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== Administrators' newsletter – January 2022 == | |||
== Administrative permissions and inactivity reminder == | |||
] from the past month (December 2021). | |||
]This is a reminder that established ] 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 ]. 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 ].{{pb}}Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — ] 00:16, 1 January 2023 (UTC) | |||
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== Administrators' newsletter – January 2023 == | |||
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*] ] (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an ]. | |||
* Following consensus at the ], the autopatrolled user right ] from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled. | |||
*Additionally, consensus for ] has led to the creation of an ]. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding ]. | |||
] '''Arbitration''' | ] '''Arbitration''' | ||
* Following the ], 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 ] has ] with many changes to the ] procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month. | |||
* Following the ], 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}}. | |||
* The arbitration case '']'' has been closed. | |||
] '''Miscellaneous''' | ] '''Miscellaneous''' | ||
* Voting for the ] 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 which won the Newcomer award in the recent ]. | |||
*The ] (''{{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 ]. | |||
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== Administrators' newsletter – February 2023 == | |||
== How we will see unregistered users == | |||
] from the past month (January 2023). | |||
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Hi! | |||
You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki. | |||
When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed. | |||
Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin '''will still be able to access the IP'''. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on ] to help. | |||
If you have not seen it before, you can ]. If you want to make sure you don’t miss technical changes on the Wikimedia wikis, you can ] to ]. | |||
We have ] this identity could work. '''We would appreciate your feedback''' on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can ]. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January. | |||
Thank you. | |||
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== Administrators' newsletter – February 2022 == | |||
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] '''Guideline and policy news''' | ] '''Guideline and policy news''' | ||
*Following ], the ] now requires that prior written consent be gained from the ] to mark a block as only appealable to the committee. | |||
:*The ] 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 ]. | |||
*Following ], consensus has been found to impose the ] over the topic areas of ] and ]. | |||
] '''Technical news''' | ] '''Technical news''' | ||
* The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Misplaced Pages. | |||
:*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 ]. You can comment ] if you have objections. | |||
:*] 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 ]. | |||
] '''Arbitration''' | ] '''Arbitration''' | ||
*The arbitration case '']'' has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023. | |||
:*] on several motions aimed at addressing ] that are no longer needed or overly broad. | |||
*In December, the ] was adopted which replaces the ]. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial ]. There is ] of the changes and ] for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at ]. | |||
:*The Arbitration Committee has ] regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks). | |||
:*] related to the ] case was passed following a ]. | |||
] '''Miscellaneous''' | ] '''Miscellaneous''' | ||
*Voting in the ] will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The ] of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically to vote. | |||
* Voting in the ] 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''': ] 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 |
== Administrators' newsletter – March 2023 == | ||
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*Following a ], ] (useless non-media files) has been deprecated. | |||
:*] to change the wording of ] to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions. | |||
*Following a ], the Portal CSD criteria (] (portal subject to CSD as an article) and ] (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated. | |||
:*] to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old. | |||
*A ] is open to discuss making the ] for the ] process a guideline. | |||
] '''Technical news''' | ] '''Technical news''' | ||
* The results of the ] have been ]. | |||
:*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 ]. ({{phab|T296645}}) | |||
:*] will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a ] from 2022. ({{phab|T25020}}) | |||
:*The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using ] or the API will be added soon. This change ]. ({{phab|T295389}}) | |||
] '''Arbitration''' | ] '''Arbitration''' | ||
* ] of the ] has ]. | |||
:*] have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the ]. | |||
* The proposed decision for the ] case is expected 7 March 2023. | |||
* A case related to the ] is expected to be opened soon. | |||
] '''Miscellaneous''' | ] '''Miscellaneous''' | ||
* The 2023 appointees for the ] are ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] and ] as regular members and ] as advisory members. | |||
* Following the ], the following editors have been appointed as stewards: ], ], and ]. | |||
* The ] has started, which ] a {{tq|roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing}}. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023. | |||
:*The 2022 ] have been published alongside ]. | |||
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== Nomination of ] for deletion == | |||
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<div class="floatleft" style="margin-bottom:0">]</div>A discussion is taking place as to whether the article ''']''' is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to ] or whether it should be ]. | |||
== Can you help me to replace a "redirect" == | |||
The article will be discussed at ] until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, 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. | |||
Derek Ross<br /> | |||
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. | |||
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''Simplon Hospice'' is redirecting readers to the article ]. I developped a new Misplaced Pages article about ''Simplon Hospice'' here >> ]. Can you delete the redirection ''Simplon Hospice'' so I may create the new article '''Simplon Hospice''' under my name? Thank you for helping. Regards, Hp.<br /> ] (]) 12:33, 3 April 2023 (UTC) | |||
:Done. -- ] | ] 15:24, 4 April 2023 (UTC) | |||
::Derek Ross cc {{ping|Olga Ernst}}<br /> | |||
