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National Mario Day
Yeah, apparently it's a thing. I guess it makes sense... like Star Wars Day ↗ on May 4th (as in "May the 4th be with you").
I'm not entirely convinced it's notable, but I thought it might be worth giving it a chance.
Cheers. 86.20.193.222 ↗ (talk) 01:05, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
On this day, 10 years ago...
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Re Bridge_Capital,_LLC
No, it's not whitewashing. I will put a more detailed section. I am just collecting more information. Thank you!
I am so sorry. I did not see that the cannot be undone. What should I do? Really sorry. Help! Comment added by Jenv Corre (talk) 08:22, 13 March 2017 (UTC)Jenv Corre (talk • contribs ↗) 08:18, 13 March 2017 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
Administrators' newsletter – April 2017
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (March 2017).
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:20px|alt=removed ↗ Xnuala ↗ • CJ ↗ • Oldelpaso ↗ • Berean Hunter ↗ • Jimbo Wales ↗ • Andrew c ↗ • Karanacs ↗ • Modemac ↗ • Scott ↗
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:* 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.
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:* 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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Administrators' newsletter – May 2017
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (April 2017).
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:20px|alt=added ↗ Karanacs ↗ • Berean Hunter ↗ • GoldenRing ↗ • Dlohcierekim ↗
:20px|alt=removed ↗ Gdr ↗ • Tyrenius ↗ • JYolkowski ↗ • Longhair ↗ • Master Thief Garrett ↗ • Aaron Brenneman ↗ • Laser brain ↗ • JzG ↗ • Dragons flight ↗
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:*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 ↗.
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:*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 ↗. <small>(discuss ↗, permalink ↗)</small>
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:*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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Administrators' newsletter – June 2017
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News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (May 2017).
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:20px|alt=added ↗ Doug Bell ↗ • Dennis Brown ↗ • Clpo13 ↗ • ONUnicorn ↗
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:*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 ↗.
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:* Users will soon be able ↗ to blacklist specific users ↗ from sending them notifications.
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:* 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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Donal O'Sullivan article
Hi,
I tried to create my first article about two weeks ago regarding Donal O'Sullivan but I didn't provide sources. I have them now, but I can't find the content that I wrote in the first version of the article.
Is there any chance that the content that I wrote can be retrieved?
Thank you
PaulPaul.tuthill1979 (talk) 18:23, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
:It looks like the article is back: Donal O'Sullivan (artist) ↗. I think your request is moot. If not, let me know. Brianga (talk) 04:31, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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Donald Trump the Republican presumptive nominee
I believe you were the first editor of John Kasich presidential campaign, 2016 ↗ to refer to Donald Trump as the possible "presumptive nominee". I invite you to add any comment you may have to a discussion at Talk:Attempted assassination of Donald Trump#Presumptive nominee ↗. —Anomalocaris (talk) 15:56, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – July 2017
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News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (June 2017).
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:* 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 ↗.
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:* 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 {{nowrap|{{code|?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 ↗.
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:* 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).
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:20px|alt=added ↗ Anarchyte ↗ • GeneralizationsAreBad ↗ • Cullen328 ↗ <sup>(first RfA ↗ to reach WP:300 ↗)</sup>
:20px|alt=removed ↗ Cprompt ↗ • Rockpocket ↗ • Rambo's Revenge ↗ • Animum ↗ • TexasAndroid ↗ • Chuck SMITH ↗ • MikeLynch ↗ • Crazytales ↗ • Ad Orientem ↗
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:* Following a series of discussions around new pages patrol ↗, the WMF is helping implement a controlled autoconfirmed article creation trial ↗ as a research experiment, similar to the one proposed in 2011 ↗. You can learn more about the research plan at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial ↗. The exact start date of the experiment has yet to be determined.
:* 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 ↗.
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:* 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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Administrators' newsletter – September 2017
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (August 2017).
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:20px|alt=added ↗ Nakon ↗ • Scott ↗
:20px|alt=removed ↗ Sverdrup ↗ • Thespian ↗ • Elockid ↗ • James086 ↗ • Ffirehorse ↗ • Celestianpower ↗ • Boing! said Zebedee ↗
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:* ACTRIAL ↗, a research experiment that restricts article creation to autoconfirmed users, will begin on September 7. It will run for six months. You can learn more about the research specifics at meta:Research:Autoconfirmed article creation trial ↗, while Wikipedia talk:Autoconfirmed article creation trial ↗ is probably the best venue for general discussion.
:* Following an RfC ↗, WP:G13 ↗ speedy deletion criterion now applies to any page in the draftspace that has not been edited in six months. There is a bot-generated report, updated daily, to help identify potentially qualifying drafts that have not been submitted through articles for creation ↗.
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:* 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.
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:* 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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ITN recognition for Edith Windsor ↗
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2017
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (September 2017).
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:20px|alt=removed ↗ Tonywalton ↗ • AmiDaniel ↗ • Silence ↗ • BanyanTree ↗ • Magioladitis ↗ • Vanamonde93 ↗ • Mr.Z-man ↗ • Jdavidb ↗ • Jakec ↗ • Ram-Man ↗ • Yelyos ↗ • Kurt Shaped Box ↗
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:*Following a successful proposal ↗ to create it, a new user right called "edit filter helper ↗" is now assignable and revocable by administrators. The right allows non-administrators to view the details of private edit filters ↗, but not to edit them.
:*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.
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:* You can now search for IP ranges ↗ at Special:Contributions ↗. Some log pages and Special:DeletedContributions ↗ are not yet supported. Wildcards (e.g. {{mono|192.168.0.*}}) are also not supported, but the popular contribsrange gadget ↗ will continue to work.
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:* 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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Nomination of :Scarlett OConnor ↗ for deletion
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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scarlett OConnor ↗ until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2017
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (October 2017).
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:20px|alt=added ↗ Longhair ↗ • Megalibrarygirl ↗ • TonyBallioni ↗ • Vanamonde93 ↗
:20px|alt=removed ↗ Allen3 ↗ • Eluchil404 ↗ • Arthur Rubin ↗ • Bencherlite ↗
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:* 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.
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:* 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 ↗, {{no ping|Ritchie333}}, {{no ping|Yunshui}} and {{no ping|Ymblanter}} will serve as the Electoral Commission for the 2017 ArbCom Elections.
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:* The Wikipedia community has recently learned that {{u|Allen3}} (William Allen Peckham) passed away ↗ on December 30, 2016, the same day as {{u|JohnCD}}. Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.
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A Dobos torte ↗ for you!
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2017
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (November 2017).
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:20px|alt=added ↗ Joe Roe ↗
:20px|alt=readded ↗ JzG ↗
:20px|alt=removed ↗ Ericorbit ↗ • Perceval ↗ • Thingg ↗ • Tristanb ↗ • Violetriga ↗
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:* 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.
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:* 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.
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:* 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.
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:* Over the last few months, several users have reported backlogs ↗ that require administrator attention at WP:ANI ↗, with the most common backlogs showing up on WP:SPI ↗, WP:AIV ↗ and WP:RFPP ↗. It is requested that all administrators take some time during this month to help clear backlogs wherever possible. It should be noted that AIV reports are not always valid; however, they still need to be cleared, which may include needing to remind users on what qualifies as vandalism.
:* 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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ArbCom 2017 election voter message
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2018
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (December 2017).
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:20px|alt=readded|Re-added ↗ Anetode ↗ • Laser brain ↗ • Worm That Turned ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ ''None''
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:20px|alt=readded|Re-added ↗ Worm That Turned ↗
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:* 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.
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:* 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 ↗.
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:* Following the results of the 2017 election ↗, the following editors have been (re)appointed to the Arbitration Committee: {{noping|Alex Shih}}, {{noping|BU Rob13}}, {{noping|Callanecc}}, {{noping|KrakatoaKatie}}, {{noping|Opabinia regalis}}, {{noping|Premeditated Chaos}}, {{noping|RickinBaltimore}}, {{noping|Worm That Turned}}.
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2018
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (January 2018).
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Blurpeace ↗ • Dana boomer ↗ • Deltabeignet ↗ • Denelson83 ↗ • Grandiose ↗ • Salvidrim! ↗ • Ymblanter ↗
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:* 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.
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:* 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 ↗.
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:* 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).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Lourdes ↗{{dagger}}
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ AngelOfSadness ↗ • Bhadani ↗ • Chris 73 ↗ • Coren ↗ • Friday ↗ • Midom ↗ • Mike V ↗
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:* 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.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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 ↗ <code>contains_all</code> that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.
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:* Following the 2018 Steward elections ↗, the following users are our new stewards: {{noping|-revi}}, {{noping|Green Giant}}, {{noping|Rxy}}, {{noping|There'sNoTime}}, {{noping|علاء}}.
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:* 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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Administrators' newsletter – April 2018
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (March 2018).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ 331dot ↗ • Cordless Larry ↗ • ClueBot NG
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Gogo Dodo ↗ • Pb30 ↗ • Sebastiankessel ↗ • Seicer ↗ • SoLando ↗
20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
:* Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required ↗ to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
:* Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned ↗ by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
:* The notability guideline for organizations and companies ↗ has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment ↗. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
:* The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial ↗ (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published ↗. A request for comment ↗ is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.
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:* There will soon be a calendar widget ↗ at Special:Block ↗, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.
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:* The Arbitration Committee is considering ↗ a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE ↗ or WP:AN ↗ prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA ↗.
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:* A discussion has closed ↗ which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email ↗, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
:* The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline ↗. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2018
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (April 2018).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ ''None''
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Chochopk ↗ • Coffee ↗ • Gryffindor ↗ • Jimp ↗ • Knowledge Seeker ↗ • Lankiveil ↗ • Peridon ↗ • Rjd0060 ↗
20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
:* The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users ↗.
:* A proposal is being discussed ↗ which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news''' {{anchor|technews}}
:* AbuseFilter ↗ has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul ↗, syntax highlighting ↗, ability to search existing filters ↗, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new <code>equals_to_any</code> function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest ↗. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash ↗.
:* When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied ↗ that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts ↗.
:* The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative ↗ and point users to a help page ↗ on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop ↗.
