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Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

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

  Administrator changes

  Clovermoss
  Dennis Brown
 

  Arbitration

  Miscellaneous


The Signpost: 10 January 2024

The Signpost: 31 January 2024

Administrators' newsletter – February 2024

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

 

  CheckUser changes

  Wugapodes

  Interface administrator changes

 

  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


The Signpost: 13 February 2024

Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

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


The Signpost: 2 March 2024

The Signpost: 29 March 2024

Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

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

 

  Administrator changes

 

  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.

The Signpost: 25 April 2024

Administrators' newsletter – May 2024

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

  Administrator changes

  Nyttend
 

  Bureaucrat changes

  Nihonjoe
 

  CheckUser changes

  Joe Roe

  Oversight changes

  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


The Signpost: 16 May 2024

Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

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

  Administrator changes

  Graham Beards
 

  Bureaucrat changes

 
 

  Oversight changes

  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


The Signpost: 8 June 2024

The Signpost: 4 July 2024

Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

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

 

  Administrator changes

 
 

  Technical news

  Miscellaneous


The Signpost: 22 July 2024

Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

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

  Administrator changes

  Isabelle Belato
 

  Interface administrator changes

  Izno
 

  CheckUser changes

  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


The Signpost: 14 August 2024

Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

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

  Administrator changes

  Pppery

  Interface administrator changes

  Pppery
 

  Oversighter changes

  Wugapodes

  CheckUser changes

 

  Guideline and policy news

  • Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past.
  • A request for comment is open to discuss whether Notability (species) should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.

  Arbitration

  Miscellaneous


The Signpost: 4 September 2024

The Signpost: 26 September 2024

Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

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

 

  Administrator changes

 
 

  CheckUser changes

 
 

  Guideline and policy news

  Arbitration

  Miscellaneous