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Administrators' newsletter – January 2020
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).
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Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
- A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
- Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.
Arbitration
- The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being
the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted
rather thanreasonably construed
. - Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Bradv, Casliber, David Fuchs, DGG, KrakatoaKatie, Maxim, Newyorkbrad, SoWhy, Worm That Turned, Xeno.
- The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being
Miscellaneous
- This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!
Happy Adminship Anniversary!
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Have a very happy adminship anniversary on your special day!
Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 00:27, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
The Gloaming (tv series) revert
editWhy was this reverted? There was significant information added within the infobox and sources provided. All your reverting did was remove a lot of hard work - information obtained by looking at the credits in each episode.
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The Gloaming (tv series)
editHow can the dates be wrong? It was officially released on Jan 1, 2020, never "broadcast", but made available to stream sometime before 10pm Dec 31, 2020. ISAN is a reference much like a production code as other tv series articles have. The article reads like a broken record as is, repeating the same information over and over in a couple of paragraphs. Why do you act like you own the entire article anyway? Anyone can contribute if I remember correctly.
The Gloaming
editOkay look, I think maybe we both thought each other was being a bit rash with the article. Going forward I would like to bring it up to a good standard which I’m sure we can both do.
west oz meetup yesterday
editwe are interested in getting good maps from the meetup,
which involved more starts of regional categories/projects ...
(Kimberley and Pilbara already existed)
https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Western_Australia/Regional_Projects so interested about producing maps for the regions - hopefully within the ambit of osm or whatever there is a link -https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/regional-development-commission-boundaries
would that be a reasonable item to help create a more viable and usable map than https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Regions_of_Western_Australia.svg which hardly allows for breaking up into the regions or more detail
any thoughts? JarrahTree 04:19, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
- @JarrahTree:: Sure, I would love to help with this! That link on the WA data catalogue was the same dataset I tried to send you a few months ago as a Google Maps KML, so yes, that's the one that any maps of the regions should use. The region boundaries have not been imported into OpenStreetMap, which is unfortunate as that would enable zoomable "slippy maps" using the Wikimaps service (which were discussed at length here). The map data is CC-BY 4.0 licenced but OSM would need explicit permission from Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development to import it. I can produce any vector maps you need for Commons pretty easily though—such as maps of the region zoomed in, with the localities and main towns/cities visible and labelled—which might be the next best thing to an embedded map. I'll do some samples and get your thoughts or suggestions. There is another option too, which I haven't explored much but apparently it is possible to upload boundary vectors to Commons and link to Wikidata—but I don't know much about this yet... --Canley (talk) 05:12, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for your reply, will get back to you on some of that soon... -- JarrahTree 10:56, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2020
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
- The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with
wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input
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Technical news
- Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
- When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [1]
Arbitration
- Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators
that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.
- Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- The English Wikipedia has reached six million articles. Thank you everyone for your contributions!
Disambiguation link notification for February 1
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Disambiguation link notification for February 22
editAn automated process has detected that when you recently edited Beryl Nashar, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page University of Newcastle (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).
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Ana Brnabić
editWhy are you hiding the truth about medals from sham entities? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.14.81.61 (talk) 05:13, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
Single-purpose account
editI will kindly ask you to pay closer attention to this editing as it has gone unnoticed for far too long and I do not see it to be per Wikipedia:Here to build an encyclopedia.
This is just some of the recent work: [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
+ resorting to sock puppets [14] (there is more to be found)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2020
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops
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- Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops
Technical news
- Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.
Miscellaneous
- Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
- The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.
Meetup
editSee Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup_28_March_2020 for a new link. Schwede66 21:34, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
Barnstar!!
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2020
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Guideline and policy news
- There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.
Technical news
- There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.
Arbitration
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a
Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment
. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a
Miscellaneous
- The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.
Hello. I've just created Douglas Macinnis. In his Who's who biography, it states that he was a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Council during the period 1951–1952. However, he's not in this list. Is who's who wrong, or is the list incomplete? Cheers, Number 57 13:41, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
- @Number 57: I think I left it off. I found a mention in my sources but the name is spelt differently: Douglas Evans MacInnes (Official Member) 15 February 1952 – 8 August 1952. I have added him to the list now, thanks. --Canley (talk) 21:35, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
- Good stuff, thanks! Number 57 21:38, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2020
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).
Administrator changes
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Oversight changes
Guideline and policy news
- Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
- Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
- A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
- A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.
Technical news
- The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
- Enterprisey created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.
Miscellaneous
- A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.
Swingers
editI have noticed there have been quite a few good faith edits to election results such as this one changing the swing to simple arithmetic rather than adjusting for the redistribution. While these are easy enough to resolve as they come up - the swing is verified by the cited AEC source - it makes me wonder whether we should have something in the lead, not because it will reduce the number of misguided edits, but simply because its an indication that readers are looking at the numbers and asking the question. I was thinking something simple, but would need to find a reliable source. --Find bruce (talk) 07:03, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
- @Find bruce: It's always difficult to explain the whole redistribution and notional results thing, and yes, a lot of good faith edits because it's so counter-intuitive and just looks wrong. I added a section about "Notional seat status" at Redistribution (Australia) a while ago. Probably worth mentioning in the intro of a results list for a state/territory which had a redistribution. It could point to that section, or one of Antony Green's calculation reports maybe? --Canley (talk) 06:30, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2020
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).
Administrator changes
CaptainEek • Creffett • Cwmhiraeth
Anna Frodesiak • Buckshot06 • Ronhjones • SQL
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment asks whether the Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
- The Wikimedia Foundation announced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an open local discussion regarding the same.
Arbitration
very odd
editthere seems to be some confusion in project tagging of the orders/awards distinction - I may well have utilised wrong ones for some, but better than nothings I suppose... JarrahTree 14:33, 7 June 2020 (UTC)
"Spear of vix" listed at Redirects for discussion
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A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Spear of vix. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 June 11#Spear of vix until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Not a very active user (talk) 12:39, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
Nomination of Ronne Arnold for deletion
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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ronne Arnold is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ronne Arnold 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.