:* There will soon be a calendar widget ↗ at Special:Block ↗, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.
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:* The Arbitration Committee is seeking additional clerks ↗ to help with the arbitration process.
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:* {{noping|Lankiveil}} (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2018
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (May 2018).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ ''None''
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Al Ameer son ↗ • AliveFreeHappy ↗ • Cenarium ↗ • Lupo ↗ • MichaelBillington ↗
20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
:* Following a successful request for comment ↗, administrators are now able to add and remove editors to the "event coordinator" group ↗. Users in the event coordinator group have the ability to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit. Users will no longer need to be in the "account creator" group ↗ if they are in the event coordinator group.
:* Following an AN discussion ↗, all pages with content related to blockchain ↗ and cryptocurrencies ↗, broadly construed, are now under indefinite general sanctions ↗.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''
:* IP-based cookie blocks ↗ should be deployed ↗ to English Wikipedia in June. This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
:* The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks ↗ in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page ↗.
:* There is now a checkbox ↗ on Special:ListUsers ↗ to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
:* It is now easier ↗ for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.
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:* A recent technical issue ↗ with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee ↗) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Miscellaneous'''
:* In early May, an unusually high level of failed login attempts ↗ was observed. The WMF has stated ↗ that this was an "external effort to gain unauthorized access to random accounts". Under Wikipedia policy, administrators are required 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.
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2018
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (June 2018).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Pbsouthwood ↗ • TheSandDoctor ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Gogo Dodo ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Andrevan ↗ • Doug ↗ • EVula ↗ • KaisaL ↗ • Tony Fox ↗ • WilyD ↗
20px|alt= ↗ '''Bureaucrat changes'''
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Andrevan ↗ • EVula ↗
20px|alt= ↗ '''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 {{tl|promising draft}} template cannot be used to indefinitely prevent a WP:G13 ↗ speedy deletion nomination.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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 (20px ↗) 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.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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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Administrators' newsletter – August 2018
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (July 2018).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Sro23 ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ KaisaL ↗ • Ymblanter ↗
20px|alt= ↗ '''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.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ ''None''
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Asterion ↗ • Crisco 1492 ↗ • KF ↗ • Kudpung ↗ • Liz ↗ • Randykitty ↗ • Spartaz ↗
:20px|alt=renamed|Renamed ↗ {{noping|Optimist on the run}} → {{noping|Voice of Clam}}
20px|alt= ↗ '''Interface administrator changes'''
:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Amorymeltzer ↗ • Mr. Stradivarius ↗ • MusikAnimal ↗ • MSGJ ↗ • TheDJ ↗ • Xaosflux ↗
20px|alt= ↗ '''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.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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 <code>Deprecated. Use ... instead</code>. An example is <code>article_text</code> which is now <code>page_title</code>.
:* Abuse filters can now use ↗ how old a page is. The variable is <code>page_age</code>.
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:* 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).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Justlettersandnumbers ↗ • L235 ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Bgwhite ↗ • HorsePunchKid ↗ • J Greb ↗ • KillerChihuahua ↗ • Rami R ↗ • Winhunter ↗
20px|alt= ↗ '''Interface administrator changes'''
:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Cyberpower678 ↗ • Deryck Chan ↗ • Oshwah ↗ • Pharos ↗ • Ragesoss ↗ • Ritchie333 ↗
20px|alt= ↗ '''Oversight changes'''
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Guerillero ↗ • NativeForeigner ↗ • Snowolf ↗ • Xeno ↗
20px|alt= ↗ '''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.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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.
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:* 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).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Sir Sputnik ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Kudpung ↗ • Liz ↗ • Lourdes ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Everyking ↗ • Jackmcbarn ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Dinoguy1000 ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ AGK ↗ • Ivanvector ↗ • Stwalkerster ↗ • TonyBallioni ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Amorymeltzer ↗ • Oshwah ↗ • TonyBallioni ↗ • Vanamonde93 ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Keilana ↗
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20px|alt= ↗ '''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.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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.
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:* 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 ''{{email|arbcom-en|wikimedia.org}}''. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2018
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (November 2018).
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Al Ameer son ↗ • Randykitty ↗ • Spartaz ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Boson ↗ • Daniel J. Leivick ↗ • Efe ↗ • Esanchez7587 ↗ • Fred Bauder ↗ • Garzo ↗ • Martijn Hoekstra ↗ • Orangemike ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗Deryck Chan ↗
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:* 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.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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 <span class="plainlinks">soon have the ability ↗</span> 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 ↗.
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:* 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 ↗.
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:* 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.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Obituaries'''
:* {{noping|Shock Brigade Harvester Boris}} (Raymond Arritt) passed away on 14 November 2018. Boris joined Wikipedia as {{noping|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).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Galobtter ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Orangemike ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ BorgQueen ↗ • Davidruben ↗ • Ocee ↗ • Revolving Bugbear ↗ • Theda ↗ • There'sNoTime ↗ • Timc ↗ • Tijuana Brass ↗ • Tristessa de St Ange ↗
20px|alt= ↗ '''Bureaucrat changes'''
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Addshore ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Joe Roe ↗ • SilkTork ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Euryalus ↗ • Newyorkbrad ↗ • There'sNoTime ↗
20px|alt= ↗ '''Oversight changes'''
:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ AGK ↗ • Joe Roe ↗ • SilkTork ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Euryalus ↗ • Newyorkbrad ↗ • There'sNoTime ↗
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
:* There are a number of new or changed speedy deletion criteria ↗, each previously part of WP:CSD#G6 ↗:
::#'''G14 ↗''' (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion ↗). This is {{tl|db-disambig}}; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in :Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages ↗.
::#'''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 {{tl|db-redircom}}; the text is unchanged.
::#'''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 {{tl|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.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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 <u>at least 10 characters in length</u>. ''All'' accounts must have a password:
::# At least 8 characters in length
::# Not in the 100,000 most popular passwords (defined by the [//github.com/wikimedia/password-blacklist Password Blacklist library])
::# 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.
:*{{tl|Copyvio-revdel}} now has a link to open the history with the RevDel ↗ checkboxes already filled in.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Arbitration'''
:* Following the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: {{noping|AGK}}, {{noping|Courcelles}}, {{noping|GorillaWarfare}}, {{noping|Joe Roe}}, {{noping|Mkdw}}, {{noping|SilkTork}}.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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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Administrators' newsletter – February 2019
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (January 2019).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Enterprisey ↗ • JJMC89 ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ BorgQueen ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Harro5 ↗ • Jenks24 ↗ • Graft ↗ • R. Baley ↗
20px|alt= ↗ '''Interface administrator changes'''
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗Enterprisey ↗
20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
:* A request for comment ↗ is currently open to reevaluate the activity requirements ↗ for administrators.
:* Administrators who are blocked have the technical ability to block the administrator who blocked their own account. A recent request for comment ↗ has amended the blocking policy ↗ to clarify that this ability should only be used in exceptional circumstances, such as account compromises, where there is a clear and immediate need.
:* A request for comment ↗ closed with a consensus in favor of deprecating ''The Sun ↗'' as a permissible reference, and creating an edit filter to warn users who attempt to cite it.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''
:*A discussion ↗ regarding an overhaul of the format and appearance of Wikipedia:Requests for page protection ↗ is in progress (permalink ↗). The proposed changes will make it easier to create requests for those who are not using Twinkle. The workflow for administrators at this venue will largely be unchanged. Additionally, there are plans to archive requests similar to how it is done at WP:PERM ↗, where historical records are kept so that prior requests can more easily be searched for.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Miscellaneous'''
:* Voting in the 2019 Steward elections ↗ will begin on 08 February 2019, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2019, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process ↗ of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility ↗ to vote.
:* A new IRC bot is available that allows you to subscribe to notifications when specific filters are tripped. This requires that your IRC handle be identified ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2019
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (February 2019).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Evad37 ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ There'sNoTime ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Alex Shih ↗ • Brian ↗ • Mushroom ↗ • Nakon ↗ • Oscarthecat ↗ • PeruvianLlama ↗ • Ragib ↗ • Reaper Eternal ↗ • Rossami ↗ • Tom ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Evad37 ↗ • Galobtter ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Ritchie333 ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ There'sNoTime ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Keegan ↗ • Ks0stm ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ There'sNoTime ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Ks0stm ↗ • Sphilbrick ↗
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
:*The RfC on administrator activity requirements ↗ failed to reach consensus for any proposal.
:*Following discussions at the Bureaucrats' noticeboard ↗ and Wikipedia talk:Administrators ↗, an earlier change to the restoration of adminship ↗ policy was reverted ↗. If requested, bureaucrats will not restore administrator permissions removed due to inactivity if there have been five years without a logged administrator action; this "five year rule" does not apply to permissions removed voluntarily.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''
:* A new tool ↗ is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Arbitration'''
:*The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues ↗. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN ↗ or WP:SPI ↗).
:**<kbd>{{Nospam|paid-en-wp|wikipedia.org}}</kbd> has been set up to receive private evidence related to abusive paid editing ↗.
:**<kbd>{{Nospam|checkuser-en-wp|wikipedia.org}}</kbd> has been set up to receive private requests for CheckUser. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to this address instead of the functionaries-en list.
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:*Following the 2019 Steward Elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Base ↗, Einsbor ↗, Jon Kolbert ↗, Schniggendiller ↗, and Wim b ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2019
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (March 2019).
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Reaper Eternal ↗ • ThaddeusB ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Bogdangiusca ↗ • Christopher Parham ↗ • Necrothesp ↗ • Schneelocke ↗ • Siroxo ↗ • Sarah ↗
:20px|alt=renamed|Renamed ↗ {{noping|Mentifisto}} → {{noping|Lofty abyss}}
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Mr. Stradivarius ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ DeltaQuad ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Kingturtle ↗
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''
:* In Special:Preferences ↗ under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option ↗ to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback ↗ link.
:* The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Please see :meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019 ↗ to provide your input on this idea.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Arbitration'''
:* The Arbitration Committee clarified ↗ that the General 1RR prohibition ↗ for Palestine-Israel articles may only be enforced on pages with the {{tl|ARBPIA 1RR editnotice}} edit notice.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Miscellaneous'''
:* Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. '''''If you have ever used your current password on ''any'' other website, you should change it immediately.''''' All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication ↗, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security ↗ by ensuring your password is secure ↗ and unique to Wikimedia.
