP:300)
    removed CpromptRockpocketRambo's RevengeAnimumTexasAndroidChuck SMITHMikeLynchCrazytalesAd Orientem

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    Administrators' newsletter – September 2017

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2017).

    Administrator changes

    added NakonScott
    removed SverdrupThespianElockidJames086FfirehorseCelestianpowerBoing! said Zebedee

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    • You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device that has logged into your account before, you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can also set in your preferences to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address, which may be encouraged for admins and accounts with sensitive permissions.
    • Syntax highlighting is now available as a beta feature (more info). This may assist administrators and template editors when dealing with intricate syntax of high-risk templates and system messages.
    • In your notification preferences, you can now block specific users from pinging you. This functionality will soon be available for Special:EmailUser as well.

    Arbitration

    • Applications for CheckUser and Oversight are being accepted by the Arbitration Committee until September 12. Community discussion of the candidates will begin on September 18.

    ITN recognition for Edith Windsor

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    On 13 September 2017, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Edith Windsor, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Brianga (talk) 16:52, 13 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

    Administrators' newsletter – October 2017

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2017).

    Administrator changes

    added Boing! said ZebedeeAnsh666Ad Orientem
    removed TonywaltonAmiDanielSilenceBanyanTreeMagioladitisVanamonde93Mr.Z-manJdavidbJakecRam-ManYelyosKurt Shaped Box

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    Arbitration

    • Community consultation on the 2017 candidates for CheckUser and Oversight has concluded. The Arbitration Committee will appoint successful candidates by October 11.
    • A request for comment is open regarding the structure, rules, and procedures of the December 2017 Arbitration Committee election, and how to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

    Nomination of Scarlett OConnor for deletion

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    A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Scarlett OConnor is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

    The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scarlett OConnor until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

    Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Drmies (talk) 02:16, 4 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

    Administrators' newsletter – November 2017

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017).

    Administrator changes

    added LonghairMegalibrarygirlTonyBallioniVanamonde93
    removed Allen3Eluchil404Arthur RubinBencherlite

    Technical news

    Arbitration

    Obituaries

    • The Wikipedia community has recently learned that Allen3 (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as JohnCD. Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.

    A Dobos torte for you!

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    7&6=thirteen () has given you a Dobos torte to enjoy! Seven layers of fun because you deserve it.


    To give a Dobos torte and spread the WikiLove, just place {{subst:Dobos Torte}} on someone else's talkpage, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.

    7&6=thirteen () 20:10, 17 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

    Administrators' newsletter – December 2017

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2017).

    Administrator changes

    added Joe Roe
    readded JzG
    removed EricorbitPercevalThinggTristanbVioletriga

    Guideline and policy news

    • Following a request for comment, a new section has been added to the username policy which disallows usernames containing emoji, emoticons or otherwise "decorative" usernames, and usernames that use any non-language symbols. Administrators should discuss issues related to these types of usernames before blocking.

    Technical news

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous

    • Over the last few months, several users have reported backlogs that require administrator attention at WP:ANI, with the most common backlogs showing up on WP:SPI, WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. It is requested that all administrators take some time during this month to help clear backlogs wherever possible. It should be noted that AIV reports are not always valid; however, they still need to be cleared, which may include needing to remind users on what qualifies as vandalism.
    • The Wikimedia Foundation Community health initiative is conducting a survey for English Wikipedia contributors on their experience and satisfaction level with Administrator’s Noticeboard/Incidents. This survey will be integral to gathering information about how this noticeboard works (i.e. which problems it deals with well and which problems it struggles with). If you would like to take this survey, please sign up on this page, and a link for the survey will be emailed to you via Special:EmailUser.

    ArbCom 2017 election voter message

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    Hello, Brianga. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

    The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

    If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

    Administrators' newsletter – January 2018

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2017).

    Administrator changes

    added Muboshgu
    readded AnetodeLaser brainWorm That Turned
    removed None

    Bureaucrat changes

    readded Worm That Turned

    Guideline and policy news

    • A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the administrator policy should be amended to require disclosure of paid editing activity at WP:RFA and to prohibit the use of administrative tools as part of paid editing activity, with certain exceptions.

