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The Bugle: Issue CXXI, April 2016
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Imperial or German
Do you have any sources that say Imperial is the official word? Given the empire's renaming and it not being the only imperial power, I thought German would be more appropriate. --Droyselich (talk) 03:45, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
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Request to Be Unblocked
Hi Kirill Lokshin, did you and the rest of the Arbcom mailing list receive my email of April 24? I asked to be unblocked. I was a contributor of solid content for five or six years before I was perma-blocked without warning with a button click falsely labeling me a sockpuppet by an administrator that didn't explain anything.
I was proud of my contributions to Wikipedia and would like to do so again. As you look into my case (as I expect you to, given your position as arbitrator) do not accept as fact any accusation against me without allowing me to respond. I have endured many many lies and WP:AN/ANI mob attacks in which I was muted and my defenses erased, resulting in damage to my reputation as an editor. Further, do not accept the assertion of Thryduulf at my talkpage that I am on an "appeal timer," because he has no authority to do any such thing and there is nothing in policy that allows him this, as well his purporting timing is unevidenced and suspect.
Answer my email or unblock my talkpage and we'll be able to communicate about this important matter. Colton Cosmic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.195.207.162 (talk) 11:09, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
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Admin The Wordsmith's comments re: "...the ineptness of many current Arbs..." is certainly casting aspersions
Given the seriousness of this Rfc at User talk:The Wordsmith/GMORFC the ongoing threats to sanction participating editors seem to ring hollow in light of supervising admin The Wordsmith's astonishing comments regarding ArbCom members. The comment, which by any definition "casts aspersions," raises a number of questions that call for immediate answers, given the self-created deadline for comments.
The questions, which I hereby put directly to The Wordsmith, are as follows:
- Exactly which ArbCom members are you referring to, when you describe them as "inept?"
- In what way are these current community-elected ArbCom members, as you term them, "inept?"
- Do you have diffs to support this sweeping claim, and can you produce them? If not, why not?
- Since the thrust of this extraordinary Rfc seems to be to prevent "casting aspersions," in the Talk pages of GMO articles (as well as precedent-establishing proposed "locked in" multiple article wording regarding GMO safety) is this not exactly what you are doing in the past 24 hours towards members of the Arbitration Committee? Does this not disqualify you immediately from further participation?
To all concerned: I will post the above subsection on the Talk pages of current ArbCom members, per The Wordsmith's declaration, despite substantial objections, that they will be locking down the page a few hours from this posting, making further timely discussion on this page impossible. Jusdafax 11:30, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
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Amendment request on arbitration decision against Rodhullandemu
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WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health
I saw you create the Meetup about Safe and Healthy at Work. I thought it was super interesting and I wanted to propose 3 topics that are part of the articles needing to be improved in the Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa/Wikipedia Primary School/Articles list. I was thinking of Fire safety, hand washing and home safety. The first is an obvious one. The second makes sense for all the medical profession and is a basic. The third is less obvious... but ... as an independent worker working from home... well... for many workers, home is actually their workplace.
But when I tried to add them to the request system (first time I use it...), only Fire safety appears on this list. I can't have the others appear in the list of topics that could be worked upon during that edit-a-thon. Help !!! thanks Anthere (talk)
- Hi Anthere! I've never actually used the new request system myself, so I'm not sure why it's not working for you, but Harej, who created the software, should be able to assist. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 12:01, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi. All right. I go ask him for support :)
By the way... we had a meeting about the Primary School project during Wikimania, during which I expressed my wish to find solutions so that a bunch of articles considered of prime importance to primary school in South Africa, be improved in the next few months. Discott suggested that I contact editors involved in the various meetings, either in UK, or in New York or in Washington to see if some articles in my list could be the object of attention during locally held edit-a-thons. About half of the articles are pretty specific to South Africa but the other half are very generic articles (well, such as Youth culture or Fiber or Bullying. Various topics are covered, sometimes very well, sometimes not. Do you think you could help us to improve some of the articles on the list as part of some edit-a-thons organised by Wikimedia in DC ? Thanks Anthere (talk)
- Anthere, I'll see if I can find some suitable events for some of the articles on the list, but I can't commit to anything specific at this point, as many of our edit-a-thons concern relatively narrow themes that probably don't mesh well with the scope of the list. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 17:25, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CXXIII, July 2016
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Suggestion to gain more members,
I have followed your suggestion and invited 4 or 5 more members, i know not if they will join. Additionally is editing the template to add parameters as easy as it looks? just adding a |Roman= ? Iazyges (talk) 17:16, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
- @Iazyges: The
|Roman= ?syntax is for when the template is used on article talk pages; for example, if the talk page currently has{{WikiProject Military history|class=B|European=yes}}, you'll be able to tag the article for the Roman military history task force by changing it to{{WikiProject Military history|class=B|European=yes|Roman=yes}}. - As far as actually modifying the behind-the-scenes template code to do something useful with the