:* As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM ↗, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion ↗ (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.
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ArbCom 2019 special circular
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The Arbitration Committee may require a new RfA if your account is compromised.
- Use strong, unique passwords for your Wikipedia account and associated email
- Change your password now ↗ if your Wikipedia account password or email password is reused on another website, exposed ↗, or weak
- Enable two-factor authentication now ↗ for improved security
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: Recently, several Wikipedia admin accounts were compromised. The admin accounts were desysopped on an emergency basis ↗. In the past, the Committee often resysopped admin accounts as a matter of course once the admin was back in control of their account. The committee has updated its guidelines. Admins may now be required to undergo a fresh Request for Adminship (RfA) ↗ after losing control of their account.
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: Only to follow the instructions in this message.
:# Check that your password is unique (not reused across sites).
:# Check that your password is strong (not simple or guessable).
:# Enable Two-factor authentication (2FA), if you can, to create a second hurdle for attackers.
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Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)
ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.
Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required ↗ to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices ↗." We have updated ↗ our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication ↗ remains an ''optional'' means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.
We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2019
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (April 2019).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ HickoryOughtShirt?4 ↗ • RexxS ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Necrothesp ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Bratsche ↗ • Kyle Barbour ↗ • Kzollman ↗ • Madman ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Pharos ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Primefac ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Reaper Eternal ↗
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
:* A request for comment ↗ concluded that creating pages in the portal namespace ↗ should be restricted to autoconfirmed users.
:* Following a request for comment ↗, the subject-specific notability guideline ↗ for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO ↗) was removed ↗; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT ↗ and WP:GNG ↗.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''
:* XTools Admin Stats ↗, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats ↗ and Patroller Stats ↗.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Arbitration'''
:* In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion ↗ amending the procedures for return of permissions ↗ (diff ↗). In such cases, {{tq|the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions}}; administrators found failing to have adequately done so {{tq|will not be resysopped automatically}}. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
:* Following a formal ratification process ↗, the arbitration policy ↗ has been amended (diff ↗). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.
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:* A request for comment ↗ is currently open to amend the community sanctions procedure ↗ to exclude non XfD or CSD deletions.
:* A proposal to remove pre-2009 indefinite IP blocks ↗ is currently open for discussion.
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2019
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (May 2019).
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Andonic ↗ • Consumed Crustacean ↗ • Enigmaman ↗ • Euryalus ↗ • EWS23 ↗ • HereToHelp ↗ • Nv8200pa ↗ • Peripitus ↗ • StringTheory11 ↗ • Vejvančický ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Ivanvector ↗
20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
:*An RfC ↗ seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING ↗ should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
:*An RfC on WT:RfA ↗ concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
:*An RfC proposal ↗ to make the templates for discussion ↗ (TfD) process more like the requested moves ↗ (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''
:*The CSD feature of Twinkle ↗ now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion. You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences ↗: look for ''Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria''.
:*Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution! The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.
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:*The previously discussed ↗ unblocking of IP addresses indefinitely-blocked before 2009 was approved ↗ and has taken place.
:*The 2019 talk pages consultation ↗ produced a report for Phase 1 ↗ and has entered Phase 2 ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2019
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (June 2019).
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ 28bytes ↗ • Ad Orientem ↗ • Ansh666 ↗ • Beeblebrox ↗ • Boing! said Zebedee ↗ • BU Rob13 ↗ • Dennis Brown ↗ • Deor ↗ • DoRD ↗ • {{noping|Floquenbeam}}<sup><small>1</small></sup> • Flyguy649 ↗ • {{noping|Fram}}<sup><small>2</small></sup> • Gadfium ↗ • GB fan ↗ • Jonathunder ↗ • Kusma ↗ • Lectonar ↗ • Moink ↗ • MSGJ ↗ • Nick ↗ • Od Mishehu ↗ • Rama ↗ • Spartaz ↗ • Syrthiss ↗ • TheDJ ↗ • WJBscribe ↗
::<sup><small>1</small></sup><small>{{noping|Floquenbeam}}'s access was removed ↗, then restored ↗, then removed again ↗.</small>
::<sup><small>2</small></sup><small>{{noping|Fram}}'s access was removed ↗, then restored ↗, then removed again ↗.</small>
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ 28bytes ↗ • WJBscribe ↗ • Wizardman ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ MSGJ ↗ • TheDJ ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Beeblebrox ↗ • BU Rob13 ↗ • DoRD ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Beeblebrox ↗ • BU Rob13 ↗ • DoRD ↗ • GB fan ↗
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
:* A request for comment ↗ seeking to alleviate pressures on the request an account (ACC) ↗ process proposes either raising the account creation limit for extended confirmed editors or granting the account creator permission ↗ on request to new ACC tool users.
::*In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity ↗ completed.
:* The scope of CSD criterion G8 ↗ has been tightened ↗ such that the only redirects that it now applies to are those which target non-existent pages.
:* The scope of CSD criterion G14 ↗ has been expanded slightly ↗ to include orphan "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects that target pages that are not disambiguation pages or pages that perform a disambiguation-like function (such as set index articles or lists).
:* A request for comment ↗ seeks to determine whether Wikipedia:Office actions ↗ should be a policy page or an information page.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''
:* The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative ↗ plans to design and build a new user reporting system ↗ to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.
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:* In February 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) changed its office actions policy ↗ to include temporary and project-specific bans. The WMF exercised this new ability for the first time on the English Wikipedia on 10 June 2019 to temporarily ban and desysop {{noping|Fram}}. This action has resulted in significant community discussion ↗, a request for arbitration ↗ (permalink ↗), and, either directly or indirectly, the resignations of numerous administrators and functionaries. The WMF Board of Trustees is aware of the situation, and discussions continue on a statement and a way forward. The Arbitration Committee has sent an open letter to the WMF Board ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2019
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (July 2019).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Johnuniq ↗ • Kosack ↗ • Valereee ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Ad Orientem ↗ • Ched ↗ • Gadfium ↗ • Jonathunder ↗ • Nick ↗ • Yelyos ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Bald Zebra ↗ • Beetstra ↗ • Doug Bell ↗ • Journalist ↗ • Ruud Koot ↗ • Splash ↗ • Voice of Clam ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Beeblebrox ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ RickinBaltimore ↗
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:* Following a request for comment ↗, the page Wikipedia:Office actions ↗ has been changed from a policy page to an information page.
:* A request for comment ↗ (permalink ↗) is in progress regarding the administrator inactivity policy ↗.
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:* Editors may now use ↗ the template {{tl|Ds/aware}} to indicate that they are aware that discretionary sanctions ↗ are in force for a topic area, so it is unnecessary to alert ↗ them.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Miscellaneous'''
:*Following a research project ↗ on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors ↗. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page ↗.
:*The new page reviewer right ↗ is bundled with the admin tool set. Many admins regularly help out at Special:NewPagesFeed ↗, but they may not be aware of improvements, changes, and new tools for the Curation system. Stay up to date by subscribing here to the NPP newsletter ↗ that appears every two months, and/or putting the reviewers' talk page ↗ on your watchlist.<p>Since the introduction of temporary user rights, it is becoming more usual to accord the New Page Reviewer right on a probationary period of 3 to 6 months in the first instance. This avoids rights removal for inactivity ↗ at a later stage and enables a review of their work before according the right on a permanent basis.
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News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (August 2019).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Bradv ↗ • Chetsford ↗ • Izno ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Floquenbeam ↗ • Lectonar ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ DESiegel ↗ • Jake Wartenberg ↗ • Rjanag ↗ • Topbanana ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Callanecc ↗ • LFaraone ↗ • There'sNoTime ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Callanecc ↗ • Fox ↗ • HJ Mitchell ↗ • LFaraone ↗ • There'sNoTime ↗
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:* Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features ↗ via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
:* The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes ↗ two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.
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:* A request for comment ↗ is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2019 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election ↗ and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
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:* A global request for comment ↗ is in progress regarding whether a user group should be created that could modify edit filters ↗ across all public Wikimedia wikis.
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2019
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (September 2019).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Barkeep49 ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Beetstra ↗ • KillerChihuahua ↗ • Kusma ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Arcadian ↗ • Extraordinary Machine ↗ • Xeno ↗
:20px|alt=renamed|Renamed ↗ JamesBWatson ↗ → {{noping|JBW}}
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Evad37 ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Courcelles ↗ • SilkTork ↗ • Timotheus Canens ↗
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:*Following a discussion ↗, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article ↗, which {{tq|applies if the category contains ''only'' an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories}}.
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:*As previously noted ↗, tighter password requirements ↗ for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.
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:*The 2019 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process ↗ has begun. The community consultation period will take place October 4th to 10th.
:*The arbitration case regarding ↗ {{noping|Fram}} was closed ↗. While there will be a local RfC {{tq|focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future}}, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions ↗ in response to the incident ↗. It will be open until October 30th.
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:*The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2019
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (October 2019).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ GermanJoe ↗ • Girth Summit ↗ • Kees08 ↗ • Nosebagbear ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ DESiegel ↗ • GB fan ↗ • MSGJ ↗ • Voice of Clam ↗ • WilyD ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ DeltaQuad ↗ • Fang Aili ↗ • Pakaran ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ DeltaQuad ↗ • Pakaran ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ MSGJ ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ L235 ↗ • Mz7 ↗ • SQL ↗ • ST47 ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Ivanvector ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ DeltaQuad ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ L235 ↗ • Mz7 ↗ • ST47 ↗ • Stwalkerster ↗ • The Blade of the Northern Lights ↗ • Xaosflux ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ DeltaQuad ↗ • DGG ↗ • Julia W ↗
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
:* An RfC was closed ↗ with the consensus that the resysop criteria ↗ should be made stricter.
::* The follow-up RfC to develop that change is now open at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2019 Resysop Criteria (2) ↗.
:* A related RfC ↗ is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.