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. JDDJS (talk to me • see what I've done) 01:49, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – July 2020
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Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment is in progress to remove the T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) speedy deletion criterion.
Technical news
- Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added by User:MusikBot II (BRFA).
Arbitration
- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an
RfC regarding on-wiki harassment
. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community. - The Medicine case was closed, with a remedy authorizing standard discretionary sanctions for
all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles
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- Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold an
A barnstar for you!
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NT candidates table
editThanks for filling this in - looks great! I am wondering, though, whether the TA shouldn't be the third column rather than the Greens? Likely to run more candidates, and will almost certainly have a greater impact on the result ... Frickeg (talk) 07:50, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2020
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).
Administrator changes
Oversight changes
Guideline and policy news
- There is an open request for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
- Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
- Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.
- There is a proposal to restrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.
Translation clarification: zh:社區工作 is not Youth worker
editThe article zh:社區工作 was wrongly linked to "Youth Worker" in English Wikipedia for a long period of time. While Youth Worker refers to the social worker focusing on youth service, the Chinese article shall be 青年工作者 (in Mandarin Chinese) [1] or 青年社工 (in Cantonese Chinese) while either one is not yet in zh-Wiki yet. On the other hand, 社區工作 (aka 社區實踐) exactly refers to a branch of social work that focuses on larger social systems and social change (i.e., not limited to Youth) and it should be the concept of community practice.
Chunlaw (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:28, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
Happy First Edit Day!
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Have a very happy first edit anniversary!
From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 06:15, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
Happy First Edit Day!
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Hey, Canley. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Megan Barris (Lets talk📧) 14:43, 12 August 2020 (UTC) |
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Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society
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Dear Canley,
I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more.
Best regards, Chris Troutman (talk) 15:04, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Chilla Porter
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On 18 August 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Chilla Porter, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. SpencerT•C 20:07, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
NT - thank you
editHey, just wanted to drop by and say you have done an amazing job with this election. Thank you! Frickeg (talk) 02:57, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
Dilemma
editI’m not sure where we add a birth... should Clarrie Jeffreys be added to the 1932 in Australia births section, or the 1931 in Australia births section? - Chris.sherlock (talk) 10:06, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
- @Chris.sherlock: If we don't know the year, I wouldn't include it in either list. --Canley (talk) 10:38, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks, that's an option too :-) I'll run with that. Chris.sherlock (talk) 10:51, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – September 2020
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2020).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, the minimum length for site ban discussions was increased to 72 hours, up from 24.
- A request for comment is ongoing to determine whether paid editors
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use the articles for creation process. - A request for comment is open to resolve inconsistencies between the draftification and alternative to deletion processes.
Arbitration
- A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2020 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
- An open request for comment asks whether active Arbitrators may serve on the Trust and Safety Case Review Committee or Ombudsman commission.
2020 NT Election Results
editHi Canley,
I noticed that you reverted my edit.I have reverted it back not to start an edit war but because I want to discuss each type of change I made and I can't be wrong on all of them. I will set out my thinking on each here: https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Talk:Results_of_the_2020_Northern_Territory_general_election#Changes_to_results_article
You were right to revert my edit. My bad I had forgotten the N/A landing point. Cheers Benawu2 (talk) 08:22, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
Postcard #2
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Sunday 14 September: Greymouth |
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| Hello all from Greymouth! There are now a dozen of you from Australia and New Zealand signed up to help, which is wonderful. • The last week has seem some great work, especially from Schwede66, MurielMary, and DrThneed, busily creating categories, stubs, and some really nice articles like Hokitika Clock Tower • This last week I'll been in Greymouth, and gave a talk to the library staff, spoke to half a dozen tourism operators, and had a great edit-a-thon on Saturday, where the partcipants were so keen they organised another one in two weeks! • Check out Axel's reorganisation of the Greymouth category and see if there are photos that need articles. • The Greymouth article needs work, a gallery of historic buildings, and more references from news media and books. • Plenty of old buildings in the list to work on • Siobhan wants Wikidata for all NZ reserves, and I would like all tracks and walkways in Wikidata too, like the Rapahoe Range Scenic Reserve and Elizabeth Point Walkway – I took a bunch of photos there yesterday • Some of our new articles have been flagged (wrongly) because there weren't enough references yet; not to worry, but help if you can. I'm digging through local archives here for good sources. Here's a Google drive of local news stories by the way. • There'll be lots more photos going up in the next week so watch this space. In the meantime keep an eye on my uploads, photos from History House Museum, and more from the Grey District Library to see of there's something you can use. • Housekeeping: please do remember to jot down your contributions on the daily Progress Report, just so others can see and help out. Thank you all for you hard work! • Take care — Giantflightlessbirds |  |
Hello
editI want to let your attention here –> [15] A Wikidata item for Peter Jeffrey (badminton) already exists. So there is no need for this –> [16] one. Thanks :) Zoglophie (talk) 01:35, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks, I have merged them. --Canley (talk) 02:18, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
Postcard #3
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Sunday 20 September: Westport |
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| Hi from Westport! The ridiculously nice weather has largely continued. According to Wikipedia the Holcim cement works is here, but I'm pretty sure it closed in 2016. Work needed on that article! • One result of appearing on Seven Sharp is that Tourism New Zealand and the Glacier tourism folks are now interested in chatting. Watch this space, I may be headed south soon. • MurielMary and DrThneed have been helping with the West Coast artists list, many thanks – I may have more print sources for bios. The Yvonne Rust book is good. • There's been some great teamwork this past week, with Canley and Schwede66 sorting out all the West Coast heritage buildings in Wikidata without photos, and me running round Westport with my camera taking pics of them. • About half the Stewart Nimmo photos are uploaded, and keep an eye on my uploads for more. Look for inventive uses: I added one to the selfie article. • I'll be working on Denniston Plateau, the Westport News, Becky Manawatu, EPIC Westport, the Kawatiri Coastal Trail, Granity, and Barrytown; all help appreciated. • This week I have a few more days at Westport and will do a day trip to Granity, then down to Hokitika on Friday for 10 days to work with the Museum and heritage groups. So do tackle Westport content this week; I can ask the Westport News for clippings if you need more sources. • Housekeeping: add what you do to the daily Progress Report, so we can all see and help! • Take care — Giantflightlessbirds |  |
Special Minister of State
editNote that the Department of the Special Minister of State (SMOS - pronounced to rhyme with "moss") really was a government department back in the day. Unlike other countries, the constitution doesn't permit ministers without portfolio. Bob Hawke pioneered allowing more than one minister to administer a single department, so the SMOS is now in Finance portfolio. But it used to be a separate department. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:16, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
- @Hawkeye7: I know it does. However, the reference I added says: "Under the arrangement established in 1987 there were 17 Cabinet ministers. Of this number, only one did not head a department—the Special Minister of State, Senator Susan Ryan, who was located in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet with responsibilities for the Office of the Status of Women, the Bicentennial and the Australia Card." Not that she had no portfolio, but was in Cabinet although with the roles of a junior minister within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. --Canley (talk) 06:25, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for that! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:28, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
- The reference you posted also says: "After the 1987 election, Hawke moved her from education, while keeping her in cabinet as special minister of state without a department of her own." --Canley (talk) 06:29, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
- We had an edit conflict.
