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Tere Andres, ma nägin, et sa kirjutas Albaania umbes. I am Albanian living in Tallinn and I have been correcting and writing articles on Estonia in Albanian Wikipedia. Kas sa räägid albaania keelt? Kas sa oled käinud Albaanias? I would like to meet with you and discuss about Albania as there aren't that many people here who know about Albania that much. My email address is: edvinpacara AT gmail DOT com

Nägemist -(Edvin (talk) 11:51, 24 December 2011 (UTC))[reply]


— Preceding unsigned comment added by Edvini (talkcontribs) 23:44, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for tracking down the info on the Edi Rama article. By the way, are an Albanian descendent or are you just working on Albanian articles for the fun of it. Dori 13:27, 12 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I am not Albanian but I want to learn about Albania as much as possible. Andres 17:27, 12 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hello there Andres, seem as you seem to be editing lots of things to do with Albania. I was wondering If you had seen the Kosovo War article. At the moment it's deeply biased and writen entirely from a Serbian viewpoint. I was wondering If you'd like to try NPOVing it. G-Man 18:10, 12 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I had a look at the article. Unfortunately, right now I lack the abilities and competence needed for doing that. Andres 22:56, 12 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Hi Andres, I see that you took the now-irrelevant comment out of Action (philosophy). I replaced the confusing content. Apart from noting on Wikipedia:Pages needing attention that I'd done so, I left that page's reference to the Action entry there. I am new to the wikipedia; would you either do what is needed there or tell me what the procedure is for editing the needs attention page after attention has been paid? Thanks, vanden 02:30, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC)


Hi Vanden, good job! I think there should be two separate articles: one about action as a concept (how it is defined in philosophy (in different ways) and what are the problems about it and what approaches there are to them) and another on philosophy of action (on what are the issues of the philosophy of action and what has been done in it). There will be some overlap but the contents will not coincide as in the philosophy of action there are many other concepts. And links to those other concepts would appear in both of them.
If you edit those articles I will hold my eye on them.
Most of the articles on analytical philosophy need much work. Andres 06:11, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Hi Andres,
I cannot edit them. I do analytic philosophy, but phil of math and logic. I came close to exhausting what I know well enough to put up already! (I will see if I can convince a fellow grad student to take a bash.)
That would be fine. Thank you! Andres 12:22, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC)
As for the two articles idea, I'm new and action is not my thing, but I cannot see the need for two. I see philosophical work to define and understand action as exactly what the philosophy of action is up to. (Had I seen Philosophy of action I think I would have felt like Action (Philosophy) should be deleted -- I think I've turned it into a duplicate article. But what do I know? Best, vanden 06:40, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC)
OK, that was my proposal. There are other people who think like you thoml and there are people who think like I think. I still think that when the articles grow long enough, the need for two articles will appear. In any case, this is the way I would edit. Andres 12:22, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi Andres, I've nominated you for adminship. Please reply at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. Dori | Talk 03:49, Dec 10, 2003 (UTC)


Hi Andres. I have a question to You. Could we use one Estonain map, what I made myself, to show Estonian Counties? Then I will write each county separately. Here it is. But Probbaly it will be too big?

File:Estmap.jpg -- Egon 15:15, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thank you, Egon, I like the map. Do you mean to modify it for each copunty? I don't think it's too big but I guess some other people would think so. I think it could be that size if all counties were marked by name and the relevant county were of other colour. Then the map would be more informative. Perhaps the location of Tallinn could be marked also, but then people would think it is not part of Harju County. Ask what User:Mic thinks. And See our discussion about the permission for coats of arms and flags. Andres 15:38, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I want also mark capitals of each county --Egon 15:53, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I have here also one good program about resizeing a *.bmp image but I cannot use this, because it is in korean. I will try and lets see what can be made. Egon 15:57, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)
File:Estmap.bmp This one? Or must it be certainly *.jpg? -- Egon 16:42, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)
For the politics, see Wikipedia:Image use policy#Format. In any case, you uploaded this image, and it is OK.
AlexLL uploaded another map, and Mic modified it (for discussion, see User talk:Mic and for an example, see Saare County). Mic's version is small and fit for the table. I would like more your version, and I don't like table templates at all. On the other hand, I think that we have to choose among the two, and we have to consult other users, including Mic.
If you can use the letters ä and õ, then I prefer your version for the Estonian Wikipedia. Could you please make the maps in Estonian?
I could not make these maps in estonian, I tried. My program does not allow import characters, only english and korean and chinese.-- Egon 22:22, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)
The pity of it! Then we can use your map just as a location map without the names of the counties. Andres 22:47, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)

File:Estmaparnu.bmp, File:Raplamaa.bmp, File:Harjumaa.bmp, File:Laanemaa.bmp --Egon 01:36, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)


OK, if you can create õ as well, it could go simehow... Andres 02:35, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I installed yesterday a new program and there is possible to transport and edit all the characters, that we need to edit.--Egon 13:18, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)
That's wonderful, Egon!
Yes, the Rapla version is good enough. But look what Mic says. Maybe you would create these maps in Estonian instead? Andres 02:47, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)
If the other version is used in the English Wikipedia, I think your version still could be used in the article Counties of Estonia. Andres 16:43, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)
The maps could well be in English, and a description like "Harju County" looks proper. What I was concerned about was resorting to for example "Laane County", when "Lääne County" ought to be used. The most immidiate concern however is the file format, as one bmp file takes more room than maps for twenty counties would in png. -- Mic 09:03, Dec 18, 2003 (UTC)

I think the new map looks fine and would fit very well in the Counties of Estonia entry. For the entries of each respective county a map of that county, accompanied with a smaller one that pinpoints its location, is the best option. However creating these kind of custom county maps is quite an ardous task. The maps that are used on the country pages on Wikipedia virtually all comes from the same source and has the same color scheme, a tip could be to use the same coloring as these to achieve a sense of uniformity also on other maps.

The preferred file format for maps and illustrations is PNG, like it says under in image use policy, and this can't be stressed enough. BMP is uncompressed and creates much too large files. JPEG is fine for photographs, but shouldn't be used here since it degenerates the image. An application which should be able to save PNG with out any hassles, as well as do antialiased resizing of images is GIMP. It is free to use and a good option if you are able to install software where you are working.

The ä and õ should be used also in the map unless they are not used at all in English. In that case they should be stripped in the text and the articles also. -- Mic 17:54, Dec 16, 2003 (UTC)

Russia

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Hi again, A. I realize now that it was you who wisely reverted a couple garbled words about imperialism and Russia a couple days ago. I just reverted (or rather, excised the material after it was to late to simply revert) similar words in the same place. I have now discussed this extensively at Imperial Ambitions sec'n within our now familiar meeting place. I wasn't sure whether you had a specific interest in the History section, or were just being a responsible Wikipedian, but either way, i wanted to help keep you up to date in case. --Jerzy 09:07, 2003 Dec 17 (UTC)

Just read yr notes on Russia, which sound pretty good tho not thoroughly studied. I set my watch to remind me to take my Niasapn NOW and go to bed, and i'm going to obey. G'nite! --Jerzy 10:45, 2003 Dec 17 (UTC)


You're now an administrator. -- Tim Starling 08:19, Dec 18, 2003 (UTC)


Hi, i'm back, & embarrassed not to have thot to be in touch. I notice you are working on Russia; are you getting all the native-language-editor assistance you want? [smile] --Jerzy 16:38, 2004 Jan 13 (UTC)

Your reply somehow reminded me of your connection to Estonia. I don't know if you have followed the hornets' nest i stirred up by starting what is now List of people known as war heroes -- and you may just want to stay away from it: (if you were a Yank and of my generation, i'd say "it's a tar-baby"; ask me, if curious, about Br'er Rabbit, but) "thankless morass", evoking VietNam war, comes pretty close. At Talk:List of people known as war heroes#Estonia lists a few names (maybe i should have added more) from List of Estonians (which was item 1 or 2 in a Google search of WP for "war hero"). Perhaps you could come up with a small handful of standouts in about 30 seconds. [shrug] --Jerzy 06:19, 2004 Jan 16 (UTC)


Wikis down

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The English Wikipedia seems to be the only one still up. Does anybody know what is going on? Andres 06:45, 24 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Don't worry! just some server problems and maintenance. I know that Brion, Jason and others work hard for keeping the servers running. If you want to be the first (well, second) to learn about the server issues, don't forget to watch the Wikipedia mailing lists and the Wikipedia IRC chat channel. New servers are about to be installed, AFAIK. :) Have Peace Profound, Optim 13:07, 24 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for the Dr. Pap name in Greek! jengod

I requested a merger from the author of the Nzingha article, Pandora a few weeks ago but I have not had a response. I went ahead and merged the text with the article a few weeks ago. The problem with Nzinga is that she has so many different names and even more surnames, the most common spelling is Nzinga; but that is also a first name of many other people, sometimes her surname Mbande or royal title Ngola are included in her name.

When I created the article Ann Nzinga Mbande, I tried to be as specific in the title as possible to avoid confusion. I also created several redirects to various spellings. Unfortunately, I had never come across the spelling Nzingha, interestingly it is the second most common speling, before and did not discover the previous article. I would like to propose that Nzingha become a redirect page to Ann Nzinga Mbande, since the text there has already been merged and the title is more specific.

