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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).

Administrator changes

Red Phoenix

Euryalus •SQL

Jujutacular •Monty845 •Rettetast •Madchester

Oversight changes

GB fan

Keegan •Opabinia regalis •Premeditated Chaos

Guideline and policy news

• There is an openrequest for comment to decide whether to increase the minimum duration a sanction discussion has to remain open (currently 24 hours).
• Speedy deletion criterionT2 (template that misrepresents established policy) has been repealed following arequest for comment.
• Speedy deletion criterionX2 (pages created by the content translation tool) has been repealed following adiscussion.
• There is a proposal torestrict proposed deletion to confirmed users.

This Month in GLAM – Volume X, Issue VII, July 2020 Headlines Albania report: Wikimedia CEE Spring 2020 in Albania and Kosova Australia report: New WikiClub and Australian GLAM Research Brazil report: Important records of Brazilian history: images, metadata and edit-a-thons Finland report: Rephotography walks during the pandemic France report: Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève Germany report: Hacking the Arts Netherlands report: October history month East-West, Pictures as a legacy to the world & Photos of Mali Serbia report: Wikimedia Serbia is working on new activities Sweden report: More Swedish music – of all sorts Uganda report: Sensitisation of GLAM institutions in Uganda UK report: The effect of a Commons Picture of the Day USA report: AfroCROWD, AAPB, Philadelphia, Smithsonian Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full •Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit thenewsroom. Past editions may be viewedhere.

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TheReply tool has been available as aBeta Feature at the Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias since 31 March 2020. Thefirst analysis showed positive results.

• More than300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They posted more than7,400 replies during the study period.
• Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
• Comments from Wikipedia editors are positive. One said,أعتقد أن الأداة تقدم فائدة ملحوظة؛ فهي تختصر الوقت لتقديم رد بدلًا من التنقل بالفأرة إلى وصلة تعديل القسم أو الصفحة، التي تكون بعيدة عن التعليق الأخير في الغالب، ويصل المساهم لصندوق التعديل بسرعة باستخدام الأداة. ("I think the tool has a significant impact; it saves time to reply while the classic way is to move with a mouse to the Edit link to edit the section or the page which is generally far away from the comment. And the user reaches to the edit box so quickly to use the Reply tool.")[1]

The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tellUser talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).

The Reply tool is still in active development. Per request from the Dutch Wikipedia and other editors, you will be able tocustomize the edit summary. (The default edit summary is "Reply".) A "ping" feature is available in the Reply tool's visual editing mode. This feature searches for usernames. Per request from the Arabic Wikipedia, each wiki will be able toset its own preferred symbol for pinging editors. Per request from editors at the Japanese and Hungarian Wikipedias, each wiki candefine a preferred signature prefix in the pageMediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix. For example, some languages omit spaces before signatures. Other communities want to add a dash or a non-breaking space.

• Thenew requirements for custom user signatures began on 6 July 2020. If you try to create a custom signature that does not meet the requirements, you will get an error message.
• Existing custom signatures that do not meet the new requirements will be unaffectedtemporarily. Eventually, all custom signatures will need to meet the new requirements. You cancheck your signature and see lists of active editors whose custom signatures need to be corrected. Volunteers have been contacting editors who need to change their custom signatures. If you need to change your custom signature, then pleaseread the help page.

Next, the team will be working on a tool for quickly and easily starting a new discussion section to a talk page. To follow the development of this new tool, please put theNew Discussion Tool project page on your watchlist.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)18:48, 31 August 2020 (UTC)