Wikipedia:2023 Recap

This page is a chronology of events in year 2023 Recap directly related to Wikipedia and Wikipedians, both within Wikipedia and in the whole wide world. Wikipedia events and events in sister projects (Wiktionary, Wikibooks, etc.) are listed as long as they are related to Wikipedia.

Additions to this page must follow certain rules,^[a] because it is hoped that in 50 years or so this page will become a valuable source of scholar research.

Events

January:
- "Saudi Arabia jails two Wikipedia staff in 'bid to control content'". The Guardian. 5 January 2023. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
- Wikipedia:Vector 2022 desktop skin was unveiled. It received mixed reviews, see Wikipedia:Press coverage 2023#January
February: Pakistan blocks Wikipedia over 'sacrilegious' content, see Wikipedia:Press coverage 2023#February

Sound logo of Wikimedia (including Wikipedia)^[1]

March: The first sound logo of Wikimedia (including Wikipedia) was adopted.^[1]
August 16–19: m:Wikimania 2023, 18th annual Wikimedia Conference, in Singapore

Notable Wikipedian status changes

Adminship

July: Firefangledfeathers (talk · contribs)^[2](Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Firefangledfeathers)
August: Pppery (talk · contribs) (Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Pppery), Theleekycauldron
September: Hey man im josh (talk · contribs) (Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Hey man im josh)

De-adminship

July: AlisonW (sanctioned for conduct), Amberrock (inactive), Closedmouth (inactive), Scottywong (sanctioned for conduct)^[2]
August:
- Dwheeler (inactive)
- G.A.S (inactive)
- Royalbroil (resigned)
- Ssd (inactive)
September:
- Alex Bakharev (inactive)
- CorbieVreccan (resigned)
- Cyphoidbomb (inactive)
- Davodd (inactive)
- Hog Farm (resigned)
- JamesR (resigned)
- KnightLago (resigned)
- Mark Ironie (resigned)
- Nosebagbear (deceased)
- Rschen7754 (resigned)
- Tamzin (temporarily resigned)
- TonyBallioni (resigned)

Indef blocks and bans

July 25: Vladimir Medeyko (User:Drbug), the former head of Wikimedia Russia and founder of the Russian government-approved Ruwiki fork, has been globally banned by WMF. Medeyko had previously been blocked indefinitely on the Russian Wikipedia,^[3] following a discussion at the Russian Wikipedia's Administrators' Noticeboard, as well as on Commons (July 3), where the reason given was "Long-term abuse: creating a Wikipedia fork which includes stolen content from Commons as well"^[4]
August 25: BrownHairedGirl (talk · contribs) banned indefinitely (Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/SmallCat dispute)

Death and retirement

Notes

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While formally Wikipedia:Verifiability and others of Wikipedia's content-controlling policies do not apply outside the main namespace, they must be strictly followed here, for the sake of scholarly discipline:
- The listed event and its date must be mentioned in a wikilinked or externally linked reference. It is advised to consider an external link to a specific version of a Wikipedia page rather than a wikilink, if this page is linked for a critical but volatile piece of information.
- Credible sources must be used only. Within Wikipedia, Wikipedia Signpost is one of them.
- Trivial events must be avoided:
  - Random mentioning of Wikipedia belong to Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media.
  - Routine Wikipedia activities, such as a promotion of an article to featured state, are generally not listed here, unless such events generate significant buzz outside its normal working scope.

References

^ ^a ^b "Wikipedia's new sound logo: Winner of The Sound of All Human Knowledge contest announced". Wikimedia Foundation. 2023-03-28. Archived from the original on 6 April 2023. Retrieved 2023-05-02.
^ ^a ^b Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2023/8
^ Журнал блокировок Участник:Drbug
^ Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-08-01/News_and_notes

[1] While formally Wikipedia:Verifiability and others of Wikipedia's content-controlling policies do not apply outside the main namespace, they must be strictly followed here, for the sake of scholarly discipline:
The listed event and its date must be mentioned in a wikilinked or externally linked reference. It is advised to consider an external link to a specific version of a Wikipedia page rather than a wikilink, if this page is linked for a critical but volatile piece of information.

Credible sources must be used only. Within Wikipedia, Wikipedia Signpost is one of them.

Trivial events must be avoided:
Random mentioning of Wikipedia belong to Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media.

Routine Wikipedia activities, such as a promotion of an article to featured state, are generally not listed here, unless such events generate significant buzz outside its normal working scope.

[2] The listed event and its date must be mentioned in a wikilinked or externally linked reference. It is advised to consider an external link to a specific version of a Wikipedia page rather than a wikilink, if this page is linked for a critical but volatile piece of information.

[3] Credible sources must be used only. Within Wikipedia, Wikipedia Signpost is one of them.

[4] Trivial events must be avoided:
Random mentioning of Wikipedia belong to Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media.

Routine Wikipedia activities, such as a promotion of an article to featured state, are generally not listed here, unless such events generate significant buzz outside its normal working scope.

[5] Random mentioning of Wikipedia belong to Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media.

[6] Routine Wikipedia activities, such as a promotion of an article to featured state, are generally not listed here, unless such events generate significant buzz outside its normal working scope.

[wikimediafoundation.org-2] "Wikipedia's new sound logo: Winner of The Sound of All Human Knowledge contest announced". Wikimedia Foundation. 2023-03-28. Archived from the original on 6 April 2023. Retrieved 2023-05-02.

[wan238-3] Wikipedia:Administrators' newsletter/2023/8

[4] Журнал блокировок Участник:Drbug

[5] Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-08-01/News_and_notes

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