User talk:I JethroBT/Archive 19

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

Administrator changes Reaper Eternal • ThaddeusB Bogdangiusca • Christopher Parham • Necrothesp • Schneelocke • Siroxo • Sarah Mentifisto → Lofty abyss Interface administrator changes Mr. Stradivarius

Bureaucrat changes DeltaQuad Kingturtle

Technical news

• In Special:Preferences under "Appearance" → "Advanced options", there is now an option to show a confirmation prompt when clicking on a rollback link.
• The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Please see meta:Community health initiative/User reporting system consultation 2019 to provide your input on this idea.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee
  ARBPIA 1RR editnotice
  }} edit notice.

Miscellaneous

• Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable
  two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure
  and unique to Wikimedia.
• As a reminder, according to
  proposed deletion
  (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.

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Four years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:03, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Thanks Gerda! :) I JethroBT ^{drop me a line} 05:04, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

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This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:37, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).

Administrator changes HickoryOughtShirt?4 • RexxS Necrothesp Bratsche • Kyle Barbour • Kzollman • Madman Interface administrator changes Pharos

Bureaucrat changes Primefac CheckUser changes Reaper Eternal

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment concluded that creating pages in the portal namespace should be restricted to autoconfirmed users.
• Following a
  WP:GNG
  .

Technical news

• XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

Arbitration

• In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee
  procedures for return of permissions (diff
  ). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
• Following a
  arbitration policy has been amended (diff
  ). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.

Miscellaneous

• A request for comment is currently open to amend the community sanctions procedure to exclude non XfD or CSD deletions.
• A proposal to remove pre-2009 indefinite IP blocks is currently open for discussion.

Newsletter • April 2019

Welcome to the fourth issue of the Timeless newsletter, with a cat! Or maybe not.

Un chat qui miaule???

It's true! The angry cat, a fundamental part of Timeless, has resulted in confusion and bug reports all across the projects and phabricator. And now it shall be immortalised forever in the new, shiny Timeless logo.

Updates:

After putting off the project for three months because I got hit in the head with a flight of stairs, and then putting off the project for another two months while working out what the status of the grant was, I have now put off the project even more in order to focus on my other project for a bit. So progress lately has been a bit whims-based as a result:

• The project now has a logo. For some reason.
• The angry cat in the background is now customisable! Behold: not a cat. What would you like to replace it with on your project?
• I broke, unbroke, and then sort of sideways broke all the form styles. Help.

Radar:

• The French Wiktionary voted to set Timeless as their default skin, with results possibly as you might expect: I ran away and hid, and the WMF said no. A bit of discussion later and we largely agreed that all else aside, this is a bit of a branding issue, but we love the enthusiasm! Also the bug reports that inevitably come out of such a discussion. I'm still working on properly going through those.
• Theme support is still stuck in limbo, but now we have another skinning RfC. tl;dr, we wanna replace the entire skinning system, and Skizzerz'll write a prototype later.

I will be fully resuming work on Timeless next week, or maybe the week after, depending on what madness (or illness) comes out of the Hackathon in Prague. Please come talk to me there to discuss strategy!

-— Isarra ༆ 16:51, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

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Can you help make edits to the PMML article? Let me know. Thanks! TeriEmbrey (talk) 21:00, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

@TeriEmbrey: Hey Teri, sorry for the late response. I haven't been too active on my volunteer account lately. What sort of changes or additions are you looking to make? Thanks, I JethroBT ^{drop me a line} 03:06, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

@I JethroBT: Some of the changes have been made. the following changes still need to be made:

*update budget infobox with 990 from Guidestar or other public source
*add recent news articles from latest exhibits & etc (a quick Google search -- top articles?)
*remove better sourcing tag at top of article 

Thanks in advance for your help! TeriEmbrey (talk) 16:47, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

@I JethroBT (WMF): Thanks again! TeriEmbrey (talk) 17:30, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

@TeriEmbrey: I've done a little restructuring of the article and have addressed the budget infobox and recent news (added some news on the D-Day+75 exhibition). Next on my list is the better sourcing tag, which will take me a little bit to look into. :) I JethroBT ^{drop me a line} 15:54, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

@I JethroBT (WMF): Many thanks! TeriEmbrey (talk) 16:53, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

@I JethroBT (WMF): PMML Literature Award was announced today. John Morrow, Jr. is the 2019 recipient. See: [1] and [2] for starters. TeriEmbrey (talk) 16:44, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

Hi Chris. I noticed you did a lot of work on Retrieval-induced forgetting. Would you be interested in updating it and submitting for external, academic peer review?