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:* Eligible editors may now nominate themselves as candidates ↗ for the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections ↗. The self-nomination period will close November 12, with voting running from November 19 through December 2.
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2019
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (November 2019).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ EvergreenFir ↗ • ToBeFree ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Akhilleus ↗ • Athaenara ↗ • John Vandenberg ↗ • Melchoir ↗ • MichaelQSchmidt ↗ • NeilN ↗ • Youngamerican ↗ • 😂 ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Beeblebrox ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Deskana ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Evad37 ↗
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:*An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria ↗ was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship ↗ is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats ↗ are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
:*Following a proposal ↗, the edit filter mailing list ↗ has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.
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:*Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry ↗. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip ↗, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. (T219126 ↗)
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:* Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections ↗ is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates ↗ and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page ↗.
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:*The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions ↗ that ended in October received a closing statement from staff ↗ concluding, among other things, that the WMF {{tq|will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive}}.
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2020
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (December 2019).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Dreamy Jazz ↗ • Newslinger ↗ • Rosguill ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Deor ↗ • Spartaz ↗ • Xeno ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Angusmclellan ↗ • clpo13 ↗ • Edgar181 ↗ • Matthewedwards ↗ • NCurse ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Bradv ↗ • Casliber ↗ • David Fuchs ↗ • Maxim ↗ • Newyorkbrad ↗ • SoWhy ↗ • Xeno ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Bradv ↗ • Casliber ↗ • DGG ↗ • David Fuchs ↗ • Maxim ↗ • Newyorkbrad ↗ • SoWhy ↗ • Xeno ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Someguy1221 ↗
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:* A request for comment ↗ asks whether partial blocks ↗ should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
:*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 ↗.
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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 {{tq|the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted}} rather than {{tq|reasonably construed}}.
:* Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: {{noping|Beeblebrox}}, {{noping|Bradv}}, {{noping|Casliber}}, {{noping|David Fuchs}}, {{noping|DGG}}, {{noping|KrakatoaKatie}}, {{noping|Maxim}}, {{noping|Newyorkbrad}}, {{noping|SoWhy}}, {{noping|Worm That Turned}}, {{noping|Xeno}}.
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:*This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter ↗. Thanks for reading!
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2020
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (January 2020).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Ergo Sum ↗ • Nick Moyes ↗ • QEDK ↗ • Wugapodes ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Dennis Brown ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Aude ↗ • BrownHairedGirl ↗ • CALR ↗ • Jengod ↗ • John Reaves ↗ • J.smith ↗ • Kim Dent-Brown ↗ • K1Bond007 ↗ • MECU ↗ • Refdoc ↗ • RHaworth ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Opabinia regalis ↗ • Premeditated Chaos ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Ragesoss ↗
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
:* Following a request for comment ↗, partial blocks ↗ are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks ↗.
:* The request for comment ↗ seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with {{tq|wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input}}. No proposed process received consensus.
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:* 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: {{tl|uw-pblock}}.
:* When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184357 ↗
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:* Following a recent arbitration case ↗, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators {{tq|that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.}}
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:* Voting in the 2020 Steward elections ↗ will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process ↗ of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility ↗ to vote.
:* The English Wikipedia has reached six million articles ↗. Thank you everyone for your contributions!
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2020
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (February 2020).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Money emoji ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Athaenara ↗ • DeltaQuad ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Fishhead64 ↗ • Kudpung ↗ • Mikaey ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ DeltaQuad ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ DeltaQuad ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ DeltaQuad ↗
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:*Following an RfC ↗, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops {{tq|must not}} undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than {{tq|should not}}.
:*A request for comment ↗ confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.
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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.
:* The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission ↗ are Ajraddatz ↗ and Uzoma Ozurumba ↗; they will serve for one year.
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2020
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (March 2020).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Cabayi ↗ • Lee Vilenski ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Boing! said Zebedee ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Jonny-mt ↗ • MarkGallagher ↗ • PeaceNT ↗
:20px|alt=renamed|Renamed ↗ {{noping|Money emoji}} → {{noping| Moneytrees}}
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ SilkTork ↗ • WereSpielChequers ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ NativeForeigner ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Someguy1221 ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Daniel Case ↗
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:* There is an ongoing ↗ request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.
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:* There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures ↗. You can give feedback ↗.
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:*Following the banning ↗ of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved ↗ to hold a {{tq|Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment}}. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) ↗ and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.
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:* The WMF has begun a pilot report ↗ of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2020
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (April 2020).
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Gnangarra ↗ • Kaisershatner ↗ • Malcolmxl5 ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Callanecc ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ HJ Mitchell ↗
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:*Discretionary sanctions ↗ have been authorized ↗ for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19 ↗.
:*Following a recent discussion ↗ on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer ↗ global group has been created.
:*A request for comment ↗ has been proposed to create a new main page editor ↗ usergroup.
:*A request for comment ↗ has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements ↗ more strict.
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:*The Editing team ↗ has been working on the talk pages project ↗. You can review the proposed design ↗ and share your thoughts on the talk page.
:*{{noping|Enterprisey}} created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.
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:*A request for comment closed ↗ with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2020
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (May 2020).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ CaptainEek ↗ • Creffett ↗ • Cwmhiraeth ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Anna Frodesiak ↗ • Buckshot06 ↗ • Ronhjones ↗ • SQL ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ SQL ↗
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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 {{plainlink|https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/05/22/wikimedia-foundation-board-announces-community-culture-statement|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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:* A motion ↗ was passed to enact a 500/30 ↗ restriction on {{tq|articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland}}. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2020
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (June 2020).
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Malcolmxl5 ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ John ↗ • TheCoffee ↗ • Tim! ↗
:20px|alt=renamed|Renamed ↗ {{noping|Creffett}} → {{noping|GeneralNotability}}
:20px|alt=renamed|Renamed ↗ {{noping|DeltaQuad}} → {{noping|AmandaNP}}
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Bbb23 ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ TonyBallioni ↗
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:* A request for comment ↗ is in progress to remove the T2 ↗ (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion ↗.
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:* Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA ↗).
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:* Following the banning ↗ of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved ↗ to hold an {{tq|RfC regarding on-wiki harassment}}. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC ↗ and is open to comments from the community.
:*The Medicine ↗ case was closed ↗, with a remedy ↗ authorizing standard discretionary sanctions ↗ for {{tq|all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles}}.
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2020
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (July 2020).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Red Phoenix ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Euryalus ↗ • SQL ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Jujutacular ↗ • Monty845 ↗ • Rettetast ↗ • Madchester ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ GB fan ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Keegan ↗ • Opabinia regalis ↗ • Premeditated Chaos ↗
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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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Administrators' newsletter – September 2020
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (August 2020).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Eddie891 ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Angela ↗ • Jcw69 ↗ • Just Chilling ↗ • Philg88 ↗ • Viajero ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ SQL ↗
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:*Following a request for comment ↗, the minimum length for site ban ↗ discussions was increased to 72 hours, up from 24.
:*A request for comment ↗ is ongoing to determine whether paid editors ↗ {{tq|must}} or {{tq|should}} use the articles for creation ↗ process.
:*A request for comment ↗ is open to resolve inconsistencies between the draftification ↗ and alternative to deletion ↗ processes.
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:* 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 ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2020
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (September 2020).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Ajpolino ↗ • LuK3 ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Jackmcbarn ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Ad Orientem ↗ • Harej ↗ • Lid ↗ • Lomn ↗ • Mentoz86 ↗ • Oliver Pereira ↗ • XJaM ↗
:20px|alt=renamed|Renamed ↗ {{noping|There'sNoTime}} → {{noping|TheresNoTime}}
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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 {{tq|1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created}}.
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:*The filter log ↗ now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions (phab:T261630 ↗).
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:*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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Administrators' newsletter – November 2020
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (October 2020).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ John M Wolfson ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Bduke ↗ • Nilfanion ↗ • Philosopher ↗ • Rspeer ↗ • Yunshui ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Ragesoss ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ TonyBallioni ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ EdJohnston ↗ • Oshwah ↗ • Yamla ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Yunshui ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Anarchyte ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Yunshui ↗
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:*Community sanctions ↗ now authorize ↗ administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection {{tq|any article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by a sockpuppet account ↗ or logged-out sockpuppet ↗}}, to be logged at WP:GS/PAGEANT ↗.
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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.
:*Sysops will be able to use Special:CreateLocalAccount ↗ to create a local account for a global user that is prevented from auto-creation ↗ locally (such as by a filter or range block). Administrators that are not sure if such a creation is appropriate should contact a checkuser.
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:*The 2020 Arbitration Committee Elections ↗ process has begun. Eligible editors will be able to nominate themselves as candidates ↗ from November 8 through November 17. The voting period will run from November 23 through December 6.
:* The Anti-harassment RfC ↗ has concluded with a summary of the feedback ↗ provided.
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:*A reminder that {{tq|standard discretionary sanctions ↗ are authorized ↗ for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people.}} (American Politics 2 Arbitration case ↗).
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2020
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (November 2020).
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Andrwsc ↗ • Anetode ↗ • GoldenRing ↗ • JzG ↗ • LinguistAtLarge ↗ • Nehrams2020 ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Izno ↗
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:*There is a request for comment ↗ in progress to either remove T3 (duplicated and hardcoded instances) ↗ as a speedy deletion criterion ↗ or eliminate its seven-day waiting period.
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2021
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (December 2020).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Hammersoft ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Andres ↗ • Brion VIBBER ↗ • Rkitko ↗ • Thatcher ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Barkeep49 ↗ • BDD ↗ • CaptainEek ↗ • Primefac ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Barkeep49 ↗ • BDD ↗ • CaptainEek ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Joe Roe ↗
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:*Speedy deletion criterion ↗ T3 ↗ (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following a request for comment ↗.
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:* You can now put pages on your watchlist for a limited period of time ↗.
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:*By motion ↗, standard discretionary sanctions ↗ have been temporarily authorized ↗ {{tq|for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa ↗ (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes)}}. The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
:* Following the 2020 Arbitration Committee elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: {{Noping|Barkeep49}}, {{Noping|BDD}}, {{Noping|Bradv}}, {{Noping|CaptainEek}}, {{Noping|L235}}, {{Noping|Maxim}}, {{Noping|Primefac}}.