--JCarriker 05:48, Mar 19, 2004 (UTC)

With the cross referencing of two languages and the knowledge we have of Nzinga we should be able to create more than stubs, possibly three or more good paragraphs. Please post on my talk page, since those pages do not yet exist.

JCarriker 02:51, Mar 20, 2004 (UTC) Talk

sorry, I believe I was even intending to write "1708" - it was an undiscovered typing error. :-(
--Ruhrjung 08:55, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Comedy Help

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Hi. I'm trying to recruit some people from non UK/US countries to add to our sitcom and television comedy sections. At the moment they're totally about American or British comedy. if you're able to contribute, please do - I am happy to tidy up after you and it may, at least, get others of your fellow countrymen involved. --bodnotbod 22:46, May 1, 2004 (UTC)

Estonia province and Estonia

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As far as I am concerned, before 1918 the therm Estonia referred to smaller province than present-day Estonia. Could you please add article about province of Estonia? Thanks. Cautious 13:06, 21 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Haemophilia C

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I was in the process of renaming Hemophilia C to Haemophilia C, and something seems to have gone wrong. The renaming process froze with a SQL error message appearing. It then refused to undergo the renaming process again, claiming, wrongly, that the Haemophilia C page now existed. Since you are a sysop, could you look into it, please? Arno 08:29, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Tänan! Arno 04:07, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

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Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
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OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

RFC pages on VfD

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Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:16, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Your impersonator reverted Tony Blackplait

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It seems you have an impersonator, using the account User:Andres.. S/he reverted your last edit to Tony Blackplait. I've already mentioned this at WP:AIV but thought you would want to know. By the way, thanks for your efforts with the Tõnu Trubetsky article! -- Gyrofrog (talk) 19:03, 30 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Request

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Dear Andres. Thank you for your work. And I have one request. May I suggest that you put edit summaries more often? That is really helpful for people like me who have a given page on the watchlist. Thank you, Oleg Alexandrov 21:55, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Unalienable Rights

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Please delete Unalienable rights and redirect to Inalienable rights per the 8-day-old vfd. Please also add a redirect from Inalienable right. Thanks freestylefrappe 01:27, 18 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I am sorry, I don't feel competent to do this. Besides, there is no need of deletion, so the necessary changes don't require an admin. Andres 06:09, 18 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Is no:Realisme (ontologi) not the same thing ? Sure, the English article is about ontology and epistemology, but I don't think the Norwegian will seperate each part. -- Amtiss, SNAFU ? 17:43, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Estonian pronunciation

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I posted some questions I had about Estonian pronunciation in Talk:Estonian language. If they are answered, not only would the article on Estonian language be enriched, it would be really helpful in my attempt to standardise the Korean alphabet transcription of Estonian names on the Korean Wikipedia. I hope you have time to look through the questions; any help with any of the questions would be deeply appreciated. --Iceager 07:09, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The WikiProject C++ aims to increase the quality of C++-related articles on Wikipedia, and has discovered that you have participated in the editing of them! So don't hesitate, join us! --Deryck C. 15:52, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Talk Ex-Yugoslavia

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Talk:Kosovo#2 Administrator for Ex-Yugoslavien articels in Wikipedia- The voice of Kosovar

Request for edit summary

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When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

Edit summary text box

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. – Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 15:22, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Estonia flag images

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I am not sure if your the right person to see, but if you think the images from here are going to be useful for Wikipedia, you have my permission to upload the images onto Wikipedia under {{PD-user}}. I wish to hear your thoughts, first. TIA. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 11:03, 22 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject Estonia

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Hello, Andres.

I've noticed that you're interested in Estonia and a very active member of the Estonian Wikipedia. I wonder if you'd like to help out with the brand new Estonian Wikiproject. :) Please don't feel pressured - I only wanted to let you know that it's been created at long last.

Have a great day!

Srose (talk) 17:43, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted your talk page

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Just leaving you a note to explain why I reverted your talk page: the text I removed was a spurious/vexatious request from User:HotHotSoup, the latest sockpuppet of User:PoolGuy, spamming the talk pages of admins (and a few non-admins), and apparently working alphabetically. Contributions of a banned user may be reverted by anyone, but if you would still like the message to be included here, feel free to revert back. Stifle (talk) 17:40, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject Estonia newsletter

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You are receiving this notice because of your involvement in Wikipedia:Wikiproject Estonia. Effort of the Week Update: I just wanted to let everybody know that the Constitution of Estonia, the group effort of the week, is finally finished! :) Of course, additional information would be lovely, if anyone would like to help out. :) Need Help? If anyone else has an article they've been working on and may want help with, please list it on our project page under "Effort of the Week". Have a great week, and if you need anything, feel free as always to contact me. :)

Srose (talk) 13:32, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Estonian

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Oh ok, thanks. --Adriaan90 17:24, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Andres, I noticed that you removed a number of links to non-English Wikipedia articles from the Distributary article [1]. The edit summary says "rm inadequate wikilinks". Could you help me to understand what is going on with those links. I see editors add them, then I see editors remove them. I'm just hoping for some understanding of the issues. Sincerely, --BostonMA talk 15:01, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Translation proposal

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Greetings. Could you, by any chance, look into translating et:1. detsembri ülestõus into "Estonian insurrection of 1924"? I'd very much appreciate it, I would clean up any grammatical errors, and I would add some of my own material. Thank you for your consideration. Biruitorul 01:58, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I started the article Estonian insurrection of 1924. I will continue it later. Andres 05:04, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Good! Take your time. Biruitorul 17:17, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, now I found out that Toomas did the translation but forgot to tell me (I'd asked him a while before). Sorry for perhaps wasting your time, although he did try to keep the text you started when he combined the articles. And thank you once again. Biruitorul 16:35, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar

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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
I thought I'd give you this barnstar for your tireless contributions I have been noticing in numerous articles. Wikidudeman (talk) 05:27, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Award for best contributors of WP-Estonia

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Could you please take a look at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Estonia#WP-EE_awards_for_best_contributors... an let me know what you think.--Alexia Death 09:46, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Üks teene

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Palun pane sellesse artiklisse semi-protect peale kuna seal toimub väga palju vandalismi. Sa võiksid täielikult panna, mitte ajaliselt. Yoosq 17:58, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Panin seitsmeks päevaks. Reeglid ei luba alatiseks panna. Andres 19:28, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, aga miks GTA IV on alatiseks pandud? Yoosq 9:42, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Küsi sellelt, kes pani. See on reeglitevastane. Andres 14:54, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism from Thun

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Hi Andres, I saw that you deleted obvious vandalism from Thun but then moved it to the article talk page for comments. IMHO, there was no chance of this unsourced and obscene "fact" being true, so I've deleted it. cheers, Moyabrit 09:17, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of Estonian Americans

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Tere Andres, the List of Estonian Americans has been nominated for deletion. I thought perhaps you may wish to weigh in on this matter, as nearly every other American ethnic group is not listed for deletion. Cheers, ExRat 01:30, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please explain this edit to Star (disambiguation), in which you removed most of the interlanguage links from the bottom of the article without an edit summary? You don't seem to be a vandal, so what's going on? — Swpbtalk.edits 21:46, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

See Talk:Star (disambiguation). Andres 02:10, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Classification of admins

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Hi Andres. Please consider adding your admin username to the growing list at Classification of admins. Best! -- Jreferee t/c 22:52, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Seminarist

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Tore et vikiseminar lõpuks teoks saab. Sellega seoses aga paar küsimust: Kas registreerumine seminarile on tingimata kohustuslik ja kas personaalarvuti kaasavõtmine on vajalik.Kask (talk) 09:18, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tülitan veel korra, et kas saaks sama kasutajanime all (Kask) tegutseda Eesti vikis. Proovisin luua samanimelist kontot, kuid Eesti viki ei lasknud sama kasutajanime läbi. Samas pole aga sellenimelist kasutajat. Teeks konto seetõttu, et praeguse töökoha IP-aadress ei tekita arvatavasti adminnides usaldusväärtust.Kalev Kask (talk) 07:02, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Minu meelest ei ole mingit põhjust karta adminnide arvamust, sest me ei otsusta kaastöölise üle mitte millegi muu kui tema kaastöö põhjal.
Kasutaja Kask on olemas küll, nii et sellepärast seda nime läbi ei lastud. Andres (talk) 07:48, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Maria Tomson

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Ehk oskad aidata. Talk:Oldest people Kalev Kask (talk) 14:50, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sinu muudatus tühistati. Kalev Kask (talk) 06:45, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Noh, ma panin sinna selgituse, aga ega rohkem vist teha ei saa. Andres (talk) 07:05, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Aga proovi panna Maria Tomson ja Juhan Kallaste lehele National longevity recordholders. Ma tegin Maria Tomsoni kohta eesti vikisse artikli et:Maria Tomson. Võid selle tõlkida. Et saada lähemaid teateid, võib ühendust võtta Helje Looperega. Andres (talk) 07:25, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Andre: I've deleted the Maria Tomson claim from the National longevity recordholders as this claim is unverified. Further, her inclusion would directly contradict several other pages, as Maria Tomson would have been, if verified, the oldest person on the planet from Feb 1963 until her death.

