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Season's greetings and Merry Christmas to you and your family. Have a wonderful holiday season. Cheers! RV (talk) 03:50, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Good morning, SQL! I wish you and your family the best for Christmas and the new year. Here's hoping that 2022 is a better year for us all. Thank you for everything that you do for the project...regardless of how it may sometimes seem, your work is very greatly appreciated. Be well.

Hello SQL: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, TheSandDoctor ^Talk 04:47, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

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A token of thanks Hi SQL! I've nominated you (along with all other active admins) to receive a solstice season gift from the WMF. Talk page stalkers are invited to comment at the nomination. Enjoy! Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} talk ~~~~~

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@Sdkb - I sincerely appreciate the nomination, but I'm going to respectfully decline. Someday, when they come back in stock, I'll just buy one out of my own pocket. SQL^{Query Me!} 02:07, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

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But I've heard that user can clear his talk page as he can ... Isn't it ??? Luckyernie (talk) 08:57, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

@SQL: This a new account/sock of LTA User:Blogs19. 2402:3A80:1A40:D54B:6C6B:70E2:125A:2C9C (talk) 13:23, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

What I have seen that Luckyernie aka Blogs19 is always creating a new account and creating self-promotional article 'Susovan Sonu Roy' through different spelling; randomly editing articles at beginning for some days rapidly so that they gain EC status so that he can move pages. Also, adding his name and sponsered/paid reference to his claim in Bengali TV soaps. He is also doing the same with other language Wikipedia projects like Bengali, Hindi, German, French etc. He has also posted many admins and editors to create his page and review them directly posting at their talk pages with his email addresses in English Wikipedia. All detais are available in SPI report.42.105.0.17 (talk) 14:05, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

User:Blogs19 is back as 2409:4060:211B:E63F:0:0:11AF:F8B0 and asking editors that they will pay money for moving Draft:Asim Riaz per [1] and [2] plus spamming Bengali TV soaps with 'Asim Riaz'. 2402:3A80:6E1:C5E0:902A:3CA:B6D7:C20 (talk) 20:00, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Same with 2409:4060:210C:E482:0:0:15C5:30B0. Only spamming. 2402:3A80:6E1:C5E0:902A:3CA:B6D7:C20 (talk) 20:02, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

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Bots Newsletter, January 2022

