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Administrators' newsletter – December 2022[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
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.
- The proposed decision for the 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 motion has modified the procedures for contacting an admin facing Level 2 desysop.
Miscellaneous
- Tech tip: A single IPv6 connection usually has access to a "subnet" of 18 quintillion IPs. Add
/64to the end of an IP in Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.
DYK for Manny's Deli[edit]
On 6 January 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Manny's Deli, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Manny's Deli in Chicago received national recognition for its popularity among politicians, including Barack Obama? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Manny's Deli. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Manny's Deli), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
-- RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – January 2023[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Guideline and policy news
- Speedy deletion criterion 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 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review has concluded with many changes to 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.
DYK for Academy Fight Song[edit]
On 1 February 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Academy Fight Song, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Rolling Stone named Mission of Burma's "Academy Fight Song" as one of the 100 greatest debut singles of all time? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Academy Fight Song. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Academy Fight Song), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
-- RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2023[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, the administrator policy now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.
- Following a community discussion, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan and Kurds and Kurdistan.
Technical news
- The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.
- In December, the contentious topics procedure was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period. There is a detailed summary of the changes and administrator instructions for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2023 Steward elections will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.
- Tech tip: Syntax highlighting is available in both the 2011 and 2017 Wikitext editors. It can help make editing paragraphs with many references or complicated templates easier.
Administrators' newsletter – March 2023[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following a request for comment, F10 (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.
- Following a request for comment, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.
- A request for comment is open to discuss making the closing instructions for the requested moves process a guideline.
Technical news
- The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey have been posted.
Arbitration
- Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been rescinded.
- The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case is expected 7 March 2023.
- A case related to the Holocaust in Poland is expected to be opened soon.
Miscellaneous
- The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission are AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, JJMC89, MdsShakil, Minorax and Renvoy as regular members and Zabe as advisory members.
- Following the 2023 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7, Superpes15, and Xaosflux.
- The Terms of Use update cycle has started, which includes a
[p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2023[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- A community RfC is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard.
Technical news
- Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11. (T178356)
- The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.
- A link to the user's Special:CentralAuth page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on Special:Contributions. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023.
Arbitration
- The Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 case has been closed.
- A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.
Administrators' newsletter – May 2023[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.
Technical news
- Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter that requested improvements be made to the tool.
Arbitration
- The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland case is expected 11 May 2023.
Miscellaneous
- The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.
Happy First Edit Day![edit]
 | Happy First Edit Day! Hi Metropolitan90! 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! interstatefive 00:12, 9 May 2023 (UTC) |  |
Administrators' newsletter – June 2023[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
- As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.
Technical news
- Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.
Arbitration
- The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.
Miscellaneous
- Following a community referendum, the arbitration policy has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to Jimbo Wales.
Administrators' newsletter – July 2023[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license.
Technical news
- Discussion is open regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.
Arbitration
- Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.
Links to draft articles[edit]
Please do not introduce links in actual articles to draft articles, as you did to 2024 Republican Party presidential debates and forums. Since a draft is not yet ready for the main article space, it is not in shape for ordinary readers, and links from articles should not go to a draft. Such links are contrary to the Manual of Style. These links have been removed. Thank you. - Arjayay (talk) 19:27, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2023[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Technical news
- The tag filter on Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. (T334338)
- Special:BlockedExternalDomains is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. (T337431)
Arbitration
- The arbitration cases named Scottywong and AlisonW closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.
- The SmallCat dispute arbitration case is in the workshop phase.
Administrators' newsletter – September 2023[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
- A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that
[s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment
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Technical news
- Special:Contributions now shows the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. (T324166)
Arbitration
- The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming
local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus
. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged tonote when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful
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Miscellaneous
- Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.
"Absolute truth" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]
The redirect Absolute truth has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 October 1 § Absolute truth until a consensus is reached. Veverve (talk) 06:57, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – November 2023[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
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!
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Sports museums in Idaho[edit]
A tag has been placed on Category:Sports museums in Idaho indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 01:08, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
ArbCom 2023 Elections voter message[edit]
Hello! Voting in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 11 December 2023. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2023[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.
Arbitration
- Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
- 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.
