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== Who's handling MG now? == | |||
== Administrators' newsletter – January 2024 == | |||
After PMDrive's retirement, I've noticed that nobody else has decided to take his place to remove MG. I feel that unless someone is keeping a close eye on him, he'll just end up spawning more account hives and still performing edits when he shouldn't be. Any info on this? <font color="#94887C">]</font> <font color="#D2CDC6"><sub>]</sub></font> 10:15, 1 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
] from the past month (December 2023). | |||
:Nobody was handling MG, per se, though PMDrive was certainly good at finding him. Other admins have blocked MG sockpuppets in the past. If you find some that need blocking, feel free to drop me a line and I'll block them. I've added his page to my watch list, but I don't monitor his usual targets, so I'm not likely to find his new accounts. -- ] (]) 23:33, 1 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
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::That's what I mean, he was pretty much the sole person trying to remove him for good even though nobody wants to take action as he's not a Grawp level of vandal. You can't simply keep playing Whack-A-Mole with his sockpuppets each time one pops up and I also reckon keeping a well updated list of his most recent accounts is good either, even he edits it! No, something does need to be done because regardless of if he's being malicious or even editing in good faith, he remains an issue and I'd like to see if those who have dealt with MG in the past can make some form of coordinated effort to get this guy community blocked. I know PMDrive tried very hard, even asking Jimbo and others higher up the food chain than the local admins here for some action and nothing has happened and makes a mockery of the anti-vandal system. <font color="#94887C">]</font> <font color="#D2CDC6"><sub>]</sub></font> 10:22, 2 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
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:::He's already been community banned, so it already is block on sight. Apparently whatever ISP he uses has a large IP pool and too many other active or potentially active editors to make a range block worthwhile without collateral damage. Unfortunately, beyond that, there isn't much more admins can do about that. Going to the Foundation, I would imagine he isn't a high priority compared to other more prolific and destructive vandals like Grawp. -- ] (]) 03:40, 3 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
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::::Interesting, didn't know most of this before, ] is the only thing available then? They are right, he's no Grawp and is merely an irritant to those who know his past behaviour but I'm thinking of a few other vandals similar to MG in having a large IP pool from which to vandalise and nothing can be done about them either. Hm, I'll keep the list upto date (which I reckon MG keeps as a nice trophy) but I only ever spot him when he strays into my watched articles so you might miss a few. <font color="#94887C">]</font> <font color="#D2CDC6"><sub>]</sub></font> 09:27, 3 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
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:::::Yes, RBI is pretty much the only thing that can be done. I don't think he is actually the atypical trophy type of vandal even if he maintains his own list of accounts and will correct sockpuppetry tags. He's an unusual type of vandal and doesn't really seem to be in it for the "glory" like Grawp or others. -- ] (]) 23:54, 3 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
::::::So, if he's not out for glory or soapboxing then what's driving him? The fact he can't be stopped? I prefer the more typical vandals, at least they're easy to figure out. <font color="#94887C">]</font> <font color="#D2CDC6"><sub>]</sub></font> 11:39, 4 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
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:::::::A few years ago (yup, that long), an editor made contact with MG's mother. The mother said that he was autistic. It's in the LTA page. -- ] (]) 15:53, 4 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
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* Following the ], 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 ], the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were ]. | |||
* The arbitration case '']'' has been closed. | |||
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] has smiled at you! Smiles promote ] and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and happy editing! <br /> <small>''Smile at others by adding {{tls|Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.''</small> | |||
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== Administrators' newsletter – February 2024 == | |||
== ] == | |||
] from the past month (January 2024). | |||
Hello, thanks for your work on ]. Can there be an option made so that "]" could be an option inserted into the end of the edit summary? ''']''' (]) 23:20, 1 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
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: on your talk page. -- ] (]) 23:44, 1 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
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::Thank you, I will do that. ''']''' (]) 02:08, 2 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
Please see by {{user|Johnleemk}}. Care to try to modify the script? Thanks, ''']''' (]) 07:43, 2 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
: on your talk page. -- ] (]) 21:11, 2 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
Awesome thanks. ''']''' (]) 21:12, 2 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
: on your talk page. -- ] (]) 23:47, 3 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
Thank you soooo much! I will let you know once I have tried this out. ''']''' (]) 23:48, 3 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
: on your talk page. -- ] (]) 00:05, 4 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
#It works great! Could you just make it wikilink "non-admin closure" to ]? Thanks, ''']''' (]) 00:06, 4 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