|Roman= ?parameter, that's considerably more complicated; however, it isn't something you'd need to deal with directly, as the project coordinators can make those changes once the task force has graduated from the incubator. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 17:28, 11 July 2016 (UTC)- @Kirill Lokshin: Ah, I may have already added |roman= to a template subpage should I undo it? Iazyges (talk) 17:31, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
- Well, it won't really do anything if you use it right now, so I would leave it off until the process is complete. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 17:35, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
- @Kirill Lokshin: Ah, I may have already added |roman= to a template subpage should I undo it? Iazyges (talk) 17:31, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
July 13 wikisalon
Hello Kirill, I was keeping an eye on today's WikiSalon scheduled for 7pm in DuPont Circle in DC because I happen to be in the area. Based on your recent changes, is it no longer happening? Best, Airplaneman ✈ 15:44, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
- Hi Airplaneman! Unfortunately, we've had to cancel this month's WikiSalon, as all of our regular organizers are going to be out on travel or otherwise unavailable. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 16:00, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
- Alright, thanks for the confirmation! Airplaneman ✈ 16:02, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
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The Bugle: Issue CXXIV, August 2016
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Salons
Hi! I just noticed this edit. No more salons? :-( --MZMcBride (talk) 01:42, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
- Probably not for a while, I'm afraid. We're looking into how we can get more attendees and/or hold the event in a free (or at least cheaper) space, but we can't continue paying as much as we have been for an event that virtually nobody attends. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 01:47, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
Please enforce the word limits
Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Michael Hardy/Evidence#Please enforce the word limits in the interest of fairness --Guy Macon (talk) 02:50, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
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Emailed
Hi Kirill, I emailed you, did you get it?♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:06, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
- Hi Dr. Blofeld! I don't believe I've received anything from you recently; perhaps you could re-send it? Kirill Lokshin (talk) 16:51, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
- I sent something on 18 August, I might have the wrong email address?♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:51, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
- Dr. Blofeld, the ones I normally use are kirill.lokshin@gmail.com or kirill.lokshin@wikimediadc.org. You can also email me through the Wikipedia email interface. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 17:57, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
- 18 August I emailed you at kirill.lokshin@wikimediadc.org about contests I'm doing, see if you can spot it or in your spam folder?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:07, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
- Ah, found it in spam! I'll send you a response later today. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 18:29, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
Thanks. I'm currently planning Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Golden Hollywood Contest for December/Christmas period. I don't know if one of the US chapters would be interested in funding that one. It should be an enjoyable one to do!♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:42, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
FAC voluntary mentoring scheme
During a recent lengthy discussion on the WP:FAC talkpage, several ideas were put forward as to how this procedure could be improved, particularly in making it more user-friendly towards first-time nominees. The promotion rate for first-timers at FAC is depressingly low – around 16 percent – which is a cause for concern. To help remedy this, Mike Christie and I, with the co-operation of the FAC coordinators, have devised a voluntary mentoring scheme, in which newcomers will guided by more experienced editors through the stages of preparation and submission of their articles. The general format of the scheme is explained in more detail on Wikipedia: Mentoring for FAC, which also includes a list of editors who have indicated that they are prepared to act as mentors.
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Improving Existing Articles
Kirill, you seem to be a quite experienced Wiki user so I was wondering if you had some tips for improving my articles. I have a Start-, C- and B-class article in Patrick D. Fleming, Cecil E. Harris and Albert O. Vorse Jr.. The B-class was rated higher seemingly because standards are more lax in the Aviation Portal than Military History, but I'd definitely like to hear what I can do to improve e.g. referencing for the Harris article—or really just any aspect that could use some shining. Thanks for any help you can render! Cheers, Finktron (talk) 11:20, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
As an incubator tier task force, we reached 4 active members and 1 sporadic, with one that is retired but may return, I followed the instructions of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators and made all of the necessary categories, an infobox and the templates, I was wondering who I should ask to include us in the talk page template, I have already added the baseline of |Roman= to the template, but have not touched the underlying code to make it work. Thanks. Iazyges (talk) 00:02, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
- @Iazyges: Well, you've found the right person to ask!
- It looks like we have some naming consistency issues ("Roman military history" versus "Roman and Byzantine military history" versus "Roman and Byzantine Military History"), among other things. I can go through and clean everything up so that all the templates work correctly, but I probably won't have time to do so until this weekend.
