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Administrators' newsletter – August 2020
News 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- Speedy deletion criterion T2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following a request for comment.
- Speedy deletion criterion X2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following a discussion.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.
AFD stats
Re your 30 June 2020 Help Desk question (pinging participants Hut 8.5 and Lee Vilenski), I found some data published in 2019. Analyzing Wikipedia Deletion Debates with a Group Decision-Making Forecast Model looked at 369,592 discussions from January 1, 2005, to December 31, 2018, and found the following: of votes (2005-2018) 54.9% were for deletion, 28.4% for keep, 3.6% for merge, 3.8% for redirect, and 9.3% for 'Other', which is presumably mainly 'draftify' or 'userfy' votes. The outcomes found 63.9% closed as delete, 20.7% as keep, 3.2% as merge, 6.0% as redirect, and 6.2% for 'Other'. The caveat here is that they excluded all discussions "without an outcome label from an administrator", presumably NACs, which would skew the result more towards delete (since non-admins generally cannot close a discussion as delete). Also excluded is discussions with no votes after nomination, which makes up 3.0% of discussions.
They also note that we have "37 policy pages with 377 sections, 44 guideline pages with 398 sections, and 71 essay pages with 201 sections, all linked by a total of 2,111 shorthand aliases", just a fascinatingly high amount. Also, "all source code available is released under an open source license" so I will look into performing a more up to date analysis. Also worth noting is that "outcomes are more deletionist than votes" and "Across all votes in AfD’s history, 67.9% have been successful; this number rises to 75.6% when only considering votes for Keep or Delete outcomes and excluding votes for rare outcomes. Overall, deletionism is more successful: Delete votes are successful 82.0% of the time, while Keep votes have a 64.0% success rate". Anyways, thought you might want to see this when I stumbled upon it. Best wishes, Eddie891 Talk Work 11:37, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
- @Eddie891: Thanks for the insight. That is helpful. Interstellarity (talk) 22:27, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
The Signpost: 2 August 2020
- Special report: Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration?
- COI and paid editing: Some strange people edit Wikipedia for money
- News and notes: Abstract Wikipedia, a hoax, sex symbols, and a new admin
- In the media: Dog days gone bad
- Discussion report: Fox News, a flight of RfAs, and banning policy
- Featured content: Remembering Art, Valor, and Freedom
- Traffic report: Now for something completely different
- News from the WMF: New Chinese national security law in Hong Kong could limit the privacy of Wikipedia users
- Obituaries: Hasteur and Brian McNeil
Please try again
Hello a page which you nominated at AFD, was not correctly transcluded into the log. Please try again.(Note: I reverted the edits to restore the format at Afd). Cheers Megan Barris (Lets talk📧) 12:53, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
- Hello Synoman Barris! I have received errors while creating the deletion discussion with Twinkle. I have created it manually at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Flags of the World (website). Thanks for being concerned. Interstellarity (talk) 12:55, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
- Interstellarity,
Fixed, added it’s back to the logs. Cheers Megan Barris (Lets talk📧) 12:58, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
- Interstellarity,
The Signpost: 30 August 2020
- News and notes: The high road and the low road
- In the media: Storytelling large and small
- Featured content: Going for the goal
- Special report: Wikipedia's not so little sister is finding its own way
- Op-Ed: The longest-running hoax
- Traffic report: Heart, soul, umbrellas, and politics
- News from the WMF: Fourteen things we’ve learned by moving Polish Wikimedia conference online
- Recent research: Detecting spam, and pages to protect; non-anonymous editors signal their intelligence with high-quality articles
- Arbitration report: A slow couple of months
- From the archives: Wikipedia for promotional purposes?