    Technical news

    Arbitration


    Administrators' newsletter – February 2018

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018).

    Administrator changes

    added None
    removed BlurpeaceDana boomerDeltabeignetDenelson83GrandioseSalvidrim!Ymblanter

    Guideline and policy news

    • An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
    • Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.

    Technical news

    • A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.

    Arbitration


    Administrators' newsletter – March 2018

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018).

    Administrator changes

    added Lourdes
    removed AngelOfSadnessBhadaniChris 73CorenFridayMidomMike V
    † Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

    Guideline and policy news

    • The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
    • Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
    • A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
    • A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

    Technical news

    • CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
    • The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

    Miscellaneous

    Obituaries

    • Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

    11 years of editing, today.

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    Hey, Brianga. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
    Have a great day!
    Chris Troutman (talk) 19:57, 9 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

    Administrators' newsletter – April 2018

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).

    Administrator changes

    added 331dotCordless LarryClueBot NG
    removed Gogo DodoPb30SebastiankesselSeicerSoLando

    Guideline and policy news

    • Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
    • Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
    • The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
    • The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

    Technical news

    Arbitration

    • The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

    Miscellaneous

    • A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
    • The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.

    Administrators' newsletter – May 2018

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).

    Administrator changes

    added None
    removed ChochopkCoffeeGryffindorJimpKnowledge SeekerLankiveilPeridonRjd0060

    Guideline and policy news

    • The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
    • A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

    Technical news

    • AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
    • When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
    • The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
    • There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

    Arbitration

    Obituaries

    • Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

    Administrators' newsletter – June 2018

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018).

    Administrator changes

    added None
    removed Al Ameer sonAliveFreeHappyCenariumLupoMichaelBillington

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    • IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in June. This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
    • The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page.
    • There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
    • It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.

    Arbitration

    • A recent technical issue with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.

    Miscellaneous


    Administrators' newsletter – July 2018

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2018).

    Administrator changes

    added PbsouthwoodTheSandDoctor
    readded Gogo Dodo
    removed AndrevanDougEVulaKaisaLTony FoxWilyD

    Bureaucrat changes

    removed AndrevanEVula

    Guideline and policy news

    • An RfC about the deletion of drafts closed with a consensus to change the wording of WP:NMFD. Specifically, a draft that has been repeatedly resubmitted and declined at AfC without any substantial improvement may be deleted at MfD if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the reasons for deletion outlined in the deletion policy.
    • A request for comment closed with a consensus that the {{promising draft}} template cannot be used to indefinitely prevent a WP:G13 speedy deletion nomination.

    Technical news

    • Starting on July 9, the WMF Security team, Trust & Safety, and the broader technical community will be seeking input on an upcoming change that will restrict editing of site-wide JavaScript and CSS to a new technical administrators user group. Bureaucrats and stewards will be able to grant this right per a community-defined process. The intention is to reduce the number of accounts who can edit frontend code to those who actually need to, which in turn lessens the risk of malicious code being added that compromises the security and privacy of everyone who accesses Wikipedia. For more information, please review the FAQ.
    • Syntax highlighting has been graduated from a Beta feature on the English Wikipedia. To enable this feature, click the highlighter icon () in your editing toolbar (or under the hamburger menu in the 2017 wikitext editor). This feature can help prevent you from making mistakes when editing complex templates.
    • IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in July (previously scheduled for June). This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.

    Miscellaneous

    • Currently around 20% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 17% a year ago. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless if you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

    Administrators' newsletter – August 2018

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2018).