However, there are a few gerontology people here who are very interested in this claim, and since most of us here lack proficiency in Estonian, we were wondering if you could research and assess what forms of confirmation for this claim exist?

Rules for inclusion are pretty specific as so many claims are made which turn out to be exaggerated or unprovable. Which is why there are separate pages for claims which are unproven. So please don't take offence that this can't yet reside on the pages in question.

But many claims which were brought to light after the fact have been verified, and when that happens, this is a great moment. And this claim, if verified, would definitely be exiting as Tomson would supplant some long-established record-holders from the mid-60s from their title of "world's oldest person."

I know you put this on the pages in good faith, so I ask for more good faith here with the hope that a little legwork on your part might result in an Estonian world record from the 1960s which has been denied thus far. Canada Jack (talk) 16:22, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Got your message, Andre. The problem with some of these pages, as you rightly point out, is that it isn't spelled out specifically on some that these are for "verified" claims, and that "verified" means something specific and particular. It is mentioned at the top of the oldest people page. But for the National longevity recordholders page, it is not clear that this criteria actually always applies. However, each and every claimant on that page with a birth date who would also be found on the Oldest people page because of their age is verified. The one exception is the Polish record holder whose date of birth other than the year is unknown, but whose claim was accepted by Guinness. So, while the claims for those of, say, The Philippines at 107 and 106 are not necessarily verified, they wouldn't appear elsewhere and stand. But Maria Tomson's claim would necessitate a rewrite of several pages if true, so until she is verified, she should not appear on the National page as it would contradict those other pages.
But I do not suggest lightly that her claim should be investigated. Interestingly, the first person Tomson would potentially supplant - Ellen Dart, who has been verified to be the world's oldest person from Feb 1963 to her death, at 108, that October - was only verified this past September! As I said, even if you don't feel you personally know enough to be able to do the legwork here, the outcome would potentially bestow to an Estonian a rather prestigious world record of "world's oldest person" from Feb 1963 to her death. SO please let us know what your demographer friend says about this. Cheers, Canada Jack (talk) 17:58, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just did some more digging and I found on a gerontology website mention of Tomson as having no documentary backing for her claim, as of April 2007. [2] As you can see from the list, only those "three star" claims make the "verified" list. She is on the "pending" list at the bottom, with at the time of the list, no documentary backing. So, anything which can shed some light here will be of great interest. Cheers Canada Jack (talk) 19:18, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello!

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Hi! How do you say "running fridges rule" in Estonian, and possibly Russian, as well? Thanks in advance. Runningfridgesrule (talk) 20:53, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Runningfridgesrule (talk) 16:17, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Vikipeedia artiklid

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Kuna vikipeedias saab lähiajal täis 50 000 artiklit, kas soostuksid tegema statistikat, et kui paljud neist käsitlevad erineval moel Saare maakonda. Kalev Kask (talk) 15:26, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kas Sa ise ei võiks seda teha? Vaevalt ma seda Sinust paremini teeksin. Mul pole ka selge, millisel juhul tuleks mingi artikkel arvata Saare maakonda käsitlevaks. Andres (talk) 13:46, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Asi selles, et 50 000 artikli täissaamisest võiksid meediasse teha mingi pressiteate. Ise sooviks sellest teha uudisnuppu oma maakonnas, kuid vajan seost maakonnaga ja toetust kindlale allikale, seetõttu ei hakka neid ise kokku lugema ja pöördun sinu kui autoriteedi poole (kui sa vastu pole ega see sulle tüli tee). Põhimõtteliselt sooviks teada artiklite hinnangulist hulka, sest artikkel "arukask" sobituks samuti vastavasse konteksti. Kui loobud, pole ka midagi ja ära pahanda.Kalev Kask (talk) 11:33, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tõnu Trubetsky

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As you were involved in an earlier discussion, you might be interested in the current Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tõnu Trubetsky. Thanks, -- Gyrofrog (talk) 00:15, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Paavst

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Pane arutelusse täpsemalt, mida sa vaidlustasid [Benedictus XVI] artikli juures. Praegu jääb mulje, nagu oleks kogu artikkel vaidlustatud ja ebapädev. Väiksemad korrigeerimised saad ju ise ka ära teha, nimekujud saab täpsustada vastavate artiklite loomisega. Kui stiiliga rahul pole, pead lihtsalt enda jaoks sobivamaks ümber kirjutama.

Asi selles, et kuna artikkel on lihtsalt nii pikk, siis arvan, et kui just mõni adminn ei suvatse, siis vaevalt hakkab keegi teine seda toimetama. Kui sul midagi silma torkas, siis muidu on seda raske üles leida.Kalev Kask 16:47, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ma ei vaidlustanud midagi, vaid keeletoimetamist on tarvis. Mõned nimed on valesti kirjutatud. Ma oleksin ise parandanud, aga alajaotusi on seal nii vähe, et ma ei leia redigeerimisboksist õiget kohta üles. Kui tahad, võta see märkus maha. Andres (talk) 20:33, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've left a comment at Talk:Galleri Rom for you. - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 13:03, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

RFC: socionics

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Socionics Tcaudilllg (talk) 21:17, 29 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it's going to happen but, you know I don't want Wikipedia to be embarrassed by a blatant display of region bias, so if the admin in charge of the "consensus" declares a false one and deletes the article, would you consider reversing them? I'm sure you agree that we need more cultural discussion between the East and West. Tcaudilllg (talk) 10:59, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"I am 13"

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What was this all about? There is currently a thread on my talk page in which I was looking into the viability of the article at the request of Sander Säde. Your restoration of the article just seems oddly timed, and I would appreciate some background on how you came to find it, and then restore it with a dismissive summary, without so much as the slightest attempt to communicate with me.

I have no problem with anyone reversing my admin actions. I simply appreciate a reasonable explanation. In this case, there is a clear reason given for deleting the article. You then reverse that action with an explanation that no reason was given. For further background, there was a recent ArbCom case regarding a mailing list for editors (the creator of this article amongst them) to coordinate off Wiki to game our editorial process, as well as run circles around admins (with the aid of one editor who was a corrupt admin). I'm being up front about this because I was coordinated against in the mailing list, and because your actions in this instance are similar to what I encountered at the time (someone coming in from left field to make an "uninvolved" contribution). To that end, I lack trust in the "good faith" present around any article that User:Digwuren worked on. Apologies in advance for coming on strong about this, and I hope you understand my own trust issues on this one. Thanks! Hiberniantears (talk) 16:55, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As further background, this is the ArbCom case I am refering to, as mentioned in a thread on Sander Säde's talk page. Hence my concerns. Hiberniantears (talk) 16:59, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Someone contacted the Estonian Wikipedia and asked if the topic was significant. I can confirm that it is significant in the Estonian context, so I restored it and dropped a note on its talk page. Then the same person advised me to delete the deletion note on the article as else it would be deleted anyway. I have been long away from the English Wikipedia and don't know all the new procedures. Anyway, I don't think the topic is that obscure that the article should be deleted without discussion. There is little on it in the web simple because it is that old a thing. Besides, another version of the title is "Ma olen kolmeteistkümneaastane". Andres (talk) 17:09, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
So it is yourself who asked. I don't understand why you are surprized on my actions.

some background on how you came to find it, and then restore it with a dismissive summary, without so much as the slightest attempt to communicate with me

Here you asked and here I also answered. I don't think my summary is dismissive, I just confirmed that the play was significant: this is what you asked. Andres (talk) 17:17, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am sorry, indeed the reasons were given. My summary wasn't correct. This was my mistake. Andres (talk) 17:18, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

When I restored the article I was under the impression that it had been deleted without reason. This is why I wrote so. Then I wrote my comment on the discussion page which doesn't mention that. My apologies! Andres (talk) 17:34, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I hope you understood my reason now. The play is significant though there is little on it on the web. This is what Sander Säde explained you too. I am not going to collect evidence, but let other people do it. If you want it to be deleted, please use the normal procedure. Andres (talk) 17:22, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have no idea why Digwuren was blocked but I have no reason to think that the article has not been created in good faith. The same concerns the other article, Mägra Märt. I think that its content should be merged into an article on Evald Jõgis if it is created. Andres (talk) 17:26, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately I cannot understand the content of the thread you are citing. Andres (talk) 17:31, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Got it. I understand your actions now, and appreciate the explanation. I'll touch base with Sander Sade as well. In both cases, we need something more than evidence that the topics exist. I'm happy to help, but I need some direction on why the play is important (literally, "I am 13" is an Estonian play that is significant because it's portrayal of Estonian youth led to "Fill in the Blank"... Hiberniantears (talk) 17:32, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Follow up: I moved the article to I am 13 (play) just to have it in an English language title. The Estonian language title remains as a redirect to the English title. Hiberniantears (talk) 00:31, 28 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think it's a good idea. I'll expand on this on the talk page. OK, I'll provide an explanation of the play's significance. Andres (talk) 08:22, 29 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Deaths in ....