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2021
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (January 2021).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Hog Farm ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Mattflaschen ↗ • Nandesuka ↗ • Savidan ↗ • Wangi ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Berean Hunter ↗ • Xeno ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Someguy1221 ↗ • Xeno ↗
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:*The standard discretionary sanctions ↗ authorized for American Politics ↗ were amended by motion ↗ to cover {{tq|post-1992 politics of United States and closely related people}}, replacing the 1932 cutoff.
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:*Voting in the 2021 Steward elections ↗ will begin on 05 February 2021, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2021, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process ↗ of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility ↗ to vote.
:*Wikipedia has now been around for 20 years ↗, and recently saw its billionth edit!
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2021
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (February 2021).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ TJMSmith ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Boing! said Zebedee ↗ • Hiberniantears ↗ • Lear's Fool ↗ • Only ↗ • WGFinley ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ AmandaNP ↗
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:*A request for comment ↗ is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a 2019 RfC ↗ in favor of creating one such a policy.
:*A request for comment ↗ is in progress to remove F7 ↗ (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a ↗, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
:*A request for comment ↗ seeks to grant page movers ↗ the {{code|delete-redirect}} userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is at Wikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect ↗.
:*A request for comment ↗ asks if sysops may {{tq|place the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions}}?
:*There is a discussion in progress ↗ concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article with Pending Changes ↗ protection ↗.
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:*When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle ↗, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 ↗ range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
:*When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP ↗, and even link to the specific revision.
:*There have been a number ↗ of reported issues ↗ with Pending Changes ↗. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317 ↗) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322 ↗).
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:*By motion ↗, the discretionary sanctions ↗ originally authorized under the GamerGate case ↗ are now authorized ↗ under a new Gender and sexuality case ↗, with sanctions {{tq|authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people.}} Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
:*The Kurds and Kurdistan ↗ case was closed ↗, authorizing ↗ standard discretionary sanctions ↗ for {{tq|the topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed}}.
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:*Following the 2021 Steward Elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AmandaNP ↗, Operator873 ↗, Stanglavine ↗, Teles ↗, and Wiki13 ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2021
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (March 2021).
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Alexandria ↗ • Happyme22 ↗ • RexxS ↗
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:*Following a request for comment ↗, F7 ↗ (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a ↗ has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
:*Following a request for comment ↗, page movers ↗ were granted the {{code|delete-redirect}} userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.
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:*When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue ↗ problem. ({{phab|T278350}})
:*Code to support some very old web browsers ↗ is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. ({{phab|T277803}})
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:*A community consultation ↗ on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure ↗ is open until April 25.
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2021
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (April 2021).
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Enchanter ↗ • Carlossuarez46 ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Ragesoss ↗
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:*Following an RfC ↗, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
:*The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC ↗ was closed with no consensus. Consensus was found in a previous RfC ↗ for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.
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:*The user group <code>oversight</code> will be renamed to <code>suppress</code>. This is for technical reasons ↗. You can comment at {{phab|T112147}} if you have objections.
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:*The community consultation ↗ on the Arbitration Committee discretionary sanctions procedure ↗ was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2021
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (May 2021).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Ashleyyoursmile ↗ • Less Unless ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Husond ↗ • MattWade ↗ • MJCdetroit ↗ • Carioca ↗ • Vague Rant ↗ • Kingboyk ↗ • Thunderboltz ↗ • Gwen Gale ↗ • AniMate ↗ • SlimVirgin ↗ (deceased)
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:*Consensus was reached ↗ to deprecate Wikipedia:Editor assistance ↗.
:*Following a Request for Comment ↗ the Book namespace was deprecated.
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:*Wikimedia previously used the IRC ↗ network Freenode ↗. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts ↗ decided to move to the new Libera Chat ↗ network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide ↗ and Wikimedia discussions about this ↗.
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:*After a Clarification request ↗, the Arbitration Committee modified Remedy 5 ↗ of the ''Antisemitism in Poland'' case. This means sourcing expectations are a discretionary sanction ↗ instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or the Reliable Sources Noticeboard ↗ to discuss disputed sources.
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (June 2021).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Trialpears ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ AGK ↗ • Eliz81 ↗ • Mulad ↗ • ThaddeusB ↗ • Vianello ↗ • Who ↗
:20px|alt=renamed|Renamed ↗ {{noping|Lacrimosus}} → {{noping|Ikuzaf}}
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Ragesoss ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ AGK ↗ • DGG ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ AGK ↗
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:*Consensus has been reached ↗ to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND ↗ even after the namespace is removed.
:*An RfC is open ↗ to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs ↗.
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:*IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden ↗ from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them ↗. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page ↗.
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:*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
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (July 2021).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ BusterD ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Kees08 ↗ • Nickshanks ↗ • Protonk ↗ • Schissel ↗ • Ultraexactzz ↗ • Wknight94 ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ TheresNoTime ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ TheresNoTime ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ ST47 ↗
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:*An RfC is open ↗ to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 ↗ speedy deletions.
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:*Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists ↗ on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. ({{phabricator|T287380}})
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:*Following an amendment request ↗, the committee has clarified that the Talk page exception to the 500/30 ↗ rule in remedy 5 of the Palestine-Israel articles 4 case ↗ does not apply to requested move discussions ↗.
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:*You can vote for candidates in the 2021 Board of Trustees elections ↗ from 4 August to 17 August. Four community elected seats are up for election.
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2021
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (August 2021).
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Jake Wartenberg ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Emperor ↗ • Viridian Bovary ↗
:20px|alt=renamed|Renamed ↗ {{noping|Ashleyyoursmile}} → {{noping|Viridian Bovary}}
20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
:*Feedback is requested on the Universal Code of Conduct enforcement draft ↗ by the Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee ↗.
:*A RfC is open ↗ on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection on high-risk templates ↗.
:*A discussion is open ↗ to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
:*A RfC ↗ on the next steps after the trial of pending changes ↗ on TFA ↗s has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.
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:*The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page ↗.
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:*A request for comment ↗ is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election ↗ and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.
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:*The 2021 RfA review ↗ is now open for comments.
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2021
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (September 2021).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Blablubbs ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Alvestrand ↗ • Black Falcon ↗ • Deathphoenix ↗ • Dppowell ↗ • Mark Arsten ↗ • JGHowes ↗ (deceased ↗)
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Callanecc ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Mkdw ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Galobtter ↗
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:* Following an RfC ↗, extended confirmed protection may be used preemptively on certain high-risk templates ↗.
:*Following a discussion at the Village Pump ↗, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.
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:*DiscussionTools ↗ has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link ↗ script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under {{myprefs|Beta features}}.
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:*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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:* Editors have approved ↗ expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited to add themselves to the mentor list ↗.
:*The community consultation phase ↗ of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2021
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (October 2021).
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Clpo13 ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Brian0918 ↗ • JDoorjam ↗ • Karanacs ↗ • MrDarcy ↗ • Mindspillage ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Evad37 ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Dreamy Jazz ↗ • Ferret ↗ • GeneralNotability ↗ • Girth Summit ↗ • RoySmith ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Dreamy Jazz ↗ • LuK3 ↗
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:* Phase 2 ↗ of the 2021 RfA review ↗ has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issues found in Phase 1 ↗. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.
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:*Toolhub ↗ is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/ ↗.
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:*{{noping|GeneralNotability}}, {{noping|Mz7}} and {{noping|Cyberpower678}} have been appointed to the Electoral Commission ↗ for the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections ↗. {{noping|Ivanvector}} and {{noping|John M Wolfson}} are reserve commissioners.
:*Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves to stand in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections ↗ from 07 November 2021 until 16 November 2021.
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:*The 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process ↗ has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2021
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (November 2021).
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ A Train ↗ • Berean Hunter ↗ • Epbr123 ↗ • GermanJoe ↗ • Sanchom ↗ • Mysid ↗
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:* Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. ({{phab|T284642}})
:* The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. ({{phab|T293866}})
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:* Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections ↗ is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
:* The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions ↗ for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa ↗ (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent ↗.
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A recently closed ↗ Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled ↗ from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager ↗, choose to self-assign ↗ this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard ↗. 20:05, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2022
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (December 2021).
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Amalthea ↗ • Ihcoyc ↗ (deceased) • Kateshortforbob ↗ • Kirill Lokshin ↗ • Rifleman 82 ↗ • Ryan Norton ↗ • Wrp103 ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Mr. Stradivarius ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Cabayi ↗ • Donald Albury ↗ • Enterprisey ↗ • Izno ↗ • Wugapodes ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Opabinia regalis ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Casliber ↗ • David Fuchs ↗ • Newyorkbrad ↗ • SoWhy ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Cabayi ↗ • Donald Albury ↗ • Enterprisey ↗ • Izno ↗ • Wugapodes ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Opabinia regalis ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Casliber ↗ • David Fuchs ↗ • Newyorkbrad ↗ • SoWhy ↗
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- Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review ↗, the autopatrolled user right has been removed ↗ from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.
- Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review ↗ has led to the creation of an administrative action review process ↗. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions ↗.
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- Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: {{Noping|Beeblebrox}}, {{Noping|Cabayi}}, {{Noping|Donald Albury}}, {{Noping|Enterprisey}}, {{Noping|Izno}}, {{Noping|Opabinia regalis}}, {{Noping|Worm That Turned}}, {{Noping|Wugapodes}}.
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- The functionaries email list ↗ (''{{NonSpamEmail|functionaries-en|lists.wikimedia.org}}'') will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent to the Arbitration Committee ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (January 2022).
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ AustralianRupert ↗ • Cimon Avaro ↗ • Euryalus ↗ • Jehochman ↗ • Nunh-huh ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ 28bytes ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ 28bytes ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Evad37 ↗ • Galobtter ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Ragesoss ↗
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:*The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines ↗ have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made on the talk page ↗.
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:*The user group <code>oversight</code> will be renamed <code>suppress</code> in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for technical reasons ↗. You can comment in Phabricator ↗ if you have objections.
:*The Reply Tool ↗ feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevant Village Pump discussion ↗.
