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22:58, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

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• Several unused discretionary sanctions and article probation remedies have been rescinded.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.

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Hi Tks4Fish~, I hope all is well? :) Could you please help me provide block exemptions for these group of editors. I will be glad if this could be done on before Friday as I have a workshop with the group on that day. Thanks and best regards. Kinvidia (talk) 21:56, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

NAME

Milton Nii Addy

Arhinful Stella Bentsiafi

Esther Ohenewaa Nyarko

Breh Hawa

Edward Aggrey-Fynn

Moses Dusi

Solomon Atta Ampofo-Addo Senior

Ivy Margaret korantenrg

Habill Hussein Bancie

Victoria Yayra Azuma

Oliver Nortsu

Iruyne Jojo Blisset

Patrick Folitse

Ayisha Mohammed

Charles Kulley

Akua Boateng Agyenim

Tracy Adjeley Sackey

Victoria Nuamah

Dora Dwirah Ocran

Evans Victor Osei

Oladipupo193

Maame Esi

Muhibudeen

Samira Abdul Mamah

Hi @Kinvidia:! Absolutely, I'll do them right now. Just a couple of things: 1) can you double check "Moses Dusi"? No account was found with that name. 2) do be aware that a local exemption here at enwiki will still be needed, as there are local blocks for the IPs here, and the Global Exemption won't exempt the users from those blocks. All the best, —Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contribs} 14:19, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Hi again @Kinvidia:! All done apart from Moses :) Best, —Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contribs} 14:40, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank you so much Tks4Fish Moses' user name is actually; Mosesdusi1. Apologies for the mistake. I will quickly send the names to Zzuuzz to help me with local exemptions. Kinvidia (talk) 18:28, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Hello, @Kinvidia! Sorry for the delay. Moses is now done too :) Best, —Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contribs} 14:32, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank you very much Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contribs} Kinvidia (talk) 13:05, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

21:15, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

22:06, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

16:00, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

19:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

21:00, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).

Guideline and policy news

• 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 deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. 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.

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19:43, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

23:10, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

22:54, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

19:32, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

15:21, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).

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.

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18:57, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

20:27, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).

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.

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02:45, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

16:57, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

20:17, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

20:01, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

19:31, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).

Technical news

• user_global_editcount is 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.

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19:23, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

22:58, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

19:26, 25 July 2022 (UTC)

21:20, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

Administrator changes

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Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

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.

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19:48, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

I declined your G12 at Barcllay because it appeared salvageable to me. I asked a couple of copyright clerks to look at it, and we removed a fair bit of the article. I think that what's left is all non-infringing of [74], but I thought I would ask you if there's anything we've missed. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she|they|xe) 06:37, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

I cleaned it up some more, and tagged it for AfD. Thanks! —Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contribs} 14:39, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

21:07, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

00:10, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

23:03, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).

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.

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