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St. Paul's School

Tedder, thanks so much for your very helpful feedback of St. Paul's School that you provided on Kudpung's talk page. As you asked, I pasted your thoughts on the article's talk page (the thread is "Other discussions"). I agree with all of your points and made the changes to the article with this edit. However, another editor immediately reverted it with this edit. I restored the changes and asked him to follow procedure by getting consensus on the talk page to restore any of the content. Lootbrewed (talk) 19:25, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Please also note that editor, with whom I've had previous run-ins, followed me to the article (he had never edited it prior to today, and I had been editing it for a couple weeks) and posted this bogus "disruptive editing" warning on my talk page. The editor has received several recent warnings from administrators regarding staying off people's talk page's when they ask him (as I did), following editors, and being disruptive overall to the project.[1][2][3] Thanks. Lootbrewed (talk) 19:38, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Tedder, here are the comments I left on Kudpung's talk page after Lootbrewed's blanket removal of content and edit warring behavior after the removal was reverted: [4]. My comments at Fred Bauder's talk page regarding same are here: [5]. For some reason, Lootbrewed believes the discussion at Kudpung's talk page was a carte blanche to remove a large amount of content at the St. Paul's article; that Kudpung alone okay-ed the content removal. I can't say I've ever seen something like this before in Wikipedia. One editor (allegedly) making a decision without consensus and another editor taking that as license to gut an article. Since Lootbrewed has dragged you into this, I'd be interested in your take on all of it. In spite of Lootbrewed's obvious attempt to poison the well against me here, none of what's going on has anything to do with any past transgressions I may or may not have committed. At this point, it's about what I see as disruptive editing on Lootbrewed's part and his claim that an admin told him to do it. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 20:08, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Tedder, as you will see from the editing history of your talk page, Winkelvi has repeatedly refused to use the appropriate indentation level for his comments and therefore chose to use the same level as me. He apparently feels it's acceptable to ignore the behavioral guidelines about indenting simply to cause an annoyance to another editor. This is yet another example of the conflict he has so often chosen to create with others. In any case, this is the reason I have adjusted my indents. Lootbrewed (talk) 21:28, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

There is definitely a problem with User:Winkelvi, see [6] and the following sections. He seems to have seen the disputes on the St. Paul's page and saw an opportunity to jump into ongoing disputes User:Lootbrewed was engaged in. Then he came to my talk page to get me involved. User:Fred Bauder Talk 21:34, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

I had the article on my watchlist due to interest in the Owen Labrie case and that's why I saw what was going on. Once I saw Lootbrewed was editing there, I decided to not edit the article unless something urgent needed resolving. When IPs attempted to whitewash the article today, I stepped in and reverted those edits (see here and here). It was a bit later that Lootbrewed then gutted the article section. Knowing he had done so without consensus, I rightly reverted (see here).

Previously, I alerted you to Lootbrewed talking about you at the talk pages of other editors in relation to the article. I did it because I felt you had a right to know he was attempting to circumvent discussion at the article talk page and forum-shop. If you don't want to know about things like that, it's your right. But it's not your right to make assumptions about my motives - which were without fault and not deserving of suspicion on your part. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 21:49, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for that, but you go too far. User:Fred Bauder Talk 22:22, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Winkelvi, Fred is right. I doubt your explanation will convince anyone. Facts: (1) You've had ongoing run-ins with me over the past several weeks of which many editors and administrators are aware, (2) You never edited the St. Paul's School article before today, (3) You saw from the edit history that I've been heavily involved with the article for a few weeks yet chose to stay instead of move on, and (4) You went directly to the talk page of the editor with whom you saw I had a content dispute (Fred) to persuade him to support you. In terms of my content removal today, I sought guidance from the WikiProject Schools coordinators long before making any changes, so your issuance of a "disruptive editing" warning (one of your hundreds of bogus warnings issued to editors) is indicative of your troublesome behavior. As admin Jehocman told you recently, "you are a catalyst for conflict" and "you are likely to get indefinitely blocked sooner or later". Lootbrewed (talk) 22:20, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Ugh. I'm unsure how much I want to wade into this. I think the arguments are clear above, but please focus on the *content* and discuss it on the school talk page. tedder (talk) 23:42, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Your input on the article talk page is clearly needed. And any other coordinators who are willing to participate. I tried to do the right thing, but apparently some disagree. I simply wanted to make the article the best it can be. I promise to no longer edit the article, but I would respectfully request that you participate in the discussion to help resolve the matter. Whatever is decided is fine with me. Lootbrewed (talk) 23:51, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