#Oh, also it only needs to say "non-admin closure" in the edit summary. Per ] it is not necessary to say that at the top of the closed AFD. ''']''' (]) 00:09, 4 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
#Sorry, one more thing, but is ] normally ''substed'' on talkpages? I will default to your preference on that one. ''']''' (]) 00:14, 4 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
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:: on your talk page. -- ] (]) 00:37, 4 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
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It works great, let me know when you have updated the main one with the changes. How is Mr. Z-man's different? ''']''' (]) 06:23, 5 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
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::I changed my monobook. I think I shall take Mr. Z-man's script for a test-spin as well. Thanks again for all of your help, ''']''' (]) 07:20, 5 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
*I am sorry you did all that work but the ] tool is simply incredible and much more efficient. I would highly recommend copying that tool into ] instead. ''']''' (]) 08:03, 5 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
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Okay sounds good. Thanks again for your work on it. ''']''' (]) 21:21, 5 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
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== David Lynch external link == | |||
* An ] about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback. | |||
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There appears to be no outside biography of David Lynch at the external links' listing. Therefore, we feel it is appropriate to add at least one such site. This is the only non-profit site hosting David Lynch biography which we could find by a quick search. We added a note about this also to the discussion page of the David Lynch article. We'll go ahead and undo the revert of the robot. Thank you. | |||
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] (]) 20:50, 5 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
* Following a ], 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 ] for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at ]. | |||
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: on your talk page. -- ] (]) 22:00, 5 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
* Voting in the ] will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The ] of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically to vote. | |||
* A vote to '''ratify the charter for the ]''' is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via ]. 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 ]. | |||
* Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the ]. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. ] | |||
* The ] 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. ] | |||
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== Administrators' newsletter – March 2024 == | |||
Hello Gogo, <br> | |||
Can you please take a look at the past couple of Ip blocks by administrator {{Admin|Kaihsu}} and see whether theres anything sticking out in the contribs to warrant an automatic one year block which he was been handing out to some of them? I left a note on his talk page a couple of days ago but he has not replied as of yet, he has continued to edit though and i was just curious thats all. For all the Ips it was their first block, they hardly received any warnings if at all and ] he blocked indefinitely. I was always under the impression that IPs aren't indef except in extreme circumstances. Hopefully you can put my mind at ease. Appreciate it ''']''' <sup>(])</sup> 03:01, 6 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
] from the past month (February 2024). | |||
: on your talk page. -- ] (]) 05:31, 6 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
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::FWIW Kaihsu has now replied stating .." I will keep away from blocking until I am sure that I have a better understanding of the policy" Well, at least now he knows. ''']''' <sup>(])</sup> 03:17, 8 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
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I put up a more detailed reply on ANI, but I am not sure this block was merited by the behavior and policy. Please explain your rationale more there on the thread on ANI. Thanks. ] (]) 07:57, 6 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
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== Please help me gogo == | |||
* ] of the 2024 ] is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the ]. | |||
* Following ], the inactivity requirement for the removal of the ] right increased from 6 months to 12 months. | |||
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I was trying to make an Template:infobox about ovals (Template:Infobox Oval). Please make it for me. Thanks 4 ur help. ] (]) 09:20, 6 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
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: on your talk page. -- ] (]) 21:25, 6 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
* The 2024 appointees for the ] are ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] and ] as members, with ] serving as steward-observer. | |||
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I am making a page called ] and thats why I needed the infobox. | |||
Can you help me create a wikipedia page for guitarist Fabrizio Bicio Leo or no? ] (]) 10:27, 6 March 2024 (UTC) | |||
I would also like you to protect it for me. I started it yesterday but trying to make the infobox took up all my time and it was deleted because I ended up not having much infomation on the page. Because you are an adminastator you can protect it for me can't you??? | |||
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The page is about the oval in ]. | |||
== Long time no see. == | |||
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== Administrators' newsletter – April 2024 == | |||
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] from the past month (March 2024). | |||
I can see where you are going. | |||
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Please go to my page ] and see what I mean because there is more than 1 sprt is played there. | |||
