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''The Signpost'': 10 January 2024
Happy Adminship Anniversary!
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Hi Useight! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=rights&page=User%3AUseight successful request for bureaucratship]. Enjoy this special day! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 05:04, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
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Editor experience invitation
Hi Useight :) I'm looking for people to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 20:49, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
''The Signpost'': 31 January 2024
Administrators' newsletter – February 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
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- An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
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- Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. ({{phab|T326065}})
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- 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.
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- 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 [https://meta.toolforge.org/accounteligibility/70 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 {{tl|Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
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''The Signpost'': 13 February 2024
Administrators' newsletter – March 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).
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File:Green check.svg Guideline and policy news
- 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.
- Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.
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''The Signpost'': 2 March 2024
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).
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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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''The Signpost'': 25 April 2024
Administrators' newsletter – May 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).
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File:Green check.svg Guideline and policy news
- 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.
- 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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''The Signpost'': 16 May 2024
Administrators' newsletter – June 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).
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File:Green check.svg Guideline and policy news
- 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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''The Signpost'': 8 June 2024
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).
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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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''The Signpost'': 22 July 2024
Administrators' newsletter – August 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).
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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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''The Signpost'': 14 August 2024
Administrators' newsletter – September 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).
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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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''The Signpost'': 4 September 2024
A barnstar for you!
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Good article reassessment for [[1920 Buffalo All-Americans season]]
1920 Buffalo All-Americans season 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) 17:57, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
''The Signpost'': 26 September 2024
Administrators' newsletter – October 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).
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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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- 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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Good article reassessment for [[1920 Canton Bulldogs season]]
1920 Canton Bulldogs season 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) 23:54, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
''The Signpost'': 19 October 2024
Invitation to participate in a research
Hello,
The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a survey of Wikipedians to better understand what draws administrators to contribute to Wikipedia, and what affects administrator retention. We will use this research to improve experiences for Wikipedians, and address common problems and needs. We have identified you as a good candidate for this research, and would greatly appreciate your participation in this [https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/294789?lang=en anonymous survey].
You do not have to be an Administrator to participate.
The survey should take around 10-15 minutes to complete. You may read more about the study on its Meta page and view its privacy statement .
Please find our contact on the project Meta page if you have any questions or concerns.
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).
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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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''The Signpost'': 6 November 2024
Reminder to participate in Wikipedia research
Hello,
I recently invited you to take a survey about administration on Wikipedia. If you haven’t yet had a chance, there is still time to participate– we’d truly appreciate your feedback. The survey is anonymous and should take about 10-15 minutes to complete. You may read more about the study on its Meta page and view its privacy statement.
Take the survey [https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/294789?lang=en here].
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Thank you
In case you didn't see it, I appreciate you looking up and finding the previous interaction between Worm That Turned and I. No idea how you even found it, but it was impressive and I am grateful. It may have been a small thing, but thank you. ChrisLeeNeal (talk) 19:05, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
:You're welcome. I looked at your contribution history [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/ChrisLeeNeal here]. I was able to find your edit to User talk:Worm That Turned and then click on the timestamp to see the page as it looked at that time. Then, using the links at the top of the page, I was able to go forward edit-by-edit until Worm That Turned replied to you. Useight (talk) 19:32, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
''The Signpost'': 18 November 2024
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Happy First Edit Day!
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Hi Useight! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Useight&dir=prev&limit=1 your first edit] and became a Wikipedian! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 18:25, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
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:Thanks! Hard to believe it's been eighteen years. Useight (talk) 16:43, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – December 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2024).
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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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2025 Utah Wikipedia Day at Sundance Film Festival
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).
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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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''The Signpost'': 15 January 2025
Happy Anniversary!
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Hi Useight! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy 15th anniversary of your [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=rights&page=User%3AUseight successful request for bureaucratship]. Enjoy this special day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 01:53, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
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:Thanks. I can't believe it's been fifteen years. Useight (talk) 16:40, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2025
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).
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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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Administrators' newsletter – March 2025
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2025).
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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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- Sign up for The Core Contest, a competition running from 15 April to 31 May to improve vital articles.
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Crat chat for EggRoll97
I have opened up a 'crat chat for EggRoll97, see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/EggRoll97 2/Bureaucrat chat. Primefac (talk) 15:49, 19 April 2025 (UTC)