It's inappropriate to go to so many user talk pages over this issue, and I don't think you are correct on all of the removals of content. tedder (talk) 23:55, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

I simply followed your great recommendations, step by step. If you look at the edits I made, you'll see that. I thought that's what I was supposed to do. If I made a mistake, I'm sorry. I agreed with almost all of what you said and I was excited to improve the article. As I said, I'm not going to edit the article any more, but I hope you or other coordinators will participate in the discussion to get it on a great track. Thanks. Lootbrewed (talk) 00:06, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Your edits don't match my list. In any case, consensus is key. tedder (talk) 00:12, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Hmm, which of my edits don't match your list? The only one of the eight I altered slightly was maintaining a bit of the socialization content, which I merged into the daily life/culture section. But it seems I followed the other seven bullet points to a tee. Like I said, I tried hard to do the right thing and followed your list one-by-one. Lootbrewed (talk) 00:22, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

It is basically unfair to ask someone who has not read the references used in an article, or spent hours making edits to the article based on them, to eyeball an article and then make decisions binding on those who are familiar with the references used and actively editing the article. Of course, there are obvious problems, but, absent active involvement, they cannot function as orders to other editors. Once an administrator begins editing, they can't function as an administrator for the purpose of dealing with that article. Anyone's once over has value but is not a binding guideline to further editing. User:Fred Bauder Talk 07:07, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

We get it already, Bauder. You've said it numerous times in numerous ways on numerous pages. And obviously, I wasn't taking it as "orders", so let's not continue over-dramatizing it. I took it as confirmation of everything I believed already. And contrary to your claim, anyone can read a piece of content and determine if it doesn't belong in an encylopedia. If someone sees a piece of junk or trivial information in an article, it doesn't belong even if it has the best sources in the world. And, obviously, an admin cannot have a conflict of interest if he's editing an article. So knock off the condescension. The point you seem to be missing in all of this is that my obvious goal was to improve the article and rid it of all the non-encylopedic content that shouldn't have been there in the first place. Did I go about it the right way? No. Thus my promise above to not edit it any more. Now please fuck off. I don't need to be continually lectured by an editor who inserted all this nonsense into the article. Lootbrewed (talk) 18:33, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Don't use my talk page to continue this conversation. tedder (talk) 20:06, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

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Big Cat Rescue

Hello Tedder, as you have dealt with edit-warring in this article in the past (far far back in 2012), just a notification: it seems like the PoV-pushing is occuring again. I am completely uninvolved myself (only noticed the edit via a vandalism filter), and don't know anything about the involved organizations. Maybe it's worth putting the article on watch again for a while to restore the NPOV version, if necessary. Best regards. GermanJoe (talk) 21:13, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks- I'll check it out. tedder (talk) 21:23, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

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BCR's article

I disagree with some of the changes you made to my edits on Big Cat Rescue's article. 1. You removed a line with allegiations from critics due to being "poorly sourced". I didn't write anything that would suggest that these allegiations were true, merely that they have been raised. I think that the website were the allegiations are raised is a good reference to back up a statement that these accusations were made. 2. You should have taken a closer look at the 10 News video. The animal purchases might have ended by 2001, but the other questionable activities were committed much later. If you have proof that the animal acquisitions ended in 2001, please add references just as I did and clarify that this applies only to the animal acquisitions, not to the other unclean activities. 3. For the same reason, renaming this section from "Controversy" to "Origins" is misleading. I added items that indicate wrongdoing that were committed after BCR started calling itself a sanctuary, and I plan to add more of them. Also, even for activities that have ceased since BCR became a sanctuary a valid point can be raised as to whether this change of heart is genuine or only motivated by financial considerations. 4. Referring me to the talk page is complete nonsense, and you know it. Nobody, not even you, responded to comments that I made on the Talk page while the article was still semi-protected. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Serval5412 (talk • contribs) 21:23, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Please discuss this on the talk page. I'm responding there, it is the place to discuss the contents of the article. What I removed was the most excessive POV issues. Add *neutral* sources, not random blogs, that back it up. tedder (talk) 07:42, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