- In the meantime, feel free to start using the |Roman=yes tag on talk pages; it'll automatically start working once the behind-the-scenes template stuff is fixed. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 00:48, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you so much, will do. Iazyges (talk) 00:50, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
- @Kirill Lokshin: Hey don't want to bug you just wondering where you are at with the behind the scenes stuff? Iazyges (talk) 04:45, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you so much, will do. Iazyges (talk) 00:50, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
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The Bugle: Issue CXXV, September 2016
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About the |Roman tag on the template
Hey I just wanted to ask how adding the background code for the MILHIST/doc template was going because it's been a while. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 21:37, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
- Iazyges, the basic setup is done; the bot-generated portions should populate over the next few days. Let me know if anything doesn't work as expected. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 23:33, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
- Kirill Lokshin (talk · contribs) Thank you so much for all of your help. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 23:59, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I wondered if the DC chapter would be interested in helping finance this and setting up a US equivalent to reach 10,000 article improvements for the US, with WM funded state contests to reinforce production? If you see the list of 1527 articles to date in just 6-7 weeks, can you see this working for the US too? I think it's just what wikipedia needs, some sort of central motivation on here to make each and every basic article edit count.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:08, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
- Dr. Blofeld, I think we might be interested in setting up—and funding prizes for—a US equivalent to this. Having said that, we'd need to work through some more details as far as schedule, costs, and so forth are concerned before we'd be able to commit to something specific. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 14:29, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
I don't know how much I can contribute as it's really time consuming running and planning these sorts of things but I could certainly help towards setting up something for the US, but we'd need people to commit to running it in the US I think. I think the way to do this would be to set a 10,000 article target. Create a series of contests/editathons on DC/NYC and then California, Texas, Virginia, Florida or whatever and those fuel the drive, but something which is going to motivate people to produce more content for the US long term between contests. It all would need careful planning and promotion but I really do think this is exactly the sort of thing wikipedia needs, as it gives editors more focus even for the most basic of edits and that their work really counts towards some end. Based on the British scope you could probably run a contest for American history in with it too to generate more interest.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:33, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
- If there were some way to do this on a state-by-state basis I think it would be marvelous. I've long decried the disparity in coverage between areas of the country, and I know it's largely due to the lack of committed editors in certain states. (Just look at the discrepancies between Maryland and Virginia...the further east in Virginia you go the worse the coverage begins.) Something with prizes would be highly useful in getting people motivated to make improvements. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 17:44, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
- This is basically what we spoke about previously. Great idea. Needs to be fleshed out, including bandwidth for organizing. --Rosiestep (talk) 22:47, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
If Kirill, Rosie and Ser are interested I can set up a page for launching the US series in January, starting with a Washington D.C and Virginia contest combined? I think perhaps it's a little early to think about a 10,000 target for the US until we have more contributors on board. I also don't want to keep asking UK contributors to contribute to every contest haha. So I would just set up a page for now, a grant proposal can be made, it can be discussed, and then we can try to attract some American contributors to the cause. If some of the institutions in DC could be contacted and physical editathons organized for January during the contest that would be great. I would say, organize some state contests for a few months first, start with DC and Virginia, followed by perhaps New York/City and see how much content gets produced. If it's decent then the 10,000 project could be started for the US.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:41, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
- Looking at this from the Wikimedia DC perspective, we're going to be relatively flexible on the precise schedule and scope, but those factors will need to align with our budget in some fashion. For our 2016–17 fiscal year (which starts in October and runs through next September), we have have a total budget of $2,250 for contest prizes; of that amount, $750 is currently set aside for a potential NARA/MILHIST contest, which leaves $1,500 that can be used here. I would imagine that we could divide that into 5–6 smaller prize pools for different stages/iterations/etc. of the contest and still offer something reasonable for participants (e.g. a $150 top prize and two $50 runner-up prizes, or a $150 first-place prize, a $100 second-place prize, and a $50 third-place prize)?
- As far as scope is concerned, we could potentially start with something very localized to build interest/capacity, or go nation-wide from the start, or something in between. A few options that come to mind:
- Have five month-long rounds to cover each of the states in Wikimedia DC's region (DC, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia). If we start the first round in January, we'd finish the final one in May, and then have a four-month break before the start of the next fiscal year (and the availability of additional funding to run a scaled-up version).
- Have five month-long rounds, each covering 10 states. This would allow us to touch the entire country over a five-month period, but would probably be more involved from a setup/execution standpoint, and would not lend itself to tie-ins with local institutions and edit-a-thons quite as well as a more localized version.
- Have a two-stage contest, with a shorter initial stage focused on the Wikimedia DC region and a longer follow-on stage that's fully US-wide.
