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

  Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

  Technical news

• Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)

  Arbitration

• Remedy 9 ("MarioProtIV topic ban") of the WikiProject Tropical Cyclones case has been rescinded.

  Miscellaneous

• The 2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of one new CheckUser.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.

Hello Toddst1:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by ageorother categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

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

  Administrator changes

  0xDeadbeef

  Tamzin

  Dennis Brown

  Interface administrator changes

  Pppery

 

• Ragesoss

TheresNoTime

  Guideline and policy news

  Technical news

• The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to edit MediaWiki configuration directly. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig. A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
• There is a proposed plan for re-enabling the Graph Extension. Feedback on this proposal is requested.

  Arbitration

• Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 12 November 2023 until 21 November 2023 to stand in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections.
• Xaosflux, RoySmith and Cyberpower678 have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections. BusterD is the reserve commissioner.
• Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
• Following several motions, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the Editor conduct in e-cigs articles, Liancourt Rocks, Longevity, Medicine, September 11 conspiracy theories, and Shakespeare authorship question cases.
• Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
• Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
• An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

  Miscellaneous

• The Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in November 2023, with 700+ drafts pending reviews for in the last 4 months or so. In addition to the AfC participants, all administrators and New Page Patrollers can conduct reviews using the helper script, Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!

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.

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Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:42, 5 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

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

 

• Beeblebrox

Opabinia regalis

  Oversight changes

 

• Beeblebrox

Opabinia regalis

  Guideline and policy news

• Following a talk page discussion, the Administrators' accountability policy has been updated to note that while it is considered best practice for administrators to have notifications (pings) enabled, this is not mandatory. Administrators who do not use notifications are now strongly encouraged to indicate this on their user page.

  Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
• The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
• Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.

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

 

• Aoidh

HJ Mitchell

Sdrqaz

Spicy

ToBeFree

Vanamonde93

Z1720

  Maxim

 

• Enterprisey

Izno

SilkTork

  Oversighter changes

 

• Aoidh

Firefly

Sdrqaz

ToBeFree

Z1720

  Maxim

 

• Enterprisey

Izno

SilkTork

  Arbitration

• Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Aoidh, Cabayi, Firefly, HJ Mitchell, Maxim, Sdrqaz, ToBeFree, Z1720.
• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009.
• The arbitration case Industrial agriculture has been closed.

  Miscellaneous

• The New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 13,000 unreviewed articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!

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

  Bureaucrat changes

  Worm That Turned

  Wugapodes

  Interface administrator changes

 

• Enterprisey

Izno

  Guideline and policy news

• AnRfC about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

  Technical news

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. (T326065)

  Arbitration

• Following a motion, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.
• Community feedback is requested for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE.

  Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2024 Steward elections will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• A vote to ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here.
• Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more
• The Unreferenced articles backlog drive is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

What's the current thinking on onthisday.com ? It seems obvious to me that it's a mirror site, but it's been allowed as an external link on many pages. Deb (talk) 16:04, 5 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

I just replied to your query on RSN. Yeah, totally a mirror site. Yes, its use is rampant. It's amazing how many folks will argue that onthisday or similar pages published by AP are reliable sources. It's just another sign of the decline of this project. Toddst1 (talk) 05:16, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

I think the main sign of "decline of this project" are over the top strict admins, who do not allow any futher improvements of it by undo and accusations of other users in edit war, instead of helping and finding compromises.

@Toddst1 Do you happen to know anyone like that by a chance? Gigman (talk) 13:56, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

We don't compromise on the reliability of sources. You just proved my point. BTW, I'm not an admin. Go away now. Toddst1 (talk) 23:25, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

I just happened to randomly stumble upon this page. I have no idea who any of you in this conversation are, nor what any relevant background may be, but I just wanted to say that saying something like "Go away now" is so extremely beyond the level of civility that should be expected by any serious wikipedia editor. Perhaps you meant it with a sense of humor, as tone can be hard to read and often gets lost in writing, especially on the internet, but unless I'm drastically misinterpreting something, may I please ask that you rethink how you speak to others? How would you feel if spoken to that way? Please read Wikipedia:Civility. Vontheri (talk) 06:49, 2 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello, previously I've noticed you reverting my edits and threatning me with blocking... However, you did not provided any further suggestions or actions. You see, I've tried to avoid citating onthisday.com, but after seeing numerous usage of it on other articles, including DOYs, I've started to use it too, and weren't reverted by anyone untill a few days ago. I want a clarification, why onthisday.com is considered as unreliable source, meanwhile it's not in the list of such, and why is there so much of citation of it? Also, regarding that same 4th of February page, why Niagara falls ice bridge disaster isn't allowed to be in the list, while it is mentioned on Niagara Falls page? Once again, I saw so much similiar cases, (when some event is too small to have it's own article, but still meantioned in other)

But my real question is, if there are rules about that not being allowed, why there are so much violations of it in, and nobody's fixing? And why only recent edits get reverted without previous (I literally reffered to onthisday.com on the same page more than twice, but you haven't removed those edits)