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November 2015

Hello, I'm Valfontis. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon/Aunt Betty (non-notable Oregon relative) because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Sez who. Valfontis (talk) 06:52, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Someone needs a cookie. Me. But you can have one too. tedder (talk) 07:18, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Grrr. You're wrong on the internet. Cookies won't fix it. Got anything stronger? Valfontis (talk) 07:29, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Re: St. Paul's School

Not sure why you deleted my additions to the Senior Salute section of the article on St. Paul's School. Those facts about Labrie were widely reported in the media: that he was a scholarship student from a modest background who became captain of the soccer team and was awarded the Rector's Award at graduation which was later revoked. Also widely noted was the fact that he was admitted to Harvard but never enrolled. So these facts have no poverty of sources and are not the subject of any reasonable controversy, although partisans of SPS may be anxious that this scandal be minimized and fade from public view. For what it's worth, my grandfather graduated from SPS in 1918. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.242.248.88 (talk) 05:13, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Discuss on the school page, please. "Your grandfather" is not a source. tedder (talk) 06:40, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Never claimed he was.

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You're welcome. Nice to fix something like that. now I need to dig out photos for this. tedder (talk) 01:32, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

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Hi Tedder,

You thanked me for my edits on Mary Pinchot Meyer's article. I am looking for ways to further improve the article. Any ideas? Any areas that you think can be developed further? I was looking into what it means by the status of an article. Mary's article right now is C-Class. I want to bring it to Good Article status. Any tips? Fabrice Soma (talk) 11:57, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, I thanked you because I wanted you to know your efforts are seen and appreciated. I don't have any specific recs, the article has a nice amount of detail really- should probably ping the projects and WP:EAR if they don't reply. tedder (talk) 18:14, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

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Biketown page history

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Please help me correct the record. I don't know when I'll have the time to learn how to ensure the accuracy of content I am directly familiar with. Stephenmgunther (talk) 15:47, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

Please discuss on Talk:Biketown. tedder (talk) 15:56, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

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List of things named after Donald Trump

Hi Tedder, regarding your protection of List of things named after Donald Trump. The extended confirmed protection option can only be used if semi protection has proven to be ineffective. The page you protected would likely not have enough vandalism to be semi protected based on the edits to the page so far. Would you be willing to consider either removing your protection or changing it to pending changes? Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 00:51, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

@Callanecc: Thanks- I didn't know it was still in limited use- I'll move it to 'pending'. tedder (talk) 02:38, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

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QuakeFinder

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You put some maintenance tags on the QuakeFinder article last April. I've just been doing some work on the article, and I wonder if you could take a look and see if it's improved now. Thanks. JerryRussell (talk) 20:04, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

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Schools

Hi Tedder. Are you still able to be active as a coord on WP:WPSCH? Now that Chris Cooper has retired and is no longer available, it's time to take a good look at how the project can move forward - its focus has obviously shifted over the last 10 years, and it needs some time spending on it in various ways. Regards, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:15, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

NGVAR/diverse anglophone cultures

Tedder, we need your urgent input at WT:WPSCH please. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 15:02, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, I got involved as an admin. tedder (talk) 18:45, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Appreciate your help. That was getting painful. Thanks and regards. KJP1 (talk) 20:46, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Unfortunately, User:Garageland66 has chosen to ignore your block and to continue his edit-warring using an IP address. Please see his latest edit at York House School, Redheath, timed at 22.23 UK time. KJP1 (talk) 22:47, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

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Speedy Keep Murder of Seth Rich