    Administrator changes

    added Sro23
    readded KaisaLYmblanter

    Guideline and policy news

    • After a discussion at Meta, a new user group called "interface administrators" (formerly "technical administrator") has been created. Come the end of August, interface admins will be the only users able to edit site-wide JavaScript and CSS pages like MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css, or edit other user's personal JavaScript and CSS. The intention is to improve security and privacy by reducing the number of accounts which could be used to compromise the site or another user's account through malicious code. The new user group can be assigned and revoked by bureaucrats. Discussion is ongoing to establish details for implementing the group on the English Wikipedia.
    • Following a request for comment, the WP:SISTER style guideline now states that in the mainspace, interwiki links to Wikinews should only be made as per the external links guideline. This generally means that within the body of an article, you should not link to Wikinews about a particular event that is only a part of the larger topic. Wikinews links in "external links" sections can be used where helpful, but not automatically if an equivalent article from a reliable news outlet could be linked in the same manner.

    Technical news


    Administrators' newsletter – September 2018

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2018).

    Administrator changes

    added None
    removed AsterionCrisco 1492KFKudpungLizRandykittySpartaz
    renamed Optimist on the runVoice of Clam

    Interface administrator changes

    added AmorymeltzerMr. StradivariusMusikAnimalMSGJTheDJXaosflux

    Guideline and policy news

    • Following a "stop-gap" discussion, six users have temporarily been made interface administrators while discussion is ongoing for a more permanent process for assigning the permission. Interface administrators are now the only editors allowed to edit sitewide CSS and JavaScript pages, as well as CSS/JS pages in another user's userspace. Previously, all administrators had this ability. The right can be granted and revoked by bureaucrats.

    Technical news

    • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
    • Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title.
    • Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age.

    Arbitration

    • The Arbitration Committee has resolved to perform a round of Checkuser and Oversight appointments. The usernames of all applicants will be shared with the Functionaries team, and they will be requested to assist in the vetting process. The deadline to submit an application is 23:59 UTC, 12 September, and the candidates that move forward will be published on-wiki for community comments on 18 September.

    Administrators' newsletter – October 2018

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2018).

    Administrator changes

    added JustlettersandnumbersL235
    removed BgwhiteHorsePunchKidJ GrebKillerChihuahuaRami RWinhunter

    Interface administrator changes

    added Cyberpower678Deryck ChanOshwahPharosRagesossRitchie333

    Oversight changes

    removed Guerillero NativeForeigner SnowolfXeno

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    • Partial blocks should be available for testing in October on the Test Wikipedia and the Beta-Cluster. This new feature allows admins to block users from editing specific pages and in the near-future, namespaces and uploading files. You can expect more updates and an invitation to help with testing once it is available.
    • The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team is currently looking for input on how to measure the effectiveness of blocks. This is in particular related to how they will measure the success of the aforementioned partial blocks.
    • Because of a data centre test, you will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia projects for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.

    Arbitration

    • The Arbitration Committee has, by motion, amended the procedure on functionary inactivity.
    • The community consultation for 2018 CheckUser and Oversight appointments has concluded. Appointments will be made by October 11.
    • Following a request for comment, the size of the Arbitration Committee will be decreased to 13 arbitrators, starting in 2019. Additionally, the minimum support percentage required to be appointed to a two-year term on ArbCom has been increased to 60%. ArbCom candidates who receive between 50% and 60% support will be appointed to one-year terms instead.
    • Nominations for the 2018 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission are being accepted until 12 October. These are the editors who help run the ArbCom election smoothly. If you are interested in volunteering for this role, please consider nominating yourself.

    Administrators' newsletter – November 2018

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    • Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
    • A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
    • The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.

    Arbitration

    • Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
    • The Arbitration Committee's email address has changed to arbcom-en@wikimedia.org. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.

    ArbCom 2018 election voter message

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    Hello, Brianga. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

    The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

    If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

    Administrators' newsletter – December 2018

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018).

    Administrator changes

    readded Al Ameer sonRandykittySpartaz
    removed BosonDaniel J. LeivickEfeEsanchez7587Fred BauderGarzoMartijn HoekstraOrangemike

    Interface administrator changes

    removedDeryck Chan

    Guideline and policy news

    • Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
    • A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
    • A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
    • A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

    Technical news

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous

    • In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
    • Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

    Obituaries


    Adminship Anniversary!

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    Wishing Brianga a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! A 10 fireplane Imform me 18:44, 10 December 2018 (UTC)Reply


    Administrators' newsletter – January 2019

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).

