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Administrators' newsletter – January 2020
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- A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
- Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.
Arbitration
- The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being
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- The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2020
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- 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
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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}}.
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- Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2020
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- 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.
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- Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
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Can you Help me?
editDear, I am new here, however created my new article in draftspace https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Heena_Shahab but getting trouble in moving it to main space because, 2 years back you redirected it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hena_Shahab&redirect=no from an other users https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heena_Shahab&oldid=290682324
to his husband's article page "Mohammad Shahabuddin" .
now I created her article but dear sir, I yet don't know how to put in main space when i am trying to place this there showing you can't do this. Article name already exists Please help me. Sturdyankit (talk) 04:45, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2020
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Arbitration
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2020
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- Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
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- A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.
Reverse order for U.S. Thoroughbred horse races
editWould you please stop reversing the order of U.S. Thoroughbred horse races. ASAP I will put together the info on this subject and post it to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Horse racing for review so that we can present it to the Wikipedia "rules committee." Just so you are aware, no United States racetrack or racing association posts race history from oldest to newest. That practice ended c. 1910 and it was done for a very real reason. Thanks for your cooperation. Stretchrunner (talk) 11:38, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
I posted the info on this today here. Stretchrunner (talk) 21:38, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
I removed the July 15th tag re "Chronological order" in Westchester Stakes (NYRA). Please respect protocol and don't put any more of these tags in articles. If you do not understand the "Projects" conclusions and reasons, then ask and someone will gladly clarify. However, Chronological order is not Wikipedia policy, it is non-mandatory. Thank you. Stretchrunner (talk) 22:24, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2020
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- A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
- The Wikimedia Foundation announced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2020
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- A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.
Technical news
- Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).
Arbitration
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an
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A request
editHello RJFJR. Thanks for your work formatting bare urls. I have a request - when you've run refill like you did here and it has fixed all of the bare urls please remember to remove the {{Bare URLs}} template. It will help keep other editors from coming to the article and running the tool only to find that everything has already been fixed. Of course, it is proper to leave it if it hasn't fixed all of the refs. I know that refill2 sometimes removes the template but other times it doesn't so that can be confusing. Its not a big deal but at the moment I'm cleaning up the backlog of articles that was created while refill was not working and checking on the ones you've already fixed slows things down. Any help you can give will be appreciated. Thanks again and enjoy your weekend. MarnetteD|Talk 18:48, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
- I'm not sure why refill only sometimes removes the linkrot template. My current theory is that there are several different templates linkrot, bare-url, etc that all look very similar and refill is only programmed to remove one or some of them but not all. But since I'm not sure if that is the reason I get nervous about removing the template if refill declines to. I'll have too keep track of which it is removing and which leaving and see if I can find a pattern for when I should expect to manually remove the template. Thank you for caring enough to comment. RJFJR (talk) 19:19, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for the reply R. I've taken the liberty of moving it to your talk page to keep things in one place. I've never figured the pattern out either :-) Sometimes I think it is which template is used as you mention and other times I wonder if it is where it is placed on the page. My suggestion would be to look at the ref section when you are done. If all the links are formatted then you can remove the template. If there are any bare urls left you can leave it and somebody else will be along to fix those that need the extra attention. Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 19:38, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
- Hello again. I just ran refill2 on more than a dozen articles that were tagged with {{linkrot}} and it removed the tag every time. Always nice when scrolling time is saved :-) That fits with your theory so I thought I'd let ya know about it. Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 08:36, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
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Hank Hughes
editHello. I'm sorry you have already spent some time fixing that mess and it's my fault. Before tagging it, I should have checked the edit history. It appears the article has been hijacked. The article was originally about Hank "Honolulu" Hughes (May 4, 1907 – December 27, 1963). See this revision from a couple years ago, which I will revert to as soon I'm done with this message. Thanks for your efforts, but again, sorry they were in vain. --DB1729 (talk) 05:15, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
please share your views on the copyright violations of the article, tools are showing more than 80% violations. Minimiti (talk) 20:31, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2020
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- There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
- Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
- Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
- There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.
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Yitzhak Goren
editThank you for your cleanup work on Yitzhak Goren. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 22:12, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
- Just adding to the thanks for your work on that article and so many more R. One thing to be aware of though - the {{more footnotes}} template (and its cousin {{no footnotes}}) is used when there are several items in the sources and/or external links sections that need to be moved into the article as inline references. The YG article only had one item in the EL's and no items listed as sources so the template you needed to use was {{refimprove}}. I know it may seem a little counter-intuitive but, if you read the full message that the templates leave on the page I think it'll make sense. Thanks again for all your work and enjoy your Sunday. MarnetteD|Talk 22:34, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – September 2020
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Arbitration
- A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2020 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
- An open request for comment asks whether active Arbitrators may serve on the Trust and Safety Case Review Committee or Ombudsman commission.