::What a great job !!! Thank you so much for moving the page to the right place and thank you even more for upgrading significantly the Language! I appreciate! Great work! Kind regards, Hp. --] (]) 02:40, 5 April 2023 (UTC) | |||
:::You're very welcome! -- ] | ] 19:06, 5 April 2023 (UTC) | |||
== Administrators' newsletter – April |
== Administrators' newsletter – April 2023 == | ||
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* A ] is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving ] should be referred to the ]. | |||
*] proposing a change to the minimum ]. | |||
] '''Technical news''' | ] '''Technical news''' | ||
* Some older ]s will not be able to use ] on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of ]. ({{phab|T178356}}) | |||
* Access to ] has been expanded to include users who have the <code>deletelogentry</code> and <code>deletedhistory</code> rights. This means that those in the ] user group and ] who are not administrators can now access ]. 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}}) | |||
* The ] has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default. | |||
* When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on ] a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. ({{phab|T284114}}) | |||
* A link to the user's ] page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on ]. This was voted #17 in the ]. | |||
] '''Arbitration''' | ] '''Arbitration''' | ||
* The '']'' case has been closed. | |||
*{{section link|Misplaced Pages:Arbitration_Committee/Procedures#Opening_of_proceedings}} has been updated to reflect current practice following a ]. | |||
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* A case about ] has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023. | ||
*A arbitration case regarding ] has been opened. | |||
] '''Miscellaneous''' | |||
*Voting for the ] has closed, and the ] were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the will now review the guidelines. | |||
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== Glasgow page history, again == | |||
== New administrator activity requirement == | |||
Hey Derek, you'll probably find ] I just did at the Glasgow article interesting. ] was previously the earliest one available (before ]), so it previously seemed like you created the page. Now the history shows that it was created by an American (from the IP address), tweaked by a Canadian (from the user page), and then you fixed it up with more local knowledge/wording (see the above diff) ... unless there are *still* edits missing, which I highly doubt! I especially notice the "River Clyde" change; that's very much UK/Ireland terminology, as you're probably well aware. You've doubtless noticed that even in Australia we'd say "Clyde River", like North American English. ''']'''] 14:59, 15 April 2023 (UTC) | |||
{{ivmbox|The administrator policy has been updated with new ] following a successful ]. | |||
:Cheers, Graham. Good work! PaulDrye? There's a name I haven't seen for a while. ;) He arrived about a month before me and started (or contributed to) quite a few Scottish articles. As for Clyde River, there's actually one in Nova Scotia too, about an hour and a half from where I now live. And I'm quite happy about that. I tend to use the local terminology, whatever it might be. Although I still find it hard to pronounce Berwick, NS as Berr-wick rather than Berrick. Oh well! -- ] | ] 00:47, 16 April 2023 (UTC) | |||
Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have: | |||
#Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR | |||
#Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period | |||
== Administrators' newsletter – May 2023 == | |||
Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work. | |||
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* A ] about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback. | |||
* Following an ], a change has been made to the ]. 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 ] on the ], a change has been made to the ]. | |||
] '''Technical news''' | ] '''Technical news''' | ||
* Progress has started on the ]. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their ] that requested improvements be made to the tool. | |||
* The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the ]. | |||
* A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable. | |||
] '''Arbitration''' | ] '''Arbitration''' | ||
* The proposed decision in the ] case is expected 11 May 2023. | |||
* ] of the ''St Christopher'' case has been rescinded following a ]. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article ] or related pages from those pages. | |||
] '''Miscellaneous''' | |||
* ] through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023. | |||
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== Administrators' newsletter – June |
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* Following ], editors indefinitely site-banned by ] will now have all rights, including sysop, removed. | |||
* Several areas of improvement collated from ] have been identified in the ]. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are ] on these areas. | |||
* As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's ] project, a ] that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An ] has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses. | |||
] '''Technical news''' | ] '''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 will not be deployed to any content wiki until ''at least'' October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Misplaced Pages until some time in 2024. | |||
* Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access ] directly from user pages. ({{phab|T307341}}) | |||
* The ] has been ] 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. | |||
] '''Arbitration''' | ] '''Arbitration''' | ||
* The arbitration case '']'' 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. | |||
* ] of the ''Rachel Marsden'' case has been rescinded following a ]. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to ] when they violate ]. | |||
* An arbitration case regarding ] has been closed. | |||
] '''Miscellaneous''' | |||
* Following ], the ] has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to {{noping|Jimbo Wales}}. | |||
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).
Interface administrator changes
- Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.
- Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, SilkTork.
- The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to the discretionary sanctions procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
- The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.
- 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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- 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.
- The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Misplaced Pages.
- 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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- 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.