December 2023 - Page Deletion Request[edit]
Hello! I'd like to bring your attention to the page titled "Qatari support for Hamas". I've noticed that a new separate page has been created for the 2023 Israel-Hamas war/Hamas, using the name "Qatari support for Hamas". I believe that there is no need for a separate page on this particular topic. Additionally, the content appears to be copied from other pages and contains defamatory statements about the party involved. The page is currently protected, and I don't have the necessary editing or deletion rights to address these issues. Therefore, I kindly request your acknowledgment of this matter and consideration for putting the page under speedy deletion review. Thank you. Latvia1 (talk) 10:32, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
- I don't believe that Qatari support for Hamas would be eligible for speedy deletion (see Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion); if you think it is, please explain which criterion it meets and why. In regard to deleting it overall, it may be appropriate to bring it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion for consideration, but you would need to provide further explanation. What pages was the content copied from? Is it even possible to defame a country (as opposed to an individual person)? Also, I have not yet reviewed the sources cited in Qatari support for Hamas, but most of them appear to be mainstream news organizations; if the sources actually say what the article claims, you may find it difficult to have the article deleted. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 14:43, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you for acknowledging this matter.
- Explanation for deleting Qatari support for Hamas page:
- Copied content from Hamas (Category: Qatar and Turkey)[1].
- Already multiple pages are available on the same topic (Hamas, 2023 Israel–Hamas war, Allegations of genocide in the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, 2023 Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis, 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, 2023 Israel–Hamas ceasefire).
- Misrepresenting the facts. For Example: No mention in the US and Israel role in foundation of Hamas office in Qatar. [2]
- Moreover, I'm not eligible to bring it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion for consideration. Therefore, I kindly request you to take appropriate action for this page. Thank you. Latvia1 (talk) 09:18, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
- I don't think it makes sense for me to put this article up for deletion since I don't believe that I would be able to personally advocate for its deletion. Some of the "multiple pages available on the same topic" don't even mention that Qatar has supported Hamas. I recommend that you ask on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Qatar or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Palestine instead as there may be editors who participate in either page who would be more willing to nominate the article for deletion than I am. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 17:20, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
- Explanation for deleting Qatari support for Hamas page:
Seasons Greetings[edit]
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Merry Christmas, Metropolitan90! Wishing you Season's Greetings and a Happy Winter Solstice! As the year comes to a close, I want to express my appreciation for your dedicated efforts on Wikipedia and extend heartfelt thanks for your assistance throughout the years. May the holiday season bring you and your loved ones abundant joy, good health, and prosperity. |
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2024[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Arbitration
- Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
- Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
- The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.
Miscellaneous
- The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Black 47 songs[edit]
A tag has been placed on Category:Black 47 songs indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 22:06, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2024[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.
Technical news
- Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)
Arbitration
- Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
- Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.
Miscellaneous
- Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
- A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
- Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
- The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!
Administrators' newsletter – March 2024[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).
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Guideline and policy news
- Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
- Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.
Technical news
- The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)
Miscellaneous
- The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
- Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.
Nomination of Where is Kate? for deletion[edit]
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Where is Kate? (3rd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.IgnatiusofLondon (he/him • ☎️) 11:57, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – April 2024[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).
Administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- An RfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.
Technical news
- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)
Arbitration
- An arbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".
Miscellaneous
- Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.
Administrators' newsletter – May 2024[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).
Guideline and policy news
- Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.
Technical news
- Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.
Miscellaneous
- This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
- Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!
Happy First Edit Day![edit]
| Happy First Edit Day! Hi Metropolitan90! 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! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 02:45, 9 May 2024 (UTC) | |
Administrators' newsletter – June 2024[edit]
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).
Administrator changes
Bureaucrat changes
Guideline and policy news
- Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.
Technical news
- The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
- The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.
Miscellaneous
- WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!
Administrator![edit]
Hi Metropolitan90!
As you are an administrator, I can talk to you about any Wikipedia user. Right? Craig Lungren (talk) 04:19, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
- You can ask, but I'm not going to promise any particular kind of answer. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:38, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
- Ok. Anyway a user named “GSK” (User:GSK) had told me on Talk:Wikipedia recently, on a topic that I started just hours ago today …
- “If you're not going to drop this, I will open a discussion on you at WP:ANI, because it's becoming more and more clear that you are not here to contribute to the encyclopedia in any meaningful way and that you are treating Wikipedia as a battleground. You are picking fights with people that do not share your point of view, you are ignoring advice to take your ideas to the correct venue, and this kind of behavior is not tolerated on Wikipedia. I really do not want to have to open a discussion regarding your behavior here, but if you keep this up, I will not hesitate to escalate this to the Administrators' Noticeboard. You can choose to do better and to be better. No one but you can make that choice for you.”