Table to prose
editIf I haven't said already thank you for your work turning ugly tables into nice readable prose.
I tag short tables that should be prose, knowing and expecting that I will probably eventually have to come back around to the same article and do it myself (and that could be months or years). So every time I see your work it is a relief and an unexpected pleasure.
Thanks. Thanks many times over. -- 109.79.167.69 (talk) 02:53, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2020
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- A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely
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- A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely
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- The filter log now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions (phab:T261630).
Arbitration
- The 2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
- Following a request for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either the Ombuds Commission or the WMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committee passed a motion implementing those results into their procedures.
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- The Universal Code of Conduct draft is open for community review and comment until October 6th, 2020.
- Office actions may now be appealed to the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee.
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Reg Hartt
editI saw you did some clean up on Reg Hartt. I'm honestly not sure if this page even belongs on wiki, there aren't any good sources of him other than the child porn charges and local weirdo who puts up thousands of posters isn't exactly notable. The article is wildly self promotional as well. DO you think this even belongs here? blindlynx (talk) 10:22, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2020
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- Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection
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- Sysops will once again be able to view the deleted history of JS/CSS pages; this was restricted to interface administrators when that group was introduced.
- Twinkle's block module now includes the ability to note the specific case when applying a discretionary sanctions block and/or template.
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Arbitration
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Refs in headings
editIn the entry for the artist Alison Dunhill, I've just seen that you moved a ref out of a subheading on 17th October (sorry, I put it back before I saw it was your deliberate revision). I guess this is a standard practice, but as the ref in this case is the authority for the whole list (of the artists' major solo exhibitions) in this section, I thought it looked ugly and also confusing for the ref to sit on its own separate line beneath the list. Personally I think it works better for the reader in the subheading where it now is, but perhaps you disagree. Maybe it isn't necessary to reference the list anyway, in which case we could just delete the ref which is to the artist's own website? I'd much appreciate your views. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bozhyemoi (talk • contribs) 17:56, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
- Bozhyemoi: The Manual of Style, at MOS:HEAD contains "Section headings should:...Not contain citations or footnotes." While that is a 'should' and not a 'must' it is part of the MOS. When I move references out of headings before a list I put the reference at the end of the list, on its own line, to indicate it is a reference for the entire list. I believe the reason for avoiding references in headings is because it makes it impossible or at least difficult to have a link go to that particular section. It may also cause problems for text-to-speech readers used by some readers. Let me know if you have a more visually pleasing way of moving the references out of the headings. One possibility would be to add a start sentence that describes how the reference cites the list and put the reference on that sentence. RJFJR (talk) 20:02, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
- RJFJR: Thanks for explaining and I agree that it's best to follow the MOS wherever possible. Your suggestion sounds good to me so I've added an end sentence (in italics) and moved the ref there. I think that looks ok and avoids confusion, but do let me know if you disagree.
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2020
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- Voting for proposals in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regarding administrators and anti-harassment.
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Happy New Year!
edit Walter Elmer Schofield, Across the River (1904), Carnegie Museum of Art. |
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| Thank you for your contributions toward making Wikipedia a better and more accurate place. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 15:15, 26 December 2020 (UTC) Oneupsmanship: This painting turned the friendly rivalry between Edward Redfield and Elmer Schofield into a feud. Schofield was a frequent houseguest at Redfield's farm, upstream from New Hope, Pennsylvania, and the two would go out painting together, competing to capture the better view. Redfield served on the jury for the 1904 Annual Exhibition of the Carnegie Institute; at which, despite Redfield's opposition, Across the River was awarded the Gold Medal and $1,500 prize. It was not until a 1963 interview that the 93-year-old Redfield revealed the painting as the cause of the 40-year feud between them. Schofield may have painted it in England, but a blindsided Redfield knew that it was a view of the Delaware River, from his own front yard! |
Administrators' newsletter – January 2021
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- You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time.
Arbitration
- By motion, standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarily authorized
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2021
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editHi, I wanted from you to see if grammars are correct for English sentences in the articles . Thank you ,,Hamaredha (talk) 22:37, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you very much ,, Hamaredha (talk) 14:56, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
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editThanks for the cleanup you did on Seema (actress) to re-order the filmography lists/tables. Cheers.– 108.56.139.120 (talk) 15:52, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
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editHi,
Regarding the INSEEC Business School article, may you please let me know what do you define as "guff"? You added a banner about "puffery and guff", so I assume that you do.