- If there are other arrangements that we could use, I'm happy to consider those as well. Thoughts? Kirill Lokshin (talk) 02:41, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi Kirill, yes, those states and prize fund should be manageable. Rather than full months though I would suggest two week maybe three week contests, with one or two week breaks in between to allow contestants to recover and stay enthuasiastic. I think 5 months straight would be less productive and result in burn out of most, I know how hard going just a month is haha! I would suggest commencing with DC on January 1 with a two week contest. Then a break for a week and Virginia on Jan 21 or February 1st for 2-3 weeks and so on. I think that would be easier to run, you could split the prize fund into amounts for each sub contest and then for winning overall. To really cover the full area fairly though I think each state contest would have to be designed so editors must work on given counties on one or a few days, much like the current West Country Challenge which allocates three days to each country. Producing good articles in short periods of time is trickier though, but work on them can caryr over, providing that they nominate entries withint the timeframe for each, but something roughly based on the West Country model I can really see working. I would have to see how many counties there are first though to really see if that way would be possible. I'll look more into this later in the month and set up an initial page and look into how many counties we're dealing with.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:34, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
- I just looked, Virginia alone has a whopping 95 counties! Haha, OK we can rule out by county, but we could probably roughly work out some sub divisional areas and clusters of counties. Ser Amantio di Nicolao, do you know if Virginia can be split into regional areas spanning counties?♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:07, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
Kirill, I've proposed the 10,000 Challenge at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States for the US and the DC area contest. Is it possible you/Ser Amantio di Nicolao could notify a few people of the discussion who might be interested?♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:01, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
Kirill, perhaps a good place to start might be with a city contest, literally a contest between some major cities. If we could get a team of editors from DC, team from NYC and team from London we could host a destubathon/core improvement drive and the winner gets books/vouchers to hand out to their wiki project. Potentially you could include any team which wants to represent a city, we might get people willing to represent cities like Paris, Copenhagen, Tokyo and Delhi too. I would suggest running something like that over Christmas and January. What do you think? That way we'd tackle three major cities in one as a start. Funding for that could always be supplemented by the main foundation. But a partnership would have to be formed first I think and something set up. If you or page stalkers would be interested let me know. If you're more keen on starting with the DC area one first I can set something up in a week or two.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:02, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
- Dr. Blofeld, I'm not particularly interested in supporting a contest that has teams from different locations competing against each other, as it will inevitably become a proxy fight between the associated chapters. I have no strong preference for a DC-area contest versus some other scope, but WMDC isn't going to provide funding for a contest that we can "lose". Kirill Lokshin (talk) 20:29, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
Well there is that of course, but then there's the chance of seeing a few thousand article improvements to multiple cities at once! Perhaps a single simple focus on DC would be better for your chapter then to start with. DC can then be the first major city to have a general contest on wikipedia. What do you think needs the most work on DC topics on wikipedia? Are there a large number of stubs, or are there a larger number of articles with a fair amount of text which might need cleanup or sourcing and core articles which badly need proper research? If it was high quality you wanted the most rather than basic cleanuup a sort of "Core Contest" could be devised for DC and editors work on getting core topics to GA. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:45, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, would WMDC or any stalker/somebody you know be interested in putting up a prize for whoever creates the most articles on African women during the contest? A prize for that might spur on a lot more articles than normal, and it badly needs it, some countries it's under 5% women bios. Prize could be some books about African women or something, needn't be hundreds of dollars, but just something which might benefit the cause at a later date.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:36, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
Hello. Did you really mean to move the entire history of Draft:Sandbox? -- zzuuzz (talk) 20:00, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
- @Zzuuzz: No, not really; only the history of the most recent draft (which became the mainspace article) is actually relevant. I was assuming I could simply delete the old history after the move, but didn't realize that it was over the 5,000-revision threshold for admin deletion. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 20:02, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
- Oooh, messy. Of course the obvious fix is to move it back and get another edit from the user. I'm guessing you're in a position to ask for either solution. -- zzuuzz (talk) 20:09, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks for the suggestion! I've gone ahead and done that now. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 20:14, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
- Oooh, messy. Of course the obvious fix is to move it back and get another edit from the user. I'm guessing you're in a position to ask for either solution. -- zzuuzz (talk) 20:09, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
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Invitation to Asian Women Month
Hi there! As you may know, this November is Asian Women Month, hosted by Wikipedia Asian Month and WikiWomen In Red. Our goal is to encourage coverage of Asian women in order to help overcome the Asian content gender gap. Asian Women Month observes the rules of Wikipedia Asian Month. You will receive a special Asian Women Month barnstar if you create four articles in accordance with the rules for the event, as well as a postcard sent from an Asian community! Thanks for your consideration. Read more here! -Rimmel.Edits Talk 20:46, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
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Invitation to Training Modules design conversation
Hello! We are leaving you this message because you have previously indicated that you interested in helping the Wikimedia Foundation Support & Safety team in developing our training modules this year.
We appreciate all the help and thoughts users like you have offered thus far. We would like to encourage you, if you are interested, to participate in the next step of our development: a community consultation about the design and structure of the modules. Note that we're not yet getting feedback on the content of the modules - a separate consultation about that will be starting soon.
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Interview invitation from a Wikipedia researcher in University of Minnesota
Hello Kirill Lokshin,
I am Bowen Yu, a Ph.D. student from GroupLens Research at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Currently, we are undertaking a study about turnover (editors leaving and joining) in WikiProjects within Wikipedia. We are trying to understand the effects of member turnovers in the WikiProject group, in terms of the group performance and member interaction, with a purpose of learning how to build successful online communities in future. More details about our project can be found on this meta-wiki page.
I would like to invite you for an interview if you are interested in our study and willing to share your experience with us. The interview will be about 30 - 45 minutes via phone, Skype or Google Hangout. You will receive a $10 gift card as compensation afterwards.