I think this was inappropriate. I don't know whether you're familiar with the history of this article, the various BLP and UNDUE issues and the recent editing environment surrounding Amercian Politics, the Russians, and Wikileaks. But all of the issues raised at the previous AfD's remain unsettled, and after 2-3 days, all you've got on the AfD page is the editors who've leapt to the page while shutting out the rest of the community that has real-life schedules that don't lend themselves to rapid response. The result may again be keep but I see no benefit in a speedy close egged on by off-topic comments by indignant Keep pov's. Please consider letting this run its course. SPECIFICO talk 16:47, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

Feel free to take it to a noticeboard, though I'd suggest waiting for ~6 months and taking it to AFD again, if there are no further developments it'll become obvious. AFDs in a short period of time while an article is still approximately timely are hard to get through. tedder (talk) 19:33, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

I don't see how that addresses my concern that there is no benefit to a speedy close and that the detriment is that it shuts out others who may have commented had it been left open for more than a few days. I didn't put this up and I don't feel it helps the community to put any additional burdens on volunteer editors such that they need to mount message board threads or re-launch an AfD that's been closed before any of the documented (on the talk page BLPN and previous AfD's) views questioning this article's validity could be offered to the wider community. SPECIFICO talk 19:43, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

One big benefit is that a whole bunch of people don't have to keep track of a discussion that is going nowhere.Anythingyouwant (talk) 23:42, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

A self-contradictory statement on its face. SPECIFICO talk 23:56, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

I also think that this "Speedy Keep" after only two days is inappropriate. AfDs usually run for a minimum of seven days. Given the recent edits surrounding this page on its talk page and at BPLN, there are other policy based arguments out there. Steve Quinn (talk) 23:50, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

I'm more than happy to have an admin undo this. With that many keeps it wouldn't have turned into a delete, and if there are BLPN issues it can be deleted for those reasons, not AFD. Again, nothing's going to happen by discussing it here. Take it to ANI or something. tedder (talk) 00:42, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Tedder, for everyone's information, how did you happen to see that the AfD seemed ripe to close? I don't really know how these things work. Do you patrol all the AfD's? SPECIFICO talk 03:00, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

I am not understanding why it would be necessary to have some other admin undo this. Your user page says you are an admin, so you should be able to reopen the AfD if you have decided to do so. Other admins have done so after discussion on their talk page with contravening editors. If you need a formal request, then I request that you reopen the AfD. Steve Quinn (talk) 03:36, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

(moving left) I can technically reopen, but I'm refusing to do so because it wasn't going to be deleted at AFD- at best, it would have gotten closed with "no consensus". tedder (talk) 03:40, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

OK yeah, I misunderstood the point you were getting at in your last comment. I intended to adjust my response, but didn't get back to it in time. Steve Quinn (talk) 03:50, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Just to let you know, I requested the AfD be reopened by some other Admin at ANI (here is the link). Steve Quinn (talk) 04:01, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Just to close the book on this. If you don't mind, Tedder, could you answer the question I asked above, "Tedder, for everyone's information, how did you happen to see that the AfD seemed ripe to close?" I know some Admins actively patrol AfDs and other pages that need closes but you don't appear to be active in that role, and indeed are one of the less active Admins. How did it happen that you came to this AfD to close it? Suspicions have been raised on the article talk page and it will be good to clear the air. Please do not take this as any kind of accusation. Thanks. SPECIFICO talk 03:04, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

There's no conspiracy here. There is no cabal. tedder (talk) 04:08, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Surely you are aware from the words of your visitors here that none of us has accused you or anyone else of any impropriety. And we have noticed that you've repeatedly declined to answer my straightforward and I daresay quite understandable question as to how you, a relatively inactive Admin, stumbled upon this controversial and contentious article's AfD? SPECIFICO talk 04:18, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

The sarcasm is because this whole thing is absurd. I found the article, it was obvious the AfD wasn't going to go anywhere. I make little changes to random pages all the time. Please stop this silly line of questioning, take it to a noticeboard if you think it's improper. tedder (talk) 04:47, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Right, we know you found the article, don't we. How? Why? A speedy close to an AfD isn't a "little change to a random page" -- I mean, what page isn't a random page if there's a sample of one? A straight response would do the trick, but the evasive and defensive replies are arousing suspicion among various editors -- expressed on several talk pages and boards. SPECIFICO talk 05:40, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