Incidentally, I am quite shocked about the use of "guff". It is insulting regarding French culture. Have you read Montaigne, René Descartes and analyzed their influence on the Grande Ecole system to be able to say that?
This leads to the question: How should I edit this section to get rid of this banner then? Should I therefore describe this Business School as: barren, purely pragmatic and with no history or humanist values? And thus, when you do some anthropological, sociological and philosophical research about a Business School precepts, therefore, it's guff and puffery.
The content which you may qualify as "puffery and guff" is certainly the section about the honestus clerus, which doesn't infringe any copyrights, and is verifiable. Correct?
To me it seems like there is room for interpretation. Shall there be a section in Wikipedia's codex defining "guff", I will be happy to be enlightened.
I will be equally happy to know what are the criteria to get rid of "guff".
Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Onna Bugeisha 2020 (talk • contribs) 08:39, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
- @Onna Bugeisha 2020: I didn't put the puffery and guff reason in the cleanup tag, I added "Layout, overly long headings" to cleanup reason. RJFJR (talk) 14:02, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
- You need to ask user:Baffle gab1978 who added the original reason. RJFJR (talk) 14:05, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
- @RJFJR:
Hi, Understood. Thanks. And sorry for the confusion occured. Onna Bugeisha 2020 (talk) 16:13, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2021
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Arbitration
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Jankovský of Vlašim
editHello I see that you made 3 recommendations to improve the article.
In regards to the History Section. I can break up the history into 4 parts: 1 Early history in Bohemia, 2 Northern Moravia 1390-1520, 3 Southern Moravia 1435 -1755, 4 History after the year 1755.
In regards to Reference. The two books listed cover over 98 % of what is listed in the article. The 2nd book itself has 245 pages of the family's history from 1300 to 2008. I added additional references which in turn expand what was listed. Some of these could be linked to the article but I do not know how. I may need you help ?
In regard the Genealogies: not sure what the concern is ? The links provide information on hundreds of relatives. Many are listed in multi other family genealogies.
If one is willing to search there are thousands of pages on the history of the family. Almost all are in Czech or German. Some are incomplete of incorrect. What is listed is the accurate history.Thanks for your interest in improving the article. Your help is appreciated.--Vlasime (talk) 03:04, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
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editHiya R. Per this Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Toolforge_down refill and citer are down but reflinks is working again. It's ability to mark dead links and fix some PDFs is so valuable I hope it keeps running for awhile. I know you might already be aware of this but I thought I'd let ya know just in case. Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 16:18, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2021
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editHi RFJR
Why are you doing edits such as these[2], [3]?
I get that you were trying to fill in bare links, but the website to which those links pointed (http://www.leighrayment.com/) has lapsed and has now been taken over by some cybersquatters who appear to be advertising online gambling. I would have thought that even if you knew nothing about the topic,it would be very obvious that a casino is not a valid ref for a parliamentary by-election.
I know that Refill can be a handy tool, but Wikipedia:ReFill#Health_warning is very clear that you need to check its results: ReFill is not perfect, and never will be. You are responsible for every edit that ReFill 2 suggests so you must take the time to inspect every citation that this tool creates and fix anything that isn't quite right. Do not make work for other editors to clean up.
In this case, it seems that you did no inspections. Please can you now self-revert all these edits, so that others do not have to clean up after you?
Thanks. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:55, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
- RJFRl I see that you are editing again, but you have not replied to my message.
- You have not gone back to correct previous errors, and instead you are adding misleading refs yo new articles. e.g. on 1942 Sheffield Park by-election, your edits[4] have labelled the link solely as "House of Commons", whereas the page linked is https://web.archive.org/web/20190428141724/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm ... which is an archive of a hobbyist's page. Your edit cites the website as "web.archive.org", whereas that is just the archiving site, not the publisher. The result is very misleading.
- I assume that you intentions are good, but this is just making things worse.
- Please can you stop and discuss before continuing? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:11, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
- A far as I can see, you have now reverted all the problematic edits, in these contribs.
Thank you for doing that. However, having taken the time to write two explanatory messages to you, I am very disappointed that you chose not to extend to me even the basic courtesy of a brief acknowledgement to either of them.
The result of your silence was that I suspended my other work to spend time watching your edits to check that you did revert them all, and not just some of them. Your silence led e to think that I would probably have escalate this matter. That is an unnecessary drain on my time.