Please reach me at bowen@cs.umn.edu if you are interested or have any questions.
Thank you, Bowen
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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
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Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
A new user right for New Page Patrollers
Hi Kirill Lokshin.
A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.
It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.
If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!
Hello, Kirill Lokshin. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
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 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you!
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The Bugle: Issue CXXVIII, December 2016
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Task force creation
Hello, TomStar recommended you for helping me with creating a task force page for "Garage rock". I would prefer if the page emulates it's parent project "Rock music", while also including talk, proposed articles, and articles expansion/improvement sections. I tried reading the steps required, but I simply am not comfortable starting it without someone who knows what they are doing. I already have a group of editors ready to participate so your help would be appreciated.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 18:42, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
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Merry, merry!
From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 21:52, 26 December 2016 (UTC) 
New WikiProject task force on garage rock
TheGracefulSlick and I have been working together to create a WikiProjcet task force (as part of the WikiProject Rock Music). We have been working on preliminary designs for the page (see User:Garagepunk66/sandbox12) and its userbox (see User:TheGracefulSlick/Userbox). We have a group of editors who have indicated that they would like to join the task force. Can we go a head and submit the page or do we need help/approval first? I realize that your focus is more on military history topics, but I was wondering if you could help us or know someone who can? We could use assistance from a WikiProject coordinator. Garagepunk66 (talk) 18:40, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
- Garagepunk66, I can't really assist with a task force within WikiProject Rock Music, as I have no knowledge of what that project's procedures for creating them might be. You'll need to speak with the other folks involved in the project to determine what the next steps are. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 18:53, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks anyway. Garagepunk66 (talk) 21:37, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
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Happy New Year, Kirill Lokshin!
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Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
- A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
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- Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.
Technical news
- When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
- Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
- The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.
Arbitration
- The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.
Obituaries
- JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.
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Happy Birthday!
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Happy birthday!
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Warm regards, Mz7 (talk) 20:43, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
March Madness 2017
G'day all, please be advised that throughout March 2017 the Military history Wikiproject is running its March Madness drive. This is a backlog drive that is focused on several key areas:
- tagging and assessing articles that fall within the project's scope
- updating the project's currently listed A-class articles to ensure their ongoing compliance with the listed criteria
- creating articles that are listed as "requested" on the project's various task force pages or other lists of missing articles.
As with past Milhist drives, there are points awarded for working on articles in the targeted areas, with barnstars being awarded at the end for different levels of achievement.
The drive is open to all Wikipedians, not just members of the Military history project, although only work on articles that fall (broadly) within the military history scope will be considered eligible. More information can be found here for those that are interested, and members can sign up as participants at that page also.
The drive starts at 00:01 UTC on 1 March and runs until 23:59 UTC on 31 March 2017, so please sign up now.
For the Milhist co-ordinators. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) & MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:24, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2017).
Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
- A recent RfC has redefined how articles on schools are evaluated at AfD. Specifically, secondary schools are not presumed to be notable simply because they exist.
- AfDs that receive little participation should now be closed like an expired proposed deletion, following a deletion process RfC.
- Defender, HakanIST, Matiia and Sjoerddebruin are our newest stewards, following the 2017 steward elections.
- The 2017 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Góngora, Krd, Lankiveil, Richwales and Vogone. They will serve for approximately 1 year.
Technical news
- A recent query shows that only 16% of administrators on the English Wikipedia have enabled two-factor authentication. If you haven't already enabled it please consider doing so.
- Cookie blocks should be deployed to the English Wikipedia soon. This will extend the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user after they switch accounts under a new IP.
- A bot will now automatically place a protection template on protected pages when admins forget to do so.
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 10
This month, we discuss the new CollaborationKit extension. Here's an image as a teaser:
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXI, March 2017
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2017).
Administrator changes
- TheDJ
- Xnuala • CJ • Oldelpaso • Berean Hunter • Jimbo Wales • Andrew c • Karanacs • Modemac • Scott
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.
The general 1RR restriction in ARBPIA
User:Kirill Lokshin, it has been pointed out to me the New Guidelines (in the section "Motion: ARBPIA" near the bottom of the page). The key part is the sentence underlined in black. Question: Is this to imply that all new edits made since 26 December 2016 in Palestine-Israel articles can be deleted by editors, and they can challenge the editors who put them there in the first place, without the first editors restoring their edits until a new consensus has been reached? If so, you open the door for "abusive editing," that is to say, the new guidelines allow editors to freely delete areas in articles based on their sole judgment and conviction and which edits had earlier been agreed upon by consensus, and that such changes will remain in force until such a time that a new consensus can be reached. As you see, this can be problematic. Second Question: Do the new guidelines also apply to reverts made in articles where a consensus had already been reached before 26 December 2016, or do they only apply to reverts made after 26 December 2016? To avoid future problems arising from this new edict, can I make this one suggestion, namely, that the new guidelines in Palestine-Israel articles be amended to read with this addition: "Editors who violate this restriction may be blocked without warning by any uninvolved administrator, even on a first offense, or where abuses arise over reverts made in an article where a consensus had already been reached before or after the edict of 26 December 2016 took effect, such editors make themselves liable to disciplinary actions, including blocking."Davidbena (talk) 14:28, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CXXXII, April 2017
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Please support the Sustainability Initiative!