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Hi, please note that entries in all Deaths in .... lists are removed unless the deceased already has an article, or unless an article is created within one month of the death. Thanks, WWGB (talk) 10:52, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

So where is that rule written down? Andres (talk) 11:23, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It is written in several places, here for example in the box on top of the page: [3]
It is to avoid the death lists becoming littered with redlinks to missing articles about people for whom notability has not been established. Regards, WWGB (talk) 11:33, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
OK, it reads there: Redlinked entries for whom no article currently exists are typically kept for one month to allow creation of such an article. The articles were deleted immediately, not waiting for one month. Please restore the entries and allow creation of the articles. Andres (talk) 11:40, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Alternatively, please create the articles and allow restoration of the entries. WWGB (talk) 11:44, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
So if you promise you'll restore the entries I'll create the articles. Andres (talk) 12:00, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I have no problem with that arrangement. Regards, WWGB (talk) 12:03, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dorothy Cheney (disambiguation)

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Hello, just to let you know that this dab has been nominated for deletion using Template:db-disambig. If you have any questions about this, please contact me. Best wishes, Boleyn3 (talk) 14:49, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Offiicium

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Tegin mõiste osas järelepärimise Vello Salole. Loodan vastuse saada esmaspäevaks, kuid üldiselt pole eesti keeles katoliku kiriku liturgilist sõnavara välja kujunenud ja seetõttu kasutatakse üldjuhul latiniseeritud variante. Kalev Kask 13:10, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Minu punkt oli selles, et eesti keeles ei saa see sõna olla kahe f-iga (rääkimata c-st). Andres (talk) 15:21, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Unblock an Acount

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Hi Andres! I want to ask you a Favor. I have a Old Acount called HumbertoGillan. The reason to Block me it's an Error, but the guy who was blocked me, says that are not a error. Please Unblock my Old Acount, Please. Thanks--PsychedelicMan (talk) 18:35, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

a comment

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Someone had left a comment at your user page, I reverted it; here's the diff FIY. Miacek 16:31, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

need help

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Hi, I found you by searching in this Category:User nl. I need an article that I also posted at Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request‎. I want to expand more the Beonex Communicator article and this link at MozillaZine says that this internet suite was reviewed in "The Belgian monthly Computer Magazine [...] CM is available in Belgium both in a Dutch and French version." (this post was from the 22 January 2004) Can you check or request this article in another wikipedia version (I don't speak dutch, so I don't have any "clues" if there is some similar requesting page for such cases). mabdul 09:13, 2 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Andres (talk) 11:00, 2 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Ah I see that you add Beonex at nl:Gewenste artikelen/Computer, but I'm not sure if that is really what I wanted. I mean I'm happy if they created also an article in the nl-wikipedia, but I want "only" this article in this magazine from January (or maybe it is in the February) 2004 issue. I don't have access nor can I get in any way this issue/magazine. This is my only problem. The translate wouldn't be so hard, as I said I'm speaking German, google translate and maybe a friend could help me ^^ mabdul 11:18, 2 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Andreas de Velven in english Andreas von Stierland

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Could you help with the translation of this article. translated but I do not know about Estonian. Please help me. A greetings--Puedoeditar (talk) 19:07, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Romania

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Hi! From your edits, it looks like you might be interested in contributing to WikiProject Romania. It is a project aimed at organizing and improving the quality and accuracy of articles related to Romania. Thanks and best regards!

--Codrin.B (talk) 06:06, 21 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

MSU Interview

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Dear Andres,


My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.


So a few things about the interviews:

  • Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
  • Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
  • All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
  • All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
  • The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.


Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 07:04, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Latvian translation question

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Does this image page say that the image is by Hafizs Osmans, or in the style of Hafizs Osmans? I'm wondering about the decorative border, and not necessarily the calligraphy. Thanks! Calliopejen1 (talk) 00:22, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It says that the word Allah is written in the calligraphic style initiated by Hafiz Osman. Andres (talk) 03:53, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your input is requested

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Greetings, Andres! If we have not met, I'm AutomaticStrikeout. I've come here to ask you to take part in the survey at User:AutomaticStrikeout/Are admins interested in a RfB?. I am trying to gauge the general level of interest that administrators have in running for cratship, as well as pinpoint the factors that affect that interest level. Your input will be appreciated. Happy editing, AutomaticStrikeout (TCSign AAPT) 02:05, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Macedonian help needed

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Hello Andres, I'm contacting you because we need some Macedonian translators to help with the deployment of the new VisualEditor on mk.wikipedia. There are help pages, user guides, and description pages that need translating, as well as the interface itself. The translating work is going on over on MediaWiki: Translation Central. I also need help with a personal message for the Macedonian Wikipedians. If you are able to help in any way, either reply here, or head over to TranslationCentral. Thanks for your time, PEarley (WMF) (talk) 18:12, 13 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your free Cochrane account is on its way!

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Please fill out this very short form to receive your free access to Cochrane Collaboration's library of medical reviews: Link to form.

If you have any questions, just ask me. Cheers, Ocaasi 13:21, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Andres (talk) 10:27, 30 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter

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Books and Bytes

Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013

by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs)

Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved...

New positions: Sign up to be a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, or a Volunteer Wikipedia Librarian

Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted.

New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis??

New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges

News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY

Announcing WikiProject Open: WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions

New ways to get involved: Visiting scholar requirements; subject guides; room for library expansion and exploration

Read the full newsletter


Thanks for reading! All future newsletters will be opt-in only. Have an item for the next issue? Leave a note for the editor on the Suggestions page. --The Interior 20:24, 27 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sterotypy and Stereotypic movement disorder

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A symptom is not a condition (eg, a tic is not Tourette syndrome). You lodged a merge template on two articles with no reason given. Please explain your reasons at Talk:Stereotypy, and please base your reasons on WP:MEDMOS and WP:MEDRS. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:02, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It seemed to me obvious that the articles were about the same condition, this is why I didn't comment on my proposal in the discussions (though I mentioned the reason in one of the summaries). Now I can see I was wrong. Andres (talk) 15:20, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The IDC-9 numbers given in the infoboxes coincide but it seems that the number is wrong for the stereotypia because there it reads "stereotypic movement disorder". Andres (talk) 15:24, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
ah, I see ... I hate infobox misinfo, and will try to fix that. By the way, do you ever archive your talk page? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:26, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
No, never.
By the way, the article Stereotypic movement disorder doesn't mention stereotypy. Andres (talk) 15:31, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I know ... there's a to-do list at the bottom of my user page, and that is on it :) :) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:34, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikipedia Library Survey

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As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi t | c 15:03, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Butšatš

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Why? --Бучач-Львів (talk) 10:18, 16 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

See et:Kasutaja arutelu:Бучач-Львів. Andres (talk) 11:02, 16 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:53, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Extended confirmed protection

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Hello, Andres. This message is intended to notify administrators of important changes to the protection policy.

Extended confirmed protection (also known as "30/500 protection") is a new level of page protection that only allows edits from accounts at least 30 days old and with 500 edits. The automatically assigned "extended confirmed" user right was created for this purpose. The protection level was created following this community discussion with the primary intention of enforcing various arbitration remedies that prohibited editors under the "30 days/500 edits" threshold to edit certain topic areas.

In July and August 2016, a request for comment established consensus for community use of the new protection level. Administrators are authorized to apply extended confirmed protection to combat any form of disruption (e.g. vandalism, sock puppetry, edit warring, etc.) on any topic, subject to the following conditions:

  • Extended confirmed protection may only be used in cases where semi-protection has proven ineffective. It should not be used as a first resort.
  • A bot will post a notification at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard of each use. MusikBot currently does this by updating a report, which is transcluded onto the noticeboard.

Please review the protection policy carefully before using this new level of protection on pages. Thank you.
This message was sent to the administrators' mass message list. To opt-out of future messages, please remove yourself from the list. 17:47, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Hi. I see you are listed as a member of a WikiProject of a Baltic state. I was wondering if anybody who actively works on Estonian, Lithuanian or Latvian articles, would be interested in launching your own Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Baltic), based on the Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic) and Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea would be to try to bring about 1000 article improvements and creations on this region as an enjoyable challenge and potentially things like National Contests with prizes. If you'd be interested and think it's something you might regularly contribute to, comment and sign up at Talk:Baltic states. If there is interest we can move this to a project somewhere and set something up, thanks. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:26, 26 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite

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Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 02:05, 6 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

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Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:34, 12 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

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Hi Andres.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:46, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

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Hello, Andres. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page.

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

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Hello, Andres. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. Mdann52 (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
  • Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
  • The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

Obituaries

  • JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

13:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2017

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2017).

Administrator changes

added TheDJ
removed XnualaCJOldelpasoBerean HunterJimbo WalesAndrew cKaranacsModemacScott

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a discussion on the backlog of unpatrolled files, consensus was found to create a new user right for autopatrolling file uploads. Implementation progress can be tracked on Phabricator.
  • The BLPPROD grandfather clause, which stated that unreferenced biographies of living persons were only eligible for proposed deletion if they were created after March 18, 2010, has been removed following an RfC.
  • An RfC has closed with consensus to allow proposed deletion of files. The implementation process is ongoing.
  • After an unsuccessful proposal to automatically grant IP block exemption, consensus was found to relax the criteria for granting the user right from needing it to wanting it.

