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

Administrator changes

Valereee

Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
• An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news

• The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
• Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration

• The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
• Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
• Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

A home page of Wikipedia (in 2014) displayed in a web browser. Hello, Kpgjhpjm. The article for improvement of the week is: Home page Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Diego • Retractable pen Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 8 August 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

Christmas market in Red Square in 2017 Hello, Kpgjhpjm. The article for improvement of the week is: Christmas in Russia Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Home page • Diego Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 15 August 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

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Kyushu, literally "Nine Provinces", is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands (i.e. excluding Okinawa). Hello, Kpgjhpjm. The article for improvement of the week is: Kyushu Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Christmas in Russia • Home page Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 22 August 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz drawing Charlie Brown in 1956 Hello, Kpgjhpjm. The article for improvement of the week is: Cartoonist Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Kyushu • Christmas in Russia Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 29 August 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

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

Administrator changes DanCherek • DatGuy • Femke • Z1720 Aldux • Graham Beards • Nyttend

Interface administrator changes Mr. Stradivarius

Guideline and policy news

• A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
• reliable
  for science and politics.

Technical news

• The impact report on the effects of disabling IP editing on the Persian (Farsi) Wikipedia has been released.
• The WMF is looking into making a Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) system to improve the reporting of harmful incidents through easier and safer reporting. You can leave comments on the talk page by answering the questions provided. Users who have faced harmful situations are also invited to join a PIRS interview to share the experience. To sign up please email Madalina Ana.

Arbitration

• An arbitration case regarding Conduct in deletion-related editing has been closed. The Arbitration Committee passed a remedy as part of the final decision to create a request for comment (RfC) on how to handle mass nominations at Articles for Deletion (AfD).
• The arbitration case request Jonathunder has been automatically closed after a 6 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

• The new pages patrol (NPP) team has prepared an appeal to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) for assistance with addressing Page Curation bugs and requested features. You are encouraged to read the open letter before it is sent, and if you support it, consider signing it. It is not a discussion, just a signature will suffice.
• Voting for candidates for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is open until 6 September.

Quercus geminata, commonly called sand live oak, is an evergreen oak tree native to the coastal regions of the subtropical southeastern United States, along the Atlantic Coast from southern Florida northward to southeastern Virginia and along the Gulf Coast westward to southern Mississippi, on seacoast dunes and on white sands in evergreen oak scrubs. Hello, Kpgjhpjm. The article for improvement of the week is: Evergreen Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Gender studies • Cartoonist Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 12 September 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

An early view of the convent in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia Hello, Kpgjhpjm. The article for improvement of the week is: Convent Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Heather Dubrow • Evergreen Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 26 September 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

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

Administrator changes ScottishFinnishRadish Staxringold Ahoerstemeier (deceased) • Ched

Interface administrator changes Cyberpower678 CheckUser changes GorillaWarfare

Guideline and policy news

• oversighter for action (as applicable, per ArbCom's recent updated guidance
  ) instead of the administrator making the block.
• FoxNews.com
  is unclear and that additional considerations apply to its use.
• Community comment on the revised Universal Code of Conduct enforcement guidelines is requested until 8 October.

Technical news

• The
  WP:AFCP to help out. If you wish to help out at AFC, enable AFCH by navigating to Preferences → Gadgets
  and checking the "Yet Another AfC Helper Script" box.

Arbitration

• Remedy 8.1 of the Muhammad images case will be rescinded 1 November following a motion.
• A modification to the deletion RfC remedy in the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been made to reaffirm the independence of the RfC and allow the moderators to split the RfC in two.
• The
  2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review
  closes 3 October.

Miscellaneous

• An administrator's account was recently compromised. Administrators are encouraged to check that their
  reserves the right to not restore adminship in cases of poor account security. You can also use two-factor authentication
  (2FA) to provide an extra level of security.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections open 2 October and close 8 October.
• You are invited to comment on candidates in the 2022 CUOS appointments process.
• An RfC is open to discuss whether to make Vector 2022 the default skin on desktop.
• Tech tip: You can do a fuzzy search of all deleted page titles at Special:Undelete.

Hey, Kpgjhpjm! Here is the September 2022 Issue for the

Humor

• It's time for Christmas, summer is coming to an end
• What are you giving Santa for Chirstmas? (He told me to for you to leave more cookies and the Halloween Candy)
• Halloween, give out money instead :P

Wiki(p/m)edia News

• A discussion in regards to the new vector skin on EN Wikipedia had taken place, you can find it here
• The Foundation Elections occurred learn more here
• Quite a few successful RFA's took place, some include Z1720, and Dan Cherek! Congrats to all the successful RFA's!

Editor's Notes

• Thanks for your patience as we are late with issues, you can join us if you want to help out!
• Please note that sometimes the system may deliver this twice to you, but I only send it once

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Sexuality in Islam: An icon depicting the treaty signing between Muhammad and Saint Catherine's Monastery allowing interfaith marriage between Muslims and Christians, as discussed in the Ashtiname of Muhammad. Hello, Kpgjhpjm. The article for improvement of the week is: Islamic sexual jurisprudence Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Convent • Heather Dubrow Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 3 October 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

Since 1922, the countries of the United Kingdom comprises four constituent countries: England, Scotland, and Wales (which collectively make up Great Britain), as well as Northern Ireland (variously described as a country, province or region). Hello, Kpgjhpjm. The article for improvement of the week is: Countries of the United Kingdom Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Islamic sexual jurisprudence Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 17 October 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator. Pictured are areas of the world with tropical climates. Hello, Kpgjhpjm. The article for improvement of the week is: Tropics Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Countries of the United Kingdom • School voucher Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 24 October 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, the Crown Prince of Morocco, in 2018 Hello, Kpgjhpjm. The article for improvement of the week is: Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Tropics • Countries of the United Kingdom Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 31 October 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