Hi, Kirill Lokshin! Please allow me to follow up on a project that was discussed at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin a couple of weeks ago:
I am writing you to ask for your support for the Sustainability Initiative, which aims at reducing the environmental impact of the Wikimedia movement. Over the past two years, more than 250 Wikipedians from all over the world have come together to push the Wikimedia movement towards greater sustainability.
The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation has recently passed a resolution stating that the Foundation is committed to seeking ways to reduce the impact of its activities on the environment. Now, we are working with the Wikimedia Foundation staff to have all Wikimedia servers run on renewable energy by 2019.
In order to demonstrate that this is an issue that the community really cares about, I would like to ask you to sign the project page as well. Thank you! --Gnom (talk) 19:00, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2017).
Administrator changes
- Karanacs • Berean Hunter • GoldenRing • Dlohcierekim
- Gdr • Tyrenius • JYolkowski • Longhair • Master Thief Garrett • Aaron Brenneman • Laser brain • JzG • Dragons flight
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC has clarified that user categories should be emptied upon deletion, but redlinked user categories should not be removed if re-added by the user.
- Discussions are ongoing regarding proposed changes to the COI policy. Changes so far have included clarification that adding a link on a Wikipedia forum to a job posting is not a violation of the harassment policy.
Technical news
- You can now see a list of all autoblocks at Special:AutoblockList.
- There is a new tool for adding archives to dead links. Administrators are able to restrict other user's ability to use the tool, and have additional permissions when changing URL and domain data.
- Administrators, bureaucrats and stewards can now set an expiry date when granting user rights. (discuss, permalink)
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.
The Bugle: Issue CXXXIII, May 2017
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2017).
Administrator changes
- Doug Bell • Dennis Brown • Clpo13 • ONUnicorn
- ThaddeusB • Yandman • Bjarki S • OldakQuill • Shyam • Jondel • Worm That Turned
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC proposing an off-wiki LTA database has been closed. The proposal was broadly supported, with further discussion required regarding what to do with the existing LTA database and defining access requirements. Such a tool/database formed part of the Community health initiative's successful grant proposal.
- Some clarifications have been made to the community banning and unblocking policies that effectively sync them with current practice. Specifically, the community has reached a consensus that when blocking a user at WP:AN or WP:ANI, it is considered a "community sanction", and administrators cannot unblock unilaterally if the user has not successfully appealed the sanction to the community.
- An RfC regarding the bot policy has closed with changes to the section describing restrictions on cosmetic changes.
Technical news
- Users will soon be able to blacklist specific users from sending them notifications.
Miscellaneous
- Following the 2017 elections, the new members of the Board of Trustees include Raystorm, Pundit and Doc James. They will serve three-year terms.
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXIV, June 2017
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The Signpost: 9 June 2017
- From the editors: Signpost status: On reserve power, help wanted!
- News and notes: Global Elections
- Arbitration report: Cases closed in the Pacific and with Magioladitis
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Celebrating 12 years of editing
Have a very happy first edit anniversary!
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The Signpost: 23 June 2017
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- In the media: Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 of Drama on the Hill
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXV, July 2017
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2017).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- The RFC discussion regarding WP:OUTING and WMF essay about paid editing and outing (see more at the ArbCom noticeboard archives) is now archived. Milieus #3 and #4 received support; so did concrete proposal #1.
Technical news
- Fuzzy search will soon be added to Special:Undelete, allowing administrators to search for deleted page titles with results similar to the search query. You can test this by adding
?fuzzy=1to the URL, as with Special:Undelete?fuzzy=1. Currently the search only finds pages that exactly match the search term. - A new bot will automatically revision delete unused file versions from files in Category:Non-free files with orphaned versions more than 7 days old.
- Fuzzy search will soon be added to Special:Undelete, allowing administrators to search for deleted page titles with results similar to the search query. You can test this by adding
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.
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Featured article review for Tahirih Justice Center
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Международный заговор против Азербайджана
Коллега, подскажите, если несложно, практику английской Википедии. Тут один коллега написал статью о страшной "коньячной дипломатии" - [1]. Собственно, в исходном обзоре ESISC говорится о мировом заговоре против Азербайджана с участием Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Human Rights House Foundation, Open Dialog, European Stability Initiative, и Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, который финансируется ужасным Джорджем Соросом (кто б сомневался!), с целью дискредитации демократических процессов в Азербайджане. Я переписал статью в соответствующем ключе, приведя источники, которые прямо говорят, что этот доклад - пропаганда и часть азербайджанской стратегии лоббирования - [2]. Коллега Coneyislandqueentobe возвращает преамбулу обратно, мол, " term cognac diplomacy is used to describe the lobbyist strategy of Armenia of sending cognac bottles to the representatives of international organizations and foreign politicians, in exchange for performing or refraining from any action in favor of Armenia.". Я уже не говорю, что он приводит ссылки, например, "The term is mentioned periodically in the bribery case of Venice Commission by the Armenians and Nazarbayev's former Press Secretary Ajdosa Sarymova", при том, что в указанном источнике нет слова о Venice Commission или Ajdosa Sarymova (во всяком случае поиск не находит в документе этих слов).