Article is all yours now. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:32, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
- We had an edit conflict.
- The reference you posted also says: "After the 1987 election, Hawke moved her from education, while keeping her in cabinet as special minister of state without a department of her own." --Canley (talk) 06:29, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for that! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:28, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Susan Ryan
edit On 27 September 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Susan Ryan, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:48, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Postcard #4
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Sunday 27 September: Hokitika |
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| Greetings from sunny Hokitika! The fine weather I've had for the last few weeks finally broke and it's been driving hail and wind today. • Last week in Westport was fun, talking to many local historians and photographers, and the Westport News (rewritten article) • Saturday I ran a workshop in Hokitika, yesterday a second one in Greymouth. One newbie improved the Dave McKenzie (runner) article and squealed when her changes showed up instantly in Google. Another ran out to take photos of the Pioneers' Memorial (right), and Schwede66 created an article that very night • This week I'd love help with Hokitika-area articles: sculptures of Hokitika, buildings of Hokitika, Guy Menzies, Hokitika Guardian (am meeting them tomorrow to get better sources), whitebait (the NZ aspect), Kaniere, Lake Kaniere, pounamu, Lake Mahinapua, Hokitika Gorge, The Luminaries, and the Hokitika River. This is a list brainstormed with the locals at the workshop, heartily recommend doing this. • There are more photos by Stewart Nimmo of Lake Brunner and Reefton (including the artist Alison Hale (Q99304897), who's on our list. • It would be super helpful of somebody to look at the Hokitika area on WikiShootMe and check the locations of rivers, hills, etc against NZ Topo Map or the NZGB Gazetteer. • Dr Thneed wanted a photo through the altar window of St James Church, Franz Josef, and that same day Paora supplied one. Great teamwork, folks – it's been so nice to watch you collaborate. • Housekeeping: keep noting your contributions on the daily Progress Report. Thank you all for your hard work. • Stay warm and dry! — Giantflightlessbirds |  |
Administrators' newsletter – September 2020
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020).
Administrator changes
- Ajpolino • LuK3
Jackmcbarn- Ad Orientem • Harej • Lid • Lomn • Mentoz86 • Oliver Pereira • XJaM
There'sNoTime → TheresNoTime
Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely
1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created
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- A request for comment found consensus that incubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended when draftification is appropriate, namely
Technical news
- The filter log now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions (phab:T261630).
Arbitration
- The 2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
- Following a request for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either the Ombuds Commission or the WMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committee passed a motion implementing those results into their procedures.
Miscellaneous
- The Universal Code of Conduct draft is open for community review and comment until October 6th, 2020.
- Office actions may now be appealed to the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee.
Nomination of Legalise Cannabis Queensland for deletion
edit A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Legalise Cannabis Queensland is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Legalise Cannabis Queensland 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.
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. 1292simon (talk) 06:11, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
Postcard #5
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Sunday 4 October: Hokitika |
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| Kia ora from Hokitika! Tomorrow I pack up the car and head to Greymouth to present to Development West Coast our previous month's work, before heading south • Yes, Glacier Country are supplying accommodation in south Westland – Ōkārito, Franz Josef, and Fox – for the next two weeks. Possibly because I mouthed off to the media that Fox Glacier's entry is so short who would want to stay there? • So this week it's Ōkārito (splitting the article into settlement and lagoon), kōtuku, spoonbills, the West Coast Wildlife Centre (Q99767675), rowi, Franz Josef glacier (and NZ glacier photos in general glacier articles), historic buildings thereabouts, etc • I uploaded lots of Stewart Nimmo photos of the Haast area, and have some Paparoa ones by Jase Blair coming soon. • Pakoire noticed that Fayne Robinson (Q99836010) needs an article – can we collaborate on one? He's def notable and we need more coverage of Māori from the Coast. • Also women: see the Westland women in the WikiProject Hokitika Museum Google doc and Hokitika Museum Google drive. • Last week I wrote or improved articles about Hokitika Museum, Lake Kaniere, History House Museum, Lake Mahinapua, and Westland District Library. Error check, cleanup etc welcome. It's great to be able to work from folders and scrapbooks stuffed full of newspaper clippings! • Housekeeping: Thank you all for collaborating and filling in gaps, especially with historic buildings. Paora has been doing some great work. Please keep letting me know of any photos you need taking on the spot. • Take care — Giantflightlessbirds |  |
Postcard #6
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Postcard #7
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Qld election
editAs an admin are you able to clear the history for the blocked redlink for Ali King? Or should I create an article for her and call it, say, Ali King (politician)? She does seem to have won the seat of Pumicestone. Oronsay (talk) 05:16, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
- @Oronsay: OK, done! --Canley (talk) 05:47, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2020
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- Community sanctions now authorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotection
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Arbitration
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Happy Adminship Anniversary!