Technical news

  • After a recent RfC, moved pages will soon be featured in a queue similar to Special:NewPagesFeed and require patrolling. Moves by administrators, page movers, and autopatrolled editors will be automatically marked as patrolled.
  • Cookie blocks have been deployed. This extends the current autoblock system by setting a cookie for each block, which will then autoblock the user if they switch accounts, even under a new IP.

Administrators' newsletter – May 2017

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2017).

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Miscellaneous

  • Following an RfC, the editing restrictions page is now split into a list of active restrictions and an archive of those that are old or on inactive accounts. Make sure to check both pages if searching for a restriction.

Administrators' newsletter – June 2017

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2017).

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2017

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2017).

Administrator changes

added Happyme22Dragons flight
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Miscellaneous

  • A newly revamped database report can help identify users who may be eligible to be autopatrolled.
  • A potentially compromised account from 2001–2002 attempted to request resysop. Please practice appropriate account security by using a unique password for Wikipedia, and consider enabling two-factor authentication. Currently around 17% of admins have enabled 2FA, up from 16% in February 2017.
  • Did you know: On 29 June 2017, there were 1,261 administrators on the English Wikipedia – the exact number of administrators as there were ten years ago on 29 June 2007. Since that time, the English Wikipedia has grown from 1.85 million articles to over 5.43 million.

Administrators' newsletter – August 2017

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2017).

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2017

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2017).

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Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • You will now get a notification when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device that has logged into your account before, you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can also set in your preferences to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address, which may be encouraged for admins and accounts with sensitive permissions.
  • Syntax highlighting is now available as a beta feature (more info). This may assist administrators and template editors when dealing with intricate syntax of high-risk templates and system messages.
  • In your notification preferences, you can now block specific users from pinging you. This functionality will soon be available for Special:EmailUser as well.

Arbitration

  • Applications for CheckUser and Oversight are being accepted by the Arbitration Committee until September 12. Community discussion of the candidates will begin on September 18.

Invitation to Admin confidence survey

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Hello,

Beginning in September 2017, the Wikimedia Foundation Anti-harassment tool team will be conducting a survey to gauge how well tools, training, and information exists to assist English Wikipedia administrators in recognizing and mitigating things like sockpuppetry, vandalism, and harassment.

The survey should only take 5 minutes, and your individual response will not be made public. This survey will be integral for our team to determine how to better support administrators.

To take the survey sign up here and we will send you a link to the form.

We really appreciate your input!

Please let us know if you wish to opt-out of all massmessage mailings from the Anti-harassment tools team.

For the Anti-harassment tools team, SPoore (WMF), Community Advocate, Community health initiative (talk) 19:52, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – October 2017

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2017).

Administrator changes

added Boing! said ZebedeeAnsh666Ad Orientem
removed TonywaltonAmiDanielSilenceBanyanTreeMagioladitisVanamonde93Mr.Z-manJdavidbJakecRam-ManYelyosKurt Shaped Box

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • Community consultation on the 2017 candidates for CheckUser and Oversight has concluded. The Arbitration Committee will appoint successful candidates by October 11.
  • A request for comment is open regarding the structure, rules, and procedures of the December 2017 Arbitration Committee election, and how to resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

Administrators' newsletter – November 2017

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2017).

Administrator changes

added LonghairMegalibrarygirlTonyBallioniVanamonde93
removed Allen3Eluchil404Arthur RubinBencherlite

Technical news

Arbitration

Obituaries

  • The Wikipedia community has recently learned that Allen3 (William Allen Peckham) passed away on December 30, 2016, the same day as JohnCD. Allen began editing in 2005 and became an administrator that same year.

Administrators' newsletter – December 2017

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2017).

Administrator changes

added Joe Roe
readded JzG
removed EricorbitPercevalThinggTristanbVioletriga

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, a new section has been added to the username policy which disallows usernames containing emoji, emoticons or otherwise "decorative" usernames, and usernames that use any non-language symbols. Administrators should discuss issues related to these types of usernames before blocking.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Over the last few months, several users have reported backlogs that require administrator attention at WP:ANI, with the most common backlogs showing up on WP:SPI, WP:AIV and WP:RFPP. It is requested that all administrators take some time during this month to help clear backlogs wherever possible. It should be noted that AIV reports are not always valid; however, they still need to be cleared, which may include needing to remind users on what qualifies as vandalism.
  • The Wikimedia Foundation Community health initiative is conducting a survey for English Wikipedia contributors on their experience and satisfaction level with Administrator’s Noticeboard/Incidents. This survey will be integral to gathering information about how this noticeboard works (i.e. which problems it deals with well and which problems it struggles with). If you would like to take this survey, please sign up on this page, and a link for the survey will be emailed to you via Special:EmailUser.

ArbCom 2017 election voter message

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Hello, Andres. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2017 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – January 2018

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2017).

Administrator changes

added Muboshgu
readded AnetodeLaser brainWorm That Turned
removed None

Bureaucrat changes

readded Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

  • A request for comment is in progress to determine whether the administrator policy should be amended to require disclosure of paid editing activity at WP:RFA and to prohibit the use of administrative tools as part of paid editing activity, with certain exceptions.

Technical news

Arbitration


Administrators' newsletter – February 2018

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2018).

Administrator changes

added None
removed BlurpeaceDana boomerDeltabeignetDenelson83GrandioseSalvidrim!Ymblanter

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC has closed with a consensus that candidates at WP:RFA must disclose whether they have ever edited for pay and that administrators may never use administrative tools as part of any paid editing activity, except when they are acting as a Wikipedian-in-Residence or when the payment is made by the Wikimedia Foundation or an affiliate of the WMF.
  • Editors responding to threats of harm can now contact the Wikimedia Foundation's emergency address by using Special:EmailUser/Emergency. If you don't have email enabled on Wikipedia, directly contacting the emergency address using your own email client remains an option.

Technical news

  • A tag will now be automatically applied to edits that blank a page, turn a page into a redirect, remove/replace almost all content in a page, undo an edit, or rollback an edit. These edits were previously denoted solely by automatic edit summaries.

Arbitration


Administrators' newsletter – March 2018

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2018).

Administrator changes

added Lourdes
removed AngelOfSadnessBhadaniChris 73CorenFridayMidomMike V
† Lourdes has requested that her admin rights be temporarily removed, pending her return from travel.

Guideline and policy news

  • The autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) is scheduled to end on 14 March 2018. The results of the research collected can be read on Meta Wiki.
  • Community ban discussions must now stay open for at least 24 hours prior to being closed.
  • A change to the administrator inactivity policy has been proposed. Under the proposal, if an administrator has not used their admin tools for a period of five years and is subsequently desysopped for inactivity, the administrator would have to file a new RfA in order to regain the tools.
  • A change to the banning policy has been proposed which would specify conditions under which a repeat sockmaster may be considered de facto banned, reducing the need to start a community ban discussion for these users.

Technical news

  • CheckUsers are now able to view private data such as IP addresses from the edit filter log, e.g. when the filter prevents a user from creating an account. Previously, this information was unavailable to CheckUsers because access to it could not be logged.
  • The edit filter has a new feature contains_all that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.

Miscellaneous

Obituaries

  • Bhadani (Gangadhar Bhadani) passed away on 8 February 2018. Bhadani joined Wikipedia in March 2005 and became an administrator in September 2005. While he was active, Bhadani was regarded as one of the most prolific Wikipedians from India.

Administrators' newsletter – April 2018

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).

Administrator changes

added 331dotCordless LarryClueBot NG
removed Gogo DodoPb30SebastiankesselSeicerSoLando

Guideline and policy news

  • Administrators who have been desysopped due to inactivity are now required to have performed at least one (logged) administrative action in the past 5 years in order to qualify for a resysop without going through a new RfA.
  • Editors who have been found to have engaged in sockpuppetry on at least two occasions after an initial indefinite block, for whatever reason, are now automatically considered banned by the community without the need to start a ban discussion.
  • The notability guideline for organizations and companies has been substantially rewritten following the closure of this request for comment. Among the changes, the guideline more clearly defines the sourcing requirements needed for organizations and companies to be considered notable.
  • The six-month autoconfirmed article creation trial (ACTRIAL) ended on 14 March 2018. The post-trial research report has been published. A request for comment is now underway to determine whether the restrictions from ACTRIAL should be implemented permanently.

Technical news

Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee is considering a change to the discretionary sanctions procedures which would require an editor to appeal a sanction to the community at WP:AE or WP:AN prior to appealing directly to the Arbitration Committee at WP:ARCA.

Miscellaneous

  • A discussion has closed which concluded that administrators are not required to enable email, though many editors suggested doing so as a matter of best practice.
  • The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team has released the Interaction Timeline. This shows a chronologic history for two users on pages where they have both made edits, which may be helpful in identifying sockpuppetry and investigating editing disputes.

Administrators' newsletter – May 2018

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2018).

Administrator changes

added None
removed ChochopkCoffeeGryffindorJimpKnowledge SeekerLankiveilPeridonRjd0060

Guideline and policy news

  • The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is now indefinitely restricted to autoconfirmed users.
  • A proposal is being discussed which would create a new "event coordinator" right that would allow users to temporarily add the "confirmed" flag to new user accounts and to create many new user accounts without being hindered by a rate limit.