Какая практика английской Википедии в таких случаях? В русской, например, такое определение в преамбуле не допустили бы по причине правила WP:FRINGE, а за возврат ложных ссылок следовал бы однозначный блок. Какие должны быть мои действия? Divot (talk) 20:25, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
P.S. Тут коллега вернул текст, обвиняющий английского парламентария в получении взятки от Армении ("journalists managed to catch on to bribe Mark Pritchard"), при том, что по ссылке написано только "The parliamentarian who sits on the most APPGs is Mark Pritchard, the Tory MP for the Wrekin, a member of 41 including the country groups for Armenia, Bosnia and Bulgaria. He has also declared an interest as an consultant on the strategic security group Soufan, for which he is paid £2,074 a month". Divot (talk) 21:11, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2017
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Administrator changes
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- Following a series of discussions around new pages patrol, the WMF is helping implement a controlled autoconfirmed article creation trial as a research experiment, similar to the one proposed in 2011. You can learn more about the research plan at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial. The exact start date of the experiment has yet to be determined.
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXVI, August 2017
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2017
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Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
- ACTRIAL, a research experiment that restricts article creation to autoconfirmed users, will begin on September 7. It will run for six months. You can learn more about the research specifics at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial, while Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed article creation trial is probably the best venue for general discussion.
- Following an RfC, WP:G13 speedy deletion criterion now applies to any page in the draftspace that has not been edited in six months. There is a bot-generated report, updated daily, to help identify potentially qualifying drafts that have not been submitted through articles for creation.
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Arbitration
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- From the editors: What happened at Wikimania?
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The Bugle: Issue CXXXVII, September 2017
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Recommending new editors to your MILHIST
Hi Kirill Lokshin,
Our system generated a list of potential new editors for your project. They may be interested in collaborating with your project members to on your project's articles. As you will notice, the list contains both experienced editors and newcomers. Both are valuable for Wikipedia and your project. Please go ahead and introduce your project to them, and point them to some project tasks to start with. We also provide a template invitation message to make it easier to contact the potential new editors. Just click the invite link to write the invitation message.
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Bobo.03 (talk) 13:34, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
- @Bobo.03 and Kirill Lokshin: Hello. I noticed the above-mention. I am grateful to have been selected as a possible candidate for the WikiProject. However, I am sorry to say that millitary history is of minor interest to me. I also noticed the usage of off-Wikipedia resources like google docs and am wondering why a Wikipedia: space page is not used for this instead. Thank you, —PaleoNeonate – 02:41, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
- Hi @PaleoNeonate:, thanks for letting us know! Our algorithms picked you up (as you can see from the table), is because you have posted couple messages to members in MILHIST. Do you think it's an accurate description? Bobo.03 (talk) 16:02, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
- @Bobo.03: I'm certain that I did, so, yes
. Thanks, —PaleoNeonate – 23:19, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
- Nice, good to confirm! Bobo.03 (talk) 01:21, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
- @Bobo.03: I'm certain that I did, so, yes
- Hi @PaleoNeonate:, thanks for letting us know! Our algorithms picked you up (as you can see from the table), is because you have posted couple messages to members in MILHIST. Do you think it's an accurate description? Bobo.03 (talk) 16:02, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi Kirill Lokshin,
Hope you are doing well. I don't see you took any action on the previous recommendations I sent. Currently, I am preparing for the next batch of the recommendations, and will be sending it out in the next couple days. I wonder if you are still interested in receiving them? Please let me know. Thank you! Bobo.03 (talk) 16:34, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
AfD inquiry
This article is at AfD Tamara_Barykova. As all of the sources are in Russian and no one can find any in English, we cannot assess notability. This jumped out at me as a person born in 1914, so there might be something there. Can you provide any info? Montanabw(talk) 18:33, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
- @Montanabw: She was among the (many) victims of Stalin's purges, but doesn't appear to have any particular notability as an individual. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 03:25, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks. Maybe pop by the AfD and comment to that effect, given that you can speak to the sources. Montanabw(talk) 01:01, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
2017 Military history WikiProject Coordinator election
Greetings from the Military history WikiProject! Elections for the Military history WikiProject Coordinators are currently underway. As a member of the WikiProject you are cordially invited to take part by casting your vote(s) for the candidates on the election page. This year's election will conclude at 23:59 UTC 29 September. Thank you for your time. For the current tranche of Coordinators, AustralianRupert (talk) 10:39, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
The Signpost: 25 September 2017
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2017
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Administrator changes
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- Following a successful proposal to create it, a new user right called "edit filter helper" is now assignable and revocable by administrators. The right allows non-administrators to view the details of private edit filters, but not to edit them.