I still have no idea whether you even agree that there was a problem, or whether you just reverted to avoid discussion. I also don't know whether you intend to change your methods to ensure that your further use of Refill doesn't produce more nonsense lie the 84 articles which you mangled here.
- That sort of stonewalling is not collaboration.
--BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:04, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
- I was busy reviewing your message, then reviewing and reverting my edits. Sorry if it caused you concern. I am sorry my spot checks for the tool did not spot the difficulty. I am still considering if there is a long term problem with these items, which are now clogging Category:Articles needing cleanup with bareurl notices. (Also, I'm just about to take a break for dinner.) More later. RJFJR (talk) 22:11, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
- Sorry, @RJFJR, but I don't buy that.
- You did 84 successive near-identical edits adding nonsense. If you were doing spot checks, you'd have seen that.
- My second msg to you, asking for a reply, was at 21:11. You replied exactly one hour later, only AFTER you had started on others stuff, and after I a had reverted some of your edits. So your excuse looks like baloney.
- --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:26, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
- Sorry, @RJFJR, but I don't buy that.
- (Still editing above. Left separate message on your talk page. RJFJR (talk) 22:17, 29 May 2021 (UTC))
- (@BrownHairedGirl: need to leave computer for a bit. Will edit more when I get back. RJFJR (talk) 22:18, 29 May 2021 (UTC))
- (@BrownHairedGirl: I'm Back.) RJFJR (talk) 22:27, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
- Absolutely ZERO response for an hour when I need you, then you bombard me with pointless pings. Unbelievable.. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:58, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2021
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Arbitration
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021
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Arbitration
- The community authorised COVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by the COVID-19 discretionary sanctions following a motion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021
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Arbitration
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2021
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Arbitration
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editPlease help me to save the article K. C. Banerjee from deletion. Thank you. Qwertynk (talk) 17:19, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
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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.
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2022
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- The deployment of the reply tool as an opt-out feature, as announced in last month's newsletter, has been delayed to 7 March. Feedback and comments are being welcomed at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
- Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
- The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)
Arbitration
- Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.
Miscellaneous
- The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
- Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
- The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.
Nomination of Mags Harries and Lajos Héder for deletion
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Tiktiner
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Fails WP:N I can not find a web page for the company not sure it is still in business. My search found several minor references so it passes WP:V, but I don't see where it is notable, as there is not a French wiki page for this French company.
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2022
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- An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.
Technical news
- Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the
deletelogentryanddeletedhistoryrights. 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
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
- A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
- A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.
Miscellaneous
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.
New administrator activity requirement
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- Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
- Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period
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Ordering
editHi RJFJR, re this edit is there a preferred chronology order? Sometimes it's a right pain having to scroll to the bottom of a page to read current information that's in table form. Neils51 (talk) 21:50, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Neils51: I usually prefer chronological order for clarity. I think this is usually considered the standard though there is an exception for some elections where it is reverse chronological order. I find it confusing if in reverse chronological order but let me know if you find a statement of policy. RJFJR (talk) 23:42, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
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- Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
- Following a discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.
Technical news
- The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
- A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.
Arbitration
- Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.
Hallo, you removed the full recipe: was that because it was copyvio, or should the infobox link lead to somewhere to which it has been copied? TBH I didn't notice that the full recipe has been there before when I added a paragraph summarising it. I'm not familiar with the way recipes are dealt with in Wikimedia. Could you please make a link to the recipe if it's somewhere out there in Wikimedia? Thanks. PamD 07:46, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
- Part of it is that I was concerned about copyright. A list can't be copyrighted (though the order of items can be) but narrative description (how the steps are described) can be. But it also looked long and detailed to me and I think someone had tagged it as how-to. Since it had a reference to a link with the recipe I removed it. It now occurs to me I should have made sure there was an external link to the recipe, which I'll go make sure is there. RJFJR (talk) 15:01, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for May 14
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Disambiguation link notification for May 21
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Disambiguation link notification for May 28
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2022
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Guideline and policy news
- Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.
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
- Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
- An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.
The article Vicki Courtney has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
All content in the article is either unsourced or has an unreliable/promotional source. Article also does not meet notability guidelines.
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2022
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Arbitration
- An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.
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
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).
Administrator changes
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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- 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
- The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
- The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.
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.
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Grand Prix motorcycle racing teams
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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 01:10, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – October 2022
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- Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
- Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
- Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.
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
- Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
- A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
- The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.
Miscellaneous
- An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
- Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October.
- You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
- An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
- Tech tip: You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete.
Administrators' newsletter – November 2022
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).
Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
- The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November.
