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Administrators' newsletter – September 2021

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

Administrator changes

readded Jake Wartenberg
removed EmperorViridian Bovary
renamed AshleyyoursmileViridian Bovary

Guideline and policy news

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 the mediawiki page.

Arbitration

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Reply-link officially superseded by DiscussionTools

Hi! Reply-link has officially been superseded by mw:DiscussionTools, which you can install using the "Discussion tools" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. DiscussionTools, developed by the WMF's Editing Team, is faster and has more features than reply-link, and it wouldn't make sense for me to keep developing reply-link. I think the Editing Team is doing amazing work, and look forward to what they can do in the future. Thank you for using reply-link over the years! Enterprisey (talk!) 06:11, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #484

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Thank you for the RX article

It has been downloaded. --Salimfadhley (talk) 09:55, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2021

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

Guideline and policy news

  • Following
    high-risk templates
    .
  • Following a 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

Arbitration

  • A motion has standardised the 500/30 (extended confirmed) restrictions placed by the Arbitration Committee. The standardised restriction is now listed in the Arbitration Committee's procedures.
  • Following the closure of the
    are authorized
    for all edits about, and all pages related to, post-1978 Iranian politics, broadly construed.
  • The Arbitration Committee encourages 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

  • Editors have 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 to add themselves to the mentor list.
  • The community consultation phase of the 2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process is open for editors to provide comments and ask questions to candidates.

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Thank you again!

Thanks for that nursing article. Much appreciated. --Salimfadhley (talk) 21:33, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

@Salimfadhley You're welcome! —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 22:13, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Script update

Hello, I'm a user of your userscript markAdmins. It looks like the bot stopped updating the data feed in May, but quite a few changes in advanced permissions (sysop/CU/OS/IA) have taken place since then. Would you mind making the following changes to User:MDanielsBot/markAdmins-Data.js?

List of changes

+sysop

Blablubbs, BusterD, Clpo13, Jake Wartenberg, Less Unless, Trialpears


-sysop

AGK, Alvestrand, Black Falcon, Dppowell, Deathphoenix, Eliz81, Emperor, JGHowes, Mark Arsten, MindSpillage, MrDarcy, Mulad, Protonk, QEDKbot, SlimVirgin, ThaddeusB, Vianello, Who, Wknight94


+checkuser

Dreamy Jazz, Ferret, GeneralNotability, Girth Summit, Roy Smith, TheresNoTime


-checkuser

DGG


+oversight

Dreamy Jazz, LuK3, TheresNoTime


-oversight

AGK, Mkdw, ST47


+iadmin

Ragesoss


-iadmin

Galobtter

Thanks, Giraffer (talk·contribs) 20:06, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

@Giraffer Oops, looks like there was a change that broke the bot. Should be fixed now. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 17:27, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for the speedy change (it's a script I rely a little too much on) :) Giraffer (talk·contribs) 16:43, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2021

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

Guideline and policy news

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

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The
    2021 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process
    has concluded with the appointment of five new CheckUsers and two new Oversighters.

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The Diligent Librarian Barnstar

The Diligent Librarian Barnstar
For exemplary service at the
Resource Exchange, tirelessly delivering the reliable sources on which this encyclopedia depends, please accept this award. :) Thank you for all your hard work at WP:RX. Your efforts are greatly appreciated. —Bruce1eetalk
14:00, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

reFill

Hi! I saw the entry at https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/tools/toolforge-mdaniels-refill-ng and was curious whether it is operational and if it improves on WP:reFill in any way? Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 16:23, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

@Curb Safe Charmer: No, that was just for when reFill was down. —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 14:13, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

AIV bot

Hello! Your bot is really helpful at AIV. I have a (non-urgent) feature request if it's not too time-consuming to implement. I wonder if the bot could remove reports earlier (say, after an hour) if they've been declined with one of the {{AIV}} templates by an admin? Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:41, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi. Sorry for the delay. I'll look into implementing this, but it's unlikely to happen soon: I have some stuff going on in real life, and I didn't write the AIV function in the first place (I just took that over from SQL when they left a while ago). —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 16:19, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2021