I don't have any suspicions. But if I did, I'd follow the guidance at ANI to file an appeal at WP:DRV.Anythingyouwant (talk) 06:07, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

(edit conflict) I'm really sorry to disagree with you, Tedder - unilaterally deciding that "it was obvious the AfD wasn't going to go anywhere". I have to question whether it is really within your purview to offhandedly decide to speedy close an AfD after only two days. I am trying to think back, and I can't recall coming across an AfD that was closed after only two days - and then everyone involved said this was OK. The normal procedure is seven days, and AfDs frequently run for 14 days - in my experience. Sometimes they go a little longer than that. I am trying to be amicable here but... Steve Quinn (talk) 06:15, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

And I have to agree this wasn't a "little change to a random page". ---Steve Quinn (talk) 06:25, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

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.
• Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
• 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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Administrators' newsletter – March 2017

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

Administrator changes

Amortias • Deckiller • BU Rob13

Ronnotel • Islander • Chamal N • Isomorphic • Keeper76 • Lord Voldemort • Shereth • Bdesham • Pjacobi

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.

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Art+Feminism @ Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (March 18, 2017)

You are invited to the upcoming Art+Feminism edit-athon, which will be held at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (415 Southwest 10th Avenue #300, Portland 97205) on Saturday, March 18, 2017 from 10:00am – 5:00pm. For more information, visit Eventbrite.

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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.

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Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon @ PNCA Library (April 29, 2017)

You are invited to the upcoming Art+Feminism edit-athon, which will be held at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) Library at 511 NW Broadway on Saturday, April 29, 2017, from 11am to 4pm. For more information, visit the Facebook event page.

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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.

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Meetup Invitation

You are invited to the upcoming Asian Pacific American Heritage month edit-athon.

This will be held on the first floor of the Knight library at the University of Oregon.

For more information please see: Wikipedia:Meetup/Eugene/WikiAPA, a Facebook event link is also available on the Meetup page.

• Date: Friday, May 26, 2017
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• Location: Edminston Classroom, Knight Library, Room 144
• Address:1501 Kincaid Street, Eugene, Oregon, 97403-1299

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Jamison Square

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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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Nomination of Pluribus International Corporation for deletion

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

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

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.  Sandstein  09:29, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride at PNCA: Tuesday, June 27

You are invited to the upcoming Wiki Loves Pride edit-athon, which will be held at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (511 NW Broadway) on Tuesday, June 27, 2017, from 5–8pm. For more information, visit the meetup page or Facebook event page.

Hope to see you there! -MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:38, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2017

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

Administrator changes

Happyme22 • Dragons flight

Zad68

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=1 to 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.

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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Administrators' newsletter – August 2017

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

Administrator changes

Anarchyte • GeneralizationsAreBad • Cullen328 ^{(first RfA to reach WP:300)}

Cprompt • Rockpocket • Rambo's Revenge • Animum • TexasAndroid • Chuck SMITH • MikeLynch • Crazytales • Ad Orientem

Guideline and policy news

• 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.
• A new speedy deletion criterion, regarding articles created as a result undisclosed paid editing, is currently being discussed (permalink).
• An RfC (permalink) is currently open that proposes expanding WP:G13 to include all drafts, even if they weren't submitted through Articles for Creation.

Technical news

• LoginNotify should soon be deployed to the English Wikipedia. This will notify users when there are suspicious login attempts on their account.
• The new version of XTools is nearing an official release. This suite of tools includes administrator statistics, an improved edit counter, among other tools that may benefit administrators. You can report issues on Phabricator and provide general feedback at mw:Talk:XTools.

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Article re-review: Dial-A-Truck - DAT Solutions

As you reviewed this page about Dial-a-truck in 2009, would you mind taking another look at it based on the latest edits that I posted this last week? I would greatly appreciate your feedback. I would like to move the page to DAT Solutions once it is no longer considered a stub. — RossO : talk 06:27, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2017

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

Administrator changes

Nakon • Scott

Sverdrup • Thespian • Elockid • James086 • Ffirehorse • Celestianpower • Boing! said Zebedee

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.