Technical news

  • AbuseFilter has received numerous improvements, including an OOUI overhaul, syntax highlighting, ability to search existing filters, and a few new functions. In particular, the search feature can be used to ensure there aren't existing filters for what you need, and the new equals_to_any function can be used when checking multiple namespaces. One major upcoming change is the ability to see which filters are the slowest. This information is currently only available to those with access to Logstash.
  • When blocking anonymous users, a cookie will be applied that reloads the block if the user changes their IP. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. This currently only occurs when hard-blocking accounts.
  • The block notice shown on mobile will soon be more informative and point users to a help page on how to request an unblock, just as it currently does on desktop.
  • There will soon be a calendar widget at Special:Block, making it easier to set expiries for a specific date and time.

Arbitration

Obituaries

  • Lankiveil (Craig Franklin) passed away in mid-April. Lankiveil joined Wikipedia on 12 August 2004 and became an administrator on 31 August 2008. During his time with the Wikimedia community, Lankiveil served as an oversighter for the English Wikipedia and as president of Wikimedia Australia.

Administrators' newsletter – June 2018

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2018).

Administrator changes

added None
removed Al Ameer sonAliveFreeHappyCenariumLupoMichaelBillington

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in June. This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.
  • The Wikimedia Foundation's Anti-Harassment Tools team will build granular types of blocks in 2018 (e.g. a block from uploading or editing specific pages, categories, or namespaces, as opposed to a full-site block). Feedback on the concept may be left at the talk page.
  • There is now a checkbox on Special:ListUsers to let you see only users in temporary user groups.
  • It is now easier for blocked mobile users to see why they were blocked.

Arbitration

  • A recent technical issue with the Arbitration Committee's spam filter inadvertently caused all messages sent to the committee through Wikipedia (i.e. Special:EmailUser/Arbitration Committee) to be discarded. If you attempted to send an email to the Arbitration Committee via Wikipedia between May 16 and May 31, your message was not received and you are encouraged to resend it. Messages sent outside of these dates or directly to the Arbitration Committee email address were not affected by this issue.

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – July 2018

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2018).

Administrator changes

added PbsouthwoodTheSandDoctor
readded Gogo Dodo
removed AndrevanDougEVulaKaisaLTony FoxWilyD

Bureaucrat changes

removed AndrevanEVula

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC about the deletion of drafts closed with a consensus to change the wording of WP:NMFD. Specifically, a draft that has been repeatedly resubmitted and declined at AfC without any substantial improvement may be deleted at MfD if consensus determines that it is unlikely to ever meet the requirements for mainspace and it otherwise meets one of the reasons for deletion outlined in the deletion policy.
  • A request for comment closed with a consensus that the {{promising draft}} template cannot be used to indefinitely prevent a WP:G13 speedy deletion nomination.

Technical news

  • Starting on July 9, the WMF Security team, Trust & Safety, and the broader technical community will be seeking input on an upcoming change that will restrict editing of site-wide JavaScript and CSS to a new technical administrators user group. Bureaucrats and stewards will be able to grant this right per a community-defined process. The intention is to reduce the number of accounts who can edit frontend code to those who actually need to, which in turn lessens the risk of malicious code being added that compromises the security and privacy of everyone who accesses Wikipedia. For more information, please review the FAQ.
  • Syntax highlighting has been graduated from a Beta feature on the English Wikipedia. To enable this feature, click the highlighter icon () in your editing toolbar (or under the hamburger menu in the 2017 wikitext editor). This feature can help prevent you from making mistakes when editing complex templates.
  • IP-based cookie blocks should be deployed to English Wikipedia in July (previously scheduled for June). This will cause the block of a logged-out user to be reloaded if they change IPs. This means in most cases, you may no longer need to do /64 range blocks on residential IPv6 addresses in order to effectively block the end user. It will also help combat abuse from IP hoppers in general. For the time being, it only affects users of the desktop interface.

Miscellaneous

  • Currently around 20% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 17% a year ago. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless if you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

Administrators' newsletter – August 2018

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2018).

Administrator changes

added Sro23
readded KaisaLYmblanter

Guideline and policy news

  • After a discussion at Meta, a new user group called "interface administrators" (formerly "technical administrator") has been created. Come the end of August, interface admins will be the only users able to edit site-wide JavaScript and CSS pages like MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Common.css, or edit other user's personal JavaScript and CSS. The intention is to improve security and privacy by reducing the number of accounts which could be used to compromise the site or another user's account through malicious code. The new user group can be assigned and revoked by bureaucrats. Discussion is ongoing to establish details for implementing the group on the English Wikipedia.
  • Following a request for comment, the WP:SISTER style guideline now states that in the mainspace, interwiki links to Wikinews should only be made as per the external links guideline. This generally means that within the body of an article, you should not link to Wikinews about a particular event that is only a part of the larger topic. Wikinews links in "external links" sections can be used where helpful, but not automatically if an equivalent article from a reliable news outlet could be linked in the same manner.

Technical news


Administrators' newsletter – September 2018

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2018).

Administrator changes

added None
removed AsterionCrisco 1492KFKudpungLizRandykittySpartaz
renamed Optimist on the runVoice of Clam

Interface administrator changes

added AmorymeltzerMr. StradivariusMusikAnimalMSGJTheDJXaosflux

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a "stop-gap" discussion, six users have temporarily been made interface administrators while discussion is ongoing for a more permanent process for assigning the permission. Interface administrators are now the only editors allowed to edit sitewide CSS and JavaScript pages, as well as CSS/JS pages in another user's userspace. Previously, all administrators had this ability. The right can be granted and revoked by bureaucrats.

Technical news

  • Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour on 12 September and 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you can't edit might be shorter than an hour.
  • Some abuse filter variables have changed. They are now easier to understand for non-experts. The old variables will still work but filter editors are encouraged to replace them with the new ones. You can find the list of changed variables on mediawiki.org. They have a note which says Deprecated. Use ... instead. An example is article_text which is now page_title.
  • Abuse filters can now use how old a page is. The variable is page_age.

Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee has resolved to perform a round of Checkuser and Oversight appointments. The usernames of all applicants will be shared with the Functionaries team, and they will be requested to assist in the vetting process. The deadline to submit an application is 23:59 UTC, 12 September, and the candidates that move forward will be published on-wiki for community comments on 18 September.

Administrators' newsletter – October 2018

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2018).

Administrator changes

added JustlettersandnumbersL235
removed BgwhiteHorsePunchKidJ GrebKillerChihuahuaRami RWinhunter

Interface administrator changes

added Cyberpower678Deryck ChanOshwahPharosRagesossRitchie333

Oversight changes

removed Guerillero NativeForeigner SnowolfXeno

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Partial blocks should be available for testing in October on the Test Wikipedia and the Beta-Cluster. This new feature allows admins to block users from editing specific pages and in the near-future, namespaces and uploading files. You can expect more updates and an invitation to help with testing once it is available.
  • The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team is currently looking for input on how to measure the effectiveness of blocks. This is in particular related to how they will measure the success of the aforementioned partial blocks.
  • Because of a data centre test, you will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia projects for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.

Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee has, by motion, amended the procedure on functionary inactivity.
  • The community consultation for 2018 CheckUser and Oversight appointments has concluded. Appointments will be made by October 11.
  • Following a request for comment, the size of the Arbitration Committee will be decreased to 13 arbitrators, starting in 2019. Additionally, the minimum support percentage required to be appointed to a two-year term on ArbCom has been increased to 60%. ArbCom candidates who receive between 50% and 60% support will be appointed to one-year terms instead.
  • Nominations for the 2018 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission are being accepted until 12 October. These are the editors who help run the ArbCom election smoothly. If you are interested in volunteering for this role, please consider nominating yourself.

Administrators' newsletter – November 2018

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2018).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
  • A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
  • The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.

Arbitration

  • Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
  • The Arbitration Committee's email address has changed to arbcom-en@wikimedia.org. Other email lists, such as functionaries-en and clerks-l, remain unchanged.

ArbCom 2018 election voter message

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Hello, Andres. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 2 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom 2018 election voter message

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Hello, Andres. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

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Information icon Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to activity within the next month. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time, and that you have not been inactive from administrative tasks for a five year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. Further, following a community discussion in March of 2018, administrators suspended for inactivity who have not had any logged administrative activity for five years will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. — JJMC89 bot 00:11, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – December 2018

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018).

Administrator changes

readded Al Ameer sonRandykittySpartaz
removed BosonDaniel J. LeivickEfeEsanchez7587Fred BauderGarzoMartijn HoekstraOrangemike

Interface administrator changes

removedDeryck Chan

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
  • A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
  • A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
  • A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
  • Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

Obituaries


Notification of imminent suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

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Information icon Established policy provides for removal of the administrative permissions of users who have not made any edits or logged actions in the preceding twelve months. Because you have been inactive, your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to activity within the next several days.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to rejoin the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for reengaging with the project are available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to rejoin the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:07, 25 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – January 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2018).