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

Administrator changes

removed A TrainBerean HunterEpbr123GermanJoeSanchomMysid

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)

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Bots Newsletter, December 2021

Bots Newsletter, December 2021
BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the eighth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things bot. Maintainers disappeared to parts unknown... bots awakening from the slumber of æons... hundreds of thousands of short descriptions... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

Our

last issue
was in August 2019, so there's quite a bit of catching up to do. Due to the vast quantity of things that have happened, the next few issues will only cover a few months at a time. This month, we'll go from September 2019 through the end of the year. I won't bore you with further introductions — instead, I'll bore you with a newsletter about bots.

Overall

  • Between September and December 2019, there were 33 BRFAs. Of these, Green checkmarkY 25 were approved, and 8 were unsuccessful (Dark red X symbolN2 3 denied, Blue question mark? 3 withdrawn, and Expired 2 expired).

September 2019

Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, IT'S ALIVE!

October 2019

November 2019

Now you're thinking with portals.

December 2019

In the next issue of Bots Newsletter:
What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the January 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... jp×g 04:29, 10 December 2021 (UTC)


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Notice of noticeboard discussion

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Disable MDanielsBot. Thank you. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 16:34, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 22

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2022

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

Guideline and policy news

  • Additionally, consensus for
    advanced permissions
    .

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The functionaries email list (functionaries-en@lists.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 to the Arbitration Committee.

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Hello, Mdaniels5757,

Are you making active use of this category? I've found no similar categories for other editors and it looked like it was for some project that might be over. But I wanted to ask you before nominating it at

WP:CFD. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk!
05:42, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia files reviewed on Wikimedia Commons by Mdaniels5757 has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 03:26, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

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Bots Newsletter, January 2022

Bots Newsletter, January 2022
BRFA activity by month

Welcome to the ninth issue of the English Wikipedia's Bots Newsletter, your source for all things

bot
. Vicious bot-on-bot edit warring... superseded tasks... policy proposals... these stories, and more, are brought to you by Wikipedia's most distinguished newsletter about bots.

After a long hiatus between August 2019 and December 2021, there's quite a bit of ground to cover. Due to the vastness, I decided in December to split the coverage up into a few installments that covered six months each. Some people thought this was a good idea, since covering an entire year in a single issue would make it unmanageably large. Others thought this was stupid, since they were getting talk page messages about crap from almost three years ago. Ultimately, the question of whether each issue covers six months or a year is only relevant for a couple more of them, and then the problem will be behind us forever.

Of course, you can also look on the bright side – we are making progress, and this issue will only be about crap from almost two years ago. Today we will pick up where we left off in December, and go through the first half of 2020.

Overall
In the first half of 2020, there were 71

BRFAs
. Of these, Green checkmarkY 59 were approved, and 12 were unsuccessful (with Dark red X symbolN2 8 denied, Blue question mark? 2 withdrawn, and Expired 2 expired).

January 2020

A python
A python
A python
0.4 pythons
Yeah, you're not gonna be able to get away with this anymore.

February 2020

Speaking of WikiProject Molecular Biology, Listeria went wild in February

March 2020

April 2020

Listeria being examined

Issues and enquiries are typically expected to be handled on the English Wikipedia. Pages reachable via

anonymity
) can supplement on-wiki communication, but do not replace it.

May 2020

We heard you like bots, so we made a bot that reports the status of your bots, so now you can use bots while you use bots

June 2020

A partial block averted at the eleventh hour for the robot that makes Legos

Conclusion

  • What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers?

These questions will be answered — and new questions raised — by the February 2022 Bots Newsletter. Tune in, or miss out!

Signing off... jp×g 23:22, 31 January 2022 (UTC)


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Administrators' newsletter – February 2022

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

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The user group oversight will be renamed suppress 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 for technical reasons. You can comment in 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 relevant Village Pump discussion.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


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