Technical news

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

Arbitration

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

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Invitation to Admin confidence survey

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Beginning in September 2017, the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-harassment tool team will be conducting a survey to gauge how well tools, training, and information exists to assist English Wikipedia administrators in recognizing and mitigating things like sockpuppetry, vandalism, and harassment.

The survey should only take 5 minutes, and your individual response will not be made public. This survey will be integral for our team to determine how to better support administrators.

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2017

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

Administrator changes

Boing! said Zebedee • Ansh666 • Ad Orientem

Tonywalton • AmiDaniel • Silence • BanyanTree • Magioladitis • Vanamonde93 • Mr.Z-man • Jdavidb • Jakec • Ram-Man • Yelyos • Kurt Shaped Box

Guideline and policy news

• 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.
• Following a discussion about mass-application of ECP and how the need for logging and other details of an evolving consensus may have been missed by some administrators, a rough guide to extended confirmed protection has been written. This information page describes how the extended-confirmed aspects of the protection policy are currently being applied by administrators.

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.

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Upcoming Wikipedia edit-a-thon dedicated to artists of color - Thursday, Oct. 26 at PNCA

Main page: Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland/Artists of Color

On Thursday, October 26, a Wikipedia edit-a-thon dedicated to artists of color will be held from 4–8pm at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (511 NW Broadway). Learn more at Facebook. Hope to see you there! -MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:27, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

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.
• Following a request for comment, Ritchie333, Yunshui and Ymblanter will serve as the Electoral Commission for the 2017 ArbCom Elections.

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.

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A goat for you!

You're still here, tedder--thanks for all the time you have devoted to our beautiful project...

Drmies (talk) 01:29, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, to you too drmies (talk · contribs) :) tedder (talk) 22:30, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

• Which reminds me: I thought of you Sunday! Drmies (talk) 23:10, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Independendent schools

Please see: User talk:Kudpung#User:Garageland66, then this edit. The editor has a growing block log (you blocked twice already) and I'm not much disposed towards tolerance for what is now clearly WP:TEND and an attempt to test our patience. Thoughts? FYI: John from Idegon, KJP1. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 21:50, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

I've no problem with him updating the fees. But he's using this, and misleading edit summaries, to shoehorn in his view that they should be described as private schools rather than independent schools, despite having raised that issue repeatedly and completely failed to get consensus. His self-described affiliation is quite clear; "Communist, trade unionist and anti-austerity campaigner". I'm really not sure he wants to build an encyclopedia, as opposed to using Wikipedia to push his own agenda. KJP1 (talk) 22:20, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Done. It seems they could be a great user but they've refused to color inside the lines. tedder (talk) 22:35, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Appreciated. It is a pity. As you say, he could contribute effectively, but he just can't drop the stick. KJP1 (talk) 05:17, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

ArbCom 2017 election voter message

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

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

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

Administrators' newsletter – December 2017

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

Administrator changes

Joe Roe

JzG

Ericorbit • Perceval • Thingg • Tristanb • Violetriga

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.
• A new function is available to edit filter managers which can be used to store matches from regular expressions.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is open until Sunday 23:59, 10 December 2017 (UTC). There are 12 candidates running for 8 vacant seats.

Miscellaneous

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

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2018

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

Administrator changes

Muboshgu

Anetode • Laser brain • Worm That Turned

None

Bureaucrat changes

Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

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

Technical news

• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey results have been posted. The Community Tech team will investigate and address the top ten results.
• The Anti-Harassment Tools team is inviting comments on new blocking tools and improvements to existing blocking tools for development in early 2018. Feedback can be left on the discussion page or by email.

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.

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2018

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

Administrator changes

None

Blurpeace • Dana boomer • Deltabeignet • Denelson83 • Grandiose • Salvidrim! • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

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

Technical news

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

Arbitration

• 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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Administrators' newsletter – March 2018

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

Administrator changes

Lourdes†

AngelOfSadness • Bhadani • Chris 73 • Coren • Friday • Midom • Mike V

† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

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

Technical news

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

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2018 Steward elections, the following users are our new stewards: -revi, Green Giant, Rxy, There'sNoTime, علاء.

