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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.

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• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. ({{phab|T353388}})

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• 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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Hello there, Mako001, or Mako, if i can risk being over-friendly. Just visited your userpage after something i saw on my watchlist (don't even remember what, 'twasn't important), and two things:

1. I use a format which numbers section headings; i absolutely love that that makes your page say that WP has five pillars, it then enumerates them as 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8! No point to this observations, i'm simply amused.
2. What is a wiki-squirrel accident? I read the two articles at the links you give, but i can't figure out anything significant they have in common, so i am puzzled.
   

Happy days, ~ Lindsay^Hello 08:32, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

:{{ping|LindsayH}} To answer your question/comment number 2 (or whatever it appears as for you, number 4 maybe?): A wiki-squirrel accident is a term I sort of invented to refer to what happens when you accidentally end up improving an article substantially due to Wiki-squirrel tendencies. Mako001 (C)  (T)  🇺🇦 23:36, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

::Ha! Thank you. I never even thought of going to WP:SQUIRREL for a look; more of a WP:GNOME myself, so real creatures apparently catch me off-guard. See you around ~ and happy squirrelling! Happy days, ~ Lindsay^Hello 07:08, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi Mako!

I noted that you have been making occasional edits to California High-Speed Rail.

That article is in need of a general overhaul, as it has been growing in a somewhat uncontrolled manner during the past 2 or 3 years.

I made some high-level suggestions in the discussion: Talk:California_High-Speed_Rail#Clean-up_and_Harmonisation.

I'd like to ask if you would be interested in forming a team to give it a proper scrub. I am quite new to doing serious edits on Wikipedia and am keen to take it on, but for the sake of everyone I should not be doing it by myself. DracaenaGuianensis (talk) 03:43, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

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• An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

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• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. ({{Phab|T313405}})

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• An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

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• 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 Wikipedia.

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• 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.

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• Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. 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

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• The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

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• This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
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• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

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• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

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• 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.

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• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{tl|citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

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• Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. ({{phab|T6086}})

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• The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more

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• 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.

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• The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: {{noping|Bilby}}, {{noping|Extraordinary Writ}}

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• Following an RfC, there is a new criterion for speedy deletion: C4, which {{tq|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.

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• 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 ("{{noping|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.

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• 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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• 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 Wikipedia 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.

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• 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).

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• 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.

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• 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. {{phab|T366068}}

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• {{noping|RoySmith}}, {{noping|Barkeep49}} and {{noping|Cyberpower678}} have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections. {{noping|ThadeusOfNazereth}} and {{noping|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.

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• An unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{tl|Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

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• 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 Wikipedia: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.

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• Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. [https://pretix.eu/wikimedia/hackathon2025/ Application for travel and accommodation scholarships] is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

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• 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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• Following an RFC, Wikipedia:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
• A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.

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• The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

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• Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: {{noping|CaptainEek}}, {{noping|Daniel}}, {{noping|Elli}}, {{noping|KrakatoaKatie}}, {{noping|Liz}}, {{noping|Primefac}}, {{noping|ScottishFinnishRadish}}, {{noping|Theleekycauldron}}, {{noping|Worm That Turned}}.

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• A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!

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• Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. {{phab|T380846}}
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• The arbitration case Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.

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• A request for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
• A series of 22 mini-RFCs that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of the administrator elections process has been closed (see the summary of the changes).
• A request for comment is open to gain consensus on whether future administrator elections should be held.

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• A new filter has been added to the {{#special:Nuke}} tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. {{phab|T378488}}
• Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the {{#special:Nuke}} tool. {{phab|T376378}}

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• The 2025 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, Arcticocean, Ameisenigel, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, Galahad, Nehaoua, Renvoy, Revi C., RoySmith, Teles and Zafer as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2025 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: 1234qwer1234qwer4, AramilFeraxa, Daniuu, KonstantinaG07, MdsShakil and XXBlackburnXx.

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You requested an assessment for Commonwealth v Introvigne on 14 December 2021. User:JarrahTree fulfilled your request on 9 March 2022. Sadly, that editor has since passed away. His death was reported in early December 2024. It is assessed as a B-Class, which is as high as we can take it. To get to GA status, there is a separate system. Thank you for your patience. Bearian (talk) 01:39, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

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• Following an RfC, administrator elections were permanently authorized on a five-month schedule. The next election will be scheduled soon; see Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections for more information. This is an alternate process to the RfA process and does not replace the latter.
• An RfC was closed with consensus to allow editors to opt-out of seeing "sticky decorative elements". Such elements should now be wrapped in {{t|sticky decoration wrapper}}. Editors who wish to opt out can follow the instructions at WP:STICKYDECO.
• An RfC has resulted in a broad prohibition on the use of AI-generated images in articles. A few common-sense exceptions are recognized.

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