Guideline and policy news

  1. G14 (new): Disambiguation pages that disambiguate only zero or one existing pages are now covered under the new G14 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-disambig}}; the text is unchanged and candidates may be found in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unnecessary disambiguation pages.
  2. R4 (new): Redirects in the file namespace (and no file links) that have the same name as a file or redirect at Commons are now covered under the new R4 criterion (discussion). This is {{db-redircom}}; the text is unchanged.
  3. G13 (expanded): Userspace drafts containing only the default Article Wizard text are now covered under G13 along with other drafts (discussion). Such blank drafts are now eligible after six months rather than one year, and taggers continue to use {{db-blankdraft}}.

Technical news

  • Starting on December 13, the Wikimedia Foundation security team implemented new password policy and requirements. Privileged accounts (administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, interface administrators, bots, edit filter managers/helpers, template editors, et al.) must have a password at least 10 characters in length. All accounts must have a password:
  1. At least 8 characters in length
  2. Not in the 100,000 most popular passwords (defined by the Password Blacklist library)
  3. Different from their username
User accounts not meeting these requirements will be prompted to update their password accordingly. More information is available on MediaWiki.org.
  • Blocked administrators may now block the administrator that blocked them. This was done to mitigate the possibility that a compromised administrator account would block all other active administrators, complementing the removal of the ability to unblock oneself outside of self-imposed blocks. A request for comment is currently in progress to determine whether the blocking policy should be updated regarding this change.
  • {{Copyvio-revdel}} now has a link to open the history with the RevDel checkboxes already filled in.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Accounts continue to be compromised on a regular basis. Evidence shows this is entirely due to the accounts having the same password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately.
  • Around 22% of admins have enabled two-factor authentication, up from 20% in June 2018. If you haven't already enabled it, please consider doing so. Regardless of whether you use 2FA, please practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.

Administrators' newsletter – February 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2019).

Administrator changes

added EnterpriseyJJMC89
readded BorgQueen
removed Harro5Jenks24GraftR. Baley

Interface administrator changes

removedEnterprisey

Guideline and policy news

  • A request for comment is currently open to reevaluate the activity requirements for administrators.
  • Administrators who are blocked have the technical ability to block the administrator who blocked their own account. A recent request for comment has amended the blocking policy to clarify that this ability should only be used in exceptional circumstances, such as account compromises, where there is a clear and immediate need.
  • A request for comment closed with a consensus in favor of deprecating The Sun as a permissible reference, and creating an edit filter to warn users who attempt to cite it.

Technical news

  • A discussion regarding an overhaul of the format and appearance of Wikipedia:Requests for page protection is in progress (permalink). The proposed changes will make it easier to create requests for those who are not using Twinkle. The workflow for administrators at this venue will largely be unchanged. Additionally, there are plans to archive requests similar to how it is done at WP:PERM, where historical records are kept so that prior requests can more easily be searched for.

Miscellaneous

  • Voting in the 2019 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2019, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2019, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
  • A new IRC bot is available that allows you to subscribe to notifications when specific filters are tripped. This requires that your IRC handle be identified.

Administrators' newsletter – March 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2019).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • A new tool is available to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.

Arbitration

  • The Arbitration Committee announced two new OTRS queues. Both are meant solely for cases involving private information; other cases will continue to be handled at the appropriate venues (e.g., WP:COIN or WP:SPI).
    • paid-en-wp@wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private evidence related to abusive paid editing.
    • checkuser-en-wp@wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private requests for CheckUser. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to this address instead of the functionaries-en list.

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – April 2019

[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2019).

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Two more administrator accounts were compromised. Evidence has shown that these attacks, like previous incidents, were due to reusing a password that was used on another website that suffered a data breach. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. All admins are strongly encouraged to enable two-factor authentication, please consider doing so. Please always practice appropriate account security by ensuring your password is secure and unique to Wikimedia.
  • As a reminder, according to WP:NOQUORUM, administrators looking to close or relist an AfD should evaluate a nomination that has received few or no comments as if it were a proposed deletion (PROD) prior to determining whether it should be relisted.

ArbCom 2019 special circular

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Icon of a white exclamation mark within a black triangle
Administrators must secure their accounts

The Arbitration Committee may require a new RfA if your account is compromised.

View additional information

This message was sent to all administrators following a recent motion. Thank you for your attention. For the Arbitration Committee, Cameron11598 02:16, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

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ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:03, 4 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2019

[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2019).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • XTools Admin Stats, a tool to list admins by administrative actions, has been revamped to support more types of log entries such as AbuseFilter changes. Two additional tools have been integrated into it as well: Steward Stats and Patroller Stats.

Arbitration

  • In response to the continuing compromise of administrator accounts, the Arbitration Committee passed a motion amending the procedures for return of permissions (diff). In such cases, the committee will review all available information to determine whether the administrator followed "appropriate personal security practices" before restoring permissions; administrators found failing to have adequately done so will not be resysopped automatically. All current administrators have been notified of this change.
  • Following a formal ratification process, the arbitration policy has been amended (diff). Specifically, the two-thirds majority required to remove or suspend an arbitrator now excludes (1) the arbitrator facing suspension or removal, and (2) any inactive arbitrator who does not respond within 30 days to attempts to solicit their feedback on the resolution through all known methods of communication.

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – June 2019

[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2019).

Administrator changes

removed AndonicConsumed CrustaceanEnigmamanEuryalusEWS23HereToHelpNv8200paPeripitusStringTheory11Vejvančický

CheckUser changes

removed Ivanvector

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC seeks to clarify whether WP:OUTING should include information on just the English Wikipedia or any Wikimedia project.
  • An RfC on WT:RfA concluded that Requests for adminship and bureaucratship are discussions seeking to build consensus.
  • An RfC proposal to make the templates for discussion (TfD) process more like the requested moves (RM) process, i.e. "as a clearinghouse of template discussions", was closed as successful.

Technical news

  • The CSD feature of Twinkle now allows admins to notify page creators of deletion if the page had not been tagged. The default behavior matches that of tagging notifications, and replaces the ability to open the user talk page upon deletion. You can customize which criteria receive notifications in your Twinkle preferences: look for Notify page creator when deleting under these criteria.
  • Twinkle's d-batch (batch delete) feature now supports deleting subpages (and related redirects and talk pages) of each page. The pages will be listed first but use with caution! The und-batch (batch undelete) option can now also restore talk pages.

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – July 2019

[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2019).

Administrator changes

removed 28bytesAd OrientemAnsh666BeeblebroxBoing! said ZebedeeBU Rob13Dennis BrownDeorDoRDFloquenbeam1Flyguy649Fram2GadfiumGB fanJonathunderKusmaLectonarMoinkMSGJNickOd MishehuRamaSpartazSyrthissTheDJWJBscribe
1Floquenbeam's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.
2Fram's access was removed, then restored, then removed again.

Guideline and policy news

  • In a related matter, the account throttle has been restored to six creations per day as the mitigation activity completed.

Technical news

  • The Wikimedia Foundation's Community health initiative plans to design and build a new user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. Community feedback is invited.

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – August 2019

[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2019).

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • Following a research project on masking IP addresses, the Foundation is starting a new project to improve the privacy of IP editors. The result of this project may significantly change administrative and counter-vandalism workflows. The project is in the very early stages of discussions and there is no concrete plan yet. Admins and the broader community are encouraged to leave feedback on the talk page.
  • The new page reviewer right is bundled with the admin tool set. Many admins regularly help out at Special:NewPagesFeed, but they may not be aware of improvements, changes, and new tools for the Curation system. Stay up to date by subscribing here to the NPP newsletter that appears every two months, and/or putting the reviewers' talk page on your watchlist.

    Since the introduction of temporary user rights, it is becoming more usual to accord the New Page Reviewer right on a probationary period of 3 to 6 months in the first instance. This avoids rights removal for inactivity at a later stage and enables a review of their work before according the right on a permanent basis.


Administrators' newsletter – September 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2019).

Administrator changes

added BradvChetsfordIzno
readded FloquenbeamLectonar
removed DESiegelJake WartenbergRjanagTopbanana

CheckUser changes

removed CallaneccLFaraoneThere'sNoTime

Oversight changes

removed CallaneccFoxHJ MitchellLFaraoneThere'sNoTime

Technical news

  • Editors using the mobile website on Wikipedia can opt-in to new advanced features via your settings page. This will give access to more interface links, special pages, and tools.
  • The advanced version of the edit review pages (recent changes, watchlist, and related changes) now includes two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – October 2019

[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

Technical news

  • As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.

Administrators' newsletter – November 2019

[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Guideline and policy news

  • A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

Arbitration


ArbCom 2019 election voter message

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Hello! Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 on Monday, 2 December 2019. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2019 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:03, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – December 2019

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).

Administrator changes

added EvergreenFirToBeFree
removed AkhilleusAthaenaraJohn VandenbergMelchoirMichaelQSchmidtNeilNYoungamerican😂

CheckUser changes

readded Beeblebrox
removed Deskana

Interface administrator changes

readded Evad37

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – January 2020

[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – February 2020

[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
  • The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

Technical news

  • Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
  • When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [4]

Arbitration

  • Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

Miscellaneous



Administrators' newsletter – March 2020

[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
  • A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news

  • Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

Miscellaneous



Administrators' newsletter – April 2020

[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).

Guideline and policy news

  • There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.