    Guideline and policy news

    1. G14 (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-disambig}}; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages.
    2. R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no file links) that have the same name as a file or redirect at Commons are now covered under the new R4 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-redircom}}; the text is unchanged.
    3. G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use {{db-blankdraft}}.

    Technical news

    • Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors, et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length. All accounts must have a password:
    1. At least 8 characters in length
    2. Not in the 100,000 most popular passwords (defined by the Password Blacklist library)
    3. Different from their username
    User accounts not meeting these requirements will be prompted to update their password accordingly. More information is available on MediaWiki.org.
    • Blocked administrators may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
    • {{Copyvio-revdel}} now has a link to open the history with the RevDel checkboxes already filled in.

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous

    • Accounts continue to be compromised on a regular basis. Evidence shows this is entirely due to the accounts having the same password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately.
    • Around 22% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 20% in June 2018. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless of whether you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

    Administrators' newsletter – February 2019

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2019).

    Administrator changes

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    Interface administrator changes

    removedEnterprisey

    Guideline and policy news

    • A request for comment is currently open to reevaluate the activity requirements for administrators.
    • Administrators who are blocked have the technical ability to block the administrator who blocked their own account. A recent request for comment has amended the blocking policy to clarify that this ability should only be used in exceptional circumstances, such as account compromises, where there is a clear and immediate need.
    • A request for comment closed with a consensus in favor of deprecating The Sun as a permissible reference, and creating an edit filter to warn users who attempt to cite it.

    Technical news

    • A discussion regarding an overhaul of the format and appearance of Wikipedia:Requests for page protection is in progress (permalink). The proposed changes will make it easier to create requests for those who are not using Twinkle. The workflow for administrators at this venue will largely be unchanged. Additionally, there are plans to archive requests similar to how it is done at WP:PERM, where historical records are kept so that prior requests can more easily be searched for.

    Miscellaneous

    • Voting in the 2019 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2019, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2019, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
    • A new IRC bot is available that allows you to subscribe to notifications when specific filters are tripped. This requires that your IRC handle be identified.

    Administrators' newsletter – March 2019

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2019).

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    • A new tool is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.

    Arbitration

    • The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN or WP:SPI).
      • paid-en-wp@wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private evidence related to abusive paid editing.
      • checkuser-en-wp@wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private requests for CheckUser. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to this address instead of the functionaries-en list.

    Miscellaneous


    Happy First Edit Day!

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    Administrators' newsletter – April 2019

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

    Technical news

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous

    • Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
    • As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.

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    Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 23:57, 19 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

    ArbCom 2019 special circular

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    Administrators must secure their accounts

    The Arbitration Committee may require a new RfA if your account is compromised.

    View additional information

    This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:41, 4 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

    Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

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    ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

    Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

    We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

    For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

    Administrators' newsletter – May 2019

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    • XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

    Arbitration

    • In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
    • Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.

    Miscellaneous


    Administrators' newsletter – June 2019

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019).

    Administrator changes

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    CheckUser changes

    removed Ivanvector

    Guideline and policy news

    • An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
    • An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
    • An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.

    Technical news

    • The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion. You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
    • Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution! The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.

    Miscellaneous


    Administrators' newsletter – July 2019

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019).

    Administrator changes

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    2Fram's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

    Guideline and policy news

    • In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.

    Technical news

    • The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.

    Miscellaneous


    Proposed deletion of Tom Chase

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    Notice

    The article Tom Chase has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

    Just another porn-related BLP without any independent reliable sourcing or any legitimate assertion of notability.

    While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

    You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

    Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo). Treated like dirt by many administrators since 2006. (talk) 15:31, 12 July 2019 (UTC)Reply

    Administrators' newsletter – August 2019

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).

    Guideline and policy news

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous

    • Following a research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page.
    • The new page reviewer right is bundled with the admin tool set. Many admins regularly help out at Special:NewPagesFeed, but they may not be aware of improvements, changes, and new tools for the Curation system. Stay up to date by subscribing here to the NPP newsletter that appears every two months, and/or putting the reviewers' talk page on your watchlist.

