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Administrators' newsletter – February 2023
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- 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.
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- The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.
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- 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.
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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- Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.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
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Autopatrolled?
Request of any Admin talk page stalkers - y'all know my work. Do you figure I should have the autopatrolled right? (This seemed potentially more expedient than on the official page.) LadyofShalott 23:41, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
Requesting content of deleted page, Draft:SideChef
Hello,
A page that I created for my company was deleted for unambiguous advertising (called "Draft: SideChef"). I see that the original draft must have been very biased and would like to improve on that to avoid advertisement. I'd like to request the content for this deleted page whenever you have the time to do so.
Also, I have prepared a new draft for the page, and I hope I have removed all of the advertising tones. Is there any way I could receive feedback on this new revision? I would like to make sure that the content I submit is in line with Wikipedia's policies, as I don't want to cause any issues the second time around.
Thank you in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Am.ayz (talk • contribs) 02:02, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
- Hi, Am.ayz, as you already have created a new draft, I suggest going ahead and uploading it for review. It does not seem like resurrecting the old draft would serve any purpose. LadyofShalott 19:55, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
- That is, if you really feel like you even need to create this article in the first place... It is generally not advised that you start such articles yourself, and instead - if there is enough notability - let someone else do it. If you insist on editing about your own company, plase make sure you make a statement on your user page declaring your conflict of interest. LadyofShalott 19:58, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – April 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.
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2023
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- A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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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.
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- 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.
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023
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- 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.
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- 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.
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2023
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- 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.
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Administrators' newsletter – September 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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- 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.
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Hello, LadyofShalott,
This article was just moved to Draft space so I'm not sure why you recreated it. It would have been better to move the article from Draft space back to main space and work on it. Maybe you can Merge the two articles. I review the Draftification list each night and was just surprised to see an admin do this. It's typically done by new editors. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 01:49, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
- Hi Liz, something strange has occurred. I see from the article history that it does look like I recreated that article, but I assure you I did not. I was doing some work in CAT:UNCAT where I found that linked. The only thing I did was to add categories. If you want to redraftify, I have no objections. That article was not even on my radar any longer. Why it looks like I created it, I can not explain! LadyofShalott 16:09, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
OK, upon further looking at the logs, I think it was a weird edit conflict-type situation. The draftification and my adding a category happened in the same minute and apparently the system didn't know how to handle that. Hey Mandarax and other more tech-oriented folks, can you say any more? LadyofShalott 16:14, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
- That looks like what happened: it was moved from article to draft without leaving a redirect, and half a minute later when you saved your changes to an article which at that point no longer existed, it appeared that you created it. The system should definitely have a better way of dealing with such situations. Maybe you should bring it up at WP:Village pump (technical). MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 17:40, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
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Removing Template
Hello LadyofShalott! What procedure should I follow to remove that copyedit template on Valmiki Samhita article. As I am working on another article also, currently it is in draft, I will check that mistake in my next article too if I am committing that. Autobotai (talk) 22:33, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – December 2023
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- 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.
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2024
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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.
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- 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!
Uncategorized template
I'm afraid I don't know for sure what might be causing that. I tried test-editing a couple of categories myself, and found that sometimes I was able to replicate the problem, but other times the tag was removed without a hitch — the difference did seem to hinge on whether there was other text on the page besides the tag (in which case the tag loitered around) or the tag was the only thing on the page (in which case it cleared properly), so you might be right that it was an issue of where the tag got placed, but I can't say that for certain. And since I just tag pages but am not one of the HotCat coders, I'm not the person who can fix it, but I'll bring the issue to WP:VPT to see if somebody with more coding expertise can look into it. Bearcat (talk) 16:04, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
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- 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.
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- Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
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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.
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- The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)
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- The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
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Maths dictionary
Regarding this, the books aren't the worst of it, that calculator is hilarious! Fram (talk) 15:31, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
- Oh god, you're right! I didn't even look at that. I'm glad you pointed it out, Fram! LOL LadyofShalott 15:35, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2024
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- 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".
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- Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.