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Morrison wiki
editBecause of the way New Zealand 1948 British Nationality and NZ Citizenship Act is worded his mother was a full New Zealand citizen and not a citizen by descent. 1948 NZ citizenship act His mother being a full New Zealand citizenship means he got New Zealand citizenship at birth, citizenship was granted automatically through New Zealand laws. Guardian story about his citizenship.
This is not a novel idea - it is called the law. The New Zealand legislation is written in plain English, even back in 1948. A law that is 72 years old is not novel.
Will you cancel your changes and stick to the actual facts? You claim you do a lot of editing for government pages - are you a party member? Are you a government worker?
please cancel your edit of my information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.35.82.130 (talk) 04:08, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2021
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Professionalism in Politics
editHi Canley. The issues of ROBODEBT are not going away. It may make all those politicians who are responsible feel awkward, but it is about those of you in office bring professional in your work. Louise Morrow Louise Morrow (talk) 10:33, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
Nomination of Pria Viswalingam for deletion
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"Mega City (The Matrix)" listed at Redirects for discussion
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why did you revert my edit
edithello i was wondering what did i do wrong i looking up on wikimedia the australian labor leader and that image came up.— Preceding unsigned comment added by [[User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{1}}}#top|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/{{{1}}}|contribs]])
maintenance
editthanks for your work on west oz politics related items so what have I been saying recently about maintenance, bit like the saying last one out turn the light off, we're having to update the perth (and I just had a sneak look at melbourne... what a mess) politics articles. Like I say it is not the gee whizz creating articles, it is the long term maintenance and updating that actually is where the effort is needed, imho... heheheh (to use one of your expressions) JarrahTree 04:13, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2021
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2021
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Carla Zampatti
editShe gave her birthdate as 1938 on immigration cards in the 1970s. If I could work out how to send you an image I would! Nswhistorian (talk) 03:05, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
- @Nswhistorian: I believe you, but unverifiable primary sources aren't acceptable as Wikipedia references, whereas there are numerous references with the 1942 date and the age at death being 78. --Canley (talk) 03:12, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
- @Nswhistorian: I found one: NAA: A1197, YOSHIIKE-ZANETTE, jump to page 3219. We'll see when the death notices start to come out (it's possible that the sources are getting the date of birth from Wikipedia). --Canley (talk) 03:21, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for checking that. If they are getting info from Wikipedia it becomes a circular discussion! Nswhistorian (talk) 04:03, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:Australian Senators/dlp
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2021
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Disambiguation link notification for May 14
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Melbourne Meetup
editDo you think we should have a Melbourne Meetup some time soon? It is quite a while since we did! If so I suggest the place in Fed Square where we have meet before. Cheers, --Bduke (talk) 04:37, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
Derby
editWikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation states "For English words and names, pronunciation should normally be omitted for common words or when obvious from the spelling". Derby, Western Australia and Derby, Tasmania are pronounced the same way they are spelt, so the pronunciation should not be on those pages. Kind regards, JJK2000 (talk) 13:58, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
- @JJK2000: I am well aware of what that page says, and you mentioned it repeatedly in your edit comments. I gave my reasoning in the summary – many Australian towns are named after British ones, so it is entirely worth noting that the Tasmanian and WA locations are not pronounced in the same way as Derby, so it could be said that the Australian towns are "names with counterintuitive pronunciation" (as per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation). In addition, the word "Derby" (as a name or other terms such as "derby match") are pronounced differently in British and American English, so there is no "direct contravention" of WP:MOSPRON and it's not as simple/cut-and-dried as you claim, just because these pronunciations seem to match the phonetic spelling. You made a bold edit, that's fine, other editors disagreed, we're now in the "discuss" part of the Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle so I suggest you raise the topic (at WP:AWNB or Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Pronunciation and gain consensus for your edit rather than edit-warring, and throwing rules at experienced editors. --Canley (talk) 14:13, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2021
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- Consensus was reached to deprecate Wikipedia:Editor assistance.
- Following a Request for Comment the Book namespace was deprecated.
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Arbitration
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Apologies Re: Endorsement Tables
editHi Canley,
I hope you are doing well and staying safe.
Just wanted to send an apology for not getting the memo regarding endorsement tables as discussed in the Upper Hunter by-election. I was basing this off elections in the United States but I think the impacts are probably less felt here in Australia. However, would endorsements have a potential space for state or federal elections? I created one for the 2021 Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch) leadership election but I think the scope has much more weight there but obviously there is consensus in the Upper Hunter page.
Once again, many apologies.
APNOneTwo (talk) 02:56, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
- @APNOneTwo: No need to apologise! I guess there were two main issues with the endorsement tables in the Upper Hunter case: the lack of references, and the obviousness of MPs supporting their own party's candidate. I think it could be appropriate for a party leadership election as you suggest. For general (federal or state) elections, I don't know what the consensus would be, but if you can address the issues with referencing and exclude obvious supports (Turnbull or Hewson supporting a non-Liberal candidate would probably be notable and have media coverage, as would major companies, celebrities and other non-politicians who clearly indicate support for a party or candidate) there could be support for such an inclusion. --Canley (talk)
Yes, that makes very much sense, I still feel very new to the whole editing game even though I have been in and around for a few years so many thanks again! Just another question :@Canley: but what did you think of adding the "majority" or margin an MP has in their infobox? Do you think this would be an applicable parameter in Australian Politics for Lower House Members?? I understand here IRV does mean a difference between PVs and TCPs compared to say the UK where it is FPTP. Let me know your thoughts! APNOneTwo (talk) 04:17, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – July 2021
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- An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.
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- IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.
Arbitration
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2021
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Technical news
- Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)
Arbitration
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2021
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- A RfC is open on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection on high-risk templates.
- A discussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
- A RfC on the next steps after the trial of pending changes on TFAs has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.
Technical news
- The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on the mediawiki page.
Arbitration
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Miscellaneous
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Grace Tame
editHi Canley. Having some déjà vu considering previous scuffles on the Senator Stoker page. Are you able to take a look at Grace Tame and her talkpage re a newbie wanting remove central themes. CatCafe (talk) 03:14, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – October 2021
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- Following a discussion at the Village Pump, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.
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- DiscussionTools has superseded Enterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features.
Arbitration
- A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
- Following the closure of the Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
- The Arbitration Committee encourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2021
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I just discovered that you updated last month's meeting :-( I was going to move your edits, but it seemed a little tricky, so I stopped and came here.--Oronsay (talk) 02:57, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
- @Oronsay: Thanks! Silly me! I have copied them over to Meetup 18 and reverted the Meetup 17 edits. --Canley (talk) 05:49, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
- Great job. Thanks. --Oronsay (talk) 05:58, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
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ITN recognition for Max Bingham
edit On 1 December 2021, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Max Bingham, which you created. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. — Amakuru (talk) 16:01, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – December 2021
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).
Administrator changes
Technical news
- Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
- The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)
Arbitration
- Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
- The already authorized standard discretionary sanctions for all pages relating to the Horn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed, have been made permanent.
Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2022
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Guideline and policy news
- Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.
- Additionally, consensus for proposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of an administrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holding advanced permissions.
Arbitration
- Following the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Cabayi, Donald Albury, Enterprisey, Izno, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, Wugapodes.
Miscellaneous
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Happy Adminship Anniversary!
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- The Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines 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 the talk page.
Technical news
- The user group
oversightwill be renamedsuppressin 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 technical reasons. You can comment in Phabricator if you have objections. - The Reply Tool 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 Village Pump discussion.
- The user group
Arbitration
- Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressing discretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
- The Arbitration Committee has published a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
- A motion related to the Antisemitism in Poland case was passed following a declined case request.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- Voting in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.
Lost in wikipedia - a deleted newbie
editGday. You deleted my first ever edit on wikipedia (school without walls), straight away. Rather discouraging, as there was no communication (that I am aware of) and I have no idea why it was done. Is this the place to have a conversation about this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Social Evolutionary (talk • contribs) 09:03, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
- @Social Evolutionary: Hi thanks for reaching out, and I’m sorry for making your first editing experience an unpleasant one. After I reverted it I realised it was your first edit and was just about to send you a message to welcome you and explain the reasons, but I got called away and am currently writing this on my phone. If you can give me an hour or two to get to a proper keyboard I’ll message you on your talk page. - Canley (talk) 09:24, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
ITN recognition for John Landy
edit On 27 February 2022, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article John Landy, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 08:24, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 2022
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- A RfC is open to change the wording of revision deletion criterion 1 to remove the sentence relating to non-infringing contributions.
- A RfC is open to discuss prohibiting draftification of articles over 90 days old.
Technical news
- 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 Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project. (T296645)
- Special:Nuke will now allow the selection of standard deletion reasons to be used when mass-deleting pages. This was a Community Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
- The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page using Special:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This change was requested in the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. (T295389)
Arbitration
- Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded. This follows the community feedback from the 2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.
Miscellaneous
- The 2022 appointees for the Ombuds commission are Érico, Faendalimas, Galahad, Infinite0694, Mykola7, Olugold, Udehb and Zabe as regular members and Ameisenigel and JJMC89 as advisory members.
- Following the 2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: AntiCompositeNumber, BRPever, Hasley, TheresNoTime, and Vermont.
- The 2022 Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongside the ranking of prioritized proposals.
Possible help for a new Wikipedia editor
editHello! I am currently new to Wikipedia editing, having taken up a university course where we are encouraged to work on a stub article and turn it into a B- or C-class article. I have noticed that you are relatively active on here, and are a member of the Australian history WikiProject. I have chosen Peter Nicol Russell who was a Scottish/Australian engineer and philanthropist in the 1800's. If you had the chance, would you mind assisting me with providing some advice on the article via its talk page? I'm also looking for someone to review and grade the article per the Australian history WikiProject or the Biography WikiProject guidelines if you (/you know anyone who) can help Many thanks!! Chasseur99 (talk) 07:26, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2022
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).
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- An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.
Technical news
- Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the
deletelogentryanddeletedhistoryrights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. 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. (T301928) - When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)
Arbitration
- Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
- A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
- A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.
Miscellaneous
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.
New administrator activity requirement
editThe administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.
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 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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Aboriginal placenames style guidelines debate
editHi there, there is a discussion raging at the moment that will hopefully lead to a formal end to the debate and edit warring around inclusion of Aboriginal placenames in articles. I have greatly appreciated your input before on this issue and if you have the energy it'd be great to have your contribution. https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians%27_notice_board#Indigenous_names
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2022
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. 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 discussion on the bureaucrat's noticeboard, a change has been made to the bureaucrats inactivity policy.
Technical news
- The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
- 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
- Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.
WikiProject update - Performing Arts Aotearoa 12 May 2022
editA year after the Performing Arts Aotearoa project started and as we are coming into winter (a busier editing time for many) here is an update.