Obituaries

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

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Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Jewish Women Artists (March 8, Oregon Jewish Museum)

On March 8 (International Women's Day), the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education and artist Shoshana Gugenheim will be hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to create and improve Wikipedia articles about Jewish women artists. Click here for more information. You can also express interest or suggest articles to create or improve here. This event is free and open to the public, and will serve as both a public art action and a public educational program. Participation is welcome in person and remotely (for those outside of Portland). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:25, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (March 10, Pacific Northwest College of Art)

On Saturday, March 10 (11am to 4pm), the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) will be hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to create and improve Wikipedia articles about art, feminism, and women. You can read details on the Facebook event page, or this Wikipedia meetup page. Tutorials for new editors, reference materials, childcare, and refreshments will be provided. Bring your laptop, power cord and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. For the editing-averse, you're welcome to stop by to show your support! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:50, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Kuapay for deletion

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

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kuapay (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. K.e.coffman (talk) 02:05, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Amazon Web Services

Hi Tedder, thanks you for your arbitration in Amazon Web Services. Just wondering if page should not be in its original state, with List of products, until some kind of consensus is meet. Page has been edited many times and reviewed and that information was approved until now. I do not see any reason to remove it if there is no consensus. Just wondering. Anyway Thank you. Tech201805 (talk) 12:57, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

It doesn't really matter- there isn't much reason to take sides on it, having the information there (or not there) during a page-protected period doesn't hurt anything. I mean, it isn't like it's harmful information about a person. Just put energy towards discussing it instead. tedder (talk) 16:26, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

OK. Thanks for your information. Tech201805 (talk) 07:39, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2018

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

Administrator changes

Pbsouthwood • TheSandDoctor

Gogo Dodo

Andrevan • Doug • EVula • KaisaL • Tony Fox • WilyD

Bureaucrat changes

Andrevan • EVula

Guideline and policy news

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

Technical news

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

Miscellaneous

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

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Draft:Ahad Raza Mir

I approached yesterday the administrator who shifted this article to draft he is busy and has asked me to contact other administrator to look into. As I told him that now article subject has substantial references and can be moved to article main space with constructive editing, which I am willing to do, like adding references, changing it manual of style, so please look into the draft. I can move the article after providing suitable citation, but wanted to ask first. Nauriya, Let's talk - 23:17, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi Nauriya! I'd suggest using the good folks at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation to help you with a review. You can invite them to look at the page by adding this wikicode to the top of the page: {{subst:submit}}. There might be a delay but those people should be really good at reviewing and helping you out. tedder (talk) 00:35, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

Thank you actually I am not the creator and nominator of the article. I just needed "some sort" of permission before I could improve myself and move the article to mainspace. As admin Joe Decker has green-lit me to move it to mainspace after improving it, I will do that. If any objection comes along I will ask for their help. Nauriya, Let's talk - 11:01, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2018

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

Administrator changes

Sro23

KaisaL • Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

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

Technical news

• The WMF Anti-Harassment Tools team is seeking input on the second set of wireframes for the Special:Block redesign that will introduce partial blocks. The new functionality will allow you to block a user from editing a specific set of pages, pages in a category, a namespace, and for specific actions such as moving pages and uploading files.

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2018

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

Administrator changes

None

Asterion • Crisco 1492 • KF • Kudpung • Liz • Randykitty • Spartaz

Optimist on the run → Voice of Clam

Interface administrator changes

Amorymeltzer • Mr. Stradivarius • MusikAnimal • MSGJ • TheDJ • Xaosflux

Guideline and policy news

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

Technical news

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

Arbitration

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

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2018

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

Administrator changes

Justlettersandnumbers • L235

Bgwhite • HorsePunchKid • J Greb • KillerChihuahua • Rami R • Winhunter

Interface administrator changes

Cyberpower678 • Deryck Chan • Oshwah • Pharos • Ragesoss • Ritchie333

Oversight changes

Guerillero • NativeForeigner • Snowolf • Xeno

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the process for appointing interface administrators has been established. Currently only existing admins can request these rights, while a new RfC has begun on whether it should be available to non-admins.
• There is an open request for comment on Meta regarding the creation a new user group for global edit filter management.