Administrators' newsletter – May 2020

[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).

Administrator changes

removed GnangarraKaisershatnerMalcolmxl5

CheckUser changes

readded Callanecc

Oversight changes

readded HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – June 2020

[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2020).

Administrator changes

added CaptainEekCreffettCwmhiraeth
removed Anna FrodesiakBuckshot06RonhjonesSQL

CheckUser changes

removed SQL

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

  • A motion was passed to enact a 500/30 restriction on articles related to the history of Jews and antisemitism in Poland during World War II (1933–45), including the Holocaust in Poland. Article talk pages where disruption occurs may also be managed with the stated restriction.

Administrators' newsletter – July 2020

[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration


Administrators' newsletter – August 2020

[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).

Administrator changes

added Red Phoenix
readded EuryalusSQL
removed JujutacularMonty845RettetastMadchester

Oversight changes

readded GB fan
removed KeeganOpabinia regalisPremeditated Chaos

Guideline and policy news


Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2020).

Administrator changes

added Eddie891
removed AngelaJcw69Just ChillingPhilg88Viajero

CheckUser changes

readded SQL

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration


Administrators' newsletter – September 2020

[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020).

Administrator changes

added AjpolinoLuK3
readded Jackmcbarn
removed Ad OrientemHarejLidLomnMentoz86Oliver PereiraXJaM
renamed There'sNoTimeTheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – November 2020

[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2020).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

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Information icon Established policy provides for removal of the administrative permissions of users who have not made any edits or logged actions in the preceding twelve months. Because you have been inactive, your administrative permissions will be removed if you do not return to activity within the next month.

Inactive administrators are encouraged to rejoin the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for reengaging with the project are available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/administrators. If you do not intend to rejoin the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.

Thank you for your past contributions to the project. — JJMC89 bot 00:04, 1 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – December 2020

[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2020).

Administrator changes

removed AndrwscAnetodeGoldenRingJzGLinguistAtLargeNehrams2020

Interface administrator changes

added Izno

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration


Administrators' newsletter – January 2021

[edit]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2020).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration


Administrators' newsletter – February 2021

[edit]

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

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – March 2021

[edit]

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

Administrator changes

added TJMSmith
removed Boing! said ZebedeeHiberniantearsLear's FoolOnlyWGFinley

Interface administrator changes

added AmandaNP

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • When blocking an IPv6 address with Twinkle, there is now a checkbox with the option to just block the /64 range. When doing so, you can still leave a block template on the initial, single IP address' talkpage.
  • When protecting a page with Twinkle, you can now add a note if doing so was in response to a request at WP:RfPP, and even link to the specific revision.
  • There have been a number of reported issues with Pending Changes. Most problems setting protection appear to have been resolved (phab:T273317) but other issues with autoaccepting edits persist (phab:T275322).

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – April 2021

[edit]

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

Administrator changes

removed AlexandriaHappyme22RexxS

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, F7 (invalid fair-use claim) subcriterion a has been deprecated; it covered immediate deletion of non-free media with invalid fair-use tags.
  • Following a request for comment, page movers were granted the delete-redirect userright, which allows moving a page over a single-revision redirect, regardless of that redirect's target.

Technical news

  • When you move a page that many editors have on their watchlist the history can be split and it might also not be possible to move it again for a while. This is because of a job queue problem. (T278350)
  • Code to support some very old web browsers is being removed. This could cause issues in those browsers. (T277803)

Arbitration


Administrators' newsletter – May 2021

[edit]

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

Administrator changes

removed EnchanterCarlossuarez46

Interface administrator changes

removed Ragesoss

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The user group oversight will be renamed to suppress. This is for technical reasons. You can comment at T112147 if you have objections.

Arbitration


Administrators' newsletter – June 2021

[edit]

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

Administrator changes

added AshleyyoursmileLess Unless
removed HusondMattWadeMJCdetroitCariocaVague RantKingboykThunderboltzGwen GaleAniMateSlimVirgin (deceased)

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • Wikimedia previously used the IRC network Freenode. However, due to changes over who controlled the network with reports of a forceful takeover by several ex-staff members, the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts decided to move to the new Libera Chat network. It has been reported that Wikimedia related channels on Freenode have been forcibly taken over if they pointed members to Libera. There is a migration guide and Wikimedia discussions about this.

Arbitration


Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

[edit]

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

Guideline and policy news

  • Consensus has been reached to delete all books in the book namespace. There was rough consensus that the deleted books should still be available on request at WP:REFUND even after the namespace is removed.
  • An RfC is open to discuss the next steps following a trial which automatically applied pending changes to TFAs.

Technical news

  • IP addresses of unregistered users are to be hidden from everyone. There is a rough draft of how IP addresses may be shown to users who need to see them. This currently details allowing administrators, checkusers, stewards and those with a new usergroup to view the full IP address of unregistered users. Editors with at least 500 edits and an account over a year old will be able to see all but the end of the IP address in the proposal. The ability to see the IP addresses hidden behind the mask would be dependent on agreeing to not share the parts of the IP address they can see with those who do not have access to the same information. Accessing part of or the full IP address of a masked editor would also be logged. Comments on the draft are being welcomed at the talk page.

Arbitration


Administrators' newsletter – July 2021

[edit]

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

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC is open to add a delay of one week from nomination to deletion for G13 speedy deletions.

Technical news

  • Last week all wikis were very slow or not accessible for 30 minutes. This was due to server lag caused by regenerating dynamic lists on the Russian Wikinews after a large bulk import. (T287380)

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – September 2021

[edit]

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

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – October 2021

[edit]

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

Guideline and policy news

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 Iranian politics case, standard discretionary sanctions 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.

Administrators' newsletter – November 2021

[edit]

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


Administrators' newsletter – December 2021

[edit]

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)

Arbitration



Administrators' newsletter – January 2022

[edit]

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

Guideline and policy news

  • Following consensus at the 2021 RfA review, the autopatrolled user right has been removed from the administrators user group; admins can grant themselves the autopatrolled permission if they wish to remain autopatrolled.

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.

Administrators' newsletter – February 2022

[edit]

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


Administrators' newsletter – March 2022

[edit]

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

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – April 2022

[edit]

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

Guideline and policy news

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

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – May 2022

[edit]

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

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration


Administrators' newsletter – June 2022

[edit]

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

Guideline and policy news

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


Administrators' newsletter – July 2022

[edit]

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

Technical news

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

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • The New Pages Patrol queue has around 10,000 articles to be reviewed. As all administrators have the patrol right, please consider helping out. The queue is here. For further information on the state of the project, see the latest NPP newsletter.

Administrators' newsletter – August 2022

[edit]

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

Administrator changes

readded Valereee
removed Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • CapitalistroadsterSamsara

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.

Administrators' newsletter – September 2022

[edit]

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

Guideline and policy news

  • A discussion is open to define a process by which Vector 2022 can be made the default for all users.
  • An RfC is open to gain consensus on whether Fox News is reliable for science and politics.

Technical news

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.

Administrators' newsletter – October 2022

[edit]

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

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Articles for creation helper script now automatically recognises administrator accounts which means your name does not need to be listed at 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

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – November 2022

[edit]

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

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – December 2022

[edit]

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

CheckUser changes

removed TheresNoTime

Oversight changes

removed TheresNoTime

Guideline and policy news

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

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – January 2023

[edit]

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

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

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.

Administrators' newsletter – February 2023

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

Arbitration

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

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2023

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration


Administrators' newsletter – May 2023

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

Guideline and policy news

  • A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – June 2023

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).

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


Administrators' newsletter – July 2023

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

Administrator changes

added Novem Linguae
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Bureaucrat changes

removed MBisanz

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

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.

Administrators' newsletter – August 2023

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).

Administrator changes

added Firefangledfeathers
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Interface administrator changes

added Novem Linguae

Technical news

Arbitration


Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).

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.

Technical news

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 to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

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.

Administrators' newsletter – November 2023

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).

Administrator changes

added 0xDeadbeef
readded Tamzin
removed Dennis Brown

Interface administrator changes

added Pppery
removed

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

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


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Administrators' newsletter – December 2023

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

Guideline and policy news

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.

Administrators' newsletter – January 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – February 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).

CheckUser changes

removed Wugapodes

Interface administrator changes

removed

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


Administrators' newsletter – March 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. (T353388)

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).

Administrator changes

removed

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. (T313405)

Arbitration

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

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2024).

Administrator changes

readded Nyttend
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Bureaucrat changes

removed Nihonjoe

CheckUser changes

readded Joe Roe

Oversight changes

removed GeneralNotability

Guideline and policy news

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

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes

readded Graham Beards
removed

Bureaucrat changes

removed

Oversight changes

removed Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

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

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

Administrator changes

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

readded Isabelle Belato
removed

Interface administrator changes

readded Izno

CheckUser changes

removed Barkeep49

Technical news

  • Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
  • Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

Arbitration


Administrators' newsletter – September 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2024).

Administrator changes

removed Pppery

Interface administrator changes

removed Pppery

Oversighter changes

removed Wugapodes

CheckUser changes

removed

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous


Administrators' newsletter – October 2024

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2024).

Administrator changes

added
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CheckUser changes

readded
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Arbitration

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