- … and I wouldn’t know if they are a man or woman, but all of that they wrote is false information. The subject that I started on Talk:Wikipedia is titled “About Wikipedia”! And yet GSK likes to argue about “an edit that I have made” in defense. However, since I haven’t made a bad edit that involves anything like “swearing”, “bad name calling” in the talk page OR since I haven’t edited the Wikipedia “Article” page that goes against its purpose (such as adding everything related to “Wikipedia” followed by “Reliable Sources”), the truth is …
- I don’t have to drop his/her Non-Sense of replies sent directly towards me. There is no appropriate reason for them to stupidly open a discussion on me at WP:ANI, because I am actually there (in the “Wikipedia” article talk page to contribute to the encyclopedia in a meaningful way and I wasn’t treating Wikipedia as a battleground. I was not picking fights with people and I wasn’t asking them to share my point of view, even when they were mentioning to me “this is not the place for a general discussion of the article’s subject”. I am not really ignoring the advice that they were giving me, to bring Wikipedia ideas to the correct venue, and my good behavior is not tolerating Wikipedia. I’m already doing good enough.
- Therefore, if you could talk to GSK about their silly behavior, that would be nice. And if they think that I was ignoring a Wikipedia Guideline, then you can return to me in your talk page here, and I will talk further to you about it! 🙂 Craig Lungren (talk) 06:24, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
@Craig Lungren: It appears that what rubbed GSK the wrong way was this edit. You had made a comment which had originally said, "Thanks GSK for reminding me of that, but I am stating a point that there should be a 3RD TAB mainly for Discussion of the Wikipedia Article itself! 🙂" Another user, Meters, responded to that comment. Then you changed your comment to say, "Thanks GSK for reminding me of that, and I understand that this current page is for exactly what you said, but I am stating a point that there should be a 3RD PAGE mainly for Discussion of the Wikipedia Article itself! 🙂" And Meters and GSK both had a problem with your editing your comment, which appears to have derailed your proposal about adding a second talk page to each article for discussion of the subject rather than the article.
To give you an illustration of why one should not edit their comment after someone has responded to it, suppose the discussion started out looking like this:
- I am voting for candidate Mary Jones in the upcoming election. -- User #1, 09:00
- Me too. -- User #2, 09:10
- I am voting for candidate Mary Jones in the upcoming election. -- User #1, 09:00
And then User #1 edits their original comment so it says:
- I am voting for candidate John Smith in the upcoming election. -- User #1, 09:00
- Me too. -- User #2, 09:10
- I am voting for candidate John Smith in the upcoming election. -- User #1, 09:00
You can see why that would not be acceptable, since it makes User #2 look like they are agreeing to something that they didn't agree to. Even though your edit was not as drastic as that, it still was not advisable to edit your comment that someone had already responded to.
In regard to what you were originally asking for, the idea of having a talk page to allow discussion of the topic of an article (as distinct from the article itself) has been proposed before, but it basically comes as a previously rejected proposal. See Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Allow discussion about the topic of the article. If it weren't previously rejected, the place to ask for it would be Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) (not Talk:Wikipedia), but it would be best not to request it again at all. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 14:17, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
- Well, the way I edited it, does not make it inappropriate, but rather it could be going against Wikipedia rules, and could be called “Violating” rather than “inappropriate”. Even they should have said “Just look at the link” without including the “and drop this.” portion at the end of their sentence.Craig Lungren (talk) 15:03, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
- Of course, if they were giving me advice for the topic that I started, to bring it to the correct venue (according to Wikipedia Community norms), then all they should have said was “As this is not the right place for that discussion, try WP:VILLAGEPUMP.”
- In their 2nd comment, they should have said “Please read WP:TALK#REVISE.” without including the extra sentence “It is not appropriate to modify your post after it has been replied to.”
- Editing my own comments/posts is obviously normal anywhere on social media. Therefore it is not inappropriate. If I was editing someone else’s posts on Wikipedia rather than my own, then only that would be inappropriate (whether it be on Wikipedia or anywhere else on social media).
- Their 2nd sentence could have been “That is because your latest edit goes against Wikipedia’s Guidelines and thus it violates the Community’s Standards, when you modify your own post after it has been replied to”. I mean that would make better sense to me, than calling my edit “Inappropriate”. Only then, it would have not become an argument.
- Do you understand what I’m saying? 🙂 Craig Lungren (talk) 16:42, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, I understand what you are saying, but I don't see the point in continuing to discuss this with me, since you asked for my opinion as an administrator, and I gave it. I recommend that you let this go (per Wikipedia:Let it go). --Metropolitan90 (talk) 00:49, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
- Another thing is when I looked at “Mute features” it said “Mute features are unavailable, because you haven't confirmed your email address”.
- I would like to know: How do I confirm my email address, when I’m already logged in to Wikipedia? (I really mean that the 2 things towards logging in to my username, includes entering my “email address” and “password”. So I don’t know how else to confirm it).
- What is your advice? Craig Lungren (talk) 05:09, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, I understand what you are saying, but I don't see the point in continuing to discuss this with me, since you asked for my opinion as an administrator, and I gave it. I recommend that you let this go (per Wikipedia:Let it go). --Metropolitan90 (talk) 00:49, 8 June 2024 (UTC)