      Since the introduction of temporary user rights, it is becoming more usual to accord the New Page Reviewer right on a probationary period of 3 to 6 months in the first instance. This avoids rights removal for inactivity at a later stage and enables a review of their work before according the right on a permanent basis.


    Administrators' newsletter – September 2019

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).

    Administrator changes

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    CheckUser changes

    removed CallaneccLFaraoneThere'sNoTime

    Oversight changes

    removed CallaneccFoxHJ MitchellLFaraoneThere'sNoTime

    Technical news

    • Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
    • The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.

    Arbitration

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    Administrators' newsletter – October 2019

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

    Guideline and policy news

    • Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

    Technical news

    • As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous

    • The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.

    Administrators' newsletter – November 2019

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

    Guideline and policy news

    • A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

    Arbitration


    ArbCom 2019 election voter message

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    The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

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    Administrators' newsletter – December 2019

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).

    Administrator changes

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    CheckUser changes

    readded Beeblebrox
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    Interface administrator changes

    readded Evad37

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous


    Happy Adminship Anniversary!

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    File:Instagram-min.jpg listed for discussion

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    A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Instagram-min.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Wcam (talk) 01:26, 12 December 2019 (UTC)Reply

    Administrators' newsletter – January 2020

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

    Guideline and policy news

    Arbitration

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    Administrators' newsletter – February 2020

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

    Guideline and policy news

    • Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
    • The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

    Technical news

    • Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
    • When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [1]

    Arbitration

    • Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

    Miscellaneous



    Administrators' newsletter – March 2020

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

    Guideline and policy news

    • Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
    • A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

    Technical news

    • Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

    Miscellaneous



    Happy First Edit Day!

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    Administrators' newsletter – April 2020

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

    Guideline and policy news

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

    Technical news

    Arbitration

    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.

    Administrators' newsletter – May 2020

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

    Administrator changes

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    CheckUser changes

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    Oversight changes

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    Administrators' newsletter – June 2020

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

    Administrator changes

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    CheckUser changes

    removed SQL

    Guideline and policy news

    Arbitration

    • A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.

    Administrators' newsletter – July 2020

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

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    Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:34, 28 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

    Administrators' newsletter – August 2020

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

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    Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

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

    Administrator changes

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    CheckUser changes

    readded SQL

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    Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

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

    Administrator changes

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    Administrators' newsletter – November 2020

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

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    Administrators' newsletter – December 2020

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

    Administrator changes

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    Happy Birthday!

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    Administrators' newsletter – January 2021

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

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    Administrators' newsletter – February 2021

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).

    Arbitration

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    Administrators' newsletter – March 2021

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).

    Administrator changes

    added TJMSmith
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    Interface administrator changes

    added AmandaNP

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    • When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
    • When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
    • There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).

    Arbitration

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    Happy First Edit Day!

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    Administrators' newsletter – April 2021

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).

    Administrator changes

    removed AlexandriaHappyme22RexxS

    Guideline and policy news

    • Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
    • Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

    Technical news

    • When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
    • Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)

    Arbitration


    Administrators' newsletter – May 2021

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).

    Administrator changes

    removed EnchanterCarlossuarez46

    Interface administrator changes

    removed Ragesoss

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    • The user group oversight will be renamed to suppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.

    Arbitration


    Administrators' newsletter – June 2021

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).

    Administrator changes

    added AshleyyoursmileLess Unless
    removed HusondMattWadeMJCdetroitCariocaVague RantKingboykThunderboltzGwen GaleAniMateSlimVirgin (deceased)

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    • Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.

    Arbitration


    Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).

    Guideline and policy news

    • Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
    • An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

    Technical news

    • IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

    Arbitration


    Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).

    Guideline and policy news

    • An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

    Technical news

    • Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)

    Arbitration

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    Administrators' newsletter – September 2021

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).

    Administrator changes

    readded Jake Wartenberg
    removed EmperorViridian Bovary
    renamed AshleyyoursmileViridian Bovary

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    • The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.