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:*Community input is requested ↗ on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions ↗ that are no longer needed or overly broad.
:*The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment ↗ regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
:*A motion ↗ related to the Antisemitism in Poland ↗ case was passed following a declined case request ↗.
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:*Voting in the 2022 Steward elections ↗ will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process ↗ of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility ↗ to vote.
:*Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey ↗ is open until 11 February 2022.
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2022
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (February 2022).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Modussiccandi ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ BOZ ↗ • Brookie ↗ (deceased) • Jackmcbarn ↗ • Jamesday ↗ • Jonathunder ↗ • Master of Puppets ↗ • Saravask ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Callanecc ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Callanecc ↗
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:*A RfC is open ↗ to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 ↗ to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
:*A RfC is open ↗ to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.
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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 ↗. ({{phab|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. ({{phab|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 ↗. ({{phab|T295389}})
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:*Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies ↗ have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review ↗.
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:* 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 ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2022
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (March 2022).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Firefly ↗ • Sdrqaz ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Ad Orientem ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Geschichte ↗ • Ryan Postlethwaite ↗ • Sabine's Sunbird ↗ • Wassupwestcoast ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Evad37 ↗
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- An RfC is open ↗ proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators ↗.
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- Access to Special:RevisionDelete ↗ has been expanded to include users who have the <code>deletelogentry</code> and <code>deletedhistory</code> rights. This means that those in the Researcher ↗ user group and Checkusers ↗ who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete ↗. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. ({{phab|T301928}})
- When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete ↗ a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. ({{phab|T284114}})
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- {{section link|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.
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- 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.
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Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (April 2022).
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ David.Monniaux ↗ • Fribbler ↗ • Grue ↗ • Kpjas ↗ • West.andrew.g ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Ks0stm ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Ks0stm ↗
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
- 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 ↗.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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.
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- 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.
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2022
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (May 2022).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Tamzin ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Barek ↗ • Darkwind ↗ • Geometry guy ↗ • ProcseeBot ↗ • RoyBoy ↗ • Sean Whitton ↗ • Valereee ↗ • Visorstuff ↗ • WAvegetarian ↗
:20px|alt=renamed|Renamed ↗ {{noping|Sn0wflake}} → {{noping|VersedFenrir}}
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Ivanvector ↗
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20px|alt= ↗ '''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.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''
- Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block ↗ directly from user pages. ({{phab|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 {{myprefs|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.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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.
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2022
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (June 2022).
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ AA ↗ • Gwalla ↗ • Ioeth ↗ • Laurascudder ↗ • Moriori ↗ (deceased ↗) • Nat ↗ • Rfl ↗
:20px|alt=renamed|Renamed ↗ {{noping|Drilnoth}} → {{noping|AFigureOfBlue}}
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Lee Vilenski ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Nihiltres ↗
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''
- <code>user_global_editcount</code> is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters ↗ to avoid affecting globally active users. ({{phab|T130439}})
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- An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing ↗ has been opened.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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 ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2022
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (July 2022).
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Valereee ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Anthony Appleyard ↗ (deceased ↗) • Capitalistroadster ↗ • Samsara ↗
20px|alt= ↗ '''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.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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 ↗)
20px|alt= ↗ '''Arbitration'''
- The arbitration case request ''Geschichte ↗'' has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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 {{key|shift}} between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2022
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (August 2022).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ DanCherek ↗ • DatGuy ↗ • Femke ↗ • Z1720 ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Aldux ↗ • Graham Beards ↗ • Nyttend ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Mr. Stradivarius ↗
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
- A discussion ↗ is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
- An RfC ↗ is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News ↗ is reliable ↗ for science and politics.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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 ↗.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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.
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2022
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (September 2022).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ ScottishFinnishRadish ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Staxringold ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Ahoerstemeier ↗ (deceased ↗) • Ched ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Cyberpower678 ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ GorillaWarfare ↗
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
- 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.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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 {{myprefs|Gadgets}} and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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 ↗.
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Proposed deletion ↗ of :Stephanie Austin ↗
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The article :Stephanie Austin ↗ has been proposed for deletion ↗ because of the following concern:
<blockquote>'''Minimal SIGCOV except as mentioned in passing for Terminator 2-related stuff. The name seems common, and a google search produces many results not relating to the producer. Notability has been disputed for 5 years; only sources cited in this article seem to be IMDB and MSN.'''</blockquote>
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons ↗.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{Tlc|proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary ↗ or on the article's talk page ↗.
Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{Tlc|proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process ↗, but other deletion process ↗es exist. In particular, the speedy deletion ↗ process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion ↗ allows discussion to reach consensus ↗ for deletion.<!-- Template:Proposed deletion notify --> InvadingInvader (talk) 19:45, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2022
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (October 2022).
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|Athaenara ↗
|Eddie891 ↗
|GraemeL ↗
|Marianocecowski ↗
|Natalya ↗
|Pratyeka ↗
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20px|alt= ↗ '''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 ↗.
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- 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.
- {{noping|AmandaNP}}, {{noping|Mz7}} and {{noping|Cyberpower678}} have been appointed to the Electoral Commission ↗ for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections ↗. {{noping|Xaosflux}} and {{noping|Dr vulpes}} are reserve commissioners.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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 {{tlx|rangeblock|2=create=yes}} or {{tlx|uw-ublock|2=contains profanity}}.
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2022
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (November 2022).
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|Excirial ↗
|RedWordSmith ↗
|Ron Ritzman ↗
|TheresNoTime ↗
|Stephen ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ TheresNoTime ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ TheresNoTime ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ TheresNoTime ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ TheresNoTime ↗
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20px|alt= ↗ '''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.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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. ({{phab|T319449}})
20px|alt= ↗ '''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 ↗.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Miscellaneous'''
- '''Tech tip''': A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add <code>/64</code> to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions ↗ to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet ↗ rather than an IP that may change within a minute.
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Happy Fifteenth Adminship Anniversary!
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<div style="display: flex; align-items: center; padding: 1em; border: solid 3px #2B547E; background-color: #E6E6FA;">left|60px| ↗ <div>Wishing '''Brianga''' a very '''happy adminship anniversary''' ↗ on behalf of the '''Wikipedia Birthday Committee ↗'''! <span class="nowrap" style="font-family:copperplate gothic light;"><span style="color:#345">Chris Troutman</span> (<span style="color:#345">talk</span>)</span> 23:17, 10 December 2022 (UTC)</div></div>
Administrative permissions and inactivity reminder
25px|alt=Information icon ↗This is a reminder that established policy ↗ provides for removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. You are receiving this annual reminder since you have averaged less than 50 edits per year over the last 5 years.{{pb}}Inactive administrators are encouraged to reengage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for reengaging with the project are available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators ↗. If you do not intend to be engaged with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard ↗.{{pb}}Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 '''bot''' 00:42, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2023
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (December 2022).
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Stephen ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ {{hlist|class=inline
|Andrew Yong ↗
|Dbenbenn ↗
|DESiegel ↗
|GlassCobra ↗
|Joe Decker ↗
|Nancy ↗
|Pathoschild ↗
|StuffOfInterest ↗
|William Pietri ↗
|Wwwwolf ↗
|Xdamr ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Nihiltres ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Moneytrees ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ {{hlist|class=inline
|Ivanvector ↗
|SilkTork ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ {{hlist|class=inline
|GeneralNotability ↗
|Moneytrees ↗
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
- Speedy deletion criterion ↗ A5 ↗ (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal ↗.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Arbitration'''
- Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: {{Noping|Barkeep49}}, {{Noping|CaptainEek}}, {{Noping|GeneralNotability}}, {{Noping|Guerillero}}, {{Noping|L235}}, {{Noping|Moneytrees}}, {{Noping|Primefac}}, {{Noping|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.
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- 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 ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2023
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (January 2023).
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|Bjelleklang ↗
|Bob the Wikipedian ↗
|Leithp ↗
|WhisperToMe ↗
|100 inactive admins ↗
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|BDD ↗
|Bradv ↗
|Donald Albury ↗
|Maxim ↗
|MusikAnimal ↗
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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 ↗.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''
- The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.
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- 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 ↗.
- 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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Administrators' newsletter – March 2023
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (February 2023).
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ The Wordsmith ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Callanecc ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Callanecc ↗
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
- 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.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''
- The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey ↗ have been posted ↗.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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.
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- 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 {{tq|[p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing}}. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2023
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (March 2023).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Aoidh ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ KillerChihuahua ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Ferret ↗
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
- A community RfC ↗ is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies ↗ should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard ↗.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''
- Some older web browser ↗s will not be able to use JavaScript ↗ on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11 ↗. ({{phab|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 ↗.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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.
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2023
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (April 2023).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Spicy ↗
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|Ale jrb ↗
|Dbachmann ↗
|DGG ↗ (deceased ↗)
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Jimbo Wales ↗
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
- A request for comment ↗ about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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.
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- The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland ↗ case is expected 11 May 2023.
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- 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
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (May 2023).
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Courcelles ↗
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
- Following an RfC ↗, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus ↗ will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
- As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking ↗ project, a new policy has been created ↗ that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ ↗ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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.
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- Following a community referendum ↗, the arbitration policy ↗ has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to {{noping|Jimbo Wales}}.
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Proposed deletion ↗ of :File:DingmansFerryBridge.jpg ↗
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The file :File:DingmansFerryBridge.jpg ↗ has been proposed for deletion ↗ because of the following concern:
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Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
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Established policy ↗ provides for the removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. Your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to the required activity level before the beginning of October 2023.
Inactive administrators are encouraged to engage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for re-engaging with the project are available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators ↗. If you do not intend to re-engage with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (June 2023).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Novem Linguae ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ {{hlist|class=inline
|Deckiller ↗
|Electionworld ↗
|MBisanz ↗
|Penwhale ↗
|Raul654 ↗
|Roadrunner ↗
|Viridae ↗
|Yannismarou ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ MBisanz ↗
20px|alt= ↗ '''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 ↗.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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.
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- 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.