Bots Newsletter, January 2022

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. 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, Y 59 were approved, and 12 were unsuccessful (with N2 8 denied, ? 2 withdrawn, and 2 expired). January 2020 Yeah, you're not gonna be able to get away with this anymore. Y ST47Bot, Seppi333Bot, Qbugbot 4 · N2 PkbwcgsBot 25, PkbwcgsBot 26 A new Python 2.7 would be removed in coming updates. Toolforge itself planned to drop Python 2 support in 2022. Two new bots dropped in January 2020: ST47Bot, the successor to STBot, and Seppi333Bot, whose task was to perform a weekly update of four "massive" wikitables for WikiProject Molecular Biology. CfD 'd. February 2020 Y AnomieBOT 78, Cewbot 2, DannyS712 bot 67, DannyS712 bot III 63, PearBOT 6, DemonDays64 Bot 2 · N2 PearBOT On February 1, some concerns were raised about ListeriaBot performing "nonsense" edits. Semi-active operator Magnus Manske (who originally coded the Phase II software|precursor of MediaWiki) was pinged. Meanwhile, the bot was temporarily blocked for several hours until the issue was diagnosed and resolved. On February 18, Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Cases/Overview . March 2020 Y Bitbotje, FACBot 6, TheSandBot 8, Qbugbot 5, Cewbot 3, SDZeroBot 2, PrimeBOT 31, WikiCleanerBot 12 · AntiCompositeBot In March, a long Skdb about the troubling trend of bots "expiring" without explanation after their owners became inactive. This can happen for a variety of reasons -- API changes break code, hosting providers' software updates break code, hosting accounts lapse, software changes make bots' edits unnecessary, and policy changes make bots' edits unwanted. The most promising solution seemed to be Toolforge hosting (although it has some problems of its own, like the occasional necessity of refactoring code). Some of the twelve bot tasks approved this month were draftspace ). April 2020 Y TheSandBot 9, BHGbot 5, DannyS712 bot 69, SDZeroBot 3, ST47ProxyBot, WugBot 4, SDZeroBot 4, DatBot 10, WikiCleanerBot 11, WikiCleanerBot 13, WikiCleanerBot 14, AntiCompositeBot 2, Cewbot 4 · N2 DaedanBot 1 · Creffbot A non-free images to others). Some said it was doing good work, and others said it was operating beyond its remit. It was blocked on April 10; the next day it was unblocked, reblocked from article space, reblocked "for specified non-editing actions", unblocked, and indeffed. The next week, several safeguards were implemented in its code by Magnus; the bot was allowed to roam free once more on April 18. diffusing categories), TheSandBot 9 (taking over some tasks from the inactive RonBot), and WugBot 4 (updating data at {{Interactive COVID-19 maps}}). Also, DatBot 10 was approved to scale down non-free SVGs — I didn't even know that was a thing. A WP:BOTCOMM should explicitly specify that bot operators must be responsive to concerns raised on English Wikipedia specifically (as opposed to Phabricator, SourceForge, Toolforge, et cetera). Eventually, the policy was amended to its current form : 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 Y MajavahBot 3, DannyS712 bot 70, CitationCleanerBot 5, Dreamy Jazz Bot 4, QEDKbot, William Avery Bot 2, DannyS712 bot 68, PrimeBOT 32, TheSandBot 10, Bot1058 7, BHGbot 6, EaglesBot 2, Cewbot 5, WikiCleanerBot 17 · N2 MDanielsBot, PhuzBot 3, Gedimon · ? PearBOT 7 MajavahBot 3, an impressively meta bot task, was approved this month for maintaining a list of bots running on the English Wikipedia. The page, located at User:MajavahBot/Bot status report, is updated every 24 hours; it contains a list of all accounts with the bot flag, as well as their operator, edit count, last activity date, last edit date, last logged action date, user groups and block status. Other approvals for this month were William Avery Bot 2 (processing redirects in {{R from scientific name}}), DannyS712 bot 68 (allowing users to schedule bot reminders for themselves), TheSandBot 10 (removing blocked/locked users from Category:User talk pages with conflict of interest notices), Bot1058 7 (updating Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests/Permalink), Dreamy Jazz Bot 4 (adding {{WikiProject Biography|living=no}} to talk pages where their associated article is in a year of death category), and QEDKbot (deleting and nominating empty categories). General syntax fixing tasks were approved for DannyS712 bot 70, CitationCleanerBot 5, PrimeBOT 32, BHGbot 6, Cewbot 5, and EaglesBot 2, as well as WikiCleanerBot 15, 16, and 17. Seven bots who fell below activity requirements (with neither the bots nor their operators having any edits or logged actions in two years) had their bot flags removed. They were NekoBot, Robert SkyBot, DASHBotAV, VoxelBot, JackieBot, ReferenceBot, and CensusBot. On May 12, EmausBot was blocked. June 2020 Y QEDKbot 2, AnomieBOT 79, WOSlinkerBot 6, Yapperbot 2, Yapperbot, AnomieBOT 80, Dreamy Jazz Bot 5, WikiCleanerBot 18, HasteurBot 15, MusikBot II 4, NoSandboxesHere · N2 RedWarn · ? Seppi333Bot 2 In July 2017, partial-block of Legobot for the dashboard was proposed. Some months later, on June 16, Headbomb said: "A full block serves nothing. A partial block solves all current issues [...] Just fucking do it. It's been 3 years now." The next day, however, Legoktm disabled the task, and the dashboard was successfully refactored. On June 7, LTA had "weaponized" the bot to harass editors). David Tornheim opened a discussion about whether bots based on closed-source code should be permitted, and proposed that they not. He cited a recent case in which a maintainer had said "I can only suppose that the code that is available on GitHub is not the actual code that was running on [the bot]". Some disagreed: Naypta said that "I like free software as much as the next person, and I strongly believe that bot operators should make their bot code public, but I don't think it should be that they must do so". Two new bots had their first BRFAs approved: Feedback Request Service, and NoSandboxesHere, to remove {{user sandbox}} from articles in draftspace using Category:Non-userspace pages using User sandbox . Conclusion What's next for our intrepid band of coders, maintainers and approvers? Will Citation bot ever be set free to roam the project? What's the deal with all those book links that InternetArchiveBot is adding to articles? Should we keep using Gerrit for MediaWiki? What if we had a day for bots to make cosmetic edits? 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) @JPxG: Why is this about 2020? SQLQuery Me! 12:24, 1 February 2022 (UTC) I'm an idiot. Disregard. SQLQuery Me! 12:25, 1 February 2022 (UTC) Snap! User_talk:JPxG#Bots_Newsletter,_January_2022 ;) ·addshore· talk to me! 15:42, 1 February 2022 (UTC) @Addshore: At least it's not just me! SQLQuery Me! 11:44, 2 February 2022 (UTC) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.)