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

Administrator changes

• 
  • Isabelle Belato
  • Whpq
• 
• 
  • Atama
  • Astronautics~enwiki
  • Athaenara
  • Eddie891
  • GraemeL
  • Marianocecowski
  • Natalya
  • Pratyeka
  • SB Johnny

Interface administrator changes

• TheresNoTime
• Ragesoss

CheckUser changes

• 
  • Blablubbs
  • Firefly
• Joe Roe

Oversight changes

• DGG

Guideline and policy news

• The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November.
• An
  bureaucrat
  .

Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections.
• The
  arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion
  .
• The
  arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block
  has entered the proposed decision stage.
• AmandaNP, Mz7 and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections. Xaosflux and Dr vulpes are reserve commissioners.

Miscellaneous

• The
  2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process
  has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers.
• You can add yourself to the centralised page listing time zones of administrators.
• Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like {{rangeblock|create=yes}} or {{uw-ublock|contains profanity}}.

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Fire in Rome by Hubert Robert (1785) Hello, Kpgjhpjm. The article for improvement of the week is: Great Fire of Rome Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Government • Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 14 November 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

Culinary arts are the cuisine arts of food preparation, cooking, and presentation of food, usually in the form of meals. Pictured is a chef preparing food on a metal baking sheet topped with parchment paper. Hello, Kpgjhpjm. The article for improvement of the week is: Culinary arts Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Great Fire of Rome • Government Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 21 November 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

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Hello! Voting in the

2022 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 12 December 2022. All eligible users

are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The

topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy

describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2022 election, please review

NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk

) 01:40, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes

• Eddie891
• Euryalus
• TheresNoTime

• Alex.muller
• Excirial
• RedWordSmith
• Ron Ritzman
• TheresNoTime
• Stephen

Interface administrator changes

TheresNoTime

TheresNoTime

CheckUser changes

TheresNoTime

Oversight changes

TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

• Consensus has been found in an RfC to automatically place RfAs on hold after one week.
• The article creation at scale RfC has been closed.
• An RfC on the banners for the December 2022 fundraising campaign has been closed.

Technical news

• A new preference named "Enable limited width mode" has been added to the Vector 2022 skin. The preference is also shown as a toggle on every page if your monitor is 1600 pixels or wider. When disabled it removes the whitespace added by Vector 2022 on the left and right of the page content. Disabling this preference has the same effect as enabling the wide-vector-2022 gadget. (T319449)

Arbitration

• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 12, 2022 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.
• 2021-22 review of the discretionary sanctions system
  is open.
• The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has been closed.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 1 December 2022.
• A
  Level 2 desysop
  .

Miscellaneous

• Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add /64 to the end of an IP in
  consider blocking the whole subnet
  rather than an IP that may change within a minute.

Reconstruction of Lucy, the first Australopithecus afarensis skeleton found Hello, Kpgjhpjm. The article for improvement of the week is: Human history Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Medjed • Culinary arts Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 5 December 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

Cross section of telephone cable of 1,800 twisted pairs. Year 1922 Hello, Kpgjhpjm. The article for improvement of the week is: Telephone line Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Human history • Medjed Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 12 December 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

Hey, Kpgjhpjm! Here is the December 2022 issue for the

Humor

• How many times will you write 2022 in 2023??
• Don't write Christmas Cards/do gift shopping in December, do it in the summer!

Wiki(p/m)edia News

Not much to report this issue, but we do have these to report!

• Quite a few RFAs took place since the last issue of this newsletter. You can view more
  here
  !
• The Voting for a sound logo is taking place on Wikimedia Commons, head over to that link to find out more!
• The Arbitration Committee Elections is happening on the English Wikipedia. (The elections may have finished by the time you see this message, please check the page for the date and time of the election deadline)

Editor's Notes

• Have a great holiday and new years! We'll see you in 2023.

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See you next time. Happy Holidays! --つがる Talk to つがる:) 🍁 02:43, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

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Zenica is the largest city in the Central Bosnia subregion Hello, Kpgjhpjm. The article for improvement of the week is: Central Bosnia Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Telephone line • Human history Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 19 December 2022 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

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Scarves in the Armenian Quarter, Jerusalem Hello, Kpgjhpjm. The article for improvement of the week is: Scarf Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Summer Palace of Peter the Great • Central Bosnia Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 2 January 2023 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions

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

Administrator changes

• ComplexRational
• Extraordinary Writ

Stephen

• Andrew Yong
• Dbenbenn
• DESiegel
• GlassCobra
• Joe Decker
• Nancy
• Pathoschild
• StuffOfInterest
• William Pietri
• Wwwwolf
• Xdamr

Interface administrator changes

Nihiltres

CheckUser changes

Moneytrees

• Ivanvector
• SilkTork

Oversighter changes

• GeneralNotability
• Moneytrees

• Guerillero
• SilkTork

Guideline and policy news

• A5 (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal
  .

Arbitration

• Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Barkeep49, CaptainEek, GeneralNotability, Guerillero, L235, Moneytrees, Primefac, SilkTork.
• The
  discretionary sanctions
  procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.
• The arbitration case Stephen has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Sound Logo has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.
• Tech tip: You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards.