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I know the feeling. Hope to see you back some day!Suffusion of Yellow (talk)03:17, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Just expanding on my comment at ANI. Your encouragement was a big deal for me - it probably seemed trivial to you at the time, but I was just putting my toe in the water of content creation, and you took a little bit of time and effort to encourage me - that made all the difference. Do whatever you want to, of course, but please know that there are people who equate 'SkyGazer 512' with 'total dude'. CheersGirthSummit _(blether)20:27, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you both for the kind words. I've had a lot of fun editing here and mostly very good interactions with the community so I doubt I'd be able to completely abandon editing here, but then again I don't know where life's gonna take me in the next few years.Girth, I know I've been out of touch here for a while because I still think of you as a relatively new editor, but apparently now you've got 5 GAs, an FA, nearly 40,000 edits, and have become an administrator? Congrats! I also appreciate the bit you added about our interactions early on and your first DYK; not only helping the encyclopedia but also helping new editors is something I strived for here and still do on the Minecraft Wiki, the current wiki I edit. And yeah... 'total dude' is definitely a title I could get used to. ;) Cheers, --SkyGazer 512^{My talk page}02:56, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

SkyGazer 512, yeah, well... in for a penny, in for a pound, I don't do things by halves! It's something we should all try to remember that a few words of encouragement from someone more experienced can make all the difference for someone just starting out. Keep doing that over at Minecraft Wiki, our loss is their gain. Happy editing...GirthSummit _(blether)08:23, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You were a positive influence on me, too :) I still remember how much you helped me when I was a relatively new editor asking questions at the Teahouse and here on your talk page[1]. My content contributions aren't as substantial asGirth Summit's, but I did end up improving the article you helped me nominate for DYKKatherine Hughes (activist) into a GA. I wish you the best of luck in real life.Clovermoss(talk)21:27, 20 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

Gnangarra •Kaisershatner •Malcolmxl5

CheckUser changes

Callanecc

Oversight changes

HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news

• Discretionary sanctions have beenauthorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged atWP:GS/COVID19.
• Following arecent discussion on Meta-Wiki, theedit filter maintainer global group has been created.
• Arequest for comment has been proposed to create a newmain page editor usergroup.
• Arequest for comment has been proposed to make thebureaucrat activity requirements more strict.

Technical news

• TheEditing team has been working onthe talk pages project. You canreview the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
• Enterprisey created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, seeUser:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.

Miscellaneous

• Arequest for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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

Administrator changes

CaptainEek •Creffett •Cwmhiraeth

Anna Frodesiak •Buckshot06 •Ronhjones •SQL

CheckUser changes

SQL

Guideline and policy news

• Arequest for comment asks whether theUnblock Ticket Request System (UTRS) should allowed any unblock request or just private appeals.
• The Wikimedia Foundationannounced that they will develop a universal code of conduct for all WMF projects. There is an openlocal discussion regarding the same.

Arbitration

• Amotion was passed to enact a500/30 restriction onarticles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.

Hello SkyGazer 512,

Your help can make a difference

NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been sinceACPERM, your help could really make a difference.

Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate

In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.

Discussions and Resources

• Adiscussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
• Also at the Village Pump is adiscussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
• A proposed newspeedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
• Also ending with no change was aproposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.

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

Administrator changes Malcolmxl5 John •TheCoffee •Tim! Creffett →GeneralNotability DeltaQuad →AmandaNP

CheckUser changes Bbb23 Interface administrator changes TonyBallioni

Guideline and policy news

• Arequest for comment is in progress to remove theT2 (template that misrepresents established policy)speedy deletion criterion.

Technical news

• Protection templates on mainspace pages are now automatically added byUser:MusikBot II (BRFA).

Arbitration

• Following thebanning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committeeresolved to hold anRfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted atWikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
• TheMedicine case wasclosed, with aremedy authorizingstandard discretionary sanctions forall discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.

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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.

Women in Red|September 2020, Volume 6, Issue 9, Numbers 150, 151, 176, 177 Online events: New:Women writers|Women in conflict zones Interwiki collaborations:Women of WWII Continuing initiatives:#1day1woman|BLM/Anti-discrimination Help us plan future events:Virtual Ideas Cafe Join the conversation:Women in Red talkpage Stay in touch:Join WikiProject Women in Red|Opt-out of notifications Social media:Facebook|Instagram|Pinterest|Twitter

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

Administrator changes

Eddie891

Angela •Jcw69 •Just Chilling •Philg88 •Viajero

CheckUser changes

SQL

Guideline and policy news

• Following arequest for comment, the minimum length forsite ban discussions was increased to 72 hours, up from 24.
• Arequest for comment is ongoing to determine whetherpaid editorsmust orshould use thearticles for creation process.
• Arequest for comment is open to resolve inconsistencies between thedraftification andalternative to deletion processes.

Arbitration

• Arequest for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the2020 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
• An openrequest for comment asks whether active Arbitrators may serve on theTrust and Safety Case Review Committee orOmbudsman commission.

Women in Red|October 2020, Volume 6, Issue 10, Numbers 150, 173, 178, 179 Online events: Annual Ada Lovelace Day celebration:Women in STEM Contest (Oct-Nov-Dec):Women in Asia Continuing initiatives:#1day1woman|BLM/Anti-discrimination Help us plan future events:Virtual Ideas Cafe Join the conversation:Women in Red talkpage Stay in touch:Join WikiProject Women in Red|Opt-out of notifications Social media:Facebook|Instagram|Pinterest|Twitter

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

Administrator changes

Ajpolino •LuK3

Jackmcbarn

Ad Orientem •Harej •Lid •Lomn •Mentoz86 •Oliver Pereira •XJaM

There'sNoTime →TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• Arequest for comment found consensus thatincubation as an alternative to deletion should generally only be recommended whendraftification is appropriate, namely1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.

Technical news

• Thefilter log now provides links to view diffs of deleted revisions (phab:T261630).

Arbitration

• The2020 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place from September 27th to October 7th.
• Following arequest for comment, sitting Committee members may not serve on either theOmbuds Commission or theWMF Case Review Committee. The Arbitration Committeepassed a motion implementing those resultsinto their procedures.

Miscellaneous

• TheUniversal Code of Conduct draft is open forcommunity review and comment until October 6th, 2020.
• Office actions may now be appealed to theInterim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee.

Women in Red|November 2020, Volume 6, Issue 11, Numbers 150, 173, 178, 180, 181 Online events: New:Textile arts|Stage+Screen+Radio+Podcast Continuing initiatives:#1day1woman|BLM/Anti-discrimination Contest (Oct-Nov-Dec):Women in Asia Help us plan future events:Virtual Ideas Cafe Join the conversation:Women in Red talkpage Stay in touch:Join WikiProject Women in Red|Opt-out of notifications Social media:Facebook|Instagram|Pinterest|Twitter

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

Administrator changes John M Wolfson Bduke •Nilfanion •Philosopher •Rspeer •Yunshui Interface administrator changes Ragesoss TonyBallioni

CheckUser changes EdJohnston •Oshwah •Yamla Yunshui Oversight changes Anarchyte Yunshui

Guideline and policy news

• Community sanctions nowauthorize administrators to place under indefinite semiprotectionany article on a beauty pageant, or biography of a person known as a beauty pageant contestant, which has been edited by asockpuppet account orlogged-out sockpuppet, to be logged atWP:GS/PAGEANT.

Technical news

• Sysops willonce again be able to view the deleted history of JS/CSS pages; this was restricted tointerface administrators when that group was introduced.
• Twinkle's block module now includes the ability to note the specific case when applying adiscretionary sanctions block and/or template.
• Sysops will be able to useSpecial:CreateLocalAccount tocreate a local account for a global user that is prevented from auto-creation locally (such as by a filter or range block). Administrators that are not sure if such a creation is appropriate should contact a checkuser.

Arbitration

• The2020 Arbitration Committee Elections process has begun. Eligible editors will be able tonominate themselves as candidates from November 8 through November 17. The voting period will run from November 23 through December 6.
• TheAnti-harassment RfC has concluded with asummary of the feedback provided.

Miscellaneous

• A reminder thatstandard discretionary sanctions areauthorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. (American Politics 2 Arbitration case).

Women in Red|December 2020, Volume 6, Issue 12, Numbers 150, 173, 178, 182, 183 Online events: New:Women who died in 2020|Philanthropists Continuing initiatives:#1day1woman|BLM/Anti-discrimination Contest (Oct-Nov-Dec):Women in Asia Other ways to participate: Help us plan future events Join the conversations on our talkpage Become a member Opt-out of notifications Follow us on social media: Facebook|Instagram|Pinterest|Twitter

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Precious

Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk)07:57, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I tried to give 2021 a good start by updating theQAI project topics. Will you return? For moar private "happy new year" seehere. --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:43, 6 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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

Administrator changes

Andrwsc •Anetode •GoldenRing •JzG •LinguistAtLarge •Nehrams2020

Interface administrator changes

Izno

Guideline and policy news

• There is arequest for comment in progress to either removeT3 (duplicated and hardcoded instances) as aspeedy deletion criterion or eliminate its seven-day waiting period.

Technical news

• Voting for proposals in the2021 Community Wishlist Survey, which determines what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year, will take place from 8 December through 21 December. In particular, there are sections regardingadministrators andanti-harassment.

Arbitration

• Voting in the2020 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 7 December 2020 UTC. Please reviewthe candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on thevoting page.

Hello SkyGazer 512,

Year in review

It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done byRosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go toJTtheOG andOnel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks toJohn B123,Hughesdarren, andMccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed byDannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on theredirect whitelist.

Rank	Username	Num reviews	Log
1	DannyS712 bot III (talk)	67,552	PatrolPage Curation
2	Rosguill (talk)	63,821	PatrolPage Curation
3	John B123 (talk)	21,697	PatrolPage Curation
4	Onel5969 (talk)	19,879	PatrolPage Curation
5	JTtheOG (talk)	12,901	PatrolPage Curation
6	Mcampany (talk)	9,103	PatrolPage Curation
7	DragonflySixtyseven (talk)	6,401	PatrolPage Curation
8	Mccapra (talk)	4,918	PatrolPage Curation
9	Hughesdarren (talk)	4,520	PatrolPage Curation
10	Utopes (talk)	3,958	PatrolPage Curation

Reviewer of the Year

John B123 has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.

NPP Technical Achievement Award

As a special recognition and thank youDannyS712 has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.

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

Administrator changes Hammersoft Andres •Brion VIBBER •Rkitko •Thatcher

CheckUser changes Barkeep49 •BDD •CaptainEek •Primefac Oversight changes Barkeep49 •BDD •CaptainEek Joe Roe

Guideline and policy news

• Speedy deletion criterionT3 (duplication and hardcoded instances) has been repealed following arequest for comment.

Technical news

• You can now put pages on your watchlistfor a limited period of time.

Arbitration

• Bymotion,standard discretionary sanctions have been temporarilyauthorizedfor all pages relating to theHorn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes). The effectiveness of the discretionary sanctions can be evaluated on the request by any editor after March 1, 2021 (or sooner if for a good reason).
• Following the2020 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:Barkeep49,BDD,Bradv,CaptainEek,L235,Maxim,Primefac.

Women in Red|February 2021, Volume 7, Issue 2, Numbers 184, 186, 188, 189, 190, 191 Online events: New:Black women|Classicists|Folklore Contest (Jan/Feb/Mar):Africa Year-long campaign:Women's rights Continuing:#1day1woman Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage|Help us plan future events Become a member|Opt-out of notifications Follow us on social media: Facebook|Instagram|Pinterest|Twitter

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2021).

Administrator changes Hog Farm Mattflaschen •Nandesuka •Savidan •Wangi

CheckUser changes Berean Hunter •Xeno Oversight changes Someguy1221 •Xeno

Arbitration

• Thestandard discretionary sanctions authorized forAmerican Politics wereamended by motion to coverpost-1992 politics of United States and closely related people, replacing the 1932 cutoff.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the2021 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2021, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2021, 13:59 (UTC). Theconfirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automaticallycheck your eligibility to vote.
• Wikipedia has now been around for20 years, and recently saw its billionth edit!

Women in Red|March 2021, Volume 7, Issue 3, Numbers 184, 186, 188, 192, 193 Online events: New:Art+Activism|VisibleWikiWomen Contest (Jan/Feb/Mar):Africa Year-long campaign:Women's rights Continuing:#1day1woman Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage|Help us plan future events Become a member|Opt-out of notifications Follow us on social media: Facebook|Instagram|Pinterest|Twitter

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2021).

Administrator changes

TJMSmith

Boing! said Zebedee •Hiberniantears •Lear's Fool •Only •WGFinley

Interface administrator changes

AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

• Arequest for comment is open that proposes a process for the community to revoke administrative permissions. This follows a2019 RfC in favor of creating one such a policy.
• Arequest for comment is in progress to removeF7 (invalid fair-use claim)subcriterion a, which covers immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
• Arequest for comment seeks to grantpage movers thedelete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target. The full proposal is atWikipedia:Page mover/delete-redirect.
• Arequest for comment asks if sysops mayplace the General sanctions/Coronavirus disease 2019 editnotice template on pages in scope that do not have page-specific sanctions?
• There is adiscussion in progress concerning automatic protection of each day's featured article withPending Changesprotection.

Technical news

• When blocking an IPv6 address withTwinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option tojust block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
• When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request atWP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
• There have beena number ofreported issues withPending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).

Arbitration

• Bymotion, thediscretionary sanctions originally authorized under theGamerGate case arenow authorized under a newGender and sexuality case, with sanctionsauthorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, any gender-related dispute or controversy and associated people. Sanctions issued under GamerGate are now considered Gender and sexuality sanctions.
• TheKurds and Kurdistan case wasclosed,authorizingstandard discretionary sanctions forthe topics of Kurds and Kurdistan, broadly construed.

Miscellaneous

• Following the2021 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards:AmandaNP,Operator873,Stanglavine,Teles, andWiki13.

Women in Red|April 2021, Volume 7, Issue 4, Numbers 184, 188, 194, 195, 196 Online events: New:Plants & gardens|Gender studies New Contest (Apr/May/Jun):Women in Europe contest Year-long campaign:Women's rights Continuing:#1day1woman Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage|Help us plan future events Become a member|Opt-out of notifications Follow us on social media: Facebook|Instagram|Pinterest|Twitter

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2021).

Administrator changes

Alexandria •Happyme22 •RexxS

Guideline and policy news

• Following arequest for comment,F7 (invalid fair-use claim)subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
• Following arequest for comment,page movers were granted thedelete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

Technical news

• When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of ajob queue problem. (T278350)
• Code to support some very oldweb browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)

Arbitration

• Acommunity consultation on the Arbitration Committeediscretionary sanctions procedure is open until April 25.

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Deanike mohan Bare (talk)17:21, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red|May 2021, Volume 7, Issue 5, Numbers 184, 188, 197, 198 Online events: New:May Mays|Mental Health Contest (Apr/May/Jun):Women in Europe contest Year-long campaign:Women's rights Continuing:#1day1woman See also: Wikimedia District of Columbia:100 DC Women contest Wikimedia CEE Spring:Central and Eastern European Women contest The Wikipedia Library:#1Lib1Ref Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage|Help us plan future events Become a member|Opt-out of notifications Follow us on social media: Facebook|Instagram|Pinterest|Twitter

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2021).

Administrator changes

Enchanter •Carlossuarez46

Interface administrator changes

Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

• Followingan RfC, consensus was found that third party appeals are allowed but discouraged.
• The 2021 Desysop Policy RfC was closed with no consensus.Consensus was found in a previous RfC for a community based desysop procedure, though the procedure proposed in the 2021 RfC did not gain consensus.

Technical news

• The user groupoversight will be renamed tosuppress. This is fortechnical reasons. You can comment atT112147 if you have objections.

Arbitration

• Thecommunity consultation on the Arbitration Committeediscretionary sanctions procedure was closed, and an initial draft based on feedback from the now closed consultation is expected to be released in early June to early July for community review.

Women in Red|June 2021, Volume 7, Issue 6, Numbers 184, 188, 196, 199, 200, 201 Online events: New:Wiki Loves Pride|June Junes|Jewellers & Watchmakers Contest (Apr/May/Jun):Women in Europe contest Year-long campaign:Women's rights Continuing:#1day1woman Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage|Help us plan future events Become a member|Opt-out of notifications Follow us on social media: Facebook|Instagram|Pinterest|Twitter

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2021).

Administrator changes

Ashleyyoursmile •Less Unless

Husond •MattWade •MJCdetroit •Carioca •Vague Rant •Kingboyk •Thunderboltz •Gwen Gale •AniMate •SlimVirgin (deceased)

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus was reached to deprecateWikipedia:Editor assistance.
• Following aRequest for Comment the Book namespace was deprecated.

Technical news

• Wikimedia previously used theIRC networkFreenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, theWikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the newLibera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is amigration guide and Wikimediadiscussions about this.

Arbitration

• After aClarification request, the Arbitration Committee modifiedRemedy 5 of theAntisemitism in Poland case. This means sourcing expectations are adiscretionary sanction instead of being present on all articles. It also details using the talk page or theReliable Sources Noticeboard to discuss disputed sources.

Women in Red|July 2021, Volume 7, Issue 7, Numbers 184, 188, 202, 203, 204, 205 Online events: New:July Julies|Finance, economics & banking|Olympic & Paralympic Games New contest (Jul/Aug/Sep):Latin America contest Continuing:Women's rights|#1day1woman See also:"Mind your elders" Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage.Help plan and coordinate future events. Become a member. You can alwaysopt-out of notifications. Follow us on social media: Facebook|Instagram|Pinterest|Twitter

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2021).

Administrator changes Trialpears AGK •Eliz81 •Mulad •ThaddeusB •Vianello •Who Lacrimosus →Ikuzaf Interface administrator changes Ragesoss

CheckUser changes AGK •DGG Oversighter changes AGK

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request atWP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
• AnRfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes toTFAs.

Technical news

• IP addresses of unregistered users are tobe hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of howIP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomedat the talk page.

Arbitration

• The community authorisedCOVID-19 general sanctions have been superseded by theCOVID-19 discretionary sanctions following amotion at a case request. Alerts given and sanctions placed under the community authorised general sanctions are now considered alerts for and sanctions under the new discretionary sanctions.

Women in Red|August 2021, Volume 7, Issue 8, Numbers 184, 188, 204, 205, 206, 207 Online events: New:Indigenous women|Women's leadership & empowerment Contest (Jul/Aug/Sep):Latin America contest Continuing:Olympic & Paralympic Games|Women's rights|#1day1woman See also: Interwiki Women Collaboration Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage.Help plan and coordinate future events. Become a member. You can alwaysopt-out of notifications. Follow us on social media: Facebook|Instagram|Pinterest|Twitter

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2021).

Administrator changes BusterD Kees08 •Nickshanks •Protonk •Schissel •Ultraexactzz •Wknight94

CheckUser changes TheresNoTime Oversighter changes TheresNoTime ST47

Guideline and policy news

• AnRfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion forG13 speedy deletions.