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

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Happy First Edit Day! Hi SQL! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! Bobherry Talk My Edits 01:20, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

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Happy First Edit Day! Hi SQL! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy 15th anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! {{u|Sdkb}} talk 19:08, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

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

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The range 148.72.0.0/16 (block range · block log (global) · WHOIS (partial)) still belongs to the webhost GoDaddy; it got automatically unblocked recently and somebody forgot to block it again. WPOP produced no response, as usual. Thanks. wizzito | say hello! 05:41, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

@Wizzito Reblocked for 5 years. Thanks! SQL^{Query Me!} 02:10, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi There,

I was not logged in when making these two revisions. My IP is now visible, could you please help me delete these two? Thanks. Here are the two entries: (Redacted) — Preceding unsigned comment added by (Redacted) 13:11, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

 Done stwalkerster (talk) 23:23, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

• ZX2006XZ (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

It appears that after the recent block expired, this editor immediately resumed disruption, making mass unsourced changes to the leads of multiple articles. If you're able to look into it and perform a mass rollback, it would be greatly appreciated! --GoneIn60 (talk) 05:52, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Apologies. On second glance, it appears you only reviewed an unblock request and did not institute the earlier block. If you'd still like to review this user's activity, please do, but I have also left a personalized message on that user's talk page, which may hopefully lead to some kind of resolution. --GoneIn60 (talk) 09:42, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes Firefly • Sdrqaz Ad Orientem Geschichte • Ryan Postlethwaite • Sabine's Sunbird • Wassupwestcoast

Interface administrator changes Evad37

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open proposing a change to the minimum activity requirements for administrators.

Technical news

• Access to Special:RevisionDelete has been expanded to include users who have the deletelogentry and deletedhistory rights. This means that those in the Researcher user group and Checkusers who are not administrators can now access Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (T301928)
• When viewing deleted revisions or diffs on Special:Undelete a back link to the undelete page for the associated page is now present. (T284114)

Arbitration

• Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Opening of proceedings has been updated to reflect current practice following a motion.
• A arbitration case regarding Skepticism and coordinated editing has been closed.
• A arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been opened.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines has closed, and the results were that 56.98% of voters supported the guidelines. The results of this vote mean the Wikimedia Foundation Board will now review the guidelines.

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Administrator changes Colin M David.Monniaux • Fribbler • Grue • Kpjas • West.andrew.g

CheckUser changes Ks0stm Oversighter changes Ks0stm

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, a change has been made to the administrators inactivity policy. Under the new policy, if an administrator has not made at least 100 edits over a period of 5 years they may be desysopped for inactivity.
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• The ability to undelete the associated talk page when undeleting a page has been added. This was the 11th wish of the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey.
• A public status system for WMF wikis has been created. It is located at https://www.wikimediastatus.net/ and is hosted separately to WMF wikis so in the case of an outage it will remain viewable.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the St Christopher case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to place a ban on single-purpose accounts who were disruptively editing on the article St Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine or related pages from those pages.

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Unblock request from Badehmasare --Deepfriedokra (talk) 14:38, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

@Ohnoitsjamie: I looked at Cam5643 as a part of evaluating the unblock request, and did not see any other accounts. It's probably better to take that to SPI. SQL^{Query Me!} 17:46, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

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

Administrator changes Tamzin Barek • Darkwind • Geometry guy • ProcseeBot • RoyBoy • Sean Whitton • Valereee • Visorstuff • WAvegetarian Sn0wflake → VersedFenrir

CheckUser changes Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news

• Several areas of improvement collated from community member votes have been identified in the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines. The areas of improvement have been sent back for review and you are invited to provide input on these areas.

Technical news

• Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access Special:Block directly from user pages. (T307341)
• The IP Info feature has been deployed to all wikis as a Beta Feature. Any autoconfirmed user may enable the feature using the "IP info" checkbox under Preferences → Beta features. Autoconfirmed users will be able to access basic information about an IP address that includes the country and connection method. Those with advanced privileges (admin, bureaucrat, checkuser) will have access to extra information that includes the Internet Service Provider and more specific location.