- An RfC is open to discuss having open requests for adminship automatically placed on hold after the seven-day period has elapsed, pending closure or other action by a bureaucrat.
Arbitration
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections.
- The arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion.
- The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has entered the proposed decision stage.
- AmandaNP, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections. Xaosflux and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
Miscellaneous
- The 2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers.
- You can add yourself to the centralised page listing time zones of administrators.
- Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2022
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Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
- Consensus has been found in an RfC to automatically place RfAs on hold after one week.
- The article creation at scale RfC has been closed.
- An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.
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
- Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
- The proposed decision for the 2021-22 review of the discretionary sanctions system is open.
- The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has been closed.
- The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
- A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop.
Miscellaneous
- Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2023
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).
Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
- Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.
Arbitration
- Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, SilkTork.
- The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
- The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.
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.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange page request
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Nomination of Residence halls at the University of San Francisco for deletion
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2023
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- Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
- Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.
Technical news
- The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
- In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.
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.
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Unused, superseded by File:NMSS2.svg.
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2023
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- Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
- Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
- A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline.
Technical news
- The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.
Arbitration
- Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
- The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023.
- A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon.
Miscellaneous
- The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
- Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
- The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2023
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- A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.
Technical news
- Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
- The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
- A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.
Arbitration
- The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
- A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.
CS1 error on Pattu of Western Rajasthan
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2023
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- A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.
Technical news
- Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.
Arbitration
- The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.
Miscellaneous
- The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2023
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- 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
- Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.
CS1 error on Manjeet Mann
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.
Technical news
- Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.
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.
reverse order so chrono
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2023
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).
Administrator changes
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Technical news
- The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
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Arbitration
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
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- A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that
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Technical news
- Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)
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
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Miscellaneous
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2023
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Administrator changes
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Technical news
- The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
- There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.
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
- The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2023
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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.
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2024
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- Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
- Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
- The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.
Miscellaneous
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CS1 error on Song Ruoxian
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2024
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- 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
- Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
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Fairfax County Police Department edit request
editi see that u did an edit on proposed change for Fairfax County Police Department, i thought prop. changes are only for talk pages, may i ask if proposing changes in articles itself is allowed and where can i find guidelines on it? 83.168.137.1 (talk) 01:19, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
CS1 error on Niharika Singh
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CS1 error on Jaka Singgih
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2024
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- Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
- Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.
Technical news
- The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)
Miscellaneous
- The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
- Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.
Administrators' newsletter – April 2024
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Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.
Technical news
- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)
Arbitration
- An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
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.
April 2024
editThanks for your edit on Nuala O'Donnell. I fixed the root of the problem, which was at Template:O'Donnell family tree, now all of the template refs and the *article refs* display properly in all of the associated O'Donnell articles. Looks like it had been an issue for the last 7 years. Thanks. Isaidnoway (talk) 00:59, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
Refill
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024
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Guideline and policy news
- Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.
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
- The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.
Miscellaneous
- This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024
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Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
- Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.
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
- The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
- The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.
Miscellaneous
- WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!
Administrators' newsletter – July 2024
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Administrator changes
Technical news
- Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)
Miscellaneous
- The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more
Administrators' newsletter – August 2024
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).
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 Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ
Article rating
editI am trying to improve the English whisky article and similar articles in Food and drink industry in England.
I am hoping that with improvements to the quality of the article rating can improve, do you have any suggestions.?
Articles I have created are stub, start or C rated the whisky example above has quite a few sections. Three areas have their own articles but I am concerned it looks cluttered with of 14 sections.ChefBear01 (talk) 11:05, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
Nomination of Virtualization Development for deletion
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Yoruba organizations
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2024
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which
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Arbitration
- Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
- Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
- The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.
Miscellaneous
- Editors can now enter into good article review circles, an alternative for informal quid pro quo arrangements, to have a GAN reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2024
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- Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
- Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
- A request for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall process.
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
- An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
- Editors are invited to nominate themselves to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC).
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2024
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Guideline and policy news
- Following a discussion, the discussion-only period proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship (RfA) process has been discontinued.
- Following a request for comment, Administrator recall is adopted as a policy.
Technical news
- Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068
Arbitration
- RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
- The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.
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User:MPN 1994
editHey. I've nominated the articles User:MPN 1994 has been writing for deletion because of lack of sourcing; I've tried draftifying, but they move it back. The AfDs have been coming back with a result of "redirect." Turns out, it's a good ting I've nominated them for an AfD discussion, since MPN 1994 has been reverting the redirects. I found you on the recently active tool and wanted to know if you were willing to keep an eye on the situation. Thanks! I dream of horses (Hoofprints) (Neigh at me) 15:34, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
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