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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.

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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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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.

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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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照片是2014年3月8日拍攝，不是8月，請更正！

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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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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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Nomination for deletion of Template:Suspended ROC provinces ↗

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2025

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (May 2025).

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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 ↗.

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An arbitration case named ''Indian military history ↗'' has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.

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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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Speedy deletion ↗ nomination of :Category:Military alliances involving Iceland ↗

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A tag has been placed on :Category:Military alliances involving Iceland ↗ indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category ↗, a category redirect ↗, under discussion at Categories for discussion ↗, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion ↗.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may '''contest the nomination''' by visiting the page ↗ and removing the speedy deletion tag.   <span style="font-family:Papyrus; color:#800080;">'''''L'''''iz</span> <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">'''''Read!''''' ↗ '''''Talk!'''''</sup> 07:03, 1 July 2025 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2025

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

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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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The speedy deletion criteria U5 ↗ has been repealed, with U6 ↗ and U7 ↗ replacing it. See the FAQ ↗ for more clarifications.

Community-designated contentious topics ↗ may now be enforced and appealed at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard (AE) ↗ as a result of an RfC ↗.

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You can enable a handy user info card ↗ next to usernames, which when clicked displays edit count, blocks, thanks, and other information. To enable this feature, visit {{Preferences|Appearance|Advanced options|check={{int:checkuser-userinfocard-enable-preference-description}}}}

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The arbitration case ''Transgender healthcare and people ↗'' has been closed

* Uninvolved administrators may impose an AE participation restriction ↗ on any thread at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard ↗.

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An unreferenced articles backlog drive ↗ is happening in November 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 – December 2025

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Starting on November 4, the IP addresses of logged-out editors are no longer being publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account ↗ associated with their edits.

Administrators will now find that Special:MergeHistory ↗ is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start). {{phab|T382958}}

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The December 2025 administrator elections ↗ are scheduled from Nov 25 – Dec 15.

An '''Articles for Creation backlog drive''' ↗ is happening in December 2025, with over 1,000 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!''' ↗

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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

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

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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

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (February 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

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (March 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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Administrators' newsletter – May 2026

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (April 2026).

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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

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

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Voting for the 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election ↗ closes on 1 June.

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2026

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (June 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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