Arbitration

• Remedy 2 of the Rachel Marsden case has been rescinded following a motion. The remedy previously authorised administrators to delete or reduce to a stub, together with their talk pages, articles related to Rachel Marsden when they violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy.
• An arbitration case regarding WikiProject Tropical Cyclones has been closed.

The new format is like this: https://www.robtex.com/ip-lookup/8.8.8.8. Probably needs changed in a few places. SQL^{Query Me!} 22:26, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Places to fix:

• MediaWiki:
• Template:

Might need a bot for the template namespace. SQL^{Query Me!} 22:30, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	Thanks for repairing my block! Pemboid (talk) 09:37, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

@Pemboid: Thank you very much! I've removed the rangeblock you were facing. If you still have issues editing, please let me know. SQL^{Query Me!} 09:20, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

In all seriousness, I had intended to redouble my efforts recently - to buckle down as it were - but I simply can't find the time.

Those that know - well, they know - the last year or so has been a massive change to my life. I've completely changed careers, which is nothing short of terrifying, but has landed as a smashing success.

I unfortunately do not see my free time becoming more abundant in the next year or so. The opposite seems to be the way things are going.

The last three years have been a wild ride. It's been fun, I've made some friends, and I've learned a lot.

Thank you to each member of every committee I've had the pleasure of helping. I've gotten to know many of you on a personal level, and many of you have provided me with valuable advice and feedback.

Thank you to all of my fellow current, and former clerks for all you do. It's often a thankless job. SQL^{Query Me!} 08:47, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

• Well, I for one would like to say thank you for doing the thankless job. I've said before that I couldn't be an arbitrator without the clerks, and really do appreciate the time that each and every one takes to basically make my life easier. I hope you really enjoy your vacation and focus on real life, which is what matters. I'm sure there will be a clerk position available if you like in the future. Worm^TT(talk) 09:00, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

  I agree with Worm here and would say that we will miss you on the team. There will always be a spot for you if you ever have the time again to spend on clerking. Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 10:05, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

	Fez of Excellence
	Thank you for your work as a clerk. Hopefully you can take the Fez on into the future . Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 10:16, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

SQL you will be missed. Thank you for your long service, and enjoy that vacation! You are an invaluable asset to Wiki, don't burn yourself out :) CaptainEek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!}⚓ 18:56, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

"Bubba"? Clearly you've seen the work I've done with my dad on his project cars...thank you for all you've done and taught me, SQL. GeneralNotability (talk) 18:53, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

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Administrator changes AA • Gwalla • Ioeth • Laurascudder • Moriori (deceased) • Nat • Rfl Drilnoth → AFigureOfBlue Bureaucrat changes Lee Vilenski

Interface administrator changes Nihiltres

Technical news

• user_global_editcount is a new variable that can be used in abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (T130439)

Arbitration

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I think I edited and wrote on Wikipedia in 2017 but I checked today and came to know that I am blocked in May 2022. I'm surprised. I think someone used my ID and and did some mistake because I'm a teacher and I'm very careful about knowledge sharing. AsadSurani (talk) 12:18, 24 July 2022 (UTC)

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Administrator changes

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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.

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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.

Hello, SQL! Being in a country/region in the world with inconvenient Internet access, I've been using proxies to bypass the "fire wall" and IPBE to edit on en Wikipedia. However, my IPBE will be expired in this month. Can you grant me another one? It will be more appreciated if you can grant me a longer exemption. Thanks!--波斯波莉斯 (talk) 09:05, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

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The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. Board of Trustees election ends soon, please vote. At least one of the candidates is worthy of support. --MZMcBride (talk) 14:57, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

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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.

Hi SQL, I see you were on the ArbCom election commission the year before last. The nominations for this year's EC close in 2 days, and so far we have one nomination, and they've never been on the EC before. Would you consider joining them on the nomination page? IMHO, the EC should have at least one person who has done it before, so we don't lose institutional memory, and can pass it down to newbies who join this year. I guess it looks like you're not terribly active these days, so maybe this doesn't fit with your schedule this year. But I hope you have the time and the inclination. --Floquenbeam (talk) 22:05, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Precious

Four years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:47, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

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}}.

Hello, SQL. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{

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) 10:04, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

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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

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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.

Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, whether it's Christmas or some other festival, I hope you and those close to you have a happy, restful time! Have fun, Donner60 (talk) 00:16, 23 December 2022 (UTC)}}

Donner60 (talk) 05:08, 24 December 2022 (UTC)