- The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.
- 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.
- 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
roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing
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Can you help me to replace a "redirect"
Derek Ross
cc @Olga Ernst:
Simplon Hospice is redirecting readers to the article Simplon Pass. I developped a new Misplaced Pages article about Simplon Hospice here >> User:Hp.Baumeler/playground Simplon Hospice. Can you delete the redirection Simplon Hospice so I may create the new article Simplon Hospice under my name? Thank you for helping. Regards, Hp.
Hp.Baumeler (talk) 12:33, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
- Done. -- Derek Ross | Talk 15:24, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
- Derek Ross cc @Olga Ernst:
- What a great job !!! Thank you so much for moving the page to the right place and thank you even more for upgrading significantly the Language! I appreciate! Great work! Kind regards, Hp. --Hp.Baumeler (talk) 02:40, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
- You're very welcome! -- Derek Ross | Talk 19:06, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
- Derek Ross cc @Olga Ernst:
Administrators' newsletter – April 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).
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- A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.
- Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
- The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
- A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.
- 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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Glasgow page history, again
Hey Derek, you'll probably find this edit import I just did at the Glasgow article interesting. This edit of yours was previously the earliest one available (before my last history retrieval there), so it previously seemed like you created the page. Now the history shows that it was created by an American (from the IP address), tweaked by a Canadian (from the user page), and then you fixed it up with more local knowledge/wording (see the above diff) ... unless there are *still* edits missing, which I highly doubt! I especially notice the "River Clyde" change; that's very much UK/Ireland terminology, as you're probably well aware. You've doubtless noticed that even in Australia we'd say "Clyde River", like North American English. Graham87 14:59, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
- Cheers, Graham. Good work! PaulDrye? There's a name I haven't seen for a while. ;) He arrived about a month before me and started (or contributed to) quite a few Scottish articles. As for Clyde River, there's actually one in Nova Scotia too, about an hour and a half from where I now live. And I'm quite happy about that. I tend to use the local terminology, whatever it might be. Although I still find it hard to pronounce Berwick, NS as Berr-wick rather than Berrick. Oh well! -- Derek Ross | Talk 00:47, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).
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- A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.
- 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.
- The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.
- 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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- 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.
- 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 Misplaced Pages until some time in 2024.
- 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.
- Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).
- Contributions to the English Misplaced Pages 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.
- 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.
- 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).
Interface administrator changes
- The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (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. (T337431)
- 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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- 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
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
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- Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)
- The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming
local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus
. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged tonote when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful
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- 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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Administrators' newsletter – November 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).
Interface administrator changes
- 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.
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
- Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
- Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
- Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
- Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
- Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
- An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.
- 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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Good article reassessment for Macbeth, King of Scotland
Macbeth, King of Scotland has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 03:00, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hello! Voting in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 11 December 2023. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2023
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).
- 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.
- 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).
- Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
- Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
- The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.
- 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!
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:54, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Editor experience invitation
Hi Derek Ross. :) Your name kinda rhymes with mine, which is cool. Anyways, I'm looking for people to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 00:04, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
- Done! -- Derek Ross | Talk 03:10, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
Administrative permissions and inactivity reminder
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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 Misplaced Pages: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.
Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:28, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
Interface administrator changes
- An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
- Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)
- 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.
- 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 {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
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Scots Misplaced Pages
Hi Derek Ross, Would you please come back to Scots Misplaced Pages? You were one of the original Wikimedians who got it created in 2005, in fact the only supporter who said that they were a native speaker. Many articles there were written by people who don't really speak Scots — the project really needs you! 73.170.137.168 (talk) 06:57, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
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.
- The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)
- 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.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:21, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).
- 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. (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 Misplaced Pages.
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).
- 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.
- Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Misplaced Pages. 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
- The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.
- 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).
- Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.
- The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351
- 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.
- WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{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).
- Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)
- 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).
Interface administrator changes
- 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.
- The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).
Interface administrator changes
- Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which
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.
- Following a motion, remedies 5.1 and 5.2 of World War II and the history of Jews in Poland (the topic and interaction bans on My very best wishes, respectively) were repealed.
- Remedy 3C of the German war effort case ("Cinderella157 German history topic ban") was suspended for a period of six months.
- The arbitration case Historical Elections is currently open. Proposed decision is expected by 3 September 2024 for this case.
- 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).
- 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 Misplaced Pages 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.
- 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).
- 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).
- 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.
- Mass deletions done with the Nuke tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. T366068
- RoySmith, Barkeep49 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. ThadeusOfNazereth and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections.
- The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.
- An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{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).
Interface administrator changes
- 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 Misplaced Pages: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.
- 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.
- 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).
- Following an RFC, Misplaced Pages: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.
- Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Liz, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, Theleekycauldron, Worm That Turned.
- 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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