The Performing Arts Aotearoa Wikiproject now lives on the WikiProject New Zealand page. https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand/Performing_Arts_Aotearoa
I have added new articles created as part of the Pacific Arts Aotearoa Wikiproject. These articles by new editors include Lusi Faiva, Suli Moa, Edith Amituanai and Amanaki Prescott-Faletau, who was interviewed on Radio New Zealand last Sunday. The reporter let me know the article was valuable for the interview research – great feedback for all of us creating and improving content in Wikipedia.
On the project page is highlighted plenty of articles to create or improve. I invite you to have a look and contribute if you can. There are many long-standing festivals in Aotearoa without articles such as the Hawkes Bay Arts Festival, Tauranga Festival of the Arts, Taranaki International Arts Festival, Nelson Arts Festival and the Christchurch Arts Festival. Creating these Wikipedia pages or Wikidata items allows links to biographies and strengthens the weaving of Wikipedia.
Other suggestions for new articles:
- Notable women - Jane Yonge, Amber Cureen, Eleanor Bishop (director)
- Director of the Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival and musician - Tama Waipara
- Notable theatre companies - Prayas Theatre, The Conch (theatre company), Barbarian Productions
Reach out to me if you want guidance on any aspects of Wikipedia, or a collegial conversation about writing encyclopaedic entries on performing arts. I can set up a zoom, or direct you to places for help.
Please try to remember to add any relevant articles improved or created to the lists on the project page so the impact can be seen. Take your name off the project page if you don’t want to get these sporadic updates. I will keep an eye on new articles and I have an ongoing campaign to get more images uploaded so we can illustrate the articles too. I have resources on Wikimedia Commons if you are interested. Feel free to contact me on my talk page.
Another thing
editAny good reason why Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Australia is named Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board? I've never seen that before, and it sort of sends a "You don't belong here!" message to editors like myself, not being an Australian Wikipedian. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:13, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2022
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.
Technical news
- Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
- The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → 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
- Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
- An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.
Sydney
editYour change has been reverted. I have rifgt to use this template in the article. There are several points of debate on this matter Also, this is breach fundamental rules of Wikipedia, i.e. Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. If there are different sources, and only some of them describe the name "Gabi" as the Greater Sydney, other sources show as City of Sydney or/and Sydney CBD, the problem must to be describe in the article in the section. Wikipedia:Neutral point of view is one of Wikipedia:Core content policies who say: "This policy are not superseded by other policies or guidelines, or by any editors' consensus". You are not allowed to delete a template without fully resolving the issues discussed in the discussion. Subtropical-man (✉ | en-2) 10:24, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
- Also, your descripton of changes is completely wrong. No consensus was reached, and several dozen percent of RfC users were against (oppose). Besides, the RfC does not address the issues described in the Sydney discussion (POV, selecting several sources from many to be in accordance with the opinion of several people). Your description of the changes is completely wrong. Besides, the "description of changes" is not a place for discussion. Subtropical-man (✉ | en-2) 11:02, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
You write about me in practically all your comments. You're attacking me because I presented a problem. You write slanders, lies, manipulations and guesses about me to show me in the worst possible light. These are personal attacks and harassment per Wikipedia:Harassment. Please stop writing about me on the article talk page. If you have any suggestions about my behavior, please write in my user talk page. This is a serious accusation, so take it to heart. You attack me from the very beginning of this discuss. Stop personal attacks and harassment. This is a last warning. In Talk:Sydney discuss only the problem of the sources and the article. Subtropical-man (✉ | en-2) 14:43, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – July 2022
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).
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Technical news
user_global_editcountis a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)
Arbitration
- An arbitration case regarding conduct in deletion-related editing has been opened.
Miscellaneous
- The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.
What's under the hat?
editHowdy. You may as well 'un-hat' the discussion over on the Australian notice board. Comments are continuing to be added, within the hatting. GoodDay (talk) 06:53, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Archie Roach
edit On 31 July 2022, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Archie Roach, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 07:38, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2022
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
- An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.
Technical news
- The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
- Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)
Arbitration
- The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.
Miscellaneous
- You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
- Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
- Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.
Happy Seventeenth First Edit Day!
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Administrators' newsletter – September 2022
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
- An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.
Technical news
- The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
- The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.
Arbitration
- An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
- The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.
Miscellaneous
- The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
- Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.
Charles III's titles
editI considering opening up an RFC at WP:ROYALTY, to get a consensus on how to handle these situations about titles not being in the Constitutions of some of the Commonwealth realms, for King Charles III. GoodDay (talk) 04:30, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free image File:The Magic Faraway Tree 1st edition.jpg
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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:38, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – October 2022
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, consensus was found that if the rationale for a block depends on information that is not available to all administrators, that information should be sent to the Arbitration Committee, a checkuser or an oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance) instead of the administrator making the block.
- Following an RfC, consensus has been found that, in the context of politics and science, the reliability of FoxNews.com is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
- Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.
Technical news
- The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.
Arbitration
- Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
- A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
- The second phase of the 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review closes 3 October.
Miscellaneous
- An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their passwords are secure, and reminded that ArbCom reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
- Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October.
- You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
- An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
- Tech tip: You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete.
Administrators' newsletter – November 2022
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November.
- An RfC is open to discuss having open requests for adminship automatically placed on hold after the seven-day period has elapsed, pending closure or other action by a bureaucrat.
Arbitration
- Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections.
- The arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion.
- The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has entered the proposed decision stage.
- AmandaNP, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections. Xaosflux and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.
Miscellaneous
- The 2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers.
- You can add yourself to the centralised page listing time zones of administrators.
- Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like
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Nomination of Owen Paterson (production designer) for deletion
edit The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Owen Paterson (production designer) 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.
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 until the discussion has finished.
ArbCom 2022 Elections voter message
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2022
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).
Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
- Consensus has been found in an RfC to automatically place RfAs on hold after one week.
- The article creation at scale RfC has been closed.
- An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.