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2023
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (July 2023).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Firefangledfeathers ↗
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|Amberrock ↗
|Closedmouth ↗
|Scottywong ↗
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Interface administrator changes'''
:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Novem Linguae ↗
20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''
- The tag filter on Special:NewPages ↗ and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. ({{phab|T334338}})
- Special:BlockedExternalDomains ↗ is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist ↗. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist ↗. ({{phab|T337431}})
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- The arbitration cases named Scottywong ↗ and AlisonW ↗ closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
- The SmallCat dispute ↗ arbitration case is in the workshop phase.
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (August 2023).
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|Dwheeler ↗
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|Ssd ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Bradv ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Bradv ↗
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
- Following an RfC ↗, TFAs ↗ will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
- A discussion ↗ at WP:VPP ↗ about revision deletion and oversight for dead names ↗ found that {{tq|[s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment}}.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''
- Special:Contributions ↗ now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. ({{phab|T324166}})
20px|alt= ↗ '''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 {{tq|local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus}}. Regular closers of XfD ↗ forums were also encouraged to {{tq|note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful}}.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Miscellaneous'''
- '''Tech tip''': The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff ↗ can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.
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Proposed deletion ↗ of :Justin Gignac ↗
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The article :Justin Gignac ↗ has been proposed for deletion ↗ because of the following concern:
<blockquote>'''Fails WP:GNG ↗.'''</blockquote>
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Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
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Inactive administrators are encouraged to engage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for re-engaging with the project are available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators ↗. If you do not intend to re-engage with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2023
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (October 2023).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ 0xDeadbeef ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Tamzin ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ Dennis Brown ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Pppery ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ {{hlist|class=inline
|Ragesoss ↗
|TheresNoTime ↗
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20px|alt= ↗ '''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 ↗.
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- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections ↗.
- {{noping|Xaosflux}}, {{noping|RoySmith}} and {{noping|Cyberpower678}} have been appointed to the Electoral Commission ↗ for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections ↗. {{noping|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.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (November 2023).
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|Lourdes ↗
|Mairi ↗
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|Opabinia regalis ↗
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:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ {{Hlist|class=inline
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|Opabinia regalis ↗
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- Following a talk page discussion ↗, the Administrators' accountability policy ↗ has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications ↗ (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.
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- Following a motion ↗, the Extended Confirmed Restriction ↗ has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
- The Arbitration Committee has announced ↗ a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
- Eligible users ↗ are invited to '''vote on candidates ↗''' for the Arbitration Committee ↗ until ''23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC)''. Candidate statements can be seen here ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2024
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (December 2023).
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Clovermoss ↗
:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Dennis Brown ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ {{Hlist|class=inline
|Julia W ↗
|Marasmusine ↗
|PBS ↗
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|Aoidh ↗
|HJ Mitchell ↗
|Sdrqaz ↗
|Spicy ↗
|ToBeFree ↗
|Vanamonde93 ↗
|Z1720 ↗
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:20px|alt=readded|Readded ↗ Maxim ↗
:20px|alt=removed|Removed ↗ {{Hlist|class=inline
|Enterprisey ↗
|Izno ↗
|SilkTork ↗
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|Aoidh ↗
|Firefly ↗
|Sdrqaz ↗
|ToBeFree ↗
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- Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: {{Noping|Aoidh}}, {{Noping|Cabayi}}, {{Noping|Firefly}}, {{Noping|HJ Mitchell}}, {{Noping|Maxim}}, {{Noping|Sdrqaz}}, {{Noping|ToBeFree}}, {{Noping|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.
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- The '''New Pages Patrol backlog drive''' ↗ is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed ↗. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. '''Sign up here to participate!''' ↗
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2024
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (January 2024).
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- An RfC ↗ about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
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- Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. ({{phab|T326065}})
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- 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 ↗.
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- 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.
- A vote to '''ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) ↗''' is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll ↗. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here ↗.
- Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey ↗. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more ↗
- The Unreferenced articles backlog drive ↗ is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{tl|Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. '''Sign up to participate!''' ↗
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2024
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (February 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.
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- The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. ({{phab|T353388}})
20px|alt= ↗ '''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 ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2024
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (March 2024).
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- An RfC ↗ is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions ↗ to (community designated) contentious topics procedure ↗.
- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. ({{Phab|T313405}})
- An arbitration case has been opened ↗ to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
- 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.
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (April 2024).
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20px|alt= ↗ '''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 ↗.
20px|alt= ↗ '''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 ↗
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- The arbitration case ''Conflict of interest management ↗'' has been closed.
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- 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!''' ↗
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) ↗ election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki ↗ and '''cast your vote here! ↗'''
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (May 2024).
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
- Phase II ↗ of the 2024 RfA review ↗ has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I ↗.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''
- The Nuke ↗ feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351 ↗
20px|alt= ↗ '''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 ↗.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Miscellaneous'''
- WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive ↗ is happening in June 2024 to replace {{tl|citation needed}} tags with references! '''Sign up here to participate! ↗'''
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2024
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (June 2024).
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20px|alt= ↗ '''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. ({{phab|T6086}})
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- The Community Wishlist ↗ is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more ↗
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2024
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (July 2024).
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20px|alt= ↗ '''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.
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- The Arbitration Committee appointed ↗ the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team ↗: {{noping|Bilby}}, {{noping|Extraordinary Writ}}
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2024
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (August 2024).
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
- Following an RfC ↗, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion ↗: C4 ↗, which {{tq|applies to unused maintenance categories, such as empty dated maintenance categories for dates in the past}}.
- A request for comment ↗ is open to discuss whether Notability (species) ↗ should be adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline ↗.
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- 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 ↗ ("{{noping|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.
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- 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.
- A '''New Pages Patrol backlog drive''' ↗ is happening in September 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed ↗. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,900 articles and 26,200 redirects awaiting review. '''Sign up here to participate!''' ↗
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2024
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (September 2024).
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
- 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.
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- 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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- If you are interested in stopping spammers, please put MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist ↗ and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist ↗ on your watchlist, and help out when you can.
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2024
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (October 2024).
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- 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.
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- 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. {{phab|T366068}}
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- {{noping|RoySmith}}, {{noping|Barkeep49}} and {{noping|Cyberpower678}} have been appointed to the Electoral Commission ↗ for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections ↗. {{noping|ThadeusOfNazereth}} and {{noping|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.
- An unreferenced articles backlog drive ↗ is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{tl|Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. '''Sign up to participate!''' ↗
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2024
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (November 2024).
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
- Following an RFC ↗, the policy on restoration of adminship ↗ has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard ↗ within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.
- Following a request for comment ↗, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5 ↗, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.
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- Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon ↗, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships ↗ is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.
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- The arbitration case ''Yasuke ↗'' (formerly titled ''Backlash to diversity and inclusion ↗'') has been closed.
- An arbitration case titled ''Palestine-Israel articles 5 ↗'' has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (December 2024).
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- Following an RFC ↗, Wikipedia:Notability (species) ↗ was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline ↗.
- A request for comment ↗ is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.
- The Nuke feature also now provides links ↗ to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.
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- Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections ↗, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: {{noping|CaptainEek}}, {{noping|Daniel}}, {{noping|Elli}}, {{noping|KrakatoaKatie}}, {{noping|Liz}}, {{noping|Primefac}}, {{noping|ScottishFinnishRadish}}, {{noping|Theleekycauldron}}, {{noping|Worm That Turned}}.
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- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive ↗ is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed ↗. '''Sign up here to participate!''' ↗
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2025
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (January 2025).
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- Administrators can now nuke ↗ pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. {{phab|T380846}}
- A '<code>Recreated</code>' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges ↗ and Special:NewPages ↗. {{phab|T56145}}
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- The arbitration case ''Palestine-Israel articles 5 ↗'' has been closed.
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2025
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (February 2025).
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
- A request for comment ↗ is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
- A series of 22 mini-RFCs ↗ that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of the administrator elections process ↗ has been closed (see the summary of the changes ↗).
- A request for comment ↗ is open to gain consensus on whether future administrator elections ↗ should be held.
- A new filter has been added to the {{#special:Nuke}} ↗ tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. {{phab|T378488}}
- Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the {{#special:Nuke}} ↗ tool. {{phab|T376378}}
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- The 2025 appointees for the Ombuds commission ↗ are だ＊ぜ ↗, Arcticocean ↗, Ameisenigel ↗, Emufarmers ↗, Faendalimas ↗, Galahad ↗, Nehaoua ↗, Renvoy ↗, Revi C. ↗, RoySmith ↗, Teles ↗ and Zafer ↗ as members, with Vermont ↗ serving as steward-observer.
- Following the 2025 Steward Elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: 1234qwer1234qwer4 ↗, AramilFeraxa ↗, Daniuu ↗, KonstantinaG07 ↗, MdsShakil ↗ and XXBlackburnXx ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2025
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (March 2025).
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- '''Sign up ↗''' for The Core Contest ↗, a competition running from 15 April to 31 May to improve vital articles ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2025
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (April 2025).
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
- Following an RfC ↗, administrator elections ↗ were permanently authorized on a five-month schedule. The next election will be scheduled soon; see Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections ↗ for more information. This is an alternate process to the RfA process ↗ and does not replace the latter.
- An RfC ↗ was closed with consensus to allow editors to opt-out of seeing "sticky decorative elements". Such elements should now be wrapped in {{t|sticky decoration wrapper}}. Editors who wish to opt out can follow the instructions at WP:STICKYDECO ↗.
- An RfC ↗ has resulted in a broad prohibition ↗ on the use of AI-generated images in articles. A few common-sense exceptions are recognized.
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- A '''New Pages Patrol backlog drive''' ↗ is happening in May 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed ↗. '''Sign up here to participate!''' ↗
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2025
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (May 2025).
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
- An RfC ↗ is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by the WMF ↗ and its affiliates.
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- A new feature called '''Multiblocks ↗''' will be deployed on English Wikipedia on the week of June 2. See the relevant announcement on the administrators' noticeboard ↗.
- History merges ↗ performed using the mergehistory special page ↗ are now logged at both the source and destination, rather than just the source as previously, after this RFC ↗ and the resolution of T118132 ↗.