Anyway, while I'm awaiting for you response, I want to say, that from now on, thanks to you and other of "your type", since I only get revertions and warnings for trying to do something, I will never ever make any further contributions on Wikipedia, except undo the ones I see breaking the rules. Just like @Kiwipete does, if that's the way you guys do things around here. But unlike you, I will undo all incorrect edits, not only the recent ones, and we will see what the articles will become. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Glebushko0703 (talk • contribs) 14:26, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

WP:SOFIXIT. Toddst1 (talk) 23:14, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

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

  Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 RfA review is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process.
• Following an RfC, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

  Technical news

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

  Miscellaneous

• The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, AGK, Ameisenigel, Bennylin, Daniuu, Doǵu, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, MdsShakil, Minorax, Nehaoua, Renvoy and RoySmith as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
• Following the 2024 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz, Albertoleoncio, EPIC, JJMC89, Johannnes89, Melos and Yahya.

Hi @Toddst1, I wanted to follow up on your message on my talk page. As I, now, understand it, my Instagram Reel source to the claim that Tessa Violet was born on March 20,1990 violated the no original research doctrine, due to infering the year via the date of publication minus the age stated in the video. After doing some more research the topic, I have discovered that on Tessa Violet's genius profile, which has been verified as her, states that she was born on March 20,1990. Would this count as a reliable source on this matter or do I need to continue to research for a more reliable source?

-@Madalyn the Rose Madalyn the Rose (talk) 16:42, 22 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Seems reliable enough to me. See WP:DOB. Toddst1 (talk) 18:15, 22 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Madalyn the Rose:When I looked at it, I thought it was a social media page. Apparently it's somewhere between that and WP:USERG which is not ok. Toddst1 (talk) 04:26, 23 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

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

  Administrator changes

 

• Kbdank71

Kosack

NrDg

TLSuda

  Guideline and policy news

• AnRfC is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions to (community designated) contentious topics procedure.

  Technical news

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

  Arbitration

• Anarbitration case has been opened to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

  Miscellaneous

• Editors are invited to sign up for The Core Contest, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital and other core articles on Wikipedia.

Hello Toddst1,

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

Following that, New Page Patrol organized another backlog drive for articles in January 2024. The January drive started with 13,650 articles and reduced the backlog to 7,430 articles. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 1,340 points in this drive.

Looking at the graph, it seems like backlog drives are one of the only things keeping the backlog under control. Another backlog drive is being planned for May. Feel free to participate in the May backlog drive planning discussion.

It's worth noting that both queues are gradually increasing again and are nearing 14,034 articles and 22,540 redirects. We encourage you to keep contributing, even if it's just a single patrol per day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

2023 Awards

Onel5969 won the 2023 cup with 17,761 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 50/day. There was one Platinum Award (10,000+ reviews), 2 Gold Awards (5000+ reviews), 6 Silver (2000+), 8 Bronze (1000+), 30 Iron (360+) and 70 more for the 100+ barnstar. Hey man im josh led on redirect reviews by clearing 36,175 of them. For the full details, see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone for their efforts in reviewing!

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers deployed the rewritten NewPagesFeed in October, and then gave the NewPagesFeed a slight visual facelift in November. This concludes most major work to Special:NewPagesFeed, and most major work by the WMF Moderator Tools team, who wrapped up their major work on PageTriage in October. The WMF Moderator Tools team and volunteer software developers will continue small work on PageTriage as time permits.

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

  Bureaucrat changes

  Nihonjoe

  CheckUser changes

  Joe Roe

  Oversight changes

  GeneralNotability

  Guideline and policy news

• Phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship review has concluded. Several proposals have passed outright and will proceed to implementation, including creating a discussion-only period (3b) and administrator elections (13) on a trial basis. Other successful proposals, such as creating a reminder of civility norms (2), will undergo further refinement in Phase II. Proposals passed on a trial basis will be discussed in Phase II, after their trials conclude. Further details on specific proposals can be found in the full report.

  Technical news

• Partial action blocks are now in effect on the English Wikipedia. This means that administrators have the ability to restrict users from certain actions, including uploading files, moving pages and files, creating new pages, and sending thanks. T280531

  Arbitration

• The arbitration case Conflict of interest management has been closed.

  Miscellaneous

• This may be a good time to reach out to potential nominees to ask if they would consider an RfA.
• ANew Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2024 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles in the new pages feed. Currently, there is a backlog of over 15,000 articles awaiting review. Sign up here to participate!
• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 9 May 2024. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!

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

  Bureaucrat changes

 

• Deskana

Warofdreams

  Oversight changes

  Dreamy Jazz

  Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

  Technical news

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

  Arbitration

• The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
• The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

  Miscellaneous

• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Woody Outlaw until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Walsh90210 (talk) 16:10, 27 June 2024 (UTC)Reply