The WikiJournal of Science (www.wikijsci.org) and WikiJournal of Medicine (www.wikijmed.org) couple the rigour of academic peer review with the extreme reach of the encyclopedia. For existing Wikipedia articles, they are a great way to get additional feedback from external experts. Peer-reviewed articles are dual-published both as standard academic PDFs, as well as having changes integrated back into Wikipedia. This improves the scientific accuracy of the encyclopedia, and rewards authors with citable, indexed publications. It also provides much greater reach than is normally achieved through traditional scholarly publishing.

The WP:WikiJournal article nominations page should allow simple submission of existing Wikipedia pages for external review. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 05:57, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

@

The Wikipedia Library or through other sources, I'll be sure to ping you. Thanks, I JethroBT ^{drop me a line}

04:09, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019).

Administrator changes

Andonic • Consumed Crustacean • Enigmaman • Euryalus • EWS23 • HereToHelp • Nv8200pa • Peripitus • StringTheory11 • Vejvančický

CheckUser changes

Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news

• An
  WP:OUTING
  should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
• An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
• An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.

Technical news

• The CSD feature of
  Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion. You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences
  : look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
• Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution! The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.

Miscellaneous

• The previously discussed unblocking of IP addresses indefinitely-blocked before 2009 was approved and has taken place.
• The 2019 talk pages consultation produced a report for Phase 1 and has entered Phase 2.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019).

Administrator changes

28bytes • Ad Orientem • Ansh666 • Beeblebrox • Boing! said Zebedee • BU Rob13 • Dennis Brown • Deor • DoRD • Floquenbeam¹ • Flyguy649 • Fram² • Gadfium • GB fan • Jonathunder • Kusma • Lectonar • Moink • MSGJ • Nick • Od Mishehu • Rama • Spartaz • Syrthiss • TheDJ • WJBscribe

¹Floquenbeam's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

²Fram's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment seeking to alleviate pressures on the request an account (ACC) process proposes either raising the account creation limit for extended confirmed editors or granting the account creator permission on request to new ACC tool users.

• In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.

• The scope of
  CSD criterion G8 has been tightened
  such that the only redirects that it now applies to are those which target non-existent pages.
• The scope of
  CSD criterion G14 has been expanded slightly
  to include orphan "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects that target pages that are not disambiguation pages or pages that perform a disambiguation-like function (such as set index articles or lists).
• A request for comment seeks to determine whether Wikipedia:Office actions should be a policy page or an information page.

Technical news

• The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.

Miscellaneous

• In February 2019, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF)
  significant community discussion, a request for arbitration (permalink), and, either directly or indirectly, the resignations of numerous administrators and functionaries. The WMF Board of Trustees is aware of the situation, and discussions continue on a statement and a way forward. The Arbitration Committee has sent an open letter to the WMF Board
  .

Hello! 1. Thanks so much for unblocking me, 2. Thanks so much for offering to help me with my edits, and 3. I am now interested in the world of Wikipedia, although I'm not sure to what degree I'm interested in (do I want to begin traveling the road of editor-ship, or am I simply interested in helping you develop editor onboarding material [perhaps like Wikademy] for the benefit of those like myself?). Now that I've terminated my project with Matty Cardarople, and thanks to M____ who generously educated me about the policies, mission, and operational complexities of Wikipedia, I am still wondering what of my contributions to Matty's page would be considered helpful to the community (most obviously, the table of incomplete credits and some missing citations). In addition to guidance there (I don't want to worsen the situation by posting incorrectly on Matty's talk page), I'm hoping you'll provide a mentor's perspective regarding the greater need: editorship from someone like me (queer, Latinx, American woman writer with excellent research, editing, and writing skills) versus Wikademy contributor. Thanks again, and I look forward to hearing from you. Also: sorry if I didn't go about this communication correctly (talk page --> new section). — Preceding unsigned comment added by MonicaG1989 (talk • contribs)

@

administrator

. I'm glad you're interested in learning more about contributing to English Wikipedia, whether that is through article improvements, supporting newer editors, or any number of other ways to support this project. I am also really grateful for your willingness to reach out to me.