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Technical news
- You can now search for IP ranges at Special:Contributions. Some log pages and Special:DeletedContributions are not yet supported. Wildcards (e.g. 192.168.0.*) are also not supported, but the popular contribsrange gadget will continue to work.
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.
The Bugle: Issue CXXXVIII, October 2017
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017).
Administrator changes
- Longhair • Megalibrarygirl • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93
- Allen3 • Eluchil404 • Arthur Rubin • Bencherlite
Technical news
- The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team is creating an "Interaction Timeline" tool that intends to assist administrators in resolving user conduct disputes. Feedback on the concept may be posted on the talk page.
- A new function is now available to edit filter managers that will make it easier to look for multiple strings containing spoofed text.
Arbitration
- Eligible editors will be invited to submit candidate statements for the 2017 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 12 until November 21. Voting will begin on November 27 and last until December 10.
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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.
The Bugle: Issue CXXXIX, November 2017
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X Raion, X District vs X district
"raion" is translated as "district", except for the rural ones in Ukraine. Where it is translated and even where not the articles about individual entities are named "X District"/"X Raion" - except for South Ossetia-Alania. Also everywhere else -except India- it is "X Type" not "X type": Bochnia County, Masovian Voivodeship, Buenos Aires Province, Moscow Oblast, Washington County, Eastern Division (New South Wales), Cariboo Land District, ... 1 item out of 100000 not named with uppercase was proposed for renaming to keep the naming in enWP consistent https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Dzau_district&oldid=809879398 78.55.178.210 (talk) 03:14, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
The Signpost: 24 November 2017
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2017 Military Historian of the Year and Newcomer of the Year nominations and voting
As we approach the end of the year, the Military History project is looking to recognise editors who have made a real difference. Each year we do this by bestowing two awards: the Military Historian of the Year and the Military History Newcomer of the Year. The co-ordinators invite all project members to get involved by nominating any editor they feel merits recognition for their contributions to the project. Nominations for both awards are open between 00:01 on 2 December 2017 and 23:59 on 15 December 2017. After this, a 14-day voting period will follow commencing at 00:01 on 16 December 2017. Nominations and voting will take place on the main project talkpage: here and here. Thank you for your time. For the co-ordinators, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:35, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
The Bugle: Issue CXL, December 2017
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2017).
Administrator changes
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
- Wikimedians are now invited to vote on the proposals in the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey on Meta Wiki until 10 December 2017. In particular, there is a section of the survey regarding new tools for administrators and for anti-harassment.
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Arbitration
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- 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.
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User group for Military Historians
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Season's Greetings
...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 23:37, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2017).
Administrator changes
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Bureaucrat changes
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
- The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey results have been posted. The Community Tech team will investigate and address the top ten results.
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Arbitration
- Following the results of the 2017 election, the following editors have been (re)appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Alex Shih, BU Rob13, Callanecc, KrakatoaKatie, Opabinia regalis, Premeditated Chaos, RickinBaltimore, Worm That Turned.
The Bugle: Issue CXLI, January 2018
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018).
Administrator changes
- None
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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.
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Arbitration
- The Arbitration Committee has enacted a change to the discretionary sanctions procedure which requires administrators to add a standardized editnotice when placing page restrictions. Editors cannot be sanctioned for violations of page restrictions if this editnotice was not in place at the time of the violation.
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Happy Birthday
Post-Cold War task force
G'day Kirill, I hope you are well. Not sure if you have been following it, but there has been some discussion about creating a Post-Cold War task force here: Draft talk:WikiProject Military history/Post-Cold War task force. Based on several conversations there and on the main talk page, I think there is a consensus to create the task force. I can do most of the work, but I was hoping that you might be able to make the required changes to the {{MILHIST}} template. Would you mind taking a look at this? Thanks for your time. I will then work on creating the peripheral categories and logs etc. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 11:29, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
- @AustralianRupert: Sure, I'm happy to do what's needed here. I'll try to set aside some time for it in the next few days. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 03:29, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- G'day, Kirill, I have had a go at this. If you get a chance, would you mind checking my adjustments? This is my change: [3]. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 00:36, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
- @AustralianRupert: There were a few additional places where the parameter for the new task force needed to be added; I've gone ahead and done so now. Otherwise, your change looks good to me. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 01:16, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks, Kirill, and belated happy birthday! Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 03:02, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
- @AustralianRupert: There were a few additional places where the parameter for the new task force needed to be added; I've gone ahead and done so now. Otherwise, your change looks good to me. Kirill Lokshin (talk) 01:16, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
- G'day, Kirill, I have had a go at this. If you get a chance, would you mind checking my adjustments? This is my change: [3]. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 00:36, 11 February 2018 (UTC)