Technical news

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

Arbitration

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

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2018

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

Administrator changes

Sir Sputnik

Kudpung • Liz • Lourdes

Everyking • Jackmcbarn

Interface administrator changes

Dinoguy1000

CheckUser changes

AGK • Ivanvector • Stwalkerster • TonyBallioni

Oversight changes

Amorymeltzer • Oshwah • TonyBallioni • Vanamonde93

Keilana

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment determined that non-administrators will not be able to request interface admin access.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the Mediation Committee should be closed and marked as historical.
• A village pump discussion has been ongoing about whether the proposed deletion policy (PROD) should be clarified or amended.
• A request for comment is in progress to determine whether pending changes protection should be applied automatically to today's featured article (TFA) in order to mitigate a recent trend of severe image vandalism.

Technical news

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

Arbitration

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

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ArbCom 2018 election voter message

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

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

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

Administrators' newsletter – December 2018

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

Administrator changes

Al Ameer son • Randykitty • Spartaz

Boson • Daniel J. Leivick • Efe • Esanchez7587 • Fred Bauder • Garzo • Martijn Hoekstra • Orangemike

Interface administrator changes

Deryck Chan

Guideline and policy news

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

Technical news

• Administrators and bureaucrats can no longer unblock themselves unless they placed the block initially. This change has been implemented globally. See also this ongoing village pump discussion (permalink).
• To complement the aforementioned change, blocked administrators will soon have the ability to block the administrator that placed their block to mitigate the possibility of a compromised administrator account blocking all other active administrators.
• Since deployment of Partial blocks on Test Wikipedia, several bugs were identified. Most of them are now fixed. Administrators are encouraged to test the new deployment and report new bugs on Phabricator or leave feedback on the Project's talk page. You can request administrator access on the Test Wiki here.

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 3 December 2018. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous

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

Obituaries

• Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (Raymond Arritt) passed away on 14 November 2018. Boris joined Wikipedia as Raymond arritt on 8 May 2006 and was an administrator from 30 July 2007 to 2 June 2008.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2019

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

Administrator changes

Galobtter

Orangemike

BorgQueen • Davidruben • Ocee • Revolving Bugbear • Theda • There'sNoTime • Timc • Tijuana Brass • Tristessa de St Ange

Bureaucrat changes

Addshore

CheckUser changes

Joe Roe • SilkTork

Euryalus • Newyorkbrad • There'sNoTime

Oversight changes

AGK • Joe Roe • SilkTork

Euryalus • Newyorkbrad • There'sNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• There are a number of new or changed speedy deletion criteria, each previously part of WP:CSD#G6:

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

• The Wikimedia Foundation now requires all interface administrators to enable two-factor authentication.
• Members of the Bot Approvals Group (BAG) are now subject to an activity requirement. After two years without any bot-related activity (e.g. operating a bot, posting on a bot-related talk page), BAG members will be retired from BAG following a one-week notice.

Technical news

• Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors, et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length. All accounts must have a password:

1. At least 8 characters in length
2. Not in the 100,000 most popular passwords (defined by the Password Blacklist library)
3. Different from their username

User accounts not meeting these requirements will be prompted to update their password accordingly. More information is available on MediaWiki.org.

• Blocked administrators may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
• {{Copyvio-revdel}} now has a link to open the history with the RevDel checkboxes already filled in.

Arbitration

• Following the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: AGK, Courcelles, GorillaWarfare, Joe Roe, Mkdw, SilkTork.

Miscellaneous

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

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Wikipedia Editathon: The Visibility Project - Saturday, January 19

Make+Think+Code and the Pacific Northwest College of Art are hosting a Wikipedia editathon at the Shipley Collins Mediatheque (511 NW Broadway) on Saturday, January 19 from 10am to 2:30pm. The purpose of the event is to make Wikipedia a more vibrant, representative, inclusive and diverse resource. Please visit Wikipedia:Meetup/MakeThinkCode/TheVisibilityProject for more information. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:46, 14 January 2019 (UTC)