Regarding the edits to

independent

of the subject. As an example, interviews are often used to support biographical information that's uncontroversial, like where the subject grew up, or who a musician says they were influenced by in the interview. More complex narrative information around things like their career, relationships, or professional work should be sourced by independent sources instead, though. (One exception is that sometimes, interviews can contain commentary from the publisher or interviewer, and this commentary is considered independent and appropriate for supporting biographical content.) Anydangway, I'll look through the edits and reply back here to give you my perspective and suggestions.

In terms of where there is greater need, it's very kind of you to think this way about volunteering here! I usually recommend that Wikipedia contributors volunteer their time wherever they feel most enthusiastic and drawn in. I think learning how to contribute as an editor provides a good foundation for understanding English Wikipedia and learning what you enjoy doing, so I recommend it to nearly everyone. :) As for the Wikademy idea, there are a lot of resources available to help onboard new editors using all sorts of approaches, such as

The Wikipedia Adventure, and more. That said, it is still difficult for new editors to get started here, and we don't have that problem figured out by any means, so improvements or different approaches for how to onboard new contributors are definitely welcome. Finally, because this is a volunteer-maintained project, it is totally OK to shift your attention to between different kinds of topics, tasks, or resources as you like. Thanks again for reaching out, and I'll be in touch soon. Take care, I JethroBT ^{drop me a line}

04:23, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).

Administrator changes Johnuniq • Kosack • Valereee Ad Orientem • Ched • Gadfium • Jonathunder • Nick • Yelyos Bald Zebra • Beetstra • Doug Bell • Journalist • Ruud Koot • Splash • Voice of Clam Interface administrator changes Dinoguy1000

CheckUser changes RickinBaltimore Oversight changes Beeblebrox RickinBaltimore

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, the page Wikipedia:Office actions has been changed from a policy page to an information page.
• A
  administrator inactivity policy
  .

Arbitration

• Editors
  alert
  them.

Miscellaneous

• Following a research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page.
• The
  removal for inactivity
  at a later stage and enables a review of their work before according the right on a permanent basis.

Hey, I JethroBT. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the talk ) 06:03, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Newsletter • August 2019

Welcome to the fifth and final issue of the Timeless newsletter!

Progress was made. True story.

I am happy to announce that after about a year, this delightful project in which absolutely nothing has gone according to plan is coming to a close. Or at least, the grant-funded portion is. Which means we will now be resuming our regular schedule of random whims-based development, you probably won't notice any difference whatsoever unless you use MonoBook, and there's a report.

What's new from the past two months:

A lot less than we'd hoped, frankly. We:

• Fixed various bugs, some of which even weren't for stuff I'd just broken two patches previously.
• Resolved sundry compatibility issues for other extensions, templates onwiki, whatever, largely by removing dumb crap from the css.
• Implemented some shiny new features you'll probably hate or just never use or actually see, like click-toggled dropdowns, icons everywhere, and options to select a default layout or set an image for the site header wordmark.
• Brought the total number of open tasks on the Timeless workboard down to 70.

We also wound up with:

• Patches resulting in RelatedArticles working in MonoBook, and FlaggedRevisions showing up in Minerva, unless someone actually managed to turn that off as well. (Blame T181242.) It's possible we went a little overboard with the whole 'let's close all the tasks!' sprint.
• An unfortunate repeated discovery that themes (the Night/Winter variants I keep insisting will happen at some point) are still pretty far off on the horizon. Um.
• Possibly a quite a few more bugs coming your way. This month, and especially the past week, have been a bit of a mess, development-wise. While hopefully none of the worse issues make it to production, please keep the reports coming for whatever you do find and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can. Y'all've been amazing about this, and it's really appreciated.

