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Administrators' newsletter – November 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).

Administrator changes Clpo13 Brian0918 • JDoorjam • Karanacs • MrDarcy • Mindspillage Interface administrator changes Evad37

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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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• GeneralNotability, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections. Ivanvector and 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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A Voyage Round the World

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for December 4, 2021. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article/December 4, 2021. Congratulations on your work!—Wehwalt (talk) 12:28, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Thank you @Wehwalt, that is great! I'll try my best to get Georg Forster in better shape by that time :) —Kusma (talk) 12:35, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Thank you today for the article, introduced: "(my first FAC in 15 years, so apologies if I don't know everything about the current process) is about a report by Georg Forster (my other FA) about the Second voyage of James Cook. It has a famously controversial genesis (it appeared in competition with Cook's official account), and is an important book in the history of travel writing and source for 18th century Polynesian ethnology" --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:16, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

Un-unbundling

I saw some of your comments at RFA2021 part two and thought you might be interested in this brainstorming idea that never really got off the ground. The draft isn't a great process but I think the underlying reasoning and mechanics might interest you as it tries to grapple with the enthusiasm gap between (for example) PERM/template editor and RFA. I think you're on to something about the effect of unbundling; it seems really hard to get people to swap their hat rack for the one hat to rule them all mop. It's an interesting question, and if you've got written your thoughts up anywhere I'd be excited to read more on how you've been looking at it. — Wug·a·po·des​ 23:16, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

@Wugapodes, I don't have anything written up, sorry (not good at essays). I think my feeling is that in the old days (I became an admin in 2006), the progression of Wikipedians to admins was a natural thing happening to most people. You'd start editing articles, get involved in some noticeboards or AfDs, do some maintenance work, then get noticed by others and nominated for adminship so you could do all the work yourself instead of asking others to do it for you. Nowadays people edit for years and have all kinds of permissions (allowing them to do most of the work themselves) and never become admins. It seems to be (anecdotal evidence alert!) that some of the most difficult-to-please editors at RfA are non-admins with high editcount and lots of permissions. I'm looking for something that prevents the accumulation of more highly experienced non-admins acting as gatekeepers against less experienced non-admins becoming admins. My not totally serious proposal is to force everyone with more than a handful of permissions to apply for adminship. Undoing the unbundlings of the past might help in theory, but I don't think there is any hope in getting it through. —Kusma (talk) 09:46, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

G7's

The reason I put the G7 template on those is because those re-direct targets will no longer apply since they are being removed from those pages because they are no longer with these organizations. Can you please re-consider the deletion requests?-- Yankees10 00:08, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

I'm confused. Either these players weren't notable enough to be listed anywhere before now, or they still are notable enough. And I'm going to sleep now. Ask me again tomorrow or ask a different admin. —Kusma (talk) 00:22, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 47

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DYK for Observations Made during a Voyage round the World

On 12 November 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Observations Made during a Voyage round the World, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Johann Reinhold Forster's 1778 book Observations Made during a Voyage round the World has been described as "the beginning of modern geography"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Observations Made during a Voyage round the World. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Observations Made during a Voyage round the World), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Emil Utitz

On 13 November 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Emil Utitz, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the philosopher Emil Utitz, a classmate of Franz Kafka, became the head librarian of Theresienstadt Ghetto? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Emil Utitz. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Emil Utitz), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:03, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

Illuminati

Hi, I based the template on de:Kategorie:Illuminat from the German Misplaced Pages, as their articles on this subject are far more developed than the ones on the English Misplaced Pages. You may be right about this specific individual, please feel free to correct any mistakes. Torchist (talk) 19:32, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2021

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).

Administrator changes

A Train • Berean Hunter • Epbr123 • GermanJoe • Sanchom • Mysid

Technical news

• 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. (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. (T293866)

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• Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
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Your GA nomination of Therese Forster

The article Therese Forster you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Therese Forster for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Simongraham -- Simongraham (talk) 13:01, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Therese Forster

The article Therese Forster you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Therese Forster for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Simongraham -- Simongraham (talk) 02:41, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled

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. 20:06, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

The 25 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal

		The 25 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal
		Howdy there! Looks like you got to 34 DYKs before someone got around to decorating your lapel for it; Thank you for your articles on German history and historical figures, and other miscellanea (I liked the article on the Phipps expedition quite a bit)—great work, and keep it up! :))

theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 02:06, 12 December 2021 (UTC)