Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2019-04-30/News and notes
An action-packed April
Mysterious ban, admin resignations, Wikimedia Thailand rising
30 June 2019
Blackouts fail to stop EU Copyright Directive
31 March 2019
BARC de-adminship proposal; Wikimania recordings debate
29 July 2015
Closing RfAs: Stewards or Bureaucrats?; Redesign of Help:Contents
8 October 2012
RFAs and active admins—concerns expressed over the continuing drought
14 February 2011
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RfXs
- Primefac filed an RfB on 31 March 2019, a mere 2 weeks after DeltaQuad was promoted as a result of her RfB. Primefac's RfB was closed as successful with a final tally of 151/7/5. This makes 2019 the first year since 2014 with 2 new bureaucrats, and there are still 8 more months to go!
- Bishzilla filed a (serious) RfA for RexxS on 1 April 2019. After a 'crat chat, Dweller closed the RfA as successful. The story continued, however; Pudeo then proceeded to file a request for Arbitration, arguing that the RfA should have been closed as "no consensus to promote" instead. More coverage in the Arbitration report.
- On 12 April 2019, 'crat Wizardman retired from the project. An active editor, he even participated in Rexx's crat-chat.
- Just a few weeks after the last RfA, Ritchie333 and TonyBallioni nominated HickoryOughtShirt?4 for adminship. As of writing, the RfA is still open for discussion.
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April Fools' recap
Additional contributors: Pythoncoder
- As part of Wikipedia's April Fools' Day festivities, a recently created Wikipedia newspaper called TheWikiWizard was nominated for deletion at MfD. Signpost writer DannyS712 also writes for it.
- This year there were 2 successful RfAs: Linguist111 (testing) (closed at <10/9/1>), and DeprecatedFixerBot (closed at <7/13/6>). There was not a single unsuccessful RfA filed on April Fools' Day. RfBs, however, didn't fare as well: while ZLEA2 was closed as successful (with a final tally of <?/?/?>), ClueBot NG was unsuccessful, with their RfB closing at <17/16/12>.
- On the other hand, no humor BRFAs were denied: DeletionBoot was approved for trial, while C-3PO is still pending.
Other publications
The Signpost is not the only active publication here on the English Wikipedia. Other regular distributions include the
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Brief notes
- A new global special page, meta:Special:UrlShortener, was introduced.
- ArbCom accepted its first case since February.
- Three administrators were desysopped due to inactivity in April.
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No mention of the DYK April Fools? The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 18:10, 1 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]