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 Dear fellow Wikipedian, You are invited to attend the 16th St. Louis Misplaced Pages and WikiProject Meetup. Please join the discussion if you have articles or topics for discussion for our focused meeting time from 7-8 PM in the room Chuck Berry. This all takes place as part of Venture Cafe's Thursday Gatherings at the Cortex Innovation Community in St. Louis. Come early if you want to have social time. Please do visit 16th St. Louis Misplaced Pages and WikiProject Meetup and add your name if you plan to attend. THANKS :) We hope to see you there! St. Louis Wikipedians Join our WikiProject St. Louis Page and add your name as a participant | |
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Administrators' newsletter – October 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2018).
Administrator changes
Justlettersandnumbers • L235
Bgwhite • HorsePunchKid • J Greb • KillerChihuahua • Rami R • Winhunter
Interface administrator changes
- Cyberpower678 • Deryck Chan • Oshwah • Pharos • Ragesoss • Ritchie333
Oversight changes
- Guerillero • NativeForeigner • Snowolf • Xeno
Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, the process for appointing interface administrators has been established. Currently only existing admins can request these rights, while a new RfC has begun on whether it should be available to non-admins.
- There is an open request for comment on Meta regarding the creation a new user group for global edit filter management.
Technical news
- Partial blocks should be available for testing in October on the Test Misplaced Pages and the Beta-Cluster. This new feature allows admins to block users from editing specific pages and in the near-future, namespaces and uploading files. You can expect more updates and an invitation to help with testing once it is available.
- The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team is currently looking for input on how to measure the effectiveness of blocks. This is in particular related to how they will measure the success of the aforementioned partial blocks.
- Because of a data centre test, you will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia projects for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.
Arbitration
- The Arbitration Committee has, by motion, amended the procedure on functionary inactivity.
- The community consultation for 2018 CheckUser and Oversight appointments has concluded. Appointments will be made by October 11.
- Following a request for comment, the size of the Arbitration Committee will be decreased to 13 arbitrators, starting in 2019. Additionally, the minimum support percentage required to be appointed to a two-year term on ArbCom has been increased to 60%. ArbCom candidates who receive between 50% and 60% support will be appointed to one-year terms instead.
- Nominations for the 2018 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission are being accepted until 12 October. These are the editors who help run the ArbCom election smoothly. If you are interested in volunteering for this role, please consider nominating yourself.
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The Bugle: Issue CL, October 2018
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2018
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).
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Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment determined that non-administrators will not be able to request interface admin access.
- A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the Mediation Committee should be closed and marked as historical.
- A village pump discussion has been ongoing about whether the proposed deletion policy (PROD) should be clarified or amended.
- A request for comment is in progress to determine whether pending changes protection should be applied automatically to today's featured article (TFA) in order to mitigate a recent trend of severe image vandalism.
Technical news
- Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Misplaced Pages. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Misplaced Pages will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
- A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
- The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.
Arbitration
- Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
- The Arbitration Committee's email address has changed to arbcom-en
wikimedia.org. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.
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Are you still here?
Hiya, glad to see you are still alive and kickin. I came back and found some things never change, except for the worse. See my talk page at November 2018. I tried to float a proposal at Larry Sanger's talk page for a new project and it was deleted by Guy Macon before I even had a chance to finish a line requesting comments. He could not possibly have read it, but claimed it was "promotional," which it was not intended to be. Query: if a mere proposal seeking comments on a talk page is "promotional," what is the article about Julian Assange? Isn't WP promoting his ideas and actions simply by publishing an article about him? Anyway, Sanger never saw the proposal, so does not know what it is about. If people are deleting things from other person's talk pages, how does any communication or productive discourse ever happen on WP today? I mean, is WP discussion today limited only to confrontation? Mervyn Emrys (talk) 07:38, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
- No,, you will NOT be allowed to to violate or WP:BLP policy, and you will NOT be allowed to use Misplaced Pages as a WP:SOAPBOX. And you were told exactly how to contact Larry Sanger. --Guy Macon (talk) 16:34, 5 November 2018 (UTC)