- An arbitration case named ''Indian military history ↗'' has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.
20px|alt= ↗ '''Miscellaneous'''
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) ↗ election is open until 17 June 2025. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki ↗ and '''cast your vote here! ↗'''
- An '''Articles for Creation backlog drive''' ↗ is happening in June 2025, with over 1,600 drafts awaiting review from the past two months. In addition to AfC participants, all administrators and new page patrollers can help review using the Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings ↗. '''Sign up here to participate!''' ↗
- The Unreferenced articles backlog drive ↗ is happening in June 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{tl|Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. '''Sign up to participate!''' ↗
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2025
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (June 2025).
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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''
- Following a talk page discussion ↗, speedy deletion criterion G13 ↗ has been amended ↗ to remove "Userspace with no content except the article wizard ↗ placeholder text."
- WP:Manual of Style/Superscripts and subscripts ↗ was upgraded to a guideline following a RfC discussion ↗.
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- The 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest ↗ will run from 1{{nbsp}}July to 30{{nbsp}}September. '''Sign up now ↗'''!
- Administrator elections ↗ will take place this month. Administrator elections are an alternative to RFA ↗ that is a gentler process for candidates due to secret voting and multiple people running together. The call for candidates is July 9–15, the discussion phase is July 18–22, and the voting phase is July 23–29. Get ready to submit your candidacy, or (with their consent) to nominate a talented candidate!
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2025
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (July 2025).
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- Following a request for comment ↗, a new speedy deletion criterion, G15 ↗, has been enacted. It applies to pages generated by a large language model ↗ (LLM) without human review.
- Following a request for comment ↗, there is a new policy ↗ outlining the granting of permissions to view the IP addresses of temporary accounts ↗. Temporary account deployment on the English Wikipedia is currently scheduled for September 2025, and editors can request access to the permission ↗ ahead of time. Admins are encouraged to keep an eye on the request page; there will likely be a flood of editors requesting the permission when they realize they can no longer see IP addresses.
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- Administrators can now restrict the "Add a Link" feature to newcomers. The "Add a Link" ↗ Structured Task helps new account holders get started with editing ↗. Administrators can configure this setting in the Community Configuration ↗ page.
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- The arbitration case ''Indian military history ↗'' has been closed.
- * South Asia (WP:CT/SA ↗) is designated a contentious topic ↗. The topic area is specifically defined as {{tq|All pages related to the region of South Asia ↗ (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal), broadly construed, including but not limited to history, politics, ethnicity, and social groups.}}
- * The contentious topic designations for Sri Lanka ↗ (SL) and India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan ↗ (IPA) are folded into this new contentious topic.
- * The community-authorized general sanctions regarding South Asian social groups ↗ (GS/CASTE) are rescinded and folded into this new contentious topic.
- The arbitration case ''Article titles and capitalisation 2 ↗'' has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 31 July.
- The arbitration case ''Transgender healthcare and people ↗'' has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 11 August.
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- Wikimania 2025 ↗ is happening in Nairobi ↗, Kenya ↗, and online from August 6 to August 9. This year marks 20 years of Wikimania ↗. Interested users can join the online event. Registration for the virtual event is free and will remain open throughout Wikimania. You can register here ↗ now.
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2025
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (August 2025).
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- An RfC ↗ is open on whether use of emojis ↗ with no encyclopedic value in mainspace and draftspace (e.g., at the start of paragraphs or in place of bullet points) should be added as a criterion under G15 ↗.
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- Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains ↗ page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration ↗ list page. This makes it easier to find. {{phab|T393240}}
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- The arbitration case ''Article titles and capitalisation 2 ↗'' has been closed.
- An RfC ↗ is in progress to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2025
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (September 2025).
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- After a motion ↗, arbitration enforcement page protections no longer need to be logged in the AELOG. A bot now automatically posts protections at WP:AELOG/P ↗. To facilitate this bot, protection summaries must include a link to the relevant CT page (e.g. <code><nowiki>WP:CT/BLP ↗</nowiki></code>), and you will receive talk page reminders if you forget to specify the contentious topic but otherwise indicate it is an AE action.
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2025
News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (October 2025).
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2026
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- All general sanctions ↗ imposed by the community may now be enforced at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard ↗ (WP:AE ↗) as a result of a recent RfC ↗.
- Due to the result of a recent RFC ↗, the administrator recall ↗ process is amended to extend the deadline for a re-request for adminship to 30 days or the next administrator election ↗, whichever is later.
- Changes ↗ to the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy ↗'s disclosure rules include broadening the consecutive-blocks exception to cover all admin actions and removing the requirement to revision-delete permissible disclosures once they become unnecessary (instead requiring only their removal). See WP:TAIVDISCLOSE ↗ for more information.
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- Following the 2025 Arbitration Committee elections ↗, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: {{noping|Aoidh}}, {{noping|Asilvering}}, {{noping|Girth Summit}}, {{noping|Guerillero}}, {{noping|HJ Mitchell}}, {{noping|HouseBlaster}}, {{noping|Izno}}, {{noping|Sdrqaz}}, {{noping|SilverLocust}}.
- The arbitration case ''Pbsouthwood ↗'' has been suspended.
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2026
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- Due to the result of a recent motion ↗, a rough consensus of administrators at the arbitration enforcement ↗ noticeboard may impose an expanded topic ban on Israel, Israelis, Jews, Judaism, Palestine, Palestinians, Islam, and/or Arabs, if an editor's Arab-Israeli conflict ↗ topic ban is determined to be insufficient to prevent disruption. At least one diff per area expanded into should be cited.
- Voting in the 2026 Steward elections ↗ started on 06 February 2026 at 14:00 (UTC) and will end on 27 February 2026 at 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process ↗ for current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility ↗ to vote.
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2026
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- Following an RfC ↗, the web archival service archive.today ↗ has been deprecated; links to the site should be removed ↗.
- A request for comment ↗ is open to discuss retiring CSD criterion R3 ↗ in favour of handling such redirects through RfD ↗.
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- Following a motion ↗, remedy 9.1 ↗ of the ''Conduct in deletion-related editing'' case has been amended to limit {{noping|TenPoundHammer}} to one XfD nomination or PROD per 24-hour period.
- Following a motion ↗, the ''Iskandar323 further POV pushing'' motion has been rescinded.
- The Arbitration Committee has passed a housekeeping motion ↗ rescinding a number of outdated remedies and enforcement provisions across multiple legacy cases. In most instances, existing sanctions remain in force and continue to be appealable through the usual processes, while some case-specific remedies were amended or clarified.
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- Following the 2026 Steward Elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: A09 ↗, AmandaNP ↗, Barras ↗, Count Count ↗, M7 ↗, SHB2000 ↗, Teles ↗ and VIGNERON ↗.
- An Unreferenced articles backlog drive ↗ is taking place in March 2026 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{tl|Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. '''Sign up to participate!''' ↗
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2026
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- The content of Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models ↗ has been updated following a request for comment ↗. It now prohibits using LLMs to generate content, with exceptions for translation and copy-editing.
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- Following a motion ↗, the GSCASTE ↗ extended-confirmed restriction in the ''Indian military history'' case has been narrowed. It now applies to caste-related topics in South Asia, and the preemptive protection remedy ↗ has been amended accordingly.
- The arbitration case ''Pbsouthwood ↗'' has been closed.
- The arbitration case ''Maghreb ↗'' has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 7 April.
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- Changes to user permissions made from Meta are now included in the local user permissions log (T6055 ↗).
- The autoconfirmed ↗ user group will soon be modified such that the four-day account age requirement begins when an account makes its first edit (T418484 ↗).
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- The arbitration case ''SchroCat ↗'' has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 15 April.
- Per a recent motion ↗, appeals of blocks from the conflict-of-interest VRT queue ↗ are, by default, appealed on-wiki through the normal unblock process. However, they may be heard by the Committee if COIVRTers disagree on the interpretation of the evidence or believe ArbCom would be better suited to hear the appeal. Administrators are also advised that loosening or lifting such blocks without the consent of someone with access to the queue or ArbCom can be grounds for desysopping.
- Per a recent motion ↗, restrictions issued directly by the Committee may now be enforced with blocks which work exactly like contentious topic blocks.
- The arbitration case ''Maghreb ↗'' has been closed.
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- The May 2026 administrator elections ↗ are scheduled to run from April 29 to May 19. The call for candidates ↗ ends May 5.
- The 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election ↗ is scheduled to run from April 25 to June 1. Candidacy submissions ↗ close on May 10.
- A '''new noticeboard ↗''' for non-urgent, batch page protection requests has been created, primarily for the enforcement of contentious topic restrictions ↗.
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Administrators' newsletter – June 2026
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- Following an RfC ↗, the "persistent usage of large language models ↗" has been included as a common reason for a block ↗.
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- Mandatory 2FA for bureaucrats ↗: Bureaucrats ↗ without two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled have already lost access to their advanced rights on 26 May. Those who do not enable 2FA may be automatically removed from the groups in mid-June 2026, and from that point onward, new members must have 2FA enabled before they can be added. (T423119 ↗, T423120 ↗)
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- The arbitration case ''SchroCat ↗'' has been closed.
- The arbitration case ''Michael Jackson ↗'' has opened. Evidence submissions in this case closes on 1 June.
- Voting for the 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election ↗ closes on 1 June.
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2026
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- A request for comment ↗ asks whether the criteria for autoconfirmed and extended confirmed should be modified.
- A request for comment ↗ proposes an addendum for the Real name section of the Username policy ↗.
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- The special page Special:RangeCalculator ↗ has been created for any users to use to find an IP range. (phab:T268429 ↗)
- The "indefinitely" button in Special:Block ↗ for temporary accounts can be replaced with a preferred block duration stated on MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account ↗. (phab:T427125 ↗)
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- Following a series of motions ↗, changes to the contentious topics procedure ↗ to restructure awareness ↗ have been implemented.
- The arbitration case ''Michael Jackson ↗'' has been closed.
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- The 2026 Developing Countries WikiContest ↗ will run from 1{{nbsp}}July to 30{{nbsp}}September. '''Sign up now ↗'''!
- 10 candidates have been appointed ↗ to the U4C.
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