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Administrators' newsletter – May 2024
editNews 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!
Regarding boats, bands, and bugs
editFirst, I appreciate for recognizing your misjudgement in the MfD and reconsidering your stance. I want to reiterate that my addition in Special:Diff/1222204349 was not meant as a dig at any specific editor. I'm not aware of who it is applicable to, and I do not myself interact with WP:Wikiproject Ships, I just pulled it as one of those nerdy and innocuous topic areas and which are relatively insulated to contentious gender politics disputes. In my next edit I changed this to "etymology and highways" as two more such examples. I clicked your contributions to see if you you were the WP Ships affiliated administrator in question. Cue me kicking myself as I see your recent activity on... moths, which makes the entomology bit sound even more targeted and suspicious. Facepalm. Although I can be snide or sarcastic at times, I hope you'll accept me saying that I am neither nosy nor petty enough to attempt to communicate in code like this, and these were honest coincidences. With collegiate regards, –RoxySaunders 🏳️⚧️ (💬 • 📝) 07:50, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- I have responded on your talk page. Scorpions1325 (talk) 12:42, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
Hello and thanks for your help with various subjects. When you have a chance could you please take a look at this draft? Thanks. FloridaArmy (talk) 18:04, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
- FloridaArmy I saw that on top of your talk page yesterday. I did a quick check on Newspapers.com. Most of the sources are from the 19th century. I am tempted to move it into the mainspace right now because I am sure that it would survive a deletion discussion, but I don't want to be stripped of my AFC permissions. Scorpions1325 (talk) 18:07, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 16 May 2024
edit- News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections
- Special report: Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?
- Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24
- Comix: Generations
- Traffic report: Crawl out through the fallout, baby
Your !vote at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Elli
editYou posted an Oppose vote in the support section. If you were joking or otherwise meant to post Support, please amend it. If you did mean to post Oppose, please move it to the appropriate section. I have indented your vote so at present it doesn't count in the bot-generated totals.-Gadfium (talk) 04:50, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Gadfium This is not the first time I have made a joke like this at an RFA. I have rewritten the comment as a !support just in case. Scorpions1325 (talk) 11:10, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – June 2024
editNews 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!
Was it you who helped me woth a school entry? What do you think of this subject? FloridaArmy (talk) 02:01, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
- I did help you with a school entry within the past week. I'll see what I can do with this one, but there is no guarantee because the school is defunct. Scorpions1325 (talk) 02:10, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
- Most schools for African Americans were closed after desegregation or reduced to eoementary schools. FloridaArmy (talk) 01:52, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
- FloridaArmy, it appears that this school you linked me to is definitely notable. I clipped two articles that meet WP:SIGCOV on Newspapers.com. There should be enough to create a short article. I will work on it when I get home from work tomorrow. Scorpions1325 (talk) 03:26, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
- Most schools for African Americans were closed after desegregation or reduced to eoementary schools. FloridaArmy (talk) 01:52, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
- Draft:Tibbee School and Draft:Howard Warner High School are others but I inderstand if you have other priects you want to work on. Thanks for all your help!!! FloridaArmy (talk) 03:32, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
- FloridaArmy, it is done. :) Scorpions1325 (talk) 14:46, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 8 June 2024
edit- Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade
- Deletion report: The lore of Kalloor
- In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say
- News from the WMF: Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024
- Recent research: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth
- Featured content: We didn't start the wiki
- Essay: No queerphobia
- Special report: RetractionBot is back to life!
- Traffic report: Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer
- Comix: The Wikipediholic Family
- Concept: Palimpsestuous
The Signpost: 4 July 2024
edit- News and notes: WMF board elections and fundraising updates
- Special report: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification vote underway, new Council may surpass power of Board
- In focus: How the Russian Wikipedia keeps it clean despite having just a couple dozen administrators
- Discussion report: Wikipedians are hung up on the meaning of Madonna
- In the media: War and information in war and politics
- Sister projects: On editing Wikisource
- Opinion: Etika: a Pop Culture Champion
- Gallery: Spokane Willy's photos
- Humour: A joke
- Recent research: Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps
- Traffic report: Talking about you and me, and the games people play
Administrators' newsletter – July 2024
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).
Administrator changes
Technical news
- Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)
Miscellaneous
- The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more