Technical news
- A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449)
Arbitration
- Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
- The proposed decision for the 2021-22 review of the discretionary sanctions system is open.
- The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has been closed.
- The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
- A motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop.
Miscellaneous
- Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add
/64to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.
Sankey diagrams illustrating preference flows
editHi there, I noticed you created a Sankey diagram illustrating preference flows for the 2020 Eden-Monaro by-election. I found this diagram really fascinating and was hoping to make a few as well for some Australian electorates with interesting preference flows like Macnamara. I was just wondering what software or website you used to create your Sankey diagrams? Also if you had a chance, I would be grateful if you had any tips with creating these graphs. Cheers! E-Class Tram (talk) 09:58, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
Happy New Year, Canley!
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Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
— Moops ⋠T⋡ 16:48, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
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maybe of interest
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2023
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Guideline and policy news
- Speedy deletion criterion A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal.
Arbitration
- 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.
Miscellaneous
- 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.
Happy Fifteenth Adminship Anniversary!
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I was about to warn both of you for edit warring (since you were both reverting without explanation) when I saw that you, an admin, had not only violated 3RR (the edit was not clearly vandalism), but had then used your tools to protect the page, in clear violation of WP:INVOLVED. Both of those actions are totally unacceptable. I am quite shocked actually. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 02:14, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
- To make it crystal clear, I am referring to Hobart (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 02:15, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
- @Mako001:, totally agree, should not have done that. Thanks for the warning, I have removed the protection and will let others handle it. --Canley (talk) 02:18, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks, apologies if I came across a bit harsh, I was trying to be definite. I reckon an ArbCom case is coming for that topic area, at some point (though I've no interest in starting one). Give it a year and there will be an arbcom case something like "Indigenous place names for Australian cities". It's frequently on ANI, and sees a lot of trouble, but I'm trying to keep out of the content side of it as much as possible. Mako001 (C) (T) 🇺🇦 02:26, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
- @Mako001:, totally agree, should not have done that. Thanks for the warning, I have removed the protection and will let others handle it. --Canley (talk) 02:18, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
Canley, on Perth, please provide edit summaries. You make it harder for me to come down on that disruptive IP. Thanks. Drmies (talk) 02:35, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2023
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Guideline and policy news
- 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.
Technical news
- The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.
Arbitration
- 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.
Miscellaneous
- 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.
Administrators' newsletter – March 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.
Technical news
- The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.
Arbitration
- 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.
Miscellaneous
- 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
[p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2023
editNews 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.
Technical news
- 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.
Arbitration
- 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.
Thank You!
editHi Canley,
Thank you so much for replacing the opinion polling graphs for the next federal election with SVGs. I just haven't had time to get through to it and program it.
Referendum opinion polling SVGs
editHello Canley, love your work on the graphs for federal election opinion polling. I've been looking into doing something similar for polling on the Voice referendum – any pointers on how to modify your script? – Teratix ₵ 08:12, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Jock Zonfrillo
edit On 3 May 2023, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Jock Zonfrillo, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 01:00, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2023
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- A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.
Technical news
- 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.
Arbitration
- The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.
Miscellaneous
- 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.
Australia article
editHello there I reverted to the stable version. The additions of "spoken languages"to the info box requires consensus. It was a bold edit, it was reverted, now it needs to be discussed on Talk page. Happy to discuss. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 03:37, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
- Aemilius Adolphin: Thanks, that's fine, sorry should have looked further back, all I saw was unexplained removal of (what looked like) referenced content and a page of edit warring. Completely agree the parties need to discuss on the talk page! --Canley (talk) 04:03, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
- No worries. It took me a while to get to the bottom of it too! Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 06:00, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 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.
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. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.
Arbitration
- 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.
Miscellaneous
- Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.
A banister for you
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- Contributions to the English Wikipedia 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.
Technical news
- 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.
Arbitration
- 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.
Administrators' newsletter – August 2023
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Technical news
- 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)
Arbitration
- The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
- The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.
Happy Wikibirthday
edit Have a very happy first edit anniversary!
From the Birthday Committee, Edward-Woodrow :) [talk] 13:07, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – September 2023
editNews 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
[s]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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Technical news
- Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)
Arbitration
- 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
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Miscellaneous
- 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.
Nomination of Major investigation team (Metropolitan Police) for deletion
edit The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Major investigation team (Metropolitan Police) 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.
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 until the discussion has finished.
Postcard from the Coast
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Nomination of BIGOT list for deletion
edit A discussion is taking place as to whether the article BIGOT list, to which you have significantly contributed, is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or if it should be deleted.
The discussion will take place at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/BIGOT list until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 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.
To customise your preferences for automated AfD notifications for articles to which you've significantly contributed (or to opt-out entirely), please visit the configuration page. Delivered by SDZeroBot (talk) 01:01, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2023
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
Technical news
- 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.
Arbitration
- 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.
Miscellaneous
- 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!
Postcard from the Coast
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A bit of a gap since the last postcard, but what a great time we've had with the Wikipedian at Large project in the interim • The highlight has been having Marshall and Lyn join me on the West Coast for a few days, visiting Fox Glacier and Whataroa • We now have good photo collections for the newly-created Waitangiroto Nature Reserve, and a a much improved article with galler • The Whataroa article has been improved with local history and links to the White Herons • We also have much better coverage of Fox Glacier, including new Ngāi Tahu viewing place Te Kopikopiko o te Waka, and photos of Te Weheka Walkway/Cycleway and the South Side Walkway/Cycleway • Could I get you all to check back through your contributions and add anything extra you've done to the [Progress page as we wrap up • Also—I'm hosting a catch-up meeting on Sunday November 12, 2:30 pm, online at my Whereby chat room. This is a chance to go over anything you'd still like to see improved, talk about how the project went and possibilities for future ones, and announce winners of prizes for most or best contributions. Drop me a line at mike rove.wiki if you can make it (or can't but have ideas about the project) • Thank you all for your contributions, however small, and chat soon. — Giantflightlessbirds
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ArbCom 2023 Elections voter message
edit 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.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2023 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:23, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
Invitation to an in-person meetup in Mohua / Golden Bay
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Thinking about your summer break? Think about joining other Wikipedians and Wikimedians in Golden Bay / Mohua! Details are on the meetup page. There's heaps of interesting stuff to work on e.g. the oldest extant waka or New Zealand's oldest ongoing legal case. Or you may spend your time taking photos and then upload them.