    Arbitration

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    Administrators' newsletter – October 2021

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    Arbitration

    • A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
    • Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
    • The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

    Miscellaneous

    • Editors have approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list.
    • The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.

    Administrators' newsletter – November 2021

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).

    Guideline and policy news

    • Phase 2 of the 2021 RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

    Technical news

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous


    Administrators' newsletter – December 2021

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).

    Administrator changes

    removed A TrainBerean HunterEpbr123GermanJoeSanchomMysid

    Technical news

    • Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
    • The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)

    Arbitration



    Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled

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    A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:05, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

    Happy Adminship Anniversary!

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    Administrators' newsletter – January 2022

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).

    Guideline and policy news

    • Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous

    • The functionaries email list (functionaries-en@lists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee.

    How we will see unregistered users

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    Hi!

    You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.

    When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

    Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

    If you have not seen it before, you can read more on Meta. If you want to make sure you don’t miss technical changes on the Wikimedia wikis, you can subscribe to the weekly technical newsletter.

    We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

    Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

    18:14, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

    Administrators' newsletter – February 2022

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    • The user group oversight will be renamed suppress in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections.
    • The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion.

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous


    Administrators' newsletter – March 2022

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous


    Administrators' newsletter – April 2022

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    • Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928)
    • When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous


    New administrator activity requirement

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    The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

    Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

    1. Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
    2. Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period

    Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.

    22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

    Administrators' newsletter – May 2022

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    Arbitration


    Administrators' newsletter – June 2022

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    • Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
    • The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

    Arbitration


    Administrators' newsletter – July 2022

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

    Technical news

    • user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous

    • The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.

    Administrators' newsletter – August 2022

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

    Administrator changes

    readded Valereee
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    Guideline and policy news

    • An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
    • An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

    Technical news

    • The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
    • Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

    Arbitration

    • The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

    Miscellaneous

    • You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
    • Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
    • Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

    Administrators' newsletter – September 2022

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).

    Guideline and policy news

    • A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
    • An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

    Technical news

    Arbitration

    • An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
    • The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

    Miscellaneous

    • The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
    • Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.

    Administrators' newsletter – October 2022

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    • The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous


    Proposed deletion of Stephanie Austin

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    Notice

    The article Stephanie Austin has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

    Minimal SIGCOV except as mentioned in passing for Terminator 2-related stuff. The name seems common, and a google search produces many results not relating to the producer. Notability has been disputed for 5 years; only sources cited in this article seem to be IMDB and MSN.

    While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

    You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

    Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. InvadingInvader (talk) 19:45, 21 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

    Administrators' newsletter – November 2022

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).

    Guideline and policy news

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous


    Administrators' newsletter – December 2022

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).

    CheckUser changes

    removed TheresNoTime

    Oversight changes

    removed TheresNoTime

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    • A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449)

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous


    Happy Fifteenth Adminship Anniversary!

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    Administrative permissions and inactivity reminder

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    Information iconThis is a reminder that established policy provides for removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. You are receiving this annual reminder since you have averaged less than 50 edits per year over the last 5 years.

    Inactive administrators are encouraged to reengage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for reengaging with the project are available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to be engaged with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

    Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:42, 1 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

    Administrators' newsletter – January 2023

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).

    Guideline and policy news

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous

    • Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
    • Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.

    Administrators' newsletter – February 2023

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    • The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous

    • Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
    • Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
    • Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.

    Administrators' newsletter – March 2023

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous


    Administrators' newsletter – April 2023

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    Arbitration


    Administrators' newsletter – May 2023

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

    Guideline and policy news

    • A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

    Technical news

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous


    Administrators' newsletter – June 2023

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).

    Guideline and policy news

    • Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
    • As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

    Technical news

    • Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

    Arbitration

    • The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

    Miscellaneous


    Proposed deletion of File:DingmansFerryBridge.jpg

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    Notice

    The file File:DingmansFerryBridge.jpg has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

    Small, low-res. Better files at c:Category:Dingmans_Bridge.

    While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

    You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated files}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the file's talk page.

