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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).

Administrator changes Hey man im josh Alex Bakharev CorbieVreccan Cyphoidbomb Davodd Hog Farm JamesR KnightLago Mark Ironie Nosebagbear (deceased) Rschen7754 Tamzin TonyBallioni

CheckUser changes DatGuy Ferret RickinBaltimore TonyBallioni Worm That Turned Oversighter changes RickinBaltimore TonyBallioni Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

Technical news

• Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)

Arbitration

• Remedy 9 ("MarioProtIV topic ban") of the WikiProject Tropical Cyclones case has been rescinded.

Miscellaneous

• The
  2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process
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• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.

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Hi - Can you elaborate why you struck the keep !vote of Figbiscuits? Their vote proceeded their block and the reason for the block did not appear to involve sockpuppetry. Regards, Goldsztajn (talk) 09:08, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Have seen the AN/I thread now, there was mention of sockpuppetry, but no investigation or confirmation AFAICS. Still not really sure about the appropriateness of striking the !vote. Regards, Goldsztajn (talk) 09:15, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Goldsztajn I thought that all blocked users had their !votes discounted? If I'm wrong please undo my strike through. JML1148 ^{(talk | contribs)} 09:26, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Liz has undone my strikethrough of Figbiscuits. Apologies for the mistake. JML1148 ^{(talk | contribs)} 03:46, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

All good, no one was hurt. :) Regards, --Goldsztajn (talk) 13:13, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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82		2027 New South Wales state election (talk)	Add sources
4		Giant Coaster (Fuji-Q Highland) (talk)	Add sources
2		Hungary at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics (talk)	Add sources
112		Theban Necropolis (talk)	Add sources
2		TT286 (talk)	Add sources
23		Netflix April Fools' Day jokes (talk)	Cleanup
52		Head-Royce School (talk)	Cleanup
1,876		Can Yaman (talk)	Cleanup
15		ASTRA Awards (talk)	Expand
2,172		Dead Silence (talk)	Expand
381		West Coast Eagles (talk)	Expand
174		Ready to Go (Republica song) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
20		It Crawled into My Hand, Honest (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
384		Foxtel (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,377		Telugu Desam Party (talk)	Merge
43		Downtown Connector (talk)	Merge
16		Kholm Governorate (Russian Empire) (talk)	Merge
307		Manish Raisinghan (talk)	Wikify
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4		Go COMO (talk)	Wikify
1		Sai Krishna Kothapalli (talk)	Orphan
1		Albert Kocer (talk)	Orphan
6		Can Batlló (La Bordeta) (talk)	Orphan
3		Chenab Nagar railway station (talk)	Stub
3		TT212 (talk)	Stub
2		Lilla railway station (talk)	Stub
2		TT156 (talk)	Stub
3		Daniel Fallins (talk)	Stub
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Hello JML1148:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over 2400 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:24, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
	This award is given to JML1148 for collecting more than 10 points during the October 2023 NPP backlog drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to the drive! Hey man im josh (talk) 02:02, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-

• BeanieFan11 with 2582 points
• Thebiguglyalien with 1615 points
• Epicgenius with 1518 points
• MyCatIsAChonk with 1012 points
• BennyOnTheLoose with 974 points
• AirshipJungleman29 with 673 points
• Sammi Brie with 520 points
• Unlimitedlead with 5 points

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the competition, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.

• Unlimitedlead wins the featured article prize, for 7 FAs in total including 3 in round 2.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in total.
• Lee Vilenski wins the featured topic prize, for a 6-article featured topic in round 4.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured picture prize, for 6 FPs in total.
• BeanieFan11 wins the good article prize, for 75 GAs in total, including 61 in the final round.
• Epicgenius wins the good topic prize, for a 41-article good topic in the final round.
• LunaEatsTuna wins the GA reviewer prize, for 70 GA reviews in round 1.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the FA reviewer prize, for 66 FA reviews in the final round.
• Epicgenius wins the DYK prize, for 49 did you know articles in total.
• Muboshgu wins the ITN prize, for 46 in the news articles in total.

The WikiCup has run every year since 2007. With the 2023 contest now concluded, I will be standing down as a judge due to real life commitments, so I hope that another editor will take over running the competition. Please get in touch if you are interested. Next year's competition will hopefully begin on 1 January 2024. You are invited to sign up to participate in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors. It only remains to congratulate our worthy winners once again and thank all participants for their involvement! (If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.) Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:51, 5 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

Administrator changes

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Tamzin

Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

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• Ragesoss
• TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
• There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
• Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
• Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
• Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
• Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
• Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
• An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous

• The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

please help me to understand what is age regression Nila Ashma (talk) 20:43, 8 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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334		Dope (band) (talk)	Add sources
305		Melbourne Football Club (talk)	Add sources
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25		Trax Records (talk)	Cleanup
200		SendGrid (talk)	Cleanup
19		Yeshivah College, Australia (talk)	Cleanup
104		The First Power (talk)	Expand
2,043		Decathlon (talk)	Expand
198		Andrew Bolt (talk)	Expand
8		Missionary Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
83		Safeway (Canada) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
22		Karl Leopold von Möller (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
128		Diagnosis of autism (talk)	Merge
2		Winners and runner-ups in the legislative elections of Nepal 1994 and 1999 (talk )	Merge
13		AIBA African Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament 2008 – Heavyweight (talk)	Merge
10		Joel Clinton (talk)	Wikify
33		Stephen Jones (Australian politician) (talk)	Wikify
57		Caving equipment (talk)	Wikify
15		My Daughters (talk)	Orphan
2		Büdelsdorf (enclosure) (talk)	Orphan
2		Baltazar Kasirivu-Atwooki (talk)	Orphan
8		Ngurungaeta (talk)	Stub
3		Buchiana railway station (talk)	Stub
2		Chabiana railway station (talk)	Stub
2		Baghdad railway station (talk)	Stub
6		TT13 (talk)	Stub
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Administrator changes

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• Mairi
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• Somno
• WilyD

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• Beeblebrox
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• Following a
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• Following
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• The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

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9		Mortgage belt (talk)	Add sources
880		Wentworth (TV series) (talk)	Add sources
10		Netherlands Cancer Institute (talk)	Add sources
76		Two-party-preferred vote (talk)	Add sources
159		NIIT (talk)	Cleanup
150		Politics and sports (talk)	Cleanup
161		Cozy Bear (talk)	Cleanup
311		Port Pirie (talk)	Expand
40		Cardiac rehabilitation (talk)	Expand
256		George Weston Limited (talk)	Expand
25		Blaxploitation horror films (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
31		Sports memorabilia (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
50		Socialist Alternative (Australia) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
9		Kitchen Cabinet of Israel (talk)	Merge
122		Perennial stream (talk)	Merge
677		Home video game console generations (talk)	Merge
37		Buses in Melbourne (talk)	Wikify
90		Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (talk)	Wikify
45		New Zealand Superannuation Fund (talk)	Wikify
1		Pozohondo (Vino de la Tierra) (talk)	Orphan
3		Amanda Wixted (talk)	Orphan
1		Bozdíš (talk)	Orphan
2		Shuroy (talk)	Stub
2		Chistian railway station (talk)	Stub
3		TT147 (talk)	Stub
8		Roma called Roy (talk)	Stub
3		Jaranwala railway station (talk)	Stub
4		Michel Baud (talk)	Stub

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