Golden Bay is hard to get to and the airline flying into Tākaka uses small planes, travelling to and from Wellington. Get in quick.
Be in touch with Schwede66 if this event interests you and you'd like to discuss logistics. Schwede66 19:14, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
Nomination of Area Major Incident Pool for deletion
edit The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Area Major Incident Pool 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.
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 until the discussion has finished.Administrators' newsletter – December 2023
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- 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.
Arbitration
- 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.
Administrators' newsletter – January 2024
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Arbitration
- 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.
Miscellaneous
- 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!
Happy Adminship Anniversary!
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Category:Autobiographical museums has been nominated for deletion
edit Category:Autobiographical museums has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. User:Namiba 15:21, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2024
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
Technical news
- Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)
Arbitration
- 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.
Miscellaneous
- 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!
Nomination of Veronika Megler for deletion
edit A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Veronika Megler, to which you have significantly contributed, is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or if it should be deleted.
The discussion will take place at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Veronika Megler until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 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.
To customise your preferences for automated AfD notifications for articles to which you've significantly contributed (or to opt-out entirely), please visit the configuration page. Delivered by SDZeroBot (talk) 01:01, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
Upcoming Event in Auckland
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You might be interested in an upcoming event in Auckland. Wikimedia Aotearoa is having a WikiCon! WikiCon Aotearoa 2024 is the annual gathering for all new and experienced editors of Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikisource projects. Anyone interested in editing is welcome to attend. This conference is organized by Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ). It aims to provide training to new editors, to encourage editors to learn new skills, to grow the Wiki community in Auckland and to ensure that we have a fun weekend. Food and refreshments provided.
When: Saturday 23 March - Sunday 24 March 2024
Where: Auckland University of Technology - Sir Paul Reeves Building - WG Building 2 Governor Fitzroy Place, Auckland.
Cost: $10, fully catered, sponsorship / registration fee waiver available
We are offering full scholarships (registration, travel & accommodation) to attend - please contact info@wikimedia.nz for more information.
To see the full programme as it develops check out the Wikipedia Event page: https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCon_Aotearoa/Auckland_2024
To register: https://events.humanitix.com/wikicon-aotearoa-2024 CopperAlchemy (talk) 01:01, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – March 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.
Technical news
- The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)
Miscellaneous
- 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.
Precious anniversary
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Nomination of Peak School for deletion
edit A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Peak School, to which you have significantly contributed, is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or if it should be deleted.
The discussion will take place at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peak School until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 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.
To customise your preferences for automated AfD notifications for articles to which you've significantly contributed (or to opt-out entirely), please visit the configuration page. Delivered by SDZeroBot (talk) 01:01, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2024
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.
Technical news
- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)
Arbitration
- An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
Miscellaneous
- 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.
Administrators' newsletter – May 2024
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).
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.
Technical news
- 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
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.
Miscellaneous
- 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!
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Malaysian referees and umpires
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A tag has been placed on Category:Malaysian referees and umpires indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 20:04, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2024
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).
Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
- Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.
Technical news
- The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351
Arbitration
- 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.
Miscellaneous
- WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!
The article Mick Davis (director) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Apparently the only notable thing about him is that he befriended Rod Stewart
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2024
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).
Administrator changes
Technical news
- Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)
Miscellaneous
- The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more
Christine_Jackson_(cellist)
editHi, I wondered where you got the death date of Christine Jackson (cellist) ? None of the articles mentioned as source contain that information... ? ZombieLeChuck (talk) 07:49, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
- I have found a source in the meantime and added it to the article. ZombieLeChuck (talk) 09:12, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
Update Pinewood Group
editHello. I saw in the page history that you updated the article on the Pinewood Group in 2022. Not much has been done to keep that article up to date since. That is why I would like to bring to your attention this press release I guess you could call it. I came across it because I was researching the Pinewood Group for an article on the Frisian Wikipedia. Ieneach fan 'e Esk (talk) 17:39, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2024
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).
Technical news
- 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.
Arbitration
- The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ
Happy First Edit Day!
edit | Happy First Edit Day! Hi Canley! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 06:55, 12 August 2024 (UTC) | |
Nomination for deletion of Template:Division of Corangamite 2019 map
edit Template:Division of Corangamite 2019 map has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:57, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – September 2024
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).
Guideline and policy news
- 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.
Arbitration
- 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.
Miscellaneous
- 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!
Administrators' newsletter – October 2024
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- 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.
Arbitration
- 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).
Miscellaneous
- 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.
The redirect K'gari (local council), Queensland has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 October 12 § K'gari (local council), Queensland until a consensus is reached. Kerry (talk) 05:54, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
- As you probably realise, the message above is automated. I know you didn't create this redirect, but its history seems lost (to me, at least, maybe your superpowers can see more than I can). But I am pretty sure it was created as part of some disruptive behaviour that occurred in relation to the renaming of Fraser Island to K'gari. So I am just trying to get rid of this redirect as its existence enables people to think there is or was a council by that name, which there wasn't (meeting the deletion criteria of causing confusion). Kerry (talk) 06:02, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
Invitation to participate in a research
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Administrators' newsletter – November 2024
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2024).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Guideline and policy news
- 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.
Technical news
- 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
Arbitration
- 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.
Miscellaneous
- 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!