    Please consider addressing the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated files}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and files for discussion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. --Minorax«¦talk¦» 15:07, 24 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

    Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

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    Information icon Established policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to the required activity level before the beginning of October 2023.

    Inactive administrators are encouraged to engage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for re-engaging with the project are available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to re-engage with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

    Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:20, 1 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

    Administrators' newsletter – July 2023

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

    Administrator changes

    added Novem Linguae
    removed

    Bureaucrat changes

    removed MBisanz

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    Arbitration

    • Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.

    Administrators' newsletter – August 2023

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).

    Administrator changes

    added Firefangledfeathers
    removed

    Interface administrator changes

    added Novem Linguae

    Technical news

    Arbitration


    Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).

    Guideline and policy news

    • Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
    • A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that [s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

    Technical news

    Arbitration

    • The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

    Miscellaneous

    • Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.

    Proposed deletion of Justin Gignac

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    Notice

    The article Justin Gignac has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

    Fails WP:GNG.

    While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

    You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

    Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. GraziePrego (talk) 03:02, 26 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

    Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

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    Information icon Established policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to the required activity level before the beginning of February 2024.

    Inactive administrators are encouraged to engage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for re-engaging with the project are available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to re-engage with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

    Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:19, 1 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

    Administrators' newsletter – November 2023

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

    Administrator changes

    added 0xDeadbeef
    readded Tamzin
    removed Dennis Brown

    Interface administrator changes

    added Pppery
    removed

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    Arbitration

    • Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
    • Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
    • Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
    • Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
    • Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
    • Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
    • An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

    Miscellaneous


    Administrators' newsletter – December 2023

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

    Guideline and policy news

    Arbitration

    • Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
    • The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
    • Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

    Happy Adminship

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    Happy Adminship from the Birthday Committee

    Wishing Brianga a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!

    -- Ezra Cricket (talk) 04:06, 10 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

    Happy Adminship Anniversary!

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    Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous


    Administrators' newsletter – February 2024

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

    CheckUser changes

    removed Wugapodes

    Interface administrator changes

    removed

    Guideline and policy news

    • An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

    Technical news

    • Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

    Arbitration

    • Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
    • Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

    Miscellaneous


    Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

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    Information icon Established policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to the required activity level before the beginning of June 2024.

    Inactive administrators are encouraged to engage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for re-engaging with the project are available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to re-engage with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

    Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:35, 1 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

    Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    • The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

    Miscellaneous


    Happy First Edit Day!

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    Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

    Administrator changes

    removed

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    • The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous

    • Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

    Imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to insufficient activity

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    Information icon Established policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to the required activity level before the beginning of June 2024.

    Inactive administrators are encouraged to engage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for re-engaging with the project are available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to re-engage with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

    Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:22, 1 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

    Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

    Administrator changes

    readded Nyttend
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    Bureaucrat changes

    removed Nihonjoe

    CheckUser changes

    readded Joe Roe

    Oversight changes

    removed GeneralNotability

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    • Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous


    Suspension of administrative permissions due to insufficient activity

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    Information icon Established policy provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions have been removed.

    Subject to certain time limits and other restrictions, your administrative permissions may be returned upon request at WP:BN.

    Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — xaosflux Talk 00:08, 1 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

    Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

    Administrator changes

    readded Graham Beards
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    Bureaucrat changes

    removed

    Oversight changes

    removed Dreamy Jazz

    Guideline and policy news

    Technical news

    • The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous


    Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

    Administrator changes

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    Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

    Administrator changes

    readded Isabelle Belato
    removed

    Interface administrator changes

    readded Izno

    CheckUser changes

    removed Barkeep49

    Technical news

    • Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
    • Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

    Arbitration


    Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

    Administrator changes

    removed Pppery

    Interface administrator changes

    removed Pppery

    Oversighter changes

    removed Wugapodes

    CheckUser changes

    removed

    Guideline and policy news

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous


    Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

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    News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

    Administrator changes

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    CheckUser changes

    readded
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    Guideline and policy news

    Arbitration

    Miscellaneous


    Invitation to participate in a research

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    Hello,

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