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: on your talk page. -- ] (]) 19:23, 7 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
For this . Since they're hopping from one sock to the next, those articles really need to be locked. Cheers, ] (]) 05:21, 6 April 2024 (UTC) | |||
== Message from Selenatheone == | |||
:Perhaps, but I suspect he will just move to another LOTR article and we will end up chasing him all over the place. -- ] (]) 05:23, 6 April 2024 (UTC) | |||
Ok! i wasnt leaving any speculative movies i got this info from 3 websites and in a interview christopher nolan said hes making the dark knight returns i did all that work on that article and you deleted it!!!?!!! you could have told me where to add the webstite where i got the info from!?! you didnt have to erase all my hard work loser!!!!! <small>—Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 20:24, 6 September 2008 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> | |||
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:::In the meantime, our genius is at it again. ] (]) 05:25, 6 April 2024 (UTC) | |||
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== Administrators' newsletter – May 2024 == | |||
Not very creative these vandals, eh? <font color="DarkGray">...</font> ] <sub>]</sub> 02:04, 7 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
] from the past month (April 2024). | |||
== Message from Cj395 == | |||
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::I would say that there isn't that much material to review, but I would really like the opinion of an uninvolved admin, as the way things are heading, most of the reviewing arbitrators are assuming bad faith in the case of the topic banned editor, calling him obsessive when it has been continuously made clear that he is not. I honestly want them to really review the material again before sticking with their votes.— ''']]<sup> ]</sup> /<sub>]</sub>''' 05:45, 10 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
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== Administrators' newsletter – June 2024 == | |||
To date there's been plenty of evidence pointing to discussions and otherwise offering commentary on the admin actions taken, but there's been little covering the circumstances prior to admin actions, namely the edits that the admins concerned based protection on. Newyorkbrad has ] on this basis, but it seems to be only non-parties that have noticed that so far, so I'm putting this question to those involved directly. | |||
] from the past month (May 2024). | |||
Rootology has made a start here, and GRBerry has started drafting in his userspace. Ye might like to assist them in their efforts, or add a section of your own. This evidence will be vital in assisting the Committee's understanding of not only ''what'' happened and when, but ''why'' it happened. --] (]) 14:01, 9 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
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- this is the first academy in Oxford offering a variety of martial arts training | |||
- OMAA has the ONLY professional ring in Oxford. I've been there myself and the ring is really something that Oxford needs. | |||
- OMAA's instructors have international standing - see Des Brackett and Luciano Pereira. | |||
- OMAA works closely with the community (Oxford Council and the Youth Justice Board, of which I am a member)to try to get kids off the streets and therefore reduce crime rates in Oxford | |||
- OMAA can best be described as a social enterprise, and this is the first time (to my knowledge; and I've been working in the industry for a very long time) that a martial arts academy concentrates alot of time and effort in community work. I do, however, really think you should keep the page up and not delete it. | |||
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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.
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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
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2024
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- 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.
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Can you help me create a wikipedia page for guitarist Fabrizio Bicio Leo or no? Denny009 (talk) 10:27, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
- Replied on your talk page. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 03:45, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
Long time no see.
Glad to see you are around. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 21:34, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
- Hear hear. Drmies (talk) 21:35, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
- Hello young Mr Dodo! bishzilla ROARR!! pocket 22:12, 18 March 2024 (UTC).
Thanks! Good to be back. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 03:56, 19 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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Thank you
For this . Since they're hopping from one sock to the next, those articles really need to be locked. Cheers, 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 05:21, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
- Perhaps, but I suspect he will just move to another LOTR article and we will end up chasing him all over the place. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:23, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
- Yep. Thanks again. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 05:25, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
- In the meantime, our genius is at it again. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 05:25, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
- Yep. Thanks again. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 05:25, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
- Of course. I locked them. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:33, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
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!
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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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