Technical news

• Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regeneratingdynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)

Arbitration

• Following anamendment request, the committee has clarified that the Talk page exception to the500/30 rule inremedy 5 of the Palestine-Israel articles 4 case does not apply torequested move discussions.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the2021 Board of Trustees elections from 4 August to 17 August. Four community elected seats are up for election.

Hi, I'm not sure if you remember me, but when I was a new editor way back in 2018, you were one of first few people that I interacted with (and you left a very strong positive impression), so I wanted to say thanks for that.Clovermoss(talk)23:59, 25 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red|September 2021, Volume 7, Issue 9, Numbers 184, 188, 204, 205, 207, 208 Online events: New:Women writers & their works Contest (Jul/Aug/Sep):Latin America contest Continuing:Women's leadership & empowerment|Olympic & Paralympic Games Women's rights|#1day1woman See also: Interwiki Women Collaboration Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage. Learn more about ourproposed one-day online recruitment initiative in October. Help plan and coordinate future events. Become a member. You can alwaysopt-out of notifications. Follow Women in Red on social media: Facebook|Instagram|Pinterest|Twitter

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2021).

Administrator changes

Jake Wartenberg

Emperor •Viridian Bovary

Ashleyyoursmile →Viridian Bovary

Guideline and policy news

• Feedback is requested on theUniversal Code of Conduct enforcement draft by theUniversal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee.
• ARfC is open on whether to allow administrators to use extended confirmed protection onhigh-risk templates.
• Adiscussion is open to decide when, if ever, should discord logs be eligible for removal when posted onwiki (including whether to oversight them)
• ARfC on the next steps after the trial ofpending changes onTFAs has resulted in a 30 day trial of automatic semi protection for TFAs.

Technical news

• The Score extension has been re-enabled on public wikis. It has been updated, but has been placed in safe mode to address unresolved security issues. Further information on the security issues can be found on themediawiki page.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is in progress to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures ofthe Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules. Comments and new proposals are welcome.

Miscellaneous

• The2021 RfA review is now open for comments.

Hello SkyGazer 512,

Please jointhis discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights includingAutopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves atAfC andNPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detectionhere.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software.

Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are describedhere.

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--Rosiestep (talk)01:37, 29 September 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2021).

Administrator changes Blablubbs Alvestrand •Black Falcon •Deathphoenix •Dppowell •Mark Arsten •JGHowes (deceased)

Oversighter changes Callanecc Mkdw Interface administrator changes Galobtter

Guideline and policy news

• Followingan RfC, extended confirmed protection may be used preemptively on certainhigh-risk templates.
• Followinga discussion at the Village Pump, there is consensus to treat discord logs the same as IRC logs. This means that discord logs will be oversighted if posted onwiki.

Technical news

• DiscussionTools has supersededEnterprisey's reply-link script. Editors may switch using the "Discussion tools" checkbox underPreferences →Beta features.

Arbitration

• Amotion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed inthe Arbitration Committee's procedures.
• Following the closure of theIranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctionsare authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
• The Arbitration Committeeencourages uninvolved administrators to use the discretionary sanctions procedure in topic areas where it is authorised to facilitate consensus in RfCs. This includes, but is not limited to, enforcing sectioned comments, word/diff limits and moratoriums on a particular topic from being brought in an RfC for up to a year.

Miscellaneous

• Editorshave approved expanding the trial of Growth Features from 2% of new accounts to 25%, and the share of newcomers getting mentorship from 2% to 5%. Experienced editors are invited toadd themselves to the mentor list.
• Thecommunity consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.

Women in Red|November 2021, Volume 7, Issue 11, Numbers 184, 188, 210, 212, 213 Online events: New:Film + Stage|Endocrine health Contest (Oct/Nov/Dec):Women in Oceania contest Continuing:Women's rights|#1day1woman See also: Wikipedia Asian Month 2021 Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help plan and coordinate future events. Become a member. You can alwaysopt-out of notifications. Follow Women in Red on social media: Facebook|Instagram|Pinterest|Twitter

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New Page Patrol |November 2021 Backlog Drive
On November 1, aone-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Redirect patrolling is not part of the drive. Interested in taking part?Sign up here.
You're receiving this message because you are a new page patroller. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourselfhere. (t ·c)buidhe01:59, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2021).

Administrator changes Clpo13 Brian0918 •JDoorjam •Karanacs •MrDarcy •Mindspillage Interface administrator changes Evad37

CheckUser changes Dreamy Jazz •Ferret •GeneralNotability •Girth Summit •RoySmith Oversight changes Dreamy Jazz •LuK3

Guideline and policy news

• Phase 2 of the 2021RfA review has commenced which will discuss potential solutions to address the 8 issuesfound in Phase 1. Proposed solutions that achieve consensus will be implemented and you may propose solutions till 07 November 2021.

Technical news

• Toolhub is a catalogue of tools which can be used on Wikimedia wikis. It is athttps://toolhub.wikimedia.org/.

Arbitration

• GeneralNotability,Mz7 andCyberpower678 have been appointed to theElectoral Commission for the2021 Arbitration Committee Elections.Ivanvector andJohn M Wolfson are reserve commissioners.
• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves to standin the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections from 07 November 2021 until 16 November 2021.

Miscellaneous

• The2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.

Women in Red|December 2021, Volume 7, Issue 12, Numbers 184, 188, 210, 214, 215, 216 Online events: New:"Double the lede!"|Women who died in 2021 Contest (Oct/Nov/Dec):Women in Oceania contest Continuing:Women's rights|#1day1woman See also: Women in Climate Change and preparations for our 2022Climate initiative Other ways to participate: Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help plan and coordinate future events. Become a member. You can alwaysopt-out of notifications. Follow Women in Red on social media: Facebook|Instagram|Pinterest|Twitter

--Innisfree987 (talk)00:13, 27 November 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2021).

Administrator changes

A Train •Berean Hunter •Epbr123 •GermanJoe •Sanchom •Mysid

Technical news

• Unregistered editors using the mobile website are now able to receive notices to indicate they have talk page messages. The notice looks similar to what is already present on desktop, and will be displayed on when viewing any page except mainspace and when editing any page. (T284642)
• The limit on the number of emails a user can send per day has been made global instead of per-wiki to help prevent abuse. (T293866)

Arbitration

• Voting in the2021 Arbitration Committee Elections is open until 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC).
• The already authorized standarddiscretionary sanctions for all pages relating to theHorn of Africa (defined as including Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and adjoining areas if involved in related disputes), broadly construed,have been made permanent.

Happy New Year from Women in RedJan 2022, Vol 8, Issue 1, Nos 214, 216, 217, 218, 219 Online events: New:Climate(year-long initiative)|Women in business|US territories Continuing:#1day1woman|Women who died in 2021 Other ways to participate: Encourage someone to become a WiR member this month. Go to Women in RedJoin WikiProject Women in Red Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook|Instagram|Pinterest|Twitter

--Megalibrarygirl (talk)16:03, 28 December 2021 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).

Administrator changes Amalthea •Ihcoyc (deceased) •Kateshortforbob •Kirill Lokshin •Rifleman 82 •Ryan Norton •Wrp103 Interface administrator changes Mr. Stradivarius

CheckUser changes Cabayi •Donald Albury •Enterprisey •Izno •Wugapodes Opabinia regalis Casliber •David Fuchs •Newyorkbrad •SoWhy Oversighter changes Cabayi •Donald Albury •Enterprisey •Izno •Wugapodes Opabinia regalis Casliber •David Fuchs •Newyorkbrad •SoWhy

Guideline and policy news

• Following consensus at the2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user righthas been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.

• Additionally, consensus forproposal 6C of the 2021 RfA review has led to the creation of anadministrative action review process. The purpose of this process will be to review individual administrator actions and individual actions taken by users holdingadvanced permissions.

Arbitration

• Following the2021 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee:Beeblebrox,Cabayi,Donald Albury,Enterprisey,Izno,Opabinia regalis,Worm That Turned,Wugapodes.

Miscellaneous

• Thefunctionaries email list (functionaries-enlists.wikimedia.org) will no longer accept incoming emails apart from those sent by list members and WMF staff. Private concerns, apart from those requiring oversight, should be directly sent tothe Arbitration Committee.

Women in RedFeb 2022, Vol 8, Issue 2, Nos 214, 217, 220, 221, 222 Online events: New:Black women|Hong Kong and Macau|Women in sport Continuing:Climate (year-long initiative)|#1day1woman Other ways to participate: Encourage someone to become a WiR member this month by registering in the box at the top of ourmain page. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook|Instagram|Pinterest|Twitter

--Megalibrarygirl (talk)15:11, 31 January 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

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

Administrator changes AustralianRupert •Cimon Avaro •Euryalus •Jehochman •Nunh-huh 28bytes Bureaucrat changes 28bytes

Interface administrator changes Evad37 •Galobtter Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

• TheUniversal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines have been published for consideration. Voting to ratify this guideline is planned to take place 7 March to 21 March. Comments can be made onthe talk page.

Technical news

• The user groupoversight will be renamedsuppress in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made fortechnical reasons. You can commentin Phabricator if you have objections.
• The Reply Tool feature, which is a part of Discussion Tools, will be opt-out for everyone logged in or logged out starting 7 February 2022. Editors wishing to comment on this can do so in the relevantVillage Pump discussion.

Arbitration

• Community input is requested on several motions aimed at addressingdiscretionary sanctions that are no longer needed or overly broad.
• The Arbitration Committee haspublished a generalised comment regarding successful appeals of sanctions that it can review (such as checkuser blocks).
• A motion related to theAntisemitism in Poland case was passed following adeclined case request.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the2022 Steward elections will begin on 07 February 2022, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2022, 13:59 (UTC). Theconfirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automaticallycheck your eligibility to vote.
• Voting in the2022 Community Wishlist Survey is open until 11 February 2022.

Women in RedMar 2022, Vol 8, Issue 3, Nos 214, 217, 222, 223, 224, 225 Online events: New:Women's History Month Art+Activism|Feminism and Folklore|Dutch Caribbean Continuing:Climate (year-long initiative)|#1day1woman|Women in sport (Feb/Mar) Other ways to participate: Encourage someone to become a WiR member this month by registering in the box at the top of ourmain page. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook|Instagram|Pinterest|Twitter

--Megalibrarygirl (talk)16:38, 27 February 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

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

Administrator changes Modussiccandi BOZ •Brookie (deceased) •Jackmcbarn •Jamesday •Jonathunder •Master of Puppets •Saravask

CheckUser changes Callanecc Oversighter changes Callanecc

Guideline and policy news

• A RfC is open to change the wording ofrevision 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 atWikipedia 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 aCommunity Wishlist Survey request from 2022. (T25020)
• The ability to undelete the talk page when undeleting a page usingSpecial:Undelete or the API will be added soon. This changewas 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 the2021 Discretionary Sanctions review.

Miscellaneous

• The 2022 appointees for theOmbuds commission areÉrico,Faendalimas,Galahad,Infinite0694,Mykola7,Olugold,Udehb andZabe as regular members andAmeisenigel andJJMC89 as advisory members.
• Following the2022 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards:AntiCompositeNumber,BRPever,Hasley,TheresNoTime, andVermont.
• The 2022Community Wishlist Survey results have been published alongsidethe ranking of prioritized proposals.

Women in RedApr 2022, Vol 8, Issue 4, Nos 214, 217, 226, 227, 228 Online events: New:Gender studies|French overseas territories New Contest (Apr/May/Jun):Translation contest Continuing:Climate (year-long initiative)|#1day1woman Other ways to participate: Encourage someone to become a WiR member this month by registering in the box at the top of ourmain page. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook|Instagram|Pinterest|Twitter

--Megalibrarygirl (talk)22:46, 22 March 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]