And I guess that's that. I'm really bad at reporting, and this is a report. For the purposes of the grant, this was a requirement, but do you want me to keep trying to send these out?

-— Isarra ༆ 18:08, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

There are pages or articles that I see need corrections. Especially in their header name. But I can't seem to find any option for that. How do I do it? Absol069 (talk) 16:29, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

@

Wiki markup

, headers look like this:

==Header title==

In terms of the title of the article itself, the manner for fixing pages titles is not intuitive. Before you change the title for a page, I would recommend reviewing

request a page move here. What articles do you think need changes? I JethroBT ^{drop me a line}

17:11, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for replying me to my previous message. But so sorry to say to you, but I just made a vandalism while editing a page. The page name is Dhaka City College. It happened when I was about to press the Publish button but the removal button for the infobox got pressed by mistake before that. Now the infobox seems to have gone, and I don't know how to bring it back. Only if you'd be kind enough to revert the edit back to the previous one, I think it would be best, and very helpful to me as well. Absol069 (talk) 17:54, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

@

undo your own edits-- try going into the page history (look for the tabs at the top of the article) to undo your edit. You can use this guide that will help you. Let me know if you're having any trouble. I JethroBT ^{drop me a line}

03:38, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

@I JethroBT: Thank you very much for your guideline. My edit has now been made undone. It's now back to its previous version again. Absol069 (talk) 10:04, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

Hello everyone,Brighton & Hove formed a unity and become a city in 2000 after the 2 former towns united to become one city,my argument is Brighton on Wikipedia is down as a town that is within a city of Brighton & Hove, this is not the case, “Brighton and Hove, city and unitary authority and district, SE England. It was formed by the merger of the boroughs of Brighton and Hove in 1997, and became a city in 2000.” This is what encyclopaedia says when typing brighton, here’s just a few links to other sites https://www.visitbrighton.comBrighton City Sightseeing - Visit Brightonhttps://www.sussex.ac.uk › study › b...Brighton – city by the sea : Student life : Study with us : University of ...flybrighton.com › live-informationLive Arrivals & Departures | Brighton City Airport, Shorehamhttps://www.brightonandhoveindependent.co.uk › ...Web resultsMassive vegan protest in Brighton city centre - Brighton and Hove Independenthttps://www.middlestreet.brighton-hove.sch.uk › ...Brighton City Partnership for Education (BCPFE) - Middle Street Primary School this is just a few,there’s many more,here is the queens letter also. ELIZABETH the SECOND BY THE GRACE OF GOD OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND & OF OUR REALMS & TERRITORIES QUEEN HEAD OF THE COMMONWEALTH DEFENDER OF THE FAITH. To all whom these Presents shall come Greeting. Whereas We for divers good causes and considerations Us thereunto moving are graciously pleased to confer on the Towns of Brighton and Hove the status of a city. Now Therefore Know Ye that We of Our especial grace and favour and mere motion do by these Presents ordain declare and direct that the TOWNS OF BRIGHTON AND HOVE shall henceforth have the status of a CITY and shall have all such rank liberties privileges and immunities as are incident to a City. In witness whereof We have caused Our Letters to be made Patent Witness Ourself at Westminster the thirty first day of January in the forty ninth year of our reign. By Warrant under The Queens Sign Manual. Brighton is not a town Hove is not a town the where but then they formed a unity and became a city, if someone can help me change this I’d appreciate it. Glman83 (talk) 18:57, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

@Glman83: This is very difficult to read and understand, so I'm having trouble understanding the situation based on what you wrote here. I JethroBT ^{drop me a line} 03:35, 5 September 2019 (UTC). Sorry if I didn’t explain very well and thanks for helping,I think what you said Brighton part of the city of Brighton & Hove is best and if you can change it to this I’d be great full also I sent a email to Lloyd russell-moyle MP for Brighton kemptown on this and here’s what I got back. Thank you for your email. The former towns of Brighton and Hove formed a unitary authority and as you point out gained city status as Brighton & Hove. Whilst many people choose to regard Brighton, and Hove, as separate towns, they are constituent parts of the city of Brighton & Hove.

Kind regards, Nathan Phillips -- Office of Lloyd RUSSELL-MOYLE MP For Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven Constituency (For casework and local diary requests) 11 Hunns Mere Way, Woodingdean BN2 6AH 01273 550121, [email protected] Website: russell-moyle.co.uk Twitter: @lloyd_rm Facebook: fb.com/lloydrussellmoyle

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).

Administrator changes

Bradv • Chetsford • Izno

Floquenbeam • Lectonar

DESiegel • Jake Wartenberg • Rjanag • Topbanana

CheckUser changes

Callanecc • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Oversight changes

Callanecc • Fox • HJ Mitchell • LFaraone • There'sNoTime

Technical news

• Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
• The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.

Arbitration

• A request for comment is open to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the 2019 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election and to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

Miscellaneous

• A global request for comment is in progress regarding whether a user group should be created that could modify edit filters across all public Wikimedia wikis.

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• We're building something great, but..
• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
• A Wikibrarian's story
• Bytes in brief

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

Administrator changes Barkeep49 Beetstra • KillerChihuahua • Kusma Arcadian • Extraordinary Machine • Xeno JamesBWatson → JBW Interface administrator changes Evad37

CheckUser changes Courcelles • SilkTork • Timotheus Canens Oversight changes Courcelles • SilkTork • Timotheus Canens

Guideline and policy news

• Following
  C2F: One eponymous article
  , which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

Technical news

• As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

Arbitration

• The
  2019 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process
  has begun. The community consultation period will take place October 4th to 10th.
• The
  incident
  . It will be open until October 30th.

Miscellaneous

• The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Administrator changes GermanJoe • Girth Summit • Kees08 • Nosebagbear DESiegel • GB fan • MSGJ • Voice of Clam • WilyD DeltaQuad • Fang Aili • Pakaran Bureaucrat changes DeltaQuad • Pakaran Interface administrator changes MSGJ

CheckUser changes L235 • Mz7 • SQL • ST47 Ivanvector DeltaQuad Oversight changes L235 • Mz7 • ST47 • Stwalkerster • The Blade of the Northern Lights • Xaosflux DeltaQuad • DGG • Julia W

Guideline and policy news

• An
  resysop criteria
  should be made stricter.

• The follow-up RfC to develop that change is now open at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2019 Resysop Criteria (2).

• A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors may now nominate themselves as candidates for the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections. The self-nomination period will close November 12, with voting running from November 19 through December 2.

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Have a very happy adminship anniversary on your special day!

Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 10:21, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).

Administrator changes

EvergreenFir • ToBeFree

Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂

CheckUser changes

Beeblebrox

Deskana

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

Guideline and policy news

• An
  request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats
  are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
• Following
  edit filter mailing list
  has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

Technical news

• Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. (T219126)

Arbitration

• Voting in the
  2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page
  .

Miscellaneous

• The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

Administrator changes Dreamy Jazz • Newslinger • Rosguill Deor • Spartaz • Xeno Angusmclellan • clpo13 • Edgar181 • Matthewedwards • NCurse

CheckUser changes Bradv • Casliber • David Fuchs • Maxim • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy • Xeno Oversight changes Bradv • Casliber • DGG • David Fuchs • Maxim • Newyorkbrad • SoWhy • Xeno Someguy1221

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
• A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
• Following a
  Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist
  .

Arbitration

• The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
• Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Bradv, Casliber, David Fuchs, DGG, KrakatoaKatie, Maxim, Newyorkbrad, SoWhy, Worm That Turned, Xeno.

Miscellaneous

• This issue marks three full years of the
  Admin newsletter
  . Thanks for reading!

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On behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:10, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes Ergo Sum • Nick Moyes • QEDK • Wugapodes Dennis Brown Aude • BrownHairedGirl • CALR • Jengod • John Reaves • J.smith • Kim Dent-Brown • K1Bond007 • MECU • Refdoc • RHaworth

CheckUser changes Opabinia regalis • Premeditated Chaos Interface administrator changes Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
• The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

Technical news

• Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock
  }}.
• When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [3]

Arbitration

• Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• The English Wikipedia has reached
  